1 Changes between 3.0.x and 4.0.0-dev:
2 --------------------------------
4 Platform support changes:
6 - Windows 7/2008 R2 or later (with KB2533623 installed)
9 - Android 4.1.x or later (API-16)
10 - GCC 5.0 or Clang 3.4 (or equivalent)
13 * Support for HEIF format
16 * Support for experimental AV1 video encoding
18 * Remove iomx support for Android
24 * Remove omxil_vout plugin
27 * Remove Growl notification support
30 Changes between 2.2.8 and 3.0.0:
31 --------------------------------
33 Platform support changes:
34 * 3.0.x will be maintained as a LTS (best-effort basis, mostly for security)
35 that will be the last working version for quite a few systems.
37 Indeed the 3.0.x branch will contain the last releases running on:
38 - Windows XP, Vista, and the servers equivalent of those Windows versions
39 - macOS 10.7, 10.8 & 10.9, iOS 7 & 8
40 - Android 2.x, 3.x, 4.0.x & 4.1.x
41 - Compilers before gcc 5.0 and clang 3.4, or equivalent
43 * For the 3.0 branch, please note:
44 * The Windows XP/2003/2003R2 support for VLC is now on a best-effort basis:
45 it should work, but not without limitations.
46 libVLC support for Windows XP is deprecated.
47 You _really_ should upgrade to a more modern Windows version!
48 * Windows Vista (all versions) without Platform Upgrade is not supported.
49 * 64bit version of VLC for Windows is recommended.
50 * Linux support requires now a kernel newer than 2.6.26.
51 * Mac OS X 10.6 support is now removed. You need OS X 10.7.
54 * Support network browsing for distant filesystems (SMB, FTP, SFTP, NFS...)
55 and rewrite the parsing of the media files and inputs
56 * Support keystores: fetch and store passwords securely (sic!) for common
57 protocols (HTTP, SMB, SFTP, FTP, RTSP ...)
58 * Autodetect external audio tracks (ac3, m4a, aac, dts...) similar to subtitles
59 * Support HDMI passthrough for Audio HD codecs, like E-AC3, TrueHD or DTS-HD
60 * Support for 12bits codec and extended colorspaces (HDR)
61 * Support output renderers, like ChromeCast
62 * VLC now assumes vlcrc config file is in UTF-8
63 * Support portable version of Windows build (create a "portable/" folder)
64 * Support wayland surface type
65 * Allow to start the video paused on the first frame
66 * Refactor preparsing input
67 * EPG rework: table and single event updates, now using network time
68 * Refactor and fix subtitles es selection. Demuxers can now override
69 es category single only or multiple es behavior
70 * Support for 360 video and audio, including viewpoint modification
71 * Support for ambisonic audio and more than 8 audio channels
72 * Support subtitles size live adjustments
75 * New NFS access module using libnfs
76 * New SMB access module using libdsm
78 * Rewrite MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support, including
79 MPEG2TS and ISOBMFF profiles
80 * Support HDS (Http Dynamic Streaming) from Adobe (f4m, f4v, etc.)
81 * Large rework of the Smooth Streaming module
82 * Replaced httplive stream filter with new HLS demuxer, replaced smooth
83 stream filter with new Smooth demuxer, both using unified adaptive module
84 * Support HLSv4-7, including MP4 and raw muxing and ID3 tags
85 * Support decompression and extraction through libarchive (tar, zip, rar...)
86 * New HTTP/TLS access module for HTTP 2.0 support
87 * Improvements of cookie handling (share cookies between playlist items,
88 domain / path matching, Secure cookies)
89 * Support DVB-T2 on Windows BDA
90 * Screen capture plugin for Wayland display
91 * Support depayloading Opus from RTP
92 * New UPnP access module, to list directories without infinite recursions
93 * SMB/FTP/SFTP accesses can list directories
94 * Support sftp username and passwords options in URL, and key authentication
95 * New WASAPI audio capture module on Windows
96 * New "concat" access module for concatenating byte streams
97 * Named pipes and device nodes are no longer included in directory listings
98 by default. Use --list-special-files to include them back.
99 * Support for timeout in UDP input --udp-timeout=<seconds>
100 * New SAT>IP access module, to receive DVB-S via IP networks
101 * Improvements on DVB scanning
102 * BluRay module can open ISO over network and has full BD-J support
103 * Support for DVD ISO over network
104 * New SRT access module using libsrt
107 * Support HEVC hardware decoding on Windows, using DxVA2 and D3D11
108 * Support hardware decoding using Direct3D11, including GPU-zerocopy mode,
109 and hardware filtering, for deinterlace and adjust
110 * DxVA2 GPU-zerocopy for hardware decoding and displaying on Windows,
111 and support for hardware filtering, for deinterlace and adjust
112 * Support HEVC hardware decoding using OMX and MediaCodec (Android)
113 * Use MediaCodec via NDK native API after Android Lollipop
114 * Support MPEG-2, VC1/WMV3 on Android using MediaCodec
115 * OMX GPU-zerocopy support for decoding and display on Android using OpenMax IL
116 * Support 4:4:4 and 4:2:2 chroma samplings with VDPAU hw acceleration
117 * Important VAAPI improvements for 10bits, HEVC, direct-rendering support
118 * Support VP9 and WMV3 decoding using OMX and performance improvements
119 * Important improvements for the MMAL decoder and output for rPI and rPI2
120 * New hardware accelerated decoder for OS X and and iOS based on Video Toolbox
121 supporting H.263, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, H.265/HEVC, MPEG-4 Part 2, and DV
124 * Support for experimental AV1 video
125 * Support for ARIB STD-B24 subtitles
126 * Support for experimental Daala video
127 * New MPEG-1 & 2 audio layer I, II, III + MPEG 2.5 decoder based on libmpg123
128 * New BPG decoder based on libbpg
129 * Fix uncompressed DVD-Audio (AOB) LPCM decoding
130 * Rewrite WPL playlists and add ZPL playlists support (Zune)
131 * Support TDSC, Canopus HQX, Cineform, SpeedHQ, Pixlet, QDMC and FMVC codecs
132 * TTML subtitles support, including EBU-TT-D variant
133 * Rewrite of webVTT subtitles support, including CSS style support
134 * Support 9-bit and 10-bit GBR planar formats
135 * Support for the OggSpots video codec
136 * HEVC packetization is mostly fixed
137 * H264 packetizer can now generate timestamps
138 * Packetizers have support for captions in SEI
139 * DTS packetizer handle DTS extensions (like DTS-HD): decoders like avcodec
140 can now decode up to 8 channels
141 * JPEG images correctly oriented using embedded orientation tag, if present
142 * Support VPX high bit depth support
143 * Extend MicroDVD support with color, fontname, size, position extensions
144 * BluRay text subtitles (HDMV) are now decoded
145 * Improve Closed Captions detection, notably inside the video streams
147 * New MIDI decoder for macOS and iOS using the AudioToolbox framework, works
148 without a soundfont or with SoundFont2 and DLS soundfonts
151 * Important rework of the MP4 demuxer, including:
152 * Support for fragmented MP4
153 * Support EIA-608/708 subtitles in MP4/mov
154 * Support WMV and WMAV in MP4/mov, aka Flip4Mac files
155 * Support bitmap audio channel reordering in MP4/mov
156 * Support for RTP Reception Hint Track with H.264, GSM and Speex payloads
157 * Support for XiphQT(MP4) vorbis and Flac
158 * Support for VP8/VP9/VP10/AV1 in MP4
159 * Support GoPro HiLight chapters
160 * Support for TTML and WebVTT in ISOBMFF/MP4 and DASH
161 * Add new metadata fields
162 * Important rework of the TS demuxer, including:
163 * Support Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
164 * Fix program selection with recorded TS (TopField, DreamBox and others)
165 * Fix TS playback with PAT/PMT less recordings
166 * Basic support for MPEG4-SL in TS and T-DMB
167 * Support SCTE-18 / EAS inside TS
168 * Support for new descriptors and ETT tables
169 * Support for ARIB channel logos, as attachements, ARIB TR-B21/TR-B14-1
170 * Improve broken-PCR probing and fixing
171 * Improvements for scrambled state detection
172 * Support HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS)
173 * Important rework of the PS demuxer, including:
175 * Fix large number of samples, notably with PSM-less H264
176 * Partial support of PSMF
177 * Fix broken SCR samples
178 * Fix CDXA mpeg-1 support
179 * Improvements on MKV:
180 * Rewrite MKV seeking
181 * Support FFv1 inside MKV
182 * Improve ADTS and LATM inside MKV
183 * Improve DVD-menus support
184 * Support for lame's replaygain extension in mpeg files
185 * Support Daala in Ogg
186 * Improve Chained-Ogg support
187 * Fixes for DTS detection in WAV and MKV files
188 * Support for Creative ADPCM/alaw/ulaw/S16L in VOC files
189 * Support for Creative ADPCM in AVI
190 * Support WMV extended content metadata
191 * Directory Demux can now sort items, ignore extensions and hidden files
192 * Support AlbumArtist and DiscNumber metadata
193 * Support raw H265/HEVC files
194 * Support multi-channel WAV without channel-maps
195 * Support SBV subtitles
196 * Support for Scenarist Closed Caption
197 * Fix Quicktime Mp4 inside MKV and unpacketized VC1
198 * Support for isofLaC
199 * Improve fLaC seeking
200 * Replace --demux dvb-open option with --stream-filter dvb to parse
201 channels.conf digital TV channel list files
204 * Add an ADF stream filter
205 * Add a ARIB STD-B25 TS streams decoder
206 * Add a stream prebuffering plugin
207 * Rewrite libarchive module as a stream_extractor
208 * Remove HTTP Live streaming stream filter
209 * Add a zlib (a.k.a. deflate) decompression filter
210 * Add a skiptags module to help demuxers skip ID3/APE tags
213 * Add a demuxer filter chain to filter or intercept control commands and demuxing
214 * Add a demuxer filter to block seeking (--demux-filter noseek)
217 * Complete rewrite of the AudioTrack Android module, it is now the default
218 module for Android. It now supports HDMI/SPDIF passthrough for AC3/DTS/EAC3,
219 5.1/7.1 channels and float output, depending on the Android version.
