1 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
2 --------------------------------
5 * Support for the new capabilities: libvlc_adjust_Enable, libvlc_adjust_Contrast,
6 libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue, libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
7 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were called early
8 * Support for setting the user-agent: libvlc_set_user_agent
11 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
14 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
15 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
16 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
17 * Fixes for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
18 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
24 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
25 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
26 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
29 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
30 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
33 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
34 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
35 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
38 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer, Brazilian Portuguese,
41 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
42 --------------------------------
44 Important changes for users:
45 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
46 Update to alsa-lib v1.0.23-2-g8d80d5f or later, or use the libpulse audio
47 output plugin instead of the ALSA one (if you have PulseAudio).
49 Important changes for packagers:
50 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
51 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
52 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
53 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
54 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
56 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
58 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
59 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
60 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
61 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
62 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
66 * Support for the sftp protocol
67 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
68 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
69 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
70 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
71 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
74 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
75 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
76 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
78 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
79 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
80 * Invmem module improvements
81 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
82 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
83 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
84 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
85 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
86 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
87 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
88 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
89 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
90 * Support for VP8 codec
91 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
94 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
95 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
96 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
97 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
98 * Various EGP improvements
99 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
100 * Metadata and cover art improvements
103 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
104 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
105 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
106 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
107 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
108 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
109 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
110 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
111 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
112 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
113 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
116 * New content extensions framework for lua
119 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
120 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
121 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
122 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
123 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
124 * NEON assembly audio converter module
125 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
128 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
129 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
130 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
131 * Podcast images are now displayed
134 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
135 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
136 * Service discovery based on libudev
137 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
140 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
141 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
142 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
143 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
144 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
145 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
146 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
149 * New smem module, streaming to memory
150 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
151 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
154 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
156 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
157 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
160 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
163 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
164 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
165 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
166 by Andy Matuschak et al.
167 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
168 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
169 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
172 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
173 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
176 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
177 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
178 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
182 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
183 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
184 * Improved Solaris port
187 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
188 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
191 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
192 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
193 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
194 * transrate: broken since too long
195 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
196 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
197 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
198 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
199 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
200 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
201 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
202 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
203 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
204 * cddax: use cdda instead.
