1 Changes between 2.2.x and 3.0.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
5 * The Windows XP/2003/2003R2 support for VLC is now on a best-efforts basis:
6 it should work, but not without limitations.
7 libVLC support for Windows XP is deprecated.
8 You _really_ should upgrade.
9 * Windows Vista (all versions) without Platform Upgrade is not supported.
10 * Linux support requires now a kernel newer than 2.6.26
11 * Mac OS X 10.6 support is now removed. You need OS X 10.7 to run VLC.
14 * Support network browsing for distant file system (SMB, FTP, SFTP, ...)
15 and rewrite the parsing of those files
16 * Add a keystore API: fetch and store password for common protocols (HTTP,
17 SMB, SFTP, FTP, RTSP ...)
18 * Autodetect external audio tracks (ac3, m4a, aac, dts...), similar to subs
19 * Support HDMI passthrough for Audio HD codecs, like E-AC3, TrueHD
20 * Support for 12bits codec and extended colorspaces (HDR)
21 * Support output renderers, like ChromeCast
22 * VLC now assumes vlcrc config file is in UTF-8
23 * Support portable version of Windows build
24 * Support wayland surface type
25 * Allow to start the video paused on the first frame
26 * Refactor preparsing input
29 * New NFS access module using libnfs
30 * New SMB access module using libdsm
31 * Rewrite MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support, including
32 MPEG2TS and ISOFF profiles
33 * Support HDS (Http Dynamic Streaming) from Adobe (f4m, f4v, etc.)
34 * Large rework of the Smooth Streaming module
35 * Replaced httplive stream filter with new HLS demuxer, replaced smooth
36 stream filter with new Smooth demuxer, both using unified adaptive module
37 * Support HLSv4-7, including TS and raw muxing and ID3 tags
38 * Screen capture plugin for Wayland display
39 * Support decompression and extraction through libarchive (tar, zip, rar...)
40 * Improvements of cookie handling (share cookies between playlist items,
41 domain / path matching, Secure cookies)
42 * Support DVB-T2 on Windows BDA
43 * Support depayloading Opus from RTP
44 * Support sftp username and passwords options in URL, and key authentication
45 * New UPnP access module, to list directories without infinite recursions
46 * New WASAPI audio capture module on Windows
47 * SMB/FTP/SFTP accesses can list directories
48 * New "concat" access module for concatenating byte streams
49 * New HTTP/TLS access module for HTTP 2.0 support
50 * Named pipes and device nodes are no longer included in directory listings
51 by default. Use --list-special-files to include them back.
52 * Support for timeout in UDP input --udp-timeout=<seconds>
53 * New SAT>IP access module, to receive DVB-S via IP networks
54 * Improvements on DVB scanning
55 * BluRay module can open ISO over network and has full BD-J support
58 * OMX GPU-zerocopy support for decoding and display on Android using OpenMax IL
59 * Support 4:4:4 and 4:2:2 chroma samplings with VDPAU hw acceleration
60 * Support for ARIB STD-B24 subtitles
61 * Support for experimental Daala video
62 * Support for experimental AV1 video
63 * Important improvements for the MMAL decoder and output for rPI and rPI2
64 * Support HEVC hardware decoding on Windows, using DxVA2 and D3D11
65 * Support hardware decoding using Direct3D11, including GPU-zerocopy mode
66 * DxVA2 GPU-zerocopy for hardware decoding and displaying on Windows
67 * Support HEVC hardware decoding using OMX and MediaCodec (Android)
68 * Use MediaCodec via NDK native API after Android Lollipop
69 * Support MPEG-2, VC1/WMV3 on Android using MediaCodec
70 * Support VP9 and WMV3 decoding using OMX and performance improvements
71 * New MPEG-1 & 2 audio layer I, II, III + MPEG 2.5 decoder based on libmpg123
72 * New BPG decoder based on libbpg
73 * Fixed uncompressed DVD-Audio (AOB) LPCM decoding
74 * Rewrite WPL playlists and add ZPL playlists support (Zune)
75 * Support TDSC, Canopus HQX codecs
76 * TTML subtitles support, including EBU-TT-D variant
77 * Support 9-bit and 10-bit GBR planar formats
78 * New hardware accelerated decoder for OS X and and iOS based on Video Toolbox
79 supporting H.263, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, MPEG-4 Part 2, and DV depending on device
81 * Support for the OggSpots video codec
82 * JPEG images correctly oriented using embedded orientation tag, if present
83 * Support VPX high bit depth support
84 * Extend MicroDVD support with color, fontname, size, position extensions
87 * Support HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS)
88 * Support Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
89 * Support Daala in Ogg
90 * Important rework of the MP4 demuxer, including:
91 * Support for fragmented MP4
92 * Support EIA-608 subtitles in MP4/mov
93 * Support WMV and WMAV in MP4/mov, aka Flip4Mac files
94 * Support bitmap audio channel reordering in MP4/mov
95 * Support for RTP Reception Hint Track with H.264, GSM and Speex payloads
96 * Support for XiphQt(MP4) vorbis and Flac
97 * Support for VP8/VP9/VP10 in MP4
98 * Support GoPro HiLight chapters
99 * Important rework of the TS demuxer, including:
100 * Fixed program selection with recorded TS (TopField, DreamBox and others)
101 * Fixed TS playback with PAT/PMT less recordings
102 * Basic support for MPEG4-SL in TS and T-DMB
103 * Support for lame's replaygain extension in mpeg files
104 * Fixes for DTS detection in WAV and MKV files
105 * Support for Creative ADPCM/alaw/ulaw/S16L in VOC files
106 * Support for Creative ADPCM in AVI
107 * Support WMV extended content metadata
108 * Directory Demux can now sort items, ignore extensions and hidden files
109 * Support SBV subtitles
110 * Support AlbumArtist and DiscNumber metadata
111 * Support SCTE-18 / EAS inside TS
112 * Support raw h265/hevc files
113 * Support multi-channel WAV without channel-maps
114 * Rewrite MKV seeking
115 * Fix Quicktime Mp4 inside MKV and unpacketized VC1
118 * Added ADF stream filter
119 * Added ARIB STD-B25 TS streams decoder
120 * Added stream prebuffering plugin
121 * Removed HTTP Live streaming stream filter
122 * Added zlib (a.k.a. deflate) decompression filter
125 * Added a demuxer filter chain to filter or intercept control commands and demuxing
128 * Complete rewrite of the AudioTrack Android module, it is now the default
129 module for Android. It now supports HDMI/SPDIF passthrough for AC3/DTS/EAC3,
130 5.1/7.1 channels and float output, depending on the Android version.
