1 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.1.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
3 Important changes for users:
5 Important changes for packagers:
6 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
7 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
8 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
9 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
10 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
14 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
15 * Support for the sftp protocol
16 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
17 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
18 * New memory input (imem) module to feed VLC from data in memory
19 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams
22 * HD dvb subtitles - Display Definition Segment support
23 * PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
24 * Invmem module improvements
25 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
26 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities
27 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles .SRT and .SSA
28 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
29 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
30 * Audio/Video decoder using OpenMAX IL components
31 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
32 * Support for Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec natively on all platforms
33 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
34 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
37 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
38 * EXPERIMENTAL support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM)
39 (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
40 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
41 * Various EGP improvements
42 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
45 * WPL playlist support
46 * ZPL playlist support
47 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
48 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
49 * Podcast images are now displayed
52 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
53 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
54 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
55 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
56 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
57 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
58 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
59 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
60 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
61 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
62 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
65 * new content extensions lua framework
69 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
70 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
71 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
72 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
73 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
74 * NEON assembly audio converter module
75 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
78 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
81 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
82 * Service discovery based on libudev
85 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
86 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
87 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
88 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
89 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
90 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
93 * New smem module, streaming to memory
94 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
95 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
98 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
100 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
103 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
104 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
105 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
106 by Andy Matuschak et al.
107 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
108 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
111 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
112 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
115 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
116 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
117 * Improvements to the maemo interface
121 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
122 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
125 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
128 * csri codec. Use the libass module instead.
129 * galaktos. Use the new projectM module instead.
130 * showintf. Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
132 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx. Use the new XCB modules instead.
133 * HAL. Use libudev instead.
134 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
135 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
136 * opie, qte and qte_main
137 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed. Use the ugly one.
138 * XvMC accelerated modules. Use VAAPI instead.
139 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux. Use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
140 * opengllayer. Use macosx_video instead.
141 * cddax. Use cdda instead.
