1 Changes between 3.0.x and 4.0.0-dev:
2 --------------------------------
4 Platform support changes:
6 - Windows 7/2008 R2 or later (with KB2533623 installed)
9 - Android 4.1.x or later (API-16)
10 - GCC 5.0 or Clang 3.4 (or equivalent)
13 * ALSA: HDMI passthrough support.
14 Use --alsa-passthrough to configure S/PDIF or HDMI passthrough.
17 * Support for HEIF format
18 * Support for DASH WebM
19 * Support for DVBSUB in mkv
22 * Support for experimental AV1 video encoding
24 * Remove iomx support for Android
26 * Support for SMPTE-TT image profile
27 * Support for 16-bit greyscale
28 * Support IMM4 decoder
31 * Enable SMB2 / SMB3 support on mobile ports with libsmb2
32 * Added support for the RIST (Reliable Internet Stream Transport) Protocol
35 * Added support for the RIST (Reliable Internet Stream Transport) Protocol
40 * Remove omxil_vout plugin
41 * Remove RealRTSP plugin
42 * Remove Real demuxer plugin
45 * New SDI output with improved audio and ancillary support.
46 Candidate for deprecation of decklink vout/aout modules.
49 * Remove Growl notification support
52 * Improved proxy configuration handling
55 Changes between 3.0.2 and 3.0.3:
56 --------------------------------
59 * Update subtitles display while paused
62 * Enable srt support on binary builds
65 * Allow videotoolbox hardware decoding to be disabled
66 * Disable VideoToolbox for 10bits H.264
67 * Fix VideoToolbox with some invalid HEVC streams
68 * Fix subsdec wide character support
69 * Fix 1st order Ambisonics in AAC
72 * Miscellaneous ogg improvements & bugfixes, including oggds
73 * Fix forced tracks selection
75 * Probe AAC/ADTS inside TS
76 * Fix tracks detection issues with DolbyVision and Bluray streams
79 * Fix "Open Network Stream" URL box focus
80 * Add option to disable hardware acceleration for video decoding
81 * Remove option to force dolby mode from simple preferences
84 * Fix crashes on Direct3D11
87 * Fix tooltip display on some desktop environments
88 * Fix spurious movement of the main Window
89 * Fix playlist being displayed in fullscreen
93 * Fix numerous issues on fonts fallback and font shaping
94 * Fix subtitles toggle through hotkeys
96 * Fix buffer over-read in avcodec audio encoding with non-default layouts
97 * Numerous 3rd party libraries updated, fixing security issues
100 * Update of most languages
103 Changes between 3.0.1 and 3.0.2:
104 --------------------------------
107 * Fix snapshotting with subtitles when using hardware acceleration
108 * Fix green/missing line/column when the picture dimensions are odd
111 * Important improvements in hardware decoding for macOS, notably faster,
112 supporting more samples and removing crashes/deadlocks
113 * Improve compatibility for DxVA2 and D3D11 decoding, fix crashes when seeking
114 and fix blacklisting of broken drivers
115 * Fix SSA subtitles forced alignment
116 * Fix E-AC-3 stuttering
117 * Fix MIDI playback on macOS
118 * Add playback support for ProRes 4444 XQ
121 * Fix wrong colors in some AVI files
122 * Fix IFO files playback to start DVDs
123 * Fix a crash with missing/invalid MPEG SDT
124 * Update VP8/9/10 ISOBMFF bindings and improve HDR for those cases
125 * Fix TTML inside MP4
126 * Improve MP4 read of color information
127 * Fix flac seeking and improve flac parsing
128 * Improve mkv opening & seeking speed
129 * Fix display of chapters with no name defined
130 * Miscellaneous MKV crash fixes
131 * Fix crash with multi-region DVDs
132 * Fix audio being muted on DVD chapter change
133 * Fix audio being muted when seeking in a BluRay disc
136 * Avoid a crash/assert in FTP after seeking
139 * Fix mmdevice default audio device handling
140 * Fix "reset audio volume" being forcefully deactivated
141 * Allow a default device to be used by VLC
142 * Only warn once about misconfiguration for AUhal devices on macOS
143 * Improve resampling and latency computation for CoreAudio
144 * Passthrough is now disabled by default
147 * Fix audio stutter after unpausing with headphones
148 * Fix silence when dolby-surround was mis-selected in preferences
151 * Fix OpenGL crashes or bad display with semi-planar chromas
152 * Fix OpenGL interop (zero-copy) disabled for tvOS
153 * Major rewrite of the iOS video output to fix numerous crashes
154 * Important improvements of the D3D11 video output to use less memory
155 and less GPU for HDR tone-mapping
156 * Fix crop on vertical videos with Direct3D11
157 * Fix Direct3D9 filters settings not being applied properly
158 * Fix transform filters with hardware decoding
159 * Fix snapshot and filters with HEVC hardware decoding
160 * Fix a buffer overrun during GPU/CPU image copy
161 * Fix glitches on DVD menus with Direct3D11
162 * Fix non-HDR content playback on HDR screens with Direct3D11
163 * Fix YUV full range displayed incorrectly in Direct3D11
164 * Fix miscellaneous crashes in Direct3D11
165 * Fix potential black screen with 10bits videos on Direct3D11
168 * Fix Growl notifications on recent macOS versions
169 * Fix conversion output file name encoding
170 * Fix crash reporting on macOS 10.7 and 10.8
172 * Fix remember playback position
173 * Fix Blu-ray disc Java menu
174 * Fix swiping on time slider to change position
175 * Fix problems with restoring user name from keychain
176 * Fix localization issues
179 * Fix last folder used in open dialogs
180 * Allow to customize the seek jump when using the mousewheel
181 * Fix fullscreen controller positionment on multiscreen setups
182 * Fix pasted URLs not being trimmed
183 * Fix jump size not being configurable
184 * Fix missing time labels updates
185 * Fix playback speed slider not accepting 1.0x value
187 * Fix window size after a fullscreen playback
190 * Fix lua rc & oldrc interfaces host specification
191 * Fix crashes when searching for renderers
192 * Relocate localedir for Linux (improves snap i18n support)
193 * Fix VDPAU GLX usage on Linux
194 * Improve support for NetBSD
195 * Fix MSI script for Windows
196 * Fix libvlc_media_list not going to next media
197 * Fix character encoding on win32 consoles
198 * Miscellaneous chromecast improvements
199 * Fix missing OSD navigation feedback
200 * Various VLSub improvements
201 * lua: Fix scripts not being loaded on some filesystems
202 * lua: Add vlc.io APIs to handle UTF-8 paths
205 Changes between 3.0.0 and 3.0.1:
206 --------------------------------
209 * Fix use-after-free when cleaning playlists
210 * Fix crash on exit on Windows
213 * Fix HLG tone mapping on some systems like macOS.
214 * Fix screensaver inhibition on Windows XP
215 * Fix various Direct3D11 crashes
216 * Fix HDR tone mapping in Direct3d11
217 * Fix pink screen on Windows
220 * Fix potential stack buffer overflow with faad
221 * Enable Cineform HD in avcodec
224 * macOS: Improve HEVC 10bit performance with Videotoolbox
225 * android: Add MPEG2 support via MediaCodec
226 * Fix HEVC decoding with some files on Android/macOS/iOS
227 * Improve Direct3D11 memory usage
230 * Improve MKV seeking speed
231 * Fix xspf base URL handling
232 * Fix reading mp4 trun with moof based offsets
233 * Fix adaptive http redirections
234 * Replace old API, fixing adaptive TLS leak
235 * Use mime type as fallback for HLS segment type
236 * Fix subtitle (srt,ssa..) seek when having a single entry
237 * Flag non default HDMV subset video streams
238 * Increase TS probing amount for 4K streams
239 * Miscellaneous MKV, MP4 & AVI crash fixes
242 * Fix out of bounds read in mpeg4video
245 * Improve chromecast loading speed
246 * Improve local/chromecast transition during playback
247 * Fix chromecast loading with some versions of Windows
248 * Fix chromecast loading with some chromecast devices (TVs and Android boxes)
249 * Fix wrong first cover art when casting
253 * Re-add option to disable the fullscreen controller panel
254 * Auto-layout improvements
255 * Remove misleading playback warning indicator
256 * Fix crash with the interface for lua extensions (like VLSub)
257 * Fix show sidebar setting being ignored on restart
258 * Fix MKV files association
259 * Fix chromecast audio detection
262 * Improve scaling on HiDPI displays
265 * Improve interface look and feel.
268 Changes between 2.2.8 and 3.0.0:
269 --------------------------------
271 Platform support changes:
272 * 3.0.x will be maintained as a LTS (best-effort basis, mostly for security)
273 that will be the last working version for quite a few systems.
275 Indeed the 3.0.x branch will contain the last releases running on:
276 - Windows XP, Vista, and the servers equivalent of those Windows versions
277 - macOS 10.7, 10.8 & 10.9, iOS 7 & 8
278 - Android 2.x, 3.x, 4.0.x & 4.1.x
279 - Compilers before gcc 5.0 and clang 3.4, or equivalent
281 * For the 3.0 branch, please note:
282 * The Windows XP/2003/2003R2 support for VLC is now on a best-effort basis:
283 it should work, but not without limitations.
284 libVLC support for Windows XP is deprecated.
285 You _really_ should upgrade to a more modern Windows version!
286 * Windows Vista (all versions) without Platform Upgrade is not supported.
287 * 64bit version of VLC for Windows is recommended.
288 * Linux support requires now a kernel newer than 2.6.26.
289 * Mac OS X 10.6 support is now removed. You need OS X 10.7.
292 * Support network browsing for distant filesystems (SMB, FTP, SFTP, NFS...)
293 and rewrite the parsing of the media files and inputs
294 * Support keystores: fetch and store passwords securely (sic!) for common
295 protocols (HTTP, SMB, SFTP, FTP, RTSP ...)
296 * Autodetect external audio tracks (ac3, m4a, aac, dts...) similar to subtitles
297 * Support HDMI passthrough for Audio HD codecs, like E-AC3, TrueHD or DTS-HD
298 * Support for 12bits codec and extended colorspaces (HDR)
299 * Support output renderers, like ChromeCast
300 * VLC now assumes vlcrc config file is in UTF-8
301 * Support portable version of Windows build (create a "portable/" folder)
302 * Support wayland surface type
303 * Allow to start the video paused on the first frame
304 * Refactor preparsing input
305 * EPG rework: table and single event updates, now using network time
306 * Refactor and fix subtitles es selection. Demuxers can now override
307 es category single only or multiple es behavior
308 * Support for 360 video and audio, including viewpoint modification
309 * Support for ambisonic audio and more than 8 audio channels
310 * Support subtitles size live adjustments
313 * New NFS access module using libnfs
314 * New SMB access module using libdsm
315 * Adaptive streaming:
316 * Rewrite MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support, including
317 MPEG2TS and ISOBMFF profiles
318 * Support HDS (Http Dynamic Streaming) from Adobe (f4m, f4v, etc.)