131 * Added Tizen audio module
132 * HDMI/SPDIF pass-through support for WASAPI (AC3/DTS/EAC3/TRUEHD)
133 * Support EAC3 and TRUEHD pass-through for PulseAudio
136 * Add SoX Resampler library audio filter module (converter and resampler)
137 * a52tospdif and dtstospdif audio converters are merged into tospdif,
138 this new converter can convert AC3, DTS, EAC3 and TRUEHD to a IEC61937 frame
141 * Linux/BSD default video output is now OpenGL, instead of Xvideo
142 * Wayland shell surface window provider
143 * Wayland shared memory video output
144 * Large rework of the Android video outputs: there is now Surface (2.1, 2.2)
145 NativeWindow (2.3+, supports hw rotation, subpicture blending, opaque)
146 * Support rotation in Android NativeWindow output and hardware decoders
147 * Renamed the Direct3D output module to Direct3D9
148 * Added Direct3D11 video mode supporting both Windows desktop and WinRT modes,
149 supporting subpicture blending and hardware acceleration
150 * EFL Evas video output with Tizen TBM Surface support
151 * New OpenGL provider for Windows
154 * CTL support through Harfbuzz in the Freetype module
157 * Hardware deinterlacing on the rPI, using MMAL
158 * New video filter to convert between fps rates
159 * Added 9-bit and 10-bit support to image adjust filter
160 * New edge detection filter uses the Sobel operator to detect edges
163 * Chromecast output module
164 * RGB24 and YCbCr 4:2:0 RTP packetization
167 * Support for Daala video in 4:2:0 and 4:4:4
168 * VP8 and VP9 encoder using libvpx
171 * Added fragmented/streamable MP4 muxer
172 * Added support for muxing VC1 and WMAPro in MP4
173 * Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
177 * New NetBios service discovery using libdsm
178 * New mDNS services discovery using libmicrodns
179 * New mDNS services discovery using Bonjour (Mac OS X, tvOS, iOS)
180 * Rewrite of the UPnP service discovery
183 * Dropped support for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
184 * Add support for keyboard blacklight dimming during fullscreen video playback
185 * new AppleScript API giving access to audio desynchronization
186 * Support for building with disabled sparkle update mechanism
187 * New configure flag to disable automatic updates
188 * Expanded AppleScript API for menu detection and navigation
189 * New resizable fullscreen controller with improved design
190 * Add status bar icon which displays metadata and play controls
193 * Dropped support for iOS 6.x
196 * Batch convert support
197 * It is now possible to specify 'stop-time' in Convert/Save dialog
200 * Support key accelerators
203 * Add libvlc_media_new_callbacks for custom input byte streams
204 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_enum to enumerate devices of current aout
205 * Split of libvlc_media_discoverer_new_from_name into libvlc_media_discoverer_new,
206 libvlc_media_discoverer_start and libvlc_media_discoverer_stop
207 This allows to attach media events between create and start
208 * Add libvlc_media_get_codec_description to get a human readable description of a codec
209 * Add libvlc_MediaListEndReached Event to get notified when a media list reached the end
210 * Add libvlc_media_list_player_get_media_player to get the media player instance of a list player
211 * Add libvlc_media_parse_with_options that uses a flag to specify parse options
212 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_get to get the currently selected audio output device
213 identifier (if there is one available)
214 * Add libvlc_media_get_type to get the type of the media
215 * Add libvlc_media_player_get_full_title_descriptions to get full title info of the media
216 and +libvlc_title_descriptions_release to match it
217 * Add libvlc_media_player_get_full_chapter_descriptions to get full chapter info of the media
218 and libvlc_chapter_descriptions_release to match it
219 * Deprecate libvlc_video_get_title_description, libvlc_video_get_chapter_description,
220 libvlc_media_player_get_agl, libvlc_media_player_set_agl
221 * Add libvlc_media_player_set_android_context to integrate in an Android surface
222 * Add libvlc_media_player_set_evas_object to draw on an EFL/Evas Object
223 * Add a new libvlc dialog API to forward dialogs requests to the applications:
224 libvlc_dialog_set_context, libvlc_dialog_get_context, libvlc_dialog_set_callbacks,
225 libvlc_dialog_dismiss, libvlc_dialog_post_action, libvlc_dialog_post_login
226 * Add libvlc_media_discoverer_list_get|release to list the media discoverers
227 * Add libvlc_media_slaves_add, libvlc_media_slaves_clear
228 libvlc_media_slaves_get, libvlc_media_slaves_release to add and get slaves
230 * Add libvlc_media_player_(get|set)_role to set the media role
231 * Add libvlc_media_player_add_slave to replace libvlc_video_set_subtitle_file,
232 working with MRL and supporting also audio slaves
235 * Support for the SystemD Journal
236 * Use --syslog and --syslog-debug command line options to include debug
237 messages in syslog. With --syslog, errors and warnings will be sent only.
238 * New Android module for logging
241 * remove langfromtelx
242 * remove ZPL playlist format
243 * Update libVLC doxygen modules
244 * Add a text-to-speech renderer for subtitles on OS X/iOS
245 * Add a text-to-speech renderer for subtitles on Windows
246 * Add Gnome libsecret-based crypto keystore
247 * Add KDE Kwallet-based crypto keystore
248 * Add a memory keystore
249 * Add a file keystore that can use a submodule to crypt secrets
250 * Add Keychain based crypto keystore for iOS, Mac OS X and tvOS
254 * QTCapture access module (use AVCapture instead)
255 * httplive (use adaptive instead)
256 * smooth (use adaptive instead)
257 * Gnome-VFS access module (i.e. Gnome 2.x)
258 * QuartzText text renderer module (use Freetype instead)
259 * Win32 GDI text renderer module (use Freetype instead)
260 * Growl notification (replaced by osx_notifications)
261 * VCDX "extended" Video CD access module (use the normal VCD module)
262 * Mac OS X Dialog Provider (use VLCKit instead)
263 * iOS Dialog Provider (use MobileVLCKit / TVVLCKit instead)
264 * QuickTime decoder module (use native codecs)
265 * BD access module (use libbluray)
266 * Direct2D module (use Direct3D11)
269 Changes between 2.2.0 and 2.2.1:
270 --------------------------------
273 * Fix compilation with older libavcodec versions
274 * Fix some VP9 decoding
276 * Fix lpcm channel ordering
277 * Fix potential NULL dereference in dmo
278 * Fix teletext framing code in DVB PES packets
279 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroendinger decoder (CVE-2014-9629)
284 * Fix MKV overseeking, introducing slowness over network shares
285 * Fix crash when playing SPC files
286 * Fix ATRAC3 playback in MKV
287 * Revert to older ASX code
288 * Workaround TS issue with mpeg-audio
291 * Fix sftp read and close sockets
292 * Fix DTV build with Linux DVB versions < 5.8
293 * Fix UDP/RTP input on Windows
296 * Fix Alsa HDMI plugs
297 * Improve Alsa output, with larger buffers
298 * Fix DirectSound output with multi-channel files
301 * Fix numerous crashes in the UI
302 * Fix video-wallpaper mode
303 * Fix race when starting VLC from command line
306 * Fix recent items behaviour
307 * Fix rotation filter activation
308 * Fix mux modules names for the streaming wizard
311 * Timestamp the signature of the dlls
312 * Fix extensions registration during install
313 * Fix extensions dialog crash
314 * Default to no DxVA decoding
317 * fix libvlc_media_get_stats
320 * Update of Afrikaans, Albanian, Azerbaijani, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch,
321 English (United Kingdom), Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian,
322 Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Macedonian, Malay, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål,
323 Norwegian Nynorsk, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian,
324 Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai,
325 Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian translations
328 Changes between 2.1.6 and 2.2.0:
329 --------------------------------
332 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+,
333 notably most of the streaming output, muxers and access output modules
336 * Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible
337 * Add extensions manager and downloading from external repositories
338 * Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies
339 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
342 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access
343 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes
344 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
345 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection
347 * Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM
348 * Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs
349 * Fix CDDB lookups, including pregap data
352 * Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
353 * Support MediaCodec acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
354 * Add Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder
355 * Add video decoder module based on GStreamer plugins
356 * Add MMAL decoder for Broadcom VideoCore chips (like the RaspberryPi)
357 supporting MPEG-2 and H.264, supporting GPU-zerocopy display
358 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
359 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
360 * Support MSN Audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1,
361 Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless, and numerous videogame codecs
362 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
363 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
364 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
365 * OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
366 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
367 * New jpeg image decoder
368 * Add tx3g subtitles decoder
369 * New SVG image decoder
370 * Fix Speex decoding over RTP and in flv
371 * Support more x264 and FFv1 RGB modes
372 * Improvements on ZVBI teletext decoder, notably for speed and alignments
375 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
376 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
377 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
378 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
379 * New png image encoder using libpng
382 * Support for Core Audio Format (CAF) files
383 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking,
384 streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg
385 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking,
386 synchronization and tracks exclusion
387 * AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations
388 * AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps
389 * MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio
390 and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion
391 * Support Opus in MKV
393 * Basic support for WebVTT
394 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 (AAC) Audio stream type in TS
395 * Support HDPR TS files
396 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
397 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
398 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
399 * Fix encoding issues and relative paths in some XML playlist formats
400 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
401 * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
402 * TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
403 * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
404 * Support SVG images files (on glib platforms)
405 * Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV
406 * Support detection of SRT languages based on filename
407 * Support for seeking Standard MIDI Files
410 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
411 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
412 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
413 * New Android native window provider module
414 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
415 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
416 * Add MMAL based video output for RaspberryPi
419 * New Oldmovie effect filter
420 * New VHS effect filter
421 * New Freeze effect filter
422 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
423 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
424 * Fix audiobargraph activation and usage
427 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
428 * Audio device notifications for WASAPI
429 * Fix replay of sound buffer in DirectSound
430 * Split of MMDevice and WinRT audio modules
431 * Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes
432 * Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules
435 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
436 * Fixes for the AVI muxer to respect the specification
438 * Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS
441 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
442 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
443 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
444 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
445 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
446 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
447 * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
448 * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
449 * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
451 * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
452 --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
453 * Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP
456 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
457 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
460 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
461 * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
464 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
465 * Add record button in Qt menus
466 * New module for core dialogs on iOS
467 * New layout for Qt buttons customization
468 * Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and OS X
471 * Support for OS X Yosemite
472 * Avoid grey bars in fullscreen when using Mavericks with multiple monitors
473 * Improve fullscreen behavior for the native and VLCs own mode
474 * Fixes for advanced preferences
475 * Added 'file size' column to playlist table
476 * in addition to iTunes, Spotify is automatically paused on playback start
477 * Option to increase playlist font size
478 * Improved crash log reporting
481 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
482 * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
483 * Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
484 * Update and improve Koreus, Dailymotion, Soundcloud and Youtube scripts
487 * Numerous integer and heap overflow in Ogg, AVI, ASF, TTA and MP4 demuxers
490 * iOS video output: use ios2
491 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
492 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
495 * New translation in Urdu, Tatar, Silesian, Samoan, Kapampangan, N'ko,
496 Kurdish, Kabyle, Mexican Spanish, Catalan, Amharic
497 * Update of all translations:
498 Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese, Uzbek, Ukrainian,
499 Turkish, Thai, Swedish, Serbian, Albanian, Slovenian, Slovak, Russian,
500 Romanian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Punjabi, Dutch, Nepali, Norwegian
501 Bokmål, Malay, Marathi, Latvian, Lithuanian, Korean, Kannada, Khmer,
502 Japanese, Italian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Hebrew, Galician, Scottish
503 Gaelic, French, Finnish, Persian, Estonian, Spanish, Modern Greek, German,
504 Danish, Welsh, Czech, Bosnian, Bengali, Asturian
507 Changes between 2.1.5 and 2.1.6:
508 --------------------------------
514 * Fix heap overflow in decomp stream filter
515 * Fix buffer overflow in updater (CVE-2014-9625)
516 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroedinger encoder
517 * Fix null-pointer dereference in DMO decoder
518 * Fix buffer overflow in parsing of string boxes in mp4 demuxer (CVE-2014-9626,9627,9628)
519 * Fix SRTP integer overflow
520 * Fix potential crash in zip access
521 * Fix read overflow in Ogg demuxer
522 * Fix RTP overflow (CVE-2014-9630)
525 * Update translations and greek encoding
528 Changes between 2.1.4 and 2.1.5:
529 --------------------------------
532 * Fix compilation on OS/2
535 * Stability improvements for the QTSound capture module
537 Mac OS X audio output:
538 * Fix channel ordering
539 * Increase the buffersize
542 * Fix DxVA2 decoding of samples needing more surfaces
543 * Improve MAD resistance to broken mp3 streams
544 * Fix PGS alignment in MKV
547 * Don't rename mp3 converted files to .raw
550 * Correctly support video-on-top
551 * Fix video output event propagation on Macs with retina displays
552 * Stability improvements when using future VLC releases side by side
555 * Fix transcode when audio format changes
558 * Updated GnuTLS to 3.1.25 (CVE-2014-3466)
559 * Updated libpng to 1.6.10 (CVE-2014-0333)
562 * Update British English
565 Changes between 2.1.3 and 2.1.4:
566 --------------------------------
569 * Fix issue in WMV with multiple compressed payload and empty payloads
572 * Fix subtitles size rendering on Windows
575 * Fix DVD playback regression
576 * Fix misleading error message during video playback on OS X 10.9
577 * Fix hardware acceleration memleaks
580 Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3:
581 --------------------------------
584 * Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
585 * Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir
588 * Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
589 * Fix encrypted DVD playback
590 * Fix v4l2 frequency conversion
593 * Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
594 by updating codec libraries
595 * Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
596 * Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
597 * Fix teletext crash on Windows
600 * Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
601 * Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
602 * Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
