1 Changes between 2.2.x and 3.0.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
5 * The Windows XP/2003/2003R2 support for VLC is now on a best-efforts basis:
6 it should work, but not without limitations.
7 libVLC support for Windows XP is deprecated.
8 You _really_ should upgrade.
9 * Windows Vista (all versions) without Platform Upgrade is not supported.
10 * Linux support requires now a kernel newer than 2.6.26
11 * Mac OS X 10.6 support is now removed. You need OS X 10.7 to run VLC.
14 * Support wayland surface type
15 * Allow to start the video paused on the first frame
16 * Support portable version of Windows build
17 * Support network browsing for distant file system (SMB, FTP, SFTP, ...)
18 and rewrite the parsing of those files
19 * VLC now assumes vlcrc config file is in UTF-8
20 * Add a keystore API: fetch and store password for common protocols (HTTP,
21 SMB, SFTP, FTP, RTSP ...)
24 * New NFS access module using libnfs
25 * Support HDS (Http Dynamic Streaming) from Adobe (f4m, f4v, etc.)
26 * New SMB access module using libdsm
27 * Rewrite MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support, including
28 MPEG2TS and ISOFF profiles
29 * Large rework of the Smooth Streaming module
30 * Screen capture plugin for Wayland display
31 * Support decompression and extraction through libarchive (tar, zip, rar...)
32 * Improvements of cookie handling (share cookies between playlist items,
33 domain / path matching, Secure cookies)
34 * Support DVB-T2 on Windows BDA
35 * Support depayloading Opus from RTP
36 * Support sftp username and passwords options and URL
37 * New UPnP access module, to list directories without infinite recursions
38 * New WASAPI audio capture module on Windows
39 * SMB/FTP/SFTP accesses can list directories
40 * Support for SAT>IP server dialect for RTSP (satip://)
41 * New "concat" access module for concatenating byte streams
42 * New HTTP/TLS access module for HTTP 2.0 support
43 * Named pipes and device nodes are no longer included in directory listings
44 by default. Use --list-special-files to include them back.
47 * OMX GPU-zerocopy support for decoding and display on Android using OpenMax IL
48 * Support 4:4:4 and 4:2:2 chroma samplings with VDPAU hw acceleration
49 * Support for ARIB STD-B24 subtitles
50 * Support for Daala video
51 * Important improvements for the MMAL decoder and output for rPI and rPI2
52 * Support HEVC hardware decoding using OMX and MediaCodec
53 * Use MediaCodec via NDK native API after Android Lollipop
54 * Support VP9 and WMV3 decoding using OMX and performance improvements
55 * New MPEG-1 & 2 audio layer I, II, III + MPEG 2.5 decoder based on libmpg123
56 * New BPG decoder based on libbpg
57 * Fixed uncompressed DVD-Audio (AOB) LPCM decoding
58 * Rewrite WPL playlists and add ZPL playlists support (Zune)
59 * Support TDSC, Canopus HQX
60 * Support HEVC hardware decoding on Windows, using DxVA2
61 * Basic TTML subtitles support
62 * Support hardware decoding using Direct3D11, including GPU-zerocopy mode
63 * DxVA2 GPU-zerocopy for hardware decoding and displaying on Windows
64 * Support 9-bit and 10-bit GBR planar formats
65 * New hardware accelerated decoder for OS X and and iOS based on Video Toolbox
66 supporting H.263, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, MPEG-4 Part 2, and DV depending on device
70 * Support HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS)
71 * Support Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
72 * Support Daala in Ogg
73 * Important rework of the MP4 demuxer, including fragments
74 * Support EIA-608 subtitles in MP4/mov
75 * Support SBV subtitles
76 * Support WMV and WMAV in MP4/mov, aka Flip4Mac files
77 * Support bitmap audio channel reordering in MP4/mov
78 * Support AlbumArtist and DiscNumber metadata
79 * Important rework of the TS demuxer, including:
80 * Fixed program selection with recorded TS (TopField, DreamBox and others)
81 * Fixed TS playback with PAT/PMT less recordings
82 * Basic support for MPEG4-SL in TS and T-DMB
83 * Support for lame's replaygain extension in mpeg files
84 * Fixes for DTS detection in WAV and MKV files
85 * Support for Creative ADPCM/alaw/ulaw/S16L in VOC files
86 * Support for Creative ADPCM in AVI
87 * Directory Demux can now sort items, ignore extensions and hidden files
88 * Replaced httplive stream filter with new HLS demuxer, replaced smooth
89 stream filter with new Smooth demuxer, both using unified adaptive module
90 * Improved smooth streaming compatibility
91 * Support SCTE-18 / EAS inside TS
94 * Added ARIB STD-B25 TS streams decoder
95 * Added stream prebuffering plugin
96 * Removed HTTP Live streaming stream filter
97 * Added zlib (a.k.a. deflate) decompression filter
100 * Complete rewrite of the AudioTrack Android module. This is now the default.
101 It now supports HDMI/SPDIF passthrough for AC3, 5.1/7.1 and float output.
102 * Added Tizen audio module.
104 Audio filters and output:
105 * Add SoX Resampler library audio filter module (converter and resampler)
108 * Linux/BSD default video output is now OpenGL, instead of Xvideo
109 * Wayland shell surface window provider
110 * Wayland shared memory video output
111 * Large rework of the Android video outputs: there is now Surface (2.1, 2.2)
112 NativeWindow (2.3+, supports hw rotation, subpicture blending, opaque)
113 * Support rotation in Android NativeWindow output and hardware decoders
114 * Renamed the Direct3D output module to Direct3D9
115 * Added Direct3D11 video mode supporting both Windows desktop and WinRT modes,
116 supporting subpicture blending and hardware acceleration
117 * EFL Evas video output with Tizen TBM Surface support
120 * CTL support through Harfbuzz in the Freetype module
123 * Hardware deinterlacing on the rPI, using MMAL
124 * New video filter to convert between fps rates
125 * Added 9-bit and 10-bit support to image adjust filter
126 * New edge detection filter uses the Sobel operator to detect edges
129 * Chromecast output module
130 * RGB24 and YCbCr 4:2:0 RTP packetization
133 * Support for Daala video in 4:2:0 and 4:4:4
136 * Added fragmented/streamable MP4 muxer
137 * Added support for muxing VC1 and WMAPro in MP4
138 * Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
142 * New NetBios service discovery using libdsm
143 * New mDNS services discovery using libmicrodns
144 * Rewrite of the UPnP service discovery
147 * Dropped support for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
148 * Add support for keyboard blacklight dimming during fullscreen video playback
149 * new AppleScript API giving access to audio desynchronization
150 * Support for building with disabled sparkle update mechanism
151 * New configure flag to disable automatic updates
154 * Dropped support for iOS 6.x
157 * Batch convert support
160 * Support key accelerators
163 * Add libvlc_media_new_callbacks for custom input byte streams
164 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_enum to enumerate devices of current aout
165 * Split of libvlc_media_discoverer_new_from_name into libvlc_media_discoverer_new,
166 libvlc_media_discoverer_start and libvlc_media_discoverer_stop
167 This allows to attach media events between create and start
168 * Add libvlc_media_get_codec_description to get a human readable description of a codec
169 * Add libvlc_MediaListEndReached Event to get notified when a media list reached the end
170 * Add libvlc_media_list_player_get_media_player to get the media player instance of a list player
171 * Add libvlc_media_parse_with_options that uses a flag to specify parse options
172 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_get to get the currently selected audio output device
173 identifier (if there is one available)
174 * Add libvlc_media_get_type to get the type of the media
175 * Add libvlc_media_player_get_full_title_descriptions to get full title info of the media
176 and +libvlc_title_descriptions_release to match it
177 * Add libvlc_media_player_get_full_chapter_descriptions to get full chapter info of the media
178 and libvlc_chapter_descriptions_release to match it
179 * Deprecate libvlc_video_get_title_description, libvlc_video_get_chapter_description,
180 libvlc_media_player_get_agl, libvlc_media_player_set_agl
181 * Add libvlc_media_player_set_android_context to integrate in an Android surface
182 * Add libvlc_media_player_set_evas_object to draw on an EFL/Evas Object
183 * Add a new libvlc dialog API to forward dialogs requests to the applications:
184 libvlc_dialog_set_context, libvlc_dialog_get_context, libvlc_dialog_set_callbacks,
185 libvlc_dialog_dismiss, libvlc_dialog_post_action, libvlc_dialog_post_login
188 * Support for the SystemD Journal
189 * Use --syslog and --syslog-debug command line options to include debug
190 messages in syslog. With --syslog, errors and warnings will be sent only.
