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
9 * Support HDS (Http Dynamic Streaming) from Adobe (f4m, f4v, etc.)
10 * New SMB access module using libdsm
11 * Rewrite MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support, including
12 MPEG2TS and ISOFF profiles
13 * Large rework of the Smooth Streaming module
14 * Screen capture plugin for Wayland display
15 * Support decompression and extraction through libarchive (tar, zip, rar...)
16 * Improvements of cookie handling (share cookies between playlist items,
17 domain / path matching, Secure cookies)
18 * Support DVB-T2 on Windows BDA
19 * Support depayloading Opus from RTP
20 * Support sftp username and passwords options and URL
21 * New UPnP access module, to list directories without infinite recursions
22 * New WASAPI audio capture module on Windows
23 * SMB/FTP/SFTP accesses can list directories
26 * OMX GPU-zerocopy support for decoding and display on Android using OpenMax IL
27 * Support 4:4:4 and 4:2:2 chroma samplings with VDPAU hw acceleration
28 * Support for ARIB STD-B24 subtitles
29 * Support for Daala video
30 * Important improvements for the MMAL decoder and output for rPI
31 * Support HEVC hardware decoding using OMX and MediaCodec
32 * Use MediaCodec via NDK native API after Android Lollipop
33 * Support VP9 and WMV3 decoding using OMX and performance improvements
34 * New MPEG-1 & 2 audio layer I, II, III + MPEG 2.5 decoder based on libmpg123
35 * New BPG decoder based on libbpg
36 * Fixed uncompressed DVD-Audio (AOB) LPCM decoding
37 * Rewrite WPL playlists and add ZPL playlists support (Zune)
38 * Support TDSC, Canopus HQX
39 * Support HEVC hardware decoding on Windows, using DxVA2
40 * Basic TTML subtitles support
41 * Support hardware decoding using Direct3D11
44 * Support HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS)
45 * Support Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
46 * Support Daala in Ogg
47 * Important rework of the MP4 demuxer
48 * Support EIA-608 subtitles in MP4/mov
49 * Support WMV and WMAV in MP4/mov, aka Flip4Mac files
50 * Support bitmap audio channel reordering in MP4/mov
51 * Support AlbumArtist and DiscNumber metadata
52 * Fixed program selection with recorded TS (TopField, DreamBox and others)
53 * Fixed TS playback with PAT/PMT less recordings
54 * Support for lame's replaygain extension in mpeg files
55 * Fixes for DTS detection in WAV and MKV files
56 * Basic support for MPEG4-SL in TS and T-DMB
57 * Support for Creative ADPCM/alaw/ulaw/S16L in VOC files
58 * Support for Creative ADPCM in AVI
59 * Directory Demux can now sort items, ignore extensions and hidden files
60 * Replaced httplive stream filter with new hls demuxer
63 * Added ARIB STD-B25 TS streams decoder
64 * Removed HTTP Live streaming stream filter
67 * Complete rewrite of the AudioTrack Android module. This is now the default.
68 It now supports HDMI/SPDIF passthrough for AC3, 5.1/7.1 and float output.
71 * Linux/BSD default video output is now OpenGL, instead of Xvideo
72 * Wayland shell surface window provider
73 * Wayland shared memory video output
74 * Large rework of the Android video outputs: there is now Surface (2.1, 2.2)
75 NativeWindow (2.3+, supports hw rotation, subpicture blending, opaque)
76 * Support rotation in Android NativeWindow output and hardware decoders
77 * Renamed the Direct3D output module to Direct3D9
78 * Added Direct3D11 video mode supporting both Windows desktop and WinRT modes.
81 * Hardware deinterlacing on the rPI, using MMAL
82 * New video filter to convert between fps rates
83 * Added 9-bit and 10-bit support to image adjust filter
86 * Chromecast output module
87 * RGB24 and YCbCr 4:2:0 RTP packetization
90 * Support for Daala video in 4:2:0 and 4:4:4
93 * Added fragmented/streamable MP4 muxer
94 * Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
98 * New NetBios service discovery using libdsm
99 * Rewrite of the UPnP service discovery
102 * Add support for keyboard blacklight dimming during fullscreen video playback
103 * new AppleScript API giving access to audio desynchronization
104 * Support for building with disabled sparkle update mechanism
107 * Batch convert support
110 * Support key accelerators
113 * Add libvlc_media_new_callbacks for custom input byte streams
114 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_enum to enumerate devices of current aout
115 * Split of libvlc_media_discoverer_new_from_name into libvlc_media_discoverer_new,
116 libvlc_media_discoverer_new and libvlc_media_discoverer_start.
117 This allows to attach media events between create and start.
118 * Add libvlc_media_get_codec_description to get a human readable description of a codec
119 * Add libvlc_MediaListEndReached Event to get notified when a media list reached the end
120 * Add libvlc_media_parse_with_options that uses a flag to specify parse options
121 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_get to get the currently selected audio output device
122 identifier (if there is one available)
123 * Add libvlc_media_get_type to get the type of the media
124 * Add libvlc_media_player_get_full_title_descriptions to get full title info of the media
125 * Add libvlc_media_player_get_full_chapter_descriptions to get full chapter info of the media
126 * Deprecate libvlc_video_get_title_description, libvlc_video_get_chapter_description
129 * Support for the SystemD Journal
130 * Use --syslog and --syslog-debug command line options to include debug
131 messages in syslog. With --syslog, errors and warnings will be sent only.
