1 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.1.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
5 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
6 * Support for the sftp protocol
7 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
8 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
9 * New memory input (imem) module to feed VLC from data in memory
10 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams
13 * HD dvb subtitles - Display Definition Segment support
14 * PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
15 * Invmem module improvements
16 * Support for Atrac1 codec
17 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities
18 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
19 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
20 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles .SRT and .SSA
23 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
24 * EXPERIMENTAL support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM)
25 (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
26 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
27 * Various EGP improvements
28 * Support for embedded subtitles in .avi ODML files
31 * WPL playlist support
32 * ZPL playlist support
33 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
34 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
35 * Podcast images are now displayed
38 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
39 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
40 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
41 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
42 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
43 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
44 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
45 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
46 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
47 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
48 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
51 * new content extensions lua framework
55 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
56 * 3F1R to stereo downmix filter
57 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited resampler,
58 linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_float, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF and
59 * NEON assembly audio converter module
62 * Support of .milk visualisation files using projectM libraries
65 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
66 * Service discovery based on libudev
69 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
70 * x264, add profile-limitter sameway as x264.eve has, for example
71 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
72 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
73 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
74 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
77 * New smem module, streaming to memory
78 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
79 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
82 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
84 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
87 * Completely reworked user interface (based upon works from GSoC 2008)
90 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
91 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
92 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
93 by Andy Matuschak et al.
94 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
97 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
98 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
101 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
105 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
108 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
111 * csri codec. Use libass module instead.
112 * galaktos. Use new projectM module instead.
113 * showintf. Useless in qt and mac os X
115 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx. Use new XCB modules instead.
116 * HAL. Use libudev instead.
117 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
118 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
119 * opie, qte and qte_main
120 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed. Use the ugly one.
121 * XvMC accelerated modules. Use VAAPI instead.
122 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux. Use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
124 * cddax. Use cdda instead
125 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
126 * realaudio codecs is remove in favour of avcodec
129 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5 (not yet released):
