1 Changes between 2.1.x and 2.2.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
5 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
8 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
9 * Add extensions download from external repositories
12 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access.
13 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes.
14 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
15 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection and navigation
16 * Digital Cinema Package support
19 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
20 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
21 * Support MSN Audio, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1, Bink
22 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
23 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
24 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
25 * OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
26 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
27 * New jpeg image decoder
28 * Add tx3g subtitles decoder
31 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
32 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
33 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
34 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
35 * New png image encoder using libpng
38 * New CAF format module
39 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably for seeking
40 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking
41 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
42 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
45 * Basic support for WebVTT
46 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 Audio stream type in TS
47 * Support HDPR TS files
48 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
49 * Fix encoding issues in some XML playlist formats
50 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
51 * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
52 * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
55 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
56 * Fixes for the AVI muxer for specification respect
58 * Add HEVC muxing in MP4
61 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
62 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
63 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
64 * New Android native window provider module
65 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
66 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
69 * New Oldmovie effect filter
70 * New VHS effect filter
71 * New Freeze effect filter
72 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
73 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
76 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
77 * Audio device notifications for WASAPI
80 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
81 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
82 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
83 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
84 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
85 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
86 * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
87 * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
88 * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
90 * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
91 --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
94 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
95 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
98 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
99 * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
102 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
103 * Add record button in Qt menus
104 * Fixes for advanced preferences on OS X
105 * New module for core dialogs on iOS
108 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
109 * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
110 * Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
113 * ios video output: use ios2
114 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
115 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
118 Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3:
119 --------------------------------
122 * Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
123 * Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir
126 * Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
127 * Fix encrypted DVD playback
128 * Fix v4l2 frequency conversion
131 * Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
132 by updating codec libraries
133 * Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
134 * Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
135 * Fix teletext crash on Windows
138 * Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
139 * Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
140 * Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
141 * Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing
144 * Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
145 * Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X
148 * Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
149 * Fix transform off-by-one issue
150 * Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
151 * Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
152 * Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC
155 * Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
156 * Fix record file names
159 * Fix minimal size possible on start
160 * Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
161 * Fix a crash in the audio menu building
162 * Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
163 * Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows
166 * Fix album art display on Windows
169 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek,
170 Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew,
171 Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Nepali,
172 Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
173 Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
174 and Simplified Chinese translations
175 * Fix encoding for Windows installer translations
178 Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2:
179 --------------------------------
182 * Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
183 * Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
184 * Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external
185 audio devices on OS X
186 * Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
187 * Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS
190 * Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
191 * Various WMV playback improvements and fixes
194 * Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
195 * Fix playback of some HEVC samples
198 * Fix crash on deinterlace selection
201 * Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
202 * Improve A-B loop control
203 * Fix album art update when changing media
206 * Add a language option in the interface
207 * Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
208 * Improved UI resetting when requested in the preferences
209 * Fix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
210 * Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
211 * Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
212 * Fix crash when closing window without decorations
213 * Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled
216 * Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update
219 * Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian,
220 French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer,
221 Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala,
222 Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations
225 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
226 --------------------------------
229 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
231 * Fix some subtitles track selection
234 * VP9 support in WebM
235 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
236 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
239 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
240 * Support Speex in ogg files
241 * Fix some .mov playlists support
242 * Support Alac in mkv
243 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
244 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
247 * Fix DVB options parsing
248 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
249 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
252 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
253 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
256 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
257 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
260 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
261 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
262 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
263 * Fix play after drag'n drop
264 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
267 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
268 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
271 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
272 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
275 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
276 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
277 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
278 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
279 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
280 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
281 * Improves interface resizings
284 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
285 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
286 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
287 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
288 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
292 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
293 --------------------------------
296 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
297 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
298 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
299 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
300 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
302 3rd party libraries (contrib):
303 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
306 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
307 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
308 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
309 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
310 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
313 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
314 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
318 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
319 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
320 * Support for Ulead DV audio
321 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
322 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
323 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
324 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
325 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
326 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
327 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
328 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
329 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
330 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
333 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
334 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
335 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
338 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
339 remove support for previous OS X releases
340 * Major improvements in DASH support
341 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
342 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
343 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
344 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
345 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
346 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
347 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
348 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
349 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
350 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
351 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
354 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
355 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
356 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
357 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
358 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
359 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
360 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
361 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
362 * Support for more MJPEG streams
363 * Add support for liveleak streams
364 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
365 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
366 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
369 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
370 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
371 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
372 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
373 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
374 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
375 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
376 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
377 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
378 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
379 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
382 * New remapping channel filter
383 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
384 * New VSXu visualization plugin
385 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
386 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
387 * New gain audio filter
390 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
391 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
392 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
393 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
394 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
395 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
396 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
397 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
398 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
401 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
402 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
403 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
404 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
405 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
406 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
407 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
410 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
411 * Options support for AVIO output module
412 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
413 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
414 * Livehttp stream encryption support
415 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
416 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
419 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
422 * configurable password for the HTTP server
423 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
424 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
425 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
426 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
427 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
428 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
429 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
433 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
436 * Add support for multiple video outputs
437 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
439 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
440 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
441 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
442 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
443 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
444 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
445 VLC's internal volume level
446 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
448 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
449 selection and to manage the list of presets
450 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
451 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
452 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
453 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
454 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
455 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
456 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
457 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
458 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
459 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
461 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
462 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
463 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
464 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
465 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
466 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
467 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
468 3rd party applications
469 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
470 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
471 (system-wide settings)
472 * Add support for the Video Title option
473 * Add support for the Boss Key
474 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
475 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
478 * Partial support for Qt5.0
479 * Menus modifications and improvements
480 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
481 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
482 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
483 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
484 * EPG display fixes and improvements
485 * Add SD pixmap sources
486 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
487 * Display playlist total duration
488 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
489 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
490 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
495 * Extend sliders, offsets options
496 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
497 * Numerous fixes and improvements
