1 Changes between 0.9.2 and 1.0.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
5 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
6 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on
10 * AES3 (SMPTE 302M) support
11 * E-AC3 (A/52b) support
14 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
15 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
16 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
19 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2
20 -------------------------------
22 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
23 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
27 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
28 --------------------------------
33 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
34 ---------------------------------
38 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
39 recent to work correctly
40 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
41 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
42 edit the ".hosts" file.
43 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
44 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
45 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
46 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
47 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
48 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
49 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
50 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
51 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
52 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
53 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
54 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
55 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
56 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
57 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
58 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
59 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
60 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
61 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
62 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
63 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
64 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
65 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
66 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
67 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
68 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
69 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
70 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
71 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
72 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
73 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
74 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
76 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
77 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
78 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
79 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
81 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
83 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
84 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
86 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
87 * Glide video output module has been removed.
93 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
95 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
96 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
99 * Vastly improved playlist support:
100 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
102 * Shoutcast TV listings
103 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
105 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
106 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
108 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
111 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
112 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
113 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
114 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
115 * JACK audio input support
116 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
117 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
118 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
119 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
120 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
121 * Experimental EyeTV access module
122 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
123 (available as a separate download).
124 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
126 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
127 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
128 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
130 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
131 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
134 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
135 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
136 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
137 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
139 * APEv1/2 tags support
140 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
141 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
143 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
144 * TiVo Series 2 support
145 * CD+G karaoke Files support
150 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
151 * Flash Screen Video support
152 * CamStudio Screen Video support
153 * DosBox Capture support
154 * Karl Morton's Video support
155 * limited atrac3 support
157 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
158 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
159 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
161 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
162 * NellyMoser ASAO support
163 * APE (Monkey audio) support
164 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
165 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
168 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
169 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
170 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
171 * AQTitle subtitles support
172 * MKV USF subtitles support
173 * HTML-based subtitles support
174 * MPSub subtitles support
175 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
176 * MPL2 subtitles support
177 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
178 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
179 * Realtext subtitle support
180 * DKS subtitle support
181 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
182 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
185 * Flash Screen Video support
186 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
188 Video outputs and filters:
189 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
190 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
191 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
192 * New puzzle video output filter
193 * Re-written motion detection video filter
194 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
196 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
197 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
198 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
199 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
200 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
201 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
202 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
203 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
204 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
205 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
206 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
207 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
208 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
209 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
211 Audio outputs and filters:
212 * Replay gain support
213 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
214 new scaletempo audio filter)
215 * New spatializer audio filter
216 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
219 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
220 * New RTP payload formats:
221 * Speex voice audio codec
222 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
223 * G.711 (both A-law and ยต-law) output
224 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
225 * DCCP transport for RTP
226 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
231 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
232 end-user suitable way.
233 * Improved user interaction
234 * Improved mouse gestures
235 * Vastly improved Update checker
236 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
238 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
239 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
241 * Improved video output features
242 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
243 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
244 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
245 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
246 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
248 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
249 if libncursesw is available.
250 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
251 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
252 share/lua/playlist/README.txt for more info.