130 ---------------------------------------------------
132 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
135 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
136 --------------------------------
139 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
140 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
143 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
144 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
147 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
148 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
151 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
154 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
155 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
158 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
159 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
162 * New Walloon translation
163 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
166 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
167 --------------------------------
170 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
171 regressions in most popular drivers
172 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
175 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
176 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
177 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
180 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
181 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
184 * Update for appletrailers lua script
185 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
186 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
187 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
188 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
191 * New udev module for linux
194 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
197 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
200 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
201 --------------------------------
204 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
205 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
206 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
209 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
210 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
213 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
214 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
217 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
220 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
221 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
222 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
223 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
226 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
227 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
228 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
229 - no support for Goom and SDL
230 - limited text rendering support
231 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
234 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
235 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
236 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
237 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
238 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
239 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
240 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
241 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
242 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
246 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
249 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
252 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
253 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
254 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
255 Arabic and French translation updates
258 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
259 --------------------------------
262 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
263 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
264 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
265 * Fix Dailymotion access script
266 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
267 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
270 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
271 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
274 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
275 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
276 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
279 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
282 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
283 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
286 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
287 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
288 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
289 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
290 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
291 * Fix various crashes
294 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
296 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
299 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
300 ---------------------------------
304 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
305 See 'Access:' for more info.
306 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
309 * Instantaneous pausing
310 * Frame-by-Frame playback
311 * Finer speed control
312 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
313 * Timeshift for most medias
314 * RTSP trickplay support
315 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
318 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
319 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
320 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
321 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
322 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
323 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
324 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
325 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
326 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
327 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
330 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
331 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
332 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
333 * Metadata for mod files are supported
334 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
335 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
336 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
339 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
340 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
343 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
344 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
345 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
346 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
347 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
348 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
349 * DVB scanning on linux
350 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
351 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
352 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
353 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
354 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
355 * MTP device access on Unix
356 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
357 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
360 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
361 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
362 Windows and Mac OS X.
365 * Export the playlist in HTML
366 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
367 * Better metadata handling and reading
369 Linux/Windows interface:
370 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
371 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
372 * Recently played items list
373 * Interface toolbar customizations
374 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
377 - Improvements on many dialogs
378 - New dialog for plugins listing
379 - Fixed-size mode for videos
380 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
381 * Better integration in GTK environments
384 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
385 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
386 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
387 * Additional usability improvements
390 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
391 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
392 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
393 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
394 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
397 * New Maemo port with:
398 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
399 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
402 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
405 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
406 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
407 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
408 * Support for latest iSight models
411 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
412 * Surround support for PulseAudio
415 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
416 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
417 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
418 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
419 The old image video output has been removed.
420 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
421 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
424 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
432 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
433 --------------------------------------
439 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
440 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
441 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
442 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
443 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
444 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
445 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
447 Various fixes to the following modules:
450 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
451 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
454 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
459 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
460 ---------------------------------
463 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
464 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
467 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
468 ---------------------------------
471 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
474 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
477 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
478 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
479 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
480 main controller window.
481 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
484 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
489 * Updates of other localizations
492 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
493 * Lots of small bugfixes.
494 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
495 * Telnet fixes on Windows
496 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
499 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
500 ---------------------------------
503 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
505 Bunch of small bugfixes.
508 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
509 --------------------------------
514 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
515 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
518 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
519 --------------------------------
521 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
522 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
525 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
528 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
529 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
532 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
533 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
536 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
537 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
538 * Various fixed in playlist
541 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
544 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
547 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
548 ------------------------------------
550 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
551 * Fixes several memory leaks.
554 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
555 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
556 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
559 * Stability fix for the video output.
562 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
563 --------------------------------
566 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
567 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
568 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
569 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
570 * Fixed update system bugs
571 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
574 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
575 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
576 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
577 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
578 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
579 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
580 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
581 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
582 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
583 modern Mac OS X versions
586 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
587 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
589 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
590 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
593 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
594 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
595 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
596 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
597 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
598 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
601 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
602 --------------------------------
604 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
605 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
609 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
610 --------------------------------
612 * Multiple bug fixes.
615 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
616 ---------------------------------
620 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
621 recent to work correctly
622 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
623 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
624 edit the ".hosts" file.
625 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
626 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
627 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
628 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
629 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
630 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
631 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
632 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
633 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
634 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
635 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
636 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
637 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
638 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
639 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
640 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
641 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
642 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
643 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
644 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
645 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
646 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
647 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
648 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
649 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
650 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
651 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
652 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
653 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
654 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
655 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
656 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
657 and postproc modules.
658 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
659 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
660 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
661 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
663 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
665 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
666 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
668 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
669 * Glide video output module has been removed.
675 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
677 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
678 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
681 * Vastly improved playlist support:
682 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
684 * Shoutcast TV listings
685 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
687 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
688 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
690 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
693 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
694 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
695 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
696 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
697 * JACK audio input support
698 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
699 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
700 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
701 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
702 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
703 * Experimental EyeTV access module
704 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
705 (available as a separate download).
