1 Changes between 2.2.x and 3.0.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
5 * Support wayland surface type
6 * Allow to start the video paused on the first frame
7 * Support portable version of Windows build
8 * Support network browsing for distant file system (SMB, FTP, SFTP, ...)
9 and rewrite the parsing of those files
10 * VLC now assumes vlcrc config file is in UTF-8
13 * Support HDS (Http Dynamic Streaming) from Adobe (f4m, f4v, etc.)
14 * New SMB access module using libdsm
15 * Rewrite MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support, including
16 MPEG2TS and ISOFF profiles
17 * Large rework of the Smooth Streaming module
18 * Screen capture plugin for Wayland display
19 * Support decompression and extraction through libarchive (tar, zip, rar...)
20 * Improvements of cookie handling (share cookies between playlist items,
21 domain / path matching, Secure cookies)
22 * Support DVB-T2 on Windows BDA
23 * Support depayloading Opus from RTP
24 * Support sftp username and passwords options and URL
25 * New UPnP access module, to list directories without infinite recursions
26 * New WASAPI audio capture module on Windows
27 * SMB/FTP/SFTP accesses can list directories
28 * Support for SAT>IP server dialect for RTSP (satip://)
29 * New "concat" access module for concatenating byte streams
32 * OMX GPU-zerocopy support for decoding and display on Android using OpenMax IL
33 * Support 4:4:4 and 4:2:2 chroma samplings with VDPAU hw acceleration
34 * Support for ARIB STD-B24 subtitles
35 * Support for Daala video
36 * Important improvements for the MMAL decoder and output for rPI and rPI2
37 * Support HEVC hardware decoding using OMX and MediaCodec
38 * Use MediaCodec via NDK native API after Android Lollipop
39 * Support VP9 and WMV3 decoding using OMX and performance improvements
40 * New MPEG-1 & 2 audio layer I, II, III + MPEG 2.5 decoder based on libmpg123
41 * New BPG decoder based on libbpg
42 * Fixed uncompressed DVD-Audio (AOB) LPCM decoding
43 * Rewrite WPL playlists and add ZPL playlists support (Zune)
44 * Support TDSC, Canopus HQX
45 * Support HEVC hardware decoding on Windows, using DxVA2
46 * Basic TTML subtitles support
47 * Support hardware decoding using Direct3D11, including GPU-zerocopy mode
48 * DxVA2 GPU-zerocopy for hardware decoding and displaying on Windows
49 * Support 9-bit and 10-bit GBR planar formats
50 * New hardware accelerated decoder for OS X and and iOS based on Video Toolbox
51 supporting H.263, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, MPEG-4 Part 2, and DV depending on device
55 * Support HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS)
56 * Support Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
57 * Support Daala in Ogg
58 * Important rework of the MP4 demuxer, including fragments
59 * Support EIA-608 subtitles in MP4/mov
60 * Support SBV subtitles
61 * Support WMV and WMAV in MP4/mov, aka Flip4Mac files
62 * Support bitmap audio channel reordering in MP4/mov
63 * Support AlbumArtist and DiscNumber metadata
64 * Important rework of the TS demuxer, including:
65 * Fixed program selection with recorded TS (TopField, DreamBox and others)
66 * Fixed TS playback with PAT/PMT less recordings
67 * Basic support for MPEG4-SL in TS and T-DMB
68 * Support for lame's replaygain extension in mpeg files
69 * Fixes for DTS detection in WAV and MKV files
70 * Support for Creative ADPCM/alaw/ulaw/S16L in VOC files
71 * Support for Creative ADPCM in AVI
72 * Directory Demux can now sort items, ignore extensions and hidden files
73 * Replaced httplive stream filter with new HLS demuxer, using the same core
77 * Added ARIB STD-B25 TS streams decoder
78 * Removed HTTP Live streaming stream filter
81 * Complete rewrite of the AudioTrack Android module. This is now the default.
82 It now supports HDMI/SPDIF passthrough for AC3, 5.1/7.1 and float output.
85 * Linux/BSD default video output is now OpenGL, instead of Xvideo
86 * Wayland shell surface window provider
87 * Wayland shared memory video output
88 * Large rework of the Android video outputs: there is now Surface (2.1, 2.2)
89 NativeWindow (2.3+, supports hw rotation, subpicture blending, opaque)
90 * Support rotation in Android NativeWindow output and hardware decoders
91 * Renamed the Direct3D output module to Direct3D9
92 * Added Direct3D11 video mode supporting both Windows desktop and WinRT modes,
93 supporting subpicture blending and hardware acceleration
96 * CTL support through Harfbuzz in the Freetype module
99 * Hardware deinterlacing on the rPI, using MMAL
100 * New video filter to convert between fps rates
101 * Added 9-bit and 10-bit support to image adjust filter
104 * Chromecast output module
105 * RGB24 and YCbCr 4:2:0 RTP packetization
108 * Support for Daala video in 4:2:0 and 4:4:4
111 * Added fragmented/streamable MP4 muxer
112 * Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
116 * New NetBios service discovery using libdsm
117 * Rewrite of the UPnP service discovery
120 * Dropped support for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
121 * Add support for keyboard blacklight dimming during fullscreen video playback
122 * new AppleScript API giving access to audio desynchronization
123 * Support for building with disabled sparkle update mechanism
124 * New configure flag to disable automatic updates
127 * Dropped support for iOS 6.x
130 * Batch convert support
133 * Support key accelerators
136 * Add libvlc_media_new_callbacks for custom input byte streams
137 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_enum to enumerate devices of current aout
138 * Split of libvlc_media_discoverer_new_from_name into libvlc_media_discoverer_new,
139 libvlc_media_discoverer_new and libvlc_media_discoverer_start.
140 This allows to attach media events between create and start.
141 * Add libvlc_media_get_codec_description to get a human readable description of a codec
142 * Add libvlc_MediaListEndReached Event to get notified when a media list reached the end
143 * Add libvlc_media_parse_with_options that uses a flag to specify parse options
144 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_get to get the currently selected audio output device
145 identifier (if there is one available)
146 * Add libvlc_media_get_type to get the type of the media
147 * Add libvlc_media_player_get_full_title_descriptions to get full title info of the media
148 * Add libvlc_media_player_get_full_chapter_descriptions to get full chapter info of the media
149 * Deprecate libvlc_video_get_title_description, libvlc_video_get_chapter_description,
150 libvlc_media_player_get_agl, libvlc_media_player_set_agl
153 * Support for the SystemD Journal
154 * Use --syslog and --syslog-debug command line options to include debug
155 messages in syslog. With --syslog, errors and warnings will be sent only.