603 * Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing
606 * Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
607 * Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X
610 * Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
611 * Fix transform off-by-one issue
612 * Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
613 * Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
614 * Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC
617 * Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
618 * Fix record file names
621 * Fix minimal size possible on start
622 * Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
623 * Fix a crash in the audio menu building
624 * Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
625 * Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows
628 * Fix album art display on Windows
631 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek,
632 Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew,
633 Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Nepali,
634 Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
635 Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
636 and Simplified Chinese translations
637 * Fix encoding for Windows installer translations
640 Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2:
641 --------------------------------
644 * Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
645 * Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
646 * Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external
647 audio devices on OS X
648 * Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
649 * Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS
652 * Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
653 * Various WMV playback improvements and fixes
656 * Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
657 * Fix playback of some HEVC samples
660 * Fix crash on deinterlace selection
663 * Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
664 * Improve A-B loop control
665 * Fix album art update when changing media
668 * Add a language option in the interface
669 * Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
670 * Improved UI resetting when requested in the preferences
671 * Fix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
672 * Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
673 * Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
674 * Fix crash when closing window without decorations
675 * Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled
678 * Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update
681 * Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian,
682 French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer,
683 Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala,
684 Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations
687 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
688 --------------------------------
691 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
693 * Fix some subtitles track selection
696 * VP9 support in WebM
697 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
698 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
701 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
702 * Support Speex in ogg files
703 * Fix some .mov playlists support
704 * Support Alac in mkv
705 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
706 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
709 * Fix DVB options parsing
710 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
711 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
714 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
715 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
718 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
719 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
722 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
723 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
724 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
725 * Fix play after drag'n drop
726 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
729 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
730 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
733 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
734 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
737 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
738 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
739 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
740 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
741 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
742 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
743 * Improves interface resizings
746 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
747 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
748 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
749 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
750 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
754 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
755 --------------------------------
758 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
759 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
760 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
761 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
762 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
764 3rd party libraries (contrib):
765 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
768 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
769 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
770 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
771 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
772 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
775 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
776 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
780 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
781 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
782 * Support for Ulead DV audio
783 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
784 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
785 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
786 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
787 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
788 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
789 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
790 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
791 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
792 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
795 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
796 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
797 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
800 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
801 remove support for previous OS X releases
802 * Major improvements in DASH support
803 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
804 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
805 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
806 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
807 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
808 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
809 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
810 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
811 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
812 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
813 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
816 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
817 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
818 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
819 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
820 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
821 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
822 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
823 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
824 * Support for more MJPEG streams
825 * Add support for liveleak streams
826 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
827 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
828 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
831 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
832 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
833 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
834 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
835 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
836 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
837 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
838 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
839 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
840 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
841 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
844 * New remapping channel filter
845 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
846 * New VSXu visualization plugin
847 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
848 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
849 * New gain audio filter
852 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
853 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
854 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
855 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
856 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
857 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
858 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
859 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
860 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
863 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
864 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
865 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
866 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
867 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
868 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
869 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
872 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
873 * Options support for AVIO output module
874 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
875 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
876 * Livehttp stream encryption support
877 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
878 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
881 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
884 * configurable password for the HTTP server
885 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
886 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
887 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
888 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
889 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
890 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
891 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
895 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
898 * Add support for multiple video outputs
899 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
901 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
902 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
903 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
904 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
905 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
906 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
907 VLC's internal volume level
908 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
910 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
911 selection and to manage the list of presets
912 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
913 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
914 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
915 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
916 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
917 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
918 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
919 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
920 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
921 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
923 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
924 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
925 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
926 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
927 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
928 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
929 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
930 3rd party applications
931 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
932 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
933 (system-wide settings)
934 * Add support for the Video Title option
935 * Add support for the Boss Key
936 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
937 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
940 * Partial support for Qt5.0
941 * Menus modifications and improvements
942 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
943 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
944 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
945 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
946 * EPG display fixes and improvements
947 * Add SD pixmap sources
948 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
949 * Display playlist total duration
950 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
951 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
952 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
957 * Extend sliders, offsets options
958 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
959 * Numerous fixes and improvements
960 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
963 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
964 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
965 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
966 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
967 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
968 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
969 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
970 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
971 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
972 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
975 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
976 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
977 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
978 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
979 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
980 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
982 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
983 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
984 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
985 * Broken crop video filter
987 * OSD parser and menu
988 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
989 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
990 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
991 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
995 * Update of all translations
998 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
999 --------------------------------
1002 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
1003 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
1006 * Fix modplug security issues
1009 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
1010 --------------------------------
1014 * Fix crash in QTsound
1015 * Fix screen mouse file location
1016 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
1019 * Fix use after free in sgimb
1020 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
1023 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
1026 * Fix interface crashes
1027 * Fix autostart playback option
1028 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
1031 * update Welsh translation
1032 * New Kannada translation
1035 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
1036 --------------------------------
1039 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
1040 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
1044 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
1047 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
1050 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
1053 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
1056 * Minor improvements
1057 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
1060 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
1063 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
1064 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
1065 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
1068 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
1069 --------------------------------
1072 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
1075 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
1078 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
1079 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
1080 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
1081 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
1082 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
1083 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
1086 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
1087 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
1088 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
1089 * 3rd party codecs updates
1092 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
1093 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
1094 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
1095 in the advanced preferences panel
1096 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
1097 * Fix crash within the video output code
1098 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
1099 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
1100 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
1101 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
1102 lua extensions, ...)