706 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
708 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
709 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
710 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
712 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
713 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
716 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
717 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
718 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
719 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
721 * APEv1/2 tags support
722 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
723 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
725 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
726 * TiVo Series 2 support
727 * CD+G karaoke Files support
732 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
733 * Flash Screen Video support
734 * CamStudio Screen Video support
735 * DosBox Capture support
736 * Karl Morton's Video support
737 * limited atrac3 support
739 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
740 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
741 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
743 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
744 * NellyMoser ASAO support
745 * APE (Monkey audio) support
746 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
747 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
750 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
751 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
752 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
753 * AQTitle subtitles support
754 * MKV USF subtitles support
755 * HTML-based subtitles support
756 * MPSub subtitles support
757 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
758 * MPL2 subtitles support
759 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
760 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
761 * Realtext subtitle support
762 * DKS subtitle support
763 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
764 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
767 * Flash Screen Video support
768 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
770 Video outputs and filters:
771 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
772 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
773 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
774 * New puzzle video output filter
775 * Re-written motion detection video filter
776 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
778 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
779 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
780 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
781 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
782 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
783 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
784 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
785 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
786 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
787 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
788 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
789 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
790 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
791 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
793 Audio outputs and filters:
794 * Replay gain support
795 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
796 new scaletempo audio filter)
797 * New spatializer audio filter
798 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
801 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
802 * New RTP payload formats:
803 * Speex voice audio codec
804 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
805 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
806 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
807 * DCCP transport for RTP
808 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
813 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
814 end-user suitable way.
815 * Improved user interaction
816 * Improved mouse gestures
817 * Vastly improved Update checker
818 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
820 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
821 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
823 * Improved video output features
824 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
825 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
826 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
827 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
828 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
830 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
831 if libncursesw is available.
832 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
833 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
834 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
836 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
837 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
838 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
839 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
840 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
841 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
842 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
843 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
846 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
847 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
848 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
851 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
852 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
853 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
854 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
855 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
856 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
859 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
860 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
870 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
871 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
872 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
875 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
876 ----------------------------------
879 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
882 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
883 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
884 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
885 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
886 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
887 * Updated Polish translation
890 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
891 ----------------------------------
894 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
895 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
896 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
899 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
900 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
901 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
902 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
903 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
904 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
905 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
906 to an unexpected application termination
907 * New Serbian translation
908 * Updated Romanian translation
911 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
912 ----------------------------------
915 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
916 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
917 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
918 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
919 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
920 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
921 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
922 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
925 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
926 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
927 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
928 * Fixed AAC resampling
929 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
930 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
933 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
934 ----------------------------------
937 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
938 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
939 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
940 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
941 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
944 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
945 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
946 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
947 * Close MMS access on network timeout
948 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
951 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
952 ----------------------------------
955 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
956 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
959 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
960 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
961 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
962 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
964 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
968 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
971 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
974 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
977 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
980 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
981 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
982 encoding on multi-cpu systems
983 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
984 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
986 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
987 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
988 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
989 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
992 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
995 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
996 ----------------------------------
999 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1000 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1001 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1003 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1004 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1006 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1007 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1010 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1012 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1013 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1014 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1015 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1016 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1017 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1018 two different movies
1019 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1020 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1021 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1024 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1027 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1028 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1029 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1030 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1033 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1034 ----------------------------------
1036 Various bugfixes, notably:
1037 * Windows Vista compatibility
1038 * Cropping in Direct3D
1039 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1040 * RSS filter string overflow
1042 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1044 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1045 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1048 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1049 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1052 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1055 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1058 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1061 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1062 ----------------------------------
1064 Various bugfixes, notably:
1065 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1066 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1067 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1068 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1069 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1070 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1073 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1074 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1077 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1079 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1080 * Diverse usability improvements
1081 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1082 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1083 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1086 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1087 ---------------------------------
