1 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
2 --------------------------------
5 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
6 --------------------------------
8 Important changes for users:
9 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
10 Update to alsa-lib v1.0.23-2-g8d80d5f or later, or use the libpulse audio
11 output plugin instead of the ALSA one (if you have PulseAudio).
13 Important changes for packagers:
14 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
15 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
16 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
17 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
18 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
20 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
22 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
23 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
24 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
25 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
26 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
30 * Support for the sftp protocol
31 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
32 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
33 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
34 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
35 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
38 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
39 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
40 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
42 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
43 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
44 * Invmem module improvements
45 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
46 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
47 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
48 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
49 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
50 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
51 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
52 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
53 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
54 * Support for VP8 codec
55 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
58 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
59 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
60 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
61 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
62 * Various EGP improvements
63 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
64 * Metadata and cover art improvements
67 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
68 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
69 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
70 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
71 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
72 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
73 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
74 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
75 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
76 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
77 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
80 * New content extensions framework for lua
83 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
84 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
85 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
86 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
87 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
88 * NEON assembly audio converter module
89 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
92 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
93 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
94 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
95 * Podcast images are now displayed
98 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
99 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
100 * Service discovery based on libudev
101 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
104 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
105 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
106 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
107 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
108 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
109 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
110 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
113 * New smem module, streaming to memory
114 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
115 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
118 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
120 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
121 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
124 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
127 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
128 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
129 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
130 by Andy Matuschak et al.
131 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
132 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
133 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
136 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
137 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
140 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
141 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
142 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
146 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
147 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
148 * Improved Solaris port
151 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
152 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
155 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
156 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
157 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
158 * transrate: broken since too long
159 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
160 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
161 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
162 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
163 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
164 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
165 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
166 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
167 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
168 * cddax: use cdda instead.