142 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
143 * realaudio codecs are removed in favor of libavcodec
144 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
147 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
148 --------------------------------
151 * SubRip extra styles improvements
152 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
155 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
158 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
159 increase performance and fix x264 issues
162 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
163 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
164 Russian, Slovak translation updates
165 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
168 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
169 --------------------------------
172 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
173 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
176 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
177 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
180 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
181 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
184 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
187 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
188 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
191 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
192 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
195 * New Walloon translation
196 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
199 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
200 --------------------------------
203 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
204 regressions in most popular drivers
205 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
208 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
209 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
210 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
213 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
214 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
217 * Update for appletrailers lua script
218 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
219 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
220 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
221 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
224 * New udev module for linux
227 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
230 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
233 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
234 --------------------------------
237 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
238 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
239 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
242 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
243 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
246 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
247 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
250 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
253 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
254 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
255 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
256 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
259 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
260 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
261 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
262 - no support for Goom and SDL
263 - limited text rendering support
264 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
267 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
268 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
269 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
270 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
271 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
272 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
273 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
274 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
275 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
279 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
282 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
285 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
286 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
287 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
288 Arabic and French translation updates
291 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
292 --------------------------------
295 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
296 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
297 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
298 * Fix Dailymotion access script
299 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
300 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
303 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
304 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
307 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
308 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
309 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
312 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
315 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
316 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
319 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
320 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
321 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
322 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
323 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
324 * Fix various crashes
327 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
329 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
332 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
333 ---------------------------------
337 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
338 See 'Access:' for more info.
339 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
342 * Instantaneous pausing
343 * Frame-by-Frame playback
344 * Finer speed control
345 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
346 * Timeshift for most medias
347 * RTSP trickplay support
348 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
351 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
352 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
353 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
354 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
355 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
356 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
357 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
358 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
359 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
360 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
363 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
364 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
365 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
366 * Metadata for mod files are supported
367 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
368 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
369 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
372 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
373 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
376 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
377 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
378 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
379 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
380 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
381 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
382 * DVB scanning on linux
383 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
384 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
385 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
386 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
387 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
388 * MTP device access on Unix
389 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
390 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
393 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
394 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
395 Windows and Mac OS X.
398 * Export the playlist in HTML
399 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
400 * Better metadata handling and reading
402 Linux/Windows interface:
403 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
404 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
405 * Recently played items list
406 * Interface toolbar customizations
407 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
410 - Improvements on many dialogs
411 - New dialog for plugins listing
412 - Fixed-size mode for videos
413 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
414 * Better integration in GTK environments
417 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
418 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
419 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
420 * Additional usability improvements
423 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
424 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
425 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
426 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
427 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
430 * New Maemo port with:
431 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
432 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
435 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
438 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
439 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
440 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
441 * Support for latest iSight models
444 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
445 * Surround support for PulseAudio
448 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
449 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
450 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
451 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
452 The old image video output has been removed.
453 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
454 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
457 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
465 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
466 --------------------------------------
472 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
473 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
474 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
475 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
476 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
477 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
478 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
480 Various fixes to the following modules:
483 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
484 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
487 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
492 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
493 ---------------------------------
496 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
497 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
500 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
501 ---------------------------------
504 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
507 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
510 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
511 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
512 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
513 main controller window.
514 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
517 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
522 * Updates of other localizations
525 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
526 * Lots of small bugfixes.
527 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
528 * Telnet fixes on Windows
529 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
532 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
533 ---------------------------------
536 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
538 Bunch of small bugfixes.
541 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
542 --------------------------------
547 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
548 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
551 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
552 --------------------------------
554 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
555 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
558 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
561 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
562 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
565 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
566 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
569 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
570 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
571 * Various fixed in playlist
574 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
577 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
580 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
581 ------------------------------------
583 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
584 * Fixes several memory leaks.
587 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
588 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
589 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
592 * Stability fix for the video output.
595 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
596 --------------------------------
599 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
600 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
601 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
602 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
603 * Fixed update system bugs
604 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
607 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
608 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
609 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
610 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
611 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
612 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
613 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
614 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
615 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
616 modern Mac OS X versions
619 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
620 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
622 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
623 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
626 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
627 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
628 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
629 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
630 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
631 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
634 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
635 --------------------------------
637 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
638 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
642 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
643 --------------------------------
645 * Multiple bug fixes.
648 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
649 ---------------------------------
653 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
654 recent to work correctly
655 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
656 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
657 edit the ".hosts" file.
658 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
659 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
660 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
661 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
662 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
663 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
664 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
665 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
666 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
667 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
668 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
669 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
670 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
671 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
672 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
673 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
674 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
675 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
676 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
677 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
678 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
679 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
680 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
681 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
682 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
683 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
684 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
685 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
686 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
687 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
688 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
689 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
690 and postproc modules.
691 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
692 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
693 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
694 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
696 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
698 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
699 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
701 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
702 * Glide video output module has been removed.
708 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
710 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
711 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
714 * Vastly improved playlist support:
715 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
717 * Shoutcast TV listings
718 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
720 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
721 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
723 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
726 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
727 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
728 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
729 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
730 * JACK audio input support
731 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
732 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
733 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
734 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
735 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
736 * Experimental EyeTV access module
737 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
738 (available as a separate download).