1089 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1090 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1093 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1096 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1097 --------------------------------
1100 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1103 * Support for RTSP authentication
1104 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1105 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1106 * ATSC support for DVB input
1107 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1108 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1109 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1112 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1113 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1114 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1115 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1116 * Matroska WavPack support
1117 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1118 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1119 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1122 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1123 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1124 * Improved libcaca support
1128 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1129 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1131 * Systray support in skins
1133 * Support for Apple Remote control
1134 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1135 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1136 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1137 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1139 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1142 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1143 Windows 9x/ME users:
1144 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1145 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1146 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1147 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1148 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1150 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1151 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1160 * Updates to the libvlc API
1161 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1164 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1165 --------------------------------
1168 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1169 * Support for downloading updates
1173 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1174 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1175 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1176 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1178 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1179 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1180 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1183 * Cook (Real audio) support
1185 Playlist / Services discovery:
1186 * XSPF playlist support
1188 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1191 * New JACK audio output
1194 * New video filters:
1195 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1196 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1197 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1198 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1199 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1200 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1203 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1206 * System to inform the user and request information
1207 - HTTP authentication
1211 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1212 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1213 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1216 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1217 - Improved playlist handling
1218 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1220 - Embedded Video output
1221 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1222 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1223 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1224 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1225 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1227 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1228 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1231 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1234 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1235 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1236 * Growl "Now playing" support
1239 * Ability to log to syslog
1240 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1243 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1245 * A bit more automatic testing
1248 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1249 ---------------------------------
1252 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1253 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1256 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1257 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1260 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1263 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1264 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1270 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1273 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1274 --------------------------------
1277 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1281 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1282 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1283 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1286 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1287 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1288 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1289 * GnomeVFS input module
1290 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1291 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1294 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1295 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1296 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1299 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1300 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1306 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1307 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1310 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1311 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1312 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1315 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1317 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1318 - New extended controls panel
1319 - New bookmarks window
1320 - Fixed playlist sorting
1321 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1323 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1324 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1325 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1326 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
1330 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
1331 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
1333 - Include macro to include other files
1337 * Should now work outside IE as well
1340 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
1343 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
1344 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
1347 The following languages were added:
1351 * Simplified Chinese
1352 The following languages were re-added:
1356 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
1357 --------------------------------
1360 * Rewrite of the playlist
1362 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
1363 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
1364 * Preferences improvements:
1365 - New organization, designed to improve usability
1366 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
1368 * Core image manipulation support
1369 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
1370 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
1371 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
1372 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
1373 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
1374 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
1375 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
1376 now separated by ':' instead of ','
1377 * Access filter architecture
1378 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
1379 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
1383 * Support for SOCKS proxy
1384 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
1385 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
1386 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
1387 * Better support for Kasenna streams
1388 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
1389 * Massive Matroska improvements
1390 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
1392 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
1393 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
1394 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
1395 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
1396 * Support for FTP over IPv6
1398 Decoders / Encoders:
1399 * Dirac decoder and encoder
1400 * PNG decoder/encoder
1401 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
1402 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
1405 * New Record and Timeshift filters
1408 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
1409 * Brand new SAP module
1410 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
1411 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
1412 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
1413 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1414 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1415 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1419 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1422 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1423 * Image file video output (png)
1424 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1425 * Improvements to wall video filter
1426 * Support for font color and opacity
1432 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1433 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1434 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1438 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1439 - Improved preferences
1440 - Improvements to the wizard
1441 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1443 - Redesigned playlist
1444 - Improved preferences
1446 - Support for multiple actions
1449 - Support for the new playlist system
1451 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1454 * Screensaver disabling fix
1455 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1456 * Support for no-decoration windows
1459 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1460 * The OpenGL video output is back
1461 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1462 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1463 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1464 is not yet available in the new module
1465 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1468 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1477 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1480 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1483 The following languages were added:
1489 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1490 --------------------------------
1493 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1494 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1497 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1498 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1499 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1502 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1505 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1508 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1511 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1512 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1513 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1517 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1519 * Support of playlist group announcement
1522 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1523 --------------------------------
1526 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1527 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1528 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1529 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
1530 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
1531 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
1534 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
1535 (Stream your desktop)
1536 * Improved DVD support:
1537 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
1538 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
1539 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
1540 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
1541 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
1542 (selection of titles/chapters).