132 * New Android module for logging
135 * remove langfromtelx
136 * remove ZPL playlist format
139 Changes between 2.2.0 and 2.2.1:
140 --------------------------------
143 * Fix compilation with older libavcodec versions
144 * Fix some VP9 decoding
146 * Fix lpcm channel ordering
147 * Fix potential NULL dereference in dmo
148 * Fix teletext framing code in DVB PES packets
149 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroendinger decoder (CVE-2014-9629)
154 * Fix MKV overseeking, introducing slowness over network shares
155 * Fix crash when playing SPC files
156 * Fix ATRAC3 playback in MKV
157 * Revert to older ASX code
158 * Workaround TS issue with mpeg-audio
161 * Fix sftp read and close sockets
162 * Fix DTV build with Linux DVB versions < 5.8
163 * Fix UDP/RTP input on Windows
166 * Fix Alsa HDMI plugs
167 * Improve Alsa output, with larger buffers
168 * Fix DirectSound output with multi-channel files
171 * Fix numerous crashes in the UI
172 * Fix video-wallpaper mode
173 * Fix race when starting VLC from command line
176 * Fix recent items behaviour
177 * Fix rotation filter activation
178 * Fix mux modules names for the streaming wizard
181 * Timestamp the signature of the dlls
182 * Fix extensions registration during install
183 * Fix extensions dialog crash
184 * Default to no DxVA decoding
187 * fix libvlc_media_get_stats
190 * Update of Afrikaans, Albanian, Azerbaijani, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch,
191 English (United Kingdom), Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian,
192 Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Macedonian, Malay, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål,
193 Norwegian Nynorsk, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian,
194 Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai,
195 Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian translations
198 Changes between 2.1.6 and 2.2.0:
199 --------------------------------
202 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+,
203 notably most of the streaming output, muxers and access output modules
206 * Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible
207 * Add extensions manager and downloading from external repositories
208 * Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies
209 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
212 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access
213 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes
214 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
215 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection
217 * Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM
218 * Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs
219 * Fix CDDB lookups, including pregap data
222 * Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
223 * Support MediaCodec acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
224 * Add Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder
225 * Add video decoder module based on GStreamer plugins
226 * Add MMAL decoder for Broadcom VideoCore chips (like the RaspberryPi)
227 supporting MPEG-2 and H.264, supporting GPU-zerocopy display
228 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
229 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
230 * Support MSN Audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1,
231 Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless, and numerous videogame codecs
232 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
233 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
234 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
235 * OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
236 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
237 * New jpeg image decoder
238 * Add tx3g subtitles decoder
239 * New SVG image decoder
240 * Fix Speex decoding over RTP and in flv
241 * Support more x264 and FFv1 RGB modes
242 * Improvements on ZVBI teletext decoder, notably for speed and alignments
245 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
246 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
247 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
248 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
249 * New png image encoder using libpng
252 * Support for Core Audio Format (CAF) files
253 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking,
254 streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg
255 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking,
256 synchronization and tracks exclusion
257 * AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations
258 * AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps
259 * MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio
260 and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion
261 * Support Opus in MKV
263 * Basic support for WebVTT
264 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 (AAC) Audio stream type in TS
265 * Support HDPR TS files
266 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
267 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
268 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
269 * Fix encoding issues and relative paths in some XML playlist formats
270 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
271 * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
272 * TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
273 * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
274 * Support SVG images files (on glib platforms)
275 * Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV
276 * Support detection of SRT languages based on filename
277 * Support for seeking Standard MIDI Files
280 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
281 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
282 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
283 * New Android native window provider module
284 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
285 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
286 * Add MMAL based video output for RaspberryPi
289 * New Oldmovie effect filter
290 * New VHS effect filter
291 * New Freeze effect filter
292 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
293 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
294 * Fix audiobargraph activation and usage
297 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
298 * Audio device notifications for WASAPI
299 * Fix replay of sound buffer in DirectSound
300 * Split of MMDevice and WinRT audio modules
301 * Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes
302 * Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules
305 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
306 * Fixes for the AVI muxer to respect the specification
308 * Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS
311 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
312 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
313 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
314 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
315 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
316 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
317 * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
318 * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
319 * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
321 * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
322 --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
323 * Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP
326 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
327 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
330 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
331 * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
334 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
335 * Add record button in Qt menus
336 * New module for core dialogs on iOS
337 * New layout for Qt buttons customization
338 * Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and OS X
341 * Support for OS X Yosemite
342 * Avoid grey bars in fullscreen when using Mavericks with multiple monitors
343 * Improve fullscreen behavior for the native and VLCs own mode
344 * Fixes for advanced preferences
345 * Added 'file size' column to playlist table
346 * in addition to iTunes, Spotify is automatically paused on playback start
347 * Option to increase playlist font size
348 * Improved crash log reporting
351 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
352 * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
353 * Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
354 * Update and improve Koreus, Dailymotion, Soundcloud and Youtube scripts
357 * Numerous integer and heap overflow in Ogg, AVI, ASF, TTA and MP4 demuxers
360 * iOS video output: use ios2
361 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
362 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
365 * New translation in Urdu, Tatar, Silesian, Samoan, Kapampangan, N'ko,
366 Kurdish, Kabyle, Mexican Spanish, Catalan, Amharic
367 * Update of all translations:
368 Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese, Uzbek, Ukrainian,
369 Turkish, Thai, Swedish, Serbian, Albanian, Slovenian, Slovak, Russian,
370 Romanian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Punjabi, Dutch, Nepali, Norwegian
371 Bokmål, Malay, Marathi, Latvian, Lithuanian, Korean, Kannada, Khmer,
372 Japanese, Italian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Hebrew, Galician, Scottish
373 Gaelic, French, Finnish, Persian, Estonian, Spanish, Modern Greek, German,
374 Danish, Welsh, Czech, Bosnian, Bengali, Asturian
377 Changes between 2.1.5 and 2.1.6:
378 --------------------------------
384 * Fix heap overflow in decomp stream filter
385 * Fix buffer overflow in updater (CVE-2014-9625)
386 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroedinger encoder
387 * Fix null-pointer dereference in DMO decoder
388 * Fix buffer overflow in parsing of string boxes in mp4 demuxer (CVE-2014-9626,9627,9628)
389 * Fix SRTP integer overflow
390 * Fix potential crash in zip access
391 * Fix read overflow in Ogg demuxer
392 * Fix RTP overflow (CVE-2014-9630)
395 * Update translations and greek encoding
398 Changes between 2.1.4 and 2.1.5:
399 --------------------------------
402 * Fix compilation on OS/2
405 * Stability improvements for the QTSound capture module
407 Mac OS X audio output:
408 * Fix channel ordering
409 * Increase the buffersize
412 * Fix DxVA2 decoding of samples needing more surfaces
413 * Improve MAD resistance to broken mp3 streams
414 * Fix PGS alignment in MKV
417 * Don't rename mp3 converted files to .raw
420 * Correctly support video-on-top
421 * Fix video output event propagation on Macs with retina displays
422 * Stability improvements when using future VLC releases side by side
425 * Fix transcode when audio format changes
428 * Updated GnuTLS to 3.1.25 (CVE-2014-3466)
429 * Updated libpng to 1.6.10 (CVE-2014-0333)
432 * Update British English
435 Changes between 2.1.3 and 2.1.4:
436 --------------------------------
439 * Fix issue in WMV with multiple compressed payload and empty payloads
442 * Fix subtitles size rendering on Windows
445 * Fix DVD playback regression
446 * Fix misleading error message during video playback on OS X 10.9
447 * Fix hardware acceleration memleaks
450 Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3:
451 --------------------------------
454 * Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
455 * Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir
458 * Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
459 * Fix encrypted DVD playback
460 * Fix v4l2 frequency conversion
463 * Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
464 by updating codec libraries
465 * Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
466 * Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
467 * Fix teletext crash on Windows
470 * Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
471 * Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
472 * Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
473 * Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing
476 * Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
477 * Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X
480 * Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
481 * Fix transform off-by-one issue
482 * Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
483 * Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
484 * Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC
487 * Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
488 * Fix record file names
491 * Fix minimal size possible on start
492 * Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
493 * Fix a crash in the audio menu building
494 * Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
495 * Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows
498 * Fix album art display on Windows
501 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek,
502 Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew,
503 Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Nepali,
504 Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
505 Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
506 and Simplified Chinese translations
507 * Fix encoding for Windows installer translations
510 Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2:
511 --------------------------------
514 * Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
515 * Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
516 * Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external
517 audio devices on OS X
518 * Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
519 * Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS
522 * Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
523 * Various WMV playback improvements and fixes
526 * Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
527 * Fix playback of some HEVC samples
530 * Fix crash on deinterlace selection
533 * Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
534 * Improve A-B loop control
535 * Fix album art update when changing media
538 * Add a language option in the interface
539 * Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
540 * Improved UI resetting when requested in the preferences
541 * Fix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
542 * Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
543 * Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
544 * Fix crash when closing window without decorations
545 * Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled
548 * Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update
551 * Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian,
552 French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer,
553 Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala,
554 Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations
557 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
558 --------------------------------
561 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
563 * Fix some subtitles track selection
566 * VP9 support in WebM
567 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
568 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
571 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
572 * Support Speex in ogg files
573 * Fix some .mov playlists support
574 * Support Alac in mkv
575 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
576 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
579 * Fix DVB options parsing
580 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
581 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
584 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
585 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
588 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
589 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
592 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
593 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
594 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
595 * Fix play after drag'n drop
596 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
599 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
600 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
603 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
604 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
607 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
608 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
609 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
610 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
611 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
612 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
613 * Improves interface resizings
616 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
617 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
618 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
619 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
620 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
624 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
625 --------------------------------
628 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
629 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
630 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
631 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
632 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
634 3rd party libraries (contrib):
635 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
638 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
639 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
640 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
641 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
642 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
645 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
646 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
650 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
651 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
652 * Support for Ulead DV audio
653 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
654 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
655 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
656 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
657 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
658 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
659 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
660 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
661 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
662 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
665 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
666 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
667 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
670 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
671 remove support for previous OS X releases
672 * Major improvements in DASH support
673 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
674 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
675 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
676 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
677 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
678 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
679 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
680 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
681 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
682 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
683 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
686 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
687 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
688 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
689 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