1103 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
1106 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
1109 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
1110 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
1113 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
1116 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
1117 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
1118 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
1119 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
1120 Dutch, Danish, translations
1121 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
1124 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
1125 --------------------------------
1128 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
1131 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
1132 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
1133 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
1136 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
1137 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
1138 * Fix koreus lua parser
1139 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
1140 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
1141 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
1142 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
1145 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
1146 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
1149 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
1152 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
1153 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
1154 * Fix Time counter UI look
1155 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
1158 * Fix https streaming
1161 * Fix audio and video track selection:
1162 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
1163 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
1166 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
1167 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
1168 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
1169 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
1170 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
1173 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
1174 --------------------------------
1177 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
1178 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
1179 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
1180 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
1181 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
1182 during playback on Mac OS X
1185 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
1186 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
1187 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
1190 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
1191 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
1192 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
1193 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
1194 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
1197 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
1198 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
1199 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
1200 * Support Youtube live streams
1203 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
1206 * Fix media info dialog update
1207 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
1208 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
1209 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
1210 * Fix album art display at start
1213 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
1214 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
1215 * Fix menus display and behavior
1216 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
1217 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
1218 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
1219 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
1220 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
1221 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
1222 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
1225 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
1226 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
1227 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
1228 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
1229 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
1230 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
1231 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
1232 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
1233 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
1236 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
1237 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
1238 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
1239 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
1240 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
1243 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
1244 --------------------------------
1247 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
1250 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
1251 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
1254 * Add GateKeeper support
1255 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
1256 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
1257 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
1260 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
1263 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
1264 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
1265 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
1266 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
1267 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
1270 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
1271 --------------------------------
1274 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
1275 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
1276 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
1277 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
1278 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
1279 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
1280 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
1281 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
1282 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
1283 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
1284 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
1288 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
1289 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
1290 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
1291 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
1292 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
1293 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
1294 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
1295 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
1296 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
1297 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
1298 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
1299 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
1302 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
1303 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
1305 * Fix MP3 free format support
1308 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
1309 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
1310 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
1311 * Fix for DVB channels file support
1312 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
1315 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
1316 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
1318 Audio filters and output:
1319 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
1320 * Fix DirectSound device selection
1321 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
1322 * Do not apply volume in file output
1323 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
1324 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
1327 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
1328 the persistant media library
1329 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
1330 to the media library or the temporary playlist
1331 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
1332 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
1333 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
1334 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
1335 press on the Play/Pause button
1336 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
1337 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
1338 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
1339 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
1340 * Many Fullscreen fixes
1341 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
1342 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
1343 Synchronization panel
1344 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
1345 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
1346 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
1347 * Fix crashes on exit
1348 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
1350 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
1351 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
1352 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
1353 automatically reset on the first launch.
1354 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
1355 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
1356 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
1359 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
1360 * Fixes for icecast SD
1363 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
1364 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
1365 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
1366 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
1367 * Fix tags and file names display
1368 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
1371 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
1372 * Fix for key events and focus loss
1375 * Fix display of some buttons
1376 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
1377 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
1380 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
1381 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
1382 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
1385 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
1386 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
1387 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
1388 Thai translations update
1389 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
1392 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
1393 --------------------------------
1396 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
1397 * fix the samba module compilation
1398 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1399 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
1400 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
1401 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
1404 * Support for MXPEG files
1405 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
1406 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
1409 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
1410 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
1411 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
1414 * Fix ogm header creation
1417 * limit spatializer filter distortions
1418 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
1421 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
1422 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
1423 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
1424 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
1427 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
1430 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
1431 * allow to hide the sidebar
1432 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
1433 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
1434 * noticebly faster launch time
1435 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
1436 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
1437 * improve track synchronization panel
1438 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
1439 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
1442 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
1443 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
1444 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
1445 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
1448 * fix for menus display
1449 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
1450 * documentation update
1453 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
1454 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
1457 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
1458 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1459 * Update Jamendo selections
1463 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
1464 * fix a crash on VLM close
1467 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
1468 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
1469 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
1470 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
1473 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
1476 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
1477 ---------------------------------
1480 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1481 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
1482 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
1483 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
1484 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
1485 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
1486 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
1487 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
1488 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
1489 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
1490 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
1491 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
1492 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
1493 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
1494 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
1495 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
1496 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
1497 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
1498 --http-crl (optional CRL).
1499 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
1500 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
1501 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
1502 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
1503 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
1504 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
1505 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
1507 Important changes for packagers:
1508 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
1509 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
1510 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
1511 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
1512 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
1513 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
1514 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
1515 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
1516 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
1517 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
1520 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
1521 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
1522 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
1523 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
1524 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
1525 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
1526 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
1529 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
1530 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
1531 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
1532 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
1533 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
1534 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
1535 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
1536 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
1537 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
1538 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
1539 * PulseAudio audio input support
1540 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
1541 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
1542 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
1543 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
1544 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
1545 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
1546 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
1547 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
1550 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
1551 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
1552 are notably concerned.
1553 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
1554 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
1555 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
1556 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
1557 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
1558 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
1559 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
1560 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
1561 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
1562 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
1563 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
1564 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
1565 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
1566 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
1567 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
1570 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
1571 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
1572 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
1573 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
1574 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
1575 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
1576 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
1577 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
1578 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
1579 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
1580 * Improved support of tracker files
1581 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
1584 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
1585 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
1586 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
1587 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
1588 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
1589 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
1590 and important cleanups and optimisations
1591 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
1592 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
1593 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
1594 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
1595 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
1596 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
1597 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
1598 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
1599 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
1600 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
1601 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
1602 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
1603 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
1604 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
1605 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
1606 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
1607 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
1608 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
1609 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
1610 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
1611 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
1614 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
1615 * New video output for iOS platform
1616 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
1617 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
1618 * Various vmem improvements
1619 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
1620 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
1621 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
1622 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
1623 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
1624 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
1626 Audio Output and Filters:
1627 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
1628 * New audio output in memory (amem)
1629 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
1630 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
1631 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
1632 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
1633 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
1634 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
1635 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
1636 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
1639 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
1640 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
1641 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
1642 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
1643 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
1644 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
1645 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
1646 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
1647 * New anti-flickering filter
1648 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
1649 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
1650 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
1651 blackbox and customizable shadow.