1545 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
1546 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
1547 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
1548 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
1549 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
1550 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1551 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
1552 * Improved Ogg demuxer
1553 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
1554 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
1557 * G.726 audio support
1558 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
1559 * MPEG-4 text support
1560 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
1561 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
1562 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
1566 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
1567 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
1568 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
1569 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
1570 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
1571 * DVB subtitles encoder
1572 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
1573 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
1575 * Text track muxing for mp4
1576 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
1577 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
1578 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1579 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
1580 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
1581 * Improved ASF muxer
1583 * H.263 RTP streaming support
1584 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
1585 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
1588 * New audio equalizer filter
1589 * Very trivial volume normalizer
1590 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
1591 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
1592 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
1595 * Roku HD1000 Video output
1596 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
1597 with support for effects.
1598 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
1599 - New filters can be streamed.
1600 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1601 - Centralized scaling and blending
1603 - "time", to display current time
1604 - "marq", to display a marquee
1607 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1608 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1609 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1610 * A few skins2 improvements
1611 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1612 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1613 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1614 * Improved CORBA control module
1617 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1618 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1619 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1622 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1623 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1624 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1627 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1628 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1629 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1630 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1631 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1634 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1637 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1638 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1641 * Server/client network synchronization module
1642 * VBrick streams fully supported
1643 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1647 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1648 --------------------------------
1651 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1652 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1653 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1654 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1657 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1658 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1659 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1660 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1661 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1662 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1663 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1666 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1667 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1668 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1669 * Improved directory access module.
1670 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1671 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1672 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1673 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1674 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1677 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1678 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1679 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1682 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1683 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1684 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1687 * Improved session announcement system.
1688 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1689 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1690 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1691 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1692 * Improved transrater.
1693 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1694 * New configuration system.
1695 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1698 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1699 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1700 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1701 * Supports scheduling.
1702 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1703 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1706 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1707 - Ability to embed video output.
1708 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1709 - Lots of improvements.
1710 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1711 - New design and set of icons.
1712 - Ability to embed video output.
1713 - Support for hotkeys.
1714 - Support for bookmarks.
1716 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1717 - Better hotkeys handling.
1720 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1721 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1722 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1723 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1726 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1727 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1728 * Improved Windows installer.
1734 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1735 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1738 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1739 ---------------------------------
1742 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1743 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1746 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1747 --------------------------------
1750 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1751 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1754 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1755 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1756 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1757 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1760 * Internal improvments
1761 * Improved import/export
1764 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1766 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1767 small and strange formats.
1769 * New MOD audio demux.
1770 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1771 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1772 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1773 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1776 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1777 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1778 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1784 * New opengl video output plugin.
1787 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1788 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1791 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1792 --------------------------------
1795 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1796 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1797 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1798 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1799 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1800 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1801 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1802 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1805 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1810 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1811 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1812 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1813 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1814 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1815 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1816 * Better Icecast support.
1817 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1818 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1821 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1822 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1823 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1824 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1825 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1826 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1827 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1830 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1831 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1832 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1833 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1834 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1835 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1836 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1837 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1838 * Preliminary RTP support.
1839 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1844 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1845 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1847 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1848 - Improvements and help in preferences
1849 - New streaming wizard
1850 - Revised Disc Open menu
1852 - Improvements of the standard pages
1853 - Support for new commands
1854 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1857 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1858 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1861 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1862 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1863 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1864 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1865 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1866 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1867 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1868 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1869 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1872 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1874 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1875 * Support for Panther.
1876 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1877 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1880 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1881 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1882 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1883 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1884 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1885 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1886 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1887 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1890 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1891 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1892 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1895 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1898 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1899 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1900 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1901 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1904 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1905 --------------------------------
1908 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1911 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1912 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1915 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1916 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1919 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1922 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1923 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1926 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1929 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1932 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1933 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1937 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1938 --------------------------------
1941 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1942 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1946 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1947 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1948 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1950 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1951 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1954 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1957 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1960 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1961 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1965 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1966 --------------------------------
1969 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1970 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1974 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1975 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1976 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1977 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1978 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1981 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1982 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1983 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1986 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1987 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1988 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1991 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1992 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1993 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1994 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1995 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1998 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1999 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2000 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2003 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2006 * Improved build system.
