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10 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a better system in /contrib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
43 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
44 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
45 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
46 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
47 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
48 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
49 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
50 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
51 * Support for more MJPEG streams
52 * Add support for liveleak streams
55 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
56 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
57 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES module
58 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
59 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1 and 7.1 playback and layouts
60 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
61 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
62 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
63 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
64 * Rewrite of AudioQueue module for iOS (and OS X)
67 * new remapping channel filter
68 * new filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
69 * new VSXu visualization plugin
72 * DecklinkOutput: New module using Blackmagic cards
73 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
74 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
75 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
78 * new anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
79 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images.
80 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
81 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
82 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
83 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
86 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
87 * Options support for AVIO output module
88 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
89 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
92 * configurable password for the HTTP server.
93 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server.
94 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows.
95 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
96 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
97 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
101 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
104 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based and 32bit Intel-based Macs
105 * VLC requires Mac OS X 10.6 or later now
108 * add support for multiple video outputs
109 * add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
111 * add a GUI to manage podcasts
112 * add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
113 * add a GUI for the QTSound access module to process audio captured locally
114 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time.
115 * add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
116 * add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
117 VLC's internal volume level
118 * add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
119 selection and to manage the list of presets
120 * add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
121 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
122 * add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
123 * add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
124 * add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
125 * add an option to show next / previous buttons
126 * add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
127 * add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
129 * add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
130 * add an option to play videos as a desktop background
131 * add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
132 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
133 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
134 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
138 * Partial support for Qt5.0
139 * Menus modifications and improvements
140 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
141 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
145 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
146 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
147 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
148 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
149 * new libvlc_log_subscribe and libvlc_log_unsubscribe function to register logging callbacks
150 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
151 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
154 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
155 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
156 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
157 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
158 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
159 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
161 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
162 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
163 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
166 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
167 --------------------------------
170 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
173 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
174 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
175 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
178 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
179 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
180 * Fix koreus lua parser
181 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
182 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
183 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
184 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
187 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
188 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
191 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
194 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
195 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
196 * Fix Time counter UI look
197 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
200 * Fix https streaming
203 * Fix audio and video track selection:
204 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
205 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
208 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
209 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
210 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
211 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
212 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
215 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
216 --------------------------------
219 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
220 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
221 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
222 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
223 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
224 during playback on Mac OS X
227 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
228 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
229 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
232 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
233 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
234 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
235 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
236 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
239 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
240 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
241 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
242 * Support Youtube live streams
245 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
248 * Fix media info dialog update
249 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
250 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
251 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
252 * Fix album art display at start
255 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
256 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
257 * Fix menus display and behavior
258 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
259 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
260 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
261 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
262 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
263 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
264 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
267 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
268 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
269 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
270 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
271 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
272 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
273 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
274 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
275 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
278 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
279 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
280 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
281 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
282 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
285 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
286 --------------------------------
289 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
292 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
293 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
296 * Add GateKeeper support
297 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
298 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
299 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
302 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
305 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
306 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
307 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
308 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
309 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
312 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
313 --------------------------------
316 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
317 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
318 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
319 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
320 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
321 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
322 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
323 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
324 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
325 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
326 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
330 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
331 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
332 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
333 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
334 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
335 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
336 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
337 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
338 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
339 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
340 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
341 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
344 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
345 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
347 * Fix MP3 free format support
350 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
351 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
352 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
353 * Fix for DVB channels file support
354 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
357 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
358 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
360 Audio filters and output:
361 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
362 * Fix DirectSound device selection
363 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
364 * Do not apply volume in file output
365 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
366 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
369 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
370 the persistant media library
371 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
372 to the media library or the temporary playlist
373 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
374 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
375 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
376 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
377 press on the Play/Pause button
378 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
379 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
380 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
381 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
382 * Many Fullscreen fixes
383 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
384 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
385 Synchronization panel
386 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
387 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
388 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
389 * Fix crashes on exit
390 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
392 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
393 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
394 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
395 automatically reset on the first launch.