191 * New Android module for logging
194 * remove langfromtelx
195 * remove ZPL playlist format
196 * Update libVLC doxygen modules
197 * Add a text-to-speech renderer for subtitles on OS X/iOS
198 * Add a text-to-speech renderer for subtitles on Windows
199 * Add Gnome libsecret-based crypto keystore
200 * Add KDE Kwallet-based crypto keystore
201 * Add a plaintext keystore
202 * Add Keychain based crypto keystore for iOS, Mac OS X and tvOS
206 * QTCapture access module (use AVCapture instead)
207 * httplive (use adaptive instead)
208 * smooth (use adaptive instead)
209 * Gnome-VFS access module (i.e. Gnome 2.x)
210 * QuartText text renderer module (use Freetype instead)
211 * Win32 GDI text renderer module (use Freetype instead)
212 * Growl notification (replaced by osx_notifications)
213 * VCDX "extended" Video CD access module (use the normal VCD module)
214 * Mac OS X Dialog Provider (use VLCKit instead)
215 * iOS Dialog Provider (use MobileVLCKit / TVVLCKit instead)
218 Changes between 2.2.0 and 2.2.1:
219 --------------------------------
222 * Fix compilation with older libavcodec versions
223 * Fix some VP9 decoding
225 * Fix lpcm channel ordering
226 * Fix potential NULL dereference in dmo
227 * Fix teletext framing code in DVB PES packets
228 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroendinger decoder (CVE-2014-9629)
233 * Fix MKV overseeking, introducing slowness over network shares
234 * Fix crash when playing SPC files
235 * Fix ATRAC3 playback in MKV
236 * Revert to older ASX code
237 * Workaround TS issue with mpeg-audio
240 * Fix sftp read and close sockets
241 * Fix DTV build with Linux DVB versions < 5.8
242 * Fix UDP/RTP input on Windows
245 * Fix Alsa HDMI plugs
246 * Improve Alsa output, with larger buffers
247 * Fix DirectSound output with multi-channel files
250 * Fix numerous crashes in the UI
251 * Fix video-wallpaper mode
252 * Fix race when starting VLC from command line
255 * Fix recent items behaviour
256 * Fix rotation filter activation
257 * Fix mux modules names for the streaming wizard
260 * Timestamp the signature of the dlls
261 * Fix extensions registration during install
262 * Fix extensions dialog crash
263 * Default to no DxVA decoding
266 * fix libvlc_media_get_stats
269 * Update of Afrikaans, Albanian, Azerbaijani, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch,
270 English (United Kingdom), Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian,
271 Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Macedonian, Malay, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål,
272 Norwegian Nynorsk, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian,
273 Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai,
274 Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian translations
277 Changes between 2.1.6 and 2.2.0:
278 --------------------------------
281 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+,
282 notably most of the streaming output, muxers and access output modules
285 * Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible
286 * Add extensions manager and downloading from external repositories
287 * Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies
288 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
291 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access
292 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes
293 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
294 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection
296 * Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM
297 * Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs
298 * Fix CDDB lookups, including pregap data
301 * Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
302 * Support MediaCodec acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
303 * Add Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder
304 * Add video decoder module based on GStreamer plugins
305 * Add MMAL decoder for Broadcom VideoCore chips (like the RaspberryPi)
306 supporting MPEG-2 and H.264, supporting GPU-zerocopy display
307 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
308 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
309 * Support MSN Audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1,
310 Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless, and numerous videogame codecs
311 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
312 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
313 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
314 * OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
315 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
316 * New jpeg image decoder
317 * Add tx3g subtitles decoder
318 * New SVG image decoder
319 * Fix Speex decoding over RTP and in flv
320 * Support more x264 and FFv1 RGB modes
321 * Improvements on ZVBI teletext decoder, notably for speed and alignments
324 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
325 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
326 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
327 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
328 * New png image encoder using libpng
331 * Support for Core Audio Format (CAF) files
332 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking,
333 streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg
334 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking,
335 synchronization and tracks exclusion
336 * AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations
337 * AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps
338 * MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio
339 and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion
340 * Support Opus in MKV
342 * Basic support for WebVTT
343 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 (AAC) Audio stream type in TS
344 * Support HDPR TS files
345 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
346 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
347 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
348 * Fix encoding issues and relative paths in some XML playlist formats
349 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
350 * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
351 * TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
352 * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
353 * Support SVG images files (on glib platforms)
354 * Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV
355 * Support detection of SRT languages based on filename
356 * Support for seeking Standard MIDI Files
359 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
360 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
361 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
362 * New Android native window provider module
363 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
364 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
365 * Add MMAL based video output for RaspberryPi
368 * New Oldmovie effect filter
369 * New VHS effect filter
370 * New Freeze effect filter
371 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
372 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
373 * Fix audiobargraph activation and usage
376 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
377 * Audio device notifications for WASAPI
378 * Fix replay of sound buffer in DirectSound
379 * Split of MMDevice and WinRT audio modules
380 * Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes
381 * Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules
384 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
385 * Fixes for the AVI muxer to respect the specification
387 * Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS
390 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
391 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
392 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
393 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
394 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
395 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
396 * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
397 * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
398 * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
400 * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
401 --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
402 * Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP
405 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
406 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
409 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
410 * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
413 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
414 * Add record button in Qt menus
415 * New module for core dialogs on iOS
416 * New layout for Qt buttons customization
417 * Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and OS X
420 * Support for OS X Yosemite
421 * Avoid grey bars in fullscreen when using Mavericks with multiple monitors
422 * Improve fullscreen behavior for the native and VLCs own mode
423 * Fixes for advanced preferences
424 * Added 'file size' column to playlist table
425 * in addition to iTunes, Spotify is automatically paused on playback start
426 * Option to increase playlist font size
427 * Improved crash log reporting
430 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
431 * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
432 * Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
433 * Update and improve Koreus, Dailymotion, Soundcloud and Youtube scripts
436 * Numerous integer and heap overflow in Ogg, AVI, ASF, TTA and MP4 demuxers
439 * iOS video output: use ios2
440 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
441 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
444 * New translation in Urdu, Tatar, Silesian, Samoan, Kapampangan, N'ko,
445 Kurdish, Kabyle, Mexican Spanish, Catalan, Amharic
446 * Update of all translations:
447 Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese, Uzbek, Ukrainian,
448 Turkish, Thai, Swedish, Serbian, Albanian, Slovenian, Slovak, Russian,
449 Romanian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Punjabi, Dutch, Nepali, Norwegian
450 Bokmål, Malay, Marathi, Latvian, Lithuanian, Korean, Kannada, Khmer,
451 Japanese, Italian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Hebrew, Galician, Scottish
452 Gaelic, French, Finnish, Persian, Estonian, Spanish, Modern Greek, German,
453 Danish, Welsh, Czech, Bosnian, Bengali, Asturian
456 Changes between 2.1.5 and 2.1.6:
457 --------------------------------
463 * Fix heap overflow in decomp stream filter
464 * Fix buffer overflow in updater (CVE-2014-9625)
465 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroedinger encoder
466 * Fix null-pointer dereference in DMO decoder
467 * Fix buffer overflow in parsing of string boxes in mp4 demuxer (CVE-2014-9626,9627,9628)
468 * Fix SRTP integer overflow
469 * Fix potential crash in zip access
470 * Fix read overflow in Ogg demuxer
471 * Fix RTP overflow (CVE-2014-9630)
474 * Update translations and greek encoding
477 Changes between 2.1.4 and 2.1.5:
478 --------------------------------
481 * Fix compilation on OS/2
484 * Stability improvements for the QTSound capture module
486 Mac OS X audio output:
487 * Fix channel ordering
488 * Increase the buffersize
491 * Fix DxVA2 decoding of samples needing more surfaces
492 * Improve MAD resistance to broken mp3 streams
493 * Fix PGS alignment in MKV
496 * Don't rename mp3 converted files to .raw
499 * Correctly support video-on-top
500 * Fix video output event propagation on Macs with retina displays
501 * Stability improvements when using future VLC releases side by side
504 * Fix transcode when audio format changes
507 * Updated GnuTLS to 3.1.25 (CVE-2014-3466)
508 * Updated libpng to 1.6.10 (CVE-2014-0333)
511 * Update British English
514 Changes between 2.1.3 and 2.1.4:
515 --------------------------------
518 * Fix issue in WMV with multiple compressed payload and empty payloads
521 * Fix subtitles size rendering on Windows
524 * Fix DVD playback regression
525 * Fix misleading error message during video playback on OS X 10.9
526 * Fix hardware acceleration memleaks
529 Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3:
530 --------------------------------
533 * Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
534 * Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir
537 * Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
538 * Fix encrypted DVD playback
539 * Fix v4l2 frequency conversion
542 * Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
543 by updating codec libraries
544 * Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
545 * Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
546 * Fix teletext crash on Windows
549 * Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
550 * Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
551 * Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
552 * Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing
555 * Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
556 * Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X
559 * Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
560 * Fix transform off-by-one issue
561 * Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
562 * Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
563 * Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC
566 * Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
567 * Fix record file names
570 * Fix minimal size possible on start
571 * Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
572 * Fix a crash in the audio menu building
573 * Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
574 * Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows
577 * Fix album art display on Windows
580 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek,
581 Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew,
582 Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Nepali,
583 Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
584 Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
585 and Simplified Chinese translations
586 * Fix encoding for Windows installer translations
589 Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2:
590 --------------------------------
593 * Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
594 * Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
595 * Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external
596 audio devices on OS X
597 * Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
598 * Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS
601 * Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
602 * Various WMV playback improvements and fixes
605 * Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
606 * Fix playback of some HEVC samples
609 * Fix crash on deinterlace selection
612 * Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
613 * Improve A-B loop control
614 * Fix album art update when changing media
617 * Add a language option in the interface
618 * Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
619 * Improved UI resetting when requested in the preferences
620 * Fix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
621 * Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
622 * Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
623 * Fix crash when closing window without decorations
624 * Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled
627 * Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update