739 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
741 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
742 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
743 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
745 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
746 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
749 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
750 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
751 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
752 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
754 * APEv1/2 tags support
755 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
756 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
758 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
759 * TiVo Series 2 support
760 * CD+G karaoke Files support
765 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
766 * Flash Screen Video support
767 * CamStudio Screen Video support
768 * DosBox Capture support
769 * Karl Morton's Video support
770 * limited atrac3 support
772 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
773 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
774 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
776 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
777 * NellyMoser ASAO support
778 * APE (Monkey audio) support
779 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
780 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
783 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
784 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
785 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
786 * AQTitle subtitles support
787 * MKV USF subtitles support
788 * HTML-based subtitles support
789 * MPSub subtitles support
790 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
791 * MPL2 subtitles support
792 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
793 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
794 * Realtext subtitle support
795 * DKS subtitle support
796 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
797 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
800 * Flash Screen Video support
801 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
803 Video outputs and filters:
804 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
805 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
806 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
807 * New puzzle video output filter
808 * Re-written motion detection video filter
809 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
811 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
812 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
813 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
814 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
815 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
816 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
817 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
818 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
819 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
820 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
821 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
822 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
823 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
824 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
826 Audio outputs and filters:
827 * Replay gain support
828 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
829 new scaletempo audio filter)
830 * New spatializer audio filter
831 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
834 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
835 * New RTP payload formats:
836 * Speex voice audio codec
837 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
838 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
839 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
840 * DCCP transport for RTP
841 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
846 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
847 end-user suitable way.
848 * Improved user interaction
849 * Improved mouse gestures
850 * Vastly improved Update checker
851 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
853 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
854 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
856 * Improved video output features
857 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
858 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
859 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
860 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
861 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
863 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
864 if libncursesw is available.
865 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
866 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
867 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
869 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
870 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
871 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
872 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
873 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
874 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
875 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
876 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
879 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
880 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
881 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
884 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
885 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
886 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
887 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
888 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
889 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
892 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
893 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
903 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
904 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
905 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
908 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
909 ----------------------------------
912 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
915 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
916 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
917 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
918 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
919 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
920 * Updated Polish translation
923 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
924 ----------------------------------
927 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
928 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
929 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
932 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
933 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
934 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
935 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
936 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
937 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
938 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
939 to an unexpected application termination
940 * New Serbian translation
941 * Updated Romanian translation
944 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
945 ----------------------------------
948 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
949 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
950 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
951 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
952 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
953 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
954 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
955 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
958 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
959 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
960 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
961 * Fixed AAC resampling
962 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
963 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
966 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
967 ----------------------------------
970 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
971 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
972 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
973 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
974 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
977 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
978 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
979 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
980 * Close MMS access on network timeout
981 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
984 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
985 ----------------------------------
988 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
989 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
992 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
993 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
994 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
995 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
997 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1001 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1004 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1007 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1010 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1013 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1014 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1015 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1016 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1017 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1019 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1020 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1021 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1022 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1025 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1028 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1029 ----------------------------------
1032 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1033 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1034 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1036 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1037 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1039 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1040 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1043 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1045 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1046 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1047 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1048 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1049 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1050 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1051 two different movies
1052 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1053 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1054 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1057 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1060 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1061 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1062 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1063 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1066 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1067 ----------------------------------
1069 Various bugfixes, notably:
1070 * Windows Vista compatibility
1071 * Cropping in Direct3D
1072 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1073 * RSS filter string overflow
1075 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1077 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1078 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1081 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1082 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1085 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1088 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1091 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1094 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1095 ----------------------------------
1097 Various bugfixes, notably:
1098 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1099 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1100 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1101 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1102 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1103 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1106 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1107 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1110 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1112 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1113 * Diverse usability improvements
