1 Changes between 2.2.x and 3.0.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
5 * Support wayland surface type
6 * Allow to start the video paused on the first frame
9 * Support HDS (Http Dynamic Streaming) from Adobe (f4m, f4v, etc.)
10 * New SMB access module using libdsm
11 * Rewrite MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support, including
12 MPEG2TS and ISOFF profiles
13 * Large rework of the Smooth Streaming module
14 * Screen capture plugin for Wayland display
15 * Support decompression and extraction through libarchive (tar, zip, rar...)
16 * Improvements of cookie handling (share cookies between playlist items,
17 domain / path matching, Secure cookies)
18 * Support DVB-T2 on Windows BDA
19 * Support depayloading Opus from RTP
20 * Support sftp username and passwords options and URL
21 * New UPnP access module, to list directories without infinite recursions
22 * New WASAPI audio capture module on Windows
25 * OMX GPU-zerocopy support for decoding and display on Android using OpenMax IL
26 * Support 4:4:4 and 4:2:2 chroma samplings with VDPAU hw acceleration
27 * Support for ARIB STD-B24 subtitles
28 * Support for Daala video
29 * Important improvements for the MMAL decoder and output for rPI
30 * Support HEVC hardware decoding using OMX and MediaCodec
31 * Support VP9 and WMV3 decoding using OMX and performance improvements
32 * New MPEG-1 & 2 audio layer I, II, III + MPEG 2.5 decoder based on libmpg123
33 * New BPG decoder based on libbpg
34 * Fixed uncompressed DVD-Audio (AOB) LPCM decoding
35 * Rewrite WPL playlists and add ZPL playlists support (Zune)
36 * Support TDSC, Canopus HQX
37 * Support HEVC hardware decoding on Windows, using DxVA2
38 * Basic TTML subtitles support
41 * Support HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS)
42 * Support Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
43 * Support Daala in Ogg
44 * Important rework of the MP4 demuxer
45 * Support EIA-608 subtitles in MP4/mov
46 * Support WMV and WMAV in MP4/mov, aka Flip4Mac files
47 * Support bitmap audio channel reordering in MP4/mov
48 * Support AlbumArtist and DiscNumber metadata
49 * Fixed program selection with recorded TS (TopField, DreamBox and others)
50 * Fixed TS playback with PAT/PMT less recordings
51 * Support for lame's replaygain extension in mpeg files
52 * Fixes for DTS detection in WAV and MKV files
53 * Basic support for MPEG4-SL in TS and T-DMB
54 * Support for Creative ADPCM/alaw/ulaw/S16L in VOC files
55 * Support for Creative ADPCM in AVI
58 * Added ARIB STD-B25 TS streams decoder
61 * Complete rewrite of the AudioTrack Android module. This is now the default.
62 It now supports HDMI/SPDIF passthrough for AC3, 5.1/7.1 and float output.
65 * Linux/BSD default video output is now OpenGL, instead of Xvideo
66 * Wayland shell surface window provider
67 * Wayland shared memory video output
68 * Large rework of the Android video outputs: there is now Surface (2.1, 2.2)
69 NativeWindow (2.3+, supports hw rotation, subpicture blending, opaque)
70 * Support rotation in Android NativeWindow output and hardware decoders
71 * Renamed the Direct3D output module to Direct3D9
72 * Added Direct3D11 video mode supporting both Windows desktop and WinRT modes.
75 * Hardware deinterlacing on the rPI, using MMAL
76 * New video filter to convert between fps rates
77 * Added 9-bit and 10-bit support to image adjust filter
80 * Chromecast output module
81 * RGB24 and YCbCr 4:2:0 RTP packetization
84 * Support for Daala video in 4:2:0 and 4:4:4
87 * Added fragmented/streamable MP4 muxer
88 * Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
92 * New NetBios service discovery using libdsm
93 * Rewrite of the UPnP service discovery
96 * new AppleScript API giving access to audio desynchronization
97 * Port to Yosemite X.10
100 * Batch convert support
103 * Support key accelerators
106 * Add libvlc_media_new_callbacks for custom input byte streams
107 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_enum to enumerate devices of current aout
108 * Split of libvlc_media_discoverer_new_from_name into libvlc_media_discoverer_new,
109 libvlc_media_discoverer_new and libvlc_media_discoverer_start.
110 This allows to attach media events between create and start.
111 * Add libvlc_media_get_codec_description to get a human readable description of a codec
112 * Add libvlc_MediaListEndReached Event to get notified when a media list reached the end
113 * Add libvlc_media_parse_with_options that uses a flag to specify parse options
114 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_get to get the currently selected audio output device
115 identifier (if there is one available)
116 * Add libvlc_media_get_type to get the type of the media
119 * Support for the SystemD Journal
120 * Use --syslog and --syslog-debug command line options to include debug
121 messages in syslog. With --syslog, errors and warnings will be sent only.