630 * Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian,
631 French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer,
632 Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala,
633 Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations
636 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
637 --------------------------------
640 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
642 * Fix some subtitles track selection
645 * VP9 support in WebM
646 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
647 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
650 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
651 * Support Speex in ogg files
652 * Fix some .mov playlists support
653 * Support Alac in mkv
654 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
655 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
658 * Fix DVB options parsing
659 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
660 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
663 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
664 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
667 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
668 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
671 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
672 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
673 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
674 * Fix play after drag'n drop
675 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
678 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
679 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
682 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
683 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
686 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
687 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
688 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
689 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
690 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
691 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
692 * Improves interface resizings
695 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
696 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
697 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
698 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
699 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
703 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
704 --------------------------------
707 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
708 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
709 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
710 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
711 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
713 3rd party libraries (contrib):
714 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
717 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
718 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
719 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
720 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
721 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
724 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
725 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
729 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
730 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
731 * Support for Ulead DV audio
732 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
733 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
734 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
735 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
736 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
737 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
738 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
739 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
740 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
741 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
744 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
745 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
746 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
749 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
750 remove support for previous OS X releases
751 * Major improvements in DASH support
752 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
753 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
754 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
755 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
756 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
757 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
758 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
759 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
760 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
761 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
762 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
765 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
766 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
767 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
768 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
769 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
770 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
771 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
772 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
773 * Support for more MJPEG streams
774 * Add support for liveleak streams
775 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
776 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
777 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
780 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
781 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
782 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
783 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
784 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
785 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
786 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
787 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
788 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
789 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
790 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
793 * New remapping channel filter
794 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
795 * New VSXu visualization plugin
796 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
797 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
798 * New gain audio filter
801 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
802 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
803 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
804 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
805 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
806 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
807 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
808 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
809 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
812 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
813 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
814 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
815 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
816 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
817 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
818 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
821 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
822 * Options support for AVIO output module
823 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
824 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
825 * Livehttp stream encryption support
826 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
827 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
830 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
833 * configurable password for the HTTP server
834 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
835 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
836 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
837 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
838 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
839 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
840 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
844 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
847 * Add support for multiple video outputs
848 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
850 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
851 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
852 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
853 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
854 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
855 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
856 VLC's internal volume level
857 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
859 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
860 selection and to manage the list of presets
861 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
862 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
863 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
864 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
865 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
866 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
867 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
868 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
869 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
870 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
872 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
873 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
874 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
875 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
876 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
877 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
878 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
879 3rd party applications
880 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
881 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
882 (system-wide settings)
883 * Add support for the Video Title option
884 * Add support for the Boss Key
885 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
886 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
889 * Partial support for Qt5.0
890 * Menus modifications and improvements
891 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
892 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
893 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
894 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
895 * EPG display fixes and improvements
896 * Add SD pixmap sources
897 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
898 * Display playlist total duration
899 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
900 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
901 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
906 * Extend sliders, offsets options
907 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
908 * Numerous fixes and improvements
909 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
912 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
913 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
914 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
915 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
916 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
917 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
918 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
919 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
920 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
921 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
924 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
925 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
926 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
927 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
928 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
929 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
931 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
932 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
933 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
934 * Broken crop video filter
936 * OSD parser and menu
937 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
938 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
939 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
940 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
944 * Update of all translations
947 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
948 --------------------------------
951 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
952 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
955 * Fix modplug security issues
958 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
959 --------------------------------
963 * Fix crash in QTsound
964 * Fix screen mouse file location
965 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
968 * Fix use after free in sgimb
969 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
972 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
975 * Fix interface crashes
976 * Fix autostart playback option
977 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
980 * update Welsh translation
981 * New Kannada translation
984 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
985 --------------------------------
988 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
989 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
993 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
996 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
999 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
1002 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
1005 * Minor improvements
1006 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
1009 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
1012 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
1013 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
1014 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
1017 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
1018 --------------------------------
1021 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
1024 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
1027 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
1028 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
1029 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
1030 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
1031 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
1032 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
1035 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
1036 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
1037 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
1038 * 3rd party codecs updates
1041 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
1042 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
1043 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
1044 in the advanced preferences panel
1045 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
1046 * Fix crash within the video output code
1047 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
1048 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
1049 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
1050 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
1051 lua extensions, ...)
