1 Changes between 2.0.x and 2.1.0-pre1:
2 --------------------------------
5 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
6 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based and 32bit Intel-based Macs
7 VLC requires Mac OS X 10.6 or later now on 64bit hardware
8 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed. To tune
9 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually.
11 3rd party libraries (contrib):
12 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner system in /contrib
16 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
17 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
18 * Partial support for Windows Store App
20 * Added audio fingerprinter support
21 * Disabled and marked obsolete --language selection
24 * Support for OPUS via libopus.
25 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec.
26 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec
27 * Support for Ulead DV audio
28 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
29 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
30 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
31 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
32 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
33 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
34 * Support for VDPAU hardware video decoding acceleration on Linux
35 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
38 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
39 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
42 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
43 remove support for previous OS X releases
44 * Major improvements in DASH support
45 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
46 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
47 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
48 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
49 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
50 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
51 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
52 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
53 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
54 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation
57 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
58 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
59 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
60 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
61 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
62 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
63 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
64 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
65 * Support for more MJPEG streams
66 * Add support for liveleak streams
67 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
70 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
71 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
72 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES module
73 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
74 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
75 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
76 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
77 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
78 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
79 * Rewrite of AudioQueue module for iOS (and OS X)
80 * New, simplified AudioUnit output module for iOS
83 * New remapping channel filter
84 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
85 * New VSXu visualization plugin
86 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
89 * New module to output using Decklink Blackmagic cards
90 * New module using OpenMAX IL to output video
91 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
92 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
93 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 modules
94 Also, subpictures now work in the OpenGL ES2 module
95 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
96 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
99 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
100 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images.
101 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
102 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
103 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
104 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
105 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
108 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
109 * Options support for AVIO output module
110 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
111 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
112 * Livehttp stream encryption support
113 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
114 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
117 * Added AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
120 * configurable password for the HTTP server.
121 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server.
122 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows.
123 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
124 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
125 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
129 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
132 * add support for multiple video outputs
133 * add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
135 * add a GUI to manage podcasts
136 * add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
137 * add a GUI for the QTSound access module to process audio captured locally
138 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time.
139 * add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
140 * add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
141 VLC's internal volume level
142 * add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
144 * add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
145 selection and to manage the list of presets
146 * add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
147 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
148 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
149 * add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
150 * add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
151 * add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
152 * add an option to show next / previous buttons
153 * add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
154 * add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
155 * add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
157 * add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
158 * add an option to play videos as a desktop background
159 * add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
160 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
161 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
162 * add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
163 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
164 3rd party applications
165 * add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
166 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
167 (system-wide settings)
168 * add support for the Video Title option
169 * add support for the Boss Key
170 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
171 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release.
174 * Partial support for Qt5.0
175 * Menus modifications and improvements
176 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
177 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
178 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
179 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
180 * EPG display fixes and improvements
181 * Add SD pixmap sources
182 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
183 * Display playlist total duration
184 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
186 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
187 * Removed language preference
188 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality.
192 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
193 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
194 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
195 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
196 * new libvlc_log_subscribe and libvlc_log_unsubscribe function to register logging callbacks
197 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
198 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
199 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support.
202 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
203 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
204 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
205 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
206 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
207 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
209 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
210 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
211 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
212 * Broken crop video filter
214 * OSD parser and menu
215 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
216 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
217 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
218 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
221 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
222 --------------------------------
225 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
226 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
230 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
233 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
236 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
239 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
243 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
246 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
249 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
250 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
251 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
254 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
255 --------------------------------
258 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
261 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
264 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
265 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
266 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
267 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
268 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
269 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
272 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
273 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
274 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
275 * 3rd party codecs updates
278 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
279 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
280 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
281 in the advanced preferences panel
282 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
283 * Fix crash within the video output code
284 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
285 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
286 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
287 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
289 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
292 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
295 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
296 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
299 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
302 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
303 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
304 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
305 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
306 Dutch, Danish, translations
307 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
310 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
311 --------------------------------
314 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
317 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
318 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
319 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
322 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
323 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
324 * Fix koreus lua parser
325 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
326 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
327 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
328 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
331 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
332 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
335 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
338 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
339 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
340 * Fix Time counter UI look
341 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
344 * Fix https streaming
347 * Fix audio and video track selection:
348 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
349 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
352 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
353 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
354 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
355 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
356 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
359 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
360 --------------------------------
363 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
364 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
365 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
366 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
367 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
368 during playback on Mac OS X
371 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
372 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
373 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
376 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
377 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
378 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
379 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
380 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
383 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
384 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
385 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
386 * Support Youtube live streams
389 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
392 * Fix media info dialog update
393 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
394 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
395 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
396 * Fix album art display at start
399 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
400 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
401 * Fix menus display and behavior
402 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
403 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
404 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
405 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
406 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
407 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
408 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
411 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
412 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
413 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
414 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
415 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
416 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
417 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
418 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
419 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
422 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
423 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
424 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
425 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
426 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
429 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
430 --------------------------------
433 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
436 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
437 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
440 * Add GateKeeper support
441 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
442 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
443 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
446 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
449 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
450 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
451 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
452 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
453 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
456 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
457 --------------------------------
460 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
461 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
462 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
463 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
464 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
465 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
466 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
467 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
468 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
469 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
470 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
474 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
475 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
476 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
477 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
478 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
479 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
480 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
481 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
482 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
483 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
484 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
485 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
488 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
489 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
491 * Fix MP3 free format support
494 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
495 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
496 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
497 * Fix for DVB channels file support
498 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
501 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
502 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
504 Audio filters and output:
505 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
506 * Fix DirectSound device selection
507 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
508 * Do not apply volume in file output
509 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
510 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
513 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
514 the persistant media library
515 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
516 to the media library or the temporary playlist
517 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
518 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
519 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
520 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
521 press on the Play/Pause button
522 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
523 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
524 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
525 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
526 * Many Fullscreen fixes
527 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
528 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
529 Synchronization panel
530 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
531 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
532 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
533 * Fix crashes on exit
534 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
536 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
537 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
538 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
539 automatically reset on the first launch.