220 * Add Tizen audio module
221 * HDMI/SPDIF pass-through support for WASAPI (AC3/DTS/DTSHD/EAC3/TRUEHD)
222 * Support EAC3 and TRUEHD pass-through for PulseAudio
223 * Important rework of the AudioUnit modules to share more code between iOS and macOS
224 * Support Ambisonics audio with viewpoint changes
227 * Add SoX Resampler library audio filter module (converter and resampler)
228 * a52tospdif and dtstospdif audio converters are merged into tospdif,
229 this new converter can convert AC3, DTS, EAC3 and TRUEHD to a IEC61937 frame
230 * Add a Spatialaudio module with 2 submodules:
231 * an Ambisonics audio renderer, supporting up to 3rd order
232 * an Binauralizer audio filter, working with Ambisonics or 5.1/7.1 streams
233 * Add Headphones option in Stereo Mode: use the spatialaudio module for
235 * Add a pitch shifting module
238 * Linux/BSD default video output is now OpenGL, instead of Xvideo
240 * New OpenGL provider for Windows
241 * Drop OpenGL 1.x and OpenGL ES 1 support
242 * Direct rendering with OpenGL (starting OpenGL 4.4)
243 * Hardware direct displaying with VA-API interop
244 * Hardware direct displaying with VDPAU interop
245 * Hardware direct displaying with DxVA2/D3D9Ex interop
246 * Hardware direct displaying with VideoToolbox interop (iOS and macOS)
247 * HDR tonemapping support through libplacebo
248 * Wayland shell surface window provider
249 * Wayland shared memory video output
250 * Large rework of the Android video outputs: there is now Surface (2.1, 2.2)
251 NativeWindow (2.3+, supports hw rotation, subpicture blending, opaque)
252 * Support rotation in Android NativeWindow output and hardware decoders
253 * Rename the Direct3D output module to Direct3D9
254 * Add a Direct3D11 video output supporting both Windows desktop and WinRT modes,
255 supporting subpicture blending and hardware acceleration
256 * Support HDR10 in Direct3D11 with Windows 10 Fall Creator Update
257 * EFL Evas video output with Tizen TBM Surface support
260 * Hardware deinterlacing on the rPI, using MMAL
261 * New video filter to convert between fps rates
262 * Add 9-bit and 10-bit support to image adjust filter
263 * New edge detection filter uses the Sobel operator to detect edges
264 * Hardware accelerated deinterlacing/adjust/sharpen/chroma with VA-API
265 * Hardware accelerated adjust/invert/posterize/sepia/sharpen with CoreImage
266 * Hardware accelerated deinterlacing/adjust/chroma with D3D9 and D3D11
269 * CTL support through Harfbuzz in the Freetype module
270 * New font fallback algorithm on most platforms
271 * More conforming EIA608 captions layout and aspect ratio
272 * More styles support for TTML, WebVTT and 708
275 * Chromecast output module
276 * RGB24 and YCbCr 4:2:0 RTP packetization
279 * Support for Daala video in 4:2:0 and 4:4:4
280 * VP8 and VP9 encoder using libvpx
283 * Add fragmented/streamable MP4 muxer
284 * Add support for muxing VC1 and WMAPro in MP4
285 * Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
289 * New NetBios service discovery using libdsm
290 * New mDNS services discovery using libmicrodns
291 * New mDNS services discovery using Bonjour (Mac OS X, tvOS, iOS)
292 * Rewrite of the UPnP service discovery
295 * Drop support for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
296 * Support right-to-left user interface layout for right-to-left languages
297 * New resizable fullscreen controller with improved design
298 * Add status bar icon which displays metadata and play controls
299 * Add support for keyboard blacklight dimming during fullscreen video playback
300 * Improve and simplify preferences window
301 * Huge performance improvements in playlist handling and other areas
302 * New AppleScript API giving access to audio desynchronization
303 * Expand AppleScript API for menu detection and navigation
304 * Support for building with disabled sparkle update mechanism
305 * Remove deprecated transcoding wizard, use convert and save dialog instead
308 * Drop support for iOS 6.x
311 * Batch convert support
312 * It is now possible to specify 'stop-time' in Convert/Save dialog
315 * Support key accelerators
318 * Add libvlc_media_new_callbacks for custom input byte streams
319 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_enum to enumerate devices of current aout
320 * Split of libvlc_media_discoverer_new_from_name into libvlc_media_discoverer_new,
321 libvlc_media_discoverer_start and libvlc_media_discoverer_stop
322 This allows to attach media events between create and start
323 * Add libvlc_media_get_codec_description to get a human readable description of a codec
324 * Add libvlc_MediaListEndReached Event to get notified when a media list reached the end
325 * Add libvlc_media_list_player_get_media_player to get the media player instance of a list player
326 * Add libvlc_media_parse_with_options that uses a flag to specify parse options
327 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_get to get the currently selected audio output device
328 identifier (if there is one available)
329 * Add libvlc_media_get_type to get the type of the media
330 * Add libvlc_media_player_get_full_title_descriptions to get full title info of the media
331 and +libvlc_title_descriptions_release to match it
332 * Add libvlc_media_player_get_full_chapter_descriptions to get full chapter info of the media
333 and libvlc_chapter_descriptions_release to match it
334 * Deprecate libvlc_video_get_title_description, libvlc_video_get_chapter_description,
335 libvlc_media_player_get_agl, libvlc_media_player_set_agl
336 * Add libvlc_media_player_set_android_context to integrate in an Android surface
337 * Add a new libvlc dialog API to forward dialogs requests to the applications:
338 libvlc_dialog_set_context, libvlc_dialog_get_context, libvlc_dialog_set_callbacks,
339 libvlc_dialog_dismiss, libvlc_dialog_post_action, libvlc_dialog_post_login
340 * Add libvlc_media_discoverer_list_get|release to list the media discoverers
341 * Add libvlc_media_slaves_add, libvlc_media_slaves_clear
342 libvlc_media_slaves_get, libvlc_media_slaves_release to add and get slaves
344 * Add libvlc_media_player_(get|set)_role to set the media role
345 * Add libvlc_media_player_add_slave to replace libvlc_video_set_subtitle_file,
346 working with MRL and supporting also audio slaves
347 * Add vlc_epg_event_(New|Delete|Duplicate), vlc_epg_AddEvent, vlc_epg_Duplicate
348 and removes vlc_epg_Merge
351 * Support for the SystemD Journal
352 * Use --syslog and --syslog-debug command line options to include debug
353 messages in syslog. With --syslog, errors and warnings will be sent only.
354 * New Android module for logging
357 * remove langfromtelx
358 * remove ZPL playlist format
359 * Update libVLC doxygen modules
360 * Add a text-to-speech renderer for subtitles on OS X/iOS
361 * Add a text-to-speech renderer for subtitles on Windows
362 * Add Gnome libsecret-based crypto keystore
363 * Add KDE Kwallet-based crypto keystore
364 * Add a memory keystore
365 * Add a file keystore that can use a submodule to crypt secrets
366 * Add Keychain based crypto keystore for iOS, Mac OS X and tvOS
370 * QTCapture access module (use AVCapture instead)
371 * httplive (use adaptive instead)
372 * smooth (use adaptive instead)
373 * Gnome-VFS access module (i.e. Gnome 2.x)
374 * QuartzText text renderer module (use Freetype instead)
375 * Win32 GDI text renderer module (use Freetype instead)
376 * Growl notification (replaced by osx_notifications)
377 * VCDX "extended" Video CD access module (use the normal VCD module)
378 * Mac OS X Dialog Provider (use VLCKit instead)
379 * iOS Dialog Provider (use MobileVLCKit / TVVLCKit instead)
380 * QuickTime decoder module (use native codecs)
381 * BD access module (use libbluray)
382 * Direct2D module (use Direct3D11)
383 * EyeTV access module
384 * Rar access and stream filter: use libarchive
385 * VDA decoder: use VT
386 * Audioqueue: use audiounit
387 * SDL video output module
388 * DirectFB video output module
389 * RAOP stream output module
392 Changes between 2.2.7 and 2.2.8:
393 --------------------------------
396 * Fix AVI invalid pointer dereferences
401 Changes between 2.2.6 and 2.2.7:
402 --------------------------------
405 * Fix flac heap write overflow on format change
406 * Fix crash in libavcodec module (heap write out-of band) (CVE-2017-10699)
407 * Fix infinite loop in sami subtitle
408 * Fix AAC 7.1 channels detection
411 * Fix potential crash in ASX parser
412 * Fix AVI read/write overflow
415 * Fix compatibility with macOS High Sierra
416 * Fix regression in ASS subtitle decoding
417 * Fix crash during automatic update. Some users might need to manually
418 update to the newest version.