1652 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
1653 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
1654 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
1657 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
1658 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
1659 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
1660 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
1661 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
1662 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
1663 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
1664 * Major rework of VoD support
1665 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
1666 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
1667 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
1668 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
1669 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
1670 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
1671 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
1672 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
1673 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
1674 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
1677 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
1678 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
1681 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1682 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
1683 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
1684 list of available audio and video filters
1685 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
1686 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
1687 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
1690 * asademux, subsass: use libass
1691 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
1692 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
1693 * id3tag: use taglib
1694 * upnp: use upnp_intel
1695 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
1696 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
1697 * removal of the noise filter
1698 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
1699 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
1700 removed in Growl's next release, too.
1701 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
1704 * Update of translations for most languages.
1705 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
1708 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
1709 ----------------------------------
1712 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
1713 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
1716 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
1717 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
1720 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
1721 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
1722 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
1725 * Camtasia decoding fix.
1728 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
1729 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
1732 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
1735 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
1736 ----------------------------------
1739 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
1740 including support for OS X Lion
1741 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
1742 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
1745 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
1748 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
1749 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
1750 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
1753 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
1756 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
1757 ----------------------------------
1760 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
1761 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
1764 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
1765 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
1766 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
1767 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
1768 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
1770 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
1771 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
1772 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
1774 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
1775 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
1778 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
1781 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
1784 * Fix quitting on Linux
1785 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
1789 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
1792 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
1795 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
1796 ---------------------------------
1798 Windows and Mac OS X:
1799 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
1802 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
1803 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
1806 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
1809 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
1812 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
1814 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1815 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
1817 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
1818 * RTP output and XML export
1819 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
1823 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
1824 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
1825 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
1826 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
1829 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
1830 --------------------------------
1832 Windows and Mac OS X:
1833 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
1836 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
1839 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
1840 * Improve Apple Remote handling
1841 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
1842 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
1843 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
1844 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
1847 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
1848 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
1852 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
1853 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
1854 * New Luganda Translation
1857 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
1858 --------------------------------
1861 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
1864 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
1865 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
1866 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
1867 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
1870 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
1872 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
1873 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
1874 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
1875 * mp4 demuxer improvements
1876 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
1877 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
1878 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
1879 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
1881 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1882 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
1883 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
1884 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
1885 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
1886 * Configure and build system improvements
1887 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
1890 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
1891 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
1892 * New icelandic translation
1895 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
1896 --------------------------------
1899 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
1900 #234484 and #260719.
1903 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
1904 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1905 and stability reasons
1908 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1912 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1915 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1916 ----------------------------------
1919 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1922 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1923 ---------------------------------
1926 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1927 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1928 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1929 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1932 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1935 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1936 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1937 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1938 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1941 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1942 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1943 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1945 Subtitles and renderer:
1946 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1947 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1948 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1949 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1950 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1953 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1954 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1955 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1956 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1959 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1960 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1962 Miscellaneous fixes:
1963 * KDE device solid actions
1965 * Transcode integer overflow
1966 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1967 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1970 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1971 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1972 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1975 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1976 ----------------------------------
1979 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1983 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1986 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1989 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1990 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1991 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1992 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1995 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1999 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
2002 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
2005 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
2006 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
2008 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
2012 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
2013 * Miscellaneous fixes
2016 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
2017 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
2018 French and Ukrainian
2019 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
2020 * New Asturian translation
2023 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
2024 ----------------------------------
2027 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
2029 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
2032 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
2035 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
2036 * Various fixes for Windows
2039 * New Armenian translation
2040 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
2041 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
2044 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
2045 --------------------------------
2048 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
2049 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
2050 * Fix folders opening from the interface
2053 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
2054 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
2057 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
2058 --------------------------------
2060 Access and demuxers:
2061 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
2062 * fix for podcasts parsing
2063 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
2066 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
2067 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
2070 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
2071 * fix m3u playlists exports
2074 * fix video autoresize behaviour
2077 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
2080 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
2083 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
2086 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
2089 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
2090 --------------------------------
2093 * Avformat fps displaying fix
2094 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
2097 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
2098 of mono streams, especially on Windows
2101 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
2102 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
2103 * fix console output encoding
2105 Interface and extensions:
2106 * Youtube and other scripts updates
2107 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
2110 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
2111 --------------------------------
2114 * New capabilities for libVLC:
2115 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
2116 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
2117 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
2118 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
2119 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
2120 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
2121 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
2122 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
2123 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
2124 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
2125 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
2126 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
2127 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
2128 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
2129 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
2133 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
2134 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
2135 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
2136 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
2137 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
2140 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
2143 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
2144 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
2145 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
2149 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
2152 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
2153 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
2154 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
2157 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
2158 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
2159 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
2160 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
2163 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
2164 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
2167 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
2168 --------------------------------
2170 Important changes for users:
2171 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
2172 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
2174 Important changes for packagers:
2175 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
2176 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
2177 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
2178 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
2179 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
2181 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
2183 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
2184 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
2185 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
2186 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
2187 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
2190 * Support for the sftp protocol
2191 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
2192 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
2193 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
2194 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
2195 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
2198 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
2199 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
2200 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
2202 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
2203 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
2204 * Invmem module improvements
2205 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
2206 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
2207 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
2208 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
2209 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
2210 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
2211 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
2212 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
2213 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
2214 * Support for VP8 codec
2215 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
2218 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
2219 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
2220 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
2221 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
2222 * Various EGP improvements
2223 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
2224 * Metadata and cover art improvements
2227 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
2228 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
2229 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
2230 * Podcast images are now displayed
2233 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
2234 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
2235 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
2236 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
2237 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
2238 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
2239 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
2240 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
2241 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
2242 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
2243 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
2246 * New content extensions lua framework
2249 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
2250 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
2251 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
2252 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
2253 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
2254 * NEON assembly audio converter module
2255 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
2258 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
2259 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
2260 * Service discovery based on libudev
2261 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
2264 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
2265 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
2266 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
2267 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
2268 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
2269 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
2270 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
2273 * New smem module, streaming to memory
2274 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
2275 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
2278 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
2280 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
2281 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
2284 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
2287 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
2288 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
2289 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
2290 by Andy Matuschak et al.
2291 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
2292 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
2293 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
2296 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
2297 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
2300 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
2301 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
2302 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
2306 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
2307 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
2308 * Improved Solaris port
2311 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
2312 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
2315 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
2316 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
2317 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
2318 * transrate: broken since too long
2319 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
2320 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
2321 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
2322 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
2323 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
2324 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
2325 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
2326 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
2327 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
2328 * cddax: use cdda instead.
