1 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.1.0-rc:
2 ------------------------------------
3 Important changes for users:
4 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
5 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
7 Important changes for packagers:
8 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
9 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
10 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
11 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
12 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
14 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
16 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
17 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
18 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
19 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
20 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
23 * Support for the sftp protocol
24 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
25 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
26 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
27 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
28 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
31 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
32 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
33 * Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP usage
35 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
36 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
37 * Invmem module improvements
38 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
39 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
40 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles .SRT and .SSA
41 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
42 * Support for Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec natively on all platforms
43 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
44 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
45 * Direct rendering is always used with H.264 in avcodec module
46 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
47 * Support for VP8 codec
50 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
51 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
52 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
53 * Various EGP improvements
54 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
55 * Many fixes on Matroska support and support for webm format
58 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
59 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
60 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
61 * Podcast images are now displayed
64 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
65 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
66 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
67 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
68 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
69 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
70 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
71 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
72 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
73 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
74 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
77 * New content extensions lua framework
81 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
82 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
83 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
84 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
85 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
86 * NEON assembly audio converter module
87 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
90 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
93 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
94 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
95 * Service discovery based on libudev
96 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
99 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
100 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
101 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
102 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
103 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
104 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
105 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
108 * New smem module, streaming to memory
109 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
110 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
113 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
115 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
118 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
119 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
120 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
121 by Andy Matuschak et al.
122 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
123 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
124 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
127 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
128 * Experimental playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
131 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
132 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
133 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
137 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
138 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
141 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
142 * phonon bindings are now usable
145 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
146 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
147 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
148 * transrate: broken since too long
149 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
150 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
151 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
152 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
153 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
154 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
155 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
156 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
157 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
158 * cddax: use cdda instead.