421 * Fix Direct3D9 output with odd offsets
425 * Support libupnp 1.8
430 Changes between 2.2.5.1 and 2.2.6:
431 ----------------------------------
434 * Fix systematic green line on nvidia
435 * Fix direct3d SPU texture offsets handling
438 * Fix heap buffer overflows (CVE-2017-8310, 8311, 8312, 8313)
440 Changes between 2.2.5 and 2.2.5.1:
441 ----------------------------------
443 Security hardening for DLL hijacking environments
448 * Update for Soundcloud, liveleak and Youtube scripts
449 * Fix potential out-of-band dereference in flac decoder (CVE-2017-9300)
450 * Fix potential out-of-band reads in mpeg packetizers (CVE-2017-9301)
451 * Fix infinite loop in subtitles demuxer
452 * Fix incorrect memory free in ogg demuxer
453 * Fix potential out-of-band reads in subtitle decoders and demuxers
454 * Fix green line on Windows with odd sizes
457 Changes between 2.2.4 and 2.2.5:
458 --------------------------------
461 * Fix mp3 playback quality regression in libmad
462 * Fix video scaling in VDPAU
463 * Fix playback of palettized codecs
464 * Fix ADPCM heap corruption (FG-VD-16-067)
465 * Fix AES3 16bps decoding
466 * Fix DVD/LPCM heap corruption (FG-VD-16-090)
470 * Fix possible ASF integer overflow
471 * Fix MP4, VOC, XA, SMF divide-by-zero errors
472 * Fix MP4 heap buffer overflows
473 * Fix Flac metadata integer overflow
474 * Fix NSVf and AIFF infinite loops
475 * Fix flac null-pointer dereference
476 * Fix vorbis and opus comments integer overflows and leaks
479 * Fix green line on Windows with AMD drivers
480 * Fix screenshots size
483 * Fix crash in screen recording on Windows
484 * Fix FTP scan string injection
485 * Fix HTTP size handling
491 * Fix vimeo, youtube, dailymotion, cli, appletrailers, http,
495 * Fix heap write in stereo_widen audio filter
498 * The plugins loading will not load external DLLs by default.
499 Plugins will need to LoadLibrary explicitely.
500 * Fix uninstaller path handling
501 * Fix taskbar buttons behavior
504 * Fix scrolling sensitivity on Sierra
505 * Resume points are deleted now if the user clears the list of
509 Changes between 2.2.3 and 2.2.4:
510 --------------------------------
513 * Fix crash in G.711 wav files
514 * Fix mp3 crash in libmad
515 * Fix out-of-bound write in adpcm QT IMA codec (CVE-2016-5108)
518 * Fix resizing issues
521 * Fix overlay creation on Windows XP for DirectDraw video output
524 * Build fixes for Hurd
527 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, German, French, Italian, Marathi, Norwegian
528 Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Portuguese, Slovak, Spanish (Mexico), Swedish,
529 Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese translations
532 Changes between 2.2.2 and 2.2.3:
533 --------------------------------
536 * Fix HLS quality selection and a potential stack overflow
537 * Fix potential MKV infinite loop and improve MKV tags support
541 * Fix hardware decoding with libvdpau-va-gl
542 * Fix crashes with libvpx
543 * Use libass without caching dialog
546 * Fix green lines on Direct3D output
549 * Fix maximizing Window in multi-screen context
552 * Fix resume where you left off
553 * Fix infinite recursion in the customize dialog
554 * Fix size when switching to/from the minimal interface
555 * Fix size after resume toolbar is displayed
558 * Fix crashes in media information panel
559 * Correctly respect the disable-screensaver option
562 * Allow opening more than 15 elements in Explorer
565 * Update of most translations
568 Changes between 2.2.1 and 2.2.2:
569 --------------------------------
572 * Fix SetupFormat for continuous framesize in v4l2
573 * Fix off-by-one buffer overflow in RealRtsp module
574 * Fix screen recording aspect-ratio, framerate and potential crash
575 * Fix Windows directshow input freeze
576 * Fix MMS segmentation fault/abort when server forces a large allocation
579 * Fix support for ms-dvr files
580 * Fix time detection in AVI files over HTTP
581 * HLS: fix hang on stop, crashes and small improvements
582 * Fix mp4 NULL dereference reported by by Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs
583 * Fix regression for VC-1 in WMV
584 * Fix MXF crashes on stop
585 * Fix EAC3 detection in some TS files
588 * Fix importing surface from main memory in VDPAU
589 * Fix possible double-free in ADPCM decoder
590 * Support 9-bit and 10-bit GBR planar formats
591 * Support GoToMeeting 2 and GoToMeeting 3 codecs
592 * Fix crash in teletext (zvbi) decoder
593 * Fix Bluray subtitles (PGS) timestamps
596 * Fix audio drop after a flush with pulseaudio
597 * Fix audio initialization on iOS
598 * Fix audio stuttering with AirPlay devices on OS X (2 sec delay needs to
599 be set manually by the user)
600 * Fix pulseaudio latency computation
601 * Fix alsa default device selection
604 * Fix video control that fails to show up
605 * Fix UTF-8 conversion issues
606 * Fix Unicode folders location failing to open the skins
607 * Fix crash over malformed skins bitmaps
608 * Fix fullscreen for Gnome3/Unity Window Managers
611 * Support for OS X El Capitan
612 * Fix code signature for releases on El Capitan
613 * Improve resume dialog, starting time, preferences, lua extensions
614 * Fix threads ordering, preferences crashes, URL drag'n drops
617 * Fix crash when opening multiple items on Windows
618 * Fix recent items appending when using a playlist
619 * Improve addons manager dialog, playlist
620 * Fix changing the audio-device in the menu
621 * Fix key and mouse event support for Qt >= 5.5 under X11
625 * Fix build if one disables XCB but activate VDPAU on Unix
626 * Fix Direct3D plane allocation size to avoid colour bleeding
627 * Fix some crashes in swscale resizing
630 * Fix build with recent FreeRDP versions
631 * Fix interface crashes when input-title-format option is empty
632 * Fix MP4 mux divide-by-zero crash
633 * Improve PNG encoding time
634 * Fix some UPnP initialization lag
635 * Rewrite of the Jamendo Service Discovery
636 * Fix snapshot aspect ratio for anamorphic contents
637 * Fix custom snapshot sizes
638 * Dynamic generation of GnuTLS Diffie-Hellman parameters
639 * Fix "vb" transcoding parameter
640 * Fix superfluous audio channel extraction in the core
641 * Fix miscellaneous crashes, double-frees, integer overflows, infinite loops,
642 read overflow, invalid frees and division by zero issues
643 * Fix support for lua 5.2 and fix XSS in the http interface
644 * Update and improve Soundcloud, Vimeo and Youtube scripts
645 * Update of codecs and libraries to fix 3rd party security issues (like
646 TALOS-CAN-0036, TALOS-CAN-0037, CVE-2015-7981, CVE-2015-8126
649 * Add Kashmiri and Maithili languages
650 * Update of most translations
653 * Expose audio mute, cork and volume change events: libvlc_MediaPlayerCorked,
654 libvlc_MediaPlayerUncorked, libvlc_MediaPlayerMuted,
655 libvlc_MediaPlayerUnmuted and libvlc_MediaPlayerAudioVolume
656 * Fix propagation of libvlc_MediaPlayerTitleChanged event
659 * Update of most translations
662 Changes between 2.2.0 and 2.2.1:
663 --------------------------------
666 * Fix compilation with older libavcodec versions
667 * Fix some VP9 decoding
669 * Fix lpcm channel ordering
670 * Fix potential NULL dereference in dmo
671 * Fix teletext framing code in DVB PES packets
672 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroendinger decoder (CVE-2014-9629)
677 * Fix MKV overseeking, introducing slowness over network shares
678 * Fix crash when playing SPC files
679 * Fix ATRAC3 playback in MKV
680 * Revert to older ASX code
681 * Workaround TS issue with mpeg-audio
684 * Fix sftp read and close sockets
685 * Fix DTV build with Linux DVB versions < 5.8
686 * Fix UDP/RTP input on Windows
689 * Fix Alsa HDMI plugs
690 * Improve Alsa output, with larger buffers
691 * Fix DirectSound output with multi-channel files
694 * Fix numerous crashes in the UI
695 * Fix video-wallpaper mode
696 * Fix race when starting VLC from command line
699 * Fix recent items behaviour
700 * Fix rotation filter activation
701 * Fix mux modules names for the streaming wizard
704 * Timestamp the signature of the dlls
705 * Fix extensions registration during install
706 * Fix extensions dialog crash
707 * Default to no DxVA decoding
710 * fix libvlc_media_get_stats
713 * Update of Afrikaans, Albanian, Azerbaijani, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch,
714 English (United Kingdom), Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian,
715 Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Macedonian, Malay, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål,
716 Norwegian Nynorsk, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian,
717 Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai,
718 Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian translations
721 Changes between 2.1.6 and 2.2.0:
722 --------------------------------
725 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+,
726 notably most of the streaming output, muxers and access output modules
729 * Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible
730 * Add extensions manager and downloading from external repositories
731 * Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies
732 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
735 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access
736 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes
737 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
738 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection
740 * Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM
741 * Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs
742 * Fix CDDB lookups, including pregap data
745 * Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
746 * Support MediaCodec acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
747 * Add Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder
748 * Add video decoder module based on GStreamer plugins
749 * Add MMAL decoder for Broadcom VideoCore chips (like the RaspberryPi)
750 supporting MPEG-2 and H.264, supporting GPU-zerocopy display
751 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
752 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
753 * Support MSN Audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1,
754 Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless, and numerous videogame codecs
755 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
756 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
757 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
758 * OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
759 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
760 * New jpeg image decoder
761 * Add tx3g subtitles decoder
762 * New SVG image decoder
763 * Fix Speex decoding over RTP and in flv
764 * Support more x264 and FFv1 RGB modes
765 * Improvements on ZVBI teletext decoder, notably for speed and alignments
768 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
769 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
770 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
771 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
772 * New png image encoder using libpng
775 * Support for Core Audio Format (CAF) files
776 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking,
777 streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg
778 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking,
779 synchronization and tracks exclusion
780 * AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations
781 * AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps
782 * MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio
783 and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion
784 * Support Opus in MKV
786 * Basic support for WebVTT
787 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 (AAC) Audio stream type in TS
788 * Support HDPR TS files
789 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
790 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
791 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
792 * Fix encoding issues and relative paths in some XML playlist formats
793 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
794 * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
795 * TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
796 * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
797 * Support SVG images files (on glib platforms)
798 * Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV
799 * Support detection of SRT languages based on filename
800 * Support for seeking Standard MIDI Files
803 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
804 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
805 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
806 * New Android native window provider module
807 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
808 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
809 * Add MMAL based video output for RaspberryPi
812 * New Oldmovie effect filter
813 * New VHS effect filter
814 * New Freeze effect filter
815 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
816 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
817 * Fix audiobargraph activation and usage
820 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
821 * Audio device notifications for WASAPI
822 * Fix replay of sound buffer in DirectSound
823 * Split of MMDevice and WinRT audio modules
824 * Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes
825 * Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules
828 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
829 * Fixes for the AVI muxer to respect the specification
831 * Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS
834 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
835 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
836 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
837 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
838 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
839 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
840 * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
841 * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
842 * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
844 * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
845 --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
846 * Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP
849 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
850 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
853 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
854 * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
857 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
858 * Add record button in Qt menus
859 * New module for core dialogs on iOS
860 * New layout for Qt buttons customization
861 * Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and OS X
864 * Support for OS X Yosemite
865 * Avoid grey bars in fullscreen when using Mavericks with multiple monitors
866 * Improve fullscreen behavior for the native and VLCs own mode
867 * Fixes for advanced preferences
868 * Added 'file size' column to playlist table
869 * in addition to iTunes, Spotify is automatically paused on playback start
870 * Option to increase playlist font size
871 * Improved crash log reporting
874 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
875 * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
876 * Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
877 * Update and improve Koreus, Dailymotion, Soundcloud and Youtube scripts
880 * Numerous integer and heap overflow in Ogg, AVI, ASF, TTA and MP4 demuxers
883 * iOS video output: use ios2
884 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
885 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
888 * New translation in Urdu, Tatar, Silesian, Samoan, Kapampangan, N'ko,
889 Kurdish, Kabyle, Mexican Spanish, Catalan, Amharic
890 * Update of all translations:
891 Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese, Uzbek, Ukrainian,
892 Turkish, Thai, Swedish, Serbian, Albanian, Slovenian, Slovak, Russian,
893 Romanian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Punjabi, Dutch, Nepali, Norwegian
894 Bokmål, Malay, Marathi, Latvian, Lithuanian, Korean, Kannada, Khmer,
895 Japanese, Italian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Hebrew, Galician, Scottish
896 Gaelic, French, Finnish, Persian, Estonian, Spanish, Modern Greek, German,
897 Danish, Welsh, Czech, Bosnian, Bengali, Asturian
900 Changes between 2.1.5 and 2.1.6:
901 --------------------------------
907 * Fix heap overflow in decomp stream filter
908 * Fix buffer overflow in updater (CVE-2014-9625)
909 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroedinger encoder
910 * Fix null-pointer dereference in DMO decoder
911 * Fix buffer overflow in parsing of string boxes in mp4 demuxer (CVE-2014-9626,9627,9628)
912 * Fix SRTP integer overflow
913 * Fix potential crash in zip access
914 * Fix read overflow in Ogg demuxer
915 * Fix RTP overflow (CVE-2014-9630)
918 * Update translations and greek encoding
921 Changes between 2.1.4 and 2.1.5:
922 --------------------------------
925 * Fix compilation on OS/2
928 * Stability improvements for the QTSound capture module
930 Mac OS X audio output:
931 * Fix channel ordering
932 * Increase the buffersize
935 * Fix DxVA2 decoding of samples needing more surfaces
936 * Improve MAD resistance to broken mp3 streams
937 * Fix PGS alignment in MKV
940 * Don't rename mp3 converted files to .raw
943 * Correctly support video-on-top
944 * Fix video output event propagation on Macs with retina displays
945 * Stability improvements when using future VLC releases side by side
948 * Fix transcode when audio format changes
951 * Updated GnuTLS to 3.1.25 (CVE-2014-3466)
952 * Updated libpng to 1.6.10 (CVE-2014-0333)
955 * Update British English
958 Changes between 2.1.3 and 2.1.4:
959 --------------------------------
962 * Fix issue in WMV with multiple compressed payload and empty payloads
965 * Fix subtitles size rendering on Windows
968 * Fix DVD playback regression
969 * Fix misleading error message during video playback on OS X 10.9
970 * Fix hardware acceleration memleaks
973 Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3:
974 --------------------------------
977 * Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
978 * Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir
981 * Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
982 * Fix encrypted DVD playback
983 * Fix v4l2 frequency conversion
986 * Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
987 by updating codec libraries
988 * Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
989 * Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