396 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
397 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
398 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
401 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
402 * Fixes for icecast SD
405 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
406 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
407 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
408 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
409 * Fix tags and file names display
410 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
413 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
414 * Fix for key events and focus loss
417 * Fix display of some buttons
418 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
419 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
422 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
423 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
424 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
427 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
428 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
429 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
430 Thai translations update
431 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
434 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
435 --------------------------------
438 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
439 * fix the samba module compilation
440 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
441 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
442 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
443 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
446 * Support for MXPEG files
447 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
448 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
451 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
452 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
453 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
456 * Fix ogm header creation
459 * limit spatializer filter distortions
460 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
463 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
464 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
465 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
466 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
469 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
472 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
473 * allow to hide the sidebar
474 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
475 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
476 * noticebly faster launch time
477 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
478 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
479 * improve track synchronization panel
480 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
481 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
484 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
485 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
486 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
487 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
490 * fix for menus display
491 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
492 * documentation update
495 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
496 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
499 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
500 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
501 * Update Jamendo selections
505 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
506 * fix a crash on VLM close
509 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
510 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
511 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
512 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
515 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
518 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
519 ---------------------------------
522 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
523 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
524 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
525 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
526 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
527 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
528 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
529 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
530 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
531 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
532 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
533 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
534 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
535 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
536 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
537 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
538 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
539 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
540 --http-crl (optional CRL).
541 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
542 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
543 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
544 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
545 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
546 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
547 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
549 Important changes for packagers:
550 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
551 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
552 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
553 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
554 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
555 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
556 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
557 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
558 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
559 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
562 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
563 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
564 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
565 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
566 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
567 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
568 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
571 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
572 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
573 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
574 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
575 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
576 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
577 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
578 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
579 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
580 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
581 * PulseAudio audio input support
582 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
583 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
584 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
585 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
586 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
587 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
588 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
589 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
592 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
593 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
594 are notably concerned.
595 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
596 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
597 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
598 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
599 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
600 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
601 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
602 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
603 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
604 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
605 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
606 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
607 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
608 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
609 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
612 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
613 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
614 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
615 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
616 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
617 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
618 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
619 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
620 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
621 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
622 * Improved support of tracker files
623 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
626 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
627 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
628 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
629 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
630 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
631 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
632 and important cleanups and optimisations
633 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
634 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
635 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
636 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
637 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
638 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
639 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
640 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
641 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
642 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
643 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
644 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
645 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
646 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
647 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
648 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
649 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
650 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
651 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
652 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
653 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
656 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
657 * New video output for iOS platform
658 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
659 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
660 * Various vmem improvements
661 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
662 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
663 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
664 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
665 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
666 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
668 Audio Output and Filters:
669 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
670 * New audio output in memory (amem)
671 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
672 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
673 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
674 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
675 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
676 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
677 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
678 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
681 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
682 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
683 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
684 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
685 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
686 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
687 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
688 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
689 * New anti-flickering filter
690 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
691 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
692 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
693 blackbox and customizable shadow.
694 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
695 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
696 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
699 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
700 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
701 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
702 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
703 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
704 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
705 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
706 * Major rework of VoD support
707 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
708 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
709 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
710 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
711 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
712 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
713 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
714 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
715 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
716 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
719 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
720 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
723 * New capabilities for libVLC:
724 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
725 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
726 list of available audio and video filters
727 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
728 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
729 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
732 * asademux, subsass: use libass
733 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
734 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
736 * upnp: use upnp_intel
737 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
738 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
739 * removal of the noise filter
740 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
741 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
742 removed in Growl's next release, too.
743 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
746 * Update of translations for most languages.
747 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
750 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
751 ----------------------------------
754 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
755 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
758 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
759 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
762 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
763 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
764 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
767 * Camtasia decoding fix.