169 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
170 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
171 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
172 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
175 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
176 --------------------------------
179 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
181 Decoders/Packetizers:
182 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
185 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
186 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
187 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
188 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
189 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
192 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
193 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
196 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
197 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
200 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
201 and Walloon translations updated
202 * Sinhala translation started
205 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
206 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
209 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
210 --------------------------------
213 * SubRip extra styles improvements
214 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
217 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
220 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
221 increase performance and fix x264 issues
224 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
225 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
226 Russian, Slovak translation updates
227 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
230 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
231 --------------------------------
234 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
235 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
238 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
239 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
242 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
243 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
246 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
249 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
250 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
253 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
254 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
257 * New Walloon translation
258 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
261 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
262 --------------------------------
265 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
266 regressions in most popular drivers
267 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
270 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
271 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
272 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
275 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
276 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
279 * Update for appletrailers lua script
280 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
281 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
282 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
283 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
286 * New udev module for linux
289 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
292 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
295 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
296 --------------------------------
299 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
300 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
301 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
304 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
305 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
308 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
309 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
312 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
315 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
316 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
317 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
318 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
321 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
322 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
323 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
324 - no support for Goom and SDL
325 - limited text rendering support
326 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
329 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
330 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
331 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
332 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
333 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
334 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
335 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
336 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
337 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
341 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
344 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
347 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
348 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
349 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
350 Arabic and French translation updates
353 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
354 --------------------------------
357 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
358 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
359 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
360 * Fix Dailymotion access script
361 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
362 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
365 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
366 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
369 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
370 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
371 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
374 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
377 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
378 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
381 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
382 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
383 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
384 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
385 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
386 * Fix various crashes
389 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
391 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
394 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
395 ---------------------------------
399 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
400 See 'Access:' for more info.
401 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
404 * Instantaneous pausing
405 * Frame-by-Frame playback
406 * Finer speed control
407 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
408 * Timeshift for most medias
409 * RTSP trickplay support
410 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
413 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
414 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
415 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
416 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
417 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
418 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
419 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
420 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
421 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
422 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
425 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
426 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
427 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
428 * Metadata for mod files are supported
429 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
430 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
431 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
434 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
435 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
438 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
439 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
440 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
441 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
442 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
443 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
444 * DVB scanning on linux
445 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
446 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
447 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
448 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
449 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
450 * MTP device access on Unix
451 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
452 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
455 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
456 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
457 Windows and Mac OS X.
460 * Export the playlist in HTML
461 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
462 * Better metadata handling and reading
464 Linux/Windows interface:
465 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
466 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
467 * Recently played items list
468 * Interface toolbar customizations
469 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
472 - Improvements on many dialogs
473 - New dialog for plugins listing
474 - Fixed-size mode for videos
475 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
476 * Better integration in GTK environments
479 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
480 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
481 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
482 * Additional usability improvements
485 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
486 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
487 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
488 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
489 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
492 * New Maemo port with:
493 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
494 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
497 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
500 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
501 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
502 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
503 * Support for latest iSight models
506 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
507 * Surround support for PulseAudio
510 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
511 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
512 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
513 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
514 The old image video output has been removed.
515 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
516 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
519 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
527 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
528 --------------------------------------
534 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
535 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
536 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
537 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
538 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
539 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
540 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
542 Various fixes to the following modules:
545 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
546 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
549 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
554 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
555 ---------------------------------
558 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
559 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
562 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
563 ---------------------------------
566 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
569 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
572 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
573 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
574 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
575 main controller window.
576 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
579 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
584 * Updates of other localizations
587 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
588 * Lots of small bugfixes.
589 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
590 * Telnet fixes on Windows
591 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
594 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
595 ---------------------------------
598 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
600 Bunch of small bugfixes.
603 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
604 --------------------------------
609 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
610 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
613 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
614 --------------------------------
616 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
617 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
620 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
623 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
624 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
627 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
628 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
631 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
632 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
633 * Various fixed in playlist
636 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
639 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
642 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
643 ------------------------------------
645 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
646 * Fixes several memory leaks.
649 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
650 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
651 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
654 * Stability fix for the video output.
657 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
658 --------------------------------
661 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
662 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
663 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
664 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
665 * Fixed update system bugs
666 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
669 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
670 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
671 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
672 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
673 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
674 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
675 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
676 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
677 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
678 modern Mac OS X versions
681 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
682 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
684 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
685 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
688 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
689 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
690 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
691 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
692 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
693 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
696 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
697 --------------------------------
699 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
700 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
704 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
705 --------------------------------
707 * Multiple bug fixes.
710 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
711 ---------------------------------
715 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
716 recent to work correctly
717 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
718 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
719 edit the ".hosts" file.
720 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
721 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
722 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
723 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
724 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
725 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
726 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
727 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
728 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
729 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
730 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
731 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
732 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
733 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
734 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
735 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
736 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
737 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
738 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
739 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
740 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
741 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
742 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
743 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
744 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
745 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
746 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
747 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
748 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
749 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
750 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
751 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
752 and postproc modules.
753 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
754 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
755 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
756 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
758 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
760 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
761 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
763 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
764 * Glide video output module has been removed.
770 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
772 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
773 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
776 * Vastly improved playlist support:
777 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
779 * Shoutcast TV listings
780 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
782 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
783 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
785 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
788 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
789 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
790 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
791 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
792 * JACK audio input support
793 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
794 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
795 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
796 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
797 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
798 * Experimental EyeTV access module
799 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
800 (available as a separate download).