1052 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
1055 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
1058 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
1059 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
1062 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
1065 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
1066 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
1067 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
1068 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
1069 Dutch, Danish, translations
1070 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
1073 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
1074 --------------------------------
1077 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
1080 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
1081 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
1082 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
1085 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
1086 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
1087 * Fix koreus lua parser
1088 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
1089 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
1090 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
1091 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
1094 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
1095 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
1098 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
1101 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
1102 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
1103 * Fix Time counter UI look
1104 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
1107 * Fix https streaming
1110 * Fix audio and video track selection:
1111 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
1112 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
1115 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
1116 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
1117 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
1118 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
1119 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
1122 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
1123 --------------------------------
1126 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
1127 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
1128 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
1129 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
1130 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
1131 during playback on Mac OS X
1134 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
1135 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
1136 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
1139 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
1140 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
1141 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
1142 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
1143 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
1146 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
1147 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
1148 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
1149 * Support Youtube live streams
1152 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
1155 * Fix media info dialog update
1156 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
1157 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
1158 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
1159 * Fix album art display at start
1162 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
1163 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
1164 * Fix menus display and behavior
1165 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
1166 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
1167 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
1168 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
1169 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
1170 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
1171 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
1174 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
1175 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
1176 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
1177 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
1178 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
1179 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
1180 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
1181 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
1182 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
1185 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
1186 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
1187 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
1188 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
1189 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
1192 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
1193 --------------------------------
1196 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
1199 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
1200 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
1203 * Add GateKeeper support
1204 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
1205 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
1206 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
1209 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
1212 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
1213 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
1214 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
1215 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
1216 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
1219 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
1220 --------------------------------
1223 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
1224 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
1225 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
1226 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
1227 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
1228 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
1229 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
1230 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
1231 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
1232 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
1233 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
1237 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
1238 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
1239 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
1240 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
1241 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
1242 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
1243 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
1244 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
1245 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
1246 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
1247 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
1248 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
1251 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
1252 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
1254 * Fix MP3 free format support
1257 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
1258 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
1259 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
1260 * Fix for DVB channels file support
1261 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
1264 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
1265 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
1267 Audio filters and output:
1268 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
1269 * Fix DirectSound device selection
1270 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
1271 * Do not apply volume in file output
1272 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
1273 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
1276 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
1277 the persistant media library
1278 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
1279 to the media library or the temporary playlist
1280 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
1281 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
1282 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
1283 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
1284 press on the Play/Pause button
1285 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
1286 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
1287 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
1288 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
1289 * Many Fullscreen fixes
1290 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
1291 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
1292 Synchronization panel
1293 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
1294 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
1295 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
1296 * Fix crashes on exit
1297 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
1299 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
1300 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
1301 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
1302 automatically reset on the first launch.
1303 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
1304 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
1305 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
1308 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
1309 * Fixes for icecast SD
1312 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
1313 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
1314 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
1315 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
1316 * Fix tags and file names display
1317 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
1320 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
1321 * Fix for key events and focus loss
1324 * Fix display of some buttons
1325 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
1326 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
1329 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
1330 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
1331 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
1334 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
1335 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
1336 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
1337 Thai translations update
1338 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
1341 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
1342 --------------------------------
1345 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
1346 * fix the samba module compilation
1347 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1348 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
1349 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
1350 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
1353 * Support for MXPEG files
1354 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
1355 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
1358 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
1359 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
1360 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
1363 * Fix ogm header creation
1366 * limit spatializer filter distortions
1367 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
1370 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
1371 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
1372 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
1373 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
1376 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
1379 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
1380 * allow to hide the sidebar
1381 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
1382 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
1383 * noticebly faster launch time
1384 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
1385 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
1386 * improve track synchronization panel
1387 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
1388 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
1391 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
1392 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
1393 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
1394 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
1397 * fix for menus display
1398 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
1399 * documentation update
1402 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
1403 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
1406 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
1407 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1408 * Update Jamendo selections
1412 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
1413 * fix a crash on VLM close
1416 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
1417 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
1418 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
1419 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
1422 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
1425 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
1426 ---------------------------------
1429 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1430 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
1431 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
1432 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
1433 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
1434 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
1435 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
1436 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
1437 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
1438 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
1439 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
1440 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
1441 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
1442 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
1443 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
1444 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
1445 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
1446 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
1447 --http-crl (optional CRL).
1448 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
1449 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
1450 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
1451 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
1452 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
1453 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
1454 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
1456 Important changes for packagers:
1457 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
1458 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
1459 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
1460 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
1461 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
1462 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
1463 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
1464 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
1465 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
1466 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
1469 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
1470 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
1471 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
1472 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
1473 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
1474 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
1475 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
1478 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
1479 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
1480 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
1481 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
1482 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
1483 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
1484 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
1485 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
1486 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
1487 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
1488 * PulseAudio audio input support
1489 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
1490 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
1491 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
1492 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
1493 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
1494 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
1495 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
1496 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
1499 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
1500 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
1501 are notably concerned.
1502 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
1503 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
1504 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
1505 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
1506 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
1507 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
1508 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
1509 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
1510 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
1511 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
1512 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
1513 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
1514 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
1515 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
1516 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
1519 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
1520 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
1521 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
1522 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
1523 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
1524 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
1525 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
1526 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
1527 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
1528 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
1529 * Improved support of tracker files
1530 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
1533 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
1534 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
1535 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
1536 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
1537 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
1538 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
1539 and important cleanups and optimisations
1540 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
1541 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
1542 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
1543 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
1544 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
1545 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
1546 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
1547 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
1548 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
1549 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
1550 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
1551 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
1552 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
1553 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
1554 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
1555 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
1556 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
1557 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
1558 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
1559 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
1560 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
1563 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
1564 * New video output for iOS platform
1565 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
1566 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
1567 * Various vmem improvements
1568 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
1569 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
1570 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
1571 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
1572 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
1573 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
1575 Audio Output and Filters:
1576 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
1577 * New audio output in memory (amem)
1578 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
1579 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
1580 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
1581 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
1582 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
1583 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
1584 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
1585 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
1588 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
1589 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
1590 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
1591 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
1592 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
1593 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
1594 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
1595 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
1596 * New anti-flickering filter
1597 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
1598 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
1599 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
1600 blackbox and customizable shadow.
1601 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
1602 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
1603 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
1606 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
1607 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
1608 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
1609 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
1610 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
1611 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
1612 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
1613 * Major rework of VoD support
1614 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
1615 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
1616 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
1617 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
1618 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
1619 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
1620 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
1621 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
1622 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
1623 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
1626 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
1627 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
1630 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1631 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
1632 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
1633 list of available audio and video filters
1634 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
1635 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
1636 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
1639 * asademux, subsass: use libass
1640 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
1641 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
1642 * id3tag: use taglib
1643 * upnp: use upnp_intel
1644 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
1645 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
1646 * removal of the noise filter
1647 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
1648 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
1649 removed in Growl's next release, too.
1650 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
1653 * Update of translations for most languages.
1654 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
1657 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
1658 ----------------------------------
1661 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
1662 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
1665 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
1666 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
1669 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
1670 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
1671 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
1674 * Camtasia decoding fix.