770 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
771 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
774 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
777 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
778 ----------------------------------
781 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
782 including support for OS X Lion
783 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
784 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
787 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
790 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
791 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
792 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
795 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
798 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
799 ----------------------------------
802 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
803 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
806 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
807 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
808 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
809 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
810 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
812 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
813 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
814 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
816 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
817 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
820 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
823 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
826 * Fix quitting on Linux
827 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
831 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
834 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
837 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
838 ---------------------------------
840 Windows and Mac OS X:
841 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
844 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
845 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
848 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
851 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
854 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
856 Miscellaneous fixes in:
857 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
859 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
860 * RTP output and XML export
861 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
865 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
866 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
867 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
868 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
871 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
872 --------------------------------
874 Windows and Mac OS X:
875 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
878 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
881 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
882 * Improve Apple Remote handling
883 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
884 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
885 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
886 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
889 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
890 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
894 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
895 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
896 * New Luganda Translation
899 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
900 --------------------------------
903 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
906 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
907 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
908 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
909 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
912 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
914 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
915 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
916 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
917 * mp4 demuxer improvements
918 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
919 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
920 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
921 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
923 Miscellaneous fixes in:
924 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
925 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
926 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
927 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
928 * Configure and build system improvements
929 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
932 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
933 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
934 * New icelandic translation
937 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
938 --------------------------------
941 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
945 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
946 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
947 and stability reasons
950 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
954 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
957 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
958 ----------------------------------
961 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
964 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
965 ---------------------------------
968 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
969 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
970 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
971 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
974 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
977 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
978 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
979 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
980 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
983 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
984 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
985 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
987 Subtitles and renderer:
988 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
989 * Mark more freetype options as safe
990 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
991 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
992 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
995 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
996 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
997 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
998 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1001 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1002 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1004 Miscellaneous fixes:
1005 * KDE device solid actions
1007 * Transcode integer overflow
1008 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1009 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1012 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1013 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1014 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1017 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1018 ----------------------------------
1021 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1025 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1028 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1031 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1032 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1033 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1034 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1037 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1041 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1044 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1047 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1048 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1050 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1054 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1055 * Miscellaneous fixes
1058 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1059 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1060 French and Ukrainian
1061 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1062 * New Asturian translation
1065 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1066 ----------------------------------
1069 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1071 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1074 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1077 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1078 * Various fixes for Windows
1081 * New Armenian translation
1082 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1083 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1086 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1087 --------------------------------
1090 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1091 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1092 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1095 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1096 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1099 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1100 --------------------------------
1102 Access and demuxers:
1103 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1104 * fix for podcasts parsing
1105 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1108 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1109 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1112 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1113 * fix m3u playlists exports
1116 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1119 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1122 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1125 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1128 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1131 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1132 --------------------------------
1135 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1136 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1139 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1140 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1143 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1144 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1145 * fix console output encoding
1147 Interface and extensions:
1148 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1149 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1152 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1153 --------------------------------
1156 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1157 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1158 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1159 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1160 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1161 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1162 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1163 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1164 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1165 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1166 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1167 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1168 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1169 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1170 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1171 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1175 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1176 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1177 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1178 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1179 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1182 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1185 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1186 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1187 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1191 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1194 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1195 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1196 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1199 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1200 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1201 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1202 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1205 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1206 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1209 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1210 --------------------------------
1212 Important changes for users:
1213 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1214 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1216 Important changes for packagers:
1217 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1218 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1219 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1220 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1221 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1223 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1225 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1226 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1227 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1228 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1229 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1232 * Support for the sftp protocol
1233 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1234 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1235 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1236 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1237 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1240 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1241 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1242 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1244 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1245 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1246 * Invmem module improvements
1247 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1248 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1249 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1250 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1251 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1252 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1253 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1254 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1255 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1256 * Support for VP8 codec
1257 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1260 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1261 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1262 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1263 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1264 * Various EGP improvements
1265 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1266 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1269 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1270 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1271 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1272 * Podcast images are now displayed
1275 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1276 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1277 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1278 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1279 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1280 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1281 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1282 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1283 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1284 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1285 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1288 * New content extensions lua framework
1291 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1292 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1293 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1294 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1295 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1296 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1297 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
1300 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
1301 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
1302 * Service discovery based on libudev
1303 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
1306 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
1307 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
1308 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
1309 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
1310 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
1311 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
1312 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
1315 * New smem module, streaming to memory
1316 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
1317 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
1320 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
1322 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
1323 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
1326 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
1329 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
1330 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
1331 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
1332 by Andy Matuschak et al.
1333 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
1334 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
1335 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
1338 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
1339 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
1342 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
1343 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
1344 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
1348 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
1349 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
1350 * Improved Solaris port
1353 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
1354 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
1357 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
1358 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
1359 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
1360 * transrate: broken since too long
1361 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
1362 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
1363 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
1364 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
1365 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
1366 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
1367 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
1368 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
1369 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
1370 * cddax: use cdda instead.