122 * New Android module for logging
125 * remove langfromtelx
126 * remove ZPL playlist format
129 Changes between 2.2.0 and 2.2.1:
130 --------------------------------
133 * Fix compilation with older libavcodec versions
134 * Fix some VP9 decoding
136 * Fix lpcm channel ordering
137 * Fix potential NULL dereference in dmo
138 * Fix teletext framing code in DVB PES packets
139 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroendinger decoder (CVE-2014-9629)
144 * Fix MKV overseeking, introducing slowness over network shares
145 * Fix crash when playing SPC files
146 * Fix ATRAC3 playback in MKV
147 * Revert to older ASX code
148 * Workaround TS issue with mpeg-audio
151 * Fix sftp read and close sockets
152 * Fix DTV build with Linux DVB versions < 5.8
153 * Fix UDP/RTP input on Windows
156 * Fix Alsa HDMI plugs
157 * Improve Alsa output, with larger buffers
158 * Fix DirectSound output with multi-channel files
161 * Fix numerous crashes in the UI
162 * Fix video-wallpaper mode
163 * Fix race when starting VLC from command line
166 * Fix recent items behaviour
167 * Fix rotation filter activation
168 * Fix mux modules names for the streaming wizard
171 * Timestamp the signature of the dlls
172 * Fix extensions registration during install
173 * Fix extensions dialog crash
174 * Default to no DxVA decoding
177 * fix libvlc_media_get_stats
180 * Update of Afrikaans, Albanian, Azerbaijani, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch,
181 English (United Kingdom), Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian,
182 Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Macedonian, Malay, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål,
183 Norwegian Nynorsk, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian,
184 Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai,
185 Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian translations
188 Changes between 2.1.6 and 2.2.0:
189 --------------------------------
192 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+,
193 notably most of the streaming output, muxers and access output modules
196 * Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible
197 * Add extensions manager and downloading from external repositories
198 * Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies
199 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
202 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access
203 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes
204 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
205 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection
207 * Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM
208 * Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs
209 * Fix CDDB lookups, including pregap data
212 * Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
213 * Support MediaCodec acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
214 * Add Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder
215 * Add video decoder module based on GStreamer plugins
216 * Add MMAL decoder for Broadcom VideoCore chips (like the RaspberryPi)
217 supporting MPEG-2 and H.264, supporting GPU-zerocopy display
218 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
219 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
220 * Support MSN Audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1,
221 Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless, and numerous videogame codecs
222 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
223 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
224 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
225 * OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
226 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
227 * New jpeg image decoder
228 * Add tx3g subtitles decoder
229 * New SVG image decoder
230 * Fix Speex decoding over RTP and in flv
231 * Support more x264 and FFv1 RGB modes
232 * Improvements on ZVBI teletext decoder, notably for speed and alignments
235 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
236 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
237 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
238 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
239 * New png image encoder using libpng
242 * Support for Core Audio Format (CAF) files
243 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking,
244 streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg
245 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking,
246 synchronization and tracks exclusion
247 * AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations
248 * AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps
249 * MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio
250 and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion
251 * Support Opus in MKV
253 * Basic support for WebVTT
254 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 (AAC) Audio stream type in TS
255 * Support HDPR TS files
256 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
257 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
258 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
259 * Fix encoding issues and relative paths in some XML playlist formats
260 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
261 * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
262 * TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
263 * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
264 * Support SVG images files (on glib platforms)
265 * Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV
266 * Support detection of SRT languages based on filename
267 * Support for seeking Standard MIDI Files
270 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
271 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
272 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
273 * New Android native window provider module
274 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
275 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
276 * Add MMAL based video output for RaspberryPi
279 * New Oldmovie effect filter
280 * New VHS effect filter
281 * New Freeze effect filter
282 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
283 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
284 * Fix audiobargraph activation and usage
287 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
288 * Audio device notifications for WASAPI
289 * Fix replay of sound buffer in DirectSound
290 * Split of MMDevice and WinRT audio modules
291 * Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes
292 * Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules
295 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
296 * Fixes for the AVI muxer to respect the specification
298 * Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS
301 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
302 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
303 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
304 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
305 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
306 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
307 * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
308 * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
309 * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
311 * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
312 --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
313 * Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP
316 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
317 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
320 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
321 * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
324 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
325 * Add record button in Qt menus
326 * New module for core dialogs on iOS
327 * New layout for Qt buttons customization
328 * Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and OS X
331 * Support for OS X Yosemite
332 * Avoid grey bars in fullscreen when using Mavericks with multiple monitors
333 * Improve fullscreen behavior for the native and VLCs own mode
334 * Fixes for advanced preferences
335 * Added 'file size' column to playlist table
336 * in addition to iTunes, Spotify is automatically paused on playback start
337 * Option to increase playlist font size
338 * Improved crash log reporting
341 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
342 * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
343 * Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
344 * Update and improve Koreus, Dailymotion, Soundcloud and Youtube scripts
347 * Numerous integer and heap overflow in Ogg, AVI, ASF, TTA and MP4 demuxers
350 * iOS video output: use ios2
351 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
352 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
355 * New translation in Urdu, Tatar, Silesian, Samoan, Kapampangan, N'ko,
356 Kurdish, Kabyle, Mexican Spanish, Catalan, Amharic
357 * Update of all translations:
358 Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese, Uzbek, Ukrainian,
359 Turkish, Thai, Swedish, Serbian, Albanian, Slovenian, Slovak, Russian,
360 Romanian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Punjabi, Dutch, Nepali, Norwegian
361 Bokmål, Malay, Marathi, Latvian, Lithuanian, Korean, Kannada, Khmer,
362 Japanese, Italian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Hebrew, Galician, Scottish
363 Gaelic, French, Finnish, Persian, Estonian, Spanish, Modern Greek, German,
364 Danish, Welsh, Czech, Bosnian, Bengali, Asturian
367 Changes between 2.1.5 and 2.1.6:
368 --------------------------------
374 * Fix heap overflow in decomp stream filter
375 * Fix buffer overflow in updater (CVE-2014-9625)
376 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroedinger encoder
377 * Fix null-pointer dereference in DMO decoder
378 * Fix buffer overflow in parsing of string boxes in mp4 demuxer (CVE-2014-9626,9627,9628)
379 * Fix SRTP integer overflow
380 * Fix potential crash in zip access
381 * Fix read overflow in Ogg demuxer
382 * Fix RTP overflow (CVE-2014-9630)
385 * Update translations and greek encoding
388 Changes between 2.1.4 and 2.1.5:
389 --------------------------------
392 * Fix compilation on OS/2
395 * Stability improvements for the QTSound capture module
397 Mac OS X audio output:
398 * Fix channel ordering
399 * Increase the buffersize
402 * Fix DxVA2 decoding of samples needing more surfaces
403 * Improve MAD resistance to broken mp3 streams
404 * Fix PGS alignment in MKV
407 * Don't rename mp3 converted files to .raw
410 * Correctly support video-on-top
411 * Fix video output event propagation on Macs with retina displays
412 * Stability improvements when using future VLC releases side by side
415 * Fix transcode when audio format changes
418 * Updated GnuTLS to 3.1.25 (CVE-2014-3466)
419 * Updated libpng to 1.6.10 (CVE-2014-0333)
422 * Update British English
425 Changes between 2.1.3 and 2.1.4:
426 --------------------------------
429 * Fix issue in WMV with multiple compressed payload and empty payloads
432 * Fix subtitles size rendering on Windows
435 * Fix DVD playback regression
436 * Fix misleading error message during video playback on OS X 10.9
437 * Fix hardware acceleration memleaks
440 Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3:
441 --------------------------------
444 * Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
445 * Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir
448 * Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
449 * Fix encrypted DVD playback
450 * Fix v4l2 frequency conversion
453 * Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
454 by updating codec libraries
455 * Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
456 * Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
457 * Fix teletext crash on Windows
460 * Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
461 * Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
462 * Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
463 * Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing
466 * Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
467 * Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X
470 * Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
471 * Fix transform off-by-one issue
472 * Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
473 * Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
474 * Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC
477 * Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
478 * Fix record file names
481 * Fix minimal size possible on start
482 * Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
483 * Fix a crash in the audio menu building
484 * Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
485 * Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows
488 * Fix album art display on Windows
491 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek,
492 Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew,
493 Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Nepali,
494 Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
495 Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
496 and Simplified Chinese translations
497 * Fix encoding for Windows installer translations
500 Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2:
501 --------------------------------
504 * Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
505 * Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
506 * Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external
507 audio devices on OS X
508 * Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
509 * Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS
512 * Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
513 * Various WMV playback improvements and fixes
516 * Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
517 * Fix playback of some HEVC samples
520 * Fix crash on deinterlace selection
523 * Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
524 * Improve A-B loop control
525 * Fix album art update when changing media
528 * Add a language option in the interface
529 * Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
530 * Improved UI resetting when requested in the preferences
531 * Fix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
532 * Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
533 * Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
534 * Fix crash when closing window without decorations
535 * Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled
538 * Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update
541 * Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian,
542 French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer,
543 Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala,
544 Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations
547 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
548 --------------------------------
551 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
553 * Fix some subtitles track selection
556 * VP9 support in WebM
557 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
558 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
561 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
562 * Support Speex in ogg files
563 * Fix some .mov playlists support
564 * Support Alac in mkv
565 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
566 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
569 * Fix DVB options parsing
570 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
571 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
574 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
575 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
578 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
579 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
582 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
583 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
584 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
585 * Fix play after drag'n drop
586 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
589 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
590 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
593 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
594 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
597 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
598 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
599 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
600 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
601 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
602 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
603 * Improves interface resizings
606 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
607 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
608 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
609 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
610 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
614 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
615 --------------------------------
618 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
619 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
620 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
621 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
622 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
624 3rd party libraries (contrib):
625 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
628 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
629 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
630 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
631 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
632 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
635 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
636 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
640 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
641 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
642 * Support for Ulead DV audio
643 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
644 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
645 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
646 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
647 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
648 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
649 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
650 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
651 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
652 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
655 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
656 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
657 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
660 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
661 remove support for previous OS X releases
662 * Major improvements in DASH support
663 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
664 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
665 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
666 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
667 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
668 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
669 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
670 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
671 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
672 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
673 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
676 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
677 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
678 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
679 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