319 * Large rework of the Smooth Streaming module
320 * Replaced httplive stream filter with new HLS demuxer, replaced smooth
321 stream filter with new Smooth demuxer, both using unified adaptive module
322 * Support HLSv4-7, including MP4 and raw muxing and ID3 tags
323 * Support decompression and extraction through libarchive (tar, zip, rar...)
324 * New HTTP/TLS access module for HTTP 2.0 support
325 * Improvements of cookie handling (share cookies between playlist items,
326 domain / path matching, Secure cookies)
327 * Support DVB-T2 on Windows BDA
328 * Screen capture plugin for Wayland display
329 * Support depayloading Opus from RTP
330 * New UPnP access module, to list directories without infinite recursions
331 * SMB/FTP/SFTP accesses can list directories
332 * Support sftp username and passwords options in URL, and key authentication
333 * New WASAPI audio capture module on Windows
334 * New "concat" access module for concatenating byte streams
335 * Named pipes and device nodes are no longer included in directory listings
336 by default. Use --list-special-files to include them back.
337 * Support for timeout in UDP input --udp-timeout=<seconds>
338 * New SAT>IP access module, to receive DVB-S via IP networks
339 * Improvements on DVB scanning
340 * BluRay module can open ISO over network and has full BD-J support
341 * Support for DVD ISO over network
342 * New SRT access module using libsrt
345 * Support HEVC hardware decoding on Windows, using DxVA2 and D3D11
346 * Support hardware decoding using Direct3D11, including GPU-zerocopy mode,
347 and hardware filtering, for deinterlace and adjust
348 * DxVA2 GPU-zerocopy for hardware decoding and displaying on Windows,
349 and support for hardware filtering, for deinterlace and adjust
350 * Support HEVC hardware decoding using OMX and MediaCodec (Android)
351 * Use MediaCodec via NDK native API after Android Lollipop
352 * Support MPEG-2, VC1/WMV3 on Android using MediaCodec
353 * OMX GPU-zerocopy support for decoding and display on Android using OpenMax IL
354 * Support 4:4:4 and 4:2:2 chroma samplings with VDPAU hw acceleration
355 * Important VAAPI improvements for 10bits, HEVC, direct-rendering support
356 * Support VP9 and WMV3 decoding using OMX and performance improvements
357 * Important improvements for the MMAL decoder and output for rPI and rPI2
358 * New hardware accelerated decoder for OS X and and iOS based on Video Toolbox
359 supporting H.263, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, H.265/HEVC, MPEG-4 Part 2, and DV
362 * Support for experimental AV1 video
363 * Support for ARIB STD-B24 subtitles
364 * Support for experimental Daala video
365 * New MPEG-1 & 2 audio layer I, II, III + MPEG 2.5 decoder based on libmpg123
366 * New BPG decoder based on libbpg
367 * Fix uncompressed DVD-Audio (AOB) LPCM decoding
368 * Rewrite WPL playlists and add ZPL playlists support (Zune)
369 * Support TDSC, Canopus HQX, Cineform, SpeedHQ, Pixlet, QDMC and FMVC codecs
370 * TTML subtitles support, including EBU-TT-D variant
371 * Rewrite of webVTT subtitles support, including CSS style support
372 * Support 9-bit and 10-bit GBR planar formats
373 * Support for the OggSpots video codec
374 * HEVC packetization is mostly fixed
375 * H264 packetizer can now generate timestamps
376 * Packetizers have support for captions in SEI
377 * DTS packetizer handle DTS extensions (like DTS-HD): decoders like avcodec
378 can now decode up to 8 channels
379 * JPEG images correctly oriented using embedded orientation tag, if present
380 * Support VPX high bit depth support
381 * Extend MicroDVD support with color, fontname, size, position extensions
382 * BluRay text subtitles (HDMV) are now decoded
383 * Improve Closed Captions detection, notably inside the video streams
385 * New MIDI decoder for macOS and iOS using the AudioToolbox framework, works
386 without a soundfont or with SoundFont2 and DLS soundfonts
389 * Important rework of the MP4 demuxer, including:
390 * Support for fragmented MP4
391 * Support EIA-608/708 subtitles in MP4/mov
392 * Support WMV and WMAV in MP4/mov, aka Flip4Mac files
393 * Support bitmap audio channel reordering in MP4/mov
394 * Support for RTP Reception Hint Track with H.264, GSM and Speex payloads
395 * Support for XiphQT(MP4) vorbis and Flac
396 * Support for VP8/VP9/VP10/AV1 in MP4
397 * Support GoPro HiLight chapters
398 * Support for TTML and WebVTT in ISOBMFF/MP4 and DASH
399 * Add new metadata fields
400 * Important rework of the TS demuxer, including:
401 * Support Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
402 * Fix program selection with recorded TS (TopField, DreamBox and others)
403 * Fix TS playback with PAT/PMT less recordings
404 * Basic support for MPEG4-SL in TS and T-DMB
405 * Support SCTE-18 / EAS inside TS
406 * Support for new descriptors and ETT tables
407 * Support for ARIB channel logos, as attachements, ARIB TR-B21/TR-B14-1
408 * Improve broken-PCR probing and fixing
409 * Improvements for scrambled state detection
410 * Support HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS)
411 * Important rework of the PS demuxer, including:
413 * Fix large number of samples, notably with PSM-less H264
414 * Partial support of PSMF
415 * Fix broken SCR samples
416 * Fix CDXA mpeg-1 support
417 * Improvements on MKV:
418 * Rewrite MKV seeking
419 * Support FFv1 inside MKV
420 * Improve ADTS and LATM inside MKV
421 * Improve DVD-menus support
422 * Support for lame's replaygain extension in mpeg files
423 * Support Daala in Ogg
424 * Improve Chained-Ogg support
425 * Fixes for DTS detection in WAV and MKV files
426 * Support for Creative ADPCM/alaw/ulaw/S16L in VOC files
427 * Support for Creative ADPCM in AVI
428 * Support WMV extended content metadata
429 * Directory Demux can now sort items, ignore extensions and hidden files
430 * Support AlbumArtist and DiscNumber metadata
431 * Support raw H265/HEVC files
432 * Support multi-channel WAV without channel-maps
433 * Support SBV subtitles
434 * Support for Scenarist Closed Caption
435 * Fix Quicktime Mp4 inside MKV and unpacketized VC1
436 * Support for isofLaC
437 * Improve fLaC seeking
438 * Replace --demux dvb-open option with --stream-filter dvb to parse
439 channels.conf digital TV channel list files
442 * Add an ADF stream filter
443 * Add a ARIB STD-B25 TS streams decoder
444 * Add a stream prebuffering plugin
445 * Rewrite libarchive module as a stream_extractor
446 * Remove HTTP Live streaming stream filter
447 * Add a zlib (a.k.a. deflate) decompression filter
448 * Add a skiptags module to help demuxers skip ID3/APE tags
451 * Add a demuxer filter chain to filter or intercept control commands and demuxing
452 * Add a demuxer filter to block seeking (--demux-filter noseek)
455 * Complete rewrite of the AudioTrack Android module, it is now the default
456 module for Android. It now supports HDMI/SPDIF passthrough for AC3/DTS/EAC3,
457 5.1/7.1 channels and float output, depending on the Android version.
458 * Add Tizen audio module
459 * HDMI/SPDIF pass-through support for WASAPI (AC3/DTS/DTSHD/EAC3/TRUEHD)
460 * Support EAC3 and TRUEHD pass-through for PulseAudio
461 * Important rework of the AudioUnit modules to share more code between iOS and macOS
462 * Support Ambisonics audio with viewpoint changes
465 * Add SoX Resampler library audio filter module (converter and resampler)
466 * a52tospdif and dtstospdif audio converters are merged into tospdif,
467 this new converter can convert AC3, DTS, EAC3 and TRUEHD to a IEC61937 frame
468 * Add a Spatialaudio module with 2 submodules:
469 * an Ambisonics audio renderer, supporting up to 3rd order
470 * an Binauralizer audio filter, working with Ambisonics or 5.1/7.1 streams
471 * Add Headphones option in Stereo Mode: use the spatialaudio module for
473 * Add a pitch shifting module
476 * Linux/BSD default video output is now OpenGL, instead of Xvideo
478 * New OpenGL provider for Windows
479 * Drop OpenGL 1.x and OpenGL ES 1 support
480 * Direct rendering with OpenGL (starting OpenGL 4.4)
481 * Hardware direct displaying with VA-API interop
482 * Hardware direct displaying with VDPAU interop
483 * Hardware direct displaying with DxVA2/D3D9Ex interop
484 * Hardware direct displaying with VideoToolbox interop (iOS and macOS)
485 * HDR tonemapping support through libplacebo
486 * Wayland shell surface window provider
487 * Wayland shared memory video output
488 * Large rework of the Android video outputs: there is now Surface (2.1, 2.2)
489 NativeWindow (2.3+, supports hw rotation, subpicture blending, opaque)
490 * Support rotation in Android NativeWindow output and hardware decoders
491 * Rename the Direct3D output module to Direct3D9
492 * Add a Direct3D11 video output supporting both Windows desktop and WinRT modes,
493 supporting subpicture blending and hardware acceleration
494 * Support HDR10 in Direct3D11 with Windows 10 Fall Creator Update
495 * EFL Evas video output with Tizen TBM Surface support
498 * Hardware deinterlacing on the rPI, using MMAL
499 * New video filter to convert between fps rates
500 * Add 9-bit and 10-bit support to image adjust filter
501 * New edge detection filter uses the Sobel operator to detect edges
502 * Hardware accelerated deinterlacing/adjust/sharpen/chroma with VA-API
503 * Hardware accelerated adjust/invert/posterize/sepia/sharpen with CoreImage
504 * Hardware accelerated deinterlacing/adjust/chroma with D3D9 and D3D11
507 * CTL support through Harfbuzz in the Freetype module
508 * New font fallback algorithm on most platforms
509 * More conforming EIA608 captions layout and aspect ratio
510 * More styles support for TTML, WebVTT and 708
513 * Chromecast output module
514 * RGB24 and YCbCr 4:2:0 RTP packetization
517 * Support for Daala video in 4:2:0 and 4:4:4
518 * VP8 and VP9 encoder using libvpx
521 * Add fragmented/streamable MP4 muxer
522 * Add support for muxing VC1 and WMAPro in MP4
523 * Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
527 * New NetBios service discovery using libdsm
528 * New mDNS services discovery using libmicrodns
529 * New mDNS services discovery using Bonjour (Mac OS X, tvOS, iOS)
530 * Rewrite of the UPnP service discovery
533 * Drop support for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
534 * Support right-to-left user interface layout for right-to-left languages
535 * New resizable fullscreen controller with improved design
536 * Add status bar icon which displays metadata and play controls
537 * Add support for keyboard blacklight dimming during fullscreen video playback
538 * Improve and simplify preferences window
539 * Huge performance improvements in playlist handling and other areas
540 * New AppleScript API giving access to audio desynchronization
541 * Expand AppleScript API for menu detection and navigation
542 * Support for building with disabled sparkle update mechanism
543 * Remove deprecated transcoding wizard, use convert and save dialog instead
546 * Drop support for iOS 6.x
549 * Batch convert support
550 * It is now possible to specify 'stop-time' in Convert/Save dialog
553 * Support key accelerators
556 * Add libvlc_media_new_callbacks for custom input byte streams
557 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_enum to enumerate devices of current aout
558 * Split of libvlc_media_discoverer_new_from_name into libvlc_media_discoverer_new,
559 libvlc_media_discoverer_start and libvlc_media_discoverer_stop
560 This allows to attach media events between create and start
561 * Add libvlc_media_get_codec_description to get a human readable description of a codec
562 * Add libvlc_MediaListEndReached Event to get notified when a media list reached the end
563 * Add libvlc_media_list_player_get_media_player to get the media player instance of a list player
564 * Add libvlc_media_parse_with_options that uses a flag to specify parse options
565 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_get to get the currently selected audio output device
566 identifier (if there is one available)
567 * Add libvlc_media_get_type to get the type of the media
568 * Add libvlc_media_player_get_full_title_descriptions to get full title info of the media
569 and +libvlc_title_descriptions_release to match it
570 * Add libvlc_media_player_get_full_chapter_descriptions to get full chapter info of the media
571 and libvlc_chapter_descriptions_release to match it
572 * Deprecate libvlc_video_get_title_description, libvlc_video_get_chapter_description,
573 libvlc_media_player_get_agl, libvlc_media_player_set_agl
574 * Add libvlc_media_player_set_android_context to integrate in an Android surface
575 * Add a new libvlc dialog API to forward dialogs requests to the applications:
576 libvlc_dialog_set_context, libvlc_dialog_get_context, libvlc_dialog_set_callbacks,
577 libvlc_dialog_dismiss, libvlc_dialog_post_action, libvlc_dialog_post_login
578 * Add libvlc_media_discoverer_list_get|release to list the media discoverers
579 * Add libvlc_media_slaves_add, libvlc_media_slaves_clear
580 libvlc_media_slaves_get, libvlc_media_slaves_release to add and get slaves
582 * Add libvlc_media_player_(get|set)_role to set the media role
583 * Add libvlc_media_player_add_slave to replace libvlc_video_set_subtitle_file,
584 working with MRL and supporting also audio slaves
585 * Add vlc_epg_event_(New|Delete|Duplicate), vlc_epg_AddEvent, vlc_epg_Duplicate
586 and removes vlc_epg_Merge
589 * Support for the SystemD Journal
590 * Use --syslog and --syslog-debug command line options to include debug
591 messages in syslog. With --syslog, errors and warnings will be sent only.
