1 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.2.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
4 Important changes for packagers:
5 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
6 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
7 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
8 * The default tarballs are now .tar.xz
11 * Multiple files are supported from RAR files
12 * BDA: experimental support for ClearQam devices
13 * DVB-S scanning support
14 * DShow: support for freq and video standard selection
15 * Support for VDR recordings
16 * Blu-Ray integration with libbluray
19 * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc
20 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback
23 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
26 * id3tag plugin is removed (superseded by taglib).
27 * Ogg seeking improvements
30 * The telnet interface has been removed in the favour of the lua one
31 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
32 * Qt: effects dialogs reordering
33 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
36 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
39 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
42 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
45 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
46 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
47 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
50 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streamin (iphone-stuff),
51 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
52 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
53 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
54 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
55 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
58 * New capabilities for libVLC:
59 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
62 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
63 ----------------------------------
66 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
68 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
71 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
74 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
75 * Various fixes for Windows
78 * New Armenian translation
79 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
80 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
83 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
84 --------------------------------
87 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
89 * Fix folders opening from the interface
92 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
93 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
96 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
97 --------------------------------
100 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
101 * fix for podcasts parsing
102 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
105 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
106 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
109 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
110 * fix m3u playlists exports
113 * fix video autoresize behaviour
116 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
119 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
122 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
125 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
128 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
129 --------------------------------
132 * Avformat fps displaying fix
133 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
136 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
137 of mono streams, especially on Windows
140 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
141 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
142 * fix console output encoding
144 Interface and extensions:
145 * Youtube and other scripts updates
146 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
149 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
150 --------------------------------
153 * New capabilities for libVLC:
154 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
155 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
156 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
157 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
158 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
159 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
160 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
161 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
162 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
163 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
164 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
165 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
166 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
167 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
168 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
172 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
173 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
174 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
175 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
176 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
179 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
182 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
183 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
184 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
188 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
191 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
192 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
193 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
196 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
197 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
198 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
199 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
202 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
203 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
206 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
207 --------------------------------
209 Important changes for users:
210 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
211 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
213 Important changes for packagers:
214 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
215 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
216 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
217 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
218 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
220 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
222 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
223 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
224 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
225 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
226 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
229 * Support for the sftp protocol
230 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
231 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
232 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
233 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
234 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
237 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
238 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
239 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
241 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
242 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
243 * Invmem module improvements
244 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
245 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
246 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
247 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
248 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
249 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
250 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
251 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
252 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
253 * Support for VP8 codec
254 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
257 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
258 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
259 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
260 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
261 * Various EGP improvements
262 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
263 * Metadata and cover art improvements
266 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
267 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
268 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
269 * Podcast images are now displayed
272 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
273 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
274 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
275 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
276 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
277 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
278 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
279 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
280 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
281 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
282 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
285 * New content extensions lua framework
288 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
289 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
290 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
291 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
292 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
293 * NEON assembly audio converter module
294 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
297 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
298 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
299 * Service discovery based on libudev
300 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
303 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
304 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
305 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
306 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
307 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
308 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
309 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
312 * New smem module, streaming to memory
313 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
314 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
317 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
319 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
320 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
323 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
326 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
327 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
328 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
329 by Andy Matuschak et al.
330 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
331 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
332 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
335 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
336 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
339 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
340 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
341 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
345 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
346 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
347 * Improved Solaris port
350 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
351 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
354 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
355 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
356 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
357 * transrate: broken since too long
358 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
359 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
360 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
361 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
362 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
363 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
364 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
365 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
366 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
367 * cddax: use cdda instead.