680 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
681 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
682 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
683 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
684 * Support for more MJPEG streams
685 * Add support for liveleak streams
686 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
687 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
688 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
691 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
692 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
693 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
694 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
695 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
696 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
697 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
698 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
699 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
700 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
701 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
704 * New remapping channel filter
705 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
706 * New VSXu visualization plugin
707 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
708 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
709 * New gain audio filter
712 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
713 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
714 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
715 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
716 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
717 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
718 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
719 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
720 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
723 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
724 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
725 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
726 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
727 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
728 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
729 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
732 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
733 * Options support for AVIO output module
734 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
735 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
736 * Livehttp stream encryption support
737 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
738 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
741 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
744 * configurable password for the HTTP server
745 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
746 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
747 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
748 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
749 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
750 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
751 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
755 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
758 * Add support for multiple video outputs
759 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
761 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
762 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
763 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
764 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
765 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
766 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
767 VLC's internal volume level
768 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
770 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
771 selection and to manage the list of presets
772 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
773 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
774 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
775 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
776 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
777 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
778 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
779 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
780 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
781 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
783 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
784 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
785 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
786 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
787 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
788 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
789 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
790 3rd party applications
791 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
792 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
793 (system-wide settings)
794 * Add support for the Video Title option
795 * Add support for the Boss Key
796 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
797 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
800 * Partial support for Qt5.0
801 * Menus modifications and improvements
802 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
803 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
804 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
805 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
806 * EPG display fixes and improvements
807 * Add SD pixmap sources
808 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
809 * Display playlist total duration
810 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
811 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
812 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
817 * Extend sliders, offsets options
818 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
819 * Numerous fixes and improvements
820 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
823 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
824 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
825 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
826 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
827 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
828 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
829 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
830 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
831 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
832 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
835 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
836 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
837 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
838 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
839 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
840 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
842 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
843 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
844 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
845 * Broken crop video filter
847 * OSD parser and menu
848 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
849 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
850 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
851 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
855 * Update of all translations
858 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
859 --------------------------------
862 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
863 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
866 * Fix modplug security issues
869 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
870 --------------------------------
874 * Fix crash in QTsound
875 * Fix screen mouse file location
876 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
879 * Fix use after free in sgimb
880 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
883 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
886 * Fix interface crashes
887 * Fix autostart playback option
888 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
891 * update Welsh translation
892 * New Kannada translation
895 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
896 --------------------------------
899 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
900 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
904 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
907 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
910 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
913 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
917 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
920 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
923 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
924 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
925 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
928 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
929 --------------------------------
932 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
935 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
938 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
939 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
940 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
941 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
942 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
943 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
946 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
947 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
948 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
949 * 3rd party codecs updates
952 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
953 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
954 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
955 in the advanced preferences panel
956 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
957 * Fix crash within the video output code
958 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
959 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
960 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
961 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
963 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
966 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
969 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
970 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
973 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
976 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
977 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
978 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
979 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
980 Dutch, Danish, translations
981 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
984 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
985 --------------------------------
988 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
991 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
992 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
993 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
996 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
997 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
998 * Fix koreus lua parser
999 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
1000 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
1001 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
1002 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
1005 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
1006 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
1009 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
1012 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
1013 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
1014 * Fix Time counter UI look
1015 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
1018 * Fix https streaming
1021 * Fix audio and video track selection:
1022 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
1023 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
1026 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
1027 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
1028 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
1029 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
1030 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
1033 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
1034 --------------------------------
1037 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
1038 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
1039 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
1040 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
1041 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
1042 during playback on Mac OS X
1045 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
1046 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
1047 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
1050 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
1051 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
1052 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
1053 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
1054 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
1057 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
1058 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
1059 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
1060 * Support Youtube live streams
1063 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
1066 * Fix media info dialog update
1067 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
1068 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
1069 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
1070 * Fix album art display at start
1073 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
1074 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
1075 * Fix menus display and behavior
1076 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
1077 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
1078 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
1079 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
1080 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
1081 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
1082 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
1085 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
1086 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
1087 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
1088 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
1089 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
1090 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
1091 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
1092 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
1093 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
1096 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
1097 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
1098 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
1099 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
1100 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
1103 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
1104 --------------------------------
1107 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
1110 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
1111 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
1114 * Add GateKeeper support
1115 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
1116 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
1117 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
1120 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
1123 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
1124 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
1125 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
1126 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
1127 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
1130 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
1131 --------------------------------
1134 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
1135 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
1136 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
1137 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
1138 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
1139 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
1140 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
1141 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
1142 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
1143 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
1144 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
1148 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
1149 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
1150 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
1151 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
1152 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
1153 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
1154 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
1155 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
1156 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
1157 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
1158 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
1159 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
1162 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
1163 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
1165 * Fix MP3 free format support
1168 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
1169 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
1170 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
1171 * Fix for DVB channels file support
1172 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
1175 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
1176 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
1178 Audio filters and output:
1179 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
1180 * Fix DirectSound device selection
1181 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
1182 * Do not apply volume in file output
1183 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
1184 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
1187 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
1188 the persistant media library
1189 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
1190 to the media library or the temporary playlist
1191 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
1192 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
1193 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
1194 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
1195 press on the Play/Pause button
1196 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
1197 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
1198 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
1199 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
1200 * Many Fullscreen fixes
1201 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
1202 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
1203 Synchronization panel
1204 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
1205 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
1206 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
1207 * Fix crashes on exit
1208 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
1210 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
1211 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
1212 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
1213 automatically reset on the first launch.