690 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
691 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
692 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
693 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
694 * Support for more MJPEG streams
695 * Add support for liveleak streams
696 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
697 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
698 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
701 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
702 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
703 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
704 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
705 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
706 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
707 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
708 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
709 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
710 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
711 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
714 * New remapping channel filter
715 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
716 * New VSXu visualization plugin
717 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
718 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
719 * New gain audio filter
722 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
723 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
724 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
725 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
726 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
727 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
728 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
729 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
730 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
733 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
734 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
735 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
736 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
737 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
738 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
739 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
742 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
743 * Options support for AVIO output module
744 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
745 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
746 * Livehttp stream encryption support
747 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
748 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
751 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
754 * configurable password for the HTTP server
755 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
756 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
757 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
758 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
759 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
760 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
761 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
765 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
768 * Add support for multiple video outputs
769 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
771 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
772 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
773 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
774 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
775 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
776 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
777 VLC's internal volume level
778 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
780 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
781 selection and to manage the list of presets
782 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
783 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
784 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
785 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
786 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
787 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
788 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
789 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
790 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
791 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
793 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
794 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
795 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
796 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
797 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
798 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
799 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
800 3rd party applications
801 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
802 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
803 (system-wide settings)
804 * Add support for the Video Title option
805 * Add support for the Boss Key
806 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
807 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
810 * Partial support for Qt5.0
811 * Menus modifications and improvements
812 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
813 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
814 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
815 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
816 * EPG display fixes and improvements
817 * Add SD pixmap sources
818 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
819 * Display playlist total duration
820 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
821 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
822 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
827 * Extend sliders, offsets options
828 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
829 * Numerous fixes and improvements
830 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
833 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
834 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
835 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
836 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
837 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
838 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
839 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
840 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
841 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
842 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
845 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
846 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
847 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
848 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
849 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
850 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
852 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
853 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
854 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
855 * Broken crop video filter
857 * OSD parser and menu
858 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
859 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
860 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
861 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
865 * Update of all translations
868 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
869 --------------------------------
872 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
873 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
876 * Fix modplug security issues
879 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
880 --------------------------------
884 * Fix crash in QTsound
885 * Fix screen mouse file location
886 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
889 * Fix use after free in sgimb
890 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
893 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
896 * Fix interface crashes
897 * Fix autostart playback option
898 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
901 * update Welsh translation
902 * New Kannada translation
905 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
906 --------------------------------
909 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
910 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
914 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
917 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
920 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
923 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
927 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
930 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
933 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
934 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
935 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
938 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
939 --------------------------------
942 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
945 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
948 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
949 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
950 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
951 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
952 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
953 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
956 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
957 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
958 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
959 * 3rd party codecs updates
962 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
963 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
964 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
965 in the advanced preferences panel
966 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
967 * Fix crash within the video output code
968 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
969 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
970 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
971 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
973 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
976 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
979 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
980 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
983 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
986 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
987 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
988 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
989 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
990 Dutch, Danish, translations
991 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
994 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
995 --------------------------------
998 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
1001 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
1002 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
1003 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
1006 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
1007 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
1008 * Fix koreus lua parser
1009 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
1010 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
1011 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
1012 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
1015 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
1016 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
1019 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
1022 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
1023 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
1024 * Fix Time counter UI look
1025 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
1028 * Fix https streaming
1031 * Fix audio and video track selection:
1032 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
1033 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
1036 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
1037 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
1038 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
1039 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
1040 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
1043 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
1044 --------------------------------
1047 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
1048 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
1049 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
1050 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
1051 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
1052 during playback on Mac OS X
1055 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
1056 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
1057 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
1060 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
1061 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
1062 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
1063 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
1064 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
1067 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
1068 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
1069 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
1070 * Support Youtube live streams
1073 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
1076 * Fix media info dialog update
1077 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
1078 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
1079 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
1080 * Fix album art display at start
1083 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
1084 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
1085 * Fix menus display and behavior
1086 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
1087 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
1088 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
1089 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
1090 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
1091 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
1092 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
1095 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
1096 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
1097 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
1098 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
1099 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
1100 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
1101 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
1102 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
1103 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
1106 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
1107 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
1108 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
1109 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
1110 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
1113 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
1114 --------------------------------
1117 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
1120 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
1121 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
1124 * Add GateKeeper support
1125 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
1126 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
1127 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
1130 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
1133 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
1134 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
1135 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
1136 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
1137 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
1140 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
1141 --------------------------------
1144 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
1145 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
1146 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
1147 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
1148 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
1149 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
1150 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
1151 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
1152 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
1153 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
1154 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
1158 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
1159 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
1160 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
1161 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
1162 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
1163 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
1164 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
1165 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
1166 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
1167 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
1168 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
1169 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
1172 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
1173 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
1175 * Fix MP3 free format support
1178 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
1179 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
1180 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
1181 * Fix for DVB channels file support
1182 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
1185 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
1186 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
1188 Audio filters and output:
1189 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
1190 * Fix DirectSound device selection
1191 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
1192 * Do not apply volume in file output
1193 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
1194 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
1197 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
1198 the persistant media library
1199 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
1200 to the media library or the temporary playlist
1201 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
1202 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
1203 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
1204 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
1205 press on the Play/Pause button
1206 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
1207 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
1208 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
1209 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
1210 * Many Fullscreen fixes
1211 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
1212 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
1213 Synchronization panel
1214 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
1215 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
1216 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
1217 * Fix crashes on exit
1218 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
1220 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
1221 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
1222 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
1223 automatically reset on the first launch.