990 * Fix teletext crash on Windows
993 * Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
994 * Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
995 * Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
996 * Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing
999 * Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
1000 * Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X
1003 * Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
1004 * Fix transform off-by-one issue
1005 * Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
1006 * Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
1007 * Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC
1010 * Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
1011 * Fix record file names
1014 * Fix minimal size possible on start
1015 * Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
1016 * Fix a crash in the audio menu building
1017 * Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
1018 * Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows
1021 * Fix album art display on Windows
1024 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek,
1025 Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew,
1026 Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Nepali,
1027 Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
1028 Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
1029 and Simplified Chinese translations
1030 * Fix encoding for Windows installer translations
1033 Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2:
1034 --------------------------------
1037 * Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
1038 * Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
1039 * Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external
1040 audio devices on OS X
1041 * Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
1042 * Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS
1045 * Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
1046 * Various WMV playback improvements and fixes
1049 * Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
1050 * Fix playback of some HEVC samples
1053 * Fix crash on deinterlace selection
1056 * Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
1057 * Improve A-B loop control
1058 * Fix album art update when changing media
1061 * Add a language option in the interface
1062 * Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
1063 * Improved UI resetting when requested in the preferences
1064 * Fix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
1065 * Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
1066 * Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
1067 * Fix crash when closing window without decorations
1068 * Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled
1071 * Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update
1074 * Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian,
1075 French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer,
1076 Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala,
1077 Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations
1080 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
1081 --------------------------------
1084 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
1086 * Fix some subtitles track selection
1089 * VP9 support in WebM
1090 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
1091 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
1094 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
1095 * Support Speex in ogg files
1096 * Fix some .mov playlists support
1097 * Support Alac in mkv
1098 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
1099 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
1102 * Fix DVB options parsing
1103 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
1104 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
1107 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
1108 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
1111 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
1112 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
1115 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
1116 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
1117 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
1118 * Fix play after drag'n drop
1119 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
1122 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
1123 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
1126 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
1127 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
1130 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
1131 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
1132 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
1133 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
1134 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
1135 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
1136 * Improves interface resizings
1139 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
1140 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
1141 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
1142 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
1143 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
1147 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
1148 --------------------------------
1151 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1152 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
1153 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
1154 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
1155 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
1157 3rd party libraries (contrib):
1158 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
1161 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
1162 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
1163 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
1164 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
1165 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
1168 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
1169 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
1170 * Remove SQL support
1173 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
1174 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
1175 * Support for Ulead DV audio
1176 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
1177 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
1178 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
1179 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
1180 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
1181 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
1182 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
1183 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
1184 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
1185 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
1188 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
1189 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
1190 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
1193 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
1194 remove support for previous OS X releases
1195 * Major improvements in DASH support
1196 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
1197 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
1198 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
1199 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
1200 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
1201 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
1202 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
1203 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
1204 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
1205 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
1206 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
1209 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
1210 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
1211 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
1212 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
1213 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
1214 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
1215 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
1216 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
1217 * Support for more MJPEG streams
1218 * Add support for liveleak streams
1219 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
1220 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
1221 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
1224 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
1225 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
1226 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
1227 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
1228 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
1229 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
1230 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
1231 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
1232 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
1233 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
1234 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
1237 * New remapping channel filter
1238 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
1239 * New VSXu visualization plugin
1240 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
1241 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
1242 * New gain audio filter
1245 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
1246 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
1247 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
1248 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
1249 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
1250 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
1251 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
1252 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
1253 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
1256 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
1257 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
1258 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
1259 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
1260 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
1261 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
1262 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
1265 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
1266 * Options support for AVIO output module
1267 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
1268 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
1269 * Livehttp stream encryption support
1270 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
1271 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
1274 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
1277 * configurable password for the HTTP server
1278 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
1279 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
1280 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
1281 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
1282 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
1283 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
1284 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
1287 * UPnP A/V subtitles
1288 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
1291 * Add support for multiple video outputs
1292 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
1294 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
1295 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
1296 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
1297 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
1298 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
1299 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
1300 VLC's internal volume level
1301 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
1303 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
1304 selection and to manage the list of presets
1305 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
1306 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
1307 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
1308 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
1309 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
1310 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
1311 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
1312 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
1313 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
1314 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
1316 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
1317 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
1318 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
1319 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
1320 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
1321 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
1322 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
1323 3rd party applications
1324 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
1325 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
1326 (system-wide settings)
1327 * Add support for the Video Title option
1328 * Add support for the Boss Key
1329 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
1330 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
1333 * Partial support for Qt5.0
1334 * Menus modifications and improvements
1335 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
1336 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
1337 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
1338 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
1339 * EPG display fixes and improvements
1340 * Add SD pixmap sources
1341 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
1342 * Display playlist total duration
1343 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
1344 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
1345 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
1350 * Extend sliders, offsets options
1351 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
1352 * Numerous fixes and improvements
1353 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
1356 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
1357 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
1358 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
1359 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
1360 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
1361 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
1362 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
1363 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
1364 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
1365 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
1368 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
1369 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
1370 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
1371 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
1372 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
1373 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
1375 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
1376 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
1377 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
1378 * Broken crop video filter
1380 * OSD parser and menu
1381 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
1382 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
1383 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
1384 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
1388 * Update of all translations
1391 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
1392 --------------------------------
1395 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
1396 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
1399 * Fix modplug security issues
1402 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
1403 --------------------------------
1407 * Fix crash in QTsound
1408 * Fix screen mouse file location
1409 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
1412 * Fix use after free in sgimb
1413 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
1416 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
1419 * Fix interface crashes
1420 * Fix autostart playback option
1421 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
1424 * update Welsh translation
1425 * New Kannada translation
1428 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
1429 --------------------------------
1432 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
1433 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
1437 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
1440 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
1443 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
1446 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
1449 * Minor improvements
1450 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
1453 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
1456 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
1457 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
1458 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
1461 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
1462 --------------------------------
1465 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
1468 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
1471 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
1472 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
1473 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
1474 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
1475 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
1476 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
1479 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
1480 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
1481 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
1482 * 3rd party codecs updates
1485 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
1486 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
1487 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
1488 in the advanced preferences panel
1489 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
1490 * Fix crash within the video output code
1491 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
1492 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
1493 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
1494 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
1495 lua extensions, ...)
