1 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.1.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
3 Important changes for users:
5 Important changes for packagers:
6 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
7 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
8 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
9 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
10 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
14 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
15 * Support for the sftp protocol
16 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
17 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
18 * New memory input (imem) module to feed VLC from data in memory
19 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams
22 * HD dvb subtitles - Display Definition Segment support
23 * PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
24 * Invmem module improvements
25 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
26 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities
27 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles .SRT and .SSA
28 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
29 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
30 * Audio/Video decoder using OpenMAX IL components
31 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
32 * Support for Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec natively on all platforms
35 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
36 * EXPERIMENTAL support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM)
37 (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
38 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
39 * Various EGP improvements
40 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
43 * WPL playlist support
44 * ZPL playlist support
45 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
46 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
47 * Podcast images are now displayed
50 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
51 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
52 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
53 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
54 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
55 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
56 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
57 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
58 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
59 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
60 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
63 * new content extensions lua framework
67 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
68 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
69 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
70 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
71 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
72 * NEON assembly audio converter module
73 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
76 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
79 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
80 * Service discovery based on libudev
83 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
84 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
85 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
86 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
87 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
88 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
91 * New smem module, streaming to memory
92 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
93 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
96 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
98 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
101 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
102 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
103 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
104 by Andy Matuschak et al.
105 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
106 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
109 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
110 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
113 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
114 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
115 * Improvements to the maemo interface
119 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
120 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
123 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
126 * csri codec. Use the libass module instead.
127 * galaktos. Use the new projectM module instead.
128 * showintf. Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
130 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx. Use the new XCB modules instead.
131 * HAL. Use libudev instead.
132 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
133 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
134 * opie, qte and qte_main
135 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed. Use the ugly one.
136 * XvMC accelerated modules. Use VAAPI instead.
137 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux. Use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
138 * opengllayer. Use macosx_video instead.
139 * cddax. Use cdda instead.