1224 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
1225 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
1226 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
1229 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
1230 * Fixes for icecast SD
1233 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
1234 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
1235 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
1236 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
1237 * Fix tags and file names display
1238 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
1241 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
1242 * Fix for key events and focus loss
1245 * Fix display of some buttons
1246 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
1247 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
1250 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
1251 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
1252 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
1255 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
1256 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
1257 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
1258 Thai translations update
1259 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
1262 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
1263 --------------------------------
1266 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
1267 * fix the samba module compilation
1268 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1269 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
1270 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
1271 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
1274 * Support for MXPEG files
1275 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
1276 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
1279 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
1280 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
1281 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
1284 * Fix ogm header creation
1287 * limit spatializer filter distortions
1288 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
1291 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
1292 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
1293 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
1294 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
1297 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
1300 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
1301 * allow to hide the sidebar
1302 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
1303 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
1304 * noticebly faster launch time
1305 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
1306 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
1307 * improve track synchronization panel
1308 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
1309 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
1312 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
1313 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
1314 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
1315 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
1318 * fix for menus display
1319 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
1320 * documentation update
1323 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
1324 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
1327 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
1328 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1329 * Update Jamendo selections
1333 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
1334 * fix a crash on VLM close
1337 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
1338 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
1339 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
1340 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
1343 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
1346 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
1347 ---------------------------------
1350 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1351 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
1352 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
1353 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
1354 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
1355 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
1356 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
1357 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
1358 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
1359 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
1360 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
1361 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
1362 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
1363 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
1364 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
1365 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
1366 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
1367 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
1368 --http-crl (optional CRL).
1369 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
1370 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
1371 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
1372 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
1373 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
1374 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
1375 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
1377 Important changes for packagers:
1378 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
1379 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
1380 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
1381 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
1382 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
1383 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
1384 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
1385 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
1386 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
1387 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
1390 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
1391 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
1392 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
1393 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
1394 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
1395 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
1396 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
1399 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
1400 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
1401 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
1402 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
1403 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
1404 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
1405 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
1406 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
1407 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
1408 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
1409 * PulseAudio audio input support
1410 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
1411 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
1412 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
1413 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
1414 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
1415 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
1416 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
1417 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
1420 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
1421 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
1422 are notably concerned.
1423 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
1424 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
1425 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
1426 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
1427 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
1428 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
1429 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
1430 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
1431 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
1432 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
1433 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
1434 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
1435 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
1436 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
1437 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
1440 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
1441 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
1442 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
1443 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
1444 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
1445 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
1446 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
1447 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
1448 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
1449 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
1450 * Improved support of tracker files
1451 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
1454 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
1455 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
1456 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
1457 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
1458 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
1459 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
1460 and important cleanups and optimisations
1461 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
1462 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
1463 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
1464 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
1465 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
1466 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
1467 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
1468 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
1469 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
1470 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
1471 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
1472 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
1473 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
1474 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
1475 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
1476 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
1477 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
1478 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
1479 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
1480 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
1481 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
1484 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
1485 * New video output for iOS platform
1486 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
1487 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
1488 * Various vmem improvements
1489 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
1490 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
1491 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
1492 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
1493 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
1494 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
1496 Audio Output and Filters:
1497 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
1498 * New audio output in memory (amem)
1499 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
1500 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
1501 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
1502 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
1503 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
1504 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
1505 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
1506 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
1509 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
1510 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
1511 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
1512 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
1513 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
1514 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
1515 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
1516 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
1517 * New anti-flickering filter
1518 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
1519 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
1520 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
1521 blackbox and customizable shadow.
1522 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
1523 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
1524 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
1527 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
1528 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
1529 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
1530 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
1531 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
1532 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
1533 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
1534 * Major rework of VoD support
1535 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
1536 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
1537 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
1538 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
1539 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
1540 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
1541 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
1542 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
1543 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
1544 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
1547 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
1548 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
1551 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1552 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
1553 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
1554 list of available audio and video filters
1555 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
1556 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
1557 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
1560 * asademux, subsass: use libass
1561 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
1562 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
1563 * id3tag: use taglib
1564 * upnp: use upnp_intel
1565 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
1566 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
1567 * removal of the noise filter
1568 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
1569 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
1570 removed in Growl's next release, too.
1571 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
1574 * Update of translations for most languages.
1575 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
1578 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
1579 ----------------------------------
1582 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
1583 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
1586 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
1587 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
1590 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
1591 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
1592 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
1595 * Camtasia decoding fix.
1598 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
1599 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
1602 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
1605 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
1606 ----------------------------------
1609 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
1610 including support for OS X Lion
1611 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
1612 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
1615 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
1618 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
1619 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
1620 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
1623 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
1626 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
1627 ----------------------------------
1630 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
1631 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
1634 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
1635 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
1636 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
1637 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
1638 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
1640 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
1641 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
1642 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
1644 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
1645 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
1648 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
1651 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
1654 * Fix quitting on Linux
1655 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
1659 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
1662 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
1665 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
1666 ---------------------------------
1668 Windows and Mac OS X:
1669 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
1672 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
1673 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
1676 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
1679 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
1682 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
1684 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1685 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
1687 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
1688 * RTP output and XML export
1689 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
1693 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
1694 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
1695 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
1696 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
1699 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
1700 --------------------------------
1702 Windows and Mac OS X:
1703 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
1706 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
1709 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
1710 * Improve Apple Remote handling
1711 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
1712 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
1713 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
1714 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
1717 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
1718 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
1722 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
1723 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
1724 * New Luganda Translation
1727 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
1728 --------------------------------
1731 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
1734 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
1735 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
1736 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
1737 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
1740 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
1742 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
1743 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
1744 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
1745 * mp4 demuxer improvements
1746 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
1747 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
1748 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
1749 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
1751 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1752 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
1753 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
1754 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
1755 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
1756 * Configure and build system improvements
1757 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
1760 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
1761 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
1762 * New icelandic translation
1765 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
1766 --------------------------------
1769 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
1770 #234484 and #260719.