1677 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
1678 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
1681 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
1684 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
1685 ----------------------------------
1688 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
1689 including support for OS X Lion
1690 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
1691 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
1694 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
1697 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
1698 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
1699 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
1702 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
1705 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
1706 ----------------------------------
1709 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
1710 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
1713 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
1714 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
1715 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
1716 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
1717 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
1719 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
1720 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
1721 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
1723 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
1724 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
1727 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
1730 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
1733 * Fix quitting on Linux
1734 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
1738 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
1741 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
1744 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
1745 ---------------------------------
1747 Windows and Mac OS X:
1748 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
1751 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
1752 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
1755 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
1758 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
1761 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
1763 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1764 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
1766 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
1767 * RTP output and XML export
1768 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
1772 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
1773 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
1774 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
1775 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
1778 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
1779 --------------------------------
1781 Windows and Mac OS X:
1782 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
1785 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
1788 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
1789 * Improve Apple Remote handling
1790 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
1791 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
1792 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
1793 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
1796 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
1797 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
1801 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
1802 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
1803 * New Luganda Translation
1806 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
1807 --------------------------------
1810 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
1813 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
1814 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
1815 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
1816 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
1819 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
1821 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
1822 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
1823 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
1824 * mp4 demuxer improvements
1825 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
1826 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
1827 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
1828 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
1830 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1831 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
1832 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
1833 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
1834 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
1835 * Configure and build system improvements
1836 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
1839 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
1840 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
1841 * New icelandic translation
1844 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
1845 --------------------------------
1848 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
1849 #234484 and #260719.
1852 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
1853 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1854 and stability reasons
1857 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1861 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1864 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1865 ----------------------------------
1868 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1871 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1872 ---------------------------------
1875 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1876 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1877 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1878 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1881 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1884 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1885 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1886 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1887 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1890 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1891 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1892 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1894 Subtitles and renderer:
1895 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1896 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1897 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1898 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1899 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1902 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1903 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1904 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1905 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1908 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1909 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1911 Miscellaneous fixes:
1912 * KDE device solid actions
1914 * Transcode integer overflow
1915 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1916 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1919 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1920 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1921 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1924 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1925 ----------------------------------
1928 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1932 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1935 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1938 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1939 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1940 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1941 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1944 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1948 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1951 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1954 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1955 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1957 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1961 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1962 * Miscellaneous fixes
1965 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1966 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1967 French and Ukrainian
1968 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1969 * New Asturian translation
1972 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1973 ----------------------------------
1976 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1978 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1981 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1984 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1985 * Various fixes for Windows
1988 * New Armenian translation
1989 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1990 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1993 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1994 --------------------------------
1997 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1998 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1999 * Fix folders opening from the interface
2002 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
2003 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
2006 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
2007 --------------------------------
2009 Access and demuxers:
2010 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
2011 * fix for podcasts parsing
2012 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
2015 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
2016 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
2019 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
2020 * fix m3u playlists exports
2023 * fix video autoresize behaviour
2026 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
2029 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
2032 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
2035 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
2038 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
2039 --------------------------------
2042 * Avformat fps displaying fix
2043 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
2046 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
2047 of mono streams, especially on Windows
2050 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
2051 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
2052 * fix console output encoding
2054 Interface and extensions:
2055 * Youtube and other scripts updates
2056 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
2059 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
2060 --------------------------------
2063 * New capabilities for libVLC:
2064 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
2065 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
2066 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
2067 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
2068 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
2069 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
2070 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
2071 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
2072 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
2073 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
2074 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
2075 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
2076 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
2077 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
2078 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
2082 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
2083 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
2084 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
2085 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
2086 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
2089 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
2092 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
2093 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
2094 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
2098 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
2101 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
2102 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
2103 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
2106 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
2107 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
2108 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
2109 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
2112 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
2113 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
2116 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
2117 --------------------------------
2119 Important changes for users:
2120 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
2121 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
2123 Important changes for packagers:
2124 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
2125 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
2126 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
2127 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
2128 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
2130 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
2132 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
2133 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
2134 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
2135 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
2136 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
2139 * Support for the sftp protocol
2140 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
2141 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
2142 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
2143 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
2144 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
2147 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
2148 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
2149 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
2151 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
2152 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
2153 * Invmem module improvements
2154 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
2155 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
2156 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
2157 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
2158 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
2159 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
2160 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
2161 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
2162 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
2163 * Support for VP8 codec
2164 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
2167 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
2168 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
2169 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
2170 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
2171 * Various EGP improvements
2172 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
2173 * Metadata and cover art improvements
2176 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
2177 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
2178 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
2179 * Podcast images are now displayed
2182 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
2183 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
2184 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
2185 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
2186 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
2187 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
2188 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
2189 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
2190 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
2191 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
2192 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
2195 * New content extensions lua framework
2198 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
2199 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
2200 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
2201 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
2202 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
2203 * NEON assembly audio converter module
2204 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
2207 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
2208 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
2209 * Service discovery based on libudev
2210 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
2213 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
2214 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
2215 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
2216 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
2217 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
2218 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
2219 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
2222 * New smem module, streaming to memory
2223 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
2224 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
2227 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
2229 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
2230 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
2233 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
2236 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
2237 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
2238 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
2239 by Andy Matuschak et al.
2240 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
2241 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
2242 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
2245 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
2246 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
2249 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
2250 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
2251 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
2255 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
2256 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
2257 * Improved Solaris port
2260 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
2261 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
2264 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
2265 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
2266 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
2267 * transrate: broken since too long
2268 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
2269 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
2270 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
2271 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
2272 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
2273 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
2274 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
2275 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
2276 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
2277 * cddax: use cdda instead.
2278 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
2279 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
2280 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
2281 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
2284 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
2285 --------------------------------
2288 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
2290 Decoders/Packetizers:
2291 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
2294 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
2295 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
2296 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
2297 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
2298 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
2301 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
2302 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
2305 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
2306 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
2309 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
2310 and Walloon translations updated
2311 * Sinhala translation started
2314 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
2315 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
2318 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
2319 --------------------------------
2322 * SubRip extra styles improvements
2323 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
2326 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
2329 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
2330 increase performance and fix x264 issues
2333 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
2334 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
2335 Russian, Slovak translation updates
2336 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
2339 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
2340 --------------------------------
2343 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
2344 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
2347 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
2348 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
2351 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
2352 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
2355 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
2358 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
2359 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
2362 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
2363 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
2366 * New Walloon translation
2367 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
2370 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
2371 --------------------------------
2374 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
2375 regressions in most popular drivers
2376 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
2379 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
2380 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
2381 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
2384 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
2385 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
2388 * Update for appletrailers lua script
2389 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
2390 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
2391 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
2392 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
2395 * New udev module for linux
2398 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
2401 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
2404 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
2405 --------------------------------
2408 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
2409 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
2410 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
2413 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
2414 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
2417 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
2418 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
2421 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
2424 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
2425 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
2426 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
2427 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
2430 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
2431 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
2432 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
2433 - no support for Goom and SDL
2434 - limited text rendering support
2435 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
2438 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
2439 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
2440 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
2441 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
2442 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
2443 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
2444 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
2445 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
2446 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
2450 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
2453 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
2456 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
2457 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
2458 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
2459 Arabic and French translation updates
2462 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
2463 --------------------------------
2466 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
2467 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
2468 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
2469 * Fix Dailymotion access script
2470 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
2471 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
2474 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
2475 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2476 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2479 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
2480 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
2481 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
2484 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
2487 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
2488 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
2491 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
2492 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
2493 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2494 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