540 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
541 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
542 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
545 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
546 * Fixes for icecast SD
549 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
550 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
551 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
552 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
553 * Fix tags and file names display
554 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
557 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
558 * Fix for key events and focus loss
561 * Fix display of some buttons
562 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
563 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
566 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
567 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
568 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
571 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
572 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
573 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
574 Thai translations update
575 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
578 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
579 --------------------------------
582 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
583 * fix the samba module compilation
584 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
585 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
586 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
587 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
590 * Support for MXPEG files
591 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
592 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
595 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
596 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
597 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
600 * Fix ogm header creation
603 * limit spatializer filter distortions
604 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
607 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
608 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
609 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
610 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
613 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
616 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
617 * allow to hide the sidebar
618 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
619 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
620 * noticebly faster launch time
621 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
622 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
623 * improve track synchronization panel
624 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
625 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
628 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
629 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
630 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
631 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
634 * fix for menus display
635 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
636 * documentation update
639 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
640 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
643 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
644 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
645 * Update Jamendo selections
649 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
650 * fix a crash on VLM close
653 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
654 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
655 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
656 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
659 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
662 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
663 ---------------------------------
666 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
667 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
668 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
669 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
670 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
671 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
672 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
673 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
674 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
675 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
676 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
677 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
678 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
679 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
680 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
681 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
682 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
683 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
684 --http-crl (optional CRL).
685 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
686 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
687 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
688 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
689 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
690 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
691 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
693 Important changes for packagers:
694 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
695 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
696 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
697 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
698 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
699 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
700 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
701 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
702 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
703 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
706 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
707 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
708 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
709 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
710 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
711 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
712 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
715 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
716 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
717 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
718 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
719 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
720 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
721 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
722 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
723 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
724 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
725 * PulseAudio audio input support
726 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
727 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
728 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
729 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
730 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
731 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
732 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
733 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
736 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
737 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
738 are notably concerned.
739 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
740 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
741 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
742 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
743 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
744 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
745 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
746 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
747 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
748 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
749 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
750 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
751 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
752 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
753 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
756 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
757 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
758 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
759 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
760 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
761 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
762 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
763 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
764 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
765 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
766 * Improved support of tracker files
767 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
770 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
771 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
772 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
773 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
774 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
775 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
776 and important cleanups and optimisations
777 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
778 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
779 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
780 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
781 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
782 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
783 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
784 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
785 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
786 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
787 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
788 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
789 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
790 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
791 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
792 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
793 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
794 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
795 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
796 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
797 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
800 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
801 * New video output for iOS platform
802 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
803 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
804 * Various vmem improvements
805 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
806 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
807 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
808 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
809 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
810 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
812 Audio Output and Filters:
813 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
814 * New audio output in memory (amem)
815 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
816 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
817 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
818 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
819 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
820 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
821 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
822 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
825 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
826 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
827 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
828 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
829 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
830 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
831 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
832 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
833 * New anti-flickering filter
834 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
835 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
836 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
837 blackbox and customizable shadow.
838 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
839 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
840 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
843 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
844 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
845 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
846 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
847 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
848 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
849 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
850 * Major rework of VoD support
851 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
852 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
853 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
854 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
855 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
856 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
857 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
858 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
859 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
860 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
863 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
864 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
867 * New capabilities for libVLC:
868 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
869 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
870 list of available audio and video filters
871 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
872 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
873 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
876 * asademux, subsass: use libass
877 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
878 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
880 * upnp: use upnp_intel
881 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
882 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
883 * removal of the noise filter
884 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
885 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
886 removed in Growl's next release, too.