159 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
160 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
161 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
162 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
165 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
166 --------------------------------
169 * SubRip extra styles improvements
170 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
173 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
176 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
177 increase performance and fix x264 issues
180 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
181 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
182 Russian, Slovak translation updates
183 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
186 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
187 --------------------------------
190 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
191 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
194 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
195 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
198 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
199 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
202 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
205 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
206 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
209 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
210 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
213 * New Walloon translation
214 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
217 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
218 --------------------------------
221 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
222 regressions in most popular drivers
223 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
226 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
227 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
228 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
231 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
232 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
235 * Update for appletrailers lua script
236 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
237 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
238 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
239 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
242 * New udev module for linux
245 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
248 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
251 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
252 --------------------------------
255 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
256 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
257 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
260 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
261 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
264 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
265 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
268 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
271 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
272 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
273 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
274 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
277 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
278 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
279 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
280 - no support for Goom and SDL
281 - limited text rendering support
282 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
285 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
286 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
287 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
288 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
289 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
290 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
291 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
292 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
293 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
297 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
300 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
303 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
304 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
305 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
306 Arabic and French translation updates
309 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
310 --------------------------------
313 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
314 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
315 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
316 * Fix Dailymotion access script
317 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
318 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
321 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
322 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
325 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
326 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
327 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
330 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
333 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
334 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
337 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
338 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
339 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
340 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
341 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
342 * Fix various crashes
345 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
347 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
350 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
351 ---------------------------------
355 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
356 See 'Access:' for more info.
357 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
360 * Instantaneous pausing
361 * Frame-by-Frame playback
362 * Finer speed control
363 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
364 * Timeshift for most medias
365 * RTSP trickplay support
366 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
369 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
370 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
371 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
372 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
373 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
374 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
375 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
376 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
377 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
378 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
381 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
382 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
383 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
384 * Metadata for mod files are supported
385 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
386 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
387 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
390 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
391 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
394 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
395 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
396 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
397 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
398 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
399 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
400 * DVB scanning on linux
401 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
402 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
403 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
404 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
405 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
406 * MTP device access on Unix
407 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
408 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
411 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
412 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
413 Windows and Mac OS X.
416 * Export the playlist in HTML
417 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
418 * Better metadata handling and reading
420 Linux/Windows interface:
421 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
422 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
423 * Recently played items list
424 * Interface toolbar customizations
425 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
428 - Improvements on many dialogs
429 - New dialog for plugins listing
430 - Fixed-size mode for videos
431 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
432 * Better integration in GTK environments
435 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
436 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
437 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
438 * Additional usability improvements
441 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
442 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
443 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
444 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
445 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
448 * New Maemo port with:
449 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
450 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
453 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
456 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
457 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
458 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
459 * Support for latest iSight models
462 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
463 * Surround support for PulseAudio
466 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
467 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
468 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
469 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
470 The old image video output has been removed.
471 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
472 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
475 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
483 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
484 --------------------------------------
490 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
491 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
492 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
493 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
494 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
495 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
496 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
498 Various fixes to the following modules:
501 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
502 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
505 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
510 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
511 ---------------------------------
514 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
515 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
518 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
519 ---------------------------------
522 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
525 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
528 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
529 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
530 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
531 main controller window.
532 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
535 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
540 * Updates of other localizations
543 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
544 * Lots of small bugfixes.
545 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
546 * Telnet fixes on Windows
547 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
550 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
551 ---------------------------------
554 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
556 Bunch of small bugfixes.
559 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
560 --------------------------------
565 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
566 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
569 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
570 --------------------------------
572 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
573 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
576 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
579 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
580 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
583 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
584 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
587 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
588 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
589 * Various fixed in playlist
592 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
595 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
598 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
599 ------------------------------------
601 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
602 * Fixes several memory leaks.
605 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
606 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
607 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
610 * Stability fix for the video output.
613 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
614 --------------------------------
617 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
618 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
619 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
620 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
621 * Fixed update system bugs
622 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
625 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
626 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
627 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
628 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
629 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
630 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
631 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
632 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
633 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
634 modern Mac OS X versions
637 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
638 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
640 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
641 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
644 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
645 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
646 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
647 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
648 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
649 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
652 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
653 --------------------------------
655 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
656 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
660 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
661 --------------------------------
663 * Multiple bug fixes.
666 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
667 ---------------------------------
671 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
672 recent to work correctly
673 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
674 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
675 edit the ".hosts" file.
676 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
677 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
678 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
679 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
680 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
681 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
682 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
683 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
684 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
685 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
686 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
687 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
688 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
689 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
690 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
691 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
692 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
693 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
694 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
695 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
696 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
697 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
698 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
699 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
700 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
701 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
702 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
703 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
704 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
705 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
706 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
707 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
708 and postproc modules.
709 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
710 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
711 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
712 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
714 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
716 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
717 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
719 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
720 * Glide video output module has been removed.
726 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
728 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
729 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
732 * Vastly improved playlist support:
733 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
735 * Shoutcast TV listings
736 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
738 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
739 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
741 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
744 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
745 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
746 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
747 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
748 * JACK audio input support
749 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
750 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
751 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
752 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
753 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
754 * Experimental EyeTV access module
755 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
756 (available as a separate download).