2329 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
2330 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
2331 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
2332 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
2335 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
2336 --------------------------------
2339 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
2341 Decoders/Packetizers:
2342 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
2345 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
2346 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
2347 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
2348 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
2349 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
2352 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
2353 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
2356 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
2357 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
2360 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
2361 and Walloon translations updated
2362 * Sinhala translation started
2365 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
2366 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
2369 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
2370 --------------------------------
2373 * SubRip extra styles improvements
2374 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
2377 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
2380 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
2381 increase performance and fix x264 issues
2384 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
2385 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
2386 Russian, Slovak translation updates
2387 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
2390 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
2391 --------------------------------
2394 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
2395 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
2398 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
2399 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
2402 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
2403 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
2406 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
2409 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
2410 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
2413 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
2414 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
2417 * New Walloon translation
2418 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
2421 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
2422 --------------------------------
2425 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
2426 regressions in most popular drivers
2427 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
2430 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
2431 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
2432 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
2435 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
2436 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
2439 * Update for appletrailers lua script
2440 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
2441 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
2442 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
2443 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
2446 * New udev module for linux
2449 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
2452 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
2455 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
2456 --------------------------------
2459 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
2460 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
2461 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
2464 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
2465 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
2468 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
2469 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
2472 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
2475 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
2476 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
2477 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
2478 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
2481 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
2482 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
2483 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
2484 - no support for Goom and SDL
2485 - limited text rendering support
2486 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
2489 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
2490 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
2491 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
2492 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
2493 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
2494 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
2495 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
2496 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
2497 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
2501 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
2504 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
2507 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
2508 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
2509 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
2510 Arabic and French translation updates
2513 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
2514 --------------------------------
2517 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
2518 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
2519 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
2520 * Fix Dailymotion access script
2521 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
2522 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
2525 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
2526 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2527 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2530 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
2531 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
2532 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
2535 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
2538 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
2539 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
2542 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
2543 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
2544 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2545 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
2546 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
2547 * Fix various crashes
2550 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
2552 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
2556 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
2557 ---------------------------------
2561 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
2562 See 'Access:' for more info.
2563 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
2566 * Instantaneous pausing
2567 * Frame-by-Frame playback
2568 * Finer speed control
2569 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
2570 * Timeshift for most medias
2571 * RTSP trickplay support
2572 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
2575 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
2576 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
2577 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
2578 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
2579 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
2580 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
2581 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
2582 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
2583 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
2584 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
2587 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
2588 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
2589 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
2590 * Metadata for mod files are supported
2591 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
2592 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
2593 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
2596 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
2597 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
2600 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
2601 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
2602 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
2603 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
2604 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
2605 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
2606 * DVB scanning on linux
2607 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
2608 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
2609 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
2610 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
2611 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
2612 * MTP device access on Unix
2613 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
2614 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
2617 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
2618 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
2619 Windows and Mac OS X.
2622 * Export the playlist in HTML
2623 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
2624 * Better metadata handling and reading
2626 Linux/Windows interface:
2627 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
2628 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
2629 * Recently played items list
2630 * Interface toolbar customizations
2631 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
2632 - More menus actions
2633 - Finer speed slider
2634 - Improvements on many dialogs
2635 - New dialog for plugins listing
2636 - Fixed-size mode for videos
2637 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
2638 * Better integration in GTK environments
2641 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
2642 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
2643 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
2644 * Additional usability improvements
2647 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
2648 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
2649 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
2650 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
2651 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
2654 * New Maemo port with:
2655 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
2656 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
2659 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
2662 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
2663 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
2664 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
2665 * Support for latest iSight models
2668 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
2669 * Surround support for PulseAudio
2672 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
2673 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
2674 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
2675 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
2676 The old image video output has been removed.
2677 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
2678 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
2681 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
2689 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
2690 --------------------------------------
2696 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
2697 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
2698 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
2699 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
2700 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
2701 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2702 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
2704 Various fixes to the following modules:
2707 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
2708 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2709 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2711 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
2716 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
2717 ---------------------------------
2720 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
2721 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
2724 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
2725 ---------------------------------
2728 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
2731 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
2734 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
2735 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
2736 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
2737 main controller window.
2738 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
2741 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
2746 * Updates of other localizations
2749 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
2750 * Lots of small bugfixes.
2751 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
2752 * Telnet fixes on Windows
2753 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
2756 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
2757 ---------------------------------
2760 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
2762 Bunch of small bugfixes.
2765 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
2766 --------------------------------
2771 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
2772 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
2775 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
2776 --------------------------------
2778 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
2779 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
2782 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
2785 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
2786 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
2789 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
2790 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
2793 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
2794 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
2795 * Various fixed in playlist
2798 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
2801 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
2804 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
2805 ------------------------------------
2807 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
2808 * Fixes several memory leaks.
2811 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
2812 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
2813 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
2816 * Stability fix for the video output.
2819 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
2820 --------------------------------
2823 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
2824 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
2825 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
2826 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
2827 * Fixed update system bugs
2828 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
2831 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
2832 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
2833 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
2834 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
2835 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
2836 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
2837 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
2838 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
2839 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
2840 modern Mac OS X versions
2843 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
2844 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
2846 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
2847 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
2850 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
2851 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
2852 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
2853 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
2854 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
2855 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
2858 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
2859 --------------------------------
2861 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
2862 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
2863 * Multiple bugfixes.
2866 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
2867 --------------------------------
2869 * Multiple bug fixes.
2872 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2873 ---------------------------------
2877 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
2878 recent to work correctly
2879 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
2880 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
2881 edit the ".hosts" file.
2882 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
2883 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
2884 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
2885 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
2886 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
2887 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
2888 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
2889 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
2890 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
2891 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
2892 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
2893 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
2894 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
2895 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
2896 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
2897 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
2898 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
2899 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
2900 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
2901 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2902 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
2903 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
2904 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2905 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2906 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2907 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2908 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2909 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2910 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2911 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2912 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2913 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2914 and postproc modules.
2915 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2916 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2917 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2918 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2920 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2921 filter. For example:
2922 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2923 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2925 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2926 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2932 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2934 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2935 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2938 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2939 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2941 * Shoutcast TV listings
2942 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2944 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2945 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2947 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2950 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2951 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2952 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2953 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2954 * JACK audio input support
2955 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2956 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2957 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2958 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2959 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2960 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2961 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2962 (available as a separate download).
2963 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2964 * RTMP input support
2965 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2966 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2967 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2969 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2970 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2973 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2974 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2975 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2976 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2978 * APEv1/2 tags support
2979 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2980 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2982 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2983 * TiVo Series 2 support
2984 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2989 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2990 * Flash Screen Video support
2991 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2992 * DosBox Capture support
2993 * Karl Morton's Video support
2994 * limited atrac3 support
2996 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2997 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2998 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2999 * H.264 PAFF support
3000 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
3001 * NellyMoser ASAO support
3002 * APE (Monkey audio) support
3003 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
3004 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
3007 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
3008 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
3009 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
3010 * AQTitle subtitles support
3011 * MKV USF subtitles support
3012 * HTML-based subtitles support
3013 * MPSub subtitles support
3014 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
3015 * MPL2 subtitles support
3016 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
3017 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
3018 * Realtext subtitle support
3019 * DKS subtitle support
3020 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
3021 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
3024 * Flash Screen Video support
3025 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
3027 Video outputs and filters:
3028 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
3029 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
3030 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
3031 * New puzzle video output filter
3032 * Re-written motion detection video filter
3033 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
3035 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
3036 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
3037 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
3038 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
3039 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
3040 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
3041 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
3042 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
3043 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
3044 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
3045 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
3046 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
3047 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
3048 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
3050 Audio outputs and filters:
3051 * Replay gain support
3052 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
3053 new scaletempo audio filter)
3054 * New spatializer audio filter
3055 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
3058 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
3059 * New RTP payload formats:
3060 * Speex voice audio codec
3061 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
3062 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
3063 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
3064 * DCCP transport for RTP
3065 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
3070 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
3071 end-user suitable way.
3072 * Improved user interaction
3073 * Improved mouse gestures
3074 * Vastly improved Update checker
3075 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
3077 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
3078 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
3080 * Improved video output features
3081 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
3082 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
3083 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
3084 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
3085 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
3087 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
3088 if libncursesw is available.