156 * New Android module for logging
159 * remove langfromtelx
160 * remove ZPL playlist format
161 * Update libVLC doxygen modules
162 * Add a text-to-speech renderer for subtitles on OS X/iOS
166 * QTCapture access module (use AVCapture instead)
167 * httplive (use adaptive instead)
170 Changes between 2.2.0 and 2.2.1:
171 --------------------------------
174 * Fix compilation with older libavcodec versions
175 * Fix some VP9 decoding
177 * Fix lpcm channel ordering
178 * Fix potential NULL dereference in dmo
179 * Fix teletext framing code in DVB PES packets
180 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroendinger decoder (CVE-2014-9629)
185 * Fix MKV overseeking, introducing slowness over network shares
186 * Fix crash when playing SPC files
187 * Fix ATRAC3 playback in MKV
188 * Revert to older ASX code
189 * Workaround TS issue with mpeg-audio
192 * Fix sftp read and close sockets
193 * Fix DTV build with Linux DVB versions < 5.8
194 * Fix UDP/RTP input on Windows
197 * Fix Alsa HDMI plugs
198 * Improve Alsa output, with larger buffers
199 * Fix DirectSound output with multi-channel files
202 * Fix numerous crashes in the UI
203 * Fix video-wallpaper mode
204 * Fix race when starting VLC from command line
207 * Fix recent items behaviour
208 * Fix rotation filter activation
209 * Fix mux modules names for the streaming wizard
212 * Timestamp the signature of the dlls
213 * Fix extensions registration during install
214 * Fix extensions dialog crash
215 * Default to no DxVA decoding
218 * fix libvlc_media_get_stats
221 * Update of Afrikaans, Albanian, Azerbaijani, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch,
222 English (United Kingdom), Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian,
223 Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Macedonian, Malay, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål,
224 Norwegian Nynorsk, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian,
225 Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai,
226 Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian translations
229 Changes between 2.1.6 and 2.2.0:
230 --------------------------------
233 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+,
234 notably most of the streaming output, muxers and access output modules
237 * Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible
238 * Add extensions manager and downloading from external repositories
239 * Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies
240 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
243 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access
244 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes
245 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
246 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection
248 * Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM
249 * Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs
250 * Fix CDDB lookups, including pregap data
253 * Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
254 * Support MediaCodec acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
255 * Add Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder
256 * Add video decoder module based on GStreamer plugins
257 * Add MMAL decoder for Broadcom VideoCore chips (like the RaspberryPi)
258 supporting MPEG-2 and H.264, supporting GPU-zerocopy display
259 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
260 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
261 * Support MSN Audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1,
262 Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless, and numerous videogame codecs
263 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
264 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
265 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
266 * OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
267 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
268 * New jpeg image decoder
269 * Add tx3g subtitles decoder
270 * New SVG image decoder
271 * Fix Speex decoding over RTP and in flv
272 * Support more x264 and FFv1 RGB modes
273 * Improvements on ZVBI teletext decoder, notably for speed and alignments
276 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
277 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
278 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
279 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
280 * New png image encoder using libpng
283 * Support for Core Audio Format (CAF) files
284 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking,
285 streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg
286 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking,
287 synchronization and tracks exclusion
288 * AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations
289 * AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps
290 * MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio
291 and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion
292 * Support Opus in MKV
294 * Basic support for WebVTT
295 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 (AAC) Audio stream type in TS
296 * Support HDPR TS files
297 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
298 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
299 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
300 * Fix encoding issues and relative paths in some XML playlist formats
301 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
302 * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
303 * TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
304 * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
305 * Support SVG images files (on glib platforms)
306 * Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV
307 * Support detection of SRT languages based on filename
308 * Support for seeking Standard MIDI Files
311 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
312 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
313 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
314 * New Android native window provider module
315 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
316 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
317 * Add MMAL based video output for RaspberryPi
320 * New Oldmovie effect filter
321 * New VHS effect filter
322 * New Freeze effect filter
323 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
324 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
325 * Fix audiobargraph activation and usage
328 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
329 * Audio device notifications for WASAPI
330 * Fix replay of sound buffer in DirectSound
331 * Split of MMDevice and WinRT audio modules
332 * Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes
333 * Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules
336 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
337 * Fixes for the AVI muxer to respect the specification
339 * Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS
342 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
343 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
344 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
345 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
346 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
347 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
348 * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
349 * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
350 * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
352 * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
353 --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
354 * Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP
357 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
358 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
361 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
362 * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
365 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
366 * Add record button in Qt menus
367 * New module for core dialogs on iOS
368 * New layout for Qt buttons customization
369 * Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and OS X
372 * Support for OS X Yosemite
373 * Avoid grey bars in fullscreen when using Mavericks with multiple monitors
374 * Improve fullscreen behavior for the native and VLCs own mode
375 * Fixes for advanced preferences
376 * Added 'file size' column to playlist table
377 * in addition to iTunes, Spotify is automatically paused on playback start
378 * Option to increase playlist font size
379 * Improved crash log reporting
382 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
383 * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
384 * Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
385 * Update and improve Koreus, Dailymotion, Soundcloud and Youtube scripts
388 * Numerous integer and heap overflow in Ogg, AVI, ASF, TTA and MP4 demuxers
391 * iOS video output: use ios2
392 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
393 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
396 * New translation in Urdu, Tatar, Silesian, Samoan, Kapampangan, N'ko,
397 Kurdish, Kabyle, Mexican Spanish, Catalan, Amharic
398 * Update of all translations:
399 Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese, Uzbek, Ukrainian,
400 Turkish, Thai, Swedish, Serbian, Albanian, Slovenian, Slovak, Russian,
401 Romanian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Punjabi, Dutch, Nepali, Norwegian
402 Bokmål, Malay, Marathi, Latvian, Lithuanian, Korean, Kannada, Khmer,
403 Japanese, Italian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Hebrew, Galician, Scottish
404 Gaelic, French, Finnish, Persian, Estonian, Spanish, Modern Greek, German,
405 Danish, Welsh, Czech, Bosnian, Bengali, Asturian
408 Changes between 2.1.5 and 2.1.6:
409 --------------------------------
415 * Fix heap overflow in decomp stream filter
416 * Fix buffer overflow in updater (CVE-2014-9625)
417 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroedinger encoder
418 * Fix null-pointer dereference in DMO decoder
419 * Fix buffer overflow in parsing of string boxes in mp4 demuxer (CVE-2014-9626,9627,9628)
420 * Fix SRTP integer overflow
421 * Fix potential crash in zip access
422 * Fix read overflow in Ogg demuxer
423 * Fix RTP overflow (CVE-2014-9630)
426 * Update translations and greek encoding
429 Changes between 2.1.4 and 2.1.5:
430 --------------------------------
433 * Fix compilation on OS/2
436 * Stability improvements for the QTSound capture module
438 Mac OS X audio output:
439 * Fix channel ordering
440 * Increase the buffersize
443 * Fix DxVA2 decoding of samples needing more surfaces
444 * Improve MAD resistance to broken mp3 streams
445 * Fix PGS alignment in MKV
448 * Don't rename mp3 converted files to .raw
451 * Correctly support video-on-top
452 * Fix video output event propagation on Macs with retina displays
453 * Stability improvements when using future VLC releases side by side
456 * Fix transcode when audio format changes
459 * Updated GnuTLS to 3.1.25 (CVE-2014-3466)
460 * Updated libpng to 1.6.10 (CVE-2014-0333)
463 * Update British English
466 Changes between 2.1.3 and 2.1.4:
467 --------------------------------
470 * Fix issue in WMV with multiple compressed payload and empty payloads
473 * Fix subtitles size rendering on Windows
476 * Fix DVD playback regression
477 * Fix misleading error message during video playback on OS X 10.9
478 * Fix hardware acceleration memleaks
481 Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3:
482 --------------------------------
485 * Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
486 * Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir
489 * Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
490 * Fix encrypted DVD playback
491 * Fix v4l2 frequency conversion
494 * Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
495 by updating codec libraries
496 * Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
497 * Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
498 * Fix teletext crash on Windows
501 * Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
502 * Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
503 * Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
504 * Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing
507 * Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
508 * Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X
511 * Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
512 * Fix transform off-by-one issue
513 * Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
514 * Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
515 * Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC
518 * Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
519 * Fix record file names
522 * Fix minimal size possible on start
523 * Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
524 * Fix a crash in the audio menu building
525 * Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
526 * Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows
529 * Fix album art display on Windows
532 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek,
533 Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew,
534 Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Nepali,
535 Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
536 Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
537 and Simplified Chinese translations
538 * Fix encoding for Windows installer translations
541 Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2:
542 --------------------------------
545 * Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
546 * Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
547 * Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external
548 audio devices on OS X
549 * Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
550 * Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS
553 * Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
554 * Various WMV playback improvements and fixes
557 * Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
558 * Fix playback of some HEVC samples
561 * Fix crash on deinterlace selection
564 * Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
565 * Improve A-B loop control
566 * Fix album art update when changing media
569 * Add a language option in the interface
570 * Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
571 * Improved UI resetting when requested in the preferences
572 * Fix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
573 * Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
574 * Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
575 * Fix crash when closing window without decorations
576 * Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled
579 * Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update
582 * Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian,
583 French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer,
584 Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala,
585 Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations
588 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
589 --------------------------------
592 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
594 * Fix some subtitles track selection
597 * VP9 support in WebM
598 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
599 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
602 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
603 * Support Speex in ogg files
604 * Fix some .mov playlists support
605 * Support Alac in mkv
606 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
607 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
610 * Fix DVB options parsing
611 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
612 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
615 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
616 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
619 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
620 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
623 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
624 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
625 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
626 * Fix play after drag'n drop
627 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
630 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
631 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
634 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
635 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
638 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
639 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
640 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
641 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
642 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
643 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
644 * Improves interface resizings
647 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
648 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
649 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
650 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
651 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
655 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
656 --------------------------------
659 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
660 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
661 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
662 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
663 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
665 3rd party libraries (contrib):
666 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
669 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
670 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
671 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
672 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
673 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
676 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
677 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
681 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
682 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
683 * Support for Ulead DV audio
684 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
685 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
686 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
687 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
688 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
689 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
690 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
691 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
692 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
693 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
696 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
697 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
698 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
701 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
702 remove support for previous OS X releases
703 * Major improvements in DASH support
704 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
705 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
706 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
707 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
708 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
709 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
710 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
711 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
712 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
713 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
714 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
717 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
718 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
719 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