498 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
501 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
502 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
503 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
504 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
505 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
506 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
507 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
508 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
509 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
510 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
513 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
514 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
515 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
516 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
517 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
518 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
520 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
521 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
522 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
523 * Broken crop video filter
525 * OSD parser and menu
526 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
527 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
528 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
529 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
533 * Update of all translations
536 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
537 --------------------------------
540 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
541 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
544 * Fix modplug security issues
547 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
548 --------------------------------
552 * Fix crash in QTsound
553 * Fix screen mouse file location
554 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
557 * Fix use after free in sgimb
558 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
561 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
564 * Fix interface crashes
565 * Fix autostart playback option
566 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
569 * update Welsh translation
570 * New Kannada translation
573 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
574 --------------------------------
577 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
578 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
582 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
585 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
588 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
591 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
595 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
598 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
601 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
602 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
603 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
606 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
607 --------------------------------
610 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
613 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
616 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
617 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
618 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
619 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
620 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
621 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
624 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
625 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
626 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
627 * 3rd party codecs updates
630 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
631 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
632 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
633 in the advanced preferences panel
634 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
635 * Fix crash within the video output code
636 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
637 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
638 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
639 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
641 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
644 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
647 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
648 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
651 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
654 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
655 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
656 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
657 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
658 Dutch, Danish, translations
659 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
662 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
663 --------------------------------
666 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
669 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
670 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
671 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
674 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
675 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
676 * Fix koreus lua parser
677 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
678 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
679 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
680 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
683 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
684 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
687 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
690 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
691 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
692 * Fix Time counter UI look
693 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
696 * Fix https streaming
699 * Fix audio and video track selection:
700 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
701 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
704 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
705 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
706 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
707 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
708 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
711 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
712 --------------------------------
715 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
716 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
717 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
718 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
719 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
720 during playback on Mac OS X
723 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
724 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
725 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
728 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
729 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
730 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
731 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
732 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
735 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
736 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
737 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
738 * Support Youtube live streams
741 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
744 * Fix media info dialog update
745 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
746 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
747 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
748 * Fix album art display at start
751 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
752 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
753 * Fix menus display and behavior
754 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
755 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
756 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
757 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
758 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
759 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
760 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
763 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
764 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
765 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
766 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
767 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
768 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
769 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
770 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
771 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
774 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
775 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
776 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
777 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
778 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
781 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
782 --------------------------------
785 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
788 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
789 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
792 * Add GateKeeper support
793 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
794 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
795 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
798 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
801 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
802 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
803 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
804 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
805 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
808 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
809 --------------------------------
812 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
813 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
814 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
815 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
816 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
817 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
818 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
819 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
820 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
821 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
822 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
826 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
827 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
828 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
829 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
830 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
831 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
832 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
833 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
834 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
835 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
836 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
837 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
840 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
841 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
843 * Fix MP3 free format support
846 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
847 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
848 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
849 * Fix for DVB channels file support
850 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
853 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
854 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
856 Audio filters and output:
857 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
858 * Fix DirectSound device selection
859 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
860 * Do not apply volume in file output
861 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
862 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
865 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
866 the persistant media library
867 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
868 to the media library or the temporary playlist
869 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
870 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
871 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
872 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
873 press on the Play/Pause button
874 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
875 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
876 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
877 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
878 * Many Fullscreen fixes
879 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
880 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
881 Synchronization panel
882 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
883 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
884 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
885 * Fix crashes on exit
886 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
888 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
889 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
890 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
891 automatically reset on the first launch.
892 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
893 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
894 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
897 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
898 * Fixes for icecast SD
901 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
902 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
903 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
904 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
905 * Fix tags and file names display
906 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
909 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
910 * Fix for key events and focus loss
913 * Fix display of some buttons
914 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
915 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
918 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
919 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
920 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
923 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
924 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
925 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
926 Thai translations update
927 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
930 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
931 --------------------------------
934 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
935 * fix the samba module compilation
936 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
937 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
938 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
939 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
942 * Support for MXPEG files
943 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
944 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
947 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
948 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
949 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
952 * Fix ogm header creation
955 * limit spatializer filter distortions
956 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
959 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
960 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
961 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
962 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
965 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
968 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
969 * allow to hide the sidebar
970 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
971 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
972 * noticebly faster launch time
973 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
974 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
975 * improve track synchronization panel
976 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
977 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
980 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
981 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
982 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
983 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
986 * fix for menus display
987 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
988 * documentation update
991 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
992 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
995 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
996 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
997 * Update Jamendo selections
1001 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
1002 * fix a crash on VLM close
1005 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
1006 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
1007 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
1008 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
1011 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
1014 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
1015 ---------------------------------
1018 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1019 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
1020 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
1021 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
1022 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
1023 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
1024 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
1025 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
1026 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
1027 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
1028 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
1029 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
1030 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
1031 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
1032 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
1033 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
1034 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
1035 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
1036 --http-crl (optional CRL).
