1 Changes between 2.0.x and 2.1.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
4 Important changes for packagers:
5 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed. To tune
6 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually.
7 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
9 3rd party libraries (contrib):
10 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a better system in /contrib
14 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
17 * Support for OPUS via libopus.
18 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec.
19 * Numerous improvements in OpenMAX IL codec
20 * Support for Ulead DV audio
21 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
22 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1)
23 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
24 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
25 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
26 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
27 * Support for VDPAU hardware video decoding acceleration on Linux
30 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
33 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
34 remove support for previous OS X releases
35 * Major improvements in DASH support
36 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
37 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
38 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
39 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
40 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
41 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
44 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
45 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
46 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
47 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
48 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
49 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
50 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
51 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
52 * Support for more MJPEG streams
53 * Add support for liveleak streams
56 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
57 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
58 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES module
59 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
60 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1 and 7.1 playback and layouts
61 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
62 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
63 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
64 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
65 * Rewrite of AudioQueue module for iOS (and OS X)
68 * new remapping channel filter
69 * new filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
70 * new VSXu visualization plugin
73 * DecklinkOutput: New module using Blackmagic cards
74 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
75 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
76 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
79 * new anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
80 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images.
81 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
82 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
83 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
84 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
87 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
88 * Options support for AVIO output module
89 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
90 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
91 * Livehttp stream encryption support
92 * Unmaintained switcher has been removed
95 * configurable password for the HTTP server.
96 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server.
97 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows.
98 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
99 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
100 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
104 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
107 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based and 32bit Intel-based Macs
108 * VLC requires Mac OS X 10.6 or later now
111 * add support for multiple video outputs
112 * add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
114 * add a GUI to manage podcasts
115 * add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
116 * add a GUI for the QTSound access module to process audio captured locally
117 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time.
118 * add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
119 * add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
120 VLC's internal volume level
121 * add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
122 selection and to manage the list of presets
123 * add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
124 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
125 * add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
126 * add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
127 * add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
128 * add an option to show next / previous buttons
129 * add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
130 * add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
132 * add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
133 * add an option to play videos as a desktop background
134 * add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
135 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
136 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
137 * add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
138 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
139 3rd party applications
140 * add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
141 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
142 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
146 * Partial support for Qt5.0
147 * Menus modifications and improvements
148 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
149 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
153 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
154 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
155 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
156 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
157 * new libvlc_log_subscribe and libvlc_log_unsubscribe function to register logging callbacks
158 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
159 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
162 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
163 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
164 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
165 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
166 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
167 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
169 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
170 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
171 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
174 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
175 --------------------------------
178 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
181 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
182 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
183 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
186 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
187 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
188 * Fix koreus lua parser
189 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
190 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
191 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
192 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
195 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
196 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
199 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
202 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
203 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
204 * Fix Time counter UI look
205 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
208 * Fix https streaming
211 * Fix audio and video track selection:
212 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
213 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
216 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
217 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
218 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
219 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
220 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
223 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
224 --------------------------------
227 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
228 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
229 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
230 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
231 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
232 during playback on Mac OS X
235 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
236 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
237 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
240 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
241 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
242 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
243 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
244 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
247 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
248 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
249 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
250 * Support Youtube live streams
253 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
256 * Fix media info dialog update
257 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
258 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
259 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
260 * Fix album art display at start
263 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
264 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
265 * Fix menus display and behavior
266 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
267 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
268 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
269 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
270 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
271 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
272 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
275 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
276 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
277 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
278 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
279 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
280 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
281 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
282 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
283 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
286 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
287 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
288 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
289 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
290 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
293 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
294 --------------------------------
297 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
300 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
301 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
304 * Add GateKeeper support
305 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
306 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
307 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
310 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
313 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
314 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
315 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
316 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
317 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
320 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
321 --------------------------------
324 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
325 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
326 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
327 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
328 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
329 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
330 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
331 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
332 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
333 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
334 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
338 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
339 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
340 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
341 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
342 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
343 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
344 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
345 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
346 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
347 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
348 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
349 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
352 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
353 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
355 * Fix MP3 free format support
358 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
359 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
360 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
361 * Fix for DVB channels file support
362 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
365 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
366 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
368 Audio filters and output:
369 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
370 * Fix DirectSound device selection
371 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
372 * Do not apply volume in file output
373 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
374 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
377 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
378 the persistant media library
379 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
380 to the media library or the temporary playlist
381 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
382 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
383 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
384 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
385 press on the Play/Pause button
386 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
387 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
388 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
389 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
390 * Many Fullscreen fixes
391 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
392 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
393 Synchronization panel
394 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
395 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
396 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
397 * Fix crashes on exit
398 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
400 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
401 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
402 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
403 automatically reset on the first launch.