1114 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1115 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1116 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1119 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1120 ---------------------------------
1122 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1123 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1126 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1129 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1130 --------------------------------
1133 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1136 * Support for RTSP authentication
1137 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1138 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1139 * ATSC support for DVB input
1140 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1141 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1142 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1145 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1146 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1147 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1148 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1149 * Matroska WavPack support
1150 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1151 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1152 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1155 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1156 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1157 * Improved libcaca support
1161 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1162 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1164 * Systray support in skins
1166 * Support for Apple Remote control
1167 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1168 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1169 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1170 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1172 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1175 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1176 Windows 9x/ME users:
1177 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1178 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1179 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1180 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1181 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1183 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1184 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1193 * Updates to the libvlc API
1194 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1197 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1198 --------------------------------
1201 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1202 * Support for downloading updates
1206 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1207 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1208 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1209 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1211 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1212 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1213 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1216 * Cook (Real audio) support
1218 Playlist / Services discovery:
1219 * XSPF playlist support
1221 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1224 * New JACK audio output
1227 * New video filters:
1228 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1229 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1230 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1231 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1232 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1233 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1236 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1239 * System to inform the user and request information
1240 - HTTP authentication
1244 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1245 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1246 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1249 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1250 - Improved playlist handling
1251 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1253 - Embedded Video output
1254 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1255 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1256 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1257 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1258 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1260 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1261 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1264 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1267 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1268 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1269 * Growl "Now playing" support
1272 * Ability to log to syslog
1273 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1276 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1278 * A bit more automatic testing
1281 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1282 ---------------------------------
1285 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1286 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1289 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1290 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1293 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1296 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1297 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1303 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1306 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1307 --------------------------------
1310 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1314 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1315 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1316 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1319 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1320 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1321 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1322 * GnomeVFS input module
1323 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1324 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1327 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1328 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1329 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1332 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1333 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1339 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1340 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1343 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1344 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1345 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1348 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1350 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1351 - New extended controls panel
1352 - New bookmarks window
1353 - Fixed playlist sorting
1354 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1356 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1357 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1358 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1359 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
1363 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
1364 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
1366 - Include macro to include other files
1370 * Should now work outside IE as well
1373 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
1376 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
1377 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
1380 The following languages were added:
1384 * Simplified Chinese
1385 The following languages were re-added:
1389 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
1390 --------------------------------
1393 * Rewrite of the playlist
1395 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
1396 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
1397 * Preferences improvements:
1398 - New organization, designed to improve usability
1399 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
1401 * Core image manipulation support
1402 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
1403 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
1404 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
1405 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
1406 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
1407 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
1408 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
1409 now separated by ':' instead of ','
1410 * Access filter architecture
1411 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
1412 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
1416 * Support for SOCKS proxy
1417 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
1418 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
1419 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
1420 * Better support for Kasenna streams
1421 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
1422 * Massive Matroska improvements
1423 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
1425 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
1426 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
1427 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
1428 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
1429 * Support for FTP over IPv6
1431 Decoders / Encoders:
1432 * Dirac decoder and encoder
1433 * PNG decoder/encoder
1434 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
1435 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
1438 * New Record and Timeshift filters
1441 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
1442 * Brand new SAP module
1443 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
1444 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
1445 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
1446 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1447 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1448 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1452 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1455 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1456 * Image file video output (png)
1457 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1458 * Improvements to wall video filter
1459 * Support for font color and opacity
1465 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1466 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1467 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1471 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1472 - Improved preferences
1473 - Improvements to the wizard
1474 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1476 - Redesigned playlist
1477 - Improved preferences
1479 - Support for multiple actions
1482 - Support for the new playlist system
1484 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1487 * Screensaver disabling fix
1488 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1489 * Support for no-decoration windows
1492 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1493 * The OpenGL video output is back
1494 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1495 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1496 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1497 is not yet available in the new module
1498 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1501 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1510 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1513 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1516 The following languages were added:
1522 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1523 --------------------------------
1526 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1527 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1530 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1531 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1532 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1535 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1538 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1541 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1544 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1545 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1546 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1550 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1552 * Support of playlist group announcement
1555 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1556 --------------------------------
1559 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1560 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1561 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1562 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
1563 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
1564 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
1567 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
1568 (Stream your desktop)
1569 * Improved DVD support:
1570 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
1571 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
1572 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
1573 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
1574 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
1575 (selection of titles/chapters).