205 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
206 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
207 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
208 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
211 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
212 --------------------------------
215 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
217 Decoders/Packetizers:
218 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
221 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
222 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
223 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
224 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
225 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
228 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
229 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
232 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
233 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
236 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
237 and Walloon translations updated
238 * Sinhala translation started
241 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
242 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
245 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
246 --------------------------------
249 * SubRip extra styles improvements
250 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
253 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
256 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
257 increase performance and fix x264 issues
260 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
261 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
262 Russian, Slovak translation updates
263 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
266 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
267 --------------------------------
270 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
271 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
274 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
275 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
278 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
279 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
282 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
285 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
286 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
289 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
290 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
293 * New Walloon translation
294 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
297 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
298 --------------------------------
301 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
302 regressions in most popular drivers
303 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
306 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
307 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
308 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
311 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
312 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
315 * Update for appletrailers lua script
316 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
317 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
318 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
319 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
322 * New udev module for linux
325 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
328 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
331 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
332 --------------------------------
335 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
336 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
337 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
340 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
341 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
344 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
345 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
348 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
351 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
352 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
353 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
354 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
357 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
358 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
359 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
360 - no support for Goom and SDL
361 - limited text rendering support
362 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
365 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
366 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
367 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
368 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
369 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
370 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
371 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
372 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
373 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
377 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
380 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
383 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
384 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
385 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
386 Arabic and French translation updates
389 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
390 --------------------------------
393 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
394 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
395 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
396 * Fix Dailymotion access script
397 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
398 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
401 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
402 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
405 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
406 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
407 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
410 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
413 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
414 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
417 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
418 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
419 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
420 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
421 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
422 * Fix various crashes
425 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
427 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
430 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
431 ---------------------------------
435 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
436 See 'Access:' for more info.
437 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
440 * Instantaneous pausing
441 * Frame-by-Frame playback
442 * Finer speed control
443 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
444 * Timeshift for most medias
445 * RTSP trickplay support
446 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
449 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
450 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
451 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
452 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
453 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
454 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
455 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
456 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
457 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
458 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
461 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
462 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
463 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
464 * Metadata for mod files are supported
465 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
466 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
467 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
470 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
471 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
474 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
475 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
476 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
477 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
478 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
479 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
480 * DVB scanning on linux
481 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
482 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
483 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
484 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
485 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
486 * MTP device access on Unix
487 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
488 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
491 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
492 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
493 Windows and Mac OS X.
496 * Export the playlist in HTML
497 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
498 * Better metadata handling and reading
500 Linux/Windows interface:
501 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
502 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
503 * Recently played items list
504 * Interface toolbar customizations
505 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
508 - Improvements on many dialogs
509 - New dialog for plugins listing
510 - Fixed-size mode for videos
511 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
512 * Better integration in GTK environments
515 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
516 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
517 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
518 * Additional usability improvements
521 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
522 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
523 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
524 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
525 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
528 * New Maemo port with:
529 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
530 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
533 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
536 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
537 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
538 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
539 * Support for latest iSight models
542 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
543 * Surround support for PulseAudio
546 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
547 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
548 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
549 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
550 The old image video output has been removed.
551 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
552 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
555 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
563 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
564 --------------------------------------
570 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
571 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
572 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
573 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
574 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
575 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
576 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
578 Various fixes to the following modules:
581 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
582 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
585 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
590 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
591 ---------------------------------
594 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
595 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
598 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
599 ---------------------------------
602 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
605 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
608 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
609 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
610 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
611 main controller window.
612 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
615 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
620 * Updates of other localizations
623 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
624 * Lots of small bugfixes.
625 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
626 * Telnet fixes on Windows
627 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
630 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
631 ---------------------------------
634 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
636 Bunch of small bugfixes.
639 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
640 --------------------------------
645 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
646 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
649 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
650 --------------------------------
652 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
653 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
656 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
659 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
660 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
663 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
664 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
667 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
668 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
669 * Various fixed in playlist
672 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
675 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
678 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
679 ------------------------------------
681 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
682 * Fixes several memory leaks.
685 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
686 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
687 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
690 * Stability fix for the video output.
693 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
694 --------------------------------
697 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
698 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
699 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
700 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
701 * Fixed update system bugs
702 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
705 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
706 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
707 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
708 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
709 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
710 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
711 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
712 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
713 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
714 modern Mac OS X versions
717 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
718 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
720 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
721 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
724 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
725 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
726 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
727 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
728 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
729 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
732 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
733 --------------------------------
735 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
736 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
740 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
741 --------------------------------
743 * Multiple bug fixes.
746 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
747 ---------------------------------
751 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
752 recent to work correctly
753 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
754 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
755 edit the ".hosts" file.
756 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
757 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
758 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
759 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
760 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
761 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
762 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
763 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
764 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
765 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
766 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
767 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
768 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
769 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
770 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
771 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
772 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
773 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
774 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
775 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
776 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
777 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
778 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
779 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
780 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
781 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
782 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
783 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
784 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
785 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
786 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
787 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
788 and postproc modules.
789 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
790 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
791 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
792 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
794 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
796 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
797 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
799 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
800 * Glide video output module has been removed.
806 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
808 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
809 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
812 * Vastly improved playlist support:
813 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
815 * Shoutcast TV listings
816 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
818 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
819 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
821 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
824 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
825 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
826 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
827 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
828 * JACK audio input support
829 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
830 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
831 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
832 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
833 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
834 * Experimental EyeTV access module
835 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
836 (available as a separate download).