3089 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
3090 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
3091 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
3093 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
3094 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
3095 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
3096 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
3097 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
3098 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
3099 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
3100 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
3103 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
3104 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
3105 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
3108 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
3109 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
3110 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
3111 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
3112 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
3113 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
3116 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
3117 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
3127 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
3128 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
3129 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
3132 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
3133 ----------------------------------
3136 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
3139 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
3140 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
3141 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
3142 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
3143 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
3144 * Updated Polish translation
3147 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
3148 ----------------------------------
3151 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
3152 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
3153 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
3156 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
3157 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
3158 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
3159 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
3160 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
3161 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
3162 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
3163 to an unexpected application termination
3164 * New Serbian translation
3165 * Updated Romanian translation
3168 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
3169 ----------------------------------
3172 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
3173 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
3174 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
3175 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
3176 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
3177 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
3178 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
3179 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
3182 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
3183 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
3184 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
3185 * Fixed AAC resampling
3186 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
3187 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
3190 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
3191 ----------------------------------
3194 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
3195 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
3196 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
3197 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
3198 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
3201 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
3202 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
3203 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
3204 * Close MMS access on network timeout
3205 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
3208 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
3209 ----------------------------------
3212 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
3213 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
3216 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
3217 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
3218 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
3219 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
3221 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
3225 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
3228 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
3231 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
3234 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
3237 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
3238 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
3239 encoding on multi-cpu systems
3240 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
3241 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
3243 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3244 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
3245 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
3246 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
3249 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
3252 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
3253 ----------------------------------
3256 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
3257 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
3258 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
3260 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
3261 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
3263 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
3264 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
3267 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
3269 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3270 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
3271 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
3272 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
3273 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
3274 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
3275 two different movies
3276 * Support for current Ogg file formats
3277 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
3278 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
3281 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
3284 * The automatic updating facility was removed
3285 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
3286 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
3287 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
3290 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
3291 ----------------------------------
3293 Various bugfixes, notably:
3294 * Windows Vista compatibility
3295 * Cropping in Direct3D
3296 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
3297 * RSS filter string overflow
3299 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
3301 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
3302 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
3305 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
3306 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
3309 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
3312 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
3315 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
3318 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
3319 ----------------------------------
3321 Various bugfixes, notably:
3322 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
3323 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
3324 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
3325 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
3326 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
3327 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
3330 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
3331 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
3334 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
3336 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3337 * Diverse usability improvements
3338 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
3339 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
3340 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
3343 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
3344 ---------------------------------
3346 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
3347 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
3350 * Fullscreen controller improvements
3353 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
3354 --------------------------------
3357 * Shoutcast TV listings support
3360 * Support for RTSP authentication
3361 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
3362 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
3363 * ATSC support for DVB input
3364 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
3365 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
3366 * Improved support for Flash Video files
3369 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
3370 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
3371 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
3372 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
3373 * Matroska WavPack support
3374 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
3375 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
3376 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
3379 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
3380 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
3381 * Improved libcaca support
3385 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
3386 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
3388 * Systray support in skins
3390 * Support for Apple Remote control
3391 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3392 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3393 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
3394 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
3396 * Notifications using notification-daemon
3399 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
3400 Windows 9x/ME users:
3401 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
3402 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
3403 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
3404 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
3405 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
3407 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
3408 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
3417 * Updates to the libvlc API
3418 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
3421 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
3422 --------------------------------
3425 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
3426 * Support for downloading updates
3430 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
3431 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
3432 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
3433 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
3435 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
3436 * Improved subtitles encoding support
3437 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
3440 * Cook (Real audio) support
3442 Playlist / Services discovery:
3443 * XSPF playlist support
3445 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
3448 * New JACK audio output
3451 * New video filters:
3452 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
3453 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
3454 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
3455 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
3456 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
3457 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
3460 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
3463 * System to inform the user and request information
3464 - HTTP authentication
3468 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
3469 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3470 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
3473 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
3474 - Improved playlist handling
3475 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
3477 - Embedded Video output
3478 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
3479 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
3480 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3481 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
3482 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
3484 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
3485 - A bunch of new RPN functions
3488 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
3491 * Mac-Intel compatibility
3492 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
3493 * Growl "Now playing" support
3496 * Ability to log to syslog
3497 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
3500 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
3502 * A bit more automatic testing
3505 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
3506 ---------------------------------
3509 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
3510 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
3513 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
3514 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
3517 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
3520 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
3521 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
3527 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
3530 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
3531 --------------------------------
3534 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
3538 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
3539 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
3540 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
3543 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
3544 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
3545 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
3546 * GnomeVFS input module
3547 * Support for RTP packet reordering
3548 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
3551 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
3552 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
3553 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
3556 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
3557 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
3563 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
3564 Mixer and Dolby Surround
3567 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
3568 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
3569 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
3572 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
3574 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
3575 - New extended controls panel
3576 - New bookmarks window
3577 - Fixed playlist sorting
3578 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
3580 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
3581 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
3582 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
3583 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
3587 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
3588 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
3590 - Include macro to include other files
3594 * Should now work outside IE as well
3597 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
3600 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
3601 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
3604 The following languages were added:
3608 * Simplified Chinese
3609 The following languages were re-added:
3613 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
3614 --------------------------------
3617 * Rewrite of the playlist
3619 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
3620 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
3621 * Preferences improvements:
3622 - New organization, designed to improve usability
3623 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
3625 * Core image manipulation support
3626 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
3627 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
3628 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
3629 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
3630 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
3631 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
3632 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
3633 now separated by ':' instead of ','
3634 * Access filter architecture
3635 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
3636 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
3640 * Support for SOCKS proxy
3641 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
3642 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
3643 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
3644 * Better support for Kasenna streams
3645 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
3646 * Massive Matroska improvements
3647 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
3649 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
3650 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
3651 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
3652 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
3653 * Support for FTP over IPv6
3655 Decoders / Encoders:
3656 * Dirac decoder and encoder
3657 * PNG decoder/encoder
3658 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
3659 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
3662 * New Record and Timeshift filters
3665 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
3666 * Brand new SAP module
3667 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
3668 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
3669 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
3670 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
3671 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
3672 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
3676 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
3679 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
3680 * Image file video output (png)
3681 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
3682 * Improvements to wall video filter
3683 * Support for font color and opacity
3689 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
3690 - Seeking support in VoD streams
3691 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
3695 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
3696 - Improved preferences
3697 - Improvements to the wizard
3698 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
3700 - Redesigned playlist
3701 - Improved preferences
3703 - Support for multiple actions
3706 - Support for the new playlist system
3708 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
3711 * Screensaver disabling fix
3712 * DirectShow tuner configuration
3713 * Support for no-decoration windows
3716 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
3717 * The OpenGL video output is back
3718 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
3719 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
3720 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
3721 is not yet available in the new module
3722 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
3725 * Support for single-buffered overlay
3734 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
3737 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
3740 The following languages were added:
3746 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
3747 --------------------------------
3750 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
3751 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
3754 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
3755 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
3756 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
3759 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3762 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
3765 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
3768 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
3769 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
3770 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
3774 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
3776 * Support of playlist group announcement
3779 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
3780 --------------------------------
3783 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
3784 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
3785 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
3786 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
3787 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
3788 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
3791 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
3792 (Stream your desktop)
3793 * Improved DVD support:
3794 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
3795 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
3796 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
3797 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
3798 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
3799 (selection of titles/chapters).
3802 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
3803 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
3804 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
3805 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
3806 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
3807 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3808 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
3809 * Improved Ogg demuxer
3810 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
3811 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
3814 * G.726 audio support
3815 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
3816 * MPEG-4 text support
3817 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
3818 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
3819 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
3823 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
3824 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
3825 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
3826 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
3827 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
3828 * DVB subtitles encoder
3829 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
3830 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
3832 * Text track muxing for mp4
3833 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
3834 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
3835 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3836 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
3837 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
3838 * Improved ASF muxer
3840 * H.263 RTP streaming support
3841 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
3842 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
3845 * New audio equalizer filter
3846 * Very trivial volume normalizer
3847 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
3848 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
3849 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
3852 * Roku HD1000 Video output
3853 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
3854 with support for effects.
3855 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
3856 - New filters can be streamed.
3857 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
3858 - Centralized scaling and blending
3860 - "time", to display current time
3861 - "marq", to display a marquee
3864 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
3865 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
3866 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
3867 * A few skins2 improvements
3868 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
3869 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
3870 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
3871 * Improved CORBA control module
3874 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
3875 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
3876 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
3879 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
3880 * Experimental SVG rendering module
3881 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
3884 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
3885 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
3886 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
3887 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
3888 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
3891 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3894 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
3895 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
3898 * Server/client network synchronization module
3899 * VBrick streams fully supported
3900 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
3904 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3905 --------------------------------
3908 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3909 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3910 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3911 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3914 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3915 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3916 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3917 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3918 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3919 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3920 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3923 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3924 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3925 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3926 * Improved directory access module.