404 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
405 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
406 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
409 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
410 * Fixes for icecast SD
413 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
414 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
415 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
416 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
417 * Fix tags and file names display
418 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
421 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
422 * Fix for key events and focus loss
425 * Fix display of some buttons
426 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
427 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
430 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
431 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
432 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
435 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
436 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
437 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
438 Thai translations update
439 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
442 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
443 --------------------------------
446 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
447 * fix the samba module compilation
448 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
449 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
450 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
451 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
454 * Support for MXPEG files
455 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
456 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
459 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
460 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
461 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
464 * Fix ogm header creation
467 * limit spatializer filter distortions
468 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
471 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
472 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
473 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
474 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
477 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
480 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
481 * allow to hide the sidebar
482 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
483 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
484 * noticebly faster launch time
485 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
486 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
487 * improve track synchronization panel
488 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
489 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
492 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
493 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
494 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
495 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
498 * fix for menus display
499 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
500 * documentation update
503 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
504 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
507 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
508 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
509 * Update Jamendo selections
513 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
514 * fix a crash on VLM close
517 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
518 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
519 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
520 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
523 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
526 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
527 ---------------------------------
530 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
531 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
532 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
533 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
534 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
535 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
536 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
537 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
538 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
539 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
540 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
541 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
542 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
543 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
544 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
545 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
546 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
547 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
548 --http-crl (optional CRL).
549 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
550 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
551 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
552 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
553 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
554 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
555 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
557 Important changes for packagers:
558 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
559 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
560 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
561 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
562 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
563 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
564 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
565 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
566 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
567 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
570 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
571 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
572 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
573 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
574 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
575 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
576 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
579 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
580 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
581 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
582 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
583 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
584 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
585 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
586 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
587 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
588 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
589 * PulseAudio audio input support
590 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
591 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
592 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
593 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
594 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
595 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
596 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
597 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
600 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
601 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
602 are notably concerned.
603 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
604 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
605 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
606 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
607 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
608 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
609 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
610 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
611 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
612 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
613 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
614 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
615 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
616 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
617 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
620 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
621 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
622 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
623 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
624 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
625 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
626 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
627 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
628 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
629 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
630 * Improved support of tracker files
631 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
634 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
635 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
636 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
637 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
638 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
639 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
640 and important cleanups and optimisations
641 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
642 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
643 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
644 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
645 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
646 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
647 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
648 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
649 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
650 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
651 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
652 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
653 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
654 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
655 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
656 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
657 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
658 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
659 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
660 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
661 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
664 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
665 * New video output for iOS platform
666 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
667 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
668 * Various vmem improvements
669 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
670 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
671 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
672 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
673 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
674 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
676 Audio Output and Filters:
677 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
678 * New audio output in memory (amem)
679 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
680 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
681 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
682 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
683 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
684 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
685 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
686 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
689 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
690 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
691 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
692 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
693 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
694 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
695 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
696 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
697 * New anti-flickering filter
698 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
699 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
700 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
701 blackbox and customizable shadow.
702 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
703 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
704 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
707 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
708 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
709 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
710 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
711 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
712 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
713 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
714 * Major rework of VoD support
715 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
716 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
717 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
718 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
719 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
720 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
721 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
722 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
723 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
724 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
727 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
728 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
731 * New capabilities for libVLC:
732 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
733 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
734 list of available audio and video filters
735 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
736 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
737 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
740 * asademux, subsass: use libass
741 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
742 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
744 * upnp: use upnp_intel
745 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
746 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
747 * removal of the noise filter
748 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
749 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
750 removed in Growl's next release, too.
751 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
754 * Update of translations for most languages.
755 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
758 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
759 ----------------------------------
762 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
763 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
766 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
767 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
770 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
771 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
772 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
775 * Camtasia decoding fix.