720 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
721 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
722 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
723 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
724 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
725 * Support for more MJPEG streams
726 * Add support for liveleak streams
727 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
728 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
729 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
732 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
733 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
734 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
735 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
736 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
737 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
738 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
739 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
740 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
741 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
742 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
745 * New remapping channel filter
746 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
747 * New VSXu visualization plugin
748 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
749 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
750 * New gain audio filter
753 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
754 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
755 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
756 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
757 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
758 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
759 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
760 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
761 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
764 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
765 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
766 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
767 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
768 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
769 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
770 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
773 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
774 * Options support for AVIO output module
775 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
776 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
777 * Livehttp stream encryption support
778 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
779 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
782 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
785 * configurable password for the HTTP server
786 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
787 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
788 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
789 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
790 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
791 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
792 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
796 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
799 * Add support for multiple video outputs
800 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
802 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
803 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
804 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
805 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
806 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
807 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
808 VLC's internal volume level
809 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
811 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
812 selection and to manage the list of presets
813 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
814 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
815 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
816 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
817 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
818 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
819 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
820 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
821 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
822 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
824 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
825 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
826 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
827 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
828 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
829 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
830 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
831 3rd party applications
832 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
833 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
834 (system-wide settings)
835 * Add support for the Video Title option
836 * Add support for the Boss Key
837 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
838 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
841 * Partial support for Qt5.0
842 * Menus modifications and improvements
843 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
844 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
845 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
846 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
847 * EPG display fixes and improvements
848 * Add SD pixmap sources
849 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
850 * Display playlist total duration
851 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
852 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
853 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
858 * Extend sliders, offsets options
859 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
860 * Numerous fixes and improvements
861 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
864 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
865 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
866 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
867 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
868 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
869 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
870 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
871 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
872 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
873 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
876 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
877 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
878 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
879 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
880 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
881 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
883 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
884 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
885 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
886 * Broken crop video filter
888 * OSD parser and menu
889 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
890 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
891 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
892 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
896 * Update of all translations
899 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
900 --------------------------------
903 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
904 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
907 * Fix modplug security issues
910 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
911 --------------------------------
915 * Fix crash in QTsound
916 * Fix screen mouse file location
917 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
920 * Fix use after free in sgimb
921 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
924 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
927 * Fix interface crashes
928 * Fix autostart playback option
929 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
932 * update Welsh translation
933 * New Kannada translation
936 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
937 --------------------------------
940 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
941 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
945 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
948 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
951 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
954 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
958 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
961 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
964 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
965 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
966 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
969 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
970 --------------------------------
973 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
976 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
979 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
980 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
981 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
982 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
983 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
984 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
987 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
988 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
989 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
990 * 3rd party codecs updates
993 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
994 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
995 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
996 in the advanced preferences panel
997 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
998 * Fix crash within the video output code
999 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
1000 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
1001 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
1002 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
1003 lua extensions, ...)
1004 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
1007 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
1010 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
1011 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
1014 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
1017 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
1018 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
1019 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
1020 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
1021 Dutch, Danish, translations
1022 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
1025 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
1026 --------------------------------
1029 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
1032 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
1033 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
1034 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
1037 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
1038 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
1039 * Fix koreus lua parser
1040 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
1041 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
1042 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
1043 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
1046 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
1047 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
1050 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
1053 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
1054 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
1055 * Fix Time counter UI look
1056 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
1059 * Fix https streaming
1062 * Fix audio and video track selection:
1063 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
1064 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
1067 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
1068 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
1069 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
1070 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
1071 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
1074 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
1075 --------------------------------
1078 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
1079 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
1080 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
1081 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
1082 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
1083 during playback on Mac OS X
1086 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
1087 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
1088 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
1091 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
1092 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
1093 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
1094 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
1095 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
1098 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
1099 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
1100 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
1101 * Support Youtube live streams
1104 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
1107 * Fix media info dialog update
1108 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
1109 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
1110 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
1111 * Fix album art display at start
1114 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
1115 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
1116 * Fix menus display and behavior
1117 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
1118 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
1119 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
1120 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
1121 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
1122 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
1123 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
1126 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
1127 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
1128 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
1129 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
1130 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
1131 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
1132 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
1133 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
1134 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
1137 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
1138 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
1139 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
1140 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
1141 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
1144 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
1145 --------------------------------
1148 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
1151 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
1152 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
1155 * Add GateKeeper support
1156 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
1157 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
1158 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
1161 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
1164 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
1165 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
1166 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
1167 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
1168 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
1171 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
1172 --------------------------------
1175 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
1176 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
1177 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
1178 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
1179 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
1180 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
1181 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
1182 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
1183 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
1184 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
1185 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
1189 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
1190 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
1191 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
1192 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
1193 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
1194 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
1195 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
1196 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
1197 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
1198 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
1199 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
1200 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
1203 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
1204 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
1206 * Fix MP3 free format support
1209 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
1210 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
1211 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
1212 * Fix for DVB channels file support
1213 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
1216 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
1217 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
1219 Audio filters and output:
1220 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
1221 * Fix DirectSound device selection
1222 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
1223 * Do not apply volume in file output
1224 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
1225 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
1228 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
1229 the persistant media library
1230 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
1231 to the media library or the temporary playlist
1232 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
1233 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
1234 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
1235 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
1236 press on the Play/Pause button
1237 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
1238 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
1239 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
1240 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
1241 * Many Fullscreen fixes
1242 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
1243 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
1244 Synchronization panel
1245 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
1246 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
1247 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
1248 * Fix crashes on exit
1249 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
1251 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
1252 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
1253 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
1254 automatically reset on the first launch.