1578 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
1579 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
1580 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
1581 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
1582 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
1583 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1584 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
1585 * Improved Ogg demuxer
1586 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
1587 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
1590 * G.726 audio support
1591 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
1592 * MPEG-4 text support
1593 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
1594 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
1595 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
1599 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
1600 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
1601 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
1602 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
1603 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
1604 * DVB subtitles encoder
1605 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
1606 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
1608 * Text track muxing for mp4
1609 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
1610 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
1611 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1612 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
1613 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
1614 * Improved ASF muxer
1616 * H.263 RTP streaming support
1617 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
1618 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
1621 * New audio equalizer filter
1622 * Very trivial volume normalizer
1623 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
1624 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
1625 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
1628 * Roku HD1000 Video output
1629 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
1630 with support for effects.
1631 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
1632 - New filters can be streamed.
1633 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1634 - Centralized scaling and blending
1636 - "time", to display current time
1637 - "marq", to display a marquee
1640 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1641 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1642 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1643 * A few skins2 improvements
1644 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1645 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1646 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1647 * Improved CORBA control module
1650 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1651 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1652 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1655 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1656 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1657 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1660 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1661 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1662 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1663 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1664 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1667 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1670 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1671 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1674 * Server/client network synchronization module
1675 * VBrick streams fully supported
1676 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1680 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1681 --------------------------------
1684 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1685 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1686 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1687 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1690 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1691 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1692 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1693 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1694 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1695 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1696 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1699 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1700 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1701 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1702 * Improved directory access module.
1703 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1704 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1705 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1706 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1707 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1710 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1711 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1712 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1715 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1716 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1717 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1720 * Improved session announcement system.
1721 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1722 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1723 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1724 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1725 * Improved transrater.
1726 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1727 * New configuration system.
1728 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1731 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1732 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1733 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1734 * Supports scheduling.
1735 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1736 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1739 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1740 - Ability to embed video output.
1741 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1742 - Lots of improvements.
1743 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1744 - New design and set of icons.
1745 - Ability to embed video output.
1746 - Support for hotkeys.
1747 - Support for bookmarks.
1749 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1750 - Better hotkeys handling.
1753 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1754 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1755 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1756 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1759 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1760 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1761 * Improved Windows installer.
1767 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1768 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1771 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1772 ---------------------------------
1775 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1776 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1779 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1780 --------------------------------
1783 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1784 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1787 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1788 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1789 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1790 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1793 * Internal improvments
1794 * Improved import/export
1797 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1799 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1800 small and strange formats.
1802 * New MOD audio demux.
1803 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1804 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1805 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1806 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1809 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1810 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1811 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1817 * New opengl video output plugin.
1820 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1821 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1824 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1825 --------------------------------
1828 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1829 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1830 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1831 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1832 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1833 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1834 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1835 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1838 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1843 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1844 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1845 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1846 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1847 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1848 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1849 * Better Icecast support.
1850 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1851 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1854 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1855 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1856 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1857 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1858 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1859 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1860 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1863 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1864 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1865 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1866 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1867 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1868 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1869 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1870 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1871 * Preliminary RTP support.
1872 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1877 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1878 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1880 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1881 - Improvements and help in preferences
1882 - New streaming wizard
1883 - Revised Disc Open menu
1885 - Improvements of the standard pages
1886 - Support for new commands
1887 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1890 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1891 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1894 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1895 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1896 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1897 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1898 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1899 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1900 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1901 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1902 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1905 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1907 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1908 * Support for Panther.
1909 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1910 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1913 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1914 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1915 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1916 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1917 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1918 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1919 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1920 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1923 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1924 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1925 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1928 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1931 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1932 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1933 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1934 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1937 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1938 --------------------------------
1941 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1944 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1945 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1948 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1949 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1952 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1955 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1956 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1959 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1962 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1965 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1966 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1970 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1971 --------------------------------
1974 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1975 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1979 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1980 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1981 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1983 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1984 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1987 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1990 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1993 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1994 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1998 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1999 --------------------------------
2002 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2003 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2007 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2008 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2009 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2010 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2011 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2014 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2015 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2016 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2019 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2020 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2021 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2024 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2025 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2026 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2027 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2028 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2031 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2032 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2033 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2036 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2039 * Improved build system.