778 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
779 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
782 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
785 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
786 ----------------------------------
789 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
790 including support for OS X Lion
791 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
792 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
795 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
798 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
799 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
800 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
803 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
806 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
807 ----------------------------------
810 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
811 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
814 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
815 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
816 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
817 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
818 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
820 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
821 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
822 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
824 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
825 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
828 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
831 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
834 * Fix quitting on Linux
835 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
839 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
842 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
845 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
846 ---------------------------------
848 Windows and Mac OS X:
849 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
852 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
853 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
856 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
859 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
862 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
864 Miscellaneous fixes in:
865 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
867 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
868 * RTP output and XML export
869 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
873 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
874 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
875 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
876 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
879 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
880 --------------------------------
882 Windows and Mac OS X:
883 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
886 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
889 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
890 * Improve Apple Remote handling
891 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
892 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
893 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
894 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
897 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
898 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
902 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
903 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
904 * New Luganda Translation
907 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
908 --------------------------------
911 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
914 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
915 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
916 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
917 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
920 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
922 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
923 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
924 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
925 * mp4 demuxer improvements
926 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
927 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
928 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
929 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
931 Miscellaneous fixes in:
932 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
933 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
934 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
935 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
936 * Configure and build system improvements
937 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
940 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
941 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
942 * New icelandic translation
945 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
946 --------------------------------
949 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
953 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
954 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
955 and stability reasons
958 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
962 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
965 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
966 ----------------------------------
969 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
972 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
973 ---------------------------------
976 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
977 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
978 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
979 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
982 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
985 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
986 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
987 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
988 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
991 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
992 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
993 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
995 Subtitles and renderer:
996 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
997 * Mark more freetype options as safe
998 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
999 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1000 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1003 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1004 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1005 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1006 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1009 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1010 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1012 Miscellaneous fixes:
1013 * KDE device solid actions
1015 * Transcode integer overflow
1016 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1017 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1020 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1021 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1022 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1025 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1026 ----------------------------------
1029 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1033 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1036 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1039 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1040 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1041 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1042 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1045 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1049 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1052 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1055 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1056 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1058 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1062 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1063 * Miscellaneous fixes
1066 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1067 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1068 French and Ukrainian
1069 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1070 * New Asturian translation
1073 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1074 ----------------------------------
1077 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1079 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1082 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1085 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1086 * Various fixes for Windows
1089 * New Armenian translation
1090 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1091 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1094 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1095 --------------------------------
1098 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1099 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1100 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1103 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1104 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1107 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1108 --------------------------------
1110 Access and demuxers:
1111 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1112 * fix for podcasts parsing
1113 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1116 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1117 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1120 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1121 * fix m3u playlists exports
1124 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1127 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1130 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1133 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1136 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1139 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1140 --------------------------------
1143 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1144 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1147 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1148 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1151 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1152 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1153 * fix console output encoding
1155 Interface and extensions:
1156 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1157 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1160 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1161 --------------------------------
1164 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1165 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1166 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1167 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1168 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1169 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1170 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1171 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1172 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1173 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1174 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1175 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1176 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1177 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1178 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1179 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1183 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1184 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1185 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1186 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1187 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1190 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1193 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1194 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1195 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1199 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1202 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1203 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1204 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1207 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1208 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1209 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1210 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1213 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1214 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1217 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1218 --------------------------------
1220 Important changes for users:
1221 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1222 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1224 Important changes for packagers:
1225 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1226 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1227 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1228 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1229 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1231 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1233 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1234 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1235 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1236 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1237 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1240 * Support for the sftp protocol
1241 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1242 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1243 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1244 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1245 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1248 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1249 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1250 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1252 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1253 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1254 * Invmem module improvements
1255 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1256 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1257 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1258 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1259 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1260 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1261 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1262 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1263 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1264 * Support for VP8 codec
1265 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1268 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1269 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1270 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1271 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1272 * Various EGP improvements
1273 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1274 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1277 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1278 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1279 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1280 * Podcast images are now displayed
1283 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1284 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1285 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1286 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1287 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1288 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1289 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1290 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1291 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1292 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1293 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1296 * New content extensions lua framework
1299 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1300 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1301 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1302 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1303 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1304 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1305 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
1308 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
1309 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
1310 * Service discovery based on libudev
1311 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
1314 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
1315 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
1316 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
1317 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
1318 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
1319 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
1320 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
1323 * New smem module, streaming to memory
1324 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
1325 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
1328 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
1330 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
1331 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
1334 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
1337 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
1338 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
1339 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
1340 by Andy Matuschak et al.
1341 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
1342 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
1343 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
1346 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
1347 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
1350 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
1351 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
1352 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
1356 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
1357 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
1358 * Improved Solaris port
1361 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
1362 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
1365 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
1366 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
1367 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
1368 * transrate: broken since too long
1369 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
1370 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
1371 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
1372 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
1373 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
1374 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
1375 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
1376 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
1377 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
1378 * cddax: use cdda instead.