887 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
890 * Update of translations for most languages.
891 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
894 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
895 ----------------------------------
898 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
899 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
902 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
903 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
906 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
907 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
908 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
911 * Camtasia decoding fix.
914 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
915 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
918 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
921 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
922 ----------------------------------
925 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
926 including support for OS X Lion
927 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
928 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
931 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
934 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
935 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
936 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
939 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
942 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
943 ----------------------------------
946 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
947 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
950 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
951 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
952 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
953 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
954 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
956 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
957 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
958 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
960 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
961 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
964 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
967 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
970 * Fix quitting on Linux
971 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
975 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
978 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
981 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
982 ---------------------------------
984 Windows and Mac OS X:
985 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
988 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
989 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
992 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
995 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
998 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
1000 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1001 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
1003 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
1004 * RTP output and XML export
1005 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
1009 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
1010 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
1011 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
1012 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
1015 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
1016 --------------------------------
1018 Windows and Mac OS X:
1019 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
1022 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
1025 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
1026 * Improve Apple Remote handling
1027 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
1028 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
1029 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
1030 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
1033 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
1034 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
1038 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
1039 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
1040 * New Luganda Translation
1043 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
1044 --------------------------------
1047 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
1050 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
1051 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
1052 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
1053 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
1056 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
1058 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
1059 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
1060 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
1061 * mp4 demuxer improvements
1062 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
1063 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
1064 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
1065 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
1067 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1068 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
1069 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
1070 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
1071 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
1072 * Configure and build system improvements
1073 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
1076 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
1077 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
1078 * New icelandic translation
1081 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
1082 --------------------------------
1085 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
1086 #234484 and #260719.
1089 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
1090 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1091 and stability reasons
1094 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1098 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1101 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1102 ----------------------------------
1105 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1108 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1109 ---------------------------------
1112 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1113 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1114 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1115 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1118 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1121 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1122 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1123 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1124 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1127 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1128 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1129 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1131 Subtitles and renderer:
1132 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1133 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1134 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1135 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1136 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1139 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1140 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1141 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1142 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1145 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1146 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1148 Miscellaneous fixes:
1149 * KDE device solid actions
1151 * Transcode integer overflow
1152 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1153 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1156 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1157 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1158 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1161 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1162 ----------------------------------
1165 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1169 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1172 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1175 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1176 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1177 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1178 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1181 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1185 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1188 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1191 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1192 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1194 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1198 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1199 * Miscellaneous fixes
1202 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1203 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1204 French and Ukrainian
1205 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1206 * New Asturian translation
1209 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1210 ----------------------------------
1213 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1215 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1218 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1221 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1222 * Various fixes for Windows
1225 * New Armenian translation
1226 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1227 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1230 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1231 --------------------------------
1234 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1235 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1236 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1239 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1240 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1243 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1244 --------------------------------
1246 Access and demuxers:
1247 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1248 * fix for podcasts parsing
1249 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1252 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1253 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1256 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1257 * fix m3u playlists exports
1260 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1263 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1266 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1269 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1272 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1275 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1276 --------------------------------
1279 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1280 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1283 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1284 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1287 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1288 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1289 * fix console output encoding
1291 Interface and extensions:
1292 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1293 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1296 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1297 --------------------------------
1300 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1301 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1302 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1303 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1304 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1305 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1306 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1307 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1308 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1309 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1310 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1311 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1312 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1313 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1314 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1315 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1319 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1320 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1321 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1322 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1323 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1326 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1329 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1330 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1331 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1335 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1338 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1339 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1340 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1343 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1344 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1345 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1346 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1349 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1350 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1353 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1354 --------------------------------
1356 Important changes for users:
1357 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1358 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1360 Important changes for packagers:
1361 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1362 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1363 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1364 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1365 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1367 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1369 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1370 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1371 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1372 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1373 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1376 * Support for the sftp protocol
1377 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1378 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1379 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1380 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1381 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1384 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1385 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1386 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1388 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1389 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1390 * Invmem module improvements
1391 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1392 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1393 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1394 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1395 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1396 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1397 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1398 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1399 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1400 * Support for VP8 codec
1401 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1404 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1405 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1406 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1407 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1408 * Various EGP improvements
1409 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1410 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1413 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1414 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1415 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1416 * Podcast images are now displayed
1419 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1420 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1421 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1422 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1423 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1424 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1425 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1426 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1427 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1428 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1429 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1432 * New content extensions lua framework
1435 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1436 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1437 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1438 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1439 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1440 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1441 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
1444 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
1445 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
1446 * Service discovery based on libudev
1447 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
1450 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
1451 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
1452 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
1453 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
1454 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
1455 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
1456 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
1459 * New smem module, streaming to memory
1460 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
1461 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
1464 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
1466 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
1467 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
1470 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
1473 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
1474 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
1475 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
1476 by Andy Matuschak et al.