1773 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
1774 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1775 and stability reasons
1778 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1782 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1785 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1786 ----------------------------------
1789 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1792 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1793 ---------------------------------
1796 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1797 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1798 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1799 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1802 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1805 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1806 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1807 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1808 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1811 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1812 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1813 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1815 Subtitles and renderer:
1816 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1817 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1818 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1819 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1820 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1823 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1824 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1825 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1826 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1829 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1830 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1832 Miscellaneous fixes:
1833 * KDE device solid actions
1835 * Transcode integer overflow
1836 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1837 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1840 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1841 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1842 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1845 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1846 ----------------------------------
1849 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1853 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1856 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1859 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1860 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1861 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1862 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1865 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1869 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1872 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1875 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1876 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1878 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1882 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1883 * Miscellaneous fixes
1886 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1887 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1888 French and Ukrainian
1889 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1890 * New Asturian translation
1893 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1894 ----------------------------------
1897 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1899 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1902 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1905 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1906 * Various fixes for Windows
1909 * New Armenian translation
1910 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1911 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1914 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1915 --------------------------------
1918 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1919 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1920 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1923 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1924 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1927 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1928 --------------------------------
1930 Access and demuxers:
1931 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1932 * fix for podcasts parsing
1933 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1936 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1937 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1940 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1941 * fix m3u playlists exports
1944 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1947 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1950 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1953 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1956 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1959 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1960 --------------------------------
1963 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1964 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1967 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1968 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1971 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1972 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1973 * fix console output encoding
1975 Interface and extensions:
1976 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1977 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1980 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1981 --------------------------------
1984 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1985 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1986 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1987 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1988 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1989 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1990 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1991 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1992 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1993 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1994 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1995 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1996 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1997 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1998 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1999 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
2003 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
2004 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
2005 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
2006 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
2007 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
2010 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
2013 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
2014 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
2015 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
2019 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
2022 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
2023 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
2024 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
2027 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
2028 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
2029 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
2030 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
2033 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
2034 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
2037 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
2038 --------------------------------
2040 Important changes for users:
2041 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
2042 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
2044 Important changes for packagers:
2045 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
2046 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
2047 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
2048 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
2049 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
2051 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
2053 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
2054 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
2055 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
2056 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
2057 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
2060 * Support for the sftp protocol
2061 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
2062 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
2063 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
2064 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
2065 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
2068 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
2069 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
2070 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
2072 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
2073 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
2074 * Invmem module improvements
2075 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
2076 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
2077 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
2078 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
2079 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
2080 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
2081 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
2082 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
2083 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
2084 * Support for VP8 codec
2085 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
2088 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
2089 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
2090 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
2091 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
2092 * Various EGP improvements
2093 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
2094 * Metadata and cover art improvements
2097 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
2098 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
2099 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
2100 * Podcast images are now displayed
2103 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
2104 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
2105 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
2106 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
2107 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
2108 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
2109 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
2110 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
2111 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
2112 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
2113 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
2116 * New content extensions lua framework
2119 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
2120 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
2121 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
2122 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
2123 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
2124 * NEON assembly audio converter module
2125 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
2128 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
2129 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
2130 * Service discovery based on libudev
2131 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
2134 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
2135 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
2136 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
2137 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
2138 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
2139 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
2140 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
2143 * New smem module, streaming to memory
2144 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
2145 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
2148 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
2150 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
2151 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
2154 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
2157 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
2158 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
2159 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
2160 by Andy Matuschak et al.
2161 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
2162 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
2163 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
2166 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
2167 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
2170 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
2171 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
2172 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
2176 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
2177 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
2178 * Improved Solaris port
2181 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
2182 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
2185 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
2186 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
2187 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
2188 * transrate: broken since too long
2189 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
2190 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
2191 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
2192 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
2193 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
2194 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
2195 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
2196 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
2197 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
2198 * cddax: use cdda instead.
2199 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
2200 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
2201 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
2202 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
2205 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
2206 --------------------------------
2209 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
2211 Decoders/Packetizers:
2212 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
2215 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
2216 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
2217 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
2218 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
2219 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
2222 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
2223 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
2226 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
2227 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
2230 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
2231 and Walloon translations updated
2232 * Sinhala translation started
2235 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
2236 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
2239 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
2240 --------------------------------
2243 * SubRip extra styles improvements
2244 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
2247 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
2250 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
2251 increase performance and fix x264 issues
2254 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
2255 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
2256 Russian, Slovak translation updates
2257 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
2260 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
2261 --------------------------------
2264 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
2265 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
2268 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
2269 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
2272 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
2273 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
2276 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
2279 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
2280 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
2283 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
2284 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
2287 * New Walloon translation
2288 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
2291 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
2292 --------------------------------
2295 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
2296 regressions in most popular drivers
2297 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
2300 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
2301 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
2302 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
2305 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
2306 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
2309 * Update for appletrailers lua script
2310 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
2311 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
2312 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
2313 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
2316 * New udev module for linux
2319 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
2322 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
2325 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
2326 --------------------------------
2329 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
2330 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
2331 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
2334 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
2335 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
2338 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
2339 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
2342 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
2345 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
2346 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
2347 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
2348 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
2351 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
2352 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
2353 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
2354 - no support for Goom and SDL
2355 - limited text rendering support
2356 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
2359 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
2360 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
2361 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
2362 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
2363 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
2364 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
2365 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
2366 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
2367 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
2371 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
2374 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
2377 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
2378 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
2379 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
2380 Arabic and French translation updates
2383 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
2384 --------------------------------
2387 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
2388 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
2389 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
2390 * Fix Dailymotion access script
2391 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
2392 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
2395 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
2396 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2397 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2400 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
2401 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
2402 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
2405 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
2408 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
2409 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
2412 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
2413 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
2414 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2415 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
2416 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
2417 * Fix various crashes
2420 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
2422 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
2426 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
2427 ---------------------------------
2431 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
2432 See 'Access:' for more info.
2433 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
2436 * Instantaneous pausing
2437 * Frame-by-Frame playback
2438 * Finer speed control
2439 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
2440 * Timeshift for most medias
2441 * RTSP trickplay support
2442 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
2445 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
2446 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
2447 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
2448 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
2449 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
2450 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
2451 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
2452 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
2453 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
2454 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
2457 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
2458 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
2459 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
2460 * Metadata for mod files are supported
2461 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
2462 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
2463 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
2466 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
2467 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
2470 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
2471 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
2472 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
2473 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
2474 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
2475 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
2476 * DVB scanning on linux
2477 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
2478 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
2479 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
2480 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
2481 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
2482 * MTP device access on Unix
2483 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
2484 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
2487 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
2488 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
2489 Windows and Mac OS X.
2492 * Export the playlist in HTML
2493 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
2494 * Better metadata handling and reading
2496 Linux/Windows interface:
2497 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
2498 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
2499 * Recently played items list
2500 * Interface toolbar customizations
2501 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
2502 - More menus actions
2503 - Finer speed slider
2504 - Improvements on many dialogs
2505 - New dialog for plugins listing
2506 - Fixed-size mode for videos
2507 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
2508 * Better integration in GTK environments
2511 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
2512 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
2513 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
2514 * Additional usability improvements
2517 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
2518 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
2519 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
2520 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
2521 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
2524 * New Maemo port with:
2525 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
2526 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
2529 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
2532 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
2533 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
2534 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
2535 * Support for latest iSight models
2538 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
2539 * Surround support for PulseAudio
2542 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
2543 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
2544 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
2545 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
2546 The old image video output has been removed.
2547 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
2548 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
2551 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
2559 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
2560 --------------------------------------
2566 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
2567 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
2568 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
2569 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
2570 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
2571 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2572 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
2574 Various fixes to the following modules:
2577 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
2578 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2579 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2581 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
2586 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
2587 ---------------------------------
2590 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
2591 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
2594 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
2595 ---------------------------------
2598 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
2601 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
2604 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
2605 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
2606 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
2607 main controller window.