592 * New Android module for logging
595 * remove langfromtelx
596 * remove ZPL playlist format
597 * Update libVLC doxygen modules
598 * Add a text-to-speech renderer for subtitles on OS X/iOS
599 * Add a text-to-speech renderer for subtitles on Windows
600 * Add Gnome libsecret-based crypto keystore
601 * Add KDE Kwallet-based crypto keystore
602 * Add a memory keystore
603 * Add a file keystore that can use a submodule to crypt secrets
604 * Add Keychain based crypto keystore for iOS, Mac OS X and tvOS
608 * QTCapture access module (use AVCapture instead)
609 * httplive (use adaptive instead)
610 * smooth (use adaptive instead)
611 * Gnome-VFS access module (i.e. Gnome 2.x)
612 * QuartzText text renderer module (use Freetype instead)
613 * Win32 GDI text renderer module (use Freetype instead)
614 * Growl notification (replaced by osx_notifications)
615 * VCDX "extended" Video CD access module (use the normal VCD module)
616 * Mac OS X Dialog Provider (use VLCKit instead)
617 * iOS Dialog Provider (use MobileVLCKit / TVVLCKit instead)
618 * QuickTime decoder module (use native codecs)
619 * BD access module (use libbluray)
620 * Direct2D module (use Direct3D11)
621 * EyeTV access module
622 * Rar access and stream filter: use libarchive
623 * VDA decoder: use VT
624 * Audioqueue: use audiounit
625 * SDL video output module
626 * DirectFB video output module
627 * RAOP stream output module
630 Changes between 2.2.7 and 2.2.8:
631 --------------------------------
634 * Fix AVI invalid pointer dereferences
639 Changes between 2.2.6 and 2.2.7:
640 --------------------------------
643 * Fix flac heap write overflow on format change
644 * Fix crash in libavcodec module (heap write out-of band) (CVE-2017-10699)
645 * Fix infinite loop in sami subtitle
646 * Fix AAC 7.1 channels detection
649 * Fix potential crash in ASX parser
650 * Fix AVI read/write overflow
653 * Fix compatibility with macOS High Sierra
654 * Fix regression in ASS subtitle decoding
655 * Fix crash during automatic update. Some users might need to manually
656 update to the newest version.
659 * Fix Direct3D9 output with odd offsets
663 * Support libupnp 1.8
668 Changes between 2.2.5.1 and 2.2.6:
669 ----------------------------------
672 * Fix systematic green line on nvidia
673 * Fix direct3d SPU texture offsets handling
676 * Fix heap buffer overflows (CVE-2017-8310, 8311, 8312, 8313)
678 Changes between 2.2.5 and 2.2.5.1:
679 ----------------------------------
681 Security hardening for DLL hijacking environments
686 * Update for Soundcloud, liveleak and Youtube scripts
687 * Fix potential out-of-band dereference in flac decoder (CVE-2017-9300)
688 * Fix potential out-of-band reads in mpeg packetizers (CVE-2017-9301)
689 * Fix infinite loop in subtitles demuxer
690 * Fix incorrect memory free in ogg demuxer
691 * Fix potential out-of-band reads in subtitle decoders and demuxers
692 * Fix green line on Windows with odd sizes
695 Changes between 2.2.4 and 2.2.5:
696 --------------------------------
699 * Fix mp3 playback quality regression in libmad
700 * Fix video scaling in VDPAU
701 * Fix playback of palettized codecs
702 * Fix ADPCM heap corruption (FG-VD-16-067)
703 * Fix AES3 16bps decoding
704 * Fix DVD/LPCM heap corruption (FG-VD-16-090)
708 * Fix possible ASF integer overflow
709 * Fix MP4, VOC, XA, SMF divide-by-zero errors
710 * Fix MP4 heap buffer overflows
711 * Fix Flac metadata integer overflow
712 * Fix NSVf and AIFF infinite loops
713 * Fix flac null-pointer dereference
714 * Fix vorbis and opus comments integer overflows and leaks
717 * Fix green line on Windows with AMD drivers
718 * Fix screenshots size
721 * Fix crash in screen recording on Windows
722 * Fix FTP scan string injection
723 * Fix HTTP size handling
729 * Fix vimeo, youtube, dailymotion, cli, appletrailers, http,
733 * Fix heap write in stereo_widen audio filter
736 * The plugins loading will not load external DLLs by default.
737 Plugins will need to LoadLibrary explicitely.
738 * Fix uninstaller path handling
739 * Fix taskbar buttons behavior
742 * Fix scrolling sensitivity on Sierra
743 * Resume points are deleted now if the user clears the list of
747 Changes between 2.2.3 and 2.2.4:
748 --------------------------------
751 * Fix crash in G.711 wav files
752 * Fix mp3 crash in libmad
753 * Fix out-of-bound write in adpcm QT IMA codec (CVE-2016-5108)
756 * Fix resizing issues
759 * Fix overlay creation on Windows XP for DirectDraw video output
762 * Build fixes for Hurd
765 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, German, French, Italian, Marathi, Norwegian
766 Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Portuguese, Slovak, Spanish (Mexico), Swedish,
767 Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese translations
770 Changes between 2.2.2 and 2.2.3:
771 --------------------------------
774 * Fix HLS quality selection and a potential stack overflow
775 * Fix potential MKV infinite loop and improve MKV tags support
779 * Fix hardware decoding with libvdpau-va-gl
780 * Fix crashes with libvpx
781 * Use libass without caching dialog
784 * Fix green lines on Direct3D output
787 * Fix maximizing Window in multi-screen context
790 * Fix resume where you left off
791 * Fix infinite recursion in the customize dialog
792 * Fix size when switching to/from the minimal interface
793 * Fix size after resume toolbar is displayed
796 * Fix crashes in media information panel
797 * Correctly respect the disable-screensaver option
800 * Allow opening more than 15 elements in Explorer
803 * Update of most translations
806 Changes between 2.2.1 and 2.2.2:
807 --------------------------------
810 * Fix SetupFormat for continuous framesize in v4l2
811 * Fix off-by-one buffer overflow in RealRtsp module
812 * Fix screen recording aspect-ratio, framerate and potential crash
813 * Fix Windows directshow input freeze
814 * Fix MMS segmentation fault/abort when server forces a large allocation
817 * Fix support for ms-dvr files
818 * Fix time detection in AVI files over HTTP
819 * HLS: fix hang on stop, crashes and small improvements
820 * Fix mp4 NULL dereference reported by by Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs
821 * Fix regression for VC-1 in WMV
822 * Fix MXF crashes on stop
823 * Fix EAC3 detection in some TS files
826 * Fix importing surface from main memory in VDPAU
827 * Fix possible double-free in ADPCM decoder
828 * Support 9-bit and 10-bit GBR planar formats
829 * Support GoToMeeting 2 and GoToMeeting 3 codecs
830 * Fix crash in teletext (zvbi) decoder
831 * Fix Bluray subtitles (PGS) timestamps
834 * Fix audio drop after a flush with pulseaudio
835 * Fix audio initialization on iOS
836 * Fix audio stuttering with AirPlay devices on OS X (2 sec delay needs to
837 be set manually by the user)
838 * Fix pulseaudio latency computation
839 * Fix alsa default device selection
842 * Fix video control that fails to show up
843 * Fix UTF-8 conversion issues
844 * Fix Unicode folders location failing to open the skins
845 * Fix crash over malformed skins bitmaps
846 * Fix fullscreen for Gnome3/Unity Window Managers
849 * Support for OS X El Capitan
850 * Fix code signature for releases on El Capitan
851 * Improve resume dialog, starting time, preferences, lua extensions
852 * Fix threads ordering, preferences crashes, URL drag'n drops
855 * Fix crash when opening multiple items on Windows
856 * Fix recent items appending when using a playlist
857 * Improve addons manager dialog, playlist
858 * Fix changing the audio-device in the menu
859 * Fix key and mouse event support for Qt >= 5.5 under X11
863 * Fix build if one disables XCB but activate VDPAU on Unix
864 * Fix Direct3D plane allocation size to avoid colour bleeding
865 * Fix some crashes in swscale resizing
868 * Fix build with recent FreeRDP versions
869 * Fix interface crashes when input-title-format option is empty
870 * Fix MP4 mux divide-by-zero crash
871 * Improve PNG encoding time
872 * Fix some UPnP initialization lag
873 * Rewrite of the Jamendo Service Discovery
874 * Fix snapshot aspect ratio for anamorphic contents
875 * Fix custom snapshot sizes
876 * Dynamic generation of GnuTLS Diffie-Hellman parameters
877 * Fix "vb" transcoding parameter
878 * Fix superfluous audio channel extraction in the core
879 * Fix miscellaneous crashes, double-frees, integer overflows, infinite loops,
880 read overflow, invalid frees and division by zero issues
881 * Fix support for lua 5.2 and fix XSS in the http interface
882 * Update and improve Soundcloud, Vimeo and Youtube scripts
883 * Update of codecs and libraries to fix 3rd party security issues (like
884 TALOS-CAN-0036, TALOS-CAN-0037, CVE-2015-7981, CVE-2015-8126
887 * Add Kashmiri and Maithili languages
888 * Update of most translations
891 * Expose audio mute, cork and volume change events: libvlc_MediaPlayerCorked,
892 libvlc_MediaPlayerUncorked, libvlc_MediaPlayerMuted,
893 libvlc_MediaPlayerUnmuted and libvlc_MediaPlayerAudioVolume
894 * Fix propagation of libvlc_MediaPlayerTitleChanged event
897 * Update of most translations
900 Changes between 2.2.0 and 2.2.1:
901 --------------------------------
904 * Fix compilation with older libavcodec versions
905 * Fix some VP9 decoding
907 * Fix lpcm channel ordering
908 * Fix potential NULL dereference in dmo
909 * Fix teletext framing code in DVB PES packets
910 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroendinger decoder (CVE-2014-9629)
915 * Fix MKV overseeking, introducing slowness over network shares
916 * Fix crash when playing SPC files
917 * Fix ATRAC3 playback in MKV
918 * Revert to older ASX code
919 * Workaround TS issue with mpeg-audio
922 * Fix sftp read and close sockets
923 * Fix DTV build with Linux DVB versions < 5.8
924 * Fix UDP/RTP input on Windows
927 * Fix Alsa HDMI plugs
928 * Improve Alsa output, with larger buffers
929 * Fix DirectSound output with multi-channel files
932 * Fix numerous crashes in the UI
933 * Fix video-wallpaper mode
934 * Fix race when starting VLC from command line
937 * Fix recent items behaviour
938 * Fix rotation filter activation
939 * Fix mux modules names for the streaming wizard
942 * Timestamp the signature of the dlls
943 * Fix extensions registration during install
944 * Fix extensions dialog crash
945 * Default to no DxVA decoding
948 * fix libvlc_media_get_stats
951 * Update of Afrikaans, Albanian, Azerbaijani, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch,
952 English (United Kingdom), Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian,
953 Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Macedonian, Malay, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål,
954 Norwegian Nynorsk, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian,
955 Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai,
956 Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian translations
959 Changes between 2.1.6 and 2.2.0:
960 --------------------------------
963 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+,
964 notably most of the streaming output, muxers and access output modules
967 * Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible
968 * Add extensions manager and downloading from external repositories
969 * Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies
970 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
973 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access
974 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes
975 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
976 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection
978 * Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM
979 * Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs
980 * Fix CDDB lookups, including pregap data
983 * Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
984 * Support MediaCodec acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
985 * Add Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder
986 * Add video decoder module based on GStreamer plugins
987 * Add MMAL decoder for Broadcom VideoCore chips (like the RaspberryPi)
988 supporting MPEG-2 and H.264, supporting GPU-zerocopy display
989 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
990 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
991 * Support MSN Audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1,
992 Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless, and numerous videogame codecs
993 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
994 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
995 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
996 * OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
997 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
998 * New jpeg image decoder
999 * Add tx3g subtitles decoder
1000 * New SVG image decoder
1001 * Fix Speex decoding over RTP and in flv
1002 * Support more x264 and FFv1 RGB modes
1003 * Improvements on ZVBI teletext decoder, notably for speed and alignments
1006 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
1007 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
1008 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
1009 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
1010 * New png image encoder using libpng
1013 * Support for Core Audio Format (CAF) files
1014 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking,
1015 streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg
1016 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking,
1017 synchronization and tracks exclusion
1018 * AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations
1019 * AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps
1020 * MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio
1021 and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion
1022 * Support Opus in MKV
1023 * Support VP8 in OGG
1024 * Basic support for WebVTT
1025 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 (AAC) Audio stream type in TS
1026 * Support HDPR TS files
1027 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
1028 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
1029 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
1030 * Fix encoding issues and relative paths in some XML playlist formats
1031 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
1032 * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
1033 * TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
1034 * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
1035 * Support SVG images files (on glib platforms)
1036 * Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV
1037 * Support detection of SRT languages based on filename
1038 * Support for seeking Standard MIDI Files
1041 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
1042 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
1043 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
1044 * New Android native window provider module
1045 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
1046 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
1047 * Add MMAL based video output for RaspberryPi
1050 * New Oldmovie effect filter
1051 * New VHS effect filter
1052 * New Freeze effect filter
1053 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
1054 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
1055 * Fix audiobargraph activation and usage
1058 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
1059 * Audio device notifications for WASAPI
1060 * Fix replay of sound buffer in DirectSound
1061 * Split of MMDevice and WinRT audio modules
1062 * Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes
1063 * Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules
1066 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
1067 * Fixes for the AVI muxer to respect the specification
1068 * Support VP8 in OGG
1069 * Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS
1072 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
1073 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
1074 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
1075 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
1076 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
1077 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
1078 * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
1079 * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
1080 * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
1082 * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
1083 --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
1084 * Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP
1087 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
1088 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
1091 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
1092 * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
1095 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
1096 * Add record button in Qt menus
1097 * New module for core dialogs on iOS
1098 * New layout for Qt buttons customization
1099 * Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and OS X
1102 * Support for OS X Yosemite
1103 * Avoid grey bars in fullscreen when using Mavericks with multiple monitors
1104 * Improve fullscreen behavior for the native and VLCs own mode
1105 * Fixes for advanced preferences
1106 * Added 'file size' column to playlist table
1107 * in addition to iTunes, Spotify is automatically paused on playback start
1108 * Option to increase playlist font size
1109 * Improved crash log reporting
1112 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
1113 * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
1114 * Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
1115 * Update and improve Koreus, Dailymotion, Soundcloud and Youtube scripts
1118 * Numerous integer and heap overflow in Ogg, AVI, ASF, TTA and MP4 demuxers
1121 * iOS video output: use ios2
1122 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
1123 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
1126 * New translation in Urdu, Tatar, Silesian, Samoan, Kapampangan, N'ko,
1127 Kurdish, Kabyle, Mexican Spanish, Catalan, Amharic
1128 * Update of all translations:
1129 Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese, Uzbek, Ukrainian,
1130 Turkish, Thai, Swedish, Serbian, Albanian, Slovenian, Slovak, Russian,
1131 Romanian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Punjabi, Dutch, Nepali, Norwegian
1132 Bokmål, Malay, Marathi, Latvian, Lithuanian, Korean, Kannada, Khmer,
1133 Japanese, Italian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Hebrew, Galician, Scottish
1134 Gaelic, French, Finnish, Persian, Estonian, Spanish, Modern Greek, German,
1135 Danish, Welsh, Czech, Bosnian, Bengali, Asturian
1138 Changes between 2.1.5 and 2.1.6:
1139 --------------------------------
1142 * Fix OSS stuttering
1145 * Fix heap overflow in decomp stream filter
1146 * Fix buffer overflow in updater (CVE-2014-9625)
1147 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroedinger encoder
1148 * Fix null-pointer dereference in DMO decoder
1149 * Fix buffer overflow in parsing of string boxes in mp4 demuxer (CVE-2014-9626,9627,9628)
1150 * Fix SRTP integer overflow
1151 * Fix potential crash in zip access
1152 * Fix read overflow in Ogg demuxer
1153 * Fix RTP overflow (CVE-2014-9630)
1156 * Update translations and greek encoding
1159 Changes between 2.1.4 and 2.1.5:
1160 --------------------------------
1163 * Fix compilation on OS/2
1166 * Stability improvements for the QTSound capture module
1168 Mac OS X audio output:
1169 * Fix channel ordering
1170 * Increase the buffersize
1173 * Fix DxVA2 decoding of samples needing more surfaces
1174 * Improve MAD resistance to broken mp3 streams
1175 * Fix PGS alignment in MKV
1178 * Don't rename mp3 converted files to .raw
1181 * Correctly support video-on-top
1182 * Fix video output event propagation on Macs with retina displays
1183 * Stability improvements when using future VLC releases side by side
1186 * Fix transcode when audio format changes
1189 * Updated GnuTLS to 3.1.25 (CVE-2014-3466)
1190 * Updated libpng to 1.6.10 (CVE-2014-0333)
1193 * Update British English
1196 Changes between 2.1.3 and 2.1.4:
1197 --------------------------------
1200 * Fix issue in WMV with multiple compressed payload and empty payloads
1203 * Fix subtitles size rendering on Windows
1206 * Fix DVD playback regression
1207 * Fix misleading error message during video playback on OS X 10.9
1208 * Fix hardware acceleration memleaks
1211 Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3:
1212 --------------------------------
1215 * Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
1216 * Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir
1219 * Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