1037 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
1038 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
1039 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
1040 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
1041 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
1042 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
1043 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
1045 Important changes for packagers:
1046 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
1047 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
1048 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
1049 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
1050 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
1051 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
1052 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
1053 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
1054 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
1055 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
1058 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
1059 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
1060 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
1061 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
1062 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
1063 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
1064 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
1067 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
1068 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
1069 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
1070 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
1071 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
1072 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
1073 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
1074 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
1075 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
1076 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
1077 * PulseAudio audio input support
1078 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
1079 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
1080 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
1081 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
1082 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
1083 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
1084 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
1085 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
1088 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
1089 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
1090 are notably concerned.
1091 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
1092 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
1093 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
1094 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
1095 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
1096 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
1097 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
1098 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
1099 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
1100 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
1101 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
1102 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
1103 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
1104 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
1105 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
1108 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
1109 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
1110 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
1111 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
1112 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
1113 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
1114 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
1115 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
1116 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
1117 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
1118 * Improved support of tracker files
1119 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
1122 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
1123 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
1124 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
1125 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
1126 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
1127 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
1128 and important cleanups and optimisations
1129 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
1130 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
1131 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
1132 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
1133 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
1134 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
1135 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
1136 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
1137 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
1138 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
1139 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
1140 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
1141 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
1142 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
1143 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
1144 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
1145 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
1146 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
1147 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
1148 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
1149 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
1152 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
1153 * New video output for iOS platform
1154 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
1155 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
1156 * Various vmem improvements
1157 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
1158 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
1159 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
1160 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
1161 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
1162 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
1164 Audio Output and Filters:
1165 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
1166 * New audio output in memory (amem)
1167 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
1168 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
1169 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
1170 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
1171 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
1172 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
1173 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
1174 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
1177 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
1178 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
1179 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
1180 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
1181 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
1182 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
1183 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
1184 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
1185 * New anti-flickering filter
1186 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
1187 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
1188 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
1189 blackbox and customizable shadow.
1190 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
1191 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
1192 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
1195 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
1196 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
1197 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
1198 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
1199 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
1200 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
1201 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
1202 * Major rework of VoD support
1203 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
1204 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
1205 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
1206 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
1207 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
1208 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
1209 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
1210 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
1211 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
1212 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
1215 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
1216 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
1219 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1220 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
1221 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
1222 list of available audio and video filters
1223 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
1224 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
1225 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
1228 * asademux, subsass: use libass
1229 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
1230 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
1231 * id3tag: use taglib
1232 * upnp: use upnp_intel
1233 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
1234 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
1235 * removal of the noise filter
1236 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
1237 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
1238 removed in Growl's next release, too.
1239 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
1242 * Update of translations for most languages.
1243 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
1246 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
1247 ----------------------------------
1250 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
1251 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
1254 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
1255 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
1258 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
1259 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
1260 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
1263 * Camtasia decoding fix.
1266 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
1267 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
1270 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
1273 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
1274 ----------------------------------
1277 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
1278 including support for OS X Lion
1279 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
1280 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
1283 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
1286 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
1287 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
1288 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
1291 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
1294 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
1295 ----------------------------------
1298 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
1299 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
1302 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
1303 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
1304 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
1305 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
1306 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
1308 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
1309 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
1310 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
1312 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
1313 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
1316 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
1319 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
1322 * Fix quitting on Linux
1323 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
1327 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
1330 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
1333 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
1334 ---------------------------------
1336 Windows and Mac OS X:
1337 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
1340 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
1341 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
1344 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
1347 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
1350 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
1352 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1353 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
1355 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
1356 * RTP output and XML export
1357 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
1361 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
1362 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
1363 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
1364 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
1367 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
1368 --------------------------------
1370 Windows and Mac OS X:
1371 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
1374 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
1377 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
1378 * Improve Apple Remote handling
1379 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
1380 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
1381 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
1382 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
1385 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
1386 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
1390 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
1391 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
1392 * New Luganda Translation
1395 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
1396 --------------------------------
1399 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
1402 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
1403 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
1404 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
1405 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
1408 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
1410 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
1411 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
1412 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
1413 * mp4 demuxer improvements
1414 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
1415 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
1416 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
1417 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
1419 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1420 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
1421 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
1422 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
1423 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
1424 * Configure and build system improvements
1425 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
1428 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
1429 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
1430 * New icelandic translation
1433 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
1434 --------------------------------
1437 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
1438 #234484 and #260719.