3927 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3928 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3929 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3930 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3931 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3934 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3935 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3936 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3939 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3940 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3941 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3944 * Improved session announcement system.
3945 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3946 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3947 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3948 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3949 * Improved transrater.
3950 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3951 * New configuration system.
3952 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3955 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3956 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3957 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3958 * Supports scheduling.
3959 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3960 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3963 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3964 - Ability to embed video output.
3965 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3966 - Lots of improvements.
3967 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3968 - New design and set of icons.
3969 - Ability to embed video output.
3970 - Support for hotkeys.
3971 - Support for bookmarks.
3973 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3974 - Better hotkeys handling.
3977 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3978 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3979 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3980 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3983 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3984 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3985 * Improved Windows installer.
3991 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3992 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3995 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3996 ---------------------------------
3999 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
4000 * Playing MOD files is working now.
4003 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
4004 --------------------------------
4007 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
4008 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
4011 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
4012 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
4013 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
4014 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
4017 * Internal improvments
4018 * Improved import/export
4021 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
4023 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
4024 small and strange formats.
4026 * New MOD audio demux.
4027 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
4028 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
4029 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
4030 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
4033 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
4034 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
4035 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
4041 * New opengl video output plugin.
4044 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
4045 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
4048 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
4049 --------------------------------
4052 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
4053 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
4054 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
4055 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
4056 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
4057 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
4058 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
4059 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
4062 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
4067 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
4068 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
4069 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
4070 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
4071 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
4072 * Reworked DVB tuning.
4073 * Better Icecast support.
4074 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
4075 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
4078 * Support for Theora video encoding.
4079 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
4080 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
4081 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
4082 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
4083 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
4084 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
4087 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
4088 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
4089 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
4090 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
4091 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
4092 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
4093 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
4094 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
4095 * Preliminary RTP support.
4096 * Fixes to SAP announces.
4101 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
4102 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
4104 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
4105 - Improvements and help in preferences
4106 - New streaming wizard
4107 - Revised Disc Open menu
4109 - Improvements of the standard pages
4110 - Support for new commands
4111 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
4114 * Many fixes to the SAP module
4115 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
4118 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
4119 * Text subtitles autodetection.
4120 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
4121 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
4122 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
4123 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
4124 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
4125 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
4126 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
4129 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
4131 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
4132 * Support for Panther.
4133 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
4134 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
4137 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
4138 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
4139 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
4140 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
4141 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
4142 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
4143 * Multimonitor support (untested).
4144 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
4147 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
4148 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
4149 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
4152 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
4155 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
4156 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
4157 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
4158 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
4161 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
4162 --------------------------------
4165 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
4168 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
4169 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
4172 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
4173 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
4176 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
4179 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
4180 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
4183 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
4186 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
4189 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
4190 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
4194 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
4195 --------------------------------
4198 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
4199 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
4203 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
4204 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
4205 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
4207 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
4208 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
4211 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
4214 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
4217 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
4218 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
4222 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
4223 --------------------------------
4226 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
4227 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
4231 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
4232 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
4233 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
4234 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
4235 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
4238 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
4239 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
4240 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
4243 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
4244 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
4245 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
4248 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
4249 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
4250 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
4251 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
4252 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
4255 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
4256 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
4257 * A new CORBA control plugin.
4260 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
4263 * Improved build system.
4264 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
4265 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
4266 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
4267 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
4270 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
4271 --------------------------------
4274 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
4277 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
4278 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
4279 * Fixed large file support on Windows
4280 * Video 4 Linux support
4281 * CD Digital Audio support
4282 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
4285 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
4286 * Support for OpenDML avi files
4287 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
4288 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
4291 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
4292 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
4293 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
4294 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
4295 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
4296 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
4297 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
4300 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
4301 * New HTTP remote control interface
4304 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
4305 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
4306 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
4307 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
4308 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
4311 * New reset option for the preferences
4312 * You can set your language in the prefences
4313 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
4314 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
4315 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
4316 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
4319 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
4320 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
4321 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
4324 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
4325 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
4326 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
4327 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
4328 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
4329 * New icons by Davor Orel.
4330 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
4331 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
4332 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
4333 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
4336 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
4337 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
4338 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
4339 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
4340 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
4341 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
4342 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
4345 * Interface localization
4346 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
4347 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
4348 * New full-featured Preferences window
4351 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
4352 --------------------------------
4355 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
4356 * support for skins at the interface level
4357 * new OSD module using Freetype2
4358 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
4359 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
4360 input level before dropping out of date frames.
4361 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
4364 * fixed HTTP redirects
4365 * support for opening an entire directory
4366 * EOF should be detected more reliably
4367 * new video4linux access plug-in
4368 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
4371 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
4372 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
4373 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
4376 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
4377 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
4378 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
4379 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
4380 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
4381 * new codec for raw I420 video
4382 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
4385 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
4386 (although it still misses some important features)
4387 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
4390 * new HTTP output support
4391 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
4392 * fixed AV synchronization issues
4395 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
4398 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
4401 * reorderable playlist
4402 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
4403 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
4404 * support for mono audio output devices
4405 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
4406 * fixed several cosmetic issues
4407 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
4408 * the messages window remembers more lines
4409 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
4410 * http and ogg stream output options
4411 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
4414 * new skinnable interface
4415 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
4417 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
4418 * support for FLAC audio format
4419 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
4421 * network tab in the interface
4422 * "apply" handling in preferences
4425 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
4426 ---------------------------------
4429 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
4430 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
4431 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
4432 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
4434 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
4435 * DTS S/PDIF support
4438 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
4439 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
4440 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
4441 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
4444 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
4445 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
4448 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
4451 * fixed the GNU-pth support
4454 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
4456 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
4457 * rc interface is now fully useable
4458 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
4461 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
4462 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
4463 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
4464 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
4465 * VLC now uses the default audio device
4467 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
4468 * support for mouse gestures
4469 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
4472 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
4473 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
4476 * improved ID3 tag detection
4477 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
4478 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
4479 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
4481 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
4484 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
4485 ---------------------------------
4488 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
4489 English was set as the preferred language
4492 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
4493 --------------------------------
4496 * new mouse gesture interface
4497 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
4501 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
4502 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
4503 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
4506 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
4507 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
4511 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
4514 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
4515 without the user consent
4518 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
4520 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
4521 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
4522 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
4525 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
4526 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
4527 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
4528 * playlist enhancements
4529 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
4530 * new step forward/step backward commands
4531 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
4532 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
4533 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
4536 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
4537 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
4538 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
4541 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
4542 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
4545 * native video output is working again
4546 * only commandline interface support
4547 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
4550 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
4551 --------------------------------
4554 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
4555 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
4556 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
4557 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
4558 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
4559 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
4560 and A/52 streams are supported)
4561 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
4566 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
4567 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
4568 * VCD entry points support
4569 * VCD image file support
4572 * support for *.asf format
4573 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
4574 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
4575 * support for ogg encapsulation
4576 * support for raw DV format
4577 * support for *.wav format
4578 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
4581 Stream discovery & playlists:
4582 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
4583 * support for .m3u file format
4584 * support for .asx file format
4585 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
4588 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
4589 (only available with the .avi demux)
4590 * support for ADPCM audio codec
4591 * support for raw PCM data
4592 * support for Cinepak video codec
4593 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
4594 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
4595 * support for Xvid codec
4596 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
4597 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
4598 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
4600 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
4602 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
4605 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
4608 * new WxWindows interface
4609 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
4610 device and the channels configuration
4611 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
4612 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
4613 format that VLC can play
4614 * new swedish translation
4615 * enhancements of the playlist window
4616 * new messages window to see debug info
4617 * fixed a few crashes
4620 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
4621 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
4622 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
4623 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working