1496 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
1499 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
1502 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
1503 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
1506 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
1509 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
1510 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
1511 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
1512 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
1513 Dutch, Danish, translations
1514 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
1517 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
1518 --------------------------------
1521 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
1524 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
1525 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
1526 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
1529 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
1530 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
1531 * Fix koreus lua parser
1532 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
1533 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
1534 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
1535 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
1538 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
1539 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
1542 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
1545 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
1546 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
1547 * Fix Time counter UI look
1548 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
1551 * Fix https streaming
1554 * Fix audio and video track selection:
1555 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
1556 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
1559 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
1560 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
1561 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
1562 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
1563 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
1566 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
1567 --------------------------------
1570 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
1571 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
1572 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
1573 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
1574 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
1575 during playback on Mac OS X
1578 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
1579 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
1580 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
1583 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
1584 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
1585 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
1586 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
1587 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
1590 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
1591 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
1592 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
1593 * Support Youtube live streams
1596 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
1599 * Fix media info dialog update
1600 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
1601 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
1602 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
1603 * Fix album art display at start
1606 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
1607 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
1608 * Fix menus display and behavior
1609 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
1610 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
1611 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
1612 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
1613 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
1614 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
1615 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
1618 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
1619 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
1620 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
1621 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
1622 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
1623 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
1624 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
1625 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
1626 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
1629 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
1630 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
1631 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
1632 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
1633 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
1636 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
1637 --------------------------------
1640 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
1643 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
1644 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
1647 * Add GateKeeper support
1648 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
1649 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
1650 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
1653 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
1656 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
1657 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
1658 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
1659 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
1660 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
1663 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
1664 --------------------------------
1667 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
1668 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
1669 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
1670 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
1671 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
1672 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
1673 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
1674 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
1675 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
1676 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
1677 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
1681 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
1682 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
1683 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
1684 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
1685 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
1686 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
1687 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
1688 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
1689 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
1690 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
1691 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
1692 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
1695 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
1696 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
1698 * Fix MP3 free format support
1701 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
1702 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
1703 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
1704 * Fix for DVB channels file support
1705 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
1708 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
1709 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
1711 Audio filters and output:
1712 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
1713 * Fix DirectSound device selection
1714 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
1715 * Do not apply volume in file output
1716 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
1717 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
1720 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
1721 the persistant media library
1722 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
1723 to the media library or the temporary playlist
1724 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
1725 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
1726 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
1727 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
1728 press on the Play/Pause button
1729 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
1730 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
1731 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
1732 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
1733 * Many Fullscreen fixes
1734 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
1735 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
1736 Synchronization panel
1737 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
1738 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
1739 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
1740 * Fix crashes on exit
1741 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
1743 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
1744 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
1745 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
1746 automatically reset on the first launch.
1747 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
1748 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
1749 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
1752 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
1753 * Fixes for icecast SD
1756 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
1757 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
1758 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
1759 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
1760 * Fix tags and file names display
1761 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
1764 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
1765 * Fix for key events and focus loss
1768 * Fix display of some buttons
1769 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
1770 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
1773 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
1774 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
1775 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
1778 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
1779 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
1780 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
1781 Thai translations update
1782 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
1785 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
1786 --------------------------------
1789 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
1790 * fix the samba module compilation
1791 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1792 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
1793 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
1794 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
1797 * Support for MXPEG files
1798 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
1799 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
1802 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
1803 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
1804 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
1807 * Fix ogm header creation
1810 * limit spatializer filter distortions
1811 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
1814 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
1815 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
1816 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
1817 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
1820 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
1823 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
1824 * allow to hide the sidebar
1825 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
1826 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
1827 * noticebly faster launch time
1828 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
1829 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
1830 * improve track synchronization panel
1831 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
1832 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
1835 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
1836 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
1837 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
1838 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
1841 * fix for menus display
1842 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
1843 * documentation update
1846 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
1847 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
1850 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
1851 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1852 * Update Jamendo selections
1856 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
1857 * fix a crash on VLM close
1860 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
1861 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
1862 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
1863 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
1866 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
1869 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
1870 ---------------------------------
1873 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1874 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
1875 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
1876 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
1877 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
1878 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
1879 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
1880 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
1881 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
1882 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
1883 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
1884 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
1885 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
1886 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
1887 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
1888 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
1889 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
1890 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
1891 --http-crl (optional CRL).
1892 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
1893 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
1894 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
1895 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
1896 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
1897 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
1898 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
1900 Important changes for packagers:
1901 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
1902 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
1903 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
1904 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
1905 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
1906 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
1907 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
1908 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
1909 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
1910 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
1913 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
1914 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
1915 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
1916 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
1917 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
1918 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
1919 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
1922 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
1923 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
1924 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
1925 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
1926 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
1927 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
1928 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
1929 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
1930 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
1931 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
1932 * PulseAudio audio input support
1933 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
1934 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
1935 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
1936 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
1937 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
1938 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
1939 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
1940 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
1943 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
1944 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
1945 are notably concerned.
1946 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
1947 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
1948 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
1949 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
1950 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
1951 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
1952 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
1953 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
1954 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
1955 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
1956 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
1957 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
1958 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
1959 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
1960 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
1963 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
1964 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
1965 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
1966 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
1967 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
1968 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
1969 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
1970 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
1971 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
1972 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
1973 * Improved support of tracker files
1974 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
1977 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
1978 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
1979 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
1980 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
1981 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
1982 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
1983 and important cleanups and optimisations
1984 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
1985 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
1986 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
1987 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
1988 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
1989 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
1990 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
1991 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
1992 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
1993 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
1994 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
1995 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
1996 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
1997 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
1998 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
1999 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
2000 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
2001 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
2002 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
2003 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
2004 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
2007 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
2008 * New video output for iOS platform
2009 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
2010 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
2011 * Various vmem improvements
2012 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
2013 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
2014 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
2015 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
2016 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
2017 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
2019 Audio Output and Filters:
2020 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
2021 * New audio output in memory (amem)
2022 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
2023 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
2024 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
2025 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
2026 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
2027 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
2028 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
2029 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
2032 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
2033 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
2034 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
2035 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
2036 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
2037 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
2038 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
2039 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
2040 * New anti-flickering filter
2041 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
2042 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
2043 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
2044 blackbox and customizable shadow.
2045 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
2046 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
2047 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
2050 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
2051 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
2052 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
2053 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
2054 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
2055 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
2056 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
2057 * Major rework of VoD support
2058 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
2059 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
2060 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
2061 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
2062 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
2063 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
2064 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
2065 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
2066 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
2067 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
2070 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
2071 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
2074 * New capabilities for libVLC:
2075 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
2076 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
2077 list of available audio and video filters
2078 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
2079 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
2080 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
2083 * asademux, subsass: use libass
2084 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
2085 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
2086 * id3tag: use taglib
2087 * upnp: use upnp_intel
2088 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
2089 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
2090 * removal of the noise filter
2091 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
2092 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
2093 removed in Growl's next release, too.
2094 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
2097 * Update of translations for most languages.
2098 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
2101 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
2102 ----------------------------------
2105 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
2106 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
2109 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
2110 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
2113 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
2114 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
2115 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
2118 * Camtasia decoding fix.
2121 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
2122 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
2125 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
2128 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
2129 ----------------------------------
2132 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
2133 including support for OS X Lion
2134 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
2135 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
2138 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
2141 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
2142 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
2143 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
2146 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
2149 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
2150 ----------------------------------
2153 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
2154 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
2157 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
2158 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
2159 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
2160 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
2161 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
2163 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
2164 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
2165 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
2167 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
2168 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
2171 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
2174 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
2177 * Fix quitting on Linux
2178 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
2182 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
2185 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
2188 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
2189 ---------------------------------
2191 Windows and Mac OS X:
2192 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
2195 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
2196 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
2199 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
2202 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
2205 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
2207 Miscellaneous fixes in:
2208 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
2210 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
2211 * RTP output and XML export
2212 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
2216 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
2217 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
2218 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
2219 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
2222 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
2223 --------------------------------
2225 Windows and Mac OS X:
2226 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
2229 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
2232 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
2233 * Improve Apple Remote handling
2234 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
2235 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
2236 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
2237 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
2240 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
2241 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
2245 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
2246 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
2247 * New Luganda Translation
2250 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
2251 --------------------------------
2254 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
2257 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
2258 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
2259 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
2260 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
2263 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
2265 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
2266 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
2267 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
2268 * mp4 demuxer improvements
2269 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
2270 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
2271 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
2272 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
2274 Miscellaneous fixes in:
2275 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
2276 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
2277 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
2278 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
2279 * Configure and build system improvements
2280 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
2283 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
2284 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
2285 * New icelandic translation
2288 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
2289 --------------------------------
2292 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
2293 #234484 and #260719.