254 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
255 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
256 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
257 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
258 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
259 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
260 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
261 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
264 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
265 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
266 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
269 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
270 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
271 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
272 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
273 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
274 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
277 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
278 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
288 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
289 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
290 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
293 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
294 ----------------------------------
297 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
300 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
301 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
302 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
303 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
304 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
305 * Updated Polish translation
308 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
309 ----------------------------------
312 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
313 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
314 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
317 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
318 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
319 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
320 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
321 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
322 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
323 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
324 to an unexpected application termination
325 * New Serbian translation
326 * Updated Romanian translation
329 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
330 ----------------------------------
333 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
334 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
335 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
336 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
337 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
338 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
339 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
340 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
343 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
344 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
345 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
346 * Fixed AAC resampling
347 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
348 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
351 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
352 ----------------------------------
355 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
356 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
357 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
358 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
359 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
362 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
363 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
364 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
365 * Close MMS access on network timeout
366 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
369 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
370 ----------------------------------
373 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
374 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
377 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
378 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
379 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
380 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
382 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
386 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
389 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
392 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
395 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
398 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
399 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
400 encoding on multi-cpu systems
401 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
402 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
404 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
405 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
406 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
407 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
410 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
413 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
414 ----------------------------------
417 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
418 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
419 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
421 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
422 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
424 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
425 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
428 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
430 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
431 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
432 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
433 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
434 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
435 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
437 * Support for current Ogg file formats
438 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
439 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
442 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
445 * The automatic updating facility was removed
446 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
447 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
448 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
451 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
452 ----------------------------------
454 Various bugfixes, notably:
455 * Windows Vista compatibility
456 * Cropping in Direct3D
457 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
458 * RSS filter string overflow
460 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
462 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
463 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
466 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
467 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
470 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
473 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
476 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
479 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
480 ----------------------------------
482 Various bugfixes, notably:
483 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
484 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
485 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
486 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
487 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
488 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
491 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
492 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
495 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
497 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
498 * Diverse usability improvements
499 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
500 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
501 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
504 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
505 ---------------------------------
508 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
511 * Fullscreen controller improvements
514 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
515 --------------------------------
518 * Shoutcast TV listings support
521 * Support for RTSP authentication
522 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
523 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
524 * ATSC support for DVB input
525 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
526 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
527 * Improved support for Flash Video files
530 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
531 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
532 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
533 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
534 * Matroska WavPack support
535 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
536 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
537 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
540 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
541 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
542 * Improved libcaca support
546 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
547 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
549 * Systray support in skins
551 * Support for Apple Remote control
552 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjรฆr Andersen)
553 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjรฆr Andersen)
554 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
555 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
557 * Notifications using notification-daemon
560 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
562 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
563 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
564 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
565 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
566 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
568 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
569 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
578 * Updates to the libvlc API
579 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
582 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
583 --------------------------------
586 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
587 * Support for downloading updates
591 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
592 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
593 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
594 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
596 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
597 * Improved subtitles encoding support
598 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
601 * Cook (Real audio) support
603 Playlist / Services discovery:
604 * XSPF playlist support
606 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
609 * New JACK audio output
613 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
614 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
615 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
616 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
617 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
618 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
621 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
624 * System to inform the user and request information
625 - HTTP authentication
629 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
630 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
631 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
634 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
635 - Improved playlist handling
636 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
638 - Embedded Video output
639 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
640 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
641 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
642 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
643 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
645 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
646 - A bunch of new RPN functions
649 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
652 * Mac-Intel compatibility
653 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
654 * Growl "Now playing" support
657 * Ability to log to syslog
658 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
661 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
663 * A bit more automatic testing
666 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
667 ---------------------------------
670 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
671 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
674 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
675 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
678 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
681 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
682 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
688 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
691 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
692 --------------------------------
695 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
699 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
700 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
701 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
704 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
705 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
706 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
707 * GnomeVFS input module
708 * Support for RTP packet reordering
709 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
712 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
713 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
714 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
717 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
718 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
724 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
725 Mixer and Dolby Surround
728 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
729 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
730 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
733 - new cone icon by Richard ยฏiestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
735 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
736 - New extended controls panel
737 - New bookmarks window
738 - Fixed playlist sorting
739 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
741 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
742 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
743 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
744 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
748 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
749 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
751 - Include macro to include other files
755 * Should now work outside IE as well
758 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
761 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
762 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
765 The following languages were added:
770 The following languages were re-added:
774 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
775 --------------------------------
778 * Rewrite of the playlist
780 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
781 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
782 * Preferences improvements:
783 - New organization, designed to improve usability
784 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
786 * Core image manipulation support
787 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
788 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
789 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
790 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
791 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
792 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
793 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
794 now separated by ':' instead of ','
795 * Access filter architecture
796 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
797 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
801 * Support for SOCKS proxy
802 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
803 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
804 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
805 * Better support for Kasenna streams
806 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
807 * Massive Matroska improvements
808 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
810 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
811 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
812 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
813 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
814 * Support for FTP over IPv6
817 * Dirac decoder and encoder
818 * PNG decoder/encoder
819 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
820 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
823 * New Record and Timeshift filters
826 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
827 * Brand new SAP module
828 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
829 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
830 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
831 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
832 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
833 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
837 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
840 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
841 * Image file video output (png)
842 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
843 * Improvements to wall video filter
844 * Support for font color and opacity
850 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
851 - Seeking support in VoD streams
852 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
856 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
857 - Improved preferences
858 - Improvements to the wizard
859 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
861 - Redesigned playlist
862 - Improved preferences
864 - Support for multiple actions
867 - Support for the new playlist system
869 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
872 * Screensaver disabling fix
873 * DirectShow tuner configuration
874 * Support for no-decoration windows
877 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
878 * The OpenGL video output is back
879 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
880 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
881 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
882 is not yet available in the new module
883 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
886 * Support for single-buffered overlay
895 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
898 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
901 The following languages were added:
907 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
908 --------------------------------
911 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
912 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
915 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
916 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
917 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
920 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
923 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
926 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
929 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
930 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
931 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
935 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
937 * Support of playlist group announcement
940 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
941 --------------------------------
944 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
945 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
946 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
947 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
948 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
949 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
952 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
953 (Stream your desktop)
954 * Improved DVD support:
955 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
956 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
957 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
958 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
959 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
960 (selection of titles/chapters).