1371 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
1372 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
1373 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
1374 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
1377 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
1378 --------------------------------
1381 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
1383 Decoders/Packetizers:
1384 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
1387 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
1388 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
1389 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
1390 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
1391 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
1394 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
1395 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
1398 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
1399 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
1402 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
1403 and Walloon translations updated
1404 * Sinhala translation started
1407 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
1408 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
1411 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
1412 --------------------------------
1415 * SubRip extra styles improvements
1416 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
1419 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
1422 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
1423 increase performance and fix x264 issues
1426 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
1427 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
1428 Russian, Slovak translation updates
1429 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
1432 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
1433 --------------------------------
1436 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
1437 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
1440 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
1441 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
1444 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
1445 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
1448 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
1451 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
1452 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
1455 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
1456 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
1459 * New Walloon translation
1460 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
1463 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
1464 --------------------------------
1467 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
1468 regressions in most popular drivers
1469 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
1472 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
1473 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
1474 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
1477 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
1478 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
1481 * Update for appletrailers lua script
1482 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
1483 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
1484 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
1485 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
1488 * New udev module for linux
1491 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
1494 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
1497 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
1498 --------------------------------
1501 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
1502 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
1503 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
1506 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
1507 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
1510 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
1511 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
1514 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
1517 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
1518 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
1519 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
1520 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
1523 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
1524 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
1525 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
1526 - no support for Goom and SDL
1527 - limited text rendering support
1528 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
1531 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
1532 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
1533 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
1534 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
1535 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
1536 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
1537 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
1538 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
1539 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
1543 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
1546 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
1549 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
1550 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
1551 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
1552 Arabic and French translation updates
1555 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
1556 --------------------------------
1559 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
1560 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
1561 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
1562 * Fix Dailymotion access script
1563 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
1564 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
1567 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
1568 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1569 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1572 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
1573 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
1574 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
1577 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
1580 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
1581 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
1584 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
1585 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
1586 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1587 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
1588 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
1589 * Fix various crashes
1592 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
1594 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
1598 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
1599 ---------------------------------
1603 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
1604 See 'Access:' for more info.
1605 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1608 * Instantaneous pausing
1609 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1610 * Finer speed control
1611 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1612 * Timeshift for most medias
1613 * RTSP trickplay support
1614 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1617 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1618 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1619 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1620 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1621 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1622 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1623 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1624 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1625 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1626 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1629 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1630 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1631 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1632 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1633 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1634 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1635 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1638 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1639 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1642 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1643 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1644 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1645 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1646 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1647 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1648 * DVB scanning on linux
1649 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1650 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1651 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1652 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1653 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1654 * MTP device access on Unix
1655 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1656 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1659 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1660 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1661 Windows and Mac OS X.
1664 * Export the playlist in HTML
1665 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1666 * Better metadata handling and reading
1668 Linux/Windows interface:
1669 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1670 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1671 * Recently played items list
1672 * Interface toolbar customizations
1673 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1674 - More menus actions
1675 - Finer speed slider
1676 - Improvements on many dialogs
1677 - New dialog for plugins listing
1678 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1679 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1680 * Better integration in GTK environments
1683 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1684 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1685 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1686 * Additional usability improvements
1689 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1690 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1691 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1692 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1693 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1696 * New Maemo port with:
1697 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1698 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1701 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1704 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1705 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1706 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1707 * Support for latest iSight models
1710 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1711 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1714 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1715 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1716 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1717 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1718 The old image video output has been removed.
1719 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1720 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1723 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1731 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1732 --------------------------------------
1738 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1739 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1740 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1741 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1742 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1743 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1744 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1746 Various fixes to the following modules:
1749 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1750 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1751 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1753 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1758 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1759 ---------------------------------
1762 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1763 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1766 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1767 ---------------------------------
1770 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1773 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1776 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1777 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1778 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1779 main controller window.
1780 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1783 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1788 * Updates of other localizations
1791 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1792 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1793 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1794 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1795 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1798 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1799 ---------------------------------
1802 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1804 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1807 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1808 --------------------------------
1813 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1814 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1817 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1818 --------------------------------
1820 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1821 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1824 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1827 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1828 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1831 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1832 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1835 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1836 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1837 * Various fixed in playlist
1840 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1843 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1846 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1847 ------------------------------------
1849 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1850 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1853 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1854 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1855 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1858 * Stability fix for the video output.
1861 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1862 --------------------------------
1865 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1866 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1867 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1868 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1869 * Fixed update system bugs
1870 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1873 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1874 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1875 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1876 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1877 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1878 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1879 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1880 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1881 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1882 modern Mac OS X versions
1885 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1886 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1888 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1889 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1892 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1893 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1894 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1895 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1896 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1897 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1900 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1901 --------------------------------
1903 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1904 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1905 * Multiple bugfixes.
1908 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1909 --------------------------------
1911 * Multiple bug fixes.
1914 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1915 ---------------------------------
1919 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1920 recent to work correctly
1921 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1922 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1923 edit the ".hosts" file.