1220 * Fix encrypted DVD playback
1221 * Fix v4l2 frequency conversion
1224 * Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
1225 by updating codec libraries
1226 * Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
1227 * Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
1228 * Fix teletext crash on Windows
1231 * Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
1232 * Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
1233 * Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
1234 * Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing
1237 * Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
1238 * Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X
1241 * Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
1242 * Fix transform off-by-one issue
1243 * Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
1244 * Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
1245 * Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC
1248 * Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
1249 * Fix record file names
1252 * Fix minimal size possible on start
1253 * Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
1254 * Fix a crash in the audio menu building
1255 * Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
1256 * Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows
1259 * Fix album art display on Windows
1262 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek,
1263 Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew,
1264 Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Nepali,
1265 Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
1266 Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
1267 and Simplified Chinese translations
1268 * Fix encoding for Windows installer translations
1271 Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2:
1272 --------------------------------
1275 * Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
1276 * Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
1277 * Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external
1278 audio devices on OS X
1279 * Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
1280 * Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS
1283 * Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
1284 * Various WMV playback improvements and fixes
1287 * Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
1288 * Fix playback of some HEVC samples
1291 * Fix crash on deinterlace selection
1294 * Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
1295 * Improve A-B loop control
1296 * Fix album art update when changing media
1299 * Add a language option in the interface
1300 * Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
1301 * Improved UI resetting when requested in the preferences
1302 * Fix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
1303 * Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
1304 * Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
1305 * Fix crash when closing window without decorations
1306 * Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled
1309 * Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update
1312 * Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian,
1313 French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer,
1314 Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala,
1315 Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations
1318 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
1319 --------------------------------
1322 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
1324 * Fix some subtitles track selection
1327 * VP9 support in WebM
1328 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
1329 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
1332 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
1333 * Support Speex in ogg files
1334 * Fix some .mov playlists support
1335 * Support Alac in mkv
1336 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
1337 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
1340 * Fix DVB options parsing
1341 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
1342 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
1345 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
1346 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
1349 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
1350 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
1353 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
1354 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
1355 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
1356 * Fix play after drag'n drop
1357 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
1360 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
1361 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
1364 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
1365 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
1368 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
1369 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
1370 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
1371 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
1372 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
1373 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
1374 * Improves interface resizings
1377 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
1378 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
1379 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
1380 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
1381 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
1385 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
1386 --------------------------------
1389 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1390 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
1391 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
1392 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
1393 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
1395 3rd party libraries (contrib):
1396 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
1399 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
1400 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
1401 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
1402 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
1403 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
1406 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
1407 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
1408 * Remove SQL support
1411 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
1412 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
1413 * Support for Ulead DV audio
1414 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
1415 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
1416 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
1417 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
1418 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
1419 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
1420 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
1421 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
1422 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
1423 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
1426 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
1427 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
1428 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
1431 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
1432 remove support for previous OS X releases
1433 * Major improvements in DASH support
1434 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
1435 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
1436 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
1437 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
1438 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
1439 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
1440 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
1441 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
1442 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
1443 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
1444 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
1447 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
1448 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
1449 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
1450 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
1451 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
1452 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
1453 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
1454 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
1455 * Support for more MJPEG streams
1456 * Add support for liveleak streams
1457 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
1458 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
1459 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
1462 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
1463 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
1464 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
1465 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
1466 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
1467 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
1468 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
1469 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
1470 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
1471 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
1472 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
1475 * New remapping channel filter
1476 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
1477 * New VSXu visualization plugin
1478 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
1479 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
1480 * New gain audio filter
1483 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
1484 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
1485 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
1486 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
1487 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
1488 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
1489 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
1490 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
1491 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
1494 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
1495 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
1496 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
1497 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
1498 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
1499 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
1500 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
1503 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
1504 * Options support for AVIO output module
1505 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
1506 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
1507 * Livehttp stream encryption support
1508 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
1509 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
1512 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
1515 * configurable password for the HTTP server
1516 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
1517 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
1518 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
1519 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
1520 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
1521 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
1522 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
1525 * UPnP A/V subtitles
1526 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
1529 * Add support for multiple video outputs
1530 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
1532 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
1533 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
1534 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
1535 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
1536 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
1537 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
1538 VLC's internal volume level
1539 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
1541 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
1542 selection and to manage the list of presets
1543 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
1544 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
1545 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
1546 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
1547 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
1548 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
1549 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
1550 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
1551 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
1552 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
1554 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
1555 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
1556 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
1557 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
1558 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
1559 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
1560 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
1561 3rd party applications
1562 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
1563 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
1564 (system-wide settings)
1565 * Add support for the Video Title option
1566 * Add support for the Boss Key
1567 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
1568 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
1571 * Partial support for Qt5.0
1572 * Menus modifications and improvements
1573 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
1574 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
1575 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
1576 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
1577 * EPG display fixes and improvements
1578 * Add SD pixmap sources
1579 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
1580 * Display playlist total duration
1581 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
1582 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
1583 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
1588 * Extend sliders, offsets options
1589 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
1590 * Numerous fixes and improvements
1591 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
1594 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
1595 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
1596 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
1597 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
1598 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
1599 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
1600 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
1601 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
1602 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
1603 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
1606 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
1607 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
1608 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
1609 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
1610 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
1611 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
1613 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
1614 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
1615 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
1616 * Broken crop video filter
1618 * OSD parser and menu
1619 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
1620 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
1621 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
1622 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
1626 * Update of all translations
1629 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
1630 --------------------------------
1633 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
1634 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
1637 * Fix modplug security issues
1640 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
1641 --------------------------------
1645 * Fix crash in QTsound
1646 * Fix screen mouse file location
1647 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
1650 * Fix use after free in sgimb
1651 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
1654 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
1657 * Fix interface crashes
1658 * Fix autostart playback option
1659 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
1662 * update Welsh translation
1663 * New Kannada translation
1666 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
1667 --------------------------------
1670 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
1671 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
1675 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
1678 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
1681 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
1684 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
1687 * Minor improvements
1688 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
1691 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
1694 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
1695 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
1696 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
1699 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
1700 --------------------------------
1703 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
1706 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
1709 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
1710 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
1711 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
1712 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
1713 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
1714 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
1717 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
1718 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
1719 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
1720 * 3rd party codecs updates
1723 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
1724 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
1725 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
1726 in the advanced preferences panel
1727 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
1728 * Fix crash within the video output code
1729 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
1730 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
1731 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
1732 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
1733 lua extensions, ...)
1734 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
1737 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
1740 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
1741 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
1744 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
1747 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
1748 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
1749 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
1750 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
1751 Dutch, Danish, translations
1752 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
1755 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
1756 --------------------------------
1759 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
1762 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
1763 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
1764 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
1767 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
1768 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
1769 * Fix koreus lua parser
1770 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
1771 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
1772 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
1773 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
1776 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
1777 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
1780 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
1783 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
1784 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
1785 * Fix Time counter UI look
1786 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
1789 * Fix https streaming