963 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
964 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
965 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
966 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
967 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
968 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
969 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
970 * Improved Ogg demuxer
971 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
972 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
975 * G.726 audio support
976 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
977 * MPEG-4 text support
978 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
979 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
980 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
984 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
985 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
986 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
987 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
988 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
989 * DVB subtitles encoder
990 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
991 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
993 * Text track muxing for mp4
994 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
995 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
996 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
997 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
998 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
1001 * H.263 RTP streaming support
1002 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
1003 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
1006 * New audio equalizer filter
1007 * Very trivial volume normalizer
1008 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
1009 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
1010 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
1013 * Roku HD1000 Video output
1014 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
1015 with support for effects.
1016 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
1017 - New filters can be streamed.
1018 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1019 - Centralized scaling and blending
1021 - "time", to display current time
1022 - "marq", to display a marquee
1025 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1026 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1027 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1028 * A few skins2 improvements
1029 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1030 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1031 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1032 * Improved CORBA control module
1035 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1036 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1037 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1040 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1041 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1042 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1045 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1046 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1047 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1048 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1049 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1052 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1055 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1056 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1059 * Server/client network synchronization module
1060 * VBrick streams fully supported
1061 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1065 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1066 --------------------------------
1069 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1070 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1071 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1072 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1075 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1076 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1077 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1078 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1079 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1080 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1081 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1084 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1085 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1086 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1087 * Improved directory access module.
1088 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1089 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1090 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1091 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1092 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1095 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1096 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1097 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1100 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1101 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1102 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1105 * Improved session announcement system.
1106 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1107 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1108 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1109 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1110 * Improved transrater.
1111 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1112 * New configuration system.
1113 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1116 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1117 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1118 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1119 * Supports scheduling.
1120 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1121 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1124 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1125 - Ability to embed video output.
1126 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1127 - Lots of improvements.
1128 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1129 - New design and set of icons.
1130 - Ability to embed video output.
1131 - Support for hotkeys.
1132 - Support for bookmarks.
1134 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1135 - Better hotkeys handling.
1138 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1139 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1140 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1141 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1144 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1145 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1146 * Improved Windows installer.
1152 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1153 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1156 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1157 ---------------------------------
1160 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1161 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1164 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1165 --------------------------------
1168 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1169 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1172 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1173 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1174 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1175 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1178 * Internal improvments
1179 * Improved import/export
1182 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1184 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1185 small and strange formats.
1187 * New MOD audio demux.
1188 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1189 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1190 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1191 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1194 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1195 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1196 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1202 * New opengl video output plugin.
1205 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1206 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1209 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1210 --------------------------------
1213 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1214 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1215 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1216 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1217 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1218 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1219 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1220 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1223 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1228 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1229 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1230 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1231 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1232 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1233 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1234 * Better Icecast support.
1235 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1236 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1239 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1240 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1241 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1242 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1243 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1244 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1245 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1248 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1249 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1250 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1251 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1252 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1253 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1254 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1255 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1256 * Preliminary RTP support.
1257 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1262 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1263 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1265 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1266 - Improvements and help in preferences
1267 - New streaming wizard
1268 - Revised Disc Open menu
1270 - Improvements of the standard pages
1271 - Support for new commands
1272 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1275 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1276 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1279 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1280 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1281 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1282 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1283 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1284 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1285 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1286 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1287 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1290 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1292 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1293 * Support for Panther.