1477 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
1478 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
1479 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
1482 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
1483 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
1486 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
1487 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
1488 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
1492 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
1493 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
1494 * Improved Solaris port
1497 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
1498 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
1501 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
1502 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
1503 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
1504 * transrate: broken since too long
1505 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
1506 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
1507 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
1508 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
1509 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
1510 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
1511 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
1512 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
1513 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
1514 * cddax: use cdda instead.
1515 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
1516 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
1517 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
1518 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
1521 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
1522 --------------------------------
1525 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
1527 Decoders/Packetizers:
1528 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
1531 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
1532 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
1533 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
1534 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
1535 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
1538 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
1539 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
1542 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
1543 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
1546 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
1547 and Walloon translations updated
1548 * Sinhala translation started
1551 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
1552 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
1555 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
1556 --------------------------------
1559 * SubRip extra styles improvements
1560 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
1563 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
1566 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
1567 increase performance and fix x264 issues
1570 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
1571 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
1572 Russian, Slovak translation updates
1573 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
1576 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
1577 --------------------------------
1580 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
1581 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
1584 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
1585 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
1588 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
1589 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
1592 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
1595 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
1596 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
1599 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
1600 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
1603 * New Walloon translation
1604 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
1607 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
1608 --------------------------------
1611 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
1612 regressions in most popular drivers
1613 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
1616 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
1617 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
1618 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
1621 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
1622 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
1625 * Update for appletrailers lua script
1626 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
1627 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
1628 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
1629 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
1632 * New udev module for linux
1635 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
1638 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
1641 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
1642 --------------------------------
1645 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
1646 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
1647 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
1650 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
1651 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
1654 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
1655 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
1658 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
1661 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
1662 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
1663 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
1664 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
1667 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
1668 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
1669 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
1670 - no support for Goom and SDL
1671 - limited text rendering support
1672 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
1675 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
1676 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
1677 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
1678 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
1679 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
1680 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
1681 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
1682 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
1683 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
1687 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
1690 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
1693 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
1694 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
1695 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
1696 Arabic and French translation updates
1699 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
1700 --------------------------------
1703 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
1704 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
1705 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
1706 * Fix Dailymotion access script
1707 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
1708 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
1711 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
1712 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1713 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1716 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
1717 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
1718 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
1721 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
1724 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
1725 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
1728 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
1729 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
1730 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1731 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
1732 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
1733 * Fix various crashes
1736 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
1738 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
1742 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
1743 ---------------------------------
1747 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
1748 See 'Access:' for more info.
1749 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1752 * Instantaneous pausing
1753 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1754 * Finer speed control
1755 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1756 * Timeshift for most medias
1757 * RTSP trickplay support
1758 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1761 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1762 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1763 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1764 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1765 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1766 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1767 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1768 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1769 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1770 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1773 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1774 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1775 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1776 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1777 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1778 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1779 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1782 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1783 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1786 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1787 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1788 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1789 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1790 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1791 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1792 * DVB scanning on linux
1793 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1794 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1795 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1796 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1797 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1798 * MTP device access on Unix
1799 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1800 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1803 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1804 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1805 Windows and Mac OS X.
1808 * Export the playlist in HTML
1809 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1810 * Better metadata handling and reading
1812 Linux/Windows interface:
1813 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1814 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1815 * Recently played items list
1816 * Interface toolbar customizations
1817 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1818 - More menus actions
1819 - Finer speed slider
1820 - Improvements on many dialogs
1821 - New dialog for plugins listing
1822 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1823 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1824 * Better integration in GTK environments
1827 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1828 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1829 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1830 * Additional usability improvements
1833 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1834 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1835 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1836 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1837 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1840 * New Maemo port with:
1841 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1842 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1845 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1848 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1849 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1850 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1851 * Support for latest iSight models
1854 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1855 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1858 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1859 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1860 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1861 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1862 The old image video output has been removed.
1863 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1864 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1867 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1875 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1876 --------------------------------------
1882 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1883 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1884 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1885 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1886 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1887 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1888 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1890 Various fixes to the following modules:
1893 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1894 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1895 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1897 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1902 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1903 ---------------------------------
1906 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1907 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1910 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1911 ---------------------------------
1914 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1917 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1920 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1921 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1922 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1923 main controller window.