1441 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
1442 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1443 and stability reasons
1446 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1450 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1453 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1454 ----------------------------------
1457 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1460 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1461 ---------------------------------
1464 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1465 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1466 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1467 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1470 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1473 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1474 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1475 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1476 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1479 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1480 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1481 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1483 Subtitles and renderer:
1484 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1485 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1486 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1487 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1488 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1491 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1492 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1493 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1494 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1497 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1498 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1500 Miscellaneous fixes:
1501 * KDE device solid actions
1503 * Transcode integer overflow
1504 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1505 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1508 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1509 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1510 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1513 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1514 ----------------------------------
1517 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1521 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1524 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1527 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1528 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1529 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1530 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1533 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1537 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1540 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1543 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1544 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1546 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1550 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1551 * Miscellaneous fixes
1554 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1555 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1556 French and Ukrainian
1557 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1558 * New Asturian translation
1561 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1562 ----------------------------------
1565 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1567 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1570 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1573 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1574 * Various fixes for Windows
1577 * New Armenian translation
1578 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1579 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1582 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1583 --------------------------------
1586 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1587 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1588 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1591 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1592 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1595 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1596 --------------------------------
1598 Access and demuxers:
1599 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1600 * fix for podcasts parsing
1601 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1604 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1605 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1608 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1609 * fix m3u playlists exports
1612 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1615 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1618 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1621 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1624 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1627 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1628 --------------------------------
1631 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1632 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1635 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1636 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1639 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1640 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1641 * fix console output encoding
1643 Interface and extensions:
1644 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1645 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1648 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1649 --------------------------------
1652 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1653 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1654 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1655 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1656 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1657 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1658 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1659 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1660 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1661 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1662 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1663 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1664 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1665 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1666 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1667 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1671 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1672 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1673 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1674 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1675 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1678 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1681 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1682 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1683 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1687 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1690 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1691 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1692 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1695 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1696 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1697 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1698 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1701 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1702 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1705 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1706 --------------------------------
1708 Important changes for users:
1709 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1710 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1712 Important changes for packagers:
1713 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1714 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1715 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1716 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1717 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1719 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1721 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1722 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1723 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1724 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1725 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1728 * Support for the sftp protocol
1729 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1730 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1731 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1732 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1733 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1736 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1737 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1738 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1740 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1741 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1742 * Invmem module improvements
1743 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1744 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1745 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1746 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1747 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1748 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1749 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1750 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1751 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1752 * Support for VP8 codec
1753 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1756 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1757 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1758 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1759 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1760 * Various EGP improvements
1761 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1762 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1765 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1766 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1767 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1768 * Podcast images are now displayed
1771 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1772 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1773 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1774 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1775 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1776 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1777 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1778 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1779 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1780 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1781 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1784 * New content extensions lua framework
1787 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1788 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1789 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1790 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1791 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1792 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1793 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
1796 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
1797 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
1798 * Service discovery based on libudev
1799 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
1802 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
1803 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
1804 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
1805 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
1806 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
1807 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
1808 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
1811 * New smem module, streaming to memory
1812 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
1813 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
1816 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
1818 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
1819 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
1822 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
1825 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
1826 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
1827 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
1828 by Andy Matuschak et al.
1829 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
1830 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
1831 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
1834 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
1835 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
1838 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
1839 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
1840 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
1844 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
1845 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
1846 * Improved Solaris port
1849 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
1850 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
1853 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
1854 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
1855 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
1856 * transrate: broken since too long
1857 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
1858 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
1859 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
1860 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
1861 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
1862 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
1863 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
1864 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
1865 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
1866 * cddax: use cdda instead.
1867 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
1868 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
1869 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
1870 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
1873 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
1874 --------------------------------
1877 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
1879 Decoders/Packetizers:
1880 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
1883 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
1884 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
1885 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
1886 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
1887 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
1890 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
1891 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
1894 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
1895 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
1898 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
1899 and Walloon translations updated
1900 * Sinhala translation started
1903 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
1904 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
1907 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
1908 --------------------------------
1911 * SubRip extra styles improvements
1912 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
1915 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
1918 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
1919 increase performance and fix x264 issues
1922 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
1923 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
1924 Russian, Slovak translation updates
1925 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
1928 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
1929 --------------------------------
1932 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
1933 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
1936 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
1937 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
1940 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
1941 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
1944 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
1947 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
1948 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
1951 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
1952 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
1955 * New Walloon translation
1956 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
1959 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
1960 --------------------------------
1963 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
1964 regressions in most popular drivers
1965 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
1968 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
1969 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
1970 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
1973 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
1974 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
1977 * Update for appletrailers lua script
1978 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
1979 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
1980 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
1981 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
1984 * New udev module for linux
1987 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
1990 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
1993 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
1994 --------------------------------
1997 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
1998 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
1999 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
2002 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
2003 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
2006 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
2007 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
2010 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
2013 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
2014 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
2015 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
2016 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
2019 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
2020 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
2021 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
2022 - no support for Goom and SDL
2023 - limited text rendering support
2024 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
2027 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
2028 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
2029 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
2030 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
2031 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
2032 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
2033 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
2034 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
2035 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
2039 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
2042 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
2045 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
2046 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
2047 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
2048 Arabic and French translation updates
2051 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
2052 --------------------------------
2055 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
2056 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
2057 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
2058 * Fix Dailymotion access script
2059 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
2060 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
2063 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
2064 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2065 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2068 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
2069 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
2070 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
2073 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
2076 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
2077 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
2080 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
2081 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
2082 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2083 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