368 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
369 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
370 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
371 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
374 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
375 --------------------------------
378 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
380 Decoders/Packetizers:
381 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
384 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
385 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
386 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
387 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
388 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
391 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
392 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
395 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
396 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
399 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
400 and Walloon translations updated
401 * Sinhala translation started
404 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
405 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
408 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
409 --------------------------------
412 * SubRip extra styles improvements
413 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
416 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
419 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
420 increase performance and fix x264 issues
423 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
424 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
425 Russian, Slovak translation updates
426 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
429 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
430 --------------------------------
433 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
434 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
437 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
438 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
441 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
442 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
445 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
448 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
449 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
452 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
453 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
456 * New Walloon translation
457 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
460 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
461 --------------------------------
464 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
465 regressions in most popular drivers
466 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
469 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
470 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
471 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
474 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
475 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
478 * Update for appletrailers lua script
479 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
480 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
481 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
482 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
485 * New udev module for linux
488 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
491 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
494 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
495 --------------------------------
498 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
499 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
500 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
503 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
504 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
507 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
508 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
511 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
514 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
515 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
516 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
517 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
520 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
521 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
522 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
523 - no support for Goom and SDL
524 - limited text rendering support
525 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
528 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
529 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
530 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
531 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
532 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
533 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
534 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
535 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
536 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
540 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
543 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
546 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
547 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
548 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
549 Arabic and French translation updates
552 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
553 --------------------------------
556 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
557 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
558 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
559 * Fix Dailymotion access script
560 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
561 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
564 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
565 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
568 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
569 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
570 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
573 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
576 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
577 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
580 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
581 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
582 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
583 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
584 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
585 * Fix various crashes
588 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
590 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
593 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
594 ---------------------------------
598 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
599 See 'Access:' for more info.
600 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
603 * Instantaneous pausing
604 * Frame-by-Frame playback
605 * Finer speed control
606 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
607 * Timeshift for most medias
608 * RTSP trickplay support
609 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
612 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
613 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
614 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
615 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
616 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
617 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
618 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
619 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
620 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
621 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
624 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
625 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
626 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
627 * Metadata for mod files are supported
628 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
629 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
630 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
633 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
634 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
637 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
638 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
639 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
640 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
641 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
642 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
643 * DVB scanning on linux
644 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
645 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
646 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
647 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
648 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
649 * MTP device access on Unix
650 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
651 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
654 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
655 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
656 Windows and Mac OS X.
659 * Export the playlist in HTML
660 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
661 * Better metadata handling and reading
663 Linux/Windows interface:
664 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
665 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
666 * Recently played items list
667 * Interface toolbar customizations
668 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
671 - Improvements on many dialogs
672 - New dialog for plugins listing
673 - Fixed-size mode for videos
674 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
675 * Better integration in GTK environments
678 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
679 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
680 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
681 * Additional usability improvements
684 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
685 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
686 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
687 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
688 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
691 * New Maemo port with:
692 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
693 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
696 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
699 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
700 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
701 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
702 * Support for latest iSight models
705 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
706 * Surround support for PulseAudio
709 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
710 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
711 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
712 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
713 The old image video output has been removed.
714 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
715 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
718 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
726 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
727 --------------------------------------
733 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
734 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
735 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
736 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
737 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
738 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
739 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
741 Various fixes to the following modules:
744 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
745 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
748 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
753 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
754 ---------------------------------
757 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
758 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
761 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
762 ---------------------------------
765 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
768 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
771 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
772 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
773 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
774 main controller window.
775 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
778 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
783 * Updates of other localizations
786 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
787 * Lots of small bugfixes.
788 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
789 * Telnet fixes on Windows
790 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
793 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
794 ---------------------------------
797 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
799 Bunch of small bugfixes.
802 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
803 --------------------------------
808 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
809 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
812 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
813 --------------------------------
815 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
816 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
819 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
822 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
823 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
826 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
827 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
830 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
831 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
832 * Various fixed in playlist
835 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
838 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
841 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
842 ------------------------------------
844 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
845 * Fixes several memory leaks.
848 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
849 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
850 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
853 * Stability fix for the video output.
856 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
857 --------------------------------
860 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
861 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
862 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
863 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
864 * Fixed update system bugs
865 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
868 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
869 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
870 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
871 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
872 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
873 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
874 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
875 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
876 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
877 modern Mac OS X versions
880 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
881 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
883 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
884 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
887 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
888 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
889 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
890 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
891 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
892 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
895 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
896 --------------------------------
898 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
899 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
903 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
904 --------------------------------
906 * Multiple bug fixes.
909 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
910 ---------------------------------
914 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
915 recent to work correctly
916 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
917 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
918 edit the ".hosts" file.