2296 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
2297 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
2298 and stability reasons
2301 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
2305 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
2308 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
2309 ----------------------------------
2312 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
2315 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
2316 ---------------------------------
2319 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
2320 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
2321 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
2322 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
2325 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
2328 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
2329 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
2330 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
2331 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
2334 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
2335 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
2336 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
2338 Subtitles and renderer:
2339 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
2340 * Mark more freetype options as safe
2341 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
2342 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
2343 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
2346 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
2347 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
2348 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
2349 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
2352 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
2353 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
2355 Miscellaneous fixes:
2356 * KDE device solid actions
2358 * Transcode integer overflow
2359 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
2360 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
2363 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
2364 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
2365 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
2368 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
2369 ----------------------------------
2372 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
2376 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
2379 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
2382 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
2383 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
2384 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
2385 * Taglib thread-safety fix
2388 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
2392 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
2395 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
2398 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
2399 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
2401 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
2405 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
2406 * Miscellaneous fixes
2409 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
2410 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
2411 French and Ukrainian
2412 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
2413 * New Asturian translation
2416 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
2417 ----------------------------------
2420 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
2422 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
2425 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
2428 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
2429 * Various fixes for Windows
2432 * New Armenian translation
2433 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
2434 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
2437 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
2438 --------------------------------
2441 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
2442 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
2443 * Fix folders opening from the interface
2446 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
2447 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
2450 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
2451 --------------------------------
2453 Access and demuxers:
2454 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
2455 * fix for podcasts parsing
2456 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
2459 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
2460 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
2463 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
2464 * fix m3u playlists exports
2467 * fix video autoresize behaviour
2470 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
2473 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
2476 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
2479 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
2482 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
2483 --------------------------------
2486 * Avformat fps displaying fix
2487 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
2490 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
2491 of mono streams, especially on Windows
2494 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
2495 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
2496 * fix console output encoding
2498 Interface and extensions:
2499 * Youtube and other scripts updates
2500 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
2503 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
2504 --------------------------------
2507 * New capabilities for libVLC:
2508 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
2509 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
2510 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
2511 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
2512 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
2513 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
2514 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
2515 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
2516 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
2517 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
2518 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
2519 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
2520 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
2521 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
2522 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
2526 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
2527 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
2528 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
2529 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
2530 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
2533 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
2536 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
2537 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
2538 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
2542 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
2545 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
2546 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
2547 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
2550 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
2551 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
2552 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
2553 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
2556 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
2557 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
2560 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
2561 --------------------------------
2563 Important changes for users:
2564 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
2565 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
2567 Important changes for packagers:
2568 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
2569 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
2570 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
2571 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
2572 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
2574 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
2576 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
2577 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
2578 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
2579 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
2580 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
2583 * Support for the sftp protocol
2584 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
2585 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
2586 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
2587 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
2588 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
2591 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
2592 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
2593 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
2595 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
2596 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
2597 * Invmem module improvements
2598 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
2599 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
2600 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
2601 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
2602 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
2603 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
2604 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
2605 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
2606 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
2607 * Support for VP8 codec
2608 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
2611 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
2612 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
2613 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
2614 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
2615 * Various EGP improvements
2616 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
2617 * Metadata and cover art improvements
2620 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
2621 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
2622 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
2623 * Podcast images are now displayed
2626 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
2627 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
2628 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
2629 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
2630 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
2631 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
2632 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
2633 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
2634 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
2635 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
2636 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
2639 * New content extensions lua framework
2642 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
2643 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
2644 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
2645 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
2646 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
2647 * NEON assembly audio converter module
2648 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
2651 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
2652 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
2653 * Service discovery based on libudev
2654 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
2657 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
2658 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
2659 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
2660 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
2661 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
2662 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
2663 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
2666 * New smem module, streaming to memory
2667 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
2668 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
2671 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
2673 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
2674 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
2677 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
2680 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
2681 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
2682 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
2683 by Andy Matuschak et al.
2684 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
2685 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
2686 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
2689 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
2690 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
2693 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
2694 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
2695 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
2699 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
2700 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
2701 * Improved Solaris port
2704 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
2705 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
2708 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
2709 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
2710 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
2711 * transrate: broken since too long
2712 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
2713 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
2714 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
2715 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
2716 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
2717 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
2718 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
2719 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
2720 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
2721 * cddax: use cdda instead.
2722 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
2723 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
2724 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
2725 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
2728 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
2729 --------------------------------
2732 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
2734 Decoders/Packetizers:
2735 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
2738 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
2739 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
2740 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
2741 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
2742 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
2745 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
2746 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
2749 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
2750 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
2753 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
2754 and Walloon translations updated
2755 * Sinhala translation started
2758 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
2759 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
2762 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
2763 --------------------------------
2766 * SubRip extra styles improvements
2767 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
2770 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
2773 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
2774 increase performance and fix x264 issues
2777 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
2778 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
2779 Russian, Slovak translation updates
2780 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
2783 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
2784 --------------------------------
2787 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
2788 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
2791 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
2792 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
2795 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
2796 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
2799 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
2802 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
2803 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
2806 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
2807 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
2810 * New Walloon translation
2811 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
2814 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
2815 --------------------------------
2818 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
2819 regressions in most popular drivers
2820 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
2823 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
2824 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
2825 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
2828 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
2829 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
2832 * Update for appletrailers lua script
2833 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
2834 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
2835 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
2836 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
2839 * New udev module for linux
2842 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
2845 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
2848 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
2849 --------------------------------
2852 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
2853 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
2854 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
2857 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
2858 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
2861 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
2862 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
2865 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
2868 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
2869 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
2870 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
2871 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
2874 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
2875 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
2876 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
2877 - no support for Goom and SDL
2878 - limited text rendering support
2879 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
2882 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
2883 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
2884 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
2885 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
2886 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
2887 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
2888 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
2889 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
2890 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
2894 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
2897 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
2900 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
2901 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
2902 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
2903 Arabic and French translation updates
2906 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
2907 --------------------------------
2910 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
2911 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
2912 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
2913 * Fix Dailymotion access script
2914 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
2915 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
2918 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
2919 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2920 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2923 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
2924 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
2925 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
2928 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
2931 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
2932 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
2935 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
2936 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
2937 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2938 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
2939 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
2940 * Fix various crashes
2943 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
2945 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
2949 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
2950 ---------------------------------
2954 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
2955 See 'Access:' for more info.
2956 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
2959 * Instantaneous pausing
2960 * Frame-by-Frame playback
2961 * Finer speed control
2962 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
2963 * Timeshift for most medias
2964 * RTSP trickplay support
2965 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
2968 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
2969 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
2970 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
2971 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
2972 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
2973 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
2974 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
2975 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
2976 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
2977 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
2980 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
2981 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
2982 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
2983 * Metadata for mod files are supported
2984 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
2985 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
2986 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
2989 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
2990 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
2993 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
2994 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
2995 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
2996 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
2997 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
2998 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
2999 * DVB scanning on linux
3000 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
3001 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
3002 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
3003 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
3004 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
3005 * MTP device access on Unix
3006 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
3007 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
3010 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
3011 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
3012 Windows and Mac OS X.
3015 * Export the playlist in HTML
3016 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
3017 * Better metadata handling and reading
3019 Linux/Windows interface:
3020 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
3021 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
3022 * Recently played items list
3023 * Interface toolbar customizations
3024 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
3025 - More menus actions
3026 - Finer speed slider
3027 - Improvements on many dialogs
3028 - New dialog for plugins listing
3029 - Fixed-size mode for videos
3030 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
3031 * Better integration in GTK environments
3034 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
3035 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
3036 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
3037 * Additional usability improvements
3040 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
3041 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
3042 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
3043 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
3044 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
3047 * New Maemo port with:
3048 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
3049 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
3052 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
3055 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
3056 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
3057 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
3058 * Support for latest iSight models
3061 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
3062 * Surround support for PulseAudio
3065 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
3066 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
3067 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
3068 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
3069 The old image video output has been removed.
3070 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
3071 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
3074 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
3082 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
3083 --------------------------------------
3089 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
3090 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
3091 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
3092 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
3093 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
3094 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
3095 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
3097 Various fixes to the following modules:
3100 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
3101 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
3102 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
3104 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
3109 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
3110 ---------------------------------
3113 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
3114 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
3117 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
3118 ---------------------------------
3121 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
3124 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
3127 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
3128 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
3129 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
3130 main controller window.
3131 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
3134 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
3139 * Updates of other localizations
3142 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
3143 * Lots of small bugfixes.
3144 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
3145 * Telnet fixes on Windows
3146 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
3149 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
3150 ---------------------------------
3153 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
3155 Bunch of small bugfixes.
3158 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
3159 --------------------------------
3164 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
3165 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
3168 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
3169 --------------------------------
3171 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
3172 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
3175 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
3178 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
3179 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
3182 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
3183 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
3186 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
3187 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
3188 * Various fixed in playlist
3191 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
3194 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
3197 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
3198 ------------------------------------
3200 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
3201 * Fixes several memory leaks.
3204 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
3205 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
3206 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
3209 * Stability fix for the video output.
3212 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
3213 --------------------------------
3216 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
3217 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
3218 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
3219 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
3220 * Fixed update system bugs
3221 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
3224 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
3225 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
3226 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
3227 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
3228 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
3229 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
3230 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
3231 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
3232 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
3233 modern Mac OS X versions
3236 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
3237 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
3239 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
3240 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
3243 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
3244 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
3245 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
3246 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
3247 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
3248 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
3251 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
3252 --------------------------------
3254 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
3255 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
3256 * Multiple bugfixes.
3259 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
3260 --------------------------------
3262 * Multiple bug fixes.
3265 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
3266 ---------------------------------
3270 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
3271 recent to work correctly
3272 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
3273 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
3274 edit the ".hosts" file.
3275 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
3276 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
3277 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
3278 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
3279 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
3280 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
3281 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
3282 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
3283 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
3284 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
3285 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
3286 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
3287 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
3288 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
3289 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
3290 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
3291 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
3292 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
3293 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
3294 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
3295 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
3296 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
3297 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
3298 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
3299 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
3300 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
3301 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
3302 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
3303 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
3304 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
3305 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
3306 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
3307 and postproc modules.