140 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
141 * realaudio codecs are removed in favor of libavcodec
142 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
145 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
146 --------------------------------
149 * SubRip extra styles improvements
150 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
153 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
156 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
157 increase performance and fix x264 issues
160 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
161 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
162 Russian, Slovak translation updates
163 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
166 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
167 --------------------------------
170 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
171 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
174 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
175 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
178 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
179 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
182 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
185 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
186 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
189 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
190 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
193 * New Walloon translation
194 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
197 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
198 --------------------------------
201 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
202 regressions in most popular drivers
203 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
206 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
207 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
208 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
211 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
212 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
215 * Update for appletrailers lua script
216 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
217 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
218 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
219 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
222 * New udev module for linux
225 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
228 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
231 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
232 --------------------------------
235 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
236 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
237 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
240 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
241 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
244 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
245 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
248 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
251 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
252 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
253 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
254 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
257 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
258 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
259 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
260 - no support for Goom and SDL
261 - limited text rendering support
262 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
265 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
266 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
267 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
268 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
269 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
270 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
271 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
272 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
273 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
277 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
280 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
283 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
284 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
285 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
286 Arabic and French translation updates
289 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
290 --------------------------------
293 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
294 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
295 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
296 * Fix Dailymotion access script
297 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
298 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
301 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
302 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
305 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
306 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
307 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
310 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
313 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
314 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
317 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
318 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
319 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
320 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
321 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
322 * Fix various crashes
325 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
327 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
330 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
331 ---------------------------------
335 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
336 See 'Access:' for more info.
337 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
340 * Instantaneous pausing
341 * Frame-by-Frame playback
342 * Finer speed control
343 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
344 * Timeshift for most medias
345 * RTSP trickplay support
346 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
349 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
350 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
351 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
352 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
353 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
354 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
355 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
356 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
357 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
358 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
361 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
362 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
363 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
364 * Metadata for mod files are supported
365 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
366 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
367 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
370 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
371 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
374 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
375 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
376 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
377 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
378 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
379 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
380 * DVB scanning on linux
381 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
382 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
383 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
384 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
385 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
386 * MTP device access on Unix
387 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
388 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
391 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
392 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
393 Windows and Mac OS X.
396 * Export the playlist in HTML
397 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
398 * Better metadata handling and reading
400 Linux/Windows interface:
401 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
402 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
403 * Recently played items list
404 * Interface toolbar customizations
405 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
408 - Improvements on many dialogs
409 - New dialog for plugins listing
410 - Fixed-size mode for videos
411 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
412 * Better integration in GTK environments
415 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
416 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
417 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
418 * Additional usability improvements
421 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
422 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
423 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
424 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
425 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
428 * New Maemo port with:
429 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
430 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
433 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
436 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
437 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
438 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
439 * Support for latest iSight models
442 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
443 * Surround support for PulseAudio
446 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
447 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
448 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
449 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
450 The old image video output has been removed.
451 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
452 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
455 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
463 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
464 --------------------------------------
470 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
471 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
472 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
473 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
474 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
475 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
476 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
478 Various fixes to the following modules:
481 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
482 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
485 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
490 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
491 ---------------------------------
494 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
495 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
498 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
499 ---------------------------------
502 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
505 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
508 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
509 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
510 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
511 main controller window.
512 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
515 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
520 * Updates of other localizations
523 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
524 * Lots of small bugfixes.
525 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
526 * Telnet fixes on Windows
527 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
530 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
531 ---------------------------------
534 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
536 Bunch of small bugfixes.
539 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
540 --------------------------------
545 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
546 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
549 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
550 --------------------------------
552 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
553 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
556 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
559 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
560 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
563 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
564 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
567 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
568 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
569 * Various fixed in playlist
572 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
575 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
578 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
579 ------------------------------------
581 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
582 * Fixes several memory leaks.
585 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
586 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
587 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
590 * Stability fix for the video output.
593 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
594 --------------------------------
597 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
598 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
599 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
600 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
601 * Fixed update system bugs
602 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
605 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
606 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
607 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
608 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
609 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
610 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
611 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
612 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
613 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
614 modern Mac OS X versions
617 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
618 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
620 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
621 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
624 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
625 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
626 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
627 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
628 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
629 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
632 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
633 --------------------------------
635 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
636 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
640 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
641 --------------------------------
643 * Multiple bug fixes.
646 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
647 ---------------------------------
651 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
652 recent to work correctly
653 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
654 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
655 edit the ".hosts" file.
656 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
657 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
658 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
659 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
660 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
661 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
662 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
663 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
664 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
665 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
666 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
667 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
668 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
669 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
670 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
671 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
672 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
673 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
674 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
675 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
676 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
677 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
678 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
679 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
680 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
681 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
682 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
683 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
684 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
685 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
686 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
687 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
688 and postproc modules.
689 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
690 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
691 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
692 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
694 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
696 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
697 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
699 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
700 * Glide video output module has been removed.
706 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
708 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
709 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
712 * Vastly improved playlist support:
713 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
715 * Shoutcast TV listings
716 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
718 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
719 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
721 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
724 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
725 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
726 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
727 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
728 * JACK audio input support
729 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
730 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
731 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
732 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
733 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
734 * Experimental EyeTV access module
735 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
736 (available as a separate download).