2084 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
2085 * Fix various crashes
2088 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
2090 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
2094 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
2095 ---------------------------------
2099 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
2100 See 'Access:' for more info.
2101 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
2104 * Instantaneous pausing
2105 * Frame-by-Frame playback
2106 * Finer speed control
2107 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
2108 * Timeshift for most medias
2109 * RTSP trickplay support
2110 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
2113 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
2114 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
2115 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
2116 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
2117 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
2118 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
2119 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
2120 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
2121 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
2122 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
2125 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
2126 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
2127 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
2128 * Metadata for mod files are supported
2129 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
2130 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
2131 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
2134 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
2135 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
2138 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
2139 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
2140 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
2141 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
2142 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
2143 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
2144 * DVB scanning on linux
2145 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
2146 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
2147 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
2148 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
2149 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
2150 * MTP device access on Unix
2151 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
2152 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
2155 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
2156 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
2157 Windows and Mac OS X.
2160 * Export the playlist in HTML
2161 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
2162 * Better metadata handling and reading
2164 Linux/Windows interface:
2165 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
2166 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
2167 * Recently played items list
2168 * Interface toolbar customizations
2169 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
2170 - More menus actions
2171 - Finer speed slider
2172 - Improvements on many dialogs
2173 - New dialog for plugins listing
2174 - Fixed-size mode for videos
2175 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
2176 * Better integration in GTK environments
2179 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
2180 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
2181 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
2182 * Additional usability improvements
2185 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
2186 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
2187 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
2188 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
2189 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
2192 * New Maemo port with:
2193 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
2194 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
2197 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
2200 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
2201 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
2202 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
2203 * Support for latest iSight models
2206 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
2207 * Surround support for PulseAudio
2210 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
2211 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
2212 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
2213 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
2214 The old image video output has been removed.
2215 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
2216 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
2219 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
2227 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
2228 --------------------------------------
2234 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
2235 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
2236 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
2237 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
2238 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
2239 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2240 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
2242 Various fixes to the following modules:
2245 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
2246 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2247 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2249 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
2254 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
2255 ---------------------------------
2258 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
2259 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
2262 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
2263 ---------------------------------
2266 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
2269 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
2272 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
2273 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
2274 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
2275 main controller window.
2276 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
2279 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
2284 * Updates of other localizations
2287 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
2288 * Lots of small bugfixes.
2289 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
2290 * Telnet fixes on Windows
2291 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
2294 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
2295 ---------------------------------
2298 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
2300 Bunch of small bugfixes.
2303 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
2304 --------------------------------
2309 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
2310 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
2313 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
2314 --------------------------------
2316 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
2317 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
2320 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
2323 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
2324 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
2327 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
2328 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
2331 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
2332 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
2333 * Various fixed in playlist
2336 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
2339 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
2342 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
2343 ------------------------------------
2345 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
2346 * Fixes several memory leaks.
2349 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
2350 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
2351 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
2354 * Stability fix for the video output.
2357 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
2358 --------------------------------
2361 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
2362 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
2363 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
2364 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
2365 * Fixed update system bugs
2366 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
2369 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
2370 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
2371 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
2372 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
2373 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
2374 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
2375 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
2376 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
2377 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
2378 modern Mac OS X versions
2381 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
2382 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
2384 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
2385 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
2388 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
2389 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
2390 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
2391 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
2392 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
2393 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
2396 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
2397 --------------------------------
2399 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
2400 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
2401 * Multiple bugfixes.
2404 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
2405 --------------------------------
2407 * Multiple bug fixes.
2410 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2411 ---------------------------------
2415 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
2416 recent to work correctly
2417 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
2418 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
2419 edit the ".hosts" file.
2420 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
2421 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
2422 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
2423 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
2424 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
2425 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
2426 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
2427 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
2428 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
2429 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
2430 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
2431 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
2432 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
2433 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
2434 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
2435 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
2436 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
2437 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
2438 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
2439 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2440 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
2441 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
2442 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2443 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2444 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2445 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2446 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2447 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2448 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2449 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2450 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2451 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2452 and postproc modules.
2453 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2454 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2455 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2456 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2458 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2459 filter. For example:
2460 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2461 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2463 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2464 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2470 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2472 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2473 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2476 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2477 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2479 * Shoutcast TV listings
2480 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2482 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2483 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2485 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2488 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2489 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2490 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2491 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2492 * JACK audio input support
2493 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2494 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2495 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2496 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2497 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2498 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2499 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2500 (available as a separate download).
2501 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2502 * RTMP input support
2503 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2504 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2505 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2507 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2508 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2511 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2512 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2513 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2514 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2516 * APEv1/2 tags support
2517 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2518 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2520 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2521 * TiVo Series 2 support
2522 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2527 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2528 * Flash Screen Video support
2529 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2530 * DosBox Capture support
2531 * Karl Morton's Video support
2532 * limited atrac3 support
2534 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2535 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2536 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2537 * H.264 PAFF support
2538 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2539 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2540 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2541 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2542 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2545 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2546 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2547 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2548 * AQTitle subtitles support
2549 * MKV USF subtitles support
2550 * HTML-based subtitles support
2551 * MPSub subtitles support
2552 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2553 * MPL2 subtitles support
2554 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2555 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2556 * Realtext subtitle support
2557 * DKS subtitle support
2558 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2559 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2562 * Flash Screen Video support
2563 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2565 Video outputs and filters:
2566 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2567 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2568 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2569 * New puzzle video output filter
2570 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2571 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2573 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2574 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2575 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2576 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2577 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2578 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2579 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2580 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2581 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2582 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2583 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2584 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2585 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2586 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2588 Audio outputs and filters:
2589 * Replay gain support
2590 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2591 new scaletempo audio filter)
2592 * New spatializer audio filter
2593 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2596 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2597 * New RTP payload formats:
2598 * Speex voice audio codec
2599 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2600 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2601 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2602 * DCCP transport for RTP
2603 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2608 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2609 end-user suitable way.
2610 * Improved user interaction
2611 * Improved mouse gestures
2612 * Vastly improved Update checker
2613 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2615 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2616 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2618 * Improved video output features
2619 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2620 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2621 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2622 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2623 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2625 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2626 if libncursesw is available.