1214 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
1215 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
1216 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
1219 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
1220 * Fixes for icecast SD
1223 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
1224 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
1225 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
1226 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
1227 * Fix tags and file names display
1228 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
1231 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
1232 * Fix for key events and focus loss
1235 * Fix display of some buttons
1236 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
1237 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
1240 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
1241 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
1242 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
1245 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
1246 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
1247 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
1248 Thai translations update
1249 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
1252 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
1253 --------------------------------
1256 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
1257 * fix the samba module compilation
1258 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1259 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
1260 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
1261 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
1264 * Support for MXPEG files
1265 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
1266 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
1269 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
1270 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
1271 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
1274 * Fix ogm header creation
1277 * limit spatializer filter distortions
1278 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
1281 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
1282 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
1283 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
1284 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
1287 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
1290 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
1291 * allow to hide the sidebar
1292 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
1293 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
1294 * noticebly faster launch time
1295 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
1296 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
1297 * improve track synchronization panel
1298 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
1299 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
1302 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
1303 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
1304 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
1305 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
1308 * fix for menus display
1309 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
1310 * documentation update
1313 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
1314 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
1317 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
1318 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1319 * Update Jamendo selections
1323 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
1324 * fix a crash on VLM close
1327 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
1328 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
1329 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
1330 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
1333 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
1336 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
1337 ---------------------------------
1340 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1341 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
1342 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
1343 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
1344 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
1345 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
1346 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
1347 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
1348 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
1349 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
1350 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
1351 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
1352 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
1353 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
1354 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
1355 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
1356 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
1357 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
1358 --http-crl (optional CRL).
1359 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
1360 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
1361 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
1362 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
1363 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
1364 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
1365 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
1367 Important changes for packagers:
1368 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
1369 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
1370 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
1371 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
1372 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
1373 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
1374 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
1375 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
1376 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
1377 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
1380 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
1381 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
1382 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
1383 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
1384 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
1385 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
1386 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
1389 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
1390 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
1391 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
1392 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
1393 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
1394 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
1395 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
1396 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
1397 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
1398 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
1399 * PulseAudio audio input support
1400 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
1401 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
1402 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
1403 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
1404 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
1405 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
1406 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
1407 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
1410 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
1411 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
1412 are notably concerned.
1413 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
1414 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
1415 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
1416 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
1417 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
1418 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
1419 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
1420 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
1421 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
1422 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
1423 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
1424 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
1425 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
1426 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
1427 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
1430 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
1431 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
1432 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
1433 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
1434 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
1435 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
1436 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
1437 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
1438 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
1439 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
1440 * Improved support of tracker files
1441 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
1444 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
1445 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
1446 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
1447 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
1448 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
1449 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
1450 and important cleanups and optimisations
1451 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
1452 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
1453 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
1454 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
1455 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
1456 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
1457 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
1458 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
1459 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
1460 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
1461 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
1462 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
1463 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
1464 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
1465 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
1466 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
1467 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
1468 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
1469 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
1470 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
1471 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
1474 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
1475 * New video output for iOS platform
1476 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
1477 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
1478 * Various vmem improvements
1479 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
1480 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
1481 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
1482 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
1483 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
1484 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
1486 Audio Output and Filters:
1487 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
1488 * New audio output in memory (amem)
1489 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
1490 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
1491 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
1492 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
1493 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
1494 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
1495 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
1496 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
1499 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
1500 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
1501 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
1502 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
1503 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
1504 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
1505 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
1506 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
1507 * New anti-flickering filter
1508 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
1509 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
1510 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
1511 blackbox and customizable shadow.
1512 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
1513 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
1514 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
1517 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
1518 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
1519 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
1520 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
1521 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
1522 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
1523 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
1524 * Major rework of VoD support
1525 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
1526 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
1527 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
1528 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
1529 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
1530 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
1531 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
1532 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
1533 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
1534 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
1537 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
1538 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
1541 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1542 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
1543 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
1544 list of available audio and video filters
1545 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
1546 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
1547 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
1550 * asademux, subsass: use libass
1551 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
1552 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
1553 * id3tag: use taglib
1554 * upnp: use upnp_intel
1555 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
1556 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
1557 * removal of the noise filter
1558 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
1559 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
1560 removed in Growl's next release, too.
1561 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
1564 * Update of translations for most languages.
1565 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
1568 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
1569 ----------------------------------
1572 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
1573 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
1576 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
1577 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
1580 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
1581 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
1582 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
1585 * Camtasia decoding fix.
1588 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
1589 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
1592 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
1595 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
1596 ----------------------------------
1599 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
1600 including support for OS X Lion
1601 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
1602 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
1605 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
1608 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
1609 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
1610 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
1613 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
1616 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
1617 ----------------------------------
1620 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
1621 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
1624 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
1625 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
1626 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
1627 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
1628 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
1630 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
1631 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
1632 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
1634 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
1635 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
1638 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
1641 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
1644 * Fix quitting on Linux
1645 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
1649 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
1652 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
1655 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
1656 ---------------------------------
1658 Windows and Mac OS X:
1659 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
1662 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
1663 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
1666 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
1669 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
1672 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
1674 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1675 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
1677 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
1678 * RTP output and XML export
1679 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
1683 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
1684 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
1685 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
1686 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
1689 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
1690 --------------------------------
1692 Windows and Mac OS X:
1693 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
1696 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
1699 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
1700 * Improve Apple Remote handling
1701 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
1702 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
1703 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
1704 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
1707 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
1708 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
1712 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
1713 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
1714 * New Luganda Translation
1717 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
1718 --------------------------------
1721 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
1724 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
1725 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
1726 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
1727 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
1730 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
1732 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
1733 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
1734 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
1735 * mp4 demuxer improvements
1736 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
1737 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
1738 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
1739 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
1741 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1742 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
1743 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
1744 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
1745 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
1746 * Configure and build system improvements
1747 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
1750 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
1751 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
1752 * New icelandic translation
1755 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
1756 --------------------------------
1759 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
1760 #234484 and #260719.