737 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
739 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
740 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
741 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
743 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
744 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
747 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
748 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
749 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
750 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
752 * APEv1/2 tags support
753 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
754 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
756 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
757 * TiVo Series 2 support
758 * CD+G karaoke Files support
763 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
764 * Flash Screen Video support
765 * CamStudio Screen Video support
766 * DosBox Capture support
767 * Karl Morton's Video support
768 * limited atrac3 support
770 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
771 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
772 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
774 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
775 * NellyMoser ASAO support
776 * APE (Monkey audio) support
777 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
778 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
781 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
782 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
783 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
784 * AQTitle subtitles support
785 * MKV USF subtitles support
786 * HTML-based subtitles support
787 * MPSub subtitles support
788 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
789 * MPL2 subtitles support
790 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
791 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
792 * Realtext subtitle support
793 * DKS subtitle support
794 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
795 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
798 * Flash Screen Video support
799 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
801 Video outputs and filters:
802 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
803 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
804 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
805 * New puzzle video output filter
806 * Re-written motion detection video filter
807 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
809 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
810 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
811 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
812 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
813 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
814 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
815 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
816 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
817 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
818 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
819 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
820 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
821 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
822 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
824 Audio outputs and filters:
825 * Replay gain support
826 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
827 new scaletempo audio filter)
828 * New spatializer audio filter
829 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
832 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
833 * New RTP payload formats:
834 * Speex voice audio codec
835 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
836 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
837 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
838 * DCCP transport for RTP
839 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
844 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
845 end-user suitable way.
846 * Improved user interaction
847 * Improved mouse gestures
848 * Vastly improved Update checker
849 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
851 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
852 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
854 * Improved video output features
855 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
856 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
857 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
858 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
859 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
861 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
862 if libncursesw is available.
863 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
864 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
865 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
867 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
868 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
869 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
870 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
871 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
872 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
873 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
874 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
877 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
878 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
879 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
882 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
883 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
884 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
885 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
886 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
887 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
890 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
891 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
901 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
902 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
903 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
906 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
907 ----------------------------------
910 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
913 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
914 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
915 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
916 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
917 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
918 * Updated Polish translation
921 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
922 ----------------------------------
925 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
926 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
927 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
930 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
931 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
932 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
933 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
934 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
935 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
936 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
937 to an unexpected application termination
938 * New Serbian translation
939 * Updated Romanian translation
942 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
943 ----------------------------------
946 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
947 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
948 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
949 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
950 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
951 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
952 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
953 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
956 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
957 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
958 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
959 * Fixed AAC resampling
960 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
961 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
964 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
965 ----------------------------------
968 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
969 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
970 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
971 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
972 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
975 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
976 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
977 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
978 * Close MMS access on network timeout
979 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
982 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
983 ----------------------------------
986 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
987 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
990 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
991 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
992 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
993 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
995 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
999 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1002 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1005 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1008 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1011 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1012 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1013 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1014 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1015 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1017 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1018 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1019 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1020 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1023 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1026 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1027 ----------------------------------
1030 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1031 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1032 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1034 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1035 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1037 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1038 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1041 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1043 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1044 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1045 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1046 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1047 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1048 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1049 two different movies
1050 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1051 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1052 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1055 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1058 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1059 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1060 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1061 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1064 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1065 ----------------------------------
1067 Various bugfixes, notably:
1068 * Windows Vista compatibility
1069 * Cropping in Direct3D
1070 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1071 * RSS filter string overflow
1073 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1075 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1076 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1079 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1080 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1083 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1086 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1089 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1092 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1093 ----------------------------------
1095 Various bugfixes, notably:
1096 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1097 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1098 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1099 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1100 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1101 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1104 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1105 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1108 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1110 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1111 * Diverse usability improvements