1792 * Fix audio and video track selection:
1793 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
1794 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
1797 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
1798 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
1799 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
1800 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
1801 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
1804 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
1805 --------------------------------
1808 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
1809 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
1810 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
1811 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
1812 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
1813 during playback on Mac OS X
1816 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
1817 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
1818 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
1821 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
1822 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
1823 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
1824 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
1825 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
1828 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
1829 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
1830 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
1831 * Support Youtube live streams
1834 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
1837 * Fix media info dialog update
1838 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
1839 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
1840 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
1841 * Fix album art display at start
1844 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
1845 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
1846 * Fix menus display and behavior
1847 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
1848 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
1849 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
1850 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
1851 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
1852 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
1853 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
1856 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
1857 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
1858 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
1859 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
1860 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
1861 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
1862 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
1863 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
1864 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
1867 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
1868 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
1869 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
1870 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
1871 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
1874 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
1875 --------------------------------
1878 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
1881 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
1882 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
1885 * Add GateKeeper support
1886 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
1887 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
1888 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
1891 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
1894 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
1895 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
1896 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
1897 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
1898 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
1901 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
1902 --------------------------------
1905 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
1906 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
1907 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
1908 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
1909 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
1910 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
1911 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
1912 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
1913 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
1914 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
1915 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
1919 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
1920 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
1921 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
1922 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
1923 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
1924 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
1925 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
1926 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
1927 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
1928 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
1929 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
1930 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
1933 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
1934 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
1936 * Fix MP3 free format support
1939 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
1940 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
1941 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
1942 * Fix for DVB channels file support
1943 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
1946 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
1947 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
1949 Audio filters and output:
1950 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
1951 * Fix DirectSound device selection
1952 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
1953 * Do not apply volume in file output
1954 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
1955 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
1958 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
1959 the persistant media library
1960 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
1961 to the media library or the temporary playlist
1962 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
1963 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
1964 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
1965 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
1966 press on the Play/Pause button
1967 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
1968 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
1969 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
1970 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
1971 * Many Fullscreen fixes
1972 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
1973 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
1974 Synchronization panel
1975 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
1976 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
1977 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
1978 * Fix crashes on exit
1979 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
1981 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
1982 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
1983 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
1984 automatically reset on the first launch.
1985 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
1986 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
1987 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
1990 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
1991 * Fixes for icecast SD
1994 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
1995 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
1996 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
1997 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
1998 * Fix tags and file names display
1999 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
2002 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
2003 * Fix for key events and focus loss
2006 * Fix display of some buttons
2007 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
2008 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
2011 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
2012 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
2013 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
2016 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
2017 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
2018 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
2019 Thai translations update
2020 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
2023 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
2024 --------------------------------
2027 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
2028 * fix the samba module compilation
2029 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
2030 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
2031 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
2032 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
2035 * Support for MXPEG files
2036 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
2037 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
2040 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
2041 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
2042 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
2045 * Fix ogm header creation
2048 * limit spatializer filter distortions
2049 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
2052 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
2053 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
2054 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
2055 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
2058 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
2061 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
2062 * allow to hide the sidebar
2063 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
2064 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
2065 * noticebly faster launch time
2066 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
2067 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
2068 * improve track synchronization panel
2069 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
2070 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
2073 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
2074 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
2075 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
2076 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
2079 * fix for menus display
2080 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
2081 * documentation update
2084 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
2085 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
2088 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
2089 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
2090 * Update Jamendo selections
2094 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
2095 * fix a crash on VLM close
2098 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
2099 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
2100 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
2101 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
2104 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
2107 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
2108 ---------------------------------
2111 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
2112 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
2113 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
2114 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
2115 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
2116 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
2117 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
2118 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
2119 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
2120 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
2121 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
2122 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
2123 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
2124 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
2125 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
2126 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
2127 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
2128 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
2129 --http-crl (optional CRL).
2130 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
2131 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
2132 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
2133 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
2134 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
2135 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
2136 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
2138 Important changes for packagers:
2139 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
2140 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
2141 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
2142 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
2143 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
2144 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
2145 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
2146 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
2147 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
2148 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
2151 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
2152 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
2153 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
2154 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
2155 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
2156 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
2157 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
2160 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
2161 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
2162 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
2163 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
2164 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
2165 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
2166 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
2167 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
2168 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
2169 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
2170 * PulseAudio audio input support
2171 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
2172 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
2173 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
2174 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
2175 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
2176 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
2177 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
2178 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
2181 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
2182 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
2183 are notably concerned.
2184 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
2185 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
2186 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
2187 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
2188 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
2189 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
2190 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
2191 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
2192 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
2193 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
2194 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
2195 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
2196 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
2197 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
2198 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
2201 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
2202 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
2203 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
2204 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
2205 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
2206 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
2207 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
2208 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
2209 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
2210 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
2211 * Improved support of tracker files
2212 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
2215 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
2216 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
2217 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
2218 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
2219 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
2220 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
2221 and important cleanups and optimisations
2222 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
2223 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
2224 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
2225 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
2226 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
2227 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
2228 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
2229 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
2230 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
2231 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
2232 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
2233 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
2234 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
2235 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
2236 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
2237 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
2238 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
2239 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
2240 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
2241 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
2242 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
2245 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
2246 * New video output for iOS platform
2247 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
2248 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
2249 * Various vmem improvements
2250 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
2251 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
2252 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
2253 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
2254 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
2255 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
2257 Audio Output and Filters:
2258 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
2259 * New audio output in memory (amem)
2260 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
2261 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
2262 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
2263 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
2264 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
2265 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
2266 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
2267 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
2270 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
2271 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
2272 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
2273 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
2274 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
2275 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
2276 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
2277 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
2278 * New anti-flickering filter
2279 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
2280 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
2281 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
2282 blackbox and customizable shadow.