2627 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2628 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2629 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2631 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2632 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2633 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2634 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2635 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2636 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2637 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2638 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2641 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2642 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2643 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2646 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2647 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2648 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2649 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2650 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2651 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2654 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2655 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2665 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2666 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2667 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2670 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2671 ----------------------------------
2674 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2677 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2678 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2679 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2680 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2681 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2682 * Updated Polish translation
2685 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2686 ----------------------------------
2689 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2690 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2691 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2694 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2695 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2696 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2697 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2698 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2699 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2700 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2701 to an unexpected application termination
2702 * New Serbian translation
2703 * Updated Romanian translation
2706 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2707 ----------------------------------
2710 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2711 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2712 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2713 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2714 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2715 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2716 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2717 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2720 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2721 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2722 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2723 * Fixed AAC resampling
2724 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2725 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2728 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2729 ----------------------------------
2732 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2733 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2734 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2735 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2736 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2739 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2740 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2741 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2742 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2743 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2746 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2747 ----------------------------------
2750 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2751 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2754 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2755 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2756 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2757 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2759 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2763 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2766 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2769 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2772 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2775 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2776 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2777 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2778 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2779 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2781 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2782 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2783 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2784 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2787 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2790 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2791 ----------------------------------
2794 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
2795 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
2796 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
2798 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
2799 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
2801 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
2802 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
2805 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
2807 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2808 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
2809 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2810 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
2811 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
2812 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
2813 two different movies
2814 * Support for current Ogg file formats
2815 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
2816 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
2819 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
2822 * The automatic updating facility was removed
2823 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2824 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
2825 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
2828 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
2829 ----------------------------------
2831 Various bugfixes, notably:
2832 * Windows Vista compatibility
2833 * Cropping in Direct3D
2834 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
2835 * RSS filter string overflow
2837 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
2839 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
2840 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
2843 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
2844 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
2847 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
2850 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
2853 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
2856 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
2857 ----------------------------------
2859 Various bugfixes, notably:
2860 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
2861 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
2862 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
2863 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
2864 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
2865 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
2868 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
2869 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
2872 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
2874 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2875 * Diverse usability improvements
2876 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
2877 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
2878 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
2881 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
2882 ---------------------------------
2884 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
2885 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
2888 * Fullscreen controller improvements
2891 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
2892 --------------------------------
2895 * Shoutcast TV listings support
2898 * Support for RTSP authentication
2899 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
2900 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
2901 * ATSC support for DVB input
2902 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
2903 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
2904 * Improved support for Flash Video files
2907 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
2908 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
2909 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
2910 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
2911 * Matroska WavPack support
2912 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
2913 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
2914 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
2917 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
2918 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
2919 * Improved libcaca support
2923 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
2924 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
2926 * Systray support in skins
2928 * Support for Apple Remote control
2929 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2930 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2931 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
2932 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
2934 * Notifications using notification-daemon
2937 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
2938 Windows 9x/ME users:
2939 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
2940 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
2941 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
2942 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
2943 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
2945 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
2946 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
2955 * Updates to the libvlc API
2956 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
2959 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
2960 --------------------------------
2963 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
2964 * Support for downloading updates
2968 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
2969 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
2970 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
2971 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
2973 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
2974 * Improved subtitles encoding support
2975 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
2978 * Cook (Real audio) support
2980 Playlist / Services discovery:
2981 * XSPF playlist support
2983 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
2986 * New JACK audio output
2989 * New video filters:
2990 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
2991 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
2992 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
2993 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
2994 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
2995 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
2998 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
3001 * System to inform the user and request information
3002 - HTTP authentication
3006 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
3007 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3008 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
3011 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
3012 - Improved playlist handling
3013 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
3015 - Embedded Video output
3016 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
3017 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
3018 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3019 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
3020 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
3022 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
3023 - A bunch of new RPN functions
3026 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
3029 * Mac-Intel compatibility
3030 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
3031 * Growl "Now playing" support
3034 * Ability to log to syslog
3035 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
3038 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
3040 * A bit more automatic testing
3043 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
3044 ---------------------------------
3047 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
3048 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
3051 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
3052 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
3055 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
3058 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
3059 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
3065 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
3068 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
3069 --------------------------------
3072 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
3076 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
3077 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
3078 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
3081 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
3082 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
3083 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
3084 * GnomeVFS input module
3085 * Support for RTP packet reordering
3086 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
3089 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
3090 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
3091 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
3094 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
3095 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
3101 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
3102 Mixer and Dolby Surround
3105 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
3106 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
3107 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
3110 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
3112 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
3113 - New extended controls panel
3114 - New bookmarks window
3115 - Fixed playlist sorting
3116 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
3118 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
3119 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
3120 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
3121 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
3125 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
3126 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
3128 - Include macro to include other files
3132 * Should now work outside IE as well
3135 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
3138 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
3139 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
3142 The following languages were added:
3146 * Simplified Chinese
3147 The following languages were re-added:
3151 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
3152 --------------------------------
3155 * Rewrite of the playlist
3157 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
3158 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
3159 * Preferences improvements:
3160 - New organization, designed to improve usability
3161 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
3163 * Core image manipulation support
3164 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
3165 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
3166 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