837 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
839 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
840 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
841 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
843 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
844 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
847 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
848 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
849 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
850 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
852 * APEv1/2 tags support
853 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
854 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
856 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
857 * TiVo Series 2 support
858 * CD+G karaoke Files support
863 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
864 * Flash Screen Video support
865 * CamStudio Screen Video support
866 * DosBox Capture support
867 * Karl Morton's Video support
868 * limited atrac3 support
870 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
871 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
872 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
874 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
875 * NellyMoser ASAO support
876 * APE (Monkey audio) support
877 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
878 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
881 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
882 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
883 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
884 * AQTitle subtitles support
885 * MKV USF subtitles support
886 * HTML-based subtitles support
887 * MPSub subtitles support
888 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
889 * MPL2 subtitles support
890 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
891 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
892 * Realtext subtitle support
893 * DKS subtitle support
894 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
895 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
898 * Flash Screen Video support
899 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
901 Video outputs and filters:
902 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
903 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
904 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
905 * New puzzle video output filter
906 * Re-written motion detection video filter
907 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
909 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
910 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
911 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
912 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
913 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
914 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
915 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
916 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
917 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
918 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
919 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
920 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
921 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
922 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
924 Audio outputs and filters:
925 * Replay gain support
926 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
927 new scaletempo audio filter)
928 * New spatializer audio filter
929 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
932 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
933 * New RTP payload formats:
934 * Speex voice audio codec
935 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
936 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
937 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
938 * DCCP transport for RTP
939 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
944 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
945 end-user suitable way.
946 * Improved user interaction
947 * Improved mouse gestures
948 * Vastly improved Update checker
949 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
951 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
952 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
954 * Improved video output features
955 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
956 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
957 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
958 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
959 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
961 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
962 if libncursesw is available.
963 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
964 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
965 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
967 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
968 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
969 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
970 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
971 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
972 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
973 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
974 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
977 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
978 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
979 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
982 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
983 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
984 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
985 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
986 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
987 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
990 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
991 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1001 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1002 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1003 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1006 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1007 ----------------------------------
1010 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1013 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1014 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1015 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1016 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1017 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1018 * Updated Polish translation
1021 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1022 ----------------------------------
1025 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1026 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1027 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1030 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1031 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1032 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1033 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1034 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1035 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1036 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1037 to an unexpected application termination
1038 * New Serbian translation
1039 * Updated Romanian translation
1042 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1043 ----------------------------------
1046 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1047 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1048 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1049 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1050 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1051 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1052 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1053 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1056 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1057 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1058 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1059 * Fixed AAC resampling
1060 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1061 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1064 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1065 ----------------------------------
1068 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1069 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1070 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1071 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1072 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1075 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1076 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1077 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1078 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1079 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1082 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1083 ----------------------------------
1086 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1087 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1090 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1091 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1092 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1093 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1095 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1099 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1102 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1105 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1108 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1111 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1112 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1113 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1114 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1115 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1117 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1118 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1119 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1120 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1123 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1126 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1127 ----------------------------------
1130 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1131 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1132 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1134 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1135 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1137 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1138 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1141 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1143 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1144 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1145 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1146 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1147 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1148 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1149 two different movies
1150 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1151 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1152 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1155 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1158 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1159 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1160 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1161 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1164 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1165 ----------------------------------
1167 Various bugfixes, notably:
1168 * Windows Vista compatibility
1169 * Cropping in Direct3D
1170 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1171 * RSS filter string overflow
1173 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1175 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1176 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1179 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1180 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1183 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1186 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1189 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1192 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1193 ----------------------------------
1195 Various bugfixes, notably:
1196 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1197 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1198 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1199 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1200 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1201 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1204 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1205 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1208 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1210 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1211 * Diverse usability improvements