1379 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
1380 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
1381 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
1382 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
1385 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
1386 --------------------------------
1389 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
1391 Decoders/Packetizers:
1392 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
1395 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
1396 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
1397 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
1398 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
1399 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
1402 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
1403 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
1406 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
1407 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
1410 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
1411 and Walloon translations updated
1412 * Sinhala translation started
1415 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
1416 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
1419 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
1420 --------------------------------
1423 * SubRip extra styles improvements
1424 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
1427 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
1430 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
1431 increase performance and fix x264 issues
1434 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
1435 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
1436 Russian, Slovak translation updates
1437 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
1440 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
1441 --------------------------------
1444 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
1445 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
1448 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
1449 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
1452 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
1453 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
1456 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
1459 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
1460 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
1463 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
1464 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
1467 * New Walloon translation
1468 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
1471 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
1472 --------------------------------
1475 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
1476 regressions in most popular drivers
1477 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
1480 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
1481 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
1482 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
1485 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
1486 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
1489 * Update for appletrailers lua script
1490 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
1491 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
1492 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
1493 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
1496 * New udev module for linux
1499 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
1502 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
1505 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
1506 --------------------------------
1509 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
1510 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
1511 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
1514 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
1515 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
1518 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
1519 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
1522 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
1525 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
1526 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
1527 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
1528 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
1531 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
1532 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
1533 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
1534 - no support for Goom and SDL
1535 - limited text rendering support
1536 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
1539 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
1540 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
1541 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
1542 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
1543 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
1544 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
1545 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
1546 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
1547 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
1551 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
1554 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
1557 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
1558 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
1559 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
1560 Arabic and French translation updates
1563 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
1564 --------------------------------
1567 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
1568 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
1569 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
1570 * Fix Dailymotion access script
1571 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
1572 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
1575 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
1576 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1577 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1580 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
1581 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
1582 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
1585 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
1588 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
1589 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
1592 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
1593 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
1594 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1595 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
1596 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
1597 * Fix various crashes
1600 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
1602 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
1606 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
1607 ---------------------------------
1611 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
1612 See 'Access:' for more info.
1613 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1616 * Instantaneous pausing
1617 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1618 * Finer speed control
1619 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1620 * Timeshift for most medias
1621 * RTSP trickplay support
1622 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1625 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1626 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1627 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1628 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1629 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1630 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1631 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1632 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1633 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1634 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1637 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1638 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1639 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1640 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1641 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1642 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1643 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1646 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1647 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1650 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1651 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1652 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1653 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1654 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1655 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1656 * DVB scanning on linux
1657 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1658 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1659 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1660 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1661 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1662 * MTP device access on Unix
1663 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1664 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1667 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1668 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1669 Windows and Mac OS X.
1672 * Export the playlist in HTML
1673 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1674 * Better metadata handling and reading
1676 Linux/Windows interface:
1677 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1678 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1679 * Recently played items list
1680 * Interface toolbar customizations
1681 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1682 - More menus actions
1683 - Finer speed slider
1684 - Improvements on many dialogs
1685 - New dialog for plugins listing
1686 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1687 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1688 * Better integration in GTK environments
1691 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1692 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1693 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1694 * Additional usability improvements
1697 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1698 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1699 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1700 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1701 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1704 * New Maemo port with:
1705 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1706 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1709 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1712 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1713 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1714 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1715 * Support for latest iSight models
1718 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1719 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1722 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1723 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1724 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1725 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1726 The old image video output has been removed.
1727 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1728 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1731 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1739 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1740 --------------------------------------
1746 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1747 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1748 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1749 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1750 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1751 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1752 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1754 Various fixes to the following modules:
1757 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1758 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1759 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1761 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1766 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1767 ---------------------------------
1770 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1771 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1774 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1775 ---------------------------------
1778 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1781 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1784 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1785 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1786 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1787 main controller window.
1788 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1791 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1796 * Updates of other localizations
1799 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1800 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1801 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1802 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1803 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1806 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1807 ---------------------------------
1810 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1812 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1815 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1816 --------------------------------
1821 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1822 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1825 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1826 --------------------------------
1828 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1829 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1832 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1835 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1836 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1839 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1840 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1843 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1844 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1845 * Various fixed in playlist
1848 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1851 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1854 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1855 ------------------------------------
1857 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1858 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1861 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1862 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1863 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1866 * Stability fix for the video output.
1869 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1870 --------------------------------
1873 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1874 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1875 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1876 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1877 * Fixed update system bugs
1878 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1881 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1882 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1883 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1884 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1885 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1886 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1887 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1888 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1889 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1890 modern Mac OS X versions
1893 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1894 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1896 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1897 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1900 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1901 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1902 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1903 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1904 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1905 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1908 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1909 --------------------------------
1911 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1912 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1913 * Multiple bugfixes.