801 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
803 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
804 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
805 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
807 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
808 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
811 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
812 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
813 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
814 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
816 * APEv1/2 tags support
817 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
818 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
820 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
821 * TiVo Series 2 support
822 * CD+G karaoke Files support
827 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
828 * Flash Screen Video support
829 * CamStudio Screen Video support
830 * DosBox Capture support
831 * Karl Morton's Video support
832 * limited atrac3 support
834 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
835 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
836 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
838 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
839 * NellyMoser ASAO support
840 * APE (Monkey audio) support
841 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
842 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
845 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
846 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
847 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
848 * AQTitle subtitles support
849 * MKV USF subtitles support
850 * HTML-based subtitles support
851 * MPSub subtitles support
852 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
853 * MPL2 subtitles support
854 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
855 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
856 * Realtext subtitle support
857 * DKS subtitle support
858 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
859 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
862 * Flash Screen Video support
863 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
865 Video outputs and filters:
866 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
867 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
868 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
869 * New puzzle video output filter
870 * Re-written motion detection video filter
871 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
873 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
874 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
875 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
876 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
877 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
878 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
879 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
880 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
881 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
882 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
883 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
884 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
885 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
886 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
888 Audio outputs and filters:
889 * Replay gain support
890 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
891 new scaletempo audio filter)
892 * New spatializer audio filter
893 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
896 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
897 * New RTP payload formats:
898 * Speex voice audio codec
899 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
900 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
901 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
902 * DCCP transport for RTP
903 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
908 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
909 end-user suitable way.
910 * Improved user interaction
911 * Improved mouse gestures
912 * Vastly improved Update checker
913 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
915 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
916 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
918 * Improved video output features
919 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
920 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
921 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
922 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
923 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
925 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
926 if libncursesw is available.
927 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
928 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
929 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
931 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
932 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
933 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
934 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
935 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
936 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
937 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
938 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
941 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
942 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
943 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
946 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
947 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
948 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
949 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
950 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
951 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
954 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
955 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
965 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
966 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
967 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
970 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
971 ----------------------------------
974 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
977 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
978 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
979 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
980 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
981 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
982 * Updated Polish translation
985 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
986 ----------------------------------
989 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
990 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
991 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
994 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
995 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
996 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
997 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
998 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
999 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1000 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1001 to an unexpected application termination
1002 * New Serbian translation
1003 * Updated Romanian translation
1006 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1007 ----------------------------------
1010 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1011 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1012 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1013 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1014 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1015 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1016 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1017 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1020 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1021 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1022 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1023 * Fixed AAC resampling
1024 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1025 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1028 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1029 ----------------------------------
1032 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1033 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1034 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1035 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1036 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1039 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1040 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1041 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1042 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1043 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1046 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1047 ----------------------------------
1050 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1051 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1054 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1055 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1056 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1057 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1059 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1063 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1066 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1069 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1072 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1075 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1076 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1077 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1078 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1079 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1081 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1082 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1083 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1084 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1087 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1090 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1091 ----------------------------------
1094 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1095 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1096 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1098 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1099 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1101 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1102 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1105 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1107 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1108 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1109 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1110 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1111 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1112 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1113 two different movies
1114 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1115 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1116 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1119 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1122 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1123 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1124 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1125 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1128 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1129 ----------------------------------
1131 Various bugfixes, notably:
1132 * Windows Vista compatibility
1133 * Cropping in Direct3D
1134 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1135 * RSS filter string overflow
1137 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1139 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1140 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1143 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1144 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1147 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1150 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1153 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1156 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1157 ----------------------------------
1159 Various bugfixes, notably:
1160 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1161 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1162 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1163 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1164 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1165 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1168 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1169 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1172 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1174 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1175 * Diverse usability improvements