1212 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1213 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1214 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1217 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1218 ---------------------------------
1220 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1221 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1224 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1227 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1228 --------------------------------
1231 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1234 * Support for RTSP authentication
1235 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1236 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1237 * ATSC support for DVB input
1238 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1239 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1240 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1243 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1244 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1245 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1246 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1247 * Matroska WavPack support
1248 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1249 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1250 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1253 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1254 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1255 * Improved libcaca support
1259 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1260 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1262 * Systray support in skins
1264 * Support for Apple Remote control
1265 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1266 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1267 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1268 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1270 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1273 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1274 Windows 9x/ME users:
1275 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1276 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1277 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1278 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1279 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1281 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1282 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1291 * Updates to the libvlc API
1292 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1295 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1296 --------------------------------
1299 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1300 * Support for downloading updates
1304 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1305 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1306 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1307 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1309 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1310 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1311 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1314 * Cook (Real audio) support
1316 Playlist / Services discovery:
1317 * XSPF playlist support
1319 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1322 * New JACK audio output
1325 * New video filters:
1326 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1327 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1328 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1329 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1330 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1331 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1334 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1337 * System to inform the user and request information
1338 - HTTP authentication
1342 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1343 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1344 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1347 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1348 - Improved playlist handling
1349 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1351 - Embedded Video output
1352 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1353 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1354 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1355 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1356 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1358 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1359 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1362 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1365 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1366 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1367 * Growl "Now playing" support
1370 * Ability to log to syslog
1371 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1374 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1376 * A bit more automatic testing
1379 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1380 ---------------------------------
1383 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1384 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1387 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1388 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1391 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1394 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1395 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1401 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1404 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1405 --------------------------------
1408 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1412 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1413 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1414 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1417 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1418 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1419 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1420 * GnomeVFS input module
1421 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1422 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1425 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1426 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1427 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1430 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1431 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1437 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1438 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1441 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1442 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1443 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1446 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1448 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1449 - New extended controls panel
1450 - New bookmarks window
1451 - Fixed playlist sorting
1452 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1454 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1455 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1456 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1457 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
1461 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
1462 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
1464 - Include macro to include other files
1468 * Should now work outside IE as well
1471 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
1474 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
1475 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
1478 The following languages were added:
1482 * Simplified Chinese
1483 The following languages were re-added:
1487 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
1488 --------------------------------
1491 * Rewrite of the playlist
1493 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
1494 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
1495 * Preferences improvements:
1496 - New organization, designed to improve usability
1497 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
1499 * Core image manipulation support
1500 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
1501 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
1502 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
1503 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
1504 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
1505 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
1506 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
1507 now separated by ':' instead of ','
1508 * Access filter architecture
1509 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
1510 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
1514 * Support for SOCKS proxy
1515 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
1516 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
1517 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
1518 * Better support for Kasenna streams
1519 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
1520 * Massive Matroska improvements
1521 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
1523 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
1524 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
1525 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
1526 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
1527 * Support for FTP over IPv6
1529 Decoders / Encoders:
1530 * Dirac decoder and encoder
1531 * PNG decoder/encoder
1532 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
1533 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
1536 * New Record and Timeshift filters
1539 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
1540 * Brand new SAP module
1541 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
1542 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
1543 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
1544 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1545 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1546 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1550 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1553 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1554 * Image file video output (png)
1555 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1556 * Improvements to wall video filter
1557 * Support for font color and opacity
1563 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1564 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1565 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1569 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1570 - Improved preferences
1571 - Improvements to the wizard
1572 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1574 - Redesigned playlist
1575 - Improved preferences
1577 - Support for multiple actions
1580 - Support for the new playlist system
1582 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1585 * Screensaver disabling fix
1586 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1587 * Support for no-decoration windows
1590 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1591 * The OpenGL video output is back
1592 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1593 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1594 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1595 is not yet available in the new module
1596 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1599 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1608 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1611 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1614 The following languages were added:
1620 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1621 --------------------------------
1624 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1625 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1628 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1629 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1630 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1633 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1636 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1639 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1642 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1643 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1644 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1648 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1650 * Support of playlist group announcement
1653 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1654 --------------------------------
1657 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1658 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1659 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1660 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
1661 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
1662 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
1665 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
1666 (Stream your desktop)
1667 * Improved DVD support:
1668 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
1669 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
1670 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
1671 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
1672 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
1673 (selection of titles/chapters).