2040 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2041 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2042 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2043 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2046 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2047 --------------------------------
2050 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2053 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2054 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2055 * Video 4 Linux support
2056 * CD Digital Audio support
2057 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2060 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2061 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2062 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2063 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2066 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2067 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2068 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2069 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2070 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2071 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2072 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2075 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2076 * New HTTP remote control interface
2079 * 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.
2080 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2081 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2082 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2085 * New reset option for the preferences
2086 * You can set your language in the prefences
2087 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2088 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2089 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2090 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2093 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2094 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2095 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2098 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2099 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2100 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2101 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2102 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2103 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2104 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2105 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2106 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2107 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2110 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2111 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2112 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2113 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2114 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2115 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2116 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2119 * Interface localization
2120 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2121 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2122 * New full-featured Preferences window
2125 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2126 --------------------------------
2129 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2130 * support for skins at the interface level
2131 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2132 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2133 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2134 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2135 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2138 * fixed HTTP redirects
2139 * support for opening an entire directory
2140 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2141 * new video4linux access plug-in
2142 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2145 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2146 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2147 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2150 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2151 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2152 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2153 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2154 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2155 * new codec for raw I420 video
2156 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2159 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2160 (although it still misses some important features)
2161 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2164 * new HTTP output support
2165 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2166 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2169 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2172 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2175 * reorderable playlist
2176 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2177 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2178 * support for mono audio output devices
2179 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2180 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2181 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2182 * the messages window remembers more lines
2183 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2184 * http and ogg stream output options
2185 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2188 * new skinnable interface
2189 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2191 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2192 * support for FLAC audio format
2193 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2195 * network tab in the interface
2196 * "apply" handling in preferences
2199 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2200 ---------------------------------
2203 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2204 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2205 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2206 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2208 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2209 * DTS S/PDIF support
2212 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2213 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2214 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2215 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2218 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2219 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2222 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2225 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2228 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2230 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2231 * rc interface is now fully useable
2232 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2235 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2236 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2237 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2238 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2239 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2241 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2242 * support for mouse gestures
2243 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2246 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2247 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2250 * improved ID3 tag detection
2251 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2252 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2253 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2255 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2258 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2259 ---------------------------------
2262 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2263 English was set as the preferred language
2266 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2267 --------------------------------
2270 * new mouse gesture interface
2271 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2275 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2276 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2277 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2280 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2281 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2285 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2288 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2289 without the user consent
2292 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2294 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2295 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2296 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2299 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2300 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2301 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2302 * playlist enhancements
2303 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2304 * new step forward/step backward commands
2305 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2306 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2307 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2310 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2311 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2312 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2315 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2316 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2319 * native video output is working again
2320 * only commandline interface support
2321 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2324 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2325 --------------------------------
2328 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2329 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2330 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2331 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2332 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2333 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2334 and A/52 streams are supported)
2335 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2340 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2341 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2342 * VCD entry points support
2343 * VCD image file support
2346 * support for *.asf format
2347 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2348 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2349 * support for ogg encapsulation
2350 * support for raw DV format
2351 * support for *.wav format
2352 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2355 Stream discovery & playlists:
2356 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2357 * support for .m3u file format
2358 * support for .asx file format
2359 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2362 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
2363 (only available with the .avi demux)
2364 * support for ADPCM audio codec
2365 * support for raw PCM data
2366 * support for Cinepak video codec
2367 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
2368 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
2369 * support for Xvid codec
2370 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
2371 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
2372 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
2374 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
2376 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
2379 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
2382 * new WxWindows interface
2383 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
2384 device and the channels configuration
2385 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
2386 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
2387 format that VLC can play
2388 * new swedish translation
2389 * enhancements of the playlist window
2390 * new messages window to see debug info
2391 * fixed a few crashes
2394 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
2395 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
2396 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
2397 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working