757 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
759 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
760 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
761 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
763 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
764 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
767 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
768 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
769 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
770 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
772 * APEv1/2 tags support
773 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
774 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
776 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
777 * TiVo Series 2 support
778 * CD+G karaoke Files support
783 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
784 * Flash Screen Video support
785 * CamStudio Screen Video support
786 * DosBox Capture support
787 * Karl Morton's Video support
788 * limited atrac3 support
790 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
791 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
792 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
794 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
795 * NellyMoser ASAO support
796 * APE (Monkey audio) support
797 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
798 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
801 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
802 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
803 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
804 * AQTitle subtitles support
805 * MKV USF subtitles support
806 * HTML-based subtitles support
807 * MPSub subtitles support
808 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
809 * MPL2 subtitles support
810 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
811 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
812 * Realtext subtitle support
813 * DKS subtitle support
814 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
815 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
818 * Flash Screen Video support
819 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
821 Video outputs and filters:
822 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
823 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
824 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
825 * New puzzle video output filter
826 * Re-written motion detection video filter
827 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
829 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
830 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
831 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
832 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
833 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
834 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
835 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
836 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
837 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
838 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
839 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
840 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
841 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
842 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
844 Audio outputs and filters:
845 * Replay gain support
846 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
847 new scaletempo audio filter)
848 * New spatializer audio filter
849 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
852 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
853 * New RTP payload formats:
854 * Speex voice audio codec
855 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
856 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
857 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
858 * DCCP transport for RTP
859 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
864 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
865 end-user suitable way.
866 * Improved user interaction
867 * Improved mouse gestures
868 * Vastly improved Update checker
869 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
871 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
872 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
874 * Improved video output features
875 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
876 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
877 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
878 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
879 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
881 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
882 if libncursesw is available.
883 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
884 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
885 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
887 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
888 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
889 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
890 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
891 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
892 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
893 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
894 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
897 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
898 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
899 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
902 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
903 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
904 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
905 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
906 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
907 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
910 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
911 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
921 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
922 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
923 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
926 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
927 ----------------------------------
930 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
933 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
934 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
935 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
936 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
937 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
938 * Updated Polish translation
941 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
942 ----------------------------------
945 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
946 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
947 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
950 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
951 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
952 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
953 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
954 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
955 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
956 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
957 to an unexpected application termination
958 * New Serbian translation
959 * Updated Romanian translation
962 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
963 ----------------------------------
966 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
967 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
968 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
969 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
970 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
971 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
972 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
973 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
976 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
977 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
978 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
979 * Fixed AAC resampling
980 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
981 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
984 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
985 ----------------------------------
988 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
989 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
990 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
991 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
992 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
995 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
996 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
997 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
998 * Close MMS access on network timeout
999 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1002 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1003 ----------------------------------
1006 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1007 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1010 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1011 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1012 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1013 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1015 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1019 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1022 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1025 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1028 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1031 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1032 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1033 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1034 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1035 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1037 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1038 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1039 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1040 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1043 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1046 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1047 ----------------------------------
1050 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1051 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1052 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1054 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1055 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1057 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1058 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1061 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1063 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1064 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1065 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1066 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1067 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1068 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1069 two different movies
1070 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1071 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1072 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1075 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1078 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1079 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1080 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1081 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1084 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1085 ----------------------------------
1087 Various bugfixes, notably:
1088 * Windows Vista compatibility
1089 * Cropping in Direct3D
1090 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1091 * RSS filter string overflow
1093 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1095 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1096 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1099 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1100 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1103 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1106 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1109 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1112 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1113 ----------------------------------
1115 Various bugfixes, notably:
1116 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1117 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1118 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1119 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1120 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1121 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1124 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1125 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1128 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1130 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1131 * Diverse usability improvements