1763 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
1764 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1765 and stability reasons
1768 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1772 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1775 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1776 ----------------------------------
1779 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1782 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1783 ---------------------------------
1786 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1787 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1788 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1789 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1792 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1795 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1796 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1797 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1798 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1801 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1802 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1803 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1805 Subtitles and renderer:
1806 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1807 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1808 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1809 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1810 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1813 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1814 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1815 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1816 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1819 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1820 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1822 Miscellaneous fixes:
1823 * KDE device solid actions
1825 * Transcode integer overflow
1826 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1827 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1830 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1831 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1832 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1835 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1836 ----------------------------------
1839 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1843 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1846 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1849 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1850 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1851 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1852 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1855 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1859 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1862 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1865 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1866 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1868 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1872 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1873 * Miscellaneous fixes
1876 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1877 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1878 French and Ukrainian
1879 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1880 * New Asturian translation
1883 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1884 ----------------------------------
1887 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1889 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1892 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1895 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1896 * Various fixes for Windows
1899 * New Armenian translation
1900 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1901 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1904 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1905 --------------------------------
1908 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1909 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1910 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1913 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1914 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1917 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1918 --------------------------------
1920 Access and demuxers:
1921 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1922 * fix for podcasts parsing
1923 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1926 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1927 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1930 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1931 * fix m3u playlists exports
1934 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1937 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1940 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1943 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1946 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1949 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1950 --------------------------------
1953 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1954 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1957 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1958 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1961 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1962 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1963 * fix console output encoding
1965 Interface and extensions:
1966 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1967 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1970 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1971 --------------------------------
1974 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1975 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1976 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1977 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1978 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1979 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1980 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1981 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1982 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1983 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1984 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1985 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1986 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1987 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1988 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1989 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1993 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1994 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1995 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1996 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1997 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
2000 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
2003 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
2004 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
2005 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
2009 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
2012 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
2013 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
2014 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
2017 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
2018 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
2019 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
2020 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
2023 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
2024 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
2027 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
2028 --------------------------------
2030 Important changes for users:
2031 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
2032 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
2034 Important changes for packagers:
2035 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
2036 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
2037 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
2038 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
2039 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
2041 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
2043 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
2044 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
2045 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
2046 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
2047 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
2050 * Support for the sftp protocol
2051 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
2052 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
2053 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
2054 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
2055 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
2058 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
2059 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
2060 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
2062 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
2063 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
2064 * Invmem module improvements
2065 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
2066 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
2067 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
2068 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
2069 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
2070 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
2071 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
2072 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
2073 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
2074 * Support for VP8 codec
2075 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
2078 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
2079 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
2080 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
2081 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
2082 * Various EGP improvements
2083 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
2084 * Metadata and cover art improvements
2087 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
2088 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
2089 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
2090 * Podcast images are now displayed
2093 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
2094 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
2095 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
2096 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
2097 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
2098 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
2099 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
2100 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
2101 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
2102 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
2103 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
2106 * New content extensions lua framework
2109 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
2110 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
2111 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
2112 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
2113 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
2114 * NEON assembly audio converter module
2115 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
2118 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
2119 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
2120 * Service discovery based on libudev
2121 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
2124 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
2125 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
2126 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
2127 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
2128 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
2129 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
2130 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
2133 * New smem module, streaming to memory
2134 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
2135 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
2138 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
2140 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
2141 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
2144 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
2147 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
2148 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
2149 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
2150 by Andy Matuschak et al.
2151 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
2152 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
2153 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
2156 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
2157 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
2160 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
2161 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
2162 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
2166 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
2167 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
2168 * Improved Solaris port
2171 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
2172 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
2175 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
2176 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
2177 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
2178 * transrate: broken since too long
2179 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
2180 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
2181 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
2182 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
2183 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
2184 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
2185 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
2186 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
2187 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
2188 * cddax: use cdda instead.
2189 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
2190 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
2191 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
2192 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
2195 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
2196 --------------------------------
2199 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
2201 Decoders/Packetizers:
2202 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
2205 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
2206 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
2207 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
2208 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
2209 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
2212 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
2213 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
2216 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
2217 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
2220 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
2221 and Walloon translations updated
2222 * Sinhala translation started
2225 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
2226 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
2229 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
2230 --------------------------------
2233 * SubRip extra styles improvements
2234 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
2237 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
2240 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
2241 increase performance and fix x264 issues
2244 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
2245 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
2246 Russian, Slovak translation updates
2247 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
2250 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
2251 --------------------------------
2254 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
2255 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
2258 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
2259 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
2262 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
2263 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
2266 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
2269 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
2270 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
2273 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
2274 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
2277 * New Walloon translation
2278 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
2281 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
2282 --------------------------------
2285 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
2286 regressions in most popular drivers
2287 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
2290 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
2291 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
2292 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
2295 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
2296 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
2299 * Update for appletrailers lua script
2300 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
2301 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
2302 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
2303 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
2306 * New udev module for linux
2309 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
2312 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
2315 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
2316 --------------------------------
2319 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
2320 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
2321 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
2324 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
2325 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
2328 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
2329 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
2332 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
2335 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
2336 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
2337 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
2338 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
2341 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
2342 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
2343 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
2344 - no support for Goom and SDL
2345 - limited text rendering support
2346 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
2349 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
2350 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
2351 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
2352 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
2353 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
2354 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
2355 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
2356 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
2357 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
2361 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
2364 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
2367 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
2368 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
2369 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
2370 Arabic and French translation updates
2373 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
2374 --------------------------------
2377 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
2378 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
2379 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
2380 * Fix Dailymotion access script
2381 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
2382 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
2385 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
2386 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2387 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2390 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
2391 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
2392 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
2395 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
2398 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
2399 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
2402 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
2403 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
2404 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2405 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
2406 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
2407 * Fix various crashes
2410 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
2412 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
2416 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
2417 ---------------------------------
2421 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
2422 See 'Access:' for more info.
2423 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
2426 * Instantaneous pausing
2427 * Frame-by-Frame playback
2428 * Finer speed control
2429 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
2430 * Timeshift for most medias
2431 * RTSP trickplay support
2432 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
2435 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
2436 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
2437 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
2438 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
2439 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
2440 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
2441 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
2442 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
2443 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
2444 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
2447 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
2448 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
2449 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
2450 * Metadata for mod files are supported
2451 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
2452 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
2453 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
2456 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
2457 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
2460 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
2461 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
2462 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
2463 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
2464 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
2465 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
2466 * DVB scanning on linux
2467 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
2468 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
2469 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
2470 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
2471 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
2472 * MTP device access on Unix
2473 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
2474 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
2477 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
2478 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
2479 Windows and Mac OS X.
2482 * Export the playlist in HTML
2483 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
2484 * Better metadata handling and reading
2486 Linux/Windows interface:
2487 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
2488 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
2489 * Recently played items list
2490 * Interface toolbar customizations
2491 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
2492 - More menus actions
2493 - Finer speed slider
2494 - Improvements on many dialogs
2495 - New dialog for plugins listing
2496 - Fixed-size mode for videos
2497 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
2498 * Better integration in GTK environments
2501 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
2502 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
2503 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
2504 * Additional usability improvements
2507 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
2508 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
2509 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
2510 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
2511 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
2514 * New Maemo port with:
2515 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
2516 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
2519 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
2522 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
2523 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
2524 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
2525 * Support for latest iSight models
2528 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
2529 * Surround support for PulseAudio
2532 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
2533 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
2534 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
2535 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
2536 The old image video output has been removed.
2537 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
2538 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
2541 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
2549 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
2550 --------------------------------------
2556 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
2557 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
2558 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
2559 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
2560 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
2561 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2562 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
2564 Various fixes to the following modules:
2567 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
2568 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2569 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2571 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
2576 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
2577 ---------------------------------
2580 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
2581 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
2584 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
2585 ---------------------------------
2588 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
2591 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
2594 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
2595 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
2596 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
2597 main controller window.