1255 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
1256 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
1257 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
1260 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
1261 * Fixes for icecast SD
1264 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
1265 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
1266 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
1267 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
1268 * Fix tags and file names display
1269 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
1272 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
1273 * Fix for key events and focus loss
1276 * Fix display of some buttons
1277 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
1278 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
1281 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
1282 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
1283 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
1286 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
1287 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
1288 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
1289 Thai translations update
1290 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
1293 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
1294 --------------------------------
1297 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
1298 * fix the samba module compilation
1299 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1300 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
1301 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
1302 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
1305 * Support for MXPEG files
1306 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
1307 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
1310 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
1311 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
1312 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
1315 * Fix ogm header creation
1318 * limit spatializer filter distortions
1319 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
1322 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
1323 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
1324 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
1325 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
1328 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
1331 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
1332 * allow to hide the sidebar
1333 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
1334 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
1335 * noticebly faster launch time
1336 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
1337 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
1338 * improve track synchronization panel
1339 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
1340 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
1343 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
1344 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
1345 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
1346 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
1349 * fix for menus display
1350 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
1351 * documentation update
1354 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
1355 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
1358 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
1359 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1360 * Update Jamendo selections
1364 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
1365 * fix a crash on VLM close
1368 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
1369 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
1370 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
1371 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
1374 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
1377 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
1378 ---------------------------------
1381 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1382 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
1383 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
1384 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
1385 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
1386 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
1387 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
1388 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
1389 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
1390 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
1391 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
1392 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
1393 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
1394 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
1395 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
1396 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
1397 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
1398 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
1399 --http-crl (optional CRL).
1400 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
1401 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
1402 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
1403 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
1404 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
1405 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
1406 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
1408 Important changes for packagers:
1409 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
1410 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
1411 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
1412 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
1413 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
1414 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
1415 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
1416 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
1417 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
1418 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
1421 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
1422 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
1423 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
1424 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
1425 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
1426 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
1427 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
1430 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
1431 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
1432 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
1433 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
1434 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
1435 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
1436 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
1437 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
1438 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
1439 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
1440 * PulseAudio audio input support
1441 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
1442 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
1443 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
1444 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
1445 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
1446 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
1447 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
1448 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
1451 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
1452 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
1453 are notably concerned.
1454 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
1455 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
1456 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
1457 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
1458 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
1459 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
1460 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
1461 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
1462 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
1463 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
1464 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
1465 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
1466 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
1467 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
1468 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
1471 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
1472 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
1473 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
1474 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
1475 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
1476 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
1477 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
1478 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
1479 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
1480 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
1481 * Improved support of tracker files
1482 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
1485 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
1486 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
1487 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
1488 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
1489 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
1490 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
1491 and important cleanups and optimisations
1492 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
1493 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
1494 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
1495 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
1496 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
1497 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
1498 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
1499 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
1500 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
1501 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
1502 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
1503 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
1504 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
1505 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
1506 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
1507 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
1508 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
1509 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
1510 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
1511 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
1512 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
1515 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
1516 * New video output for iOS platform
1517 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
1518 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
1519 * Various vmem improvements
1520 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
1521 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
1522 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
1523 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
1524 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
1525 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
1527 Audio Output and Filters:
1528 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
1529 * New audio output in memory (amem)
1530 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
1531 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
1532 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
1533 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
1534 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
1535 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
1536 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
1537 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
1540 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
1541 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
1542 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
1543 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
1544 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
1545 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
1546 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
1547 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
1548 * New anti-flickering filter
1549 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
1550 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
1551 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
1552 blackbox and customizable shadow.
1553 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
1554 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
1555 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
1558 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
1559 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
1560 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
1561 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
1562 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
1563 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
1564 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
1565 * Major rework of VoD support
1566 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
1567 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
1568 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
1569 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
1570 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
1571 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
1572 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
1573 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
1574 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
1575 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
1578 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
1579 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
1582 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1583 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
1584 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
1585 list of available audio and video filters
1586 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
1587 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
1588 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
1591 * asademux, subsass: use libass
1592 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
1593 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
1594 * id3tag: use taglib
1595 * upnp: use upnp_intel
1596 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
1597 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
1598 * removal of the noise filter
1599 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
1600 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
1601 removed in Growl's next release, too.
1602 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
1605 * Update of translations for most languages.
1606 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
1609 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
1610 ----------------------------------
1613 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
1614 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
1617 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
1618 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
1621 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
1622 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
1623 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
1626 * Camtasia decoding fix.
1629 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
1630 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
1633 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
1636 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
1637 ----------------------------------
1640 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
1641 including support for OS X Lion
1642 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
1643 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
1646 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
1649 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
1650 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
1651 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
1654 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
1657 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
1658 ----------------------------------
1661 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
1662 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
1665 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
1666 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
1667 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
1668 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
1669 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
1671 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
1672 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
1673 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
1675 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
1676 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
1679 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
1682 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
1685 * Fix quitting on Linux
1686 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
1690 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
1693 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
1696 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
1697 ---------------------------------
1699 Windows and Mac OS X:
1700 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
1703 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
1704 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
1707 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
1710 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
1713 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
1715 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1716 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
1718 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
1719 * RTP output and XML export
1720 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
1724 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
1725 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
1726 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
1727 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
1730 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
1731 --------------------------------
1733 Windows and Mac OS X:
1734 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
1737 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
1740 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
1741 * Improve Apple Remote handling
1742 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
1743 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
1744 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
1745 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
1748 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
1749 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
1753 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
1754 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
1755 * New Luganda Translation
1758 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
1759 --------------------------------
1762 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
1765 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
1766 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
1767 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
1768 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
1771 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
1773 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
1774 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
1775 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
1776 * mp4 demuxer improvements
1777 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
1778 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
1779 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
1780 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
1782 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1783 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
1784 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
1785 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
1786 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
1787 * Configure and build system improvements
1788 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
1791 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
1792 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
1793 * New icelandic translation
1796 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
1797 --------------------------------
1800 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
1801 #234484 and #260719.