1176 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1177 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1178 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1181 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1182 ---------------------------------
1184 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1185 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1188 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1191 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1192 --------------------------------
1195 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1198 * Support for RTSP authentication
1199 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1200 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1201 * ATSC support for DVB input
1202 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1203 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1204 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1207 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1208 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1209 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1210 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1211 * Matroska WavPack support
1212 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1213 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1214 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1217 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1218 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1219 * Improved libcaca support
1223 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1224 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1226 * Systray support in skins
1228 * Support for Apple Remote control
1229 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1230 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1231 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1232 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1234 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1237 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1238 Windows 9x/ME users:
1239 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1240 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1241 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1242 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1243 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1245 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1246 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1255 * Updates to the libvlc API
1256 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1259 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1260 --------------------------------
1263 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1264 * Support for downloading updates
1268 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1269 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1270 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1271 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1273 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1274 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1275 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1278 * Cook (Real audio) support
1280 Playlist / Services discovery:
1281 * XSPF playlist support
1283 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1286 * New JACK audio output
1289 * New video filters:
1290 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1291 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1292 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1293 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1294 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1295 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1298 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1301 * System to inform the user and request information
1302 - HTTP authentication
1306 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1307 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1308 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1311 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1312 - Improved playlist handling
1313 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1315 - Embedded Video output
1316 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1317 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1318 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1319 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1320 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1322 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1323 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1326 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1329 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1330 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1331 * Growl "Now playing" support
1334 * Ability to log to syslog
1335 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1338 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1340 * A bit more automatic testing
1343 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1344 ---------------------------------
1347 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1348 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1351 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1352 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1355 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1358 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1359 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1365 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1368 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1369 --------------------------------
1372 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1376 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1377 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1378 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1381 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1382 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1383 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1384 * GnomeVFS input module
1385 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1386 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1389 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1390 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1391 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1394 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1395 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1401 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1402 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1405 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1406 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1407 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1410 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1412 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1413 - New extended controls panel
1414 - New bookmarks window
1415 - Fixed playlist sorting
1416 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1418 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1419 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1420 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1421 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
1425 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
1426 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
1428 - Include macro to include other files
1432 * Should now work outside IE as well
1435 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
1438 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
1439 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
1442 The following languages were added:
1446 * Simplified Chinese
1447 The following languages were re-added:
1451 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
1452 --------------------------------
1455 * Rewrite of the playlist
1457 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
1458 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
1459 * Preferences improvements:
1460 - New organization, designed to improve usability
1461 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
1463 * Core image manipulation support
1464 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
1465 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
1466 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
1467 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
1468 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
1469 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
1470 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
1471 now separated by ':' instead of ','
1472 * Access filter architecture
1473 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
1474 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
1478 * Support for SOCKS proxy
1479 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
1480 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
1481 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
1482 * Better support for Kasenna streams
1483 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
1484 * Massive Matroska improvements
1485 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
1487 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
1488 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
1489 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
1490 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
1491 * Support for FTP over IPv6
1493 Decoders / Encoders:
1494 * Dirac decoder and encoder
1495 * PNG decoder/encoder
1496 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
1497 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
1500 * New Record and Timeshift filters
1503 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
1504 * Brand new SAP module
1505 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
1506 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
1507 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
1508 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1509 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1510 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1514 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1517 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1518 * Image file video output (png)
1519 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1520 * Improvements to wall video filter
1521 * Support for font color and opacity
1527 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1528 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1529 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1533 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1534 - Improved preferences
1535 - Improvements to the wizard
1536 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1538 - Redesigned playlist
1539 - Improved preferences
1541 - Support for multiple actions
1544 - Support for the new playlist system
1546 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1549 * Screensaver disabling fix
1550 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1551 * Support for no-decoration windows
1554 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1555 * The OpenGL video output is back
1556 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1557 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1558 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1559 is not yet available in the new module
1560 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1563 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1572 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1575 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1578 The following languages were added:
1584 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1585 --------------------------------
1588 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1589 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1592 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1593 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1594 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1597 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1600 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1603 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1606 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1607 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1608 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1612 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1614 * Support of playlist group announcement
1617 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1618 --------------------------------
1621 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1622 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1623 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1624 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
1625 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
1626 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
1629 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
1630 (Stream your desktop)
1631 * Improved DVD support:
1632 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
1633 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
1634 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
1635 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
1636 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
1637 (selection of titles/chapters).