1112 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1113 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1114 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1117 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1118 ---------------------------------
1120 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1121 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1124 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1127 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1128 --------------------------------
1131 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1134 * Support for RTSP authentication
1135 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1136 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1137 * ATSC support for DVB input
1138 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1139 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1140 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1143 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1144 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1145 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1146 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1147 * Matroska WavPack support
1148 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1149 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1150 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1153 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1154 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1155 * Improved libcaca support
1159 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1160 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1162 * Systray support in skins
1164 * Support for Apple Remote control
1165 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1166 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1167 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1168 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1170 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1173 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1174 Windows 9x/ME users:
1175 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1176 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1177 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1178 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1179 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1181 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1182 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1191 * Updates to the libvlc API
1192 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1195 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1196 --------------------------------
1199 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1200 * Support for downloading updates
1204 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1205 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1206 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1207 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1209 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1210 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1211 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1214 * Cook (Real audio) support
1216 Playlist / Services discovery:
1217 * XSPF playlist support
1219 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1222 * New JACK audio output
1225 * New video filters:
1226 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1227 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1228 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1229 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1230 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1231 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1234 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1237 * System to inform the user and request information
1238 - HTTP authentication
1242 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1243 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1244 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1247 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1248 - Improved playlist handling
1249 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1251 - Embedded Video output
1252 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1253 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1254 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1255 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1256 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1258 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1259 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1262 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1265 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1266 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1267 * Growl "Now playing" support
1270 * Ability to log to syslog
1271 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1274 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1276 * A bit more automatic testing
1279 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1280 ---------------------------------
1283 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1284 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1287 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1288 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1291 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1294 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1295 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1301 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1304 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1305 --------------------------------
1308 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1312 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1313 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1314 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1317 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1318 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1319 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1320 * GnomeVFS input module
1321 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1322 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1325 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1326 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1327 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1330 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1331 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1337 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1338 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1341 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1342 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1343 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1346 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1348 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1349 - New extended controls panel
1350 - New bookmarks window
1351 - Fixed playlist sorting
1352 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1354 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1355 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1356 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1357 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
1361 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
1362 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
1364 - Include macro to include other files
1368 * Should now work outside IE as well
1371 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
1374 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
1375 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
1378 The following languages were added:
1382 * Simplified Chinese
1383 The following languages were re-added:
1387 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
1388 --------------------------------
1391 * Rewrite of the playlist
1393 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
1394 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
1395 * Preferences improvements:
1396 - New organization, designed to improve usability
1397 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
1399 * Core image manipulation support
1400 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
1401 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
1402 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
1403 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
1404 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
1405 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
1406 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
1407 now separated by ':' instead of ','
1408 * Access filter architecture
1409 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
1410 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
1414 * Support for SOCKS proxy
1415 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
1416 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
1417 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
1418 * Better support for Kasenna streams
1419 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
1420 * Massive Matroska improvements
1421 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
1423 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
1424 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
1425 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
1426 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
1427 * Support for FTP over IPv6
1429 Decoders / Encoders:
1430 * Dirac decoder and encoder
1431 * PNG decoder/encoder
1432 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
1433 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
1436 * New Record and Timeshift filters
1439 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
1440 * Brand new SAP module
1441 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
1442 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
1443 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
1444 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1445 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1446 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1450 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1453 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1454 * Image file video output (png)
1455 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1456 * Improvements to wall video filter
1457 * Support for font color and opacity
1463 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1464 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1465 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1469 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1470 - Improved preferences
1471 - Improvements to the wizard
1472 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1474 - Redesigned playlist
1475 - Improved preferences
1477 - Support for multiple actions
1480 - Support for the new playlist system
1482 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1485 * Screensaver disabling fix
1486 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1487 * Support for no-decoration windows
1490 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1491 * The OpenGL video output is back
1492 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1493 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1494 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1495 is not yet available in the new module
1496 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1499 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1508 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1511 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1514 The following languages were added:
1520 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1521 --------------------------------
1524 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1525 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1528 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1529 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1530 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1533 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1536 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1539 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1542 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1543 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1544 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1548 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1550 * Support of playlist group announcement
1553 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1554 --------------------------------
1557 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1558 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1559 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1560 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
1561 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
1562 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
1565 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
1566 (Stream your desktop)
1567 * Improved DVD support:
1568 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
1569 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
1570 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
1571 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
1572 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
1573 (selection of titles/chapters).