3308 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
3309 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
3310 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
3311 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
3313 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
3314 filter. For example:
3315 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
3316 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
3318 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
3319 * Glide video output module has been removed.
3325 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
3327 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
3328 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
3331 * Vastly improved playlist support:
3332 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
3334 * Shoutcast TV listings
3335 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
3337 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
3338 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
3340 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
3343 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
3344 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
3345 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
3346 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
3347 * JACK audio input support
3348 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
3349 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
3350 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
3351 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
3352 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
3353 * Experimental EyeTV access module
3354 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
3355 (available as a separate download).
3356 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
3357 * RTMP input support
3358 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
3359 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
3360 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
3362 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
3363 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
3366 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
3367 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
3368 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
3369 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
3371 * APEv1/2 tags support
3372 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
3373 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
3375 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
3376 * TiVo Series 2 support
3377 * CD+G karaoke Files support
3382 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
3383 * Flash Screen Video support
3384 * CamStudio Screen Video support
3385 * DosBox Capture support
3386 * Karl Morton's Video support
3387 * limited atrac3 support
3389 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
3390 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
3391 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
3392 * H.264 PAFF support
3393 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
3394 * NellyMoser ASAO support
3395 * APE (Monkey audio) support
3396 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
3397 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
3400 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
3401 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
3402 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
3403 * AQTitle subtitles support
3404 * MKV USF subtitles support
3405 * HTML-based subtitles support
3406 * MPSub subtitles support
3407 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
3408 * MPL2 subtitles support
3409 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
3410 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
3411 * Realtext subtitle support
3412 * DKS subtitle support
3413 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
3414 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
3417 * Flash Screen Video support
3418 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
3420 Video outputs and filters:
3421 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
3422 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
3423 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
3424 * New puzzle video output filter
3425 * Re-written motion detection video filter
3426 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
3428 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
3429 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
3430 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
3431 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
3432 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
3433 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
3434 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
3435 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
3436 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
3437 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
3438 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
3439 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
3440 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
3441 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
3443 Audio outputs and filters:
3444 * Replay gain support
3445 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
3446 new scaletempo audio filter)
3447 * New spatializer audio filter
3448 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
3451 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
3452 * New RTP payload formats:
3453 * Speex voice audio codec
3454 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
3455 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
3456 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
3457 * DCCP transport for RTP
3458 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
3463 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
3464 end-user suitable way.
3465 * Improved user interaction
3466 * Improved mouse gestures
3467 * Vastly improved Update checker
3468 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
3470 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
3471 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
3473 * Improved video output features
3474 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
3475 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
3476 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
3477 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
3478 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
3480 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
3481 if libncursesw is available.
3482 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
3483 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
3484 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
3486 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
3487 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
3488 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
3489 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
3490 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
3491 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
3492 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
3493 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
3496 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
3497 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
3498 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
3501 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
3502 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
3503 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
3504 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
3505 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
3506 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
3509 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
3510 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
3520 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
3521 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
3522 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
3525 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
3526 ----------------------------------
3529 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
3532 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
3533 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
3534 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
3535 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
3536 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
3537 * Updated Polish translation
3540 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
3541 ----------------------------------
3544 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
3545 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
3546 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
3549 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
3550 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
3551 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
3552 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
3553 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
3554 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
3555 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
3556 to an unexpected application termination
3557 * New Serbian translation
3558 * Updated Romanian translation
3561 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
3562 ----------------------------------
3565 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
3566 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
3567 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
3568 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
3569 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
3570 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
3571 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
3572 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
3575 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
3576 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
3577 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
3578 * Fixed AAC resampling
3579 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
3580 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
3583 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
3584 ----------------------------------
3587 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
3588 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
3589 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
3590 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
3591 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
3594 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
3595 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
3596 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
3597 * Close MMS access on network timeout
3598 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
3601 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
3602 ----------------------------------
3605 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
3606 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
3609 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
3610 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
3611 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
3612 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
3614 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
3618 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
3621 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
3624 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
3627 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
3630 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
3631 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
3632 encoding on multi-cpu systems
3633 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
3634 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
3636 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3637 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
3638 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
3639 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
3642 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
3645 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
3646 ----------------------------------
3649 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
3650 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
3651 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
3653 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
3654 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
3656 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
3657 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
3660 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
3662 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3663 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
3664 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
3665 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
3666 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
3667 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
3668 two different movies
3669 * Support for current Ogg file formats
3670 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
3671 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
3674 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
3677 * The automatic updating facility was removed
3678 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
3679 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
3680 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
3683 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
3684 ----------------------------------
3686 Various bugfixes, notably:
3687 * Windows Vista compatibility
3688 * Cropping in Direct3D
3689 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
3690 * RSS filter string overflow
3692 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
3694 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
3695 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
3698 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
3699 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
3702 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
3705 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
3708 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
3711 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
3712 ----------------------------------
3714 Various bugfixes, notably:
3715 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
3716 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
3717 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
3718 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
3719 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
3720 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
3723 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
3724 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
3727 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
3729 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3730 * Diverse usability improvements
3731 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
3732 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
3733 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
3736 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
3737 ---------------------------------
3739 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
3740 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
3743 * Fullscreen controller improvements
3746 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
3747 --------------------------------
3750 * Shoutcast TV listings support
3753 * Support for RTSP authentication
3754 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
3755 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
3756 * ATSC support for DVB input
3757 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
3758 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
3759 * Improved support for Flash Video files
3762 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
3763 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
3764 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
3765 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
3766 * Matroska WavPack support
3767 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
3768 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
3769 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
3772 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
3773 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
3774 * Improved libcaca support
3778 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
3779 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
3781 * Systray support in skins
3783 * Support for Apple Remote control
3784 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3785 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3786 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
3787 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
3789 * Notifications using notification-daemon
3792 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
3793 Windows 9x/ME users:
3794 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
3795 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
3796 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
3797 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
3798 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
3800 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
3801 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
3810 * Updates to the libvlc API
3811 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
3814 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
3815 --------------------------------
3818 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
3819 * Support for downloading updates
3823 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
3824 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
3825 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
3826 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
3828 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
3829 * Improved subtitles encoding support
3830 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
3833 * Cook (Real audio) support
3835 Playlist / Services discovery:
3836 * XSPF playlist support
3838 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
3841 * New JACK audio output
3844 * New video filters:
3845 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
3846 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
3847 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
3848 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
3849 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
3850 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
3853 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
3856 * System to inform the user and request information
3857 - HTTP authentication
3861 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
3862 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3863 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
3866 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
3867 - Improved playlist handling
3868 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
3870 - Embedded Video output
3871 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
3872 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
3873 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3874 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
3875 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
3877 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
3878 - A bunch of new RPN functions
3881 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
3884 * Mac-Intel compatibility
3885 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
3886 * Growl "Now playing" support
3889 * Ability to log to syslog
3890 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
3893 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
3895 * A bit more automatic testing
3898 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
3899 ---------------------------------
3902 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
3903 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
3906 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
3907 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
3910 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
3913 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
3914 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
3920 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
3923 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
3924 --------------------------------
3927 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
3931 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
3932 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
3933 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
3936 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
3937 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
3938 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
3939 * GnomeVFS input module
3940 * Support for RTP packet reordering
3941 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
3944 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
3945 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
3946 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
3949 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
3950 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
3956 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
3957 Mixer and Dolby Surround
3960 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
3961 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
3962 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
3965 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
3967 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
3968 - New extended controls panel
3969 - New bookmarks window
3970 - Fixed playlist sorting
3971 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
3973 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
3974 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
3975 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Output dialog
3976 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
3980 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
3981 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
3983 - Include macro to include other files
3987 * Should now work outside IE as well
3990 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
3993 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
3994 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
3997 The following languages were added:
4001 * Simplified Chinese
4002 The following languages were re-added:
4006 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
4007 --------------------------------
4010 * Rewrite of the playlist
4012 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
4013 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
4014 * Preferences improvements:
4015 - New organization, designed to improve usability
4016 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
4018 * Core image manipulation support
4019 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
4020 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
4021 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
4022 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
4023 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
4024 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
4025 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
4026 now separated by ':' instead of ','
4027 * Access filter architecture
4028 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
4029 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
4033 * Support for SOCKS proxy
4034 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
4035 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
4036 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
4037 * Better support for Kasenna streams
4038 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
4039 * Massive Matroska improvements
4040 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
4042 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
4043 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
4044 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
4045 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
4046 * Support for FTP over IPv6
4048 Decoders / Encoders:
4049 * Dirac decoder and encoder
4050 * PNG decoder/encoder
4051 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
4052 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
4055 * New Record and Timeshift filters
4058 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
4059 * Brand new SAP module
4060 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
4061 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
4062 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
4063 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
4064 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
4065 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
4069 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
4072 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
4073 * Image file video output (png)
4074 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
4075 * Improvements to wall video filter
4076 * Support for font color and opacity
4082 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
4083 - Seeking support in VoD streams
4084 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
4088 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
4089 - Improved preferences
4090 - Improvements to the wizard
4091 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
4093 - Redesigned playlist
4094 - Improved preferences
4096 - Support for multiple actions
4099 - Support for the new playlist system
4101 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
4104 * Screensaver disabling fix
4105 * DirectShow tuner configuration
4106 * Support for no-decoration windows
4109 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
4110 * The OpenGL video output is back
4111 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
4112 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
4113 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
4114 is not yet available in the new module
4115 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
4118 * Support for single-buffered overlay
4127 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
4130 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
4133 The following languages were added:
4139 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
4140 --------------------------------
4143 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
4144 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
4147 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
4148 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
4149 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
4152 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
4155 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
4158 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
4161 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
4162 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
4163 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
4167 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
4169 * Support of playlist group announcement
4172 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
4173 --------------------------------
4176 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
4177 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
4178 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
4179 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
4180 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
4181 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
4184 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
4185 (Stream your desktop)
4186 * Improved DVD support:
4187 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
4188 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
4189 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
4190 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
4191 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
4192 (selection of titles/chapters).