1924 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1925 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1926 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1927 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1928 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1929 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1930 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1931 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1932 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1933 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1934 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1935 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1936 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1937 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1938 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1939 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1940 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1941 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1942 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1943 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1944 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1945 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1946 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1947 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1948 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1949 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1950 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1951 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1952 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1953 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1954 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1955 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1956 and postproc modules.
1957 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1958 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1959 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1960 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1962 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1963 filter. For example:
1964 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1965 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1967 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1968 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1974 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1976 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1977 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1980 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1981 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1983 * Shoutcast TV listings
1984 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1986 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1987 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1989 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1992 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1993 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1994 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1995 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1996 * JACK audio input support
1997 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1998 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1999 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2000 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2001 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2002 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2003 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2004 (available as a separate download).
2005 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2006 * RTMP input support
2007 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2008 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2009 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2011 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2012 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2015 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2016 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2017 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2018 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2020 * APEv1/2 tags support
2021 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2022 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2024 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2025 * TiVo Series 2 support
2026 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2031 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2032 * Flash Screen Video support
2033 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2034 * DosBox Capture support
2035 * Karl Morton's Video support
2036 * limited atrac3 support
2038 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2039 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2040 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2041 * H.264 PAFF support
2042 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2043 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2044 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2045 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2046 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2049 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2050 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2051 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2052 * AQTitle subtitles support
2053 * MKV USF subtitles support
2054 * HTML-based subtitles support
2055 * MPSub subtitles support
2056 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2057 * MPL2 subtitles support
2058 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2059 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2060 * Realtext subtitle support
2061 * DKS subtitle support
2062 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2063 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2066 * Flash Screen Video support
2067 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2069 Video outputs and filters:
2070 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2071 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2072 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2073 * New puzzle video output filter
2074 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2075 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2077 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2078 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2079 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2080 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2081 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2082 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2083 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2084 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2085 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2086 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2087 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2088 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2089 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2090 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2092 Audio outputs and filters:
2093 * Replay gain support
2094 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2095 new scaletempo audio filter)
2096 * New spatializer audio filter
2097 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2100 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2101 * New RTP payload formats:
2102 * Speex voice audio codec
2103 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2104 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2105 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2106 * DCCP transport for RTP
2107 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2112 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2113 end-user suitable way.
2114 * Improved user interaction
2115 * Improved mouse gestures
2116 * Vastly improved Update checker
2117 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2119 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2120 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2122 * Improved video output features
2123 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2124 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2125 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2126 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2127 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2129 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2130 if libncursesw is available.
2131 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2132 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2133 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2135 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2136 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2137 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2138 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2139 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2140 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2141 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2142 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2145 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2146 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2147 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2150 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2151 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2152 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2153 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2154 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2155 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2158 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2159 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2169 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2170 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2171 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2174 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2175 ----------------------------------
2178 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2181 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2182 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2183 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2184 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2185 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2186 * Updated Polish translation
2189 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2190 ----------------------------------
2193 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2194 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2195 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2198 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2199 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2200 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2201 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2202 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2203 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2204 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2205 to an unexpected application termination
2206 * New Serbian translation
2207 * Updated Romanian translation
2210 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2211 ----------------------------------
2214 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2215 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2216 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2217 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2218 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2219 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2220 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2221 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2224 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2225 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2226 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2227 * Fixed AAC resampling
2228 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2229 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2232 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2233 ----------------------------------
2236 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2237 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2238 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2239 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2240 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2243 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2244 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2245 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2246 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2247 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2250 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2251 ----------------------------------
2254 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2255 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2258 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2259 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2260 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2261 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2263 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2267 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2270 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2273 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2276 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2279 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2280 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2281 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2282 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2283 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2285 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2286 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2287 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2288 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2291 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2294 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2295 ----------------------------------
2298 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
2299 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
2300 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
2302 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
2303 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
2305 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
2306 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
2309 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
2311 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2312 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
2313 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2314 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
2315 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
2316 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
2317 two different movies
2318 * Support for current Ogg file formats
2319 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
2320 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