2598 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
2601 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
2606 * Updates of other localizations
2609 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
2610 * Lots of small bugfixes.
2611 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
2612 * Telnet fixes on Windows
2613 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
2616 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
2617 ---------------------------------
2620 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
2622 Bunch of small bugfixes.
2625 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
2626 --------------------------------
2631 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
2632 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
2635 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
2636 --------------------------------
2638 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
2639 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
2642 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
2645 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
2646 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
2649 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
2650 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
2653 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
2654 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
2655 * Various fixed in playlist
2658 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
2661 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
2664 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
2665 ------------------------------------
2667 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
2668 * Fixes several memory leaks.
2671 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
2672 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
2673 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
2676 * Stability fix for the video output.
2679 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
2680 --------------------------------
2683 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
2684 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
2685 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
2686 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
2687 * Fixed update system bugs
2688 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
2691 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
2692 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
2693 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
2694 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
2695 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
2696 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
2697 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
2698 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
2699 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
2700 modern Mac OS X versions
2703 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
2704 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
2706 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
2707 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
2710 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
2711 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
2712 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
2713 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
2714 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
2715 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
2718 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
2719 --------------------------------
2721 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
2722 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
2723 * Multiple bugfixes.
2726 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
2727 --------------------------------
2729 * Multiple bug fixes.
2732 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2733 ---------------------------------
2737 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
2738 recent to work correctly
2739 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
2740 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
2741 edit the ".hosts" file.
2742 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
2743 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
2744 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
2745 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
2746 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
2747 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
2748 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
2749 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
2750 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
2751 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
2752 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
2753 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
2754 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
2755 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
2756 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
2757 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
2758 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
2759 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
2760 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
2761 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2762 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
2763 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
2764 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2765 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2766 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2767 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2768 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2769 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2770 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2771 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2772 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2773 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2774 and postproc modules.
2775 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2776 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2777 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2778 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2780 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2781 filter. For example:
2782 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2783 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2785 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2786 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2792 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2794 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2795 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2798 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2799 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2801 * Shoutcast TV listings
2802 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2804 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2805 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2807 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2810 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2811 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2812 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2813 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2814 * JACK audio input support
2815 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2816 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2817 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2818 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2819 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2820 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2821 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2822 (available as a separate download).
2823 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2824 * RTMP input support
2825 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2826 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2827 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2829 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2830 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2833 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2834 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2835 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2836 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2838 * APEv1/2 tags support
2839 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2840 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2842 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2843 * TiVo Series 2 support
2844 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2849 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2850 * Flash Screen Video support
2851 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2852 * DosBox Capture support
2853 * Karl Morton's Video support
2854 * limited atrac3 support
2856 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2857 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2858 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2859 * H.264 PAFF support
2860 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2861 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2862 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2863 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2864 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2867 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2868 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2869 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2870 * AQTitle subtitles support
2871 * MKV USF subtitles support
2872 * HTML-based subtitles support
2873 * MPSub subtitles support
2874 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2875 * MPL2 subtitles support
2876 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2877 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2878 * Realtext subtitle support
2879 * DKS subtitle support
2880 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2881 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2884 * Flash Screen Video support
2885 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2887 Video outputs and filters:
2888 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2889 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2890 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2891 * New puzzle video output filter
2892 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2893 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2895 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2896 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2897 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2898 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2899 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2900 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2901 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2902 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2903 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2904 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2905 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2906 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2907 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2908 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2910 Audio outputs and filters:
2911 * Replay gain support
2912 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2913 new scaletempo audio filter)
2914 * New spatializer audio filter
2915 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2918 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2919 * New RTP payload formats:
2920 * Speex voice audio codec
2921 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2922 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2923 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2924 * DCCP transport for RTP
2925 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2930 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2931 end-user suitable way.
2932 * Improved user interaction
2933 * Improved mouse gestures
2934 * Vastly improved Update checker
2935 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2937 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2938 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2940 * Improved video output features
2941 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2942 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2943 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2944 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2945 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2947 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2948 if libncursesw is available.
2949 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2950 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2951 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2953 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2954 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2955 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2956 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2957 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2958 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2959 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2960 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2963 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2964 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2965 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2968 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2969 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2970 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2971 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2972 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2973 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2976 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2977 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2987 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2988 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2989 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2992 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2993 ----------------------------------
2996 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2999 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
3000 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
3001 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
3002 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
3003 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
3004 * Updated Polish translation
3007 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
3008 ----------------------------------
3011 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
3012 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
3013 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
3016 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
3017 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
3018 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
3019 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
3020 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
3021 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
3022 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
3023 to an unexpected application termination
3024 * New Serbian translation
3025 * Updated Romanian translation
3028 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
3029 ----------------------------------
3032 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
3033 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
3034 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
3035 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
3036 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
3037 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
3038 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
3039 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
3042 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
3043 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
3044 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
3045 * Fixed AAC resampling
3046 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
3047 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
3050 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
3051 ----------------------------------
3054 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
3055 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
3056 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
3057 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
3058 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
3061 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
3062 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
3063 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
3064 * Close MMS access on network timeout
3065 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
3068 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
3069 ----------------------------------
3072 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
3073 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
3076 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
3077 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
3078 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
3079 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
3081 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
3085 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
3088 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
3091 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
3094 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
3097 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
3098 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
3099 encoding on multi-cpu systems
3100 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
3101 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
3103 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3104 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
3105 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
3106 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
3109 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
3112 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
3113 ----------------------------------
3116 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
3117 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
3118 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
3120 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
3121 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
3123 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
3124 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
3127 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
3129 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3130 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
3131 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
3132 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
3133 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
3134 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
3135 two different movies
3136 * Support for current Ogg file formats
3137 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
3138 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
3141 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
3144 * The automatic updating facility was removed
3145 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
3146 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
3147 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
3150 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
3151 ----------------------------------
3153 Various bugfixes, notably:
3154 * Windows Vista compatibility
3155 * Cropping in Direct3D
3156 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
3157 * RSS filter string overflow
3159 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
3161 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
3162 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
3165 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
3166 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
3169 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
3172 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
3175 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