2495 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
2496 * Fix various crashes
2499 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
2501 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
2505 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
2506 ---------------------------------
2510 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
2511 See 'Access:' for more info.
2512 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
2515 * Instantaneous pausing
2516 * Frame-by-Frame playback
2517 * Finer speed control
2518 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
2519 * Timeshift for most medias
2520 * RTSP trickplay support
2521 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
2524 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
2525 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
2526 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
2527 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
2528 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
2529 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
2530 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
2531 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
2532 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
2533 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
2536 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
2537 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
2538 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
2539 * Metadata for mod files are supported
2540 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
2541 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
2542 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
2545 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
2546 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
2549 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
2550 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
2551 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
2552 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
2553 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
2554 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
2555 * DVB scanning on linux
2556 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
2557 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
2558 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
2559 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
2560 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
2561 * MTP device access on Unix
2562 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
2563 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
2566 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
2567 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
2568 Windows and Mac OS X.
2571 * Export the playlist in HTML
2572 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
2573 * Better metadata handling and reading
2575 Linux/Windows interface:
2576 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
2577 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
2578 * Recently played items list
2579 * Interface toolbar customizations
2580 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
2581 - More menus actions
2582 - Finer speed slider
2583 - Improvements on many dialogs
2584 - New dialog for plugins listing
2585 - Fixed-size mode for videos
2586 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
2587 * Better integration in GTK environments
2590 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
2591 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
2592 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
2593 * Additional usability improvements
2596 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
2597 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
2598 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
2599 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
2600 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
2603 * New Maemo port with:
2604 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
2605 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
2608 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
2611 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
2612 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
2613 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
2614 * Support for latest iSight models
2617 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
2618 * Surround support for PulseAudio
2621 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
2622 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
2623 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
2624 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
2625 The old image video output has been removed.
2626 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
2627 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
2630 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
2638 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
2639 --------------------------------------
2645 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
2646 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
2647 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
2648 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
2649 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
2650 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2651 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
2653 Various fixes to the following modules:
2656 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
2657 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2658 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2660 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
2665 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
2666 ---------------------------------
2669 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
2670 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
2673 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
2674 ---------------------------------
2677 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
2680 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
2683 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
2684 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
2685 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
2686 main controller window.
2687 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
2690 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
2695 * Updates of other localizations
2698 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
2699 * Lots of small bugfixes.
2700 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
2701 * Telnet fixes on Windows
2702 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
2705 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
2706 ---------------------------------
2709 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
2711 Bunch of small bugfixes.
2714 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
2715 --------------------------------
2720 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
2721 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
2724 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
2725 --------------------------------
2727 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
2728 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
2731 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
2734 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
2735 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
2738 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
2739 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
2742 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
2743 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
2744 * Various fixed in playlist
2747 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
2750 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
2753 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
2754 ------------------------------------
2756 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
2757 * Fixes several memory leaks.
2760 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
2761 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
2762 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
2765 * Stability fix for the video output.
2768 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
2769 --------------------------------
2772 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
2773 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
2774 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
2775 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
2776 * Fixed update system bugs
2777 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
2780 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
2781 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
2782 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
2783 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
2784 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
2785 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
2786 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
2787 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
2788 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
2789 modern Mac OS X versions
2792 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
2793 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
2795 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
2796 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
2799 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
2800 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
2801 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
2802 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
2803 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
2804 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
2807 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
2808 --------------------------------
2810 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
2811 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
2812 * Multiple bugfixes.
2815 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
2816 --------------------------------
2818 * Multiple bug fixes.
2821 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2822 ---------------------------------
2826 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
2827 recent to work correctly
2828 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
2829 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
2830 edit the ".hosts" file.
2831 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
2832 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
2833 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
2834 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
2835 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
2836 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
2837 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
2838 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
2839 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
2840 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
2841 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
2842 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
2843 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
2844 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
2845 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
2846 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
2847 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
2848 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
2849 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
2850 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2851 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
2852 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
2853 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2854 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2855 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2856 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2857 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2858 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2859 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2860 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2861 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2862 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2863 and postproc modules.
2864 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2865 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2866 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2867 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2869 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2870 filter. For example:
2871 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2872 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2874 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2875 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2881 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2883 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2884 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2887 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2888 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2890 * Shoutcast TV listings
2891 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2893 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2894 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2896 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2899 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2900 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2901 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2902 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2903 * JACK audio input support
2904 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2905 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2906 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2907 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2908 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2909 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2910 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2911 (available as a separate download).
2912 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2913 * RTMP input support
2914 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2915 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2916 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2918 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2919 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2922 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2923 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2924 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2925 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2927 * APEv1/2 tags support
2928 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2929 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2931 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2932 * TiVo Series 2 support
2933 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2938 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2939 * Flash Screen Video support
2940 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2941 * DosBox Capture support
2942 * Karl Morton's Video support
2943 * limited atrac3 support
2945 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2946 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2947 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2948 * H.264 PAFF support
2949 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2950 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2951 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2952 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2953 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2956 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2957 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2958 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2959 * AQTitle subtitles support
2960 * MKV USF subtitles support
2961 * HTML-based subtitles support
2962 * MPSub subtitles support
2963 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2964 * MPL2 subtitles support
2965 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2966 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2967 * Realtext subtitle support
2968 * DKS subtitle support
2969 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2970 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2973 * Flash Screen Video support
2974 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2976 Video outputs and filters:
2977 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2978 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2979 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2980 * New puzzle video output filter
2981 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2982 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2984 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2985 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2986 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2987 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2988 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2989 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2990 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2991 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2992 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2993 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2994 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2995 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2996 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2997 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2999 Audio outputs and filters:
3000 * Replay gain support
3001 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
3002 new scaletempo audio filter)
3003 * New spatializer audio filter
3004 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
3007 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
3008 * New RTP payload formats:
3009 * Speex voice audio codec
3010 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
3011 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
3012 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
3013 * DCCP transport for RTP
3014 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
3019 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
3020 end-user suitable way.
3021 * Improved user interaction
3022 * Improved mouse gestures
3023 * Vastly improved Update checker
3024 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
3026 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
3027 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
3029 * Improved video output features
3030 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
3031 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
3032 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
3033 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
3034 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
3036 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
3037 if libncursesw is available.