2323 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
2326 * The automatic updating facility was removed
2327 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2328 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
2329 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
2332 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
2333 ----------------------------------
2335 Various bugfixes, notably:
2336 * Windows Vista compatibility
2337 * Cropping in Direct3D
2338 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
2339 * RSS filter string overflow
2341 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
2343 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
2344 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
2347 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
2348 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
2351 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
2354 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
2357 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
2360 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
2361 ----------------------------------
2363 Various bugfixes, notably:
2364 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
2365 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
2366 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
2367 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
2368 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
2369 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
2372 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
2373 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
2376 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
2378 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2379 * Diverse usability improvements
2380 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
2381 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
2382 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
2385 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
2386 ---------------------------------
2388 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
2389 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
2392 * Fullscreen controller improvements
2395 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
2396 --------------------------------
2399 * Shoutcast TV listings support
2402 * Support for RTSP authentication
2403 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
2404 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
2405 * ATSC support for DVB input
2406 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
2407 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
2408 * Improved support for Flash Video files
2411 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
2412 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
2413 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
2414 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
2415 * Matroska WavPack support
2416 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
2417 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
2418 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
2421 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
2422 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
2423 * Improved libcaca support
2427 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
2428 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
2430 * Systray support in skins
2432 * Support for Apple Remote control
2433 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2434 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2435 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
2436 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
2438 * Notifications using notification-daemon
2441 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
2442 Windows 9x/ME users:
2443 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
2444 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
2445 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
2446 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
2447 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
2449 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
2450 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
2459 * Updates to the libvlc API
2460 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
2463 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
2464 --------------------------------
2467 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
2468 * Support for downloading updates
2472 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
2473 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
2474 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
2475 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
2477 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
2478 * Improved subtitles encoding support
2479 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
2482 * Cook (Real audio) support
2484 Playlist / Services discovery:
2485 * XSPF playlist support
2487 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
2490 * New JACK audio output
2493 * New video filters:
2494 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
2495 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
2496 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
2497 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
2498 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
2499 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
2502 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
2505 * System to inform the user and request information
2506 - HTTP authentication
2510 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
2511 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2512 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
2515 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
2516 - Improved playlist handling
2517 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
2519 - Embedded Video output
2520 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
2521 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
2522 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2523 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
2524 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
2526 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
2527 - A bunch of new RPN functions
2530 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
2533 * Mac-Intel compatibility
2534 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
2535 * Growl "Now playing" support
2538 * Ability to log to syslog
2539 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
2542 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
2544 * A bit more automatic testing
2547 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
2548 ---------------------------------
2551 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
2552 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
2555 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
2556 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
2559 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
2562 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
2563 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
2569 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
2572 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
2573 --------------------------------
2576 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
2580 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2581 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
2582 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
2585 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
2586 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
2587 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
2588 * GnomeVFS input module
2589 * Support for RTP packet reordering
2590 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
2593 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
2594 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2595 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
2598 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
2599 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2605 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2606 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2609 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2610 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2611 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2614 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2616 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2617 - New extended controls panel
2618 - New bookmarks window
2619 - Fixed playlist sorting
2620 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2622 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2623 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2624 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2625 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2629 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2630 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2632 - Include macro to include other files
2636 * Should now work outside IE as well
2639 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2642 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2643 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2646 The following languages were added:
2650 * Simplified Chinese
2651 The following languages were re-added:
2655 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2656 --------------------------------
2659 * Rewrite of the playlist
2661 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2662 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2663 * Preferences improvements:
2664 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2665 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2667 * Core image manipulation support
2668 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2669 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2670 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2671 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2672 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2673 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2674 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2675 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2676 * Access filter architecture
2677 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2678 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2682 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2683 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2684 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2685 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2686 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2687 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2688 * Massive Matroska improvements
2689 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2691 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2692 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2693 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2694 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2695 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2697 Decoders / Encoders:
2698 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2699 * PNG decoder/encoder
2700 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2701 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2704 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2707 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2708 * Brand new SAP module
2709 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2710 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2711 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2712 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2713 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2714 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2718 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2721 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2722 * Image file video output (png)
2723 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2724 * Improvements to wall video filter
2725 * Support for font color and opacity
2731 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2732 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2733 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2737 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2738 - Improved preferences
2739 - Improvements to the wizard
2740 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2742 - Redesigned playlist
2743 - Improved preferences
2745 - Support for multiple actions
2748 - Support for the new playlist system
2750 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2753 * Screensaver disabling fix
2754 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2755 * Support for no-decoration windows
2758 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2759 * The OpenGL video output is back
2760 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2761 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2762 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2763 is not yet available in the new module
2764 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2767 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2776 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2779 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2782 The following languages were added:
2788 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2789 --------------------------------
2792 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2793 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2796 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2797 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2798 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2801 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2804 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2807 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2810 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2811 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2812 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2816 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2818 * Support of playlist group announcement
2821 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2822 --------------------------------
2825 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2826 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2827 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2828 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2829 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2830 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2833 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2834 (Stream your desktop)
2835 * Improved DVD support:
2836 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2837 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2838 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2839 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2840 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2841 (selection of titles/chapters).