2283 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
2284 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
2285 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
2288 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
2289 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
2290 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
2291 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
2292 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
2293 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
2294 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
2295 * Major rework of VoD support
2296 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
2297 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
2298 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
2299 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
2300 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
2301 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
2302 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
2303 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
2304 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
2305 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
2308 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
2309 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
2312 * New capabilities for libVLC:
2313 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
2314 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
2315 list of available audio and video filters
2316 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
2317 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
2318 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
2321 * asademux, subsass: use libass
2322 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
2323 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
2324 * id3tag: use taglib
2325 * upnp: use upnp_intel
2326 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
2327 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
2328 * removal of the noise filter
2329 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
2330 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
2331 removed in Growl's next release, too.
2332 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
2335 * Update of translations for most languages.
2336 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
2339 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
2340 ----------------------------------
2343 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
2344 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
2347 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
2348 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
2351 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
2352 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
2353 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
2356 * Camtasia decoding fix.
2359 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
2360 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
2363 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
2366 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
2367 ----------------------------------
2370 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
2371 including support for OS X Lion
2372 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
2373 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
2376 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
2379 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
2380 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
2381 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
2384 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
2387 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
2388 ----------------------------------
2391 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
2392 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
2395 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
2396 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
2397 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
2398 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
2399 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
2401 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
2402 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
2403 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
2405 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
2406 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
2409 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
2412 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
2415 * Fix quitting on Linux
2416 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
2420 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
2423 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
2426 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
2427 ---------------------------------
2429 Windows and Mac OS X:
2430 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
2433 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
2434 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
2437 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
2440 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
2443 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
2445 Miscellaneous fixes in:
2446 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
2448 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
2449 * RTP output and XML export
2450 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
2454 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
2455 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
2456 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
2457 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
2460 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
2461 --------------------------------
2463 Windows and Mac OS X:
2464 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
2467 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
2470 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
2471 * Improve Apple Remote handling
2472 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
2473 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
2474 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
2475 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
2478 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
2479 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
2483 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
2484 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
2485 * New Luganda Translation
2488 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
2489 --------------------------------
2492 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
2495 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
2496 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
2497 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
2498 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
2501 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
2503 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
2504 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
2505 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
2506 * mp4 demuxer improvements
2507 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
2508 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
2509 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
2510 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
2512 Miscellaneous fixes in:
2513 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
2514 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
2515 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
2516 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
2517 * Configure and build system improvements
2518 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
2521 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
2522 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
2523 * New icelandic translation
2526 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
2527 --------------------------------
2530 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
2531 #234484 and #260719.
2534 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
2535 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
2536 and stability reasons
2539 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
2543 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
2546 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
2547 ----------------------------------
2550 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
2553 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
2554 ---------------------------------
2557 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
2558 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
2559 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
2560 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
2563 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
2566 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
2567 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
2568 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
2569 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
2572 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
2573 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
2574 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
2576 Subtitles and renderer:
2577 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
2578 * Mark more freetype options as safe
2579 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
2580 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
2581 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
2584 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
2585 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
2586 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
2587 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
2590 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
2591 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
2593 Miscellaneous fixes:
2594 * KDE device solid actions
2596 * Transcode integer overflow
2597 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
2598 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
2601 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
2602 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
2603 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
2606 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
2607 ----------------------------------
2610 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
2614 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
2617 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
2620 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
2621 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
2622 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
2623 * Taglib thread-safety fix
2626 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
2630 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
2633 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
2636 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
2637 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
2639 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
2643 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
2644 * Miscellaneous fixes
2647 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
2648 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
2649 French and Ukrainian
2650 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
2651 * New Asturian translation
2654 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
2655 ----------------------------------
2658 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
2660 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
2663 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
2666 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
2667 * Various fixes for Windows
2670 * New Armenian translation
2671 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
2672 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
2675 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
2676 --------------------------------
2679 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
2680 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
2681 * Fix folders opening from the interface
2684 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
2685 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
2688 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
2689 --------------------------------
2691 Access and demuxers:
2692 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
2693 * fix for podcasts parsing
2694 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
2697 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
2698 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
2701 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
2702 * fix m3u playlists exports
2705 * fix video autoresize behaviour
2708 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
2711 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
2714 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
2717 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
2720 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
2721 --------------------------------
2724 * Avformat fps displaying fix
2725 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
2728 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
2729 of mono streams, especially on Windows
2732 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
2733 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
2734 * fix console output encoding
2736 Interface and extensions:
2737 * Youtube and other scripts updates
2738 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
2741 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
2742 --------------------------------
2745 * New capabilities for libVLC:
2746 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
2747 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
2748 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
2749 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
2750 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
2751 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
2752 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
2753 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
2754 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
2755 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
2756 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
2757 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
2758 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
2759 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
2760 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
2764 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
2765 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
2766 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
2767 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
2768 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
2771 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
2774 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
2775 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
2776 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
2780 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
2783 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
2784 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
2785 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
2788 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
2789 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
2790 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
2791 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
2794 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
2795 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
2798 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
2799 --------------------------------
2801 Important changes for users:
2802 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
2803 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
2805 Important changes for packagers:
2806 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
2807 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
2808 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
2809 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
2810 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
2812 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
2814 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
2815 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
2816 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
2817 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
2818 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
2821 * Support for the sftp protocol
2822 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
2823 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
2824 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
2825 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
2826 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
2829 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
2830 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
2831 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
2833 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
2834 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
2835 * Invmem module improvements
2836 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
2837 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
2838 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
2839 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
2840 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
2841 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
2842 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
2843 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
2844 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
2845 * Support for VP8 codec
2846 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
2849 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
2850 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
2851 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
2852 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
2853 * Various EGP improvements
2854 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
2855 * Metadata and cover art improvements
2858 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
2859 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
2860 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
2861 * Podcast images are now displayed
2864 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
2865 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
2866 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
2867 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
2868 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
2869 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
2870 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
2871 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
2872 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
2873 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
2874 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
2877 * New content extensions lua framework
2880 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
2881 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
2882 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
2883 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
2884 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
2885 * NEON assembly audio converter module
2886 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
2889 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
2890 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
2891 * Service discovery based on libudev
2892 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
2895 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
2896 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
2897 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
2898 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
2899 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
2900 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
2901 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
2904 * New smem module, streaming to memory
2905 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
2906 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
2909 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
2911 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
2912 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
2915 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
2918 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
2919 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
2920 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
2921 by Andy Matuschak et al.
2922 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
2923 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
2924 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
2927 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
2928 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
2931 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
2932 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
2933 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
2937 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
2938 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
2939 * Improved Solaris port
2942 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
2943 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
2946 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
2947 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
2948 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
2949 * transrate: broken since too long
2950 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
2951 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
2952 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
2953 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
2954 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
2955 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
2956 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
2957 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
2958 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
2959 * cddax: use cdda instead.
2960 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
2961 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
2962 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
2963 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
2966 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
2967 --------------------------------
2970 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
2972 Decoders/Packetizers:
2973 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
2976 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
2977 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
2978 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
2979 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
2980 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
2983 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
2984 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
2987 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
2988 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
2991 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
2992 and Walloon translations updated
2993 * Sinhala translation started
2996 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
2997 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
3000 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
3001 --------------------------------
3004 * SubRip extra styles improvements
3005 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
3008 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
3011 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
3012 increase performance and fix x264 issues
3015 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
3016 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
3017 Russian, Slovak translation updates
3018 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
3021 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
3022 --------------------------------
3025 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
3026 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
3029 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
3030 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
3033 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
3034 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
3037 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
3040 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
3041 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
3044 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
3045 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
3048 * New Walloon translation
3049 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
3052 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
3053 --------------------------------
3056 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
3057 regressions in most popular drivers
3058 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
3061 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
3062 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
3063 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
3066 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
3067 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
3070 * Update for appletrailers lua script
3071 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
3072 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
3073 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
3074 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
3077 * New udev module for linux
3080 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
3083 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
3086 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
3087 --------------------------------
3090 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
3091 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
3092 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
3095 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
3096 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
3099 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
3100 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
3103 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
3106 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
3107 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
3108 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
3109 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
3112 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
3113 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
3114 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
3115 - no support for Goom and SDL
3116 - limited text rendering support
3117 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
3120 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
3121 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
3122 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
3123 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
3124 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
3125 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
3126 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
3127 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
3128 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
3132 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
3135 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
3138 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
3139 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
3140 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
3141 Arabic and French translation updates
3144 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
3145 --------------------------------
3148 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
3149 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
3150 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
3151 * Fix Dailymotion access script
3152 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
3153 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
3156 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
3157 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
3158 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
3161 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
3162 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
3163 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
3166 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
3169 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
3170 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
3173 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
3174 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
3175 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
3176 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
3177 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
3178 * Fix various crashes
3181 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
3183 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
3187 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
3188 ---------------------------------
3192 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
3193 See 'Access:' for more info.
3194 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
3197 * Instantaneous pausing
3198 * Frame-by-Frame playback
3199 * Finer speed control
3200 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
3201 * Timeshift for most medias
3202 * RTSP trickplay support
3203 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
3206 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
3207 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
3208 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
3209 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
3210 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
3211 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
3212 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
3213 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
3214 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
3215 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
3218 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
3219 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
3220 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
3221 * Metadata for mod files are supported
3222 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
3223 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
3224 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
3227 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
3228 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
3231 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
3232 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
3233 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
3234 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
3235 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
3236 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
3237 * DVB scanning on linux
3238 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
3239 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
3240 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
3241 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
3242 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
3243 * MTP device access on Unix
3244 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
3245 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
3248 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
3249 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
3250 Windows and Mac OS X.
3253 * Export the playlist in HTML
3254 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
3255 * Better metadata handling and reading
3257 Linux/Windows interface:
3258 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
3259 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
3260 * Recently played items list
3261 * Interface toolbar customizations
3262 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
3263 - More menus actions
3264 - Finer speed slider
3265 - Improvements on many dialogs
3266 - New dialog for plugins listing
3267 - Fixed-size mode for videos
3268 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
3269 * Better integration in GTK environments
3272 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
3273 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
3274 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
3275 * Additional usability improvements
3278 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
3279 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
3280 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
3281 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
3282 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
3285 * New Maemo port with:
3286 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
3287 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
3290 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
3293 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
3294 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
3295 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
3296 * Support for latest iSight models
3299 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
3300 * Surround support for PulseAudio
3303 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
3304 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
3305 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
3306 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
3307 The old image video output has been removed.
3308 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
3309 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
3312 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
3320 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
3321 --------------------------------------
3327 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
3328 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
3329 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
3330 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
3331 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
3332 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
3333 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
3335 Various fixes to the following modules:
3338 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
3339 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
3340 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
3342 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
3347 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
3348 ---------------------------------
3351 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
3352 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
3355 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
3356 ---------------------------------
3359 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
3362 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
3365 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
3366 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
3367 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
3368 main controller window.