3178 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
3179 ----------------------------------
3181 Various bugfixes, notably:
3182 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
3183 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
3184 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
3185 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
3186 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
3187 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
3190 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
3191 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
3194 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
3196 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3197 * Diverse usability improvements
3198 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
3199 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
3200 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
3203 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
3204 ---------------------------------
3206 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
3207 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
3210 * Fullscreen controller improvements
3213 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
3214 --------------------------------
3217 * Shoutcast TV listings support
3220 * Support for RTSP authentication
3221 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
3222 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
3223 * ATSC support for DVB input
3224 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
3225 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
3226 * Improved support for Flash Video files
3229 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
3230 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
3231 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
3232 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
3233 * Matroska WavPack support
3234 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
3235 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
3236 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
3239 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
3240 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
3241 * Improved libcaca support
3245 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
3246 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
3248 * Systray support in skins
3250 * Support for Apple Remote control
3251 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3252 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3253 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
3254 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
3256 * Notifications using notification-daemon
3259 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
3260 Windows 9x/ME users:
3261 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
3262 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
3263 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
3264 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
3265 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
3267 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
3268 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
3277 * Updates to the libvlc API
3278 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
3281 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
3282 --------------------------------
3285 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
3286 * Support for downloading updates
3290 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
3291 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
3292 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
3293 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
3295 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
3296 * Improved subtitles encoding support
3297 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
3300 * Cook (Real audio) support
3302 Playlist / Services discovery:
3303 * XSPF playlist support
3305 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
3308 * New JACK audio output
3311 * New video filters:
3312 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
3313 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
3314 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
3315 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
3316 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
3317 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
3320 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
3323 * System to inform the user and request information
3324 - HTTP authentication
3328 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
3329 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3330 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
3333 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
3334 - Improved playlist handling
3335 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
3337 - Embedded Video output
3338 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
3339 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
3340 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3341 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
3342 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
3344 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
3345 - A bunch of new RPN functions
3348 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
3351 * Mac-Intel compatibility
3352 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
3353 * Growl "Now playing" support
3356 * Ability to log to syslog
3357 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
3360 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
3362 * A bit more automatic testing
3365 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
3366 ---------------------------------
3369 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
3370 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
3373 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
3374 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
3377 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
3380 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
3381 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
3387 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
3390 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
3391 --------------------------------
3394 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
3398 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
3399 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
3400 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
3403 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
3404 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
3405 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
3406 * GnomeVFS input module
3407 * Support for RTP packet reordering
3408 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
3411 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
3412 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
3413 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
3416 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
3417 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
3423 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
3424 Mixer and Dolby Surround
3427 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
3428 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
3429 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
3432 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
3434 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
3435 - New extended controls panel
3436 - New bookmarks window
3437 - Fixed playlist sorting
3438 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
3440 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
3441 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
3442 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
3443 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
3447 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
3448 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
3450 - Include macro to include other files
3454 * Should now work outside IE as well
3457 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
3460 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
3461 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
3464 The following languages were added:
3468 * Simplified Chinese
3469 The following languages were re-added:
3473 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
3474 --------------------------------
3477 * Rewrite of the playlist
3479 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
3480 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
3481 * Preferences improvements:
3482 - New organization, designed to improve usability
3483 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
3485 * Core image manipulation support
3486 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
3487 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
3488 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
3489 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
3490 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
3491 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
3492 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
3493 now separated by ':' instead of ','
3494 * Access filter architecture
3495 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
3496 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
3500 * Support for SOCKS proxy
3501 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
3502 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
3503 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
3504 * Better support for Kasenna streams
3505 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
3506 * Massive Matroska improvements
3507 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
3509 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
3510 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
3511 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
3512 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
3513 * Support for FTP over IPv6
3515 Decoders / Encoders:
3516 * Dirac decoder and encoder
3517 * PNG decoder/encoder
3518 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
3519 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
3522 * New Record and Timeshift filters
3525 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
3526 * Brand new SAP module
3527 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
3528 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
3529 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
3530 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
3531 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
3532 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
3536 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
3539 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
3540 * Image file video output (png)
3541 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
3542 * Improvements to wall video filter
3543 * Support for font color and opacity
3549 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
3550 - Seeking support in VoD streams
3551 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
3555 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
3556 - Improved preferences
3557 - Improvements to the wizard
3558 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
3560 - Redesigned playlist
3561 - Improved preferences
3563 - Support for multiple actions
3566 - Support for the new playlist system
3568 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
3571 * Screensaver disabling fix
3572 * DirectShow tuner configuration
3573 * Support for no-decoration windows
3576 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
3577 * The OpenGL video output is back
3578 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
3579 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
3580 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
3581 is not yet available in the new module
3582 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
3585 * Support for single-buffered overlay
3594 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
3597 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
3600 The following languages were added:
3606 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
3607 --------------------------------
3610 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
3611 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
3614 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
3615 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
3616 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
3619 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3622 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
3625 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
3628 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
3629 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
3630 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
3634 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
3636 * Support of playlist group announcement
3639 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
3640 --------------------------------
3643 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
3644 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
3645 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
3646 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
3647 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
3648 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
3651 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
3652 (Stream your desktop)
3653 * Improved DVD support:
3654 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
3655 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
3656 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
3657 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
3658 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
3659 (selection of titles/chapters).
3662 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
3663 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
3664 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
3665 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
3666 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
3667 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3668 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
3669 * Improved Ogg demuxer
3670 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
3671 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
3674 * G.726 audio support
3675 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
3676 * MPEG-4 text support
3677 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
3678 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
3679 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
3683 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
3684 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
3685 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
3686 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
3687 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
3688 * DVB subtitles encoder
3689 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
3690 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
3692 * Text track muxing for mp4
3693 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
3694 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
3695 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3696 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
3697 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
3698 * Improved ASF muxer
3700 * H.263 RTP streaming support
3701 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
3702 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
3705 * New audio equalizer filter
3706 * Very trivial volume normalizer
3707 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
3708 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
3709 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
3712 * Roku HD1000 Video output
3713 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
3714 with support for effects.
3715 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
3716 - New filters can be streamed.
3717 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
3718 - Centralized scaling and blending
3720 - "time", to display current time
3721 - "marq", to display a marquee
3724 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
3725 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
3726 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
3727 * A few skins2 improvements
3728 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
3729 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
3730 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
3731 * Improved CORBA control module
3734 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
3735 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
3736 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
3739 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
3740 * Experimental SVG rendering module
3741 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
3744 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
3745 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
3746 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
3747 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
3748 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
3751 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3754 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
3755 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
3758 * Server/client network synchronization module
3759 * VBrick streams fully supported
3760 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
3764 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3765 --------------------------------
3768 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3769 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3770 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3771 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3774 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3775 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3776 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3777 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3778 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3779 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3780 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3783 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3784 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3785 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3786 * Improved directory access module.
3787 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3788 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3789 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3790 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3791 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3794 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3795 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3796 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3799 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3800 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3801 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3804 * Improved session announcement system.
3805 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3806 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3807 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3808 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3809 * Improved transrater.
3810 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3811 * New configuration system.
3812 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3815 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3816 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3817 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3818 * Supports scheduling.
3819 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3820 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3823 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3824 - Ability to embed video output.
3825 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3826 - Lots of improvements.
3827 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3828 - New design and set of icons.
3829 - Ability to embed video output.
3830 - Support for hotkeys.