1576 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
1577 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
1578 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
1579 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
1580 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
1581 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1582 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
1583 * Improved Ogg demuxer
1584 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
1585 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
1588 * G.726 audio support
1589 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
1590 * MPEG-4 text support
1591 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
1592 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
1593 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
1597 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
1598 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
1599 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
1600 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
1601 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
1602 * DVB subtitles encoder
1603 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
1604 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
1606 * Text track muxing for mp4
1607 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
1608 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
1609 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1610 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
1611 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
1612 * Improved ASF muxer
1614 * H.263 RTP streaming support
1615 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
1616 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
1619 * New audio equalizer filter
1620 * Very trivial volume normalizer
1621 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
1622 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
1623 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
1626 * Roku HD1000 Video output
1627 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
1628 with support for effects.
1629 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
1630 - New filters can be streamed.
1631 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1632 - Centralized scaling and blending
1634 - "time", to display current time
1635 - "marq", to display a marquee
1638 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1639 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1640 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1641 * A few skins2 improvements
1642 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1643 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1644 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1645 * Improved CORBA control module
1648 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1649 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1650 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1653 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1654 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1655 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1658 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1659 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1660 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1661 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1662 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1665 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1668 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1669 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1672 * Server/client network synchronization module
1673 * VBrick streams fully supported
1674 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1678 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1679 --------------------------------
1682 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1683 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1684 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1685 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1688 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1689 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1690 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1691 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1692 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1693 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1694 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1697 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1698 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1699 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1700 * Improved directory access module.
1701 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1702 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1703 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1704 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1705 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1708 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1709 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1710 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1713 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1714 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1715 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1718 * Improved session announcement system.
1719 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1720 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1721 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1722 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1723 * Improved transrater.
1724 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1725 * New configuration system.
1726 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1729 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1730 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1731 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1732 * Supports scheduling.
1733 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1734 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1737 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1738 - Ability to embed video output.
1739 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1740 - Lots of improvements.
1741 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1742 - New design and set of icons.
1743 - Ability to embed video output.
1744 - Support for hotkeys.
1745 - Support for bookmarks.
1747 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1748 - Better hotkeys handling.
1751 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1752 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1753 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1754 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1757 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1758 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1759 * Improved Windows installer.
1765 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1766 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1769 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1770 ---------------------------------
1773 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1774 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1777 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1778 --------------------------------
1781 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1782 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1785 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1786 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1787 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1788 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1791 * Internal improvments
1792 * Improved import/export
1795 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1797 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1798 small and strange formats.
1800 * New MOD audio demux.
1801 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1802 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1803 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1804 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1807 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1808 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1809 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1815 * New opengl video output plugin.
1818 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1819 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1822 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1823 --------------------------------
1826 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1827 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1828 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1829 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1830 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1831 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1832 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1833 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1836 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1841 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1842 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1843 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1844 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1845 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1846 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1847 * Better Icecast support.
1848 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1849 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1852 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1853 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1854 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1855 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1856 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1857 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1858 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1861 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1862 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1863 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1864 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1865 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1866 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1867 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1868 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1869 * Preliminary RTP support.
1870 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1875 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1876 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1878 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1879 - Improvements and help in preferences
1880 - New streaming wizard
1881 - Revised Disc Open menu
1883 - Improvements of the standard pages
1884 - Support for new commands
1885 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1888 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1889 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1892 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1893 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1894 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1895 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1896 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1897 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1898 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1899 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1900 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1903 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1905 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1906 * Support for Panther.
1907 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1908 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1911 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1912 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1913 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1914 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1915 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1916 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1917 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1918 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1921 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1922 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1923 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1926 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1929 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1930 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1931 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1932 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1935 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1936 --------------------------------
1939 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1942 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1943 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1946 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1947 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1950 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1953 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1954 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1957 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1960 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1963 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1964 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1968 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1969 --------------------------------
1972 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1973 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1977 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1978 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1979 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1981 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1982 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1985 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1988 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1991 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1992 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1996 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1997 --------------------------------
2000 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2001 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2005 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2006 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2007 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2008 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2009 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2012 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2013 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2014 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2017 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2018 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2019 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2022 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2023 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2024 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2025 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2026 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2029 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2030 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2031 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2034 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2037 * Improved build system.