1132 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1133 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1134 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1137 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1138 ---------------------------------
1140 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1141 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1144 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1147 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1148 --------------------------------
1151 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1154 * Support for RTSP authentication
1155 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1156 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1157 * ATSC support for DVB input
1158 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1159 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1160 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1163 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1164 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1165 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1166 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1167 * Matroska WavPack support
1168 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1169 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1170 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1173 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1174 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1175 * Improved libcaca support
1179 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1180 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1182 * Systray support in skins
1184 * Support for Apple Remote control
1185 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1186 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1187 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1188 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1190 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1193 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1194 Windows 9x/ME users:
1195 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1196 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1197 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1198 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1199 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1201 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1202 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1211 * Updates to the libvlc API
1212 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1215 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1216 --------------------------------
1219 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1220 * Support for downloading updates
1224 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1225 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1226 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1227 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1229 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1230 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1231 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1234 * Cook (Real audio) support
1236 Playlist / Services discovery:
1237 * XSPF playlist support
1239 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1242 * New JACK audio output
1245 * New video filters:
1246 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1247 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1248 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1249 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1250 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1251 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1254 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1257 * System to inform the user and request information
1258 - HTTP authentication
1262 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1263 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1264 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1267 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1268 - Improved playlist handling
1269 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1271 - Embedded Video output
1272 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1273 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1274 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1275 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1276 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1278 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1279 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1282 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1285 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1286 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1287 * Growl "Now playing" support
1290 * Ability to log to syslog
1291 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1294 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1296 * A bit more automatic testing
1299 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1300 ---------------------------------
1303 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1304 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1307 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1308 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1311 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1314 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1315 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1321 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1324 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1325 --------------------------------
1328 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1332 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1333 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1334 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1337 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1338 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1339 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1340 * GnomeVFS input module
1341 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1342 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1345 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1346 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1347 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1350 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1351 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1357 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1358 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1361 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1362 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1363 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1366 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1368 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1369 - New extended controls panel
1370 - New bookmarks window
1371 - Fixed playlist sorting
1372 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1374 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1375 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1376 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1377 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
1381 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
1382 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
1384 - Include macro to include other files
1388 * Should now work outside IE as well
1391 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
1394 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
1395 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
1398 The following languages were added:
1402 * Simplified Chinese
1403 The following languages were re-added:
1407 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
1408 --------------------------------
1411 * Rewrite of the playlist
1413 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
1414 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
1415 * Preferences improvements:
1416 - New organization, designed to improve usability
1417 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
1419 * Core image manipulation support
1420 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
1421 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
1422 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
1423 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
1424 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
1425 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
1426 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
1427 now separated by ':' instead of ','
1428 * Access filter architecture
1429 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
1430 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
1434 * Support for SOCKS proxy
1435 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
1436 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
1437 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
1438 * Better support for Kasenna streams
1439 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
1440 * Massive Matroska improvements
1441 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
1443 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
1444 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
1445 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
1446 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
1447 * Support for FTP over IPv6
1449 Decoders / Encoders:
1450 * Dirac decoder and encoder
1451 * PNG decoder/encoder
1452 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
1453 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
1456 * New Record and Timeshift filters
1459 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
1460 * Brand new SAP module
1461 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
1462 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
1463 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
1464 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1465 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1466 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1470 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1473 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1474 * Image file video output (png)
1475 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1476 * Improvements to wall video filter
1477 * Support for font color and opacity
1483 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1484 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1485 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1489 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1490 - Improved preferences
1491 - Improvements to the wizard
1492 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1494 - Redesigned playlist
1495 - Improved preferences
1497 - Support for multiple actions
1500 - Support for the new playlist system
1502 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1505 * Screensaver disabling fix
1506 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1507 * Support for no-decoration windows
1510 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1511 * The OpenGL video output is back
1512 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1513 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1514 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1515 is not yet available in the new module
1516 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1519 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1528 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1531 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1534 The following languages were added:
1540 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1541 --------------------------------
1544 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1545 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1548 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1549 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1550 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1553 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1556 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1559 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1562 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1563 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1564 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1568 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1570 * Support of playlist group announcement
1573 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1574 --------------------------------
1577 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1578 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1579 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1580 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
1581 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
1582 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
1585 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
1586 (Stream your desktop)
1587 * Improved DVD support:
1588 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
1589 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
1590 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
1591 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
1592 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
1593 (selection of titles/chapters).