1924 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1927 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1932 * Updates of other localizations
1935 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1936 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1937 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1938 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1939 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1942 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1943 ---------------------------------
1946 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1948 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1951 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1952 --------------------------------
1957 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1958 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1961 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1962 --------------------------------
1964 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1965 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1968 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1971 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1972 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1975 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1976 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1979 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1980 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1981 * Various fixed in playlist
1984 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1987 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1990 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1991 ------------------------------------
1993 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1994 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1997 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1998 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1999 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
2002 * Stability fix for the video output.
2005 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
2006 --------------------------------
2009 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
2010 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
2011 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
2012 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
2013 * Fixed update system bugs
2014 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
2017 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
2018 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
2019 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
2020 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
2021 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
2022 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
2023 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
2024 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
2025 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
2026 modern Mac OS X versions
2029 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
2030 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
2032 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
2033 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
2036 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
2037 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
2038 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
2039 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
2040 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
2041 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
2044 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
2045 --------------------------------
2047 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
2048 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
2049 * Multiple bugfixes.
2052 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
2053 --------------------------------
2055 * Multiple bug fixes.
2058 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2059 ---------------------------------
2063 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
2064 recent to work correctly
2065 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
2066 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
2067 edit the ".hosts" file.
2068 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
2069 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
2070 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
2071 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
2072 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
2073 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
2074 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
2075 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
2076 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
2077 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
2078 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
2079 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
2080 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
2081 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
2082 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
2083 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
2084 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
2085 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
2086 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
2087 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2088 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
2089 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
2090 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2091 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2092 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2093 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2094 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2095 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2096 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2097 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2098 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2099 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2100 and postproc modules.
2101 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2102 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2103 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2104 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2106 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2107 filter. For example:
2108 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2109 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2111 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2112 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2118 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2120 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2121 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2124 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2125 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2127 * Shoutcast TV listings
2128 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2130 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2131 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2133 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2136 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2137 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2138 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2139 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2140 * JACK audio input support
2141 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2142 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2143 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2144 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2145 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2146 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2147 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2148 (available as a separate download).
2149 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2150 * RTMP input support
2151 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2152 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2153 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2155 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2156 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2159 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2160 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2161 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2162 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2164 * APEv1/2 tags support
2165 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2166 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2168 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2169 * TiVo Series 2 support
2170 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2175 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2176 * Flash Screen Video support
2177 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2178 * DosBox Capture support
2179 * Karl Morton's Video support
2180 * limited atrac3 support
2182 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2183 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2184 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2185 * H.264 PAFF support
2186 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2187 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2188 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2189 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2190 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2193 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2194 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2195 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2196 * AQTitle subtitles support
2197 * MKV USF subtitles support
2198 * HTML-based subtitles support
2199 * MPSub subtitles support
2200 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2201 * MPL2 subtitles support
2202 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2203 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2204 * Realtext subtitle support
2205 * DKS subtitle support
2206 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2207 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2210 * Flash Screen Video support
2211 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2213 Video outputs and filters:
2214 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2215 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2216 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2217 * New puzzle video output filter
2218 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2219 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2221 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2222 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2223 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2224 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2225 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2226 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2227 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2228 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2229 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2230 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2231 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2232 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2233 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2234 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2236 Audio outputs and filters:
2237 * Replay gain support
2238 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2239 new scaletempo audio filter)
2240 * New spatializer audio filter
2241 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2244 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2245 * New RTP payload formats:
2246 * Speex voice audio codec
2247 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2248 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2249 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2250 * DCCP transport for RTP
2251 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2256 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2257 end-user suitable way.
2258 * Improved user interaction
2259 * Improved mouse gestures
2260 * Vastly improved Update checker
2261 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2263 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2264 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2266 * Improved video output features
2267 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2268 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2269 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2270 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2271 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2273 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2274 if libncursesw is available.