3167 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
3168 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
3169 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
3170 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
3171 now separated by ':' instead of ','
3172 * Access filter architecture
3173 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
3174 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
3178 * Support for SOCKS proxy
3179 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
3180 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
3181 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
3182 * Better support for Kasenna streams
3183 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
3184 * Massive Matroska improvements
3185 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
3187 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
3188 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
3189 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
3190 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
3191 * Support for FTP over IPv6
3193 Decoders / Encoders:
3194 * Dirac decoder and encoder
3195 * PNG decoder/encoder
3196 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
3197 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
3200 * New Record and Timeshift filters
3203 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
3204 * Brand new SAP module
3205 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
3206 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
3207 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
3208 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
3209 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
3210 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
3214 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
3217 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
3218 * Image file video output (png)
3219 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
3220 * Improvements to wall video filter
3221 * Support for font color and opacity
3227 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
3228 - Seeking support in VoD streams
3229 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
3233 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
3234 - Improved preferences
3235 - Improvements to the wizard
3236 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
3238 - Redesigned playlist
3239 - Improved preferences
3241 - Support for multiple actions
3244 - Support for the new playlist system
3246 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
3249 * Screensaver disabling fix
3250 * DirectShow tuner configuration
3251 * Support for no-decoration windows
3254 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
3255 * The OpenGL video output is back
3256 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
3257 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
3258 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
3259 is not yet available in the new module
3260 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
3263 * Support for single-buffered overlay
3272 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
3275 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
3278 The following languages were added:
3284 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
3285 --------------------------------
3288 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
3289 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
3292 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
3293 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
3294 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
3297 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3300 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
3303 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
3306 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
3307 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
3308 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
3312 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
3314 * Support of playlist group announcement
3317 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
3318 --------------------------------
3321 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
3322 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
3323 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
3324 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
3325 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
3326 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
3329 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
3330 (Stream your desktop)
3331 * Improved DVD support:
3332 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
3333 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
3334 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
3335 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
3336 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
3337 (selection of titles/chapters).
3340 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
3341 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
3342 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
3343 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
3344 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
3345 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3346 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
3347 * Improved Ogg demuxer
3348 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
3349 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
3352 * G.726 audio support
3353 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
3354 * MPEG-4 text support
3355 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
3356 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
3357 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
3361 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
3362 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
3363 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
3364 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
3365 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
3366 * DVB subtitles encoder
3367 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
3368 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
3370 * Text track muxing for mp4
3371 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
3372 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
3373 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3374 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
3375 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
3376 * Improved ASF muxer
3378 * H.263 RTP streaming support
3379 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
3380 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
3383 * New audio equalizer filter
3384 * Very trivial volume normalizer
3385 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
3386 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
3387 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
3390 * Roku HD1000 Video output
3391 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
3392 with support for effects.
3393 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
3394 - New filters can be streamed.
3395 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
3396 - Centralized scaling and blending
3398 - "time", to display current time
3399 - "marq", to display a marquee
3402 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
3403 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
3404 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
3405 * A few skins2 improvements
3406 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
3407 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
3408 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
3409 * Improved CORBA control module
3412 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
3413 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
3414 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
3417 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
3418 * Experimental SVG rendering module
3419 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
3422 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
3423 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
3424 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
3425 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
3426 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
3429 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3432 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
3433 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
3436 * Server/client network synchronization module
3437 * VBrick streams fully supported
3438 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
3442 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3443 --------------------------------
3446 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3447 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3448 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3449 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3452 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3453 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3454 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3455 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3456 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3457 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3458 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3461 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3462 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3463 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3464 * Improved directory access module.
3465 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3466 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3467 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3468 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3469 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3472 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3473 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3474 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3477 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3478 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3479 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3482 * Improved session announcement system.
3483 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3484 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3485 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3486 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3487 * Improved transrater.
3488 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3489 * New configuration system.
3490 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3493 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3494 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3495 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3496 * Supports scheduling.
3497 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3498 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3501 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3502 - Ability to embed video output.
3503 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3504 - Lots of improvements.
3505 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3506 - New design and set of icons.
3507 - Ability to embed video output.
3508 - Support for hotkeys.
3509 - Support for bookmarks.
3511 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3512 - Better hotkeys handling.
3515 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3516 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3517 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3518 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3521 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3522 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3523 * Improved Windows installer.
3529 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3530 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3533 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3534 ---------------------------------
3537 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3538 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3541 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3542 --------------------------------
3545 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3546 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3549 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3550 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3551 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3552 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3555 * Internal improvments
3556 * Improved import/export
3559 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3561 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3562 small and strange formats.
3564 * New MOD audio demux.
3565 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3566 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3567 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3568 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3571 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3572 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3573 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3579 * New opengl video output plugin.
3582 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3583 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3586 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3587 --------------------------------
3590 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3591 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3592 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3593 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3594 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3595 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3596 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3597 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3600 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3605 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3606 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3607 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3608 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3609 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3610 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3611 * Better Icecast support.
3612 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3613 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3616 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3617 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3618 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3619 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3620 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3621 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3622 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3625 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3626 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3627 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3628 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3629 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3630 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3631 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3632 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3633 * Preliminary RTP support.
3634 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3639 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3640 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3642 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3643 - Improvements and help in preferences
3644 - New streaming wizard
3645 - Revised Disc Open menu
3647 - Improvements of the standard pages
3648 - Support for new commands
3649 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3652 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3653 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3656 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3657 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3658 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3659 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3660 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3661 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3662 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3663 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3664 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3667 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3669 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3670 * Support for Panther.