1640 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
1641 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
1642 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
1643 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
1644 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
1645 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1646 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
1647 * Improved Ogg demuxer
1648 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
1649 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
1652 * G.726 audio support
1653 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
1654 * MPEG-4 text support
1655 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
1656 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
1657 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
1661 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
1662 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
1663 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
1664 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
1665 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
1666 * DVB subtitles encoder
1667 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
1668 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
1670 * Text track muxing for mp4
1671 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
1672 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
1673 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1674 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
1675 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
1676 * Improved ASF muxer
1678 * H.263 RTP streaming support
1679 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
1680 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
1683 * New audio equalizer filter
1684 * Very trivial volume normalizer
1685 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
1686 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
1687 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
1690 * Roku HD1000 Video output
1691 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
1692 with support for effects.
1693 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
1694 - New filters can be streamed.
1695 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1696 - Centralized scaling and blending
1698 - "time", to display current time
1699 - "marq", to display a marquee
1702 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1703 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1704 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1705 * A few skins2 improvements
1706 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1707 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1708 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1709 * Improved CORBA control module
1712 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1713 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1714 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1717 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1718 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1719 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1722 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1723 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1724 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1725 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1726 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1729 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1732 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1733 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1736 * Server/client network synchronization module
1737 * VBrick streams fully supported
1738 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1742 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1743 --------------------------------
1746 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1747 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1748 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1749 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1752 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1753 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1754 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1755 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1756 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1757 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1758 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1761 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1762 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1763 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1764 * Improved directory access module.
1765 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1766 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1767 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1768 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1769 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1772 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1773 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1774 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1777 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1778 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1779 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1782 * Improved session announcement system.
1783 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1784 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1785 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1786 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1787 * Improved transrater.
1788 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1789 * New configuration system.
1790 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1793 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1794 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1795 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1796 * Supports scheduling.
1797 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1798 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1801 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1802 - Ability to embed video output.
1803 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1804 - Lots of improvements.
1805 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1806 - New design and set of icons.
1807 - Ability to embed video output.
1808 - Support for hotkeys.
1809 - Support for bookmarks.
1811 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1812 - Better hotkeys handling.
1815 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1816 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1817 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1818 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1821 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1822 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1823 * Improved Windows installer.
1829 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1830 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1833 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1834 ---------------------------------
1837 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1838 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1841 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1842 --------------------------------
1845 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1846 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1849 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1850 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1851 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1852 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1855 * Internal improvments
1856 * Improved import/export
1859 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1861 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1862 small and strange formats.
1864 * New MOD audio demux.
1865 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1866 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1867 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1868 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1871 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1872 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1873 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1879 * New opengl video output plugin.
1882 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1883 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1886 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1887 --------------------------------
1890 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1891 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1892 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1893 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1894 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1895 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1896 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1897 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1900 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1905 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1906 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1907 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1908 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1909 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1910 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1911 * Better Icecast support.
1912 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1913 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1916 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1917 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1918 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1919 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1920 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1921 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1922 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1925 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1926 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1927 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1928 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1929 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1930 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1931 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1932 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1933 * Preliminary RTP support.
1934 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1939 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1940 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1942 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1943 - Improvements and help in preferences
1944 - New streaming wizard
1945 - Revised Disc Open menu
1947 - Improvements of the standard pages
1948 - Support for new commands
1949 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1952 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1953 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1956 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1957 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1958 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1959 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1960 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1961 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1962 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1963 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1964 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1967 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1969 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1970 * Support for Panther.
1971 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1972 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1975 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1976 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1977 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1978 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1979 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1980 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1981 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1982 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1985 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1986 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1987 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1990 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1993 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1994 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1995 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1996 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1999 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2000 --------------------------------
2003 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2006 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2007 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2010 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2011 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2014 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2017 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2018 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2021 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2024 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2027 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2028 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2032 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2033 --------------------------------
2036 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2037 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2041 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2042 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2043 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2045 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2046 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2049 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2052 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2055 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2056 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2060 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2061 --------------------------------
2064 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2065 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2069 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2070 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2071 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2072 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2073 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2076 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2077 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2078 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2081 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2082 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2083 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2086 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2087 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2088 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2089 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2090 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2093 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2094 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2095 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2098 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2101 * Improved build system.