3038 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
3039 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
3040 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
3042 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
3043 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
3044 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
3045 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
3046 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
3047 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
3048 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
3049 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
3052 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
3053 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
3054 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
3057 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
3058 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
3059 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
3060 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
3061 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
3062 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
3065 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
3066 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
3076 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
3077 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
3078 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
3081 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
3082 ----------------------------------
3085 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
3088 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
3089 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
3090 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
3091 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
3092 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
3093 * Updated Polish translation
3096 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
3097 ----------------------------------
3100 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
3101 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
3102 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
3105 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
3106 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
3107 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
3108 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
3109 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
3110 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
3111 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
3112 to an unexpected application termination
3113 * New Serbian translation
3114 * Updated Romanian translation
3117 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
3118 ----------------------------------
3121 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
3122 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
3123 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
3124 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
3125 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
3126 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
3127 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
3128 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
3131 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
3132 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
3133 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
3134 * Fixed AAC resampling
3135 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
3136 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
3139 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
3140 ----------------------------------
3143 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
3144 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
3145 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
3146 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
3147 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
3150 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
3151 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
3152 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
3153 * Close MMS access on network timeout
3154 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
3157 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
3158 ----------------------------------
3161 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
3162 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
3165 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
3166 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
3167 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
3168 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
3170 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
3174 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
3177 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
3180 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
3183 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
3186 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
3187 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
3188 encoding on multi-cpu systems
3189 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
3190 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
3192 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3193 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
3194 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
3195 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
3198 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
3201 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
3202 ----------------------------------
3205 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
3206 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
3207 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
3209 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
3210 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
3212 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
3213 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
3216 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
3218 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3219 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
3220 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
3221 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
3222 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
3223 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
3224 two different movies
3225 * Support for current Ogg file formats
3226 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
3227 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
3230 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
3233 * The automatic updating facility was removed
3234 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
3235 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
3236 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
3239 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
3240 ----------------------------------
3242 Various bugfixes, notably:
3243 * Windows Vista compatibility
3244 * Cropping in Direct3D
3245 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
3246 * RSS filter string overflow
3248 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
3250 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
3251 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
3254 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
3255 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
3258 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
3261 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
3264 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
3267 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
3268 ----------------------------------
3270 Various bugfixes, notably:
3271 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
3272 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
3273 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
3274 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
3275 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
3276 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
3279 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
3280 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
3283 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
3285 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3286 * Diverse usability improvements
3287 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
3288 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
3289 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
3292 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
3293 ---------------------------------
3295 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
3296 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
3299 * Fullscreen controller improvements
3302 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
3303 --------------------------------
3306 * Shoutcast TV listings support
3309 * Support for RTSP authentication
3310 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
3311 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
3312 * ATSC support for DVB input
3313 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
3314 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
3315 * Improved support for Flash Video files
3318 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
3319 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
3320 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
3321 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
3322 * Matroska WavPack support
3323 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
3324 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
3325 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
3328 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
3329 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
3330 * Improved libcaca support
3334 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
3335 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
3337 * Systray support in skins
3339 * Support for Apple Remote control
3340 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3341 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3342 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
3343 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
3345 * Notifications using notification-daemon
3348 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
3349 Windows 9x/ME users:
3350 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
3351 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
3352 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
3353 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
3354 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
3356 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
3357 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
3366 * Updates to the libvlc API
3367 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
3370 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
3371 --------------------------------
3374 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
3375 * Support for downloading updates
3379 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
3380 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
3381 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
3382 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
3384 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
3385 * Improved subtitles encoding support
3386 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
3389 * Cook (Real audio) support
3391 Playlist / Services discovery:
3392 * XSPF playlist support
3394 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
3397 * New JACK audio output
3400 * New video filters:
3401 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
3402 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
3403 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
3404 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
3405 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
3406 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
3409 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
3412 * System to inform the user and request information
3413 - HTTP authentication
3417 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
3418 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3419 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
3422 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
3423 - Improved playlist handling
3424 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
3426 - Embedded Video output
3427 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
3428 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
3429 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3430 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
3431 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
3433 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
3434 - A bunch of new RPN functions
3437 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
3440 * Mac-Intel compatibility
3441 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
3442 * Growl "Now playing" support
3445 * Ability to log to syslog
3446 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
3449 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
3451 * A bit more automatic testing
3454 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
3455 ---------------------------------
3458 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
3459 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
3462 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
3463 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
3466 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
3469 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
3470 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
3476 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
3479 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
3480 --------------------------------
3483 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
3487 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
3488 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
3489 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
3492 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
3493 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
3494 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
3495 * GnomeVFS input module
3496 * Support for RTP packet reordering
3497 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
3500 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
3501 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
3502 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
3505 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
3506 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
3512 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
3513 Mixer and Dolby Surround
3516 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
3517 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
3518 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
3521 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
3523 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
3524 - New extended controls panel
3525 - New bookmarks window
3526 - Fixed playlist sorting
3527 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
3529 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
3530 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
3531 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
3532 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
3536 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
3537 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
3539 - Include macro to include other files
3543 * Should now work outside IE as well
3546 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
3549 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
3550 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
3553 The following languages were added:
3557 * Simplified Chinese
3558 The following languages were re-added:
3562 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
3563 --------------------------------
3566 * Rewrite of the playlist
3568 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
3569 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
3570 * Preferences improvements:
3571 - New organization, designed to improve usability
3572 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
3574 * Core image manipulation support
3575 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
3576 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
3577 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
3578 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
3579 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
3580 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
3581 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
3582 now separated by ':' instead of ','
3583 * Access filter architecture
3584 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
3585 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
3589 * Support for SOCKS proxy
3590 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
3591 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
3592 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
3593 * Better support for Kasenna streams
3594 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
3595 * Massive Matroska improvements
3596 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
3598 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
3599 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
3600 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
3601 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
3602 * Support for FTP over IPv6
3604 Decoders / Encoders:
3605 * Dirac decoder and encoder
3606 * PNG decoder/encoder
3607 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
3608 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
3611 * New Record and Timeshift filters
3614 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
3615 * Brand new SAP module
3616 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
3617 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
3618 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
3619 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
3620 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
3621 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
3625 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
3628 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
3629 * Image file video output (png)
3630 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
3631 * Improvements to wall video filter
3632 * Support for font color and opacity
3638 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
3639 - Seeking support in VoD streams
3640 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
3644 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
3645 - Improved preferences
3646 - Improvements to the wizard
3647 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
3649 - Redesigned playlist
3650 - Improved preferences
3652 - Support for multiple actions
3655 - Support for the new playlist system
3657 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
3660 * Screensaver disabling fix
3661 * DirectShow tuner configuration
3662 * Support for no-decoration windows
3665 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
3666 * The OpenGL video output is back
3667 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
3668 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
3669 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
3670 is not yet available in the new module
3671 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
3674 * Support for single-buffered overlay
3683 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
3686 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
3689 The following languages were added:
3695 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
3696 --------------------------------
3699 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
3700 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
3703 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
3704 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
3705 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
3708 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3711 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
3714 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
3717 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
3718 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
3719 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
3723 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
3725 * Support of playlist group announcement
3728 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
3729 --------------------------------
3732 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
3733 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
3734 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
3735 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
3736 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
3737 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
3740 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
3741 (Stream your desktop)
3742 * Improved DVD support:
3743 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
3744 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
3745 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
3746 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
3747 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
3748 (selection of titles/chapters).
3751 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
3752 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
3753 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
3754 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
3755 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
3756 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3757 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
3758 * Improved Ogg demuxer
3759 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
3760 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
3763 * G.726 audio support
3764 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
3765 * MPEG-4 text support
3766 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
3767 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
3768 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
3772 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
3773 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
3774 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
3775 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
3776 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
3777 * DVB subtitles encoder
3778 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
3779 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
3781 * Text track muxing for mp4
3782 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
3783 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
3784 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3785 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
3786 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
3787 * Improved ASF muxer
3789 * H.263 RTP streaming support
3790 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
3791 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
3794 * New audio equalizer filter
3795 * Very trivial volume normalizer
3796 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
3797 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
3798 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
3801 * Roku HD1000 Video output
3802 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
3803 with support for effects.
3804 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
3805 - New filters can be streamed.
3806 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
3807 - Centralized scaling and blending
3809 - "time", to display current time
3810 - "marq", to display a marquee
3813 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
3814 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
3815 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
3816 * A few skins2 improvements
3817 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
3818 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
3819 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
3820 * Improved CORBA control module
3823 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
3824 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
3825 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
3828 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
3829 * Experimental SVG rendering module
3830 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
3833 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
3834 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
3835 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
3836 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
3837 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
3840 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3843 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
3844 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
3847 * Server/client network synchronization module
3848 * VBrick streams fully supported
3849 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
3853 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3854 --------------------------------
3857 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3858 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3859 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3860 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3863 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3864 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3865 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3866 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3867 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3868 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3869 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3872 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3873 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3874 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3875 * Improved directory access module.
3876 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3877 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3878 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3879 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3880 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3883 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3884 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3885 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3888 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3889 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3890 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3893 * Improved session announcement system.