1916 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1917 --------------------------------
1919 * Multiple bug fixes.
1922 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1923 ---------------------------------
1927 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1928 recent to work correctly
1929 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1930 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1931 edit the ".hosts" file.
1932 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1933 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1934 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1935 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1936 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1937 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1938 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1939 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1940 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1941 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1942 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1943 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1944 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1945 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1946 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1947 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1948 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1949 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1950 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1951 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1952 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1953 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1954 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1955 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1956 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1957 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1958 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1959 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1960 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1961 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1962 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1963 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1964 and postproc modules.
1965 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1966 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1967 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1968 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1970 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1971 filter. For example:
1972 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1973 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1975 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1976 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1982 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1984 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1985 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1988 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1989 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1991 * Shoutcast TV listings
1992 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1994 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1995 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1997 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2000 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2001 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2002 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2003 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2004 * JACK audio input support
2005 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2006 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2007 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2008 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2009 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2010 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2011 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2012 (available as a separate download).
2013 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2014 * RTMP input support
2015 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2016 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2017 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2019 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2020 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2023 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2024 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2025 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2026 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2028 * APEv1/2 tags support
2029 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2030 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2032 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2033 * TiVo Series 2 support
2034 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2039 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2040 * Flash Screen Video support
2041 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2042 * DosBox Capture support
2043 * Karl Morton's Video support
2044 * limited atrac3 support
2046 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2047 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2048 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2049 * H.264 PAFF support
2050 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2051 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2052 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2053 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2054 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2057 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2058 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2059 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2060 * AQTitle subtitles support
2061 * MKV USF subtitles support
2062 * HTML-based subtitles support
2063 * MPSub subtitles support
2064 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2065 * MPL2 subtitles support
2066 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2067 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2068 * Realtext subtitle support
2069 * DKS subtitle support
2070 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2071 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2074 * Flash Screen Video support
2075 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2077 Video outputs and filters:
2078 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2079 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2080 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2081 * New puzzle video output filter
2082 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2083 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2085 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2086 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2087 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2088 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2089 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2090 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2091 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2092 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2093 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2094 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2095 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2096 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2097 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2098 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2100 Audio outputs and filters:
2101 * Replay gain support
2102 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2103 new scaletempo audio filter)
2104 * New spatializer audio filter
2105 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2108 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2109 * New RTP payload formats:
2110 * Speex voice audio codec
2111 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2112 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2113 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2114 * DCCP transport for RTP
2115 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2120 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2121 end-user suitable way.
2122 * Improved user interaction
2123 * Improved mouse gestures
2124 * Vastly improved Update checker
2125 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2127 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2128 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2130 * Improved video output features
2131 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2132 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2133 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2134 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2135 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2137 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2138 if libncursesw is available.
2139 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2140 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2141 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2143 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2144 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2145 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2146 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2147 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2148 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2149 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2150 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2153 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2154 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2155 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2158 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2159 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2160 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2161 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2162 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2163 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2166 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2167 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2177 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2178 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2179 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2182 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2183 ----------------------------------
2186 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2189 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2190 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2191 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2192 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2193 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2194 * Updated Polish translation
2197 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2198 ----------------------------------
2201 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2202 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2203 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2206 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2207 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2208 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2209 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2210 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2211 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2212 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2213 to an unexpected application termination
2214 * New Serbian translation
2215 * Updated Romanian translation
2218 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2219 ----------------------------------
2222 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2223 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2224 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2225 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2226 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2227 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2228 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2229 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2232 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2233 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2234 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2235 * Fixed AAC resampling
2236 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2237 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2240 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2241 ----------------------------------
2244 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2245 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2246 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2247 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2248 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2251 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2252 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2253 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2254 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2255 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2258 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2259 ----------------------------------
2262 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2263 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2266 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2267 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2268 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2269 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2271 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2275 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2278 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2281 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2284 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2287 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2288 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2289 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2290 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2291 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2293 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2294 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2295 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2296 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2299 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2302 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2303 ----------------------------------
2306 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
2307 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
2308 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
2310 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
2311 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
2313 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
2314 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
2317 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
2319 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2320 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
2321 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2322 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
2323 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