1596 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
1597 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
1598 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
1599 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
1600 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
1601 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1602 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
1603 * Improved Ogg demuxer
1604 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
1605 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
1608 * G.726 audio support
1609 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
1610 * MPEG-4 text support
1611 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
1612 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
1613 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
1617 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
1618 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
1619 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
1620 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
1621 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
1622 * DVB subtitles encoder
1623 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
1624 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
1626 * Text track muxing for mp4
1627 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
1628 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
1629 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1630 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
1631 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
1632 * Improved ASF muxer
1634 * H.263 RTP streaming support
1635 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
1636 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
1639 * New audio equalizer filter
1640 * Very trivial volume normalizer
1641 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
1642 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
1643 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
1646 * Roku HD1000 Video output
1647 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
1648 with support for effects.
1649 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
1650 - New filters can be streamed.
1651 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1652 - Centralized scaling and blending
1654 - "time", to display current time
1655 - "marq", to display a marquee
1658 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1659 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1660 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1661 * A few skins2 improvements
1662 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1663 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1664 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1665 * Improved CORBA control module
1668 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1669 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1670 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1673 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1674 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1675 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1678 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1679 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1680 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1681 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1682 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1685 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1688 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1689 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1692 * Server/client network synchronization module
1693 * VBrick streams fully supported
1694 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1698 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1699 --------------------------------
1702 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1703 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1704 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1705 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1708 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1709 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1710 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1711 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1712 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1713 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1714 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1717 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1718 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1719 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1720 * Improved directory access module.
1721 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1722 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1723 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1724 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1725 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1728 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1729 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1730 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1733 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1734 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1735 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1738 * Improved session announcement system.
1739 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1740 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1741 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1742 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1743 * Improved transrater.
1744 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1745 * New configuration system.
1746 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1749 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1750 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1751 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1752 * Supports scheduling.
1753 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1754 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1757 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1758 - Ability to embed video output.
1759 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1760 - Lots of improvements.
1761 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1762 - New design and set of icons.
1763 - Ability to embed video output.
1764 - Support for hotkeys.
1765 - Support for bookmarks.
1767 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1768 - Better hotkeys handling.
1771 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1772 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1773 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1774 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1777 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1778 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1779 * Improved Windows installer.
1785 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1786 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1789 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1790 ---------------------------------
1793 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1794 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1797 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1798 --------------------------------
1801 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1802 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1805 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1806 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1807 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1808 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1811 * Internal improvments
1812 * Improved import/export
1815 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1817 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1818 small and strange formats.
1820 * New MOD audio demux.
1821 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1822 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1823 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1824 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1827 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1828 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1829 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1835 * New opengl video output plugin.
1838 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1839 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1842 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1843 --------------------------------
1846 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1847 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1848 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1849 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1850 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1851 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1852 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1853 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1856 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1861 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1862 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1863 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1864 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1865 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1866 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1867 * Better Icecast support.
1868 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1869 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1872 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1873 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1874 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1875 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1876 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1877 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1878 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1881 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1882 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1883 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1884 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1885 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1886 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1887 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1888 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1889 * Preliminary RTP support.
1890 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1895 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1896 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1898 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1899 - Improvements and help in preferences
1900 - New streaming wizard
1901 - Revised Disc Open menu
1903 - Improvements of the standard pages
1904 - Support for new commands
1905 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1908 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1909 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1912 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1913 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1914 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1915 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1916 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1917 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1918 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1919 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1920 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1923 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1925 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1926 * Support for Panther.
1927 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1928 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1931 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1932 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1933 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1934 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1935 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1936 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1937 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1938 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1941 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1942 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1943 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1946 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1949 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1950 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1951 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1952 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1955 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1956 --------------------------------
1959 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1962 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1963 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1966 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1967 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1970 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1973 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1974 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1977 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1980 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1983 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1984 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1988 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1989 --------------------------------
1992 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1993 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1997 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1998 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1999 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2001 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2002 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2005 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2008 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2011 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2012 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2016 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2017 --------------------------------
2020 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2021 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2025 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2026 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2027 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2028 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2029 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2032 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2033 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2034 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2037 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2038 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2039 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2042 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2043 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2044 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2045 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2046 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2049 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2050 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2051 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2054 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2057 * Improved build system.