919 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
920 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
921 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
922 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
923 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
924 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
925 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
926 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
927 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
928 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
929 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
930 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
931 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
932 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
933 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
934 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
935 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
936 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
937 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
938 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
939 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
940 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
941 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
942 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
943 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
944 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
945 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
946 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
947 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
948 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
949 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
950 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
951 and postproc modules.
952 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
953 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
954 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
955 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
957 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
959 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
960 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
962 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
963 * Glide video output module has been removed.
969 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
971 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
972 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
975 * Vastly improved playlist support:
976 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
978 * Shoutcast TV listings
979 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
981 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
982 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
984 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
987 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
988 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
989 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
990 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
991 * JACK audio input support
992 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
993 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
994 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
995 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
996 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
997 * Experimental EyeTV access module
998 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
999 (available as a separate download).
1000 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1001 * RTMP input support
1002 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1003 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1004 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1006 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1007 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1010 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1011 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1012 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1013 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1015 * APEv1/2 tags support
1016 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1017 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1019 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1020 * TiVo Series 2 support
1021 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1026 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1027 * Flash Screen Video support
1028 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1029 * DosBox Capture support
1030 * Karl Morton's Video support
1031 * limited atrac3 support
1033 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1034 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1035 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1036 * H.264 PAFF support
1037 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1038 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1039 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1040 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1041 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1044 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1045 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1046 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1047 * AQTitle subtitles support
1048 * MKV USF subtitles support
1049 * HTML-based subtitles support
1050 * MPSub subtitles support
1051 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1052 * MPL2 subtitles support
1053 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1054 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1055 * Realtext subtitle support
1056 * DKS subtitle support
1057 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1058 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1061 * Flash Screen Video support
1062 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1064 Video outputs and filters:
1065 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1066 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1067 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1068 * New puzzle video output filter
1069 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1070 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1072 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1073 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1074 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1075 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1076 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1077 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1078 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1079 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1080 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1081 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1082 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1083 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1084 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1085 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1087 Audio outputs and filters:
1088 * Replay gain support
1089 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1090 new scaletempo audio filter)
1091 * New spatializer audio filter
1092 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1095 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1096 * New RTP payload formats:
1097 * Speex voice audio codec
1098 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1099 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1100 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1101 * DCCP transport for RTP
1102 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1107 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1108 end-user suitable way.
1109 * Improved user interaction
1110 * Improved mouse gestures
1111 * Vastly improved Update checker
1112 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1114 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1115 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1117 * Improved video output features
1118 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1119 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1120 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1121 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1122 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1124 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1125 if libncursesw is available.
1126 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1127 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1128 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1130 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1131 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1132 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1133 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1134 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1135 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1136 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1137 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1140 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1141 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1142 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1145 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1146 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1147 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1148 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1149 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1150 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1153 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1154 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1164 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1165 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1166 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1169 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1170 ----------------------------------
1173 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1176 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1177 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1178 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1179 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1180 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1181 * Updated Polish translation
1184 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1185 ----------------------------------
1188 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1189 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1190 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1193 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1194 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1195 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1196 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1197 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1198 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1199 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1200 to an unexpected application termination
1201 * New Serbian translation
1202 * Updated Romanian translation
1205 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1206 ----------------------------------
1209 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1210 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1211 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1212 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1213 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1214 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1215 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1216 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1219 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1220 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1221 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1222 * Fixed AAC resampling
1223 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1224 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1227 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1228 ----------------------------------
1231 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1232 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1233 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1234 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1235 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1238 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1239 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1240 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1241 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1242 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1245 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1246 ----------------------------------
1249 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1250 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1253 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1254 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1255 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1256 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1258 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1262 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1265 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1268 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1271 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1274 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1275 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1276 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1277 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1278 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1280 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1281 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1282 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1283 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1286 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1289 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1290 ----------------------------------
1293 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1294 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1295 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1297 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1298 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1300 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1301 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1304 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1306 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1307 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1308 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1309 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1310 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1311 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1312 two different movies