3831 - Support for bookmarks.
3833 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3834 - Better hotkeys handling.
3837 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3838 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3839 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3840 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3843 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3844 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3845 * Improved Windows installer.
3851 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3852 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3855 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3856 ---------------------------------
3859 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3860 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3863 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3864 --------------------------------
3867 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3868 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3871 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3872 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3873 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3874 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3877 * Internal improvments
3878 * Improved import/export
3881 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3883 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3884 small and strange formats.
3886 * New MOD audio demux.
3887 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3888 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3889 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3890 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3893 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3894 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3895 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3901 * New opengl video output plugin.
3904 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3905 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3908 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3909 --------------------------------
3912 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3913 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3914 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3915 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3916 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3917 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3918 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3919 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3922 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3927 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3928 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3929 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3930 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3931 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3932 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3933 * Better Icecast support.
3934 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3935 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3938 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3939 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3940 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3941 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3942 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3943 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3944 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3947 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3948 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3949 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3950 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3951 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3952 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3953 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3954 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3955 * Preliminary RTP support.
3956 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3961 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3962 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3964 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3965 - Improvements and help in preferences
3966 - New streaming wizard
3967 - Revised Disc Open menu
3969 - Improvements of the standard pages
3970 - Support for new commands
3971 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3974 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3975 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3978 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3979 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3980 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3981 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3982 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3983 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3984 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3985 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3986 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3989 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3991 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3992 * Support for Panther.
3993 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3994 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3997 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3998 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3999 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
4000 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
4001 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
4002 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
4003 * Multimonitor support (untested).
4004 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
4007 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
4008 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
4009 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
4012 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
4015 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
4016 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
4017 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
4018 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
4021 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
4022 --------------------------------
4025 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
4028 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
4029 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
4032 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
4033 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
4036 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
4039 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
4040 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
4043 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
4046 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
4049 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
4050 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
4054 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
4055 --------------------------------
4058 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
4059 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
4063 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
4064 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
4065 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
4067 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
4068 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
4071 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
4074 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
4077 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
4078 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
4082 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
4083 --------------------------------
4086 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
4087 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
4091 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
4092 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
4093 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
4094 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
4095 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
4098 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
4099 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
4100 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
4103 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
4104 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
4105 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
4108 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
4109 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
4110 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
4111 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
4112 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
4115 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
4116 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
4117 * A new CORBA control plugin.
4120 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
4123 * Improved build system.
4124 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
4125 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
4126 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
4127 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
4130 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
4131 --------------------------------
4134 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
4137 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
4138 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
4139 * Fixed large file support on Windows
4140 * Video 4 Linux support
4141 * CD Digital Audio support
4142 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
4145 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
4146 * Support for OpenDML avi files
4147 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
4148 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
4151 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
4152 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
4153 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
4154 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
4155 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
4156 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
4157 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
4160 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
4161 * New HTTP remote control interface
4164 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
4165 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
4166 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
4167 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
4168 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
4171 * New reset option for the preferences
4172 * You can set your language in the prefences
4173 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
4174 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
4175 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
4176 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
4179 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
4180 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
4181 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
4184 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
4185 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
4186 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
4187 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
4188 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
4189 * New icons by Davor Orel.
4190 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
4191 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
4192 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
4193 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
4196 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
4197 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
4198 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
4199 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
4200 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
4201 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
4202 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
4205 * Interface localization
4206 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
4207 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
4208 * New full-featured Preferences window
4211 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
4212 --------------------------------
4215 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
4216 * support for skins at the interface level
4217 * new OSD module using Freetype2
4218 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
4219 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
4220 input level before dropping out of date frames.
4221 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
4224 * fixed HTTP redirects
4225 * support for opening an entire directory
4226 * EOF should be detected more reliably
4227 * new video4linux access plug-in
4228 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
4231 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
4232 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
4233 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
4236 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
4237 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
4238 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
4239 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
4240 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
4241 * new codec for raw I420 video
4242 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
4245 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
4246 (although it still misses some important features)
4247 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
4250 * new HTTP output support
4251 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
4252 * fixed AV synchronization issues
4255 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
4258 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
4261 * reorderable playlist
4262 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
4263 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
4264 * support for mono audio output devices
4265 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
4266 * fixed several cosmetic issues
4267 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
4268 * the messages window remembers more lines
4269 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
4270 * http and ogg stream output options
4271 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
4274 * new skinnable interface
4275 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
4277 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
4278 * support for FLAC audio format
4279 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
4281 * network tab in the interface
4282 * "apply" handling in preferences
4285 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
4286 ---------------------------------
4289 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
4290 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
4291 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
4292 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
4294 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
4295 * DTS S/PDIF support
4298 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
4299 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
4300 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
4301 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
4304 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
4305 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
4308 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
4311 * fixed the GNU-pth support
4314 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
4316 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
4317 * rc interface is now fully useable
4318 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
4321 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
4322 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
4323 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
4324 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
4325 * VLC now uses the default audio device
4327 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
4328 * support for mouse gestures
4329 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
4332 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
4333 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
4336 * improved ID3 tag detection
4337 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
4338 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
4339 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
4341 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
4344 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
4345 ---------------------------------
4348 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
4349 English was set as the preferred language
4352 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
4353 --------------------------------
4356 * new mouse gesture interface
4357 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
4361 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
4362 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
4363 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
4366 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
4367 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
4371 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
4374 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
4375 without the user consent
4378 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
4380 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
4381 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
4382 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
4385 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
4386 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
4387 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
4388 * playlist enhancements
4389 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
4390 * new step forward/step backward commands
4391 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
4392 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
4393 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
4396 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
4397 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
4398 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
4401 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
4402 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
4405 * native video output is working again
4406 * only commandline interface support
4407 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
4410 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
4411 --------------------------------
4414 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
4415 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
4416 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
4417 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
4418 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
4419 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
4420 and A/52 streams are supported)
4421 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
4426 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
4427 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
4428 * VCD entry points support
4429 * VCD image file support
4432 * support for *.asf format
4433 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
4434 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
4435 * support for ogg encapsulation
4436 * support for raw DV format
4437 * support for *.wav format
4438 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
4441 Stream discovery & playlists:
4442 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
4443 * support for .m3u file format
4444 * support for .asx file format
4445 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
4448 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
4449 (only available with the .avi demux)
4450 * support for ADPCM audio codec
4451 * support for raw PCM data
4452 * support for Cinepak video codec
4453 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
4454 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
4455 * support for Xvid codec
4456 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
4457 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
4458 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
4460 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
4462 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
4465 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
4468 * new WxWindows interface
4469 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
4470 device and the channels configuration
4471 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
4472 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
4473 format that VLC can play
4474 * new swedish translation
4475 * enhancements of the playlist window
4476 * new messages window to see debug info
4477 * fixed a few crashes
4480 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
4481 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
4482 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
4483 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working