2608 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
2611 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
2616 * Updates of other localizations
2619 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
2620 * Lots of small bugfixes.
2621 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
2622 * Telnet fixes on Windows
2623 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
2626 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
2627 ---------------------------------
2630 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
2632 Bunch of small bugfixes.
2635 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
2636 --------------------------------
2641 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
2642 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
2645 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
2646 --------------------------------
2648 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
2649 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
2652 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
2655 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
2656 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
2659 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
2660 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
2663 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
2664 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
2665 * Various fixed in playlist
2668 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
2671 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
2674 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
2675 ------------------------------------
2677 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
2678 * Fixes several memory leaks.
2681 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
2682 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
2683 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
2686 * Stability fix for the video output.
2689 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
2690 --------------------------------
2693 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
2694 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
2695 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
2696 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
2697 * Fixed update system bugs
2698 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
2701 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
2702 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
2703 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
2704 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
2705 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
2706 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
2707 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
2708 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
2709 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
2710 modern Mac OS X versions
2713 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
2714 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
2716 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
2717 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
2720 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
2721 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
2722 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
2723 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
2724 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
2725 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
2728 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
2729 --------------------------------
2731 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
2732 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
2733 * Multiple bugfixes.
2736 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
2737 --------------------------------
2739 * Multiple bug fixes.
2742 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2743 ---------------------------------
2747 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
2748 recent to work correctly
2749 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
2750 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
2751 edit the ".hosts" file.
2752 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
2753 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
2754 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
2755 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
2756 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
2757 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
2758 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
2759 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
2760 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
2761 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
2762 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
2763 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
2764 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
2765 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
2766 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
2767 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
2768 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
2769 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
2770 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
2771 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2772 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
2773 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
2774 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2775 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2776 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2777 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2778 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2779 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2780 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2781 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2782 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2783 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2784 and postproc modules.
2785 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2786 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2787 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2788 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2790 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2791 filter. For example:
2792 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2793 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2795 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2796 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2802 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2804 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2805 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2808 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2809 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2811 * Shoutcast TV listings
2812 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2814 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2815 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2817 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2820 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2821 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2822 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2823 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2824 * JACK audio input support
2825 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2826 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2827 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2828 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2829 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2830 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2831 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2832 (available as a separate download).
2833 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2834 * RTMP input support
2835 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2836 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2837 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2839 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2840 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2843 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2844 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2845 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2846 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2848 * APEv1/2 tags support
2849 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2850 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2852 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2853 * TiVo Series 2 support
2854 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2859 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2860 * Flash Screen Video support
2861 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2862 * DosBox Capture support
2863 * Karl Morton's Video support
2864 * limited atrac3 support
2866 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2867 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2868 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2869 * H.264 PAFF support
2870 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2871 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2872 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2873 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2874 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2877 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2878 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2879 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2880 * AQTitle subtitles support
2881 * MKV USF subtitles support
2882 * HTML-based subtitles support
2883 * MPSub subtitles support
2884 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2885 * MPL2 subtitles support
2886 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2887 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2888 * Realtext subtitle support
2889 * DKS subtitle support
2890 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2891 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2894 * Flash Screen Video support
2895 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2897 Video outputs and filters:
2898 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2899 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2900 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2901 * New puzzle video output filter
2902 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2903 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2905 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2906 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2907 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2908 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2909 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2910 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2911 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2912 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2913 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2914 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2915 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2916 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2917 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2918 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2920 Audio outputs and filters:
2921 * Replay gain support
2922 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2923 new scaletempo audio filter)
2924 * New spatializer audio filter
2925 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2928 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2929 * New RTP payload formats:
2930 * Speex voice audio codec
2931 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2932 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2933 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2934 * DCCP transport for RTP
2935 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2940 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2941 end-user suitable way.
2942 * Improved user interaction
2943 * Improved mouse gestures
2944 * Vastly improved Update checker
2945 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2947 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2948 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2950 * Improved video output features
2951 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2952 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2953 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2954 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2955 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2957 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2958 if libncursesw is available.
2959 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2960 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2961 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2963 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2964 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2965 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2966 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2967 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2968 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2969 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2970 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2973 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2974 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2975 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2978 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2979 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2980 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2981 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2982 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2983 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2986 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2987 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2997 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2998 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2999 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
3002 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
3003 ----------------------------------
3006 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
3009 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
3010 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
3011 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
3012 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
3013 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
3014 * Updated Polish translation
3017 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
3018 ----------------------------------
3021 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
3022 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
3023 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
3026 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
3027 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
3028 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
3029 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
3030 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
3031 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
3032 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
3033 to an unexpected application termination
3034 * New Serbian translation
3035 * Updated Romanian translation
3038 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
3039 ----------------------------------
3042 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
3043 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
3044 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
3045 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
3046 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
3047 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
3048 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
3049 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
3052 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
3053 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
3054 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
3055 * Fixed AAC resampling
3056 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
3057 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
3060 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
3061 ----------------------------------
3064 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
3065 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
3066 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
3067 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
3068 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
3071 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
3072 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
3073 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
3074 * Close MMS access on network timeout
3075 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
3078 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
3079 ----------------------------------
3082 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
3083 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
3086 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
3087 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
3088 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
3089 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
3091 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
3095 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
3098 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
3101 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
3104 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
3107 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
3108 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
3109 encoding on multi-cpu systems
3110 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
3111 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
3113 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3114 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
3115 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
3116 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
3119 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
3122 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
3123 ----------------------------------
3126 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
3127 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
3128 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
3130 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
3131 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
3133 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
3134 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
3137 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
3139 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3140 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
3141 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
3142 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
3143 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
3144 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
3145 two different movies
3146 * Support for current Ogg file formats
3147 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
3148 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
3151 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
3154 * The automatic updating facility was removed
3155 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
3156 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
3157 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
3160 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
3161 ----------------------------------
3163 Various bugfixes, notably:
3164 * Windows Vista compatibility
3165 * Cropping in Direct3D
3166 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
3167 * RSS filter string overflow
3169 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
3171 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
3172 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
3175 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
3176 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
3179 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
3182 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