2275 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2276 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2277 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2279 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2280 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2281 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2282 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2283 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2284 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2285 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2286 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2289 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2290 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2291 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2294 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2295 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2296 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2297 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2298 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2299 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2302 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2303 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2313 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2314 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2315 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2318 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2319 ----------------------------------
2322 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2325 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2326 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2327 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2328 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2329 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2330 * Updated Polish translation
2333 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2334 ----------------------------------
2337 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2338 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2339 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2342 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2343 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2344 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2345 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2346 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2347 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2348 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2349 to an unexpected application termination
2350 * New Serbian translation
2351 * Updated Romanian translation
2354 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2355 ----------------------------------
2358 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2359 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2360 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2361 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2362 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2363 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2364 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2365 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2368 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2369 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2370 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2371 * Fixed AAC resampling
2372 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2373 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2376 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2377 ----------------------------------
2380 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2381 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2382 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2383 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2384 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2387 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2388 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2389 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2390 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2391 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2394 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2395 ----------------------------------
2398 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2399 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2402 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2403 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2404 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2405 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2407 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2411 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2414 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2417 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2420 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2423 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2424 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2425 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2426 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2427 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2429 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2430 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2431 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2432 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2435 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2438 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2439 ----------------------------------
2442 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
2443 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
2444 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
2446 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
2447 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
2449 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
2450 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
2453 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
2455 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2456 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
2457 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2458 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
2459 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
2460 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
2461 two different movies
2462 * Support for current Ogg file formats
2463 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
2464 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
2467 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
2470 * The automatic updating facility was removed
2471 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2472 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
2473 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
2476 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
2477 ----------------------------------
2479 Various bugfixes, notably:
2480 * Windows Vista compatibility
2481 * Cropping in Direct3D
2482 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
2483 * RSS filter string overflow
2485 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
2487 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
2488 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
2491 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
2492 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
2495 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
2498 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
2501 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
2504 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
2505 ----------------------------------
2507 Various bugfixes, notably:
2508 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
2509 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
2510 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
2511 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
2512 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
2513 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
2516 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
2517 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
2520 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
2522 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2523 * Diverse usability improvements
2524 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
2525 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
2526 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
2529 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
2530 ---------------------------------
2532 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
2533 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
2536 * Fullscreen controller improvements
2539 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
2540 --------------------------------
2543 * Shoutcast TV listings support
2546 * Support for RTSP authentication
2547 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
2548 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
2549 * ATSC support for DVB input
2550 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
2551 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
2552 * Improved support for Flash Video files
2555 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
2556 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
2557 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
2558 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
2559 * Matroska WavPack support
2560 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
2561 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
2562 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
2565 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
2566 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
2567 * Improved libcaca support
2571 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
2572 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
2574 * Systray support in skins
2576 * Support for Apple Remote control
2577 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2578 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2579 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
2580 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
2582 * Notifications using notification-daemon
2585 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
2586 Windows 9x/ME users:
2587 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
2588 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
2589 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
2590 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
2591 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
2593 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
2594 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
2603 * Updates to the libvlc API
2604 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
2607 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
2608 --------------------------------
2611 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
2612 * Support for downloading updates
2616 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
2617 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
2618 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
2619 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
2621 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
2622 * Improved subtitles encoding support
2623 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
2626 * Cook (Real audio) support
2628 Playlist / Services discovery:
2629 * XSPF playlist support
2631 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
2634 * New JACK audio output
2637 * New video filters:
2638 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
2639 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
2640 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
2641 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
2642 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
2643 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
2646 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
2649 * System to inform the user and request information
2650 - HTTP authentication
2654 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
2655 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2656 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
2659 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
2660 - Improved playlist handling
2661 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
2663 - Embedded Video output
2664 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
2665 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
2666 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2667 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
2668 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
2670 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
2671 - A bunch of new RPN functions
2674 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
2677 * Mac-Intel compatibility
2678 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
2679 * Growl "Now playing" support
2682 * Ability to log to syslog
2683 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
2686 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
2688 * A bit more automatic testing
2691 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
2692 ---------------------------------
2695 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
2696 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
2699 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
2700 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
2703 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
2706 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
2707 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
2713 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
2716 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
2717 --------------------------------
2720 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
2724 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2725 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
2726 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
2729 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
2730 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
2731 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
2732 * GnomeVFS input module
2733 * Support for RTP packet reordering
2734 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
2737 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
2738 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2739 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
2742 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
2743 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2749 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2750 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2753 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2754 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2755 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2758 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2760 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2761 - New extended controls panel
2762 - New bookmarks window
2763 - Fixed playlist sorting
2764 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2766 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2767 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2768 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2769 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2773 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2774 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2776 - Include macro to include other files
2780 * Should now work outside IE as well
2783 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2786 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2787 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2790 The following languages were added:
2794 * Simplified Chinese
2795 The following languages were re-added:
2799 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2800 --------------------------------
2803 * Rewrite of the playlist
2805 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2806 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2807 * Preferences improvements:
2808 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2809 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2811 * Core image manipulation support
2812 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2813 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2814 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2815 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2816 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2817 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2818 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2819 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2820 * Access filter architecture
2821 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2822 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2826 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2827 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2828 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2829 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2830 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2831 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2832 * Massive Matroska improvements
2833 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2835 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2836 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2837 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2838 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2839 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2841 Decoders / Encoders:
2842 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2843 * PNG decoder/encoder
2844 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2845 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2848 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2851 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2852 * Brand new SAP module
2853 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2854 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2855 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2856 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2857 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2858 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2862 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2865 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2866 * Image file video output (png)
2867 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2868 * Improvements to wall video filter
2869 * Support for font color and opacity
2875 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2876 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2877 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2881 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2882 - Improved preferences
2883 - Improvements to the wizard
2884 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2886 - Redesigned playlist
2887 - Improved preferences
2889 - Support for multiple actions
2892 - Support for the new playlist system
2894 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2897 * Screensaver disabling fix
2898 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2899 * Support for no-decoration windows
2902 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2903 * The OpenGL video output is back
2904 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2905 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2906 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2907 is not yet available in the new module
2908 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2911 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2920 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2923 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2926 The following languages were added:
2932 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2933 --------------------------------
2936 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2937 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2940 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2941 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2942 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2945 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2948 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2951 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2954 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2955 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2956 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2960 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2962 * Support of playlist group announcement
2965 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2966 --------------------------------
2969 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2970 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2971 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2972 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2973 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2974 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2977 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2978 (Stream your desktop)
2979 * Improved DVD support:
2980 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2981 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2982 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2983 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2984 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2985 (selection of titles/chapters).