2324 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
2325 two different movies
2326 * Support for current Ogg file formats
2327 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
2328 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
2331 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
2334 * The automatic updating facility was removed
2335 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2336 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
2337 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
2340 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
2341 ----------------------------------
2343 Various bugfixes, notably:
2344 * Windows Vista compatibility
2345 * Cropping in Direct3D
2346 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
2347 * RSS filter string overflow
2349 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
2351 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
2352 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
2355 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
2356 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
2359 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
2362 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
2365 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
2368 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
2369 ----------------------------------
2371 Various bugfixes, notably:
2372 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
2373 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
2374 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
2375 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
2376 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
2377 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
2380 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
2381 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
2384 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
2386 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2387 * Diverse usability improvements
2388 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
2389 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
2390 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
2393 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
2394 ---------------------------------
2396 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
2397 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
2400 * Fullscreen controller improvements
2403 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
2404 --------------------------------
2407 * Shoutcast TV listings support
2410 * Support for RTSP authentication
2411 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
2412 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
2413 * ATSC support for DVB input
2414 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
2415 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
2416 * Improved support for Flash Video files
2419 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
2420 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
2421 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
2422 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
2423 * Matroska WavPack support
2424 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
2425 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
2426 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
2429 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
2430 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
2431 * Improved libcaca support
2435 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
2436 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
2438 * Systray support in skins
2440 * Support for Apple Remote control
2441 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2442 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2443 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
2444 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
2446 * Notifications using notification-daemon
2449 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
2450 Windows 9x/ME users:
2451 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
2452 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
2453 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
2454 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
2455 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
2457 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
2458 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
2467 * Updates to the libvlc API
2468 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
2471 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
2472 --------------------------------
2475 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
2476 * Support for downloading updates
2480 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
2481 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
2482 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
2483 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
2485 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
2486 * Improved subtitles encoding support
2487 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
2490 * Cook (Real audio) support
2492 Playlist / Services discovery:
2493 * XSPF playlist support
2495 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
2498 * New JACK audio output
2501 * New video filters:
2502 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
2503 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
2504 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
2505 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
2506 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
2507 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
2510 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
2513 * System to inform the user and request information
2514 - HTTP authentication
2518 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
2519 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2520 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
2523 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
2524 - Improved playlist handling
2525 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
2527 - Embedded Video output
2528 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
2529 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
2530 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2531 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
2532 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
2534 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
2535 - A bunch of new RPN functions
2538 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
2541 * Mac-Intel compatibility
2542 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
2543 * Growl "Now playing" support
2546 * Ability to log to syslog
2547 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
2550 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
2552 * A bit more automatic testing
2555 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
2556 ---------------------------------
2559 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
2560 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
2563 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
2564 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
2567 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
2570 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
2571 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
2577 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
2580 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
2581 --------------------------------
2584 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
2588 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2589 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
2590 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
2593 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
2594 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
2595 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
2596 * GnomeVFS input module
2597 * Support for RTP packet reordering
2598 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
2601 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
2602 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2603 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
2606 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
2607 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2613 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2614 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2617 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2618 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2619 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2622 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2624 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2625 - New extended controls panel
2626 - New bookmarks window
2627 - Fixed playlist sorting
2628 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2630 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2631 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2632 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2633 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2637 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2638 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2640 - Include macro to include other files
2644 * Should now work outside IE as well
2647 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2650 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2651 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2654 The following languages were added:
2658 * Simplified Chinese
2659 The following languages were re-added:
2663 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2664 --------------------------------
2667 * Rewrite of the playlist
2669 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2670 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2671 * Preferences improvements:
2672 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2673 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2675 * Core image manipulation support
2676 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2677 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2678 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2679 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2680 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2681 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2682 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2683 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2684 * Access filter architecture
2685 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2686 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2690 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2691 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2692 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2693 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2694 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2695 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2696 * Massive Matroska improvements
2697 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2699 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2700 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2701 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2702 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2703 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2705 Decoders / Encoders:
2706 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2707 * PNG decoder/encoder
2708 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2709 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2712 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2715 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2716 * Brand new SAP module
2717 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2718 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2719 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2720 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2721 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2722 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2726 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2729 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2730 * Image file video output (png)
2731 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2732 * Improvements to wall video filter
2733 * Support for font color and opacity
2739 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2740 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2741 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2745 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2746 - Improved preferences
2747 - Improvements to the wizard
2748 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2750 - Redesigned playlist
2751 - Improved preferences
2753 - Support for multiple actions
2756 - Support for the new playlist system
2758 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2761 * Screensaver disabling fix
2762 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2763 * Support for no-decoration windows
2766 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2767 * The OpenGL video output is back
2768 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2769 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2770 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2771 is not yet available in the new module
2772 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2775 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2784 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2787 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2790 The following languages were added:
2796 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2797 --------------------------------
2800 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2801 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2804 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2805 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2806 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2809 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2812 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2815 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2818 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2819 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2820 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2824 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2826 * Support of playlist group announcement
2829 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2830 --------------------------------
2833 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2834 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2835 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2836 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2837 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2838 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2841 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2842 (Stream your desktop)
2843 * Improved DVD support:
2844 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2845 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2846 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2847 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2848 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2849 (selection of titles/chapters).