3671 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3672 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3675 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3676 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3677 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3678 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3679 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3680 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3681 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3682 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3685 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3686 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3687 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3690 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3693 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3694 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3695 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3696 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3699 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3700 --------------------------------
3703 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3706 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3707 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3710 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3711 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3714 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3717 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3718 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3721 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3724 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3727 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3728 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3732 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3733 --------------------------------
3736 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3737 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3741 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3742 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3743 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3745 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3746 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3749 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3752 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3755 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3756 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3760 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3761 --------------------------------
3764 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3765 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3769 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3770 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3771 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3772 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3773 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3776 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3777 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3778 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3781 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3782 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3783 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3786 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3787 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3788 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3789 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3790 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3793 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3794 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
3795 * A new CORBA control plugin.
3798 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
3801 * Improved build system.
3802 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
3803 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
3804 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
3805 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
3808 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
3809 --------------------------------
3812 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
3815 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
3816 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
3817 * Fixed large file support on Windows
3818 * Video 4 Linux support
3819 * CD Digital Audio support
3820 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
3823 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
3824 * Support for OpenDML avi files
3825 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
3826 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
3829 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
3830 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
3831 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
3832 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
3833 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
3834 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
3835 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
3838 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
3839 * New HTTP remote control interface
3842 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
3843 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
3844 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
3845 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
3846 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
3849 * New reset option for the preferences
3850 * You can set your language in the prefences
3851 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
3852 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
3853 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
3854 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
3857 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
3858 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
3859 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
3862 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
3863 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
3864 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
3865 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
3866 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
3867 * New icons by Davor Orel.
3868 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
3869 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
3870 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
3871 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
3874 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
3875 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
3876 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
3877 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
3878 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
3879 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
3880 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
3883 * Interface localization
3884 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
3885 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
3886 * New full-featured Preferences window
3889 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
3890 --------------------------------
3893 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
3894 * support for skins at the interface level
3895 * new OSD module using Freetype2
3896 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
3897 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
3898 input level before dropping out of date frames.
3899 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
3902 * fixed HTTP redirects
3903 * support for opening an entire directory
3904 * EOF should be detected more reliably
3905 * new video4linux access plug-in
3906 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
3909 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
3910 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
3911 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
3914 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
3915 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
3916 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
3917 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
3918 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
3919 * new codec for raw I420 video
3920 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
3923 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
3924 (although it still misses some important features)
3925 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
3928 * new HTTP output support
3929 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
3930 * fixed AV synchronization issues
3933 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
3936 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
3939 * reorderable playlist
3940 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
3941 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
3942 * support for mono audio output devices
3943 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
3944 * fixed several cosmetic issues
3945 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
3946 * the messages window remembers more lines
3947 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
3948 * http and ogg stream output options
3949 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
3952 * new skinnable interface
3953 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
3955 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
3956 * support for FLAC audio format
3957 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
3959 * network tab in the interface
3960 * "apply" handling in preferences
3963 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
3964 ---------------------------------
3967 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
3968 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
3969 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
3970 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
3972 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
3973 * DTS S/PDIF support
3976 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
3977 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
3978 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
3979 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
3982 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
3983 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
3986 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
3989 * fixed the GNU-pth support
3992 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
3994 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
3995 * rc interface is now fully useable
3996 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
3999 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
4000 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
4001 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
4002 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
4003 * VLC now uses the default audio device
4005 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
4006 * support for mouse gestures
4007 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
4010 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
4011 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
4014 * improved ID3 tag detection
4015 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
4016 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
4017 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
4019 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
4022 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
4023 ---------------------------------
4026 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
4027 English was set as the preferred language
4030 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
4031 --------------------------------
4034 * new mouse gesture interface
4035 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
4039 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
4040 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
4041 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
4044 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
4045 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
4049 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
4052 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
4053 without the user consent
4056 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
4058 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
4059 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
4060 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
4063 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
4064 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
4065 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
4066 * playlist enhancements
4067 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
4068 * new step forward/step backward commands
4069 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
4070 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
4071 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
4074 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
4075 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
4076 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
4079 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
4080 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
4083 * native video output is working again
4084 * only commandline interface support
4085 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
4088 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
4089 --------------------------------
4092 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
4093 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
4094 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
4095 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
4096 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
4097 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
4098 and A/52 streams are supported)
4099 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
4104 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
4105 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
4106 * VCD entry points support
4107 * VCD image file support
4110 * support for *.asf format
4111 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
4112 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
4113 * support for ogg encapsulation
4114 * support for raw DV format
4115 * support for *.wav format
4116 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
4119 Stream discovery & playlists:
4120 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
4121 * support for .m3u file format
4122 * support for .asx file format
4123 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
4126 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
4127 (only available with the .avi demux)
4128 * support for ADPCM audio codec
4129 * support for raw PCM data
4130 * support for Cinepak video codec
4131 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
4132 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
4133 * support for Xvid codec
4134 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
4135 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
4136 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
4138 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
4140 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
4143 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
4146 * new WxWindows interface
4147 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
4148 device and the channels configuration
4149 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
4150 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
4151 format that VLC can play
4152 * new swedish translation
4153 * enhancements of the playlist window
4154 * new messages window to see debug info
4155 * fixed a few crashes
4158 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
4159 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
4160 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
4161 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working