1313 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1314 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1315 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1318 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1321 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1322 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1323 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1324 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1327 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1328 ----------------------------------
1330 Various bugfixes, notably:
1331 * Windows Vista compatibility
1332 * Cropping in Direct3D
1333 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1334 * RSS filter string overflow
1336 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1338 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1339 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1342 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1343 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1346 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1349 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1352 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1355 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1356 ----------------------------------
1358 Various bugfixes, notably:
1359 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1360 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1361 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1362 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1363 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1364 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1367 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1368 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1371 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1373 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1374 * Diverse usability improvements
1375 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1376 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1377 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1380 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1381 ---------------------------------
1383 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1384 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1387 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1390 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1391 --------------------------------
1394 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1397 * Support for RTSP authentication
1398 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1399 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1400 * ATSC support for DVB input
1401 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1402 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1403 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1406 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1407 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1408 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1409 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1410 * Matroska WavPack support
1411 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1412 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1413 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1416 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1417 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1418 * Improved libcaca support
1422 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1423 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1425 * Systray support in skins
1427 * Support for Apple Remote control
1428 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1429 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1430 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1431 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1433 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1436 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1437 Windows 9x/ME users:
1438 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1439 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1440 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1441 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1442 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1444 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1445 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1454 * Updates to the libvlc API
1455 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1458 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1459 --------------------------------
1462 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1463 * Support for downloading updates
1467 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1468 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1469 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1470 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1472 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1473 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1474 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1477 * Cook (Real audio) support
1479 Playlist / Services discovery:
1480 * XSPF playlist support
1482 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1485 * New JACK audio output
1488 * New video filters:
1489 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1490 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1491 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1492 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1493 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1494 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1497 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1500 * System to inform the user and request information
1501 - HTTP authentication
1505 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1506 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1507 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1510 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1511 - Improved playlist handling
1512 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1514 - Embedded Video output
1515 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1516 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1517 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1518 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1519 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1521 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1522 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1525 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1528 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1529 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1530 * Growl "Now playing" support
1533 * Ability to log to syslog
1534 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1537 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1539 * A bit more automatic testing
1542 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1543 ---------------------------------
1546 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1547 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1550 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1551 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1554 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1557 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1558 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1564 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1567 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1568 --------------------------------
1571 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1575 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1576 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1577 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1580 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1581 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1582 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1583 * GnomeVFS input module
1584 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1585 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1588 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1589 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1590 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1593 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1594 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1600 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1601 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1604 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1605 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1606 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1609 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1611 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1612 - New extended controls panel
1613 - New bookmarks window
1614 - Fixed playlist sorting
1615 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1617 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1618 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1619 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1620 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
1624 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
1625 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
1627 - Include macro to include other files
1631 * Should now work outside IE as well
1634 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
1637 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
1638 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
1641 The following languages were added:
1645 * Simplified Chinese
1646 The following languages were re-added:
1650 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
1651 --------------------------------
1654 * Rewrite of the playlist
1656 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
1657 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
1658 * Preferences improvements:
1659 - New organization, designed to improve usability
1660 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
1662 * Core image manipulation support
1663 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
1664 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
1665 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
1666 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
1667 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
1668 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
1669 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
1670 now separated by ':' instead of ','
1671 * Access filter architecture
1672 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
1673 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
1677 * Support for SOCKS proxy
1678 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
1679 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
1680 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
1681 * Better support for Kasenna streams
1682 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
1683 * Massive Matroska improvements
1684 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
1686 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
1687 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
1688 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
1689 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
1690 * Support for FTP over IPv6
1692 Decoders / Encoders:
1693 * Dirac decoder and encoder
1694 * PNG decoder/encoder
1695 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
1696 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
1699 * New Record and Timeshift filters
1702 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
1703 * Brand new SAP module
1704 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
1705 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
1706 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
1707 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1708 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1709 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1713 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1716 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1717 * Image file video output (png)
1718 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1719 * Improvements to wall video filter
1720 * Support for font color and opacity
1726 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1727 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1728 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1732 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1733 - Improved preferences
1734 - Improvements to the wizard
1735 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1737 - Redesigned playlist
1738 - Improved preferences
1740 - Support for multiple actions
1743 - Support for the new playlist system
1745 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1748 * Screensaver disabling fix
1749 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1750 * Support for no-decoration windows
1753 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1754 * The OpenGL video output is back
1755 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1756 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1757 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1758 is not yet available in the new module
1759 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1762 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1771 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1774 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1777 The following languages were added:
1783 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1784 --------------------------------
1787 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1788 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1791 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1792 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1793 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1796 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1799 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1802 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1805 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1806 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1807 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1811 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1813 * Support of playlist group announcement
1816 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1817 --------------------------------
1820 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1821 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1822 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1823 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
1824 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
1825 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
1828 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
1829 (Stream your desktop)
1830 * Improved DVD support:
1831 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
1832 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
1833 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
1834 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
1835 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
1836 (selection of titles/chapters).