3185 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
3188 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
3189 ----------------------------------
3191 Various bugfixes, notably:
3192 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
3193 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
3194 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
3195 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
3196 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
3197 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
3200 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
3201 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
3204 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
3206 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3207 * Diverse usability improvements
3208 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
3209 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
3210 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
3213 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
3214 ---------------------------------
3216 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
3217 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
3220 * Fullscreen controller improvements
3223 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
3224 --------------------------------
3227 * Shoutcast TV listings support
3230 * Support for RTSP authentication
3231 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
3232 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
3233 * ATSC support for DVB input
3234 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
3235 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
3236 * Improved support for Flash Video files
3239 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
3240 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
3241 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
3242 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
3243 * Matroska WavPack support
3244 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
3245 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
3246 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
3249 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
3250 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
3251 * Improved libcaca support
3255 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
3256 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
3258 * Systray support in skins
3260 * Support for Apple Remote control
3261 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3262 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3263 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
3264 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
3266 * Notifications using notification-daemon
3269 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
3270 Windows 9x/ME users:
3271 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
3272 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
3273 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
3274 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
3275 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
3277 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
3278 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
3287 * Updates to the libvlc API
3288 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
3291 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
3292 --------------------------------
3295 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
3296 * Support for downloading updates
3300 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
3301 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
3302 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
3303 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
3305 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
3306 * Improved subtitles encoding support
3307 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
3310 * Cook (Real audio) support
3312 Playlist / Services discovery:
3313 * XSPF playlist support
3315 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
3318 * New JACK audio output
3321 * New video filters:
3322 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
3323 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
3324 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
3325 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
3326 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
3327 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
3330 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
3333 * System to inform the user and request information
3334 - HTTP authentication
3338 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
3339 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3340 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
3343 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
3344 - Improved playlist handling
3345 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
3347 - Embedded Video output
3348 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
3349 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
3350 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3351 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
3352 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
3354 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
3355 - A bunch of new RPN functions
3358 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
3361 * Mac-Intel compatibility
3362 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
3363 * Growl "Now playing" support
3366 * Ability to log to syslog
3367 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
3370 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
3372 * A bit more automatic testing
3375 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
3376 ---------------------------------
3379 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
3380 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
3383 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
3384 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
3387 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
3390 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
3391 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
3397 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
3400 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
3401 --------------------------------
3404 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
3408 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
3409 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
3410 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
3413 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
3414 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
3415 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
3416 * GnomeVFS input module
3417 * Support for RTP packet reordering
3418 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
3421 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
3422 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
3423 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
3426 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
3427 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
3433 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
3434 Mixer and Dolby Surround
3437 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
3438 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
3439 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
3442 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
3444 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
3445 - New extended controls panel
3446 - New bookmarks window
3447 - Fixed playlist sorting
3448 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
3450 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
3451 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
3452 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
3453 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
3457 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
3458 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
3460 - Include macro to include other files
3464 * Should now work outside IE as well
3467 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
3470 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
3471 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
3474 The following languages were added:
3478 * Simplified Chinese
3479 The following languages were re-added:
3483 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
3484 --------------------------------
3487 * Rewrite of the playlist
3489 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
3490 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
3491 * Preferences improvements:
3492 - New organization, designed to improve usability
3493 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
3495 * Core image manipulation support
3496 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
3497 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
3498 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
3499 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
3500 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
3501 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
3502 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
3503 now separated by ':' instead of ','
3504 * Access filter architecture
3505 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
3506 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
3510 * Support for SOCKS proxy
3511 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
3512 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
3513 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
3514 * Better support for Kasenna streams
3515 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
3516 * Massive Matroska improvements
3517 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
3519 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
3520 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
3521 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
3522 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
3523 * Support for FTP over IPv6
3525 Decoders / Encoders:
3526 * Dirac decoder and encoder
3527 * PNG decoder/encoder
3528 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
3529 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
3532 * New Record and Timeshift filters
3535 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
3536 * Brand new SAP module
3537 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
3538 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
3539 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
3540 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
3541 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
3542 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
3546 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
3549 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
3550 * Image file video output (png)
3551 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
3552 * Improvements to wall video filter
3553 * Support for font color and opacity
3559 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
3560 - Seeking support in VoD streams
3561 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
3565 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
3566 - Improved preferences
3567 - Improvements to the wizard
3568 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
3570 - Redesigned playlist
3571 - Improved preferences
3573 - Support for multiple actions
3576 - Support for the new playlist system
3578 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
3581 * Screensaver disabling fix
3582 * DirectShow tuner configuration
3583 * Support for no-decoration windows
3586 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
3587 * The OpenGL video output is back
3588 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
3589 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
3590 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
3591 is not yet available in the new module
3592 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
3595 * Support for single-buffered overlay
3604 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
3607 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
3610 The following languages were added:
3616 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
3617 --------------------------------
3620 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
3621 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
3624 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
3625 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
3626 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
3629 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3632 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
3635 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
3638 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
3639 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
3640 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
3644 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
3646 * Support of playlist group announcement
3649 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
3650 --------------------------------
3653 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
3654 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
3655 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
3656 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
3657 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
3658 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
3661 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
3662 (Stream your desktop)
3663 * Improved DVD support:
3664 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
3665 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
3666 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
3667 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
3668 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
3669 (selection of titles/chapters).
3672 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
3673 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
3674 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
3675 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
3676 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
3677 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3678 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
3679 * Improved Ogg demuxer
3680 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
3681 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
3684 * G.726 audio support
3685 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
3686 * MPEG-4 text support
3687 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
3688 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
3689 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
3693 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
3694 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
3695 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
3696 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
3697 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
3698 * DVB subtitles encoder
3699 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
3700 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
3702 * Text track muxing for mp4
3703 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
3704 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
3705 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3706 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
3707 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
3708 * Improved ASF muxer
3710 * H.263 RTP streaming support
3711 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
3712 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
3715 * New audio equalizer filter
3716 * Very trivial volume normalizer
3717 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
3718 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
3719 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
3722 * Roku HD1000 Video output
3723 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
3724 with support for effects.
3725 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
3726 - New filters can be streamed.
3727 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
3728 - Centralized scaling and blending
3730 - "time", to display current time
3731 - "marq", to display a marquee
3734 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
3735 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
3736 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
3737 * A few skins2 improvements
3738 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
3739 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
3740 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
3741 * Improved CORBA control module
3744 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
3745 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
3746 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
3749 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
3750 * Experimental SVG rendering module
3751 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
3754 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
3755 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
3756 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
3757 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
3758 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
3761 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3764 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
3765 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
3768 * Server/client network synchronization module
3769 * VBrick streams fully supported
3770 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
3774 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3775 --------------------------------
3778 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3779 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3780 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3781 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3784 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3785 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3786 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3787 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3788 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3789 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3790 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3793 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3794 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3795 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3796 * Improved directory access module.
3797 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3798 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3799 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3800 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3801 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3804 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3805 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3806 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3809 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3810 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3811 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3814 * Improved session announcement system.
3815 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3816 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3817 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3818 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3819 * Improved transrater.
3820 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3821 * New configuration system.
3822 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3825 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3826 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3827 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3828 * Supports scheduling.
3829 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3830 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3833 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3834 - Ability to embed video output.
3835 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3836 - Lots of improvements.
3837 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3838 - New design and set of icons.