2852 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2853 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2854 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2855 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2856 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2857 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2858 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2859 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2860 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2861 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2864 * G.726 audio support
2865 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2866 * MPEG-4 text support
2867 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2868 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2869 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2873 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2874 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2875 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2876 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2877 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2878 * DVB subtitles encoder
2879 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2880 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2882 * Text track muxing for mp4
2883 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2884 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2885 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2886 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2887 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2888 * Improved ASF muxer
2890 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2891 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2892 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2895 * New audio equalizer filter
2896 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2897 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2898 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2899 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2902 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2903 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2904 with support for effects.
2905 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2906 - New filters can be streamed.
2907 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2908 - Centralized scaling and blending
2910 - "time", to display current time
2911 - "marq", to display a marquee
2914 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2915 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2916 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2917 * A few skins2 improvements
2918 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2919 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2920 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2921 * Improved CORBA control module
2924 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2925 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2926 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2929 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2930 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2931 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2934 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2935 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2936 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2937 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2938 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2941 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2944 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2945 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2948 * Server/client network synchronization module
2949 * VBrick streams fully supported
2950 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2954 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2955 --------------------------------
2958 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2959 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2960 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2961 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2964 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2965 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2966 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2967 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2968 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2969 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2970 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2973 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2974 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2975 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2976 * Improved directory access module.
2977 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2978 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2979 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2980 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2981 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2984 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2985 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2986 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2989 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2990 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2991 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2994 * Improved session announcement system.
2995 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2996 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2997 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2998 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2999 * Improved transrater.
3000 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3001 * New configuration system.
3002 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3005 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3006 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3007 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3008 * Supports scheduling.
3009 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3010 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3013 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3014 - Ability to embed video output.
3015 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3016 - Lots of improvements.
3017 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3018 - New design and set of icons.
3019 - Ability to embed video output.
3020 - Support for hotkeys.
3021 - Support for bookmarks.
3023 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3024 - Better hotkeys handling.
3027 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3028 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3029 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3030 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3033 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3034 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3035 * Improved Windows installer.
3041 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3042 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3045 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3046 ---------------------------------
3049 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3050 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3053 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3054 --------------------------------
3057 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3058 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3061 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3062 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3063 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3064 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3067 * Internal improvments
3068 * Improved import/export
3071 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3073 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3074 small and strange formats.
3076 * New MOD audio demux.
3077 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3078 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3079 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3080 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3083 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3084 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3085 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3091 * New opengl video output plugin.
3094 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3095 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3098 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3099 --------------------------------
3102 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3103 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3104 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3105 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3106 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3107 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3108 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3109 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3112 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3117 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3118 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3119 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3120 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3121 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3122 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3123 * Better Icecast support.
3124 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3125 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3128 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3129 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3130 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3131 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3132 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3133 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3134 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3137 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3138 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3139 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3140 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3141 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3142 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3143 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3144 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3145 * Preliminary RTP support.
3146 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3151 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3152 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3154 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3155 - Improvements and help in preferences
3156 - New streaming wizard
3157 - Revised Disc Open menu
3159 - Improvements of the standard pages
3160 - Support for new commands
3161 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3164 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3165 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3168 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3169 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3170 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3171 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3172 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3173 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3174 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3175 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3176 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3179 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3181 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3182 * Support for Panther.
3183 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3184 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3187 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3188 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3189 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3190 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3191 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3192 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3193 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3194 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3197 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3198 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3199 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3202 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3205 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3206 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3207 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3208 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3211 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3212 --------------------------------
3215 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3218 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3219 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3222 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3223 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3226 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3229 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3230 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3233 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3236 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3239 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3240 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3244 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3245 --------------------------------
3248 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3249 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3253 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3254 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3255 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3257 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3258 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3261 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3264 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3267 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3268 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3272 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3273 --------------------------------
3276 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3277 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3281 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3282 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3283 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3284 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3285 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3288 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3289 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3290 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3293 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3294 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3295 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3298 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3299 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3300 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3301 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3302 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3305 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3306 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
3307 * A new CORBA control plugin.