1804 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
1805 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1806 and stability reasons
1809 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1813 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1816 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1817 ----------------------------------
1820 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1823 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1824 ---------------------------------
1827 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1828 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1829 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1830 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1833 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1836 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1837 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1838 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1839 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1842 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1843 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1844 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1846 Subtitles and renderer:
1847 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1848 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1849 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1850 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1851 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1854 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1855 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1856 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1857 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1860 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1861 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1863 Miscellaneous fixes:
1864 * KDE device solid actions
1866 * Transcode integer overflow
1867 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1868 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1871 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1872 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1873 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1876 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1877 ----------------------------------
1880 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1884 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1887 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1890 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1891 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1892 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1893 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1896 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1900 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1903 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1906 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1907 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1909 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1913 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1914 * Miscellaneous fixes
1917 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1918 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1919 French and Ukrainian
1920 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1921 * New Asturian translation
1924 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1925 ----------------------------------
1928 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1930 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1933 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1936 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1937 * Various fixes for Windows
1940 * New Armenian translation
1941 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1942 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1945 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1946 --------------------------------
1949 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1950 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1951 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1954 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1955 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1958 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1959 --------------------------------
1961 Access and demuxers:
1962 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1963 * fix for podcasts parsing
1964 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1967 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1968 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1971 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1972 * fix m3u playlists exports
1975 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1978 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1981 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1984 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1987 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1990 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1991 --------------------------------
1994 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1995 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1998 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1999 of mono streams, especially on Windows
2002 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
2003 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
2004 * fix console output encoding
2006 Interface and extensions:
2007 * Youtube and other scripts updates
2008 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
2011 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
2012 --------------------------------
2015 * New capabilities for libVLC:
2016 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
2017 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
2018 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
2019 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
2020 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
2021 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
2022 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
2023 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
2024 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
2025 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
2026 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
2027 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
2028 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
2029 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
2030 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
2034 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
2035 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
2036 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
2037 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
2038 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
2041 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
2044 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
2045 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
2046 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
2050 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
2053 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
2054 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
2055 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
2058 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
2059 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
2060 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
2061 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
2064 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
2065 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
2068 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
2069 --------------------------------
2071 Important changes for users:
2072 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
2073 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
2075 Important changes for packagers:
2076 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
2077 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
2078 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
2079 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
2080 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
2082 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
2084 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
2085 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
2086 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
2087 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
2088 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
2091 * Support for the sftp protocol
2092 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
2093 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
2094 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
2095 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
2096 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
2099 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
2100 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
2101 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
2103 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
2104 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
2105 * Invmem module improvements
2106 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
2107 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
2108 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
2109 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
2110 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
2111 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
2112 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
2113 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
2114 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
2115 * Support for VP8 codec
2116 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
2119 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
2120 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
2121 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
2122 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
2123 * Various EGP improvements
2124 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
2125 * Metadata and cover art improvements
2128 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
2129 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
2130 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
2131 * Podcast images are now displayed
2134 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
2135 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
2136 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
2137 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
2138 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
2139 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
2140 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
2141 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
2142 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
2143 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
2144 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
2147 * New content extensions lua framework
2150 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
2151 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
2152 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
2153 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
2154 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
2155 * NEON assembly audio converter module
2156 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
2159 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
2160 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
2161 * Service discovery based on libudev
2162 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
2165 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
2166 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
2167 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
2168 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
2169 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
2170 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
2171 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
2174 * New smem module, streaming to memory
2175 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
2176 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
2179 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
2181 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
2182 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
2185 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
2188 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
2189 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
2190 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
2191 by Andy Matuschak et al.
2192 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
2193 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
2194 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
2197 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
2198 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
2201 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
2202 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
2203 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
2207 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
2208 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
2209 * Improved Solaris port
2212 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
2213 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
2216 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
2217 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
2218 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
2219 * transrate: broken since too long
2220 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
2221 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
2222 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
2223 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
2224 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
2225 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
2226 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
2227 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
2228 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
2229 * cddax: use cdda instead.
2230 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
2231 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
2232 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
2233 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
2236 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
2237 --------------------------------
2240 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
2242 Decoders/Packetizers:
2243 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
2246 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
2247 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
2248 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
2249 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
2250 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
2253 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
2254 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
2257 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
2258 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
2261 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
2262 and Walloon translations updated
2263 * Sinhala translation started
2266 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
2267 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
2270 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
2271 --------------------------------
2274 * SubRip extra styles improvements
2275 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
2278 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
2281 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
2282 increase performance and fix x264 issues
2285 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
2286 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
2287 Russian, Slovak translation updates
2288 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
2291 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
2292 --------------------------------
2295 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
2296 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
2299 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
2300 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
2303 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
2304 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
2307 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
2310 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
2311 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
2314 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
2315 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
2318 * New Walloon translation
2319 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
2322 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
2323 --------------------------------
2326 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
2327 regressions in most popular drivers
2328 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
2331 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
2332 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
2333 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
2336 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
2337 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
2340 * Update for appletrailers lua script
2341 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
2342 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
2343 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
2344 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
2347 * New udev module for linux
2350 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
2353 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
2356 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
2357 --------------------------------
2360 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
2361 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
2362 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
2365 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
2366 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
2369 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
2370 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
2373 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
2376 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
2377 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
2378 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
2379 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
2382 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
2383 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
2384 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
2385 - no support for Goom and SDL
2386 - limited text rendering support
2387 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
2390 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
2391 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
2392 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
2393 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
2394 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
2395 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
2396 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
2397 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
2398 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
2402 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
2405 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
2408 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
2409 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
2410 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
2411 Arabic and French translation updates
2414 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
2415 --------------------------------
2418 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
2419 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
2420 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
2421 * Fix Dailymotion access script
2422 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
2423 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
2426 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
2427 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2428 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2431 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
2432 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
2433 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
2436 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
2439 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
2440 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
2443 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
2444 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
2445 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2446 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
2447 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
2448 * Fix various crashes
2451 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
2453 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
2457 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
2458 ---------------------------------
2462 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
2463 See 'Access:' for more info.
2464 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
2467 * Instantaneous pausing
2468 * Frame-by-Frame playback
2469 * Finer speed control
2470 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
2471 * Timeshift for most medias
2472 * RTSP trickplay support
2473 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
2476 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
2477 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
2478 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
2479 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
2480 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
2481 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
2482 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
2483 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
2484 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
2485 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
2488 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
2489 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
2490 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
2491 * Metadata for mod files are supported
2492 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
2493 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
2494 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
2497 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
2498 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
2501 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
2502 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
2503 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
2504 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
2505 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
2506 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
2507 * DVB scanning on linux
2508 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
2509 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
2510 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
2511 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
2512 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
2513 * MTP device access on Unix
2514 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
2515 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
2518 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
2519 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
2520 Windows and Mac OS X.
2523 * Export the playlist in HTML
2524 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
2525 * Better metadata handling and reading
2527 Linux/Windows interface:
2528 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
2529 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
2530 * Recently played items list
2531 * Interface toolbar customizations
2532 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
2533 - More menus actions
2534 - Finer speed slider
2535 - Improvements on many dialogs
2536 - New dialog for plugins listing
2537 - Fixed-size mode for videos
2538 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
2539 * Better integration in GTK environments
2542 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
2543 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
2544 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
2545 * Additional usability improvements
2548 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
2549 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
2550 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
2551 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
2552 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
2555 * New Maemo port with:
2556 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
2557 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
2560 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
2563 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
2564 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
2565 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
2566 * Support for latest iSight models
2569 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
2570 * Surround support for PulseAudio
2573 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
2574 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
2575 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
2576 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
2577 The old image video output has been removed.
2578 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
2579 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
2582 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
2590 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
2591 --------------------------------------
2597 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
2598 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
2599 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
2600 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
2601 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
2602 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2603 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
2605 Various fixes to the following modules:
2608 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
2609 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2610 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2612 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
2617 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
2618 ---------------------------------
2621 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
2622 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
2625 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
2626 ---------------------------------
2629 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
2632 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
2635 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
2636 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
2637 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
2638 main controller window.