2844 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2845 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2846 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2847 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2848 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2849 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2850 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2851 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2852 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2853 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2856 * G.726 audio support
2857 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2858 * MPEG-4 text support
2859 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2860 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2861 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2865 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2866 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2867 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2868 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2869 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2870 * DVB subtitles encoder
2871 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2872 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2874 * Text track muxing for mp4
2875 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2876 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2877 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2878 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2879 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2880 * Improved ASF muxer
2882 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2883 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2884 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2887 * New audio equalizer filter
2888 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2889 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2890 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2891 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2894 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2895 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2896 with support for effects.
2897 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2898 - New filters can be streamed.
2899 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2900 - Centralized scaling and blending
2902 - "time", to display current time
2903 - "marq", to display a marquee
2906 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2907 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2908 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2909 * A few skins2 improvements
2910 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2911 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2912 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2913 * Improved CORBA control module
2916 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2917 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2918 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2921 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2922 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2923 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2926 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2927 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2928 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2929 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2930 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2933 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2936 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2937 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2940 * Server/client network synchronization module
2941 * VBrick streams fully supported
2942 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2946 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2947 --------------------------------
2950 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2951 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2952 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2953 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2956 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2957 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2958 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2959 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2960 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2961 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2962 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2965 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2966 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2967 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2968 * Improved directory access module.
2969 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2970 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2971 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2972 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2973 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2976 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2977 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2978 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2981 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2982 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2983 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2986 * Improved session announcement system.
2987 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2988 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2989 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2990 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2991 * Improved transrater.
2992 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2993 * New configuration system.
2994 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2997 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2998 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2999 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3000 * Supports scheduling.
3001 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3002 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3005 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3006 - Ability to embed video output.
3007 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3008 - Lots of improvements.
3009 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3010 - New design and set of icons.
3011 - Ability to embed video output.
3012 - Support for hotkeys.
3013 - Support for bookmarks.
3015 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3016 - Better hotkeys handling.
3019 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3020 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3021 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3022 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3025 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3026 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3027 * Improved Windows installer.
3033 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3034 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3037 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3038 ---------------------------------
3041 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3042 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3045 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3046 --------------------------------
3049 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3050 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3053 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3054 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3055 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3056 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3059 * Internal improvments
3060 * Improved import/export
3063 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3065 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3066 small and strange formats.
3068 * New MOD audio demux.
3069 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3070 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3071 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3072 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3075 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3076 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3077 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3083 * New opengl video output plugin.
3086 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3087 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3090 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3091 --------------------------------
3094 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3095 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3096 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3097 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3098 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3099 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3100 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3101 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3104 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3109 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3110 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3111 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3112 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3113 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3114 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3115 * Better Icecast support.
3116 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3117 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3120 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3121 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3122 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3123 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3124 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3125 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3126 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3129 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3130 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3131 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3132 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3133 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3134 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3135 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3136 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3137 * Preliminary RTP support.
3138 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3143 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3144 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3146 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3147 - Improvements and help in preferences
3148 - New streaming wizard
3149 - Revised Disc Open menu
3151 - Improvements of the standard pages
3152 - Support for new commands
3153 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3156 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3157 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3160 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3161 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3162 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3163 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3164 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3165 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3166 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3167 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3168 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3171 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3173 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3174 * Support for Panther.
3175 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3176 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3179 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3180 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3181 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3182 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3183 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3184 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3185 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3186 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3189 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3190 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3191 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3194 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3197 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3198 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3199 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3200 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3203 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3204 --------------------------------
3207 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3210 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3211 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3214 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3215 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3218 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3221 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3222 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3225 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3228 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3231 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3232 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3236 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3237 --------------------------------
3240 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3241 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3245 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3246 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3247 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3249 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3250 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3253 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3256 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3259 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3260 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3264 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3265 --------------------------------
3268 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3269 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3273 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3274 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3275 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3276 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3277 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3280 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3281 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3282 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3285 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3286 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3287 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3290 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3291 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3292 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3293 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3294 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3297 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3298 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
3299 * A new CORBA control plugin.
3302 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
3305 * Improved build system.