3369 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
3372 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
3377 * Updates of other localizations
3380 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
3381 * Lots of small bugfixes.
3382 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
3383 * Telnet fixes on Windows
3384 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
3387 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
3388 ---------------------------------
3391 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
3393 Bunch of small bugfixes.
3396 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
3397 --------------------------------
3402 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
3403 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
3406 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
3407 --------------------------------
3409 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
3410 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
3413 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
3416 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
3417 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
3420 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
3421 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
3424 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
3425 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
3426 * Various fixed in playlist
3429 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
3432 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
3435 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
3436 ------------------------------------
3438 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
3439 * Fixes several memory leaks.
3442 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
3443 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
3444 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
3447 * Stability fix for the video output.
3450 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
3451 --------------------------------
3454 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
3455 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
3456 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
3457 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
3458 * Fixed update system bugs
3459 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
3462 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
3463 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
3464 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
3465 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
3466 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
3467 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
3468 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
3469 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
3470 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
3471 modern Mac OS X versions
3474 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
3475 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
3477 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
3478 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
3481 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
3482 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
3483 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
3484 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
3485 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
3486 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
3489 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
3490 --------------------------------
3492 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
3493 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
3494 * Multiple bugfixes.
3497 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
3498 --------------------------------
3500 * Multiple bug fixes.
3503 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
3504 ---------------------------------
3508 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
3509 recent to work correctly
3510 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
3511 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
3512 edit the ".hosts" file.
3513 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
3514 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
3515 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
3516 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
3517 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
3518 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
3519 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
3520 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
3521 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
3522 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
3523 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
3524 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
3525 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
3526 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
3527 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
3528 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
3529 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
3530 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
3531 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
3532 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
3533 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
3534 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
3535 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
3536 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
3537 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
3538 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
3539 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
3540 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
3541 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
3542 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
3543 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
3544 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
3545 and postproc modules.
3546 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
3547 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
3548 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
3549 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
3551 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
3552 filter. For example:
3553 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
3554 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
3556 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
3557 * Glide video output module has been removed.
3563 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
3565 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
3566 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
3569 * Vastly improved playlist support:
3570 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
3572 * Shoutcast TV listings
3573 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
3575 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
3576 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
3578 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
3581 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
3582 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
3583 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
3584 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
3585 * JACK audio input support
3586 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
3587 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
3588 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
3589 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
3590 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
3591 * Experimental EyeTV access module
3592 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
3593 (available as a separate download).
3594 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
3595 * RTMP input support
3596 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
3597 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
3598 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
3600 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
3601 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
3604 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
3605 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
3606 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
3607 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
3609 * APEv1/2 tags support
3610 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
3611 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
3613 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
3614 * TiVo Series 2 support
3615 * CD+G karaoke Files support
3620 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
3621 * Flash Screen Video support
3622 * CamStudio Screen Video support
3623 * DosBox Capture support
3624 * Karl Morton's Video support
3625 * limited atrac3 support
3627 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
3628 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
3629 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
3630 * H.264 PAFF support
3631 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
3632 * NellyMoser ASAO support
3633 * APE (Monkey audio) support
3634 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
3635 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
3638 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
3639 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
3640 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
3641 * AQTitle subtitles support
3642 * MKV USF subtitles support
3643 * HTML-based subtitles support
3644 * MPSub subtitles support
3645 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
3646 * MPL2 subtitles support
3647 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
3648 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
3649 * Realtext subtitle support
3650 * DKS subtitle support
3651 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
3652 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
3655 * Flash Screen Video support
3656 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
3658 Video outputs and filters:
3659 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
3660 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
3661 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
3662 * New puzzle video output filter
3663 * Re-written motion detection video filter
3664 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
3666 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
3667 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
3668 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
3669 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
3670 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
3671 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
3672 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
3673 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
3674 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
3675 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
3676 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
3677 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
3678 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
3679 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
3681 Audio outputs and filters:
3682 * Replay gain support
3683 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
3684 new scaletempo audio filter)
3685 * New spatializer audio filter
3686 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
3689 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
3690 * New RTP payload formats:
3691 * Speex voice audio codec
3692 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
3693 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
3694 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
3695 * DCCP transport for RTP
3696 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
3701 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
3702 end-user suitable way.
3703 * Improved user interaction
3704 * Improved mouse gestures
3705 * Vastly improved Update checker
3706 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
3708 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
3709 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
3711 * Improved video output features
3712 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
3713 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
3714 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
3715 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
3716 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
3718 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
3719 if libncursesw is available.
3720 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
3721 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
3722 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
3724 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
3725 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
3726 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
3727 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
3728 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
3729 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
3730 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
3731 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
3734 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
3735 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
3736 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
3739 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
3740 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
3741 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
3742 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
3743 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
3744 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
3747 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
3748 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
3758 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
3759 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
3760 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
3763 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
3764 ----------------------------------
3767 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
3770 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
3771 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
3772 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
3773 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
3774 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
3775 * Updated Polish translation
3778 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
3779 ----------------------------------
3782 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
3783 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
3784 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
3787 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
3788 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
3789 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
3790 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
3791 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
3792 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
3793 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
3794 to an unexpected application termination
3795 * New Serbian translation
3796 * Updated Romanian translation
3799 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
3800 ----------------------------------
3803 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
3804 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
3805 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
3806 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
3807 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
3808 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
3809 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
3810 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
3813 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
3814 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
3815 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
3816 * Fixed AAC resampling
3817 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
3818 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
3821 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
3822 ----------------------------------
3825 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
3826 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
3827 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
3828 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
3829 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
3832 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
3833 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
3834 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
3835 * Close MMS access on network timeout
3836 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
3839 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
3840 ----------------------------------
3843 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
3844 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
3847 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
3848 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
3849 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
3850 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
3852 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
3856 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
3859 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
3862 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
3865 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
3868 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
3869 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
3870 encoding on multi-cpu systems
3871 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
3872 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
3874 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3875 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
3876 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
3877 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
3880 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
3883 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
3884 ----------------------------------
3887 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
3888 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
3889 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
3891 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
3892 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
3894 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
3895 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
3898 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
3900 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3901 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
3902 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
3903 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
3904 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
3905 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
3906 two different movies
3907 * Support for current Ogg file formats
3908 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
3909 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
3912 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
3915 * The automatic updating facility was removed
3916 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
3917 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
3918 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
3921 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
3922 ----------------------------------
3924 Various bugfixes, notably:
3925 * Windows Vista compatibility
3926 * Cropping in Direct3D
3927 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
3928 * RSS filter string overflow
3930 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
3932 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
3933 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
3936 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
3937 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
3940 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
3943 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
3946 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
3949 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
3950 ----------------------------------
3952 Various bugfixes, notably:
3953 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
3954 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
3955 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
3956 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
3957 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
3958 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
3961 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
3962 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
3965 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
3967 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3968 * Diverse usability improvements
3969 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
3970 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
3971 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
3974 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
3975 ---------------------------------
3977 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
3978 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
3981 * Fullscreen controller improvements
3984 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
3985 --------------------------------
3988 * Shoutcast TV listings support
3991 * Support for RTSP authentication
3992 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
3993 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
3994 * ATSC support for DVB input
3995 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
3996 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
3997 * Improved support for Flash Video files
4000 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
4001 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
4002 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
4003 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
4004 * Matroska WavPack support
4005 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
4006 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
4007 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
4010 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
4011 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
4012 * Improved libcaca support
4016 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
4017 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
4019 * Systray support in skins
4021 * Support for Apple Remote control
4022 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
4023 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
4024 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
4025 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
4027 * Notifications using notification-daemon
4030 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
4031 Windows 9x/ME users:
4032 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
4033 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
4034 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
4035 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
4036 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
4038 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
4039 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
4048 * Updates to the libvlc API
4049 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
4052 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
4053 --------------------------------
4056 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
4057 * Support for downloading updates
4061 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
4062 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
4063 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
4064 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
4066 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
4067 * Improved subtitles encoding support
4068 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
4071 * Cook (Real audio) support
4073 Playlist / Services discovery:
4074 * XSPF playlist support
4076 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
4079 * New JACK audio output
4082 * New video filters:
4083 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
4084 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
4085 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
4086 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
4087 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
4088 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
4091 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
4094 * System to inform the user and request information
4095 - HTTP authentication
4099 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
4100 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
4101 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
4104 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
4105 - Improved playlist handling
4106 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
4108 - Embedded Video output
4109 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
4110 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
4111 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
4112 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
4113 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
4115 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
4116 - A bunch of new RPN functions
4119 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
4122 * Mac-Intel compatibility
4123 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
4124 * Growl "Now playing" support
4127 * Ability to log to syslog
4128 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
4131 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
4133 * A bit more automatic testing
4136 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
4137 ---------------------------------
4140 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
4141 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
4144 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
4145 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
4148 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
4151 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
4152 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
4158 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
4161 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
4162 --------------------------------
4165 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
4169 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
4170 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
4171 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
4174 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
4175 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
4176 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
4177 * GnomeVFS input module
4178 * Support for RTP packet reordering
4179 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
4182 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
4183 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
4184 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
4187 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
4188 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
4194 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
4195 Mixer and Dolby Surround
4198 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
4199 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
4200 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
4203 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
4205 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
4206 - New extended controls panel
4207 - New bookmarks window
4208 - Fixed playlist sorting
4209 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
4211 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
4212 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
4213 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Output dialog
4214 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
4218 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
4219 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
4221 - Include macro to include other files
4225 * Should now work outside IE as well
4228 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
4231 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
4232 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
4235 The following languages were added:
4239 * Simplified Chinese
4240 The following languages were re-added:
4244 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
4245 --------------------------------
4248 * Rewrite of the playlist
4250 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
4251 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
4252 * Preferences improvements:
4253 - New organization, designed to improve usability
4254 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
4256 * Core image manipulation support
4257 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
4258 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
4259 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
4260 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
4261 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
4262 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
4263 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
4264 now separated by ':' instead of ','
4265 * Access filter architecture
4266 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
4267 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
4271 * Support for SOCKS proxy
4272 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
4273 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
4274 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
4275 * Better support for Kasenna streams
4276 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
4277 * Massive Matroska improvements
4278 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
4280 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
4281 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
4282 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
4283 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
4284 * Support for FTP over IPv6
4286 Decoders / Encoders:
4287 * Dirac decoder and encoder
4288 * PNG decoder/encoder
4289 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
4290 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
4293 * New Record and Timeshift filters
4296 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
4297 * Brand new SAP module
4298 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
4299 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
4300 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
4301 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
4302 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
4303 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
4307 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
4310 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
4311 * Image file video output (png)
4312 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
4313 * Improvements to wall video filter
4314 * Support for font color and opacity
4320 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
4321 - Seeking support in VoD streams
4322 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
4326 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
4327 - Improved preferences
4328 - Improvements to the wizard
4329 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
4331 - Redesigned playlist
4332 - Improved preferences
4334 - Support for multiple actions
4337 - Support for the new playlist system
4339 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
4342 * Screensaver disabling fix
4343 * DirectShow tuner configuration
4344 * Support for no-decoration windows
4347 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
4348 * The OpenGL video output is back
4349 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
4350 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
4351 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
4352 is not yet available in the new module
4353 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
4356 * Support for single-buffered overlay
4365 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
4368 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
4371 The following languages were added:
4377 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
4378 --------------------------------
4381 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
4382 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
4385 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
4386 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
4387 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
4390 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
4393 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
4396 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
4399 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
4400 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
4401 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
4405 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
4407 * Support of playlist group announcement
4410 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
4411 --------------------------------
4414 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
4415 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
4416 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
4417 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
4418 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
4419 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
4422 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
4423 (Stream your desktop)
4424 * Improved DVD support:
4425 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
4426 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
4427 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
4428 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
4429 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
4430 (selection of titles/chapters).