2639 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
2642 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
2647 * Updates of other localizations
2650 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
2651 * Lots of small bugfixes.
2652 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
2653 * Telnet fixes on Windows
2654 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
2657 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
2658 ---------------------------------
2661 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
2663 Bunch of small bugfixes.
2666 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
2667 --------------------------------
2672 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
2673 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
2676 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
2677 --------------------------------
2679 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
2680 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
2683 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
2686 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
2687 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
2690 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
2691 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
2694 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
2695 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
2696 * Various fixed in playlist
2699 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
2702 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
2705 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
2706 ------------------------------------
2708 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
2709 * Fixes several memory leaks.
2712 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
2713 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
2714 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
2717 * Stability fix for the video output.
2720 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
2721 --------------------------------
2724 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
2725 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
2726 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
2727 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
2728 * Fixed update system bugs
2729 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
2732 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
2733 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
2734 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
2735 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
2736 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
2737 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
2738 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
2739 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
2740 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
2741 modern Mac OS X versions
2744 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
2745 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
2747 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
2748 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
2751 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
2752 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
2753 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
2754 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
2755 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
2756 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
2759 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
2760 --------------------------------
2762 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
2763 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
2764 * Multiple bugfixes.
2767 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
2768 --------------------------------
2770 * Multiple bug fixes.
2773 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2774 ---------------------------------
2778 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
2779 recent to work correctly
2780 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
2781 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
2782 edit the ".hosts" file.
2783 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
2784 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
2785 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
2786 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
2787 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
2788 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
2789 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
2790 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
2791 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
2792 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
2793 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
2794 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
2795 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
2796 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
2797 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
2798 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
2799 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
2800 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
2801 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
2802 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2803 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
2804 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
2805 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2806 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2807 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2808 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2809 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2810 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2811 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2812 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2813 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2814 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2815 and postproc modules.
2816 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2817 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2818 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2819 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2821 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2822 filter. For example:
2823 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2824 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2826 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2827 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2833 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2835 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2836 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2839 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2840 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2842 * Shoutcast TV listings
2843 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2845 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2846 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2848 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2851 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2852 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2853 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2854 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2855 * JACK audio input support
2856 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2857 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2858 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2859 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2860 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2861 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2862 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2863 (available as a separate download).
2864 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2865 * RTMP input support
2866 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2867 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2868 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2870 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2871 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2874 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2875 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2876 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2877 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2879 * APEv1/2 tags support
2880 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2881 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2883 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2884 * TiVo Series 2 support
2885 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2890 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2891 * Flash Screen Video support
2892 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2893 * DosBox Capture support
2894 * Karl Morton's Video support
2895 * limited atrac3 support
2897 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2898 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2899 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2900 * H.264 PAFF support
2901 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2902 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2903 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2904 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2905 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2908 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2909 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2910 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2911 * AQTitle subtitles support
2912 * MKV USF subtitles support
2913 * HTML-based subtitles support
2914 * MPSub subtitles support
2915 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2916 * MPL2 subtitles support
2917 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2918 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2919 * Realtext subtitle support
2920 * DKS subtitle support
2921 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2922 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2925 * Flash Screen Video support
2926 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2928 Video outputs and filters:
2929 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2930 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2931 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2932 * New puzzle video output filter
2933 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2934 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2936 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2937 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2938 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2939 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2940 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2941 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2942 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2943 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2944 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2945 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2946 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2947 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2948 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2949 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2951 Audio outputs and filters:
2952 * Replay gain support
2953 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2954 new scaletempo audio filter)
2955 * New spatializer audio filter
2956 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2959 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2960 * New RTP payload formats:
2961 * Speex voice audio codec
2962 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2963 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2964 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2965 * DCCP transport for RTP
2966 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2971 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2972 end-user suitable way.
2973 * Improved user interaction
2974 * Improved mouse gestures
2975 * Vastly improved Update checker
2976 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2978 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2979 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2981 * Improved video output features
2982 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2983 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2984 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2985 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2986 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2988 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2989 if libncursesw is available.
2990 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2991 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2992 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2994 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2995 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2996 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2997 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2998 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2999 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
3000 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
3001 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
3004 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
3005 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
3006 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
3009 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
3010 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
3011 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
3012 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
3013 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
3014 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
3017 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
3018 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
3028 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
3029 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
3030 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
3033 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
3034 ----------------------------------
3037 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
3040 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
3041 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
3042 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
3043 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
3044 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
3045 * Updated Polish translation
3048 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
3049 ----------------------------------
3052 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
3053 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
3054 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
3057 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
3058 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
3059 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
3060 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
3061 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
3062 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
3063 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
3064 to an unexpected application termination
3065 * New Serbian translation
3066 * Updated Romanian translation
3069 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
3070 ----------------------------------
3073 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
3074 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
3075 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
3076 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
3077 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
3078 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
3079 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
3080 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
3083 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
3084 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
3085 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
3086 * Fixed AAC resampling
3087 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
3088 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
3091 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
3092 ----------------------------------
3095 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
3096 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
3097 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
3098 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
3099 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
3102 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
3103 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
3104 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
3105 * Close MMS access on network timeout
3106 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
3109 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
3110 ----------------------------------
3113 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
3114 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
3117 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
3118 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
3119 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
3120 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
3122 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
3126 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
3129 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
3132 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
3135 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
3138 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
3139 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
3140 encoding on multi-cpu systems
3141 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
3142 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
3144 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3145 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
3146 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
3147 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
3150 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
3153 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
3154 ----------------------------------
3157 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
3158 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
3159 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
3161 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
3162 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
3164 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
3165 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
3168 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
3170 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3171 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
3172 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
3173 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
3174 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
3175 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
3176 two different movies
3177 * Support for current Ogg file formats
3178 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
3179 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
3182 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
3185 * The automatic updating facility was removed
3186 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
3187 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
3188 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
3191 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
3192 ----------------------------------
3194 Various bugfixes, notably:
3195 * Windows Vista compatibility
3196 * Cropping in Direct3D
3197 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
3198 * RSS filter string overflow
3200 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
3202 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
3203 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
3206 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
3207 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