3306 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
3307 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
3308 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
3309 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
3312 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
3313 --------------------------------
3316 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
3319 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
3320 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
3321 * Fixed large file support on Windows
3322 * Video 4 Linux support
3323 * CD Digital Audio support
3324 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
3327 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
3328 * Support for OpenDML avi files
3329 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
3330 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
3333 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
3334 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
3335 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
3336 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
3337 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
3338 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
3339 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
3342 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
3343 * New HTTP remote control interface
3346 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
3347 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
3348 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
3349 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
3350 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
3353 * New reset option for the preferences
3354 * You can set your language in the prefences
3355 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
3356 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
3357 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
3358 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
3361 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
3362 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
3363 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
3366 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
3367 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
3368 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
3369 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
3370 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
3371 * New icons by Davor Orel.
3372 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
3373 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
3374 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
3375 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
3378 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
3379 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
3380 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
3381 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
3382 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
3383 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
3384 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
3387 * Interface localization
3388 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
3389 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
3390 * New full-featured Preferences window
3393 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
3394 --------------------------------
3397 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
3398 * support for skins at the interface level
3399 * new OSD module using Freetype2
3400 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
3401 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
3402 input level before dropping out of date frames.
3403 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
3406 * fixed HTTP redirects
3407 * support for opening an entire directory
3408 * EOF should be detected more reliably
3409 * new video4linux access plug-in
3410 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
3413 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
3414 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
3415 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
3418 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
3419 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
3420 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
3421 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
3422 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
3423 * new codec for raw I420 video
3424 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
3427 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
3428 (although it still misses some important features)
3429 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
3432 * new HTTP output support
3433 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
3434 * fixed AV synchronization issues
3437 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
3440 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
3443 * reorderable playlist
3444 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
3445 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
3446 * support for mono audio output devices
3447 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
3448 * fixed several cosmetic issues
3449 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
3450 * the messages window remembers more lines
3451 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
3452 * http and ogg stream output options
3453 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
3456 * new skinnable interface
3457 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
3459 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
3460 * support for FLAC audio format
3461 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
3463 * network tab in the interface
3464 * "apply" handling in preferences
3467 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
3468 ---------------------------------
3471 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
3472 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
3473 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
3474 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
3476 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
3477 * DTS S/PDIF support
3480 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
3481 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
3482 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
3483 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
3486 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
3487 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
3490 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
3493 * fixed the GNU-pth support
3496 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
3498 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
3499 * rc interface is now fully useable
3500 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
3503 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
3504 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
3505 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
3506 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
3507 * VLC now uses the default audio device
3509 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
3510 * support for mouse gestures
3511 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
3514 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
3515 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
3518 * improved ID3 tag detection
3519 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
3520 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
3521 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
3523 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
3526 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
3527 ---------------------------------
3530 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
3531 English was set as the preferred language
3534 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
3535 --------------------------------
3538 * new mouse gesture interface
3539 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
3543 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
3544 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
3545 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
3548 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
3549 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
3553 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
3556 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
3557 without the user consent
3560 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
3562 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
3563 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
3564 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
3567 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
3568 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
3569 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
3570 * playlist enhancements
3571 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
3572 * new step forward/step backward commands
3573 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
3574 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
3575 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
3578 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
3579 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
3580 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
3583 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
3584 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
3587 * native video output is working again
3588 * only commandline interface support
3589 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
3592 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
3593 --------------------------------
3596 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
3597 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
3598 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
3599 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
3600 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
3601 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
3602 and A/52 streams are supported)
3603 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3608 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3609 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3610 * VCD entry points support
3611 * VCD image file support
3614 * support for *.asf format
3615 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3616 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3617 * support for ogg encapsulation
3618 * support for raw DV format
3619 * support for *.wav format
3620 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3623 Stream discovery & playlists:
3624 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3625 * support for .m3u file format
3626 * support for .asx file format
3627 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3630 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3631 (only available with the .avi demux)
3632 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3633 * support for raw PCM data
3634 * support for Cinepak video codec
3635 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3636 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3637 * support for Xvid codec
3638 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3639 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3640 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
3642 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
3644 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3647 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3650 * new WxWindows interface
3651 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3652 device and the channels configuration
3653 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3654 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3655 format that VLC can play
3656 * new swedish translation
3657 * enhancements of the playlist window
3658 * new messages window to see debug info
3659 * fixed a few crashes
3662 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3663 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3664 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3665 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working