3839 - Ability to embed video output.
3840 - Support for hotkeys.
3841 - Support for bookmarks.
3843 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3844 - Better hotkeys handling.
3847 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3848 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3849 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3850 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3853 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3854 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3855 * Improved Windows installer.
3861 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3862 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3865 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3866 ---------------------------------
3869 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3870 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3873 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3874 --------------------------------
3877 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3878 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3881 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3882 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3883 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3884 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3887 * Internal improvments
3888 * Improved import/export
3891 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3893 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3894 small and strange formats.
3896 * New MOD audio demux.
3897 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3898 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3899 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3900 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3903 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3904 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3905 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3911 * New opengl video output plugin.
3914 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3915 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3918 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3919 --------------------------------
3922 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3923 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3924 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3925 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3926 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3927 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3928 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3929 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3932 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3937 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3938 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3939 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3940 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3941 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3942 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3943 * Better Icecast support.
3944 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3945 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3948 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3949 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3950 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3951 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3952 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3953 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3954 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3957 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3958 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3959 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3960 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3961 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3962 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3963 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3964 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3965 * Preliminary RTP support.
3966 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3971 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3972 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3974 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3975 - Improvements and help in preferences
3976 - New streaming wizard
3977 - Revised Disc Open menu
3979 - Improvements of the standard pages
3980 - Support for new commands
3981 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3984 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3985 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3988 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3989 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3990 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3991 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3992 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3993 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3994 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3995 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3996 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3999 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
4001 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
4002 * Support for Panther.
4003 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
4004 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
4007 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
4008 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
4009 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
4010 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
4011 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
4012 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
4013 * Multimonitor support (untested).
4014 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
4017 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
4018 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
4019 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
4022 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
4025 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
4026 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
4027 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
4028 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
4031 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
4032 --------------------------------
4035 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
4038 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
4039 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
4042 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
4043 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
4046 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
4049 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
4050 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
4053 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
4056 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
4059 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
4060 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
4064 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
4065 --------------------------------
4068 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
4069 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
4073 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
4074 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
4075 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
4077 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
4078 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
4081 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
4084 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
4087 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
4088 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
4092 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
4093 --------------------------------
4096 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
4097 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
4101 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
4102 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
4103 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
4104 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
4105 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
4108 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
4109 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
4110 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
4113 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
4114 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
4115 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
4118 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
4119 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
4120 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
4121 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
4122 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
4125 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
4126 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
4127 * A new CORBA control plugin.
4130 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
4133 * Improved build system.
4134 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
4135 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
4136 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
4137 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
4140 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
4141 --------------------------------
4144 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
4147 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
4148 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
4149 * Fixed large file support on Windows
4150 * Video 4 Linux support
4151 * CD Digital Audio support
4152 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
4155 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
4156 * Support for OpenDML avi files
4157 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
4158 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
4161 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
4162 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
4163 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
4164 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
4165 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
4166 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
4167 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
4170 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
4171 * New HTTP remote control interface
4174 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
4175 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
4176 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
4177 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
4178 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
4181 * New reset option for the preferences
4182 * You can set your language in the prefences
4183 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
4184 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
4185 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
4186 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
4189 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
4190 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
4191 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
4194 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
4195 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
4196 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
4197 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
4198 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
4199 * New icons by Davor Orel.
4200 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
4201 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
4202 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
4203 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
4206 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
4207 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
4208 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
4209 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
4210 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
4211 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
4212 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
4215 * Interface localization
4216 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
4217 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
4218 * New full-featured Preferences window
4221 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
4222 --------------------------------
4225 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
4226 * support for skins at the interface level
4227 * new OSD module using Freetype2
4228 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
4229 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
4230 input level before dropping out of date frames.
4231 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
4234 * fixed HTTP redirects
4235 * support for opening an entire directory
4236 * EOF should be detected more reliably
4237 * new video4linux access plug-in
4238 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
4241 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
4242 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
4243 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
4246 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
4247 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
4248 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
4249 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
4250 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
4251 * new codec for raw I420 video
4252 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
4255 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
4256 (although it still misses some important features)
4257 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
4260 * new HTTP output support
4261 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
4262 * fixed AV synchronization issues
4265 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
4268 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
4271 * reorderable playlist
4272 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
4273 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
4274 * support for mono audio output devices
4275 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
4276 * fixed several cosmetic issues
4277 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
4278 * the messages window remembers more lines
4279 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
4280 * http and ogg stream output options
4281 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
4284 * new skinnable interface
4285 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
4287 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
4288 * support for FLAC audio format
4289 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
4291 * network tab in the interface
4292 * "apply" handling in preferences
4295 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
4296 ---------------------------------
4299 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
4300 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
4301 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
4302 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
4304 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
4305 * DTS S/PDIF support
4308 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
4309 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
4310 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
4311 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
4314 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
4315 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
4318 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
4321 * fixed the GNU-pth support
4324 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
4326 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
4327 * rc interface is now fully useable
4328 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
4331 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
4332 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
4333 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
4334 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
4335 * VLC now uses the default audio device
4337 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
4338 * support for mouse gestures
4339 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
4342 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
4343 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
4346 * improved ID3 tag detection
4347 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
4348 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
4349 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
4351 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
4354 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
4355 ---------------------------------
4358 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
4359 English was set as the preferred language
4362 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
4363 --------------------------------
4366 * new mouse gesture interface
4367 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
4371 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
4372 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
4373 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
4376 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
4377 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
4381 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
4384 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
4385 without the user consent
4388 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
4390 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
4391 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
4392 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
4395 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
4396 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
4397 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
4398 * playlist enhancements
4399 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
4400 * new step forward/step backward commands
4401 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
4402 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
4403 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
4406 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
4407 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
4408 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
4411 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
4412 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
4415 * native video output is working again
4416 * only commandline interface support
4417 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
4420 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
4421 --------------------------------
4424 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
4425 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
4426 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
4427 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
4428 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
4429 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
4430 and A/52 streams are supported)
4431 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
4436 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
4437 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
4438 * VCD entry points support
4439 * VCD image file support
4442 * support for *.asf format
4443 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
4444 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
4445 * support for ogg encapsulation
4446 * support for raw DV format
4447 * support for *.wav format
4448 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
4451 Stream discovery & playlists:
4452 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
4453 * support for .m3u file format
4454 * support for .asx file format
4455 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
4458 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
4459 (only available with the .avi demux)
4460 * support for ADPCM audio codec
4461 * support for raw PCM data
4462 * support for Cinepak video codec
4463 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
4464 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
4465 * support for Xvid codec
4466 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
4467 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
4468 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
4470 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
4472 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
4475 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
4478 * new WxWindows interface
4479 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
4480 device and the channels configuration
4481 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
4482 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
4483 format that VLC can play
4484 * new swedish translation
4485 * enhancements of the playlist window
4486 * new messages window to see debug info
4487 * fixed a few crashes
4490 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
4491 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
4492 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
4493 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working