1839 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
1840 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
1841 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
1842 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
1843 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
1844 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1845 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
1846 * Improved Ogg demuxer
1847 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
1848 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
1851 * G.726 audio support
1852 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
1853 * MPEG-4 text support
1854 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
1855 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
1856 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
1860 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
1861 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
1862 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
1863 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
1864 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
1865 * DVB subtitles encoder
1866 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
1867 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
1869 * Text track muxing for mp4
1870 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
1871 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
1872 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1873 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
1874 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
1875 * Improved ASF muxer
1877 * H.263 RTP streaming support
1878 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
1879 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
1882 * New audio equalizer filter
1883 * Very trivial volume normalizer
1884 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
1885 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
1886 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
1889 * Roku HD1000 Video output
1890 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
1891 with support for effects.
1892 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
1893 - New filters can be streamed.
1894 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1895 - Centralized scaling and blending
1897 - "time", to display current time
1898 - "marq", to display a marquee
1901 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1902 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1903 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1904 * A few skins2 improvements
1905 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1906 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1907 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1908 * Improved CORBA control module
1911 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1912 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1913 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1916 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1917 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1918 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1921 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1922 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1923 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1924 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1925 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1928 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1931 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1932 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1935 * Server/client network synchronization module
1936 * VBrick streams fully supported
1937 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1941 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1942 --------------------------------
1945 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1946 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1947 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1948 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1951 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1952 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1953 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1954 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1955 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1956 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1957 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1960 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1961 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1962 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1963 * Improved directory access module.
1964 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1965 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1966 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1967 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1968 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1971 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1972 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1973 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1976 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1977 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1978 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1981 * Improved session announcement system.
1982 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1983 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1984 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1985 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1986 * Improved transrater.
1987 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1988 * New configuration system.
1989 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1992 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1993 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1994 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1995 * Supports scheduling.
1996 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1997 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2000 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2001 - Ability to embed video output.
2002 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2003 - Lots of improvements.
2004 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2005 - New design and set of icons.
2006 - Ability to embed video output.
2007 - Support for hotkeys.
2008 - Support for bookmarks.
2010 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2011 - Better hotkeys handling.
2014 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2015 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2016 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2017 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2020 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2021 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2022 * Improved Windows installer.
2028 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2029 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2032 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2033 ---------------------------------
2036 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2037 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2040 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2041 --------------------------------
2044 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2045 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2048 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2049 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2050 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2051 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2054 * Internal improvments
2055 * Improved import/export
2058 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2060 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2061 small and strange formats.
2063 * New MOD audio demux.
2064 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2065 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2066 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2067 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2070 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2071 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2072 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2078 * New opengl video output plugin.
2081 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2082 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2085 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2086 --------------------------------
2089 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2090 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2091 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2092 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2093 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2094 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2095 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2096 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2099 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2104 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2105 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2106 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2107 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2108 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2109 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2110 * Better Icecast support.
2111 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2112 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2115 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2116 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2117 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2118 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2119 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2120 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2121 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2124 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2125 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2126 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2127 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2128 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2129 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2130 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2131 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2132 * Preliminary RTP support.
2133 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2138 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2139 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2141 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2142 - Improvements and help in preferences
2143 - New streaming wizard
2144 - Revised Disc Open menu
2146 - Improvements of the standard pages
2147 - Support for new commands
2148 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2151 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2152 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2155 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2156 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2157 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2158 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2159 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2160 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2161 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2162 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2163 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2166 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2168 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2169 * Support for Panther.