2102 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2103 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2104 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2105 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2108 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2109 --------------------------------
2112 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2115 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2116 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2117 * Video 4 Linux support
2118 * CD Digital Audio support
2119 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2122 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2123 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2124 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2125 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2128 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2129 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2130 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2131 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2132 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2133 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2134 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2137 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2138 * New HTTP remote control interface
2141 * 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.
2142 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2143 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2144 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2147 * New reset option for the preferences
2148 * You can set your language in the prefences
2149 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2150 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2151 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2152 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2155 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2156 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2157 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2160 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2161 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2162 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2163 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2164 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2165 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2166 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2167 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2168 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2169 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2172 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2173 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2174 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2175 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2176 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2177 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2178 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2181 * Interface localization
2182 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2183 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2184 * New full-featured Preferences window
2187 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2188 --------------------------------
2191 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2192 * support for skins at the interface level
2193 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2194 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2195 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2196 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2197 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2200 * fixed HTTP redirects
2201 * support for opening an entire directory
2202 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2203 * new video4linux access plug-in
2204 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2207 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2208 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2209 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2212 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2213 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2214 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2215 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2216 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2217 * new codec for raw I420 video
2218 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2221 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2222 (although it still misses some important features)
2223 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2226 * new HTTP output support
2227 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2228 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2231 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2234 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2237 * reorderable playlist
2238 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2239 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2240 * support for mono audio output devices
2241 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2242 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2243 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2244 * the messages window remembers more lines
2245 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2246 * http and ogg stream output options
2247 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2250 * new skinnable interface
2251 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2253 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2254 * support for FLAC audio format
2255 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2257 * network tab in the interface
2258 * "apply" handling in preferences
2261 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2262 ---------------------------------
2265 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2266 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2267 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2268 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2270 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2271 * DTS S/PDIF support
2274 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2275 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2276 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2277 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2280 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2281 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2284 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2287 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2290 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2292 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2293 * rc interface is now fully useable
2294 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2297 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2298 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2299 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2300 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2301 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2303 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2304 * support for mouse gestures
2305 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2308 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2309 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2312 * improved ID3 tag detection
2313 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2314 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2315 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2317 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2320 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2321 ---------------------------------
2324 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2325 English was set as the preferred language
2328 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2329 --------------------------------
2332 * new mouse gesture interface
2333 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2337 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2338 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2339 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2342 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2343 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2347 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2350 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2351 without the user consent
2354 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2356 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2357 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2358 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2361 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2362 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2363 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2364 * playlist enhancements
2365 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2366 * new step forward/step backward commands
2367 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2368 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2369 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2372 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2373 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2374 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2377 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2378 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2381 * native video output is working again
2382 * only commandline interface support
2383 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2386 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2387 --------------------------------
2390 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2391 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2392 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2393 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2394 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2395 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2396 and A/52 streams are supported)
2397 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2402 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2403 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2404 * VCD entry points support
2405 * VCD image file support
2408 * support for *.asf format
2409 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2410 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2411 * support for ogg encapsulation
2412 * support for raw DV format
2413 * support for *.wav format
2414 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2417 Stream discovery & playlists:
2418 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2419 * support for .m3u file format
2420 * support for .asx file format
2421 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2424 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
2425 (only available with the .avi demux)
2426 * support for ADPCM audio codec
2427 * support for raw PCM data
2428 * support for Cinepak video codec
2429 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
2430 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
2431 * support for Xvid codec
2432 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
2433 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
2434 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
2436 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
2438 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
2441 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
2444 * new WxWindows interface
2445 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
2446 device and the channels configuration
2447 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
2448 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
2449 format that VLC can play
2450 * new swedish translation
2451 * enhancements of the playlist window
2452 * new messages window to see debug info
2453 * fixed a few crashes
2456 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
2457 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
2458 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
2459 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working