4195 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
4196 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
4197 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
4198 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
4199 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
4200 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
4201 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
4202 * Improved Ogg demuxer
4203 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
4204 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
4207 * G.726 audio support
4208 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
4209 * MPEG-4 text support
4210 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
4211 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
4212 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
4216 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
4217 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
4218 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
4219 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
4220 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
4221 * DVB subtitles encoder
4222 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
4223 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
4225 * Text track muxing for mp4
4226 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
4227 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
4228 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
4229 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
4230 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
4231 * Improved ASF muxer
4233 * H.263 RTP streaming support
4234 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
4235 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
4238 * New audio equalizer filter
4239 * Very trivial volume normalizer
4240 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
4241 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
4242 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
4245 * Roku HD1000 Video output
4246 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
4247 with support for effects.
4248 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
4249 - New filters can be streamed.
4250 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
4251 - Centralized scaling and blending
4253 - "time", to display current time
4254 - "marq", to display a marquee
4257 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
4258 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
4259 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
4260 * A few skins2 improvements
4261 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
4262 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
4263 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
4264 * Improved CORBA control module
4267 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
4268 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
4269 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
4272 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
4273 * Experimental SVG rendering module
4274 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
4277 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
4278 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
4279 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
4280 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
4281 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
4284 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
4287 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
4288 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
4291 * Server/client network synchronization module
4292 * VBrick streams fully supported
4293 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
4297 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
4298 --------------------------------
4301 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
4302 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
4303 * Improved HTTP daemon.
4304 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
4307 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
4308 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
4309 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
4310 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
4311 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
4312 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
4313 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
4316 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
4317 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
4318 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
4319 * Improved directory access module.
4320 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
4321 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
4322 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
4323 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
4324 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
4327 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
4328 * mmsh streaming fixes.
4329 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
4332 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
4333 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
4334 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
4337 * Improved session announcement system.
4338 * Minimize threads usage by default.
4339 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
4340 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
4341 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
4342 * Improved transrater.
4343 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
4344 * New configuration system.
4345 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
4348 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
4349 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
4350 * Supports live streams and VoD.
4351 * Supports scheduling.
4352 * Telnet interface for vlm.
4353 * HTTP interface for vlm.
4356 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
4357 - Ability to embed video output.
4358 - Support for bitmap fonts.
4359 - Lots of improvements.
4360 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
4361 - New design and set of icons.
4362 - Ability to embed video output.
4363 - Support for hotkeys.
4364 - Support for bookmarks.
4366 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
4367 - Better hotkeys handling.
4370 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
4371 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
4372 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
4373 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
4376 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
4377 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
4378 * Improved Windows installer.
4384 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
4385 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
4388 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
4389 ---------------------------------
4392 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
4393 * Playing MOD files is working now.
4396 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
4397 --------------------------------
4400 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
4401 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
4404 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
4405 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
4406 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
4407 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
4410 * Internal improvments
4411 * Improved import/export
4414 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
4416 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
4417 small and strange formats.
4419 * New MOD audio demux.
4420 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
4421 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
4422 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
4423 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
4426 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
4427 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
4428 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
4434 * New opengl video output plugin.
4437 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
4438 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
4441 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
4442 --------------------------------
4445 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
4446 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
4447 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
4448 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
4449 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
4450 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
4451 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
4452 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
4455 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
4460 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
4461 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
4462 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
4463 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
4464 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
4465 * Reworked DVB tuning.
4466 * Better Icecast support.
4467 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
4468 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
4471 * Support for Theora video encoding.
4472 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
4473 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
4474 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
4475 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
4476 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
4477 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
4480 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
4481 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
4482 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
4483 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
4484 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
4485 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
4486 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
4487 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
4488 * Preliminary RTP support.
4489 * Fixes to SAP announces.
4494 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
4495 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
4497 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
4498 - Improvements and help in preferences
4499 - New streaming wizard
4500 - Revised Disc Open menu
4502 - Improvements of the standard pages
4503 - Support for new commands
4504 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
4507 * Many fixes to the SAP module
4508 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
4511 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
4512 * Text subtitles autodetection.
4513 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
4514 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
4515 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
4516 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
4517 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
4518 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
4519 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
4522 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
4524 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
4525 * Support for Panther.
4526 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
4527 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
4530 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
4531 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
4532 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
4533 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
4534 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
4535 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
4536 * Multimonitor support (untested).
4537 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
4540 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
4541 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
4542 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
4545 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
4548 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
4549 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
4550 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
4551 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
4554 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
4555 --------------------------------
4558 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
4561 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
4562 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
4565 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
4566 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
4569 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
4572 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
4573 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
4576 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
4579 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
4582 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
4583 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
4587 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
4588 --------------------------------
4591 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
4592 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
4596 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
4597 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
4598 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
4600 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
4601 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
4604 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
4607 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
4610 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
4611 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
4615 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
4616 --------------------------------
4619 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
4620 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
4624 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
4625 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
4626 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
4627 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
4628 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
4631 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
4632 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
4633 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
4636 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
4637 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
4638 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
4641 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
4642 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
4643 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
4644 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
4645 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
4648 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
4649 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
4650 * A new CORBA control plugin.
4653 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
4656 * Improved build system.
4657 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
4658 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
4659 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
4660 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
4663 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
4664 --------------------------------
4667 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
4670 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
4671 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
4672 * Fixed large file support on Windows
4673 * Video 4 Linux support
4674 * CD Digital Audio support
4675 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
4678 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
4679 * Support for OpenDML avi files
4680 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
4681 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
4684 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
4685 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
4686 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
4687 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
4688 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
4689 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
4690 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
4693 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
4694 * New HTTP remote control interface
4697 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
4698 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
4699 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
4700 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
4701 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
4704 * New reset option for the preferences
4705 * You can set your language in the prefences
4706 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
4707 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
4708 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
4709 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
4712 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
4713 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
4714 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
4717 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
4718 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
4719 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
4720 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
4721 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
4722 * New icons by Davor Orel.
4723 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
4724 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
4725 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
4726 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
4729 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
4730 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
4731 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
4732 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
4733 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
4734 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
4735 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
4738 * Interface localization
4739 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
4740 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
4741 * New full-featured Preferences window
4744 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
4745 --------------------------------
4748 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
4749 * support for skins at the interface level
4750 * new OSD module using Freetype2
4751 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
4752 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
4753 input level before dropping out of date frames.
4754 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
4757 * fixed HTTP redirects
4758 * support for opening an entire directory
4759 * EOF should be detected more reliably
4760 * new video4linux access plug-in
4761 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
4764 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
4765 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
4766 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
4769 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
4770 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
4771 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
4772 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
4773 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
4774 * new codec for raw I420 video
4775 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
4778 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
4779 (although it still misses some important features)
4780 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
4783 * new HTTP output support
4784 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
4785 * fixed AV synchronization issues
4788 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
4791 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
4794 * reorderable playlist
4795 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
4796 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
4797 * support for mono audio output devices
4798 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
4799 * fixed several cosmetic issues
4800 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
4801 * the messages window remembers more lines
4802 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
4803 * http and ogg stream output options
4804 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
4807 * new skinnable interface
4808 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
4810 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
4811 * support for FLAC audio format
4812 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
4814 * network tab in the interface
4815 * "apply" handling in preferences
4818 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
4819 ---------------------------------
4822 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
4823 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
4824 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
4825 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
4827 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
4828 * DTS S/PDIF support
4831 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
4832 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
4833 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
4834 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
4837 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
4838 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
4841 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
4844 * fixed the GNU-pth support
4847 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
4849 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
4850 * rc interface is now fully useable
4851 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
4854 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
4855 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
4856 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
4857 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
4858 * VLC now uses the default audio device
4860 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
4861 * support for mouse gestures
4862 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
4865 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
4866 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
4869 * improved ID3 tag detection
4870 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
4871 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
4872 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
4874 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
4877 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
4878 ---------------------------------
4881 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
4882 English was set as the preferred language
4885 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
4886 --------------------------------
4889 * new mouse gesture interface
4890 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
4894 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
4895 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
4896 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
4899 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
4900 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
4904 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
4907 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
4908 without the user consent
4911 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
4913 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
4914 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
4915 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
4918 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
4919 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
4920 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
4921 * playlist enhancements
4922 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
4923 * new step forward/step backward commands
4924 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
4925 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
4926 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
4929 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
4930 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
4931 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
4934 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
4935 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
4938 * native video output is working again
4939 * only commandline interface support
4940 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
4943 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
4944 --------------------------------
4947 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
4948 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
4949 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
4950 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
4951 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
4952 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
4953 and A/52 streams are supported)
4954 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
4959 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
4960 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
4961 * VCD entry points support
4962 * VCD image file support
4965 * support for *.asf format
4966 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
4967 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
4968 * support for ogg encapsulation
4969 * support for raw DV format
4970 * support for *.wav format
4971 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
4974 Stream discovery & playlists:
4975 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
4976 * support for .m3u file format
4977 * support for .asx file format
4978 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
4981 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
4982 (only available with the .avi demux)
4983 * support for ADPCM audio codec
4984 * support for raw PCM data
4985 * support for Cinepak video codec
4986 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
4987 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
4988 * support for Xvid codec
4989 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
4990 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
4991 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
4993 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
4995 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
4998 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
5001 * new WxWindows interface
5002 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
5003 device and the channels configuration
5004 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
5005 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
5006 format that VLC can play
5007 * new swedish translation
5008 * enhancements of the playlist window
5009 * new messages window to see debug info
5010 * fixed a few crashes
5013 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
5014 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
5015 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
5016 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working