2058 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2059 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2060 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2061 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2064 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2065 --------------------------------
2068 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2071 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2072 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2073 * Video 4 Linux support
2074 * CD Digital Audio support
2075 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2078 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2079 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2080 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2081 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2084 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2085 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2086 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2087 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2088 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2089 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2090 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2093 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2094 * New HTTP remote control interface
2097 * 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.
2098 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2099 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2100 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2103 * New reset option for the preferences
2104 * You can set your language in the prefences
2105 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2106 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2107 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2108 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2111 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2112 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2113 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2116 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2117 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2118 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2119 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2120 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2121 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2122 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2123 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2124 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2125 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2128 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2129 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2130 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2131 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2132 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2133 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2134 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2137 * Interface localization
2138 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2139 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2140 * New full-featured Preferences window
2143 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2144 --------------------------------
2147 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2148 * support for skins at the interface level
2149 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2150 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2151 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2152 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2153 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2156 * fixed HTTP redirects
2157 * support for opening an entire directory
2158 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2159 * new video4linux access plug-in
2160 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2163 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2164 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2165 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2168 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2169 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2170 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2171 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2172 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2173 * new codec for raw I420 video
2174 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2177 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2178 (although it still misses some important features)
2179 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2182 * new HTTP output support
2183 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2184 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2187 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2190 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2193 * reorderable playlist
2194 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2195 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2196 * support for mono audio output devices
2197 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2198 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2199 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2200 * the messages window remembers more lines
2201 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2202 * http and ogg stream output options
2203 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2206 * new skinnable interface
2207 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2209 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2210 * support for FLAC audio format
2211 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2213 * network tab in the interface
2214 * "apply" handling in preferences
2217 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2218 ---------------------------------
2221 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2222 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2223 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2224 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2226 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2227 * DTS S/PDIF support
2230 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2231 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2232 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2233 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2236 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2237 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2240 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2243 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2246 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2248 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2249 * rc interface is now fully useable
2250 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2253 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2254 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2255 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2256 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2257 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2259 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2260 * support for mouse gestures
2261 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2264 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2265 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2268 * improved ID3 tag detection
2269 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2270 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2271 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2273 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2276 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2277 ---------------------------------
2280 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2281 English was set as the preferred language
2284 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2285 --------------------------------
2288 * new mouse gesture interface
2289 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2293 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2294 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2295 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2298 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2299 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2303 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2306 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2307 without the user consent
2310 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2312 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2313 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2314 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2317 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2318 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2319 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2320 * playlist enhancements
2321 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2322 * new step forward/step backward commands
2323 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2324 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2325 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2328 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2329 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2330 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2333 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2334 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2337 * native video output is working again
2338 * only commandline interface support
2339 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2342 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2343 --------------------------------
2346 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2347 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2348 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2349 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2350 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2351 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2352 and A/52 streams are supported)
2353 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2358 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2359 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2360 * VCD entry points support
2361 * VCD image file support
2364 * support for *.asf format
2365 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2366 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2367 * support for ogg encapsulation
2368 * support for raw DV format
2369 * support for *.wav format
2370 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2373 Stream discovery & playlists:
2374 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2375 * support for .m3u file format
2376 * support for .asx file format
2377 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2380 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
2381 (only available with the .avi demux)
2382 * support for ADPCM audio codec
2383 * support for raw PCM data
2384 * support for Cinepak video codec
2385 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
2386 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
2387 * support for Xvid codec
2388 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
2389 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
2390 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
2392 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
2394 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
2397 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
2400 * new WxWindows interface
2401 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
2402 device and the channels configuration
2403 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
2404 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
2405 format that VLC can play
2406 * new swedish translation
2407 * enhancements of the playlist window
2408 * new messages window to see debug info
2409 * fixed a few crashes
2412 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
2413 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
2414 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
2415 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working