2988 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2989 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2990 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2991 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2992 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2993 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2994 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2995 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2996 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2997 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
3000 * G.726 audio support
3001 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
3002 * MPEG-4 text support
3003 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
3004 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
3005 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
3009 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
3010 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
3011 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
3012 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
3013 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
3014 * DVB subtitles encoder
3015 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
3016 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
3018 * Text track muxing for mp4
3019 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
3020 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
3021 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3022 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
3023 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
3024 * Improved ASF muxer
3026 * H.263 RTP streaming support
3027 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
3028 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
3031 * New audio equalizer filter
3032 * Very trivial volume normalizer
3033 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
3034 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
3035 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
3038 * Roku HD1000 Video output
3039 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
3040 with support for effects.
3041 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
3042 - New filters can be streamed.
3043 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
3044 - Centralized scaling and blending
3046 - "time", to display current time
3047 - "marq", to display a marquee
3050 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
3051 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
3052 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
3053 * A few skins2 improvements
3054 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
3055 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
3056 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
3057 * Improved CORBA control module
3060 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
3061 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
3062 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
3065 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
3066 * Experimental SVG rendering module
3067 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
3070 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
3071 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
3072 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
3073 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
3074 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
3077 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3080 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
3081 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
3084 * Server/client network synchronization module
3085 * VBrick streams fully supported
3086 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
3090 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3091 --------------------------------
3094 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3095 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3096 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3097 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3100 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3101 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3102 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3103 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3104 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3105 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3106 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3109 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3110 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3111 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3112 * Improved directory access module.
3113 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3114 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3115 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3116 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3117 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3120 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3121 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3122 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3125 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3126 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3127 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3130 * Improved session announcement system.
3131 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3132 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3133 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3134 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3135 * Improved transrater.
3136 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3137 * New configuration system.
3138 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3141 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3142 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3143 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3144 * Supports scheduling.
3145 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3146 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3149 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3150 - Ability to embed video output.
3151 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3152 - Lots of improvements.
3153 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3154 - New design and set of icons.
3155 - Ability to embed video output.
3156 - Support for hotkeys.
3157 - Support for bookmarks.
3159 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3160 - Better hotkeys handling.
3163 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3164 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3165 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3166 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3169 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3170 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3171 * Improved Windows installer.
3177 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3178 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3181 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3182 ---------------------------------
3185 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3186 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3189 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3190 --------------------------------
3193 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3194 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3197 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3198 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3199 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3200 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3203 * Internal improvments
3204 * Improved import/export
3207 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3209 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3210 small and strange formats.
3212 * New MOD audio demux.
3213 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3214 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3215 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3216 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3219 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3220 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3221 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3227 * New opengl video output plugin.
3230 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3231 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3234 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3235 --------------------------------
3238 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3239 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3240 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3241 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3242 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3243 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3244 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3245 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3248 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3253 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3254 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3255 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3256 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3257 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3258 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3259 * Better Icecast support.
3260 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3261 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3264 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3265 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3266 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3267 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3268 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3269 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3270 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3273 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3274 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3275 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3276 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3277 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3278 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3279 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3280 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3281 * Preliminary RTP support.
3282 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3287 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3288 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3290 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3291 - Improvements and help in preferences
3292 - New streaming wizard
3293 - Revised Disc Open menu
3295 - Improvements of the standard pages
3296 - Support for new commands
3297 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3300 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3301 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3304 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3305 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3306 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3307 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3308 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3309 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3310 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3311 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3312 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3315 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3317 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3318 * Support for Panther.
3319 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3320 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3323 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3324 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3325 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3326 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3327 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3328 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3329 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3330 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3333 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3334 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3335 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3338 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3341 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3342 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3343 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3344 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3347 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3348 --------------------------------
3351 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3354 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3355 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3358 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3359 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3362 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3365 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3366 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3369 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3372 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3375 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3376 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3380 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3381 --------------------------------
3384 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3385 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3389 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3390 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3391 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3393 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3394 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3397 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3400 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3403 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3404 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3408 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3409 --------------------------------
3412 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3413 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3417 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3418 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3419 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3420 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3421 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3424 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3425 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3426 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3429 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3430 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3431 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3434 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3435 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3436 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3437 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3438 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3441 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3442 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
3443 * A new CORBA control plugin.