3894 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3895 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3896 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3897 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3898 * Improved transrater.
3899 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3900 * New configuration system.
3901 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3904 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3905 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3906 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3907 * Supports scheduling.
3908 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3909 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3912 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3913 - Ability to embed video output.
3914 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3915 - Lots of improvements.
3916 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3917 - New design and set of icons.
3918 - Ability to embed video output.
3919 - Support for hotkeys.
3920 - Support for bookmarks.
3922 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3923 - Better hotkeys handling.
3926 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3927 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3928 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3929 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3932 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3933 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3934 * Improved Windows installer.
3940 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3941 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3944 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3945 ---------------------------------
3948 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3949 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3952 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3953 --------------------------------
3956 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3957 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3960 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3961 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3962 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3963 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3966 * Internal improvments
3967 * Improved import/export
3970 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3972 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3973 small and strange formats.
3975 * New MOD audio demux.
3976 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3977 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3978 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3979 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3982 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3983 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3984 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3990 * New opengl video output plugin.
3993 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3994 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3997 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3998 --------------------------------
4001 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
4002 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
4003 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
4004 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
4005 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
4006 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
4007 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
4008 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
4011 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
4016 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
4017 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
4018 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
4019 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
4020 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
4021 * Reworked DVB tuning.
4022 * Better Icecast support.
4023 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
4024 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
4027 * Support for Theora video encoding.
4028 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
4029 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
4030 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
4031 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
4032 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
4033 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
4036 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
4037 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
4038 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
4039 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
4040 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
4041 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
4042 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
4043 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
4044 * Preliminary RTP support.
4045 * Fixes to SAP announces.
4050 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
4051 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
4053 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
4054 - Improvements and help in preferences
4055 - New streaming wizard
4056 - Revised Disc Open menu
4058 - Improvements of the standard pages
4059 - Support for new commands
4060 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
4063 * Many fixes to the SAP module
4064 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
4067 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
4068 * Text subtitles autodetection.
4069 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
4070 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
4071 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
4072 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
4073 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
4074 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
4075 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
4078 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
4080 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
4081 * Support for Panther.
4082 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
4083 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
4086 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
4087 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
4088 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
4089 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
4090 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
4091 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
4092 * Multimonitor support (untested).
4093 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
4096 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
4097 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
4098 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
4101 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
4104 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
4105 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
4106 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
4107 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
4110 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
4111 --------------------------------
4114 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
4117 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
4118 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
4121 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
4122 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
4125 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
4128 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
4129 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
4132 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
4135 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
4138 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
4139 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
4143 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
4144 --------------------------------
4147 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
4148 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
4152 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
4153 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
4154 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
4156 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
4157 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
4160 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
4163 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
4166 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
4167 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
4171 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
4172 --------------------------------
4175 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
4176 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
4180 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
4181 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
4182 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
4183 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
4184 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
4187 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
4188 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
4189 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
4192 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
4193 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
4194 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
4197 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
4198 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
4199 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
4200 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
4201 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
4204 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
4205 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
4206 * A new CORBA control plugin.
4209 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
4212 * Improved build system.
4213 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
4214 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
4215 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
4216 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
4219 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
4220 --------------------------------
4223 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
4226 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
4227 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
4228 * Fixed large file support on Windows
4229 * Video 4 Linux support
4230 * CD Digital Audio support
4231 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
4234 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
4235 * Support for OpenDML avi files
4236 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
4237 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
4240 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
4241 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
4242 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
4243 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
4244 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
4245 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
4246 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
4249 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
4250 * New HTTP remote control interface
4253 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
4254 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
4255 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
4256 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
4257 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
4260 * New reset option for the preferences
4261 * You can set your language in the prefences
4262 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
4263 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
4264 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
4265 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
4268 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
4269 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
4270 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
4273 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
4274 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
4275 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
4276 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
4277 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
4278 * New icons by Davor Orel.
4279 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
4280 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
4281 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
4282 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
4285 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
4286 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
4287 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
4288 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
4289 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
4290 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
4291 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
4294 * Interface localization
4295 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
4296 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
4297 * New full-featured Preferences window
4300 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
4301 --------------------------------
4304 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
4305 * support for skins at the interface level
4306 * new OSD module using Freetype2
4307 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
4308 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
4309 input level before dropping out of date frames.
4310 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
4313 * fixed HTTP redirects
4314 * support for opening an entire directory
4315 * EOF should be detected more reliably
4316 * new video4linux access plug-in
4317 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
4320 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
4321 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
4322 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
4325 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
4326 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
4327 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
4328 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
4329 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
4330 * new codec for raw I420 video
4331 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
4334 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
4335 (although it still misses some important features)
4336 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
4339 * new HTTP output support
4340 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
4341 * fixed AV synchronization issues
4344 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
4347 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
4350 * reorderable playlist
4351 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
4352 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
4353 * support for mono audio output devices
4354 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
4355 * fixed several cosmetic issues
4356 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
4357 * the messages window remembers more lines
4358 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
4359 * http and ogg stream output options
4360 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
4363 * new skinnable interface
4364 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
4366 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
4367 * support for FLAC audio format
4368 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
4370 * network tab in the interface
4371 * "apply" handling in preferences
4374 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
4375 ---------------------------------
4378 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
4379 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
4380 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
4381 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
4383 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
4384 * DTS S/PDIF support
4387 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
4388 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
4389 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
4390 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
4393 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
4394 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
4397 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
4400 * fixed the GNU-pth support
4403 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
4405 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
4406 * rc interface is now fully useable
4407 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
4410 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
4411 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
4412 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
4413 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
4414 * VLC now uses the default audio device
4416 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
4417 * support for mouse gestures
4418 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
4421 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
4422 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
4425 * improved ID3 tag detection
4426 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
4427 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
4428 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
4430 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
4433 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
4434 ---------------------------------
4437 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
4438 English was set as the preferred language
4441 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
4442 --------------------------------
4445 * new mouse gesture interface
4446 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
4450 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
4451 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
4452 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
4455 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
4456 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
4460 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
4463 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
4464 without the user consent
4467 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
4469 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
4470 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
4471 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
4474 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
4475 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
4476 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
4477 * playlist enhancements
4478 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
4479 * new step forward/step backward commands
4480 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
4481 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
4482 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
4485 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
4486 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
4487 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
4490 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
4491 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
4494 * native video output is working again
4495 * only commandline interface support
4496 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
4499 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
4500 --------------------------------
4503 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
4504 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
4505 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
4506 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
4507 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
4508 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
4509 and A/52 streams are supported)
4510 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
4515 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
4516 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
4517 * VCD entry points support
4518 * VCD image file support
4521 * support for *.asf format
4522 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
4523 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
4524 * support for ogg encapsulation
4525 * support for raw DV format
4526 * support for *.wav format
4527 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
4530 Stream discovery & playlists:
4531 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
4532 * support for .m3u file format
4533 * support for .asx file format
4534 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
4537 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
4538 (only available with the .avi demux)
4539 * support for ADPCM audio codec
4540 * support for raw PCM data
4541 * support for Cinepak video codec
4542 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
4543 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
4544 * support for Xvid codec
4545 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
4546 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
4547 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
4549 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
4551 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
4554 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
4557 * new WxWindows interface
4558 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
4559 device and the channels configuration
4560 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
4561 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
4562 format that VLC can play
4563 * new swedish translation
4564 * enhancements of the playlist window
4565 * new messages window to see debug info
4566 * fixed a few crashes
4569 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
4570 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
4571 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
4572 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working