3210 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
3213 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
3216 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
3219 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
3220 ----------------------------------
3222 Various bugfixes, notably:
3223 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
3224 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
3225 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
3226 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
3227 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
3228 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
3231 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
3232 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
3235 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
3237 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3238 * Diverse usability improvements
3239 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
3240 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
3241 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
3244 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
3245 ---------------------------------
3247 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
3248 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
3251 * Fullscreen controller improvements
3254 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
3255 --------------------------------
3258 * Shoutcast TV listings support
3261 * Support for RTSP authentication
3262 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
3263 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
3264 * ATSC support for DVB input
3265 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
3266 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
3267 * Improved support for Flash Video files
3270 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
3271 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
3272 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
3273 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
3274 * Matroska WavPack support
3275 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
3276 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
3277 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
3280 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
3281 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
3282 * Improved libcaca support
3286 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
3287 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
3289 * Systray support in skins
3291 * Support for Apple Remote control
3292 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3293 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3294 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
3295 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
3297 * Notifications using notification-daemon
3300 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
3301 Windows 9x/ME users:
3302 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
3303 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
3304 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
3305 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
3306 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
3308 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
3309 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
3318 * Updates to the libvlc API
3319 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
3322 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
3323 --------------------------------
3326 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
3327 * Support for downloading updates
3331 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
3332 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
3333 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
3334 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
3336 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
3337 * Improved subtitles encoding support
3338 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
3341 * Cook (Real audio) support
3343 Playlist / Services discovery:
3344 * XSPF playlist support
3346 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
3349 * New JACK audio output
3352 * New video filters:
3353 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
3354 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
3355 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
3356 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
3357 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
3358 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
3361 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
3364 * System to inform the user and request information
3365 - HTTP authentication
3369 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
3370 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3371 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
3374 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
3375 - Improved playlist handling
3376 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
3378 - Embedded Video output
3379 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
3380 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
3381 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3382 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
3383 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
3385 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
3386 - A bunch of new RPN functions
3389 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
3392 * Mac-Intel compatibility
3393 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
3394 * Growl "Now playing" support
3397 * Ability to log to syslog
3398 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
3401 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
3403 * A bit more automatic testing
3406 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
3407 ---------------------------------
3410 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
3411 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
3414 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
3415 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
3418 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
3421 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
3422 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
3428 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
3431 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
3432 --------------------------------
3435 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
3439 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
3440 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
3441 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
3444 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
3445 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
3446 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
3447 * GnomeVFS input module
3448 * Support for RTP packet reordering
3449 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
3452 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
3453 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
3454 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
3457 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
3458 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
3464 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
3465 Mixer and Dolby Surround
3468 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
3469 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
3470 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
3473 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
3475 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
3476 - New extended controls panel
3477 - New bookmarks window
3478 - Fixed playlist sorting
3479 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
3481 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
3482 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
3483 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
3484 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
3488 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
3489 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
3491 - Include macro to include other files
3495 * Should now work outside IE as well
3498 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
3501 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
3502 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
3505 The following languages were added:
3509 * Simplified Chinese
3510 The following languages were re-added:
3514 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
3515 --------------------------------
3518 * Rewrite of the playlist
3520 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
3521 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
3522 * Preferences improvements:
3523 - New organization, designed to improve usability
3524 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
3526 * Core image manipulation support
3527 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
3528 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
3529 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
3530 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
3531 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
3532 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
3533 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
3534 now separated by ':' instead of ','
3535 * Access filter architecture
3536 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
3537 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
3541 * Support for SOCKS proxy
3542 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
3543 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
3544 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
3545 * Better support for Kasenna streams
3546 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
3547 * Massive Matroska improvements
3548 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
3550 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
3551 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
3552 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
3553 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
3554 * Support for FTP over IPv6
3556 Decoders / Encoders:
3557 * Dirac decoder and encoder
3558 * PNG decoder/encoder
3559 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
3560 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
3563 * New Record and Timeshift filters
3566 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
3567 * Brand new SAP module
3568 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
3569 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
3570 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
3571 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
3572 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
3573 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
3577 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
3580 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
3581 * Image file video output (png)
3582 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
3583 * Improvements to wall video filter
3584 * Support for font color and opacity
3590 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
3591 - Seeking support in VoD streams
3592 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
3596 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
3597 - Improved preferences
3598 - Improvements to the wizard
3599 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
3601 - Redesigned playlist
3602 - Improved preferences
3604 - Support for multiple actions
3607 - Support for the new playlist system
3609 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
3612 * Screensaver disabling fix
3613 * DirectShow tuner configuration
3614 * Support for no-decoration windows
3617 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
3618 * The OpenGL video output is back
3619 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
3620 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
3621 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
3622 is not yet available in the new module
3623 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
3626 * Support for single-buffered overlay
3635 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
3638 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
3641 The following languages were added:
3647 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
3648 --------------------------------
3651 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
3652 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
3655 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
3656 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
3657 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
3660 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3663 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
3666 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
3669 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
3670 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
3671 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
3675 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
3677 * Support of playlist group announcement
3680 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
3681 --------------------------------
3684 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
3685 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
3686 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
3687 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
3688 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
3689 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
3692 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
3693 (Stream your desktop)
3694 * Improved DVD support:
3695 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
3696 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
3697 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
3698 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
3699 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
3700 (selection of titles/chapters).
3703 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
3704 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
3705 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
3706 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
3707 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
3708 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3709 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
3710 * Improved Ogg demuxer
3711 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
3712 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
3715 * G.726 audio support
3716 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
3717 * MPEG-4 text support
3718 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
3719 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
3720 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
3724 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
3725 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
3726 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
3727 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
3728 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
3729 * DVB subtitles encoder
3730 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
3731 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
3733 * Text track muxing for mp4
3734 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
3735 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
3736 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3737 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
3738 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
3739 * Improved ASF muxer
3741 * H.263 RTP streaming support
3742 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
3743 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
3746 * New audio equalizer filter
3747 * Very trivial volume normalizer
3748 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
3749 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
3750 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
3753 * Roku HD1000 Video output
3754 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
3755 with support for effects.
3756 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
3757 - New filters can be streamed.
3758 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
3759 - Centralized scaling and blending
3761 - "time", to display current time
3762 - "marq", to display a marquee
3765 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
3766 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
3767 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
3768 * A few skins2 improvements
3769 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
3770 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
3771 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
3772 * Improved CORBA control module
3775 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
3776 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
3777 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
3780 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
3781 * Experimental SVG rendering module
3782 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
3785 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
3786 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
3787 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
3788 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
3789 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
3792 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3795 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
3796 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
3799 * Server/client network synchronization module
3800 * VBrick streams fully supported
3801 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
3805 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3806 --------------------------------
3809 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3810 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3811 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3812 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3815 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3816 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3817 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3818 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3819 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3820 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3821 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3824 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3825 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3826 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3827 * Improved directory access module.
3828 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3829 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3830 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3831 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3832 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3835 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3836 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3837 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3840 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3841 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3842 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3845 * Improved session announcement system.
3846 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3847 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3848 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3849 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3850 * Improved transrater.
3851 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3852 * New configuration system.
3853 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3856 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3857 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3858 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3859 * Supports scheduling.
3860 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3861 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3864 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3865 - Ability to embed video output.