2007 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2008 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2009 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2010 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2013 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2014 --------------------------------
2017 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2020 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2021 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2022 * Video 4 Linux support
2023 * CD Digital Audio support
2024 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2027 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2028 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2029 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2030 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2033 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2034 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2035 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2036 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2037 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2038 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2039 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2042 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2043 * New HTTP remote control interface
2046 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
2047 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2048 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2049 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2052 * New reset option for the preferences
2053 * You can set your language in the prefences
2054 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2055 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2056 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2057 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2060 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2061 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2062 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2065 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2066 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2067 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2068 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2069 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2070 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2071 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2072 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2073 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2074 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2077 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2078 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2079 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2080 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2081 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2082 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2083 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2086 * Interface localization
2087 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2088 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2089 * New full-featured Preferences window
2092 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2093 --------------------------------
2096 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2097 * support for skins at the interface level
2098 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2099 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2100 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2101 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2102 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2105 * fixed HTTP redirects
2106 * support for opening an entire directory
2107 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2108 * new video4linux access plug-in
2109 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2112 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2113 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2114 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2117 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2118 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2119 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2120 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2121 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2122 * new codec for raw I420 video
2123 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2126 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2127 (although it still misses some important features)
2128 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2131 * new HTTP output support
2132 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2133 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2136 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2139 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2142 * reorderable playlist
2143 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2144 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2145 * support for mono audio output devices
2146 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2147 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2148 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2149 * the messages window remembers more lines
2150 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2151 * http and ogg stream output options
2152 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2155 * new skinnable interface
2156 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2158 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2159 * support for FLAC audio format
2160 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2162 * network tab in the interface
2163 * "apply" handling in preferences
2166 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2167 ---------------------------------
2170 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2171 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2172 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2173 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2175 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2176 * DTS S/PDIF support
2179 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2180 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2181 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2182 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2185 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2186 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2189 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2192 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2195 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2197 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2198 * rc interface is now fully useable
2199 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2202 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2203 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2204 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2205 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2206 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2208 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2209 * support for mouse gestures
2210 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2213 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2214 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2217 * improved ID3 tag detection
2218 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2219 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2220 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2222 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2225 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2226 ---------------------------------
2229 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2230 English was set as the preferred language
2233 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2234 --------------------------------
2237 * new mouse gesture interface
2238 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2242 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2243 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2244 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2247 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2248 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2252 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2255 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2256 without the user consent
2259 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2261 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2262 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2263 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2266 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2267 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2268 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2269 * playlist enhancements
2270 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2271 * new step forward/step backward commands
2272 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2273 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2274 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2277 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2278 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2279 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2282 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2283 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2286 * native video output is working again
2287 * only commandline interface support
2288 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2291 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2292 --------------------------------
2295 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2296 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2297 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2298 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2299 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2300 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2301 and A/52 streams are supported)
2302 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2307 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2308 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2309 * VCD entry points support
2310 * VCD image file support
2313 * support for *.asf format
2314 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2315 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2316 * support for ogg encapsulation
2317 * support for raw DV format
2318 * support for *.wav format
2319 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2322 Stream discovery & playlists:
2323 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2324 * support for .m3u file format
2325 * support for .asx file format
2326 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2329 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
2330 (only available with the .avi demux)
2331 * support for ADPCM audio codec
2332 * support for raw PCM data
2333 * support for Cinepak video codec
2334 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
2335 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
2336 * support for Xvid codec
2337 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
2338 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
2339 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
2341 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
2343 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
2346 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
2349 * new WxWindows interface
2350 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
2351 device and the channels configuration
2352 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
2353 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
2354 format that VLC can play
2355 * new swedish translation
2356 * enhancements of the playlist window
2357 * new messages window to see debug info
2358 * fixed a few crashes
2361 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
2362 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
2363 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
2364 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working