2038 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2039 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2040 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2041 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2044 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2045 --------------------------------
2048 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2051 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2052 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2053 * Video 4 Linux support
2054 * CD Digital Audio support
2055 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2058 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2059 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2060 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2061 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2064 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2065 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2066 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2067 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2068 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2069 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2070 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2073 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2074 * New HTTP remote control interface
2077 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
2078 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2079 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2080 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2083 * New reset option for the preferences
2084 * You can set your language in the prefences
2085 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2086 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2087 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2088 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2091 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2092 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2093 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2096 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2097 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2098 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2099 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2100 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2101 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2102 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2103 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2104 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2105 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2108 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2109 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2110 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2111 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2112 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2113 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2114 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2117 * Interface localization
2118 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2119 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2120 * New full-featured Preferences window
2123 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2124 --------------------------------
2127 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2128 * support for skins at the interface level
2129 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2130 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2131 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2132 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2133 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2136 * fixed HTTP redirects
2137 * support for opening an entire directory
2138 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2139 * new video4linux access plug-in
2140 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2143 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2144 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2145 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2148 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2149 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2150 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2151 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2152 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2153 * new codec for raw I420 video
2154 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2157 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2158 (although it still misses some important features)
2159 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2162 * new HTTP output support
2163 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2164 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2167 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2170 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2173 * reorderable playlist
2174 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2175 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2176 * support for mono audio output devices
2177 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2178 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2179 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2180 * the messages window remembers more lines
2181 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2182 * http and ogg stream output options
2183 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2186 * new skinnable interface
2187 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2189 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2190 * support for FLAC audio format
2191 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2193 * network tab in the interface
2194 * "apply" handling in preferences
2197 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2198 ---------------------------------
2201 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2202 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2203 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2204 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2206 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2207 * DTS S/PDIF support
2210 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2211 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2212 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2213 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2216 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2217 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2220 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2223 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2226 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2228 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2229 * rc interface is now fully useable
2230 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2233 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2234 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2235 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2236 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2237 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2239 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2240 * support for mouse gestures
2241 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2244 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2245 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2248 * improved ID3 tag detection
2249 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2250 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2251 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2253 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2256 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2257 ---------------------------------
2260 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2261 English was set as the preferred language
2264 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2265 --------------------------------
2268 * new mouse gesture interface
2269 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2273 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2274 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2275 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2278 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2279 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2283 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2286 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2287 without the user consent
2290 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2292 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2293 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2294 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2297 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2298 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2299 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2300 * playlist enhancements
2301 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2302 * new step forward/step backward commands
2303 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2304 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2305 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2308 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2309 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2310 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2313 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2314 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2317 * native video output is working again
2318 * only commandline interface support
2319 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2322 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2323 --------------------------------
2326 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2327 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2328 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2329 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2330 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2331 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2332 and A/52 streams are supported)
2333 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2338 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2339 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2340 * VCD entry points support
2341 * VCD image file support
2344 * support for *.asf format
2345 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2346 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2347 * support for ogg encapsulation
2348 * support for raw DV format
2349 * support for *.wav format
2350 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2353 Stream discovery & playlists:
2354 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2355 * support for .m3u file format
2356 * support for .asx file format
2357 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2360 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
2361 (only available with the .avi demux)
2362 * support for ADPCM audio codec
2363 * support for raw PCM data
2364 * support for Cinepak video codec
2365 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
2366 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
2367 * support for Xvid codec
2368 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
2369 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
2370 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
2372 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
2374 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
2377 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
2380 * new WxWindows interface
2381 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
2382 device and the channels configuration
2383 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
2384 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
2385 format that VLC can play
2386 * new swedish translation
2387 * enhancements of the playlist window
2388 * new messages window to see debug info
2389 * fixed a few crashes
2392 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
2393 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
2394 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
2395 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working