3866 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3867 - Lots of improvements.
3868 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3869 - New design and set of icons.
3870 - Ability to embed video output.
3871 - Support for hotkeys.
3872 - Support for bookmarks.
3874 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3875 - Better hotkeys handling.
3878 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3879 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3880 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3881 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3884 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3885 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3886 * Improved Windows installer.
3892 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3893 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3896 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3897 ---------------------------------
3900 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3901 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3904 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3905 --------------------------------
3908 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3909 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3912 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3913 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3914 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3915 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3918 * Internal improvments
3919 * Improved import/export
3922 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3924 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3925 small and strange formats.
3927 * New MOD audio demux.
3928 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3929 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3930 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3931 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3934 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3935 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3936 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3942 * New opengl video output plugin.
3945 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3946 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3949 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3950 --------------------------------
3953 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3954 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3955 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3956 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3957 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3958 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3959 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3960 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3963 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3968 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3969 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3970 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3971 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3972 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3973 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3974 * Better Icecast support.
3975 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3976 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3979 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3980 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3981 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3982 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3983 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3984 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3985 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3988 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3989 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3990 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3991 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3992 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3993 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3994 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3995 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3996 * Preliminary RTP support.
3997 * Fixes to SAP announces.
4002 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
4003 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
4005 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
4006 - Improvements and help in preferences
4007 - New streaming wizard
4008 - Revised Disc Open menu
4010 - Improvements of the standard pages
4011 - Support for new commands
4012 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
4015 * Many fixes to the SAP module
4016 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
4019 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
4020 * Text subtitles autodetection.
4021 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
4022 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
4023 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
4024 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
4025 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
4026 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
4027 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
4030 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
4032 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
4033 * Support for Panther.
4034 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
4035 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
4038 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
4039 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
4040 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
4041 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
4042 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
4043 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
4044 * Multimonitor support (untested).
4045 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
4048 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
4049 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
4050 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
4053 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
4056 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
4057 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
4058 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
4059 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
4062 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
4063 --------------------------------
4066 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
4069 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
4070 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
4073 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
4074 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
4077 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
4080 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
4081 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
4084 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
4087 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
4090 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
4091 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
4095 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
4096 --------------------------------
4099 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
4100 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
4104 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
4105 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
4106 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
4108 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
4109 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
4112 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
4115 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
4118 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
4119 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
4123 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
4124 --------------------------------
4127 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
4128 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
4132 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
4133 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
4134 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
4135 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
4136 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
4139 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
4140 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
4141 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
4144 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
4145 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
4146 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
4149 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
4150 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
4151 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
4152 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
4153 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
4156 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
4157 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
4158 * A new CORBA control plugin.
4161 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
4164 * Improved build system.
4165 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
4166 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
4167 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
4168 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
4171 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
4172 --------------------------------
4175 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
4178 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
4179 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
4180 * Fixed large file support on Windows
4181 * Video 4 Linux support
4182 * CD Digital Audio support
4183 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
4186 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
4187 * Support for OpenDML avi files
4188 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
4189 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
4192 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
4193 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
4194 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
4195 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
4196 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
4197 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
4198 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
4201 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
4202 * New HTTP remote control interface
4205 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
4206 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
4207 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
4208 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
4209 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
4212 * New reset option for the preferences
4213 * You can set your language in the prefences
4214 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
4215 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
4216 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
4217 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
4220 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
4221 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
4222 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
4225 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
4226 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
4227 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
4228 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
4229 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
4230 * New icons by Davor Orel.
4231 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
4232 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
4233 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
4234 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
4237 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
4238 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
4239 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
4240 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
4241 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
4242 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
4243 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
4246 * Interface localization
4247 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
4248 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
4249 * New full-featured Preferences window
4252 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
4253 --------------------------------
4256 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
4257 * support for skins at the interface level
4258 * new OSD module using Freetype2
4259 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
4260 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
4261 input level before dropping out of date frames.
4262 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
4265 * fixed HTTP redirects
4266 * support for opening an entire directory
4267 * EOF should be detected more reliably
4268 * new video4linux access plug-in
4269 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
4272 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
4273 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
4274 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
4277 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
4278 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
4279 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
4280 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
4281 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
4282 * new codec for raw I420 video
4283 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
4286 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
4287 (although it still misses some important features)
4288 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
4291 * new HTTP output support
4292 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
4293 * fixed AV synchronization issues
4296 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
4299 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
4302 * reorderable playlist
4303 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
4304 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
4305 * support for mono audio output devices
4306 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
4307 * fixed several cosmetic issues
4308 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
4309 * the messages window remembers more lines
4310 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
4311 * http and ogg stream output options
4312 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
4315 * new skinnable interface
4316 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
4318 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
4319 * support for FLAC audio format
4320 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
4322 * network tab in the interface
4323 * "apply" handling in preferences
4326 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
4327 ---------------------------------
4330 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
4331 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
4332 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
4333 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
4335 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
4336 * DTS S/PDIF support
4339 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
4340 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
4341 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
4342 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
4345 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
4346 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
4349 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
4352 * fixed the GNU-pth support
4355 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
4357 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
4358 * rc interface is now fully useable
4359 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
4362 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
4363 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
4364 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
4365 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
4366 * VLC now uses the default audio device
4368 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
4369 * support for mouse gestures
4370 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
4373 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
4374 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
4377 * improved ID3 tag detection
4378 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
4379 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
4380 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
4382 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
4385 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
4386 ---------------------------------
4389 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
4390 English was set as the preferred language
4393 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
4394 --------------------------------
4397 * new mouse gesture interface
4398 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
4402 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
4403 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
4404 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
4407 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
4408 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
4412 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
4415 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
4416 without the user consent
4419 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
4421 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
4422 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
4423 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
4426 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
4427 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
4428 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
4429 * playlist enhancements
4430 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
4431 * new step forward/step backward commands
4432 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
4433 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
4434 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
4437 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
4438 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
4439 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
4442 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
4443 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
4446 * native video output is working again
4447 * only commandline interface support
4448 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
4451 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
4452 --------------------------------
4455 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
4456 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
4457 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
4458 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
4459 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
4460 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
4461 and A/52 streams are supported)
4462 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
4467 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
4468 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
4469 * VCD entry points support
4470 * VCD image file support
4473 * support for *.asf format
4474 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
4475 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
4476 * support for ogg encapsulation
4477 * support for raw DV format
4478 * support for *.wav format
4479 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
4482 Stream discovery & playlists:
4483 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
4484 * support for .m3u file format
4485 * support for .asx file format
4486 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
4489 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
4490 (only available with the .avi demux)
4491 * support for ADPCM audio codec
4492 * support for raw PCM data
4493 * support for Cinepak video codec
4494 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
4495 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
4496 * support for Xvid codec
4497 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
4498 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
4499 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
4501 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
4503 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
4506 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
4509 * new WxWindows interface
4510 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
4511 device and the channels configuration
4512 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
4513 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
4514 format that VLC can play
4515 * new swedish translation
4516 * enhancements of the playlist window
4517 * new messages window to see debug info
4518 * fixed a few crashes
4521 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
4522 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
4523 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
4524 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working