1294 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1295 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1298 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1299 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1300 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1301 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1302 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1303 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1304 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1305 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1308 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1309 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1310 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1313 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1316 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1317 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1318 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1319 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1322 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1323 --------------------------------
1326 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1329 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1330 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1333 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1334 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1337 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1340 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1341 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1344 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1347 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1350 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1351 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1355 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1356 --------------------------------
1359 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1360 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1364 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1365 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1366 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1368 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1369 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1372 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1375 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1378 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1379 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1383 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1384 --------------------------------
1387 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1388 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1392 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1393 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1394 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1395 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1396 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1399 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1400 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1401 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1404 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1405 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1406 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1409 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1410 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1411 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1412 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1413 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1416 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1417 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1418 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1421 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1424 * Improved build system.
1425 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1426 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1427 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1428 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1431 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1432 --------------------------------
1435 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1438 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1439 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1440 * Video 4 Linux support
1441 * CD Digital Audio support
1442 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1445 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1446 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1447 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1448 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1451 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1452 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1453 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1454 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1455 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1456 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1457 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1460 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1461 * New HTTP remote control interface
1464 * 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.
1465 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1466 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1467 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1470 * New reset option for the preferences
1471 * You can set your language in the prefences
1472 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1473 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1474 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1475 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1478 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1479 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1480 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1483 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1484 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1485 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1486 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1487 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1488 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1489 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1490 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1491 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1492 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1495 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1496 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1497 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1498 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1499 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1500 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1501 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1504 * Interface localization
1505 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1506 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1507 * New full-featured Preferences window
1510 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1511 --------------------------------
1514 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1515 * support for skins at the interface level
1516 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1517 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1518 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1519 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1520 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1523 * fixed HTTP redirects
1524 * support for opening an entire directory
1525 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1526 * new video4linux access plug-in
1527 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1530 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1531 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1532 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1535 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1536 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1537 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1538 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1539 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1540 * new codec for raw I420 video
1541 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1544 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1545 (although it still misses some important features)
1546 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1549 * new HTTP output support
1550 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1551 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1554 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1557 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1560 * reorderable playlist
1561 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1562 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1563 * support for mono audio output devices
1564 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1565 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1566 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1567 * the messages window remembers more lines
1568 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1569 * http and ogg stream output options
1570 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1573 * new skinnable interface
1574 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1576 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1577 * support for FLAC audio format
1578 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1580 * network tab in the interface
1581 * "apply" handling in preferences
1584 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1585 ---------------------------------
1588 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1589 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1590 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1591 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1593 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1594 * DTS S/PDIF support
1597 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1598 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1599 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1600 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1603 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1604 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1607 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1610 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1613 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1615 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1616 * rc interface is now fully useable
1617 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1620 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1621 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1622 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1623 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1624 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1626 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1627 * support for mouse gestures
1628 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1631 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1632 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1635 * improved ID3 tag detection
1636 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1637 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1638 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1640 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1643 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1644 ---------------------------------
1647 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1648 English was set as the preferred language
1651 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1652 --------------------------------
1655 * new mouse gesture interface
1656 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1660 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1661 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1662 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1665 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1666 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1670 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1673 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1674 without the user consent
1677 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1679 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1680 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1681 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1684 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1685 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1686 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1687 * playlist enhancements
1688 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1689 * new step forward/step backward commands
1690 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1691 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1692 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1695 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1696 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1697 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1700 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1701 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1704 * native video output is working again
1705 * only commandline interface support
1706 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1709 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1710 --------------------------------
1713 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1714 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1715 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1716 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1717 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1718 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1719 and A/52 streams are supported)
1720 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1725 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1726 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1727 * VCD entry points support
1728 * VCD image file support
1731 * support for *.asf format
1732 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1733 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1734 * support for ogg encapsulation
1735 * support for raw DV format
1736 * support for *.wav format
1737 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1740 Stream discovery & playlists:
1741 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1742 * support for .m3u file format
1743 * support for .asx file format
1744 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1747 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1748 (only available with the .avi demux)
1749 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1750 * support for raw PCM data
1751 * support for Cinepak video codec
1752 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1753 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1754 * support for Xvid codec
1755 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1756 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1757 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1759 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1761 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1764 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1767 * new WxWindows interface
1768 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1769 device and the channels configuration
1770 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1771 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1772 format that VLC can play
1773 * new swedish translation
1774 * enhancements of the playlist window
1775 * new messages window to see debug info
1776 * fixed a few crashes
1779 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1780 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1781 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1782 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working