2170 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2171 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2174 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2175 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2176 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2177 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2178 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2179 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2180 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2181 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2184 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2185 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2186 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2189 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2192 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2193 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2194 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2195 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2198 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2199 --------------------------------
2202 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2205 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2206 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2209 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2210 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2213 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2216 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2217 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2220 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2223 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2226 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2227 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2231 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2232 --------------------------------
2235 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2236 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2240 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2241 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2242 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2244 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2245 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2248 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2251 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2254 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2255 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2259 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2260 --------------------------------
2263 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2264 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2268 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2269 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2270 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2271 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2272 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2275 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2276 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2277 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2280 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2281 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2282 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2285 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2286 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2287 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2288 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2289 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2292 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2293 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2294 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2297 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2300 * Improved build system.
2301 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2302 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2303 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2304 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2307 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2308 --------------------------------
2311 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2314 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2315 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2316 * Video 4 Linux support
2317 * CD Digital Audio support
2318 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2321 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2322 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2323 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2324 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2327 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2328 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2329 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2330 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2331 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2332 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2333 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2336 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2337 * New HTTP remote control interface
2340 * 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.
2341 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2342 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2343 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2346 * New reset option for the preferences
2347 * You can set your language in the prefences
2348 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2349 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2350 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2351 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2354 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2355 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2356 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2359 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2360 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2361 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2362 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2363 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2364 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2365 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2366 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2367 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2368 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2371 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2372 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2373 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2374 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2375 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2376 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2377 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2380 * Interface localization
2381 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2382 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2383 * New full-featured Preferences window
2386 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2387 --------------------------------
2390 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2391 * support for skins at the interface level
2392 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2393 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2394 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2395 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2396 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2399 * fixed HTTP redirects
2400 * support for opening an entire directory
2401 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2402 * new video4linux access plug-in
2403 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2406 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2407 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2408 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2411 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2412 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2413 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2414 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2415 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2416 * new codec for raw I420 video
2417 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2420 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2421 (although it still misses some important features)
2422 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2425 * new HTTP output support
2426 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2427 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2430 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2433 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2436 * reorderable playlist
2437 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2438 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2439 * support for mono audio output devices
2440 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2441 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2442 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2443 * the messages window remembers more lines
2444 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2445 * http and ogg stream output options
2446 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2449 * new skinnable interface
2450 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2452 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2453 * support for FLAC audio format
2454 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2456 * network tab in the interface
2457 * "apply" handling in preferences
2460 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2461 ---------------------------------
2464 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2465 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2466 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2467 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2469 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2470 * DTS S/PDIF support
2473 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2474 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2475 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2476 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2479 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2480 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2483 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2486 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2489 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2491 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2492 * rc interface is now fully useable
2493 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2496 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2497 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2498 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2499 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2500 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2502 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2503 * support for mouse gestures
2504 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2507 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2508 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2511 * improved ID3 tag detection
2512 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2513 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2514 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2516 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2519 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2520 ---------------------------------
2523 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2524 English was set as the preferred language
2527 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2528 --------------------------------
2531 * new mouse gesture interface
2532 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2536 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2537 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2538 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2541 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2542 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2546 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2549 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2550 without the user consent
2553 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2555 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2556 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2557 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2560 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2561 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2562 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2563 * playlist enhancements
2564 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2565 * new step forward/step backward commands
2566 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2567 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2568 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2571 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2572 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2573 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2576 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2577 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2580 * native video output is working again
2581 * only commandline interface support
2582 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2585 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2586 --------------------------------
2589 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2590 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2591 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2592 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2593 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2594 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2595 and A/52 streams are supported)
2596 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2601 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2602 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2603 * VCD entry points support
2604 * VCD image file support
2607 * support for *.asf format
2608 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2609 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2610 * support for ogg encapsulation
2611 * support for raw DV format
2612 * support for *.wav format
2613 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2616 Stream discovery & playlists:
2617 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2618 * support for .m3u file format
2619 * support for .asx file format
2620 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2623 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
2624 (only available with the .avi demux)
2625 * support for ADPCM audio codec
2626 * support for raw PCM data
2627 * support for Cinepak video codec
2628 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
2629 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
2630 * support for Xvid codec
2631 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
2632 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
2633 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
2635 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
2637 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
2640 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
2643 * new WxWindows interface
2644 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
2645 device and the channels configuration
2646 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
2647 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
2648 format that VLC can play
2649 * new swedish translation
2650 * enhancements of the playlist window
2651 * new messages window to see debug info
2652 * fixed a few crashes
2655 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
2656 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
2657 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
2658 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working