3446 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
3449 * Improved build system.
3450 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
3451 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
3452 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
3453 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
3456 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
3457 --------------------------------
3460 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
3463 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
3464 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
3465 * Fixed large file support on Windows
3466 * Video 4 Linux support
3467 * CD Digital Audio support
3468 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
3471 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
3472 * Support for OpenDML avi files
3473 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
3474 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
3477 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
3478 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
3479 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
3480 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
3481 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
3482 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
3483 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
3486 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
3487 * New HTTP remote control interface
3490 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
3491 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
3492 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
3493 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
3494 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
3497 * New reset option for the preferences
3498 * You can set your language in the prefences
3499 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
3500 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
3501 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
3502 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
3505 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
3506 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
3507 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
3510 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
3511 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
3512 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
3513 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
3514 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
3515 * New icons by Davor Orel.
3516 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
3517 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
3518 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
3519 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
3522 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
3523 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
3524 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
3525 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
3526 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
3527 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
3528 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
3531 * Interface localization
3532 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
3533 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
3534 * New full-featured Preferences window
3537 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
3538 --------------------------------
3541 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
3542 * support for skins at the interface level
3543 * new OSD module using Freetype2
3544 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
3545 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
3546 input level before dropping out of date frames.
3547 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
3550 * fixed HTTP redirects
3551 * support for opening an entire directory
3552 * EOF should be detected more reliably
3553 * new video4linux access plug-in
3554 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
3557 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
3558 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
3559 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
3562 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
3563 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
3564 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
3565 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
3566 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
3567 * new codec for raw I420 video
3568 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
3571 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
3572 (although it still misses some important features)
3573 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
3576 * new HTTP output support
3577 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
3578 * fixed AV synchronization issues
3581 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
3584 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
3587 * reorderable playlist
3588 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
3589 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
3590 * support for mono audio output devices
3591 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
3592 * fixed several cosmetic issues
3593 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
3594 * the messages window remembers more lines
3595 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
3596 * http and ogg stream output options
3597 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
3600 * new skinnable interface
3601 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
3603 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
3604 * support for FLAC audio format
3605 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
3607 * network tab in the interface
3608 * "apply" handling in preferences
3611 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
3612 ---------------------------------
3615 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
3616 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
3617 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
3618 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
3620 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
3621 * DTS S/PDIF support
3624 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
3625 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
3626 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
3627 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
3630 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
3631 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
3634 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
3637 * fixed the GNU-pth support
3640 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
3642 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
3643 * rc interface is now fully useable
3644 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
3647 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
3648 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
3649 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
3650 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
3651 * VLC now uses the default audio device
3653 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
3654 * support for mouse gestures
3655 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
3658 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
3659 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
3662 * improved ID3 tag detection
3663 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
3664 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
3665 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
3667 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
3670 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
3671 ---------------------------------
3674 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
3675 English was set as the preferred language
3678 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
3679 --------------------------------
3682 * new mouse gesture interface
3683 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
3687 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
3688 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
3689 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
3692 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
3693 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
3697 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
3700 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
3701 without the user consent
3704 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
3706 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
3707 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
3708 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
3711 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
3712 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
3713 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
3714 * playlist enhancements
3715 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
3716 * new step forward/step backward commands
3717 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
3718 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
3719 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
3722 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
3723 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
3724 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
3727 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
3728 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
3731 * native video output is working again
3732 * only commandline interface support
3733 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
3736 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
3737 --------------------------------
3740 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
3741 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
3742 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
3743 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
3744 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
3745 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
3746 and A/52 streams are supported)
3747 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3752 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3753 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3754 * VCD entry points support
3755 * VCD image file support
3758 * support for *.asf format
3759 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3760 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3761 * support for ogg encapsulation
3762 * support for raw DV format
3763 * support for *.wav format
3764 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3767 Stream discovery & playlists:
3768 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3769 * support for .m3u file format
3770 * support for .asx file format
3771 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3774 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3775 (only available with the .avi demux)
3776 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3777 * support for raw PCM data
3778 * support for Cinepak video codec
3779 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3780 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3781 * support for Xvid codec
3782 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3783 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3784 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
3786 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
3788 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3791 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3794 * new WxWindows interface
3795 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3796 device and the channels configuration
3797 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3798 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3799 format that VLC can play
3800 * new swedish translation
3801 * enhancements of the playlist window
3802 * new messages window to see debug info
3803 * fixed a few crashes
3806 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3807 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3808 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3809 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working