4433 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
4434 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
4435 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
4436 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
4437 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
4438 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
4439 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
4440 * Improved Ogg demuxer
4441 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
4442 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
4445 * G.726 audio support
4446 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
4447 * MPEG-4 text support
4448 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
4449 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
4450 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
4454 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
4455 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
4456 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
4457 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
4458 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
4459 * DVB subtitles encoder
4460 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
4461 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
4463 * Text track muxing for mp4
4464 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
4465 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
4466 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
4467 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
4468 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
4469 * Improved ASF muxer
4471 * H.263 RTP streaming support
4472 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
4473 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
4476 * New audio equalizer filter
4477 * Very trivial volume normalizer
4478 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
4479 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
4480 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
4483 * Roku HD1000 Video output
4484 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
4485 with support for effects.
4486 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
4487 - New filters can be streamed.
4488 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
4489 - Centralized scaling and blending
4491 - "time", to display current time
4492 - "marq", to display a marquee
4495 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
4496 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
4497 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
4498 * A few skins2 improvements
4499 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
4500 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
4501 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
4502 * Improved CORBA control module
4505 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
4506 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
4507 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
4510 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
4511 * Experimental SVG rendering module
4512 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
4515 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
4516 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
4517 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
4518 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
4519 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
4522 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
4525 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
4526 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
4529 * Server/client network synchronization module
4530 * VBrick streams fully supported
4531 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
4535 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
4536 --------------------------------
4539 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
4540 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
4541 * Improved HTTP daemon.
4542 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
4545 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
4546 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
4547 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
4548 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
4549 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
4550 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
4551 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
4554 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
4555 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
4556 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
4557 * Improved directory access module.
4558 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
4559 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
4560 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
4561 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
4562 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
4565 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
4566 * mmsh streaming fixes.
4567 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
4570 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
4571 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
4572 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
4575 * Improved session announcement system.
4576 * Minimize threads usage by default.
4577 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
4578 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
4579 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
4580 * Improved transrater.
4581 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
4582 * New configuration system.
4583 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
4586 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
4587 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
4588 * Supports live streams and VoD.
4589 * Supports scheduling.
4590 * Telnet interface for vlm.
4591 * HTTP interface for vlm.
4594 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
4595 - Ability to embed video output.
4596 - Support for bitmap fonts.
4597 - Lots of improvements.
4598 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
4599 - New design and set of icons.
4600 - Ability to embed video output.
4601 - Support for hotkeys.
4602 - Support for bookmarks.
4604 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
4605 - Better hotkeys handling.
4608 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
4609 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
4610 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
4611 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
4614 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
4615 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
4616 * Improved Windows installer.
4622 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
4623 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
4626 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
4627 ---------------------------------
4630 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
4631 * Playing MOD files is working now.
4634 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
4635 --------------------------------
4638 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
4639 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
4642 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
4643 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
4644 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
4645 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
4648 * Internal improvments
4649 * Improved import/export
4652 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
4654 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
4655 small and strange formats.
4657 * New MOD audio demux.
4658 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
4659 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
4660 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
4661 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
4664 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
4665 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
4666 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
4672 * New opengl video output plugin.
4675 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
4676 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
4679 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
4680 --------------------------------
4683 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
4684 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
4685 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
4686 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
4687 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
4688 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
4689 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
4690 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
4693 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
4698 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
4699 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
4700 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
4701 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
4702 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
4703 * Reworked DVB tuning.
4704 * Better Icecast support.
4705 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
4706 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
4709 * Support for Theora video encoding.
4710 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
4711 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
4712 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
4713 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
4714 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
4715 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
4718 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
4719 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
4720 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
4721 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
4722 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
4723 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
4724 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
4725 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
4726 * Preliminary RTP support.
4727 * Fixes to SAP announces.
4732 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
4733 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
4735 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
4736 - Improvements and help in preferences
4737 - New streaming wizard
4738 - Revised Disc Open menu
4740 - Improvements of the standard pages
4741 - Support for new commands
4742 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
4745 * Many fixes to the SAP module
4746 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
4749 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
4750 * Text subtitles autodetection.
4751 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
4752 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
4753 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
4754 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
4755 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
4756 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
4757 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
4760 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
4762 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
4763 * Support for Panther.
4764 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
4765 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
4768 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
4769 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
4770 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
4771 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
4772 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
4773 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
4774 * Multimonitor support (untested).
4775 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
4778 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
4779 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
4780 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
4783 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
4786 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
4787 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
4788 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
4789 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
4792 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
4793 --------------------------------
4796 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
4799 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
4800 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
4803 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
4804 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
4807 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
4810 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
4811 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
4814 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
4817 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
4820 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
4821 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
4825 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
4826 --------------------------------
4829 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
4830 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
4834 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
4835 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
4836 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
4838 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
4839 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
4842 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
4845 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
4848 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
4849 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
4853 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
4854 --------------------------------
4857 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
4858 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
4862 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
4863 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
4864 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
4865 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
4866 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
4869 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
4870 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
4871 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
4874 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
4875 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
4876 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
4879 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
4880 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
4881 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
4882 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
4883 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
4886 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
4887 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
4888 * A new CORBA control plugin.
4891 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
4894 * Improved build system.
4895 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
4896 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
4897 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
4898 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
4901 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
4902 --------------------------------
4905 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
4908 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
4909 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
4910 * Fixed large file support on Windows
4911 * Video 4 Linux support
4912 * CD Digital Audio support
4913 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
4916 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
4917 * Support for OpenDML avi files
4918 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
4919 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
4922 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
4923 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
4924 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
4925 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
4926 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
4927 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
4928 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
4931 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
4932 * New HTTP remote control interface
4935 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
4936 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
4937 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
4938 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
4939 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
4942 * New reset option for the preferences
4943 * You can set your language in the prefences
4944 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
4945 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
4946 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
4947 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
4950 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
4951 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
4952 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
4955 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
4956 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
4957 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
4958 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
4959 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
4960 * New icons by Davor Orel.
4961 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
4962 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
4963 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
4964 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
4967 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
4968 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
4969 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
4970 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
4971 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
4972 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
4973 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
4976 * Interface localization
4977 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
4978 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
4979 * New full-featured Preferences window
4982 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
4983 --------------------------------
4986 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
4987 * support for skins at the interface level
4988 * new OSD module using Freetype2
4989 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
4990 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
4991 input level before dropping out of date frames.
4992 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
4995 * fixed HTTP redirects
4996 * support for opening an entire directory
4997 * EOF should be detected more reliably
4998 * new video4linux access plug-in
4999 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
5002 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
5003 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
5004 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
5007 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
5008 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
5009 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
5010 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
5011 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
5012 * new codec for raw I420 video
5013 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
5016 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
5017 (although it still misses some important features)
5018 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
5021 * new HTTP output support
5022 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
5023 * fixed AV synchronization issues
5026 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
5029 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
5032 * reorderable playlist
5033 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
5034 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
5035 * support for mono audio output devices
5036 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
5037 * fixed several cosmetic issues
5038 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
5039 * the messages window remembers more lines
5040 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
5041 * http and ogg stream output options
5042 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
5045 * new skinnable interface
5046 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
5048 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
5049 * support for FLAC audio format
5050 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
5052 * network tab in the interface
5053 * "apply" handling in preferences
5056 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
5057 ---------------------------------
5060 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
5061 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
5062 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
5063 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
5065 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
5066 * DTS S/PDIF support
5069 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
5070 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
5071 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
5072 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
5075 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
5076 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
5079 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
5082 * fixed the GNU-pth support
5085 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
5087 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
5088 * rc interface is now fully useable
5089 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
5092 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
5093 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
5094 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
5095 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
5096 * VLC now uses the default audio device
5098 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
5099 * support for mouse gestures
5100 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
5103 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
5104 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
5107 * improved ID3 tag detection
5108 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
5109 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
5110 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
5112 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
5115 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
5116 ---------------------------------
5119 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
5120 English was set as the preferred language
5123 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
5124 --------------------------------
5127 * new mouse gesture interface
5128 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
5132 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
5133 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
5134 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
5137 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
5138 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
5142 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
5145 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
5146 without the user consent
5149 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
5151 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
5152 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
5153 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
5156 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
5157 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
5158 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
5159 * playlist enhancements
5160 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
5161 * new step forward/step backward commands
5162 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
5163 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
5164 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
5167 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
5168 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
5169 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
5172 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
5173 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
5176 * native video output is working again
5177 * only commandline interface support
5178 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
5181 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
5182 --------------------------------
5185 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
5186 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
5187 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
5188 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
5189 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
5190 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
5191 and A/52 streams are supported)
5192 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
5197 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
5198 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
5199 * VCD entry points support
5200 * VCD image file support
5203 * support for *.asf format
5204 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
5205 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
5206 * support for ogg encapsulation
5207 * support for raw DV format
5208 * support for *.wav format
5209 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
5212 Stream discovery & playlists:
5213 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
5214 * support for .m3u file format
5215 * support for .asx file format
5216 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
5219 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
5220 (only available with the .avi demux)
5221 * support for ADPCM audio codec
5222 * support for raw PCM data
5223 * support for Cinepak video codec
5224 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
5225 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
5226 * support for Xvid codec
5227 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
5228 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
5229 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
5231 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
5233 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
5236 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
5239 * new WxWindows interface
5240 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
5241 device and the channels configuration
5242 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
5243 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
5244 format that VLC can play
5245 * new swedish translation
5246 * enhancements of the playlist window
5247 * new messages window to see debug info
5248 * fixed a few crashes
5251 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
5252 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
5253 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
5254 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working