3310 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
3313 * Improved build system.
3314 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
3315 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
3316 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
3317 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
3320 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
3321 --------------------------------
3324 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
3327 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
3328 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
3329 * Fixed large file support on Windows
3330 * Video 4 Linux support
3331 * CD Digital Audio support
3332 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
3335 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
3336 * Support for OpenDML avi files
3337 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
3338 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
3341 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
3342 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
3343 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
3344 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
3345 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
3346 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
3347 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
3350 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
3351 * New HTTP remote control interface
3354 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
3355 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
3356 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
3357 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
3358 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
3361 * New reset option for the preferences
3362 * You can set your language in the prefences
3363 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
3364 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
3365 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
3366 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
3369 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
3370 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
3371 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
3374 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
3375 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
3376 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
3377 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
3378 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
3379 * New icons by Davor Orel.
3380 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
3381 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
3382 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
3383 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
3386 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
3387 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
3388 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
3389 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
3390 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
3391 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
3392 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
3395 * Interface localization
3396 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
3397 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
3398 * New full-featured Preferences window
3401 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
3402 --------------------------------
3405 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
3406 * support for skins at the interface level
3407 * new OSD module using Freetype2
3408 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
3409 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
3410 input level before dropping out of date frames.
3411 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
3414 * fixed HTTP redirects
3415 * support for opening an entire directory
3416 * EOF should be detected more reliably
3417 * new video4linux access plug-in
3418 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
3421 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
3422 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
3423 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
3426 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
3427 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
3428 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
3429 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
3430 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
3431 * new codec for raw I420 video
3432 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
3435 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
3436 (although it still misses some important features)
3437 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
3440 * new HTTP output support
3441 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
3442 * fixed AV synchronization issues
3445 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
3448 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
3451 * reorderable playlist
3452 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
3453 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
3454 * support for mono audio output devices
3455 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
3456 * fixed several cosmetic issues
3457 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
3458 * the messages window remembers more lines
3459 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
3460 * http and ogg stream output options
3461 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
3464 * new skinnable interface
3465 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
3467 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
3468 * support for FLAC audio format
3469 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
3471 * network tab in the interface
3472 * "apply" handling in preferences
3475 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
3476 ---------------------------------
3479 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
3480 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
3481 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
3482 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
3484 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
3485 * DTS S/PDIF support
3488 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
3489 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
3490 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
3491 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
3494 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
3495 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
3498 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
3501 * fixed the GNU-pth support
3504 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
3506 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
3507 * rc interface is now fully useable
3508 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
3511 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
3512 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
3513 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
3514 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
3515 * VLC now uses the default audio device
3517 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
3518 * support for mouse gestures
3519 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
3522 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
3523 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
3526 * improved ID3 tag detection
3527 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
3528 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
3529 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
3531 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
3534 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
3535 ---------------------------------
3538 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
3539 English was set as the preferred language
3542 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
3543 --------------------------------
3546 * new mouse gesture interface
3547 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
3551 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
3552 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
3553 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
3556 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
3557 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
3561 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
3564 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
3565 without the user consent
3568 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
3570 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
3571 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
3572 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
3575 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
3576 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
3577 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
3578 * playlist enhancements
3579 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
3580 * new step forward/step backward commands
3581 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
3582 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
3583 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
3586 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
3587 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
3588 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
3591 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
3592 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
3595 * native video output is working again
3596 * only commandline interface support
3597 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
3600 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
3601 --------------------------------
3604 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
3605 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
3606 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
3607 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
3608 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
3609 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
3610 and A/52 streams are supported)
3611 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3616 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3617 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3618 * VCD entry points support
3619 * VCD image file support
3622 * support for *.asf format
3623 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3624 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3625 * support for ogg encapsulation
3626 * support for raw DV format
3627 * support for *.wav format
3628 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3631 Stream discovery & playlists:
3632 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3633 * support for .m3u file format
3634 * support for .asx file format
3635 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3638 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3639 (only available with the .avi demux)
3640 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3641 * support for raw PCM data
3642 * support for Cinepak video codec
3643 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3644 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3645 * support for Xvid codec
3646 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3647 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3648 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
3650 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
3652 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3655 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3658 * new WxWindows interface
3659 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3660 device and the channels configuration
3661 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3662 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3663 format that VLC can play
3664 * new swedish translation
3665 * enhancements of the playlist window
3666 * new messages window to see debug info
3667 * fixed a few crashes
3670 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3671 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3672 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3673 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working