1676 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
1677 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
1678 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
1679 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
1680 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
1681 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1682 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
1683 * Improved Ogg demuxer
1684 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
1685 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
1688 * G.726 audio support
1689 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
1690 * MPEG-4 text support
1691 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
1692 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
1693 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
1697 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
1698 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
1699 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
1700 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
1701 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
1702 * DVB subtitles encoder
1703 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
1704 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
1706 * Text track muxing for mp4
1707 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
1708 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
1709 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1710 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
1711 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
1712 * Improved ASF muxer
1714 * H.263 RTP streaming support
1715 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
1716 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
1719 * New audio equalizer filter
1720 * Very trivial volume normalizer
1721 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
1722 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
1723 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
1726 * Roku HD1000 Video output
1727 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
1728 with support for effects.
1729 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
1730 - New filters can be streamed.
1731 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1732 - Centralized scaling and blending
1734 - "time", to display current time
1735 - "marq", to display a marquee
1738 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1739 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1740 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1741 * A few skins2 improvements
1742 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1743 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1744 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1745 * Improved CORBA control module
1748 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1749 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1750 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1753 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1754 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1755 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1758 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1759 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1760 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1761 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1762 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1765 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1768 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1769 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1772 * Server/client network synchronization module
1773 * VBrick streams fully supported
1774 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1778 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1779 --------------------------------
1782 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1783 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1784 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1785 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1788 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1789 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1790 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1791 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1792 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1793 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1794 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1797 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1798 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1799 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1800 * Improved directory access module.
1801 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1802 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1803 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1804 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1805 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1808 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1809 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1810 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1813 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1814 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1815 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1818 * Improved session announcement system.
1819 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1820 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1821 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1822 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1823 * Improved transrater.
1824 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1825 * New configuration system.
1826 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1829 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1830 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1831 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1832 * Supports scheduling.
1833 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1834 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1837 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1838 - Ability to embed video output.
1839 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1840 - Lots of improvements.
1841 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1842 - New design and set of icons.
1843 - Ability to embed video output.
1844 - Support for hotkeys.
1845 - Support for bookmarks.
1847 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1848 - Better hotkeys handling.
1851 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1852 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1853 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1854 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1857 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1858 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1859 * Improved Windows installer.
1865 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1866 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1869 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1870 ---------------------------------
1873 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1874 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1877 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1878 --------------------------------
1881 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1882 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1885 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1886 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1887 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1888 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1891 * Internal improvments
1892 * Improved import/export
1895 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1897 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1898 small and strange formats.
1900 * New MOD audio demux.
1901 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1902 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1903 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1904 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1907 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1908 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1909 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1915 * New opengl video output plugin.
1918 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1919 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1922 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1923 --------------------------------
1926 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1927 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1928 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1929 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1930 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1931 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1932 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1933 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1936 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1941 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1942 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1943 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1944 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1945 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1946 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1947 * Better Icecast support.
1948 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1949 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1952 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1953 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1954 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1955 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1956 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1957 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1958 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1961 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1962 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1963 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1964 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1965 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1966 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1967 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1968 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1969 * Preliminary RTP support.
1970 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1975 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1976 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1978 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1979 - Improvements and help in preferences
1980 - New streaming wizard
1981 - Revised Disc Open menu
1983 - Improvements of the standard pages
1984 - Support for new commands
1985 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1988 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1989 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1992 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1993 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1994 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1995 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1996 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1997 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1998 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1999 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2000 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2003 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2005 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2006 * Support for Panther.
2007 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2008 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2011 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2012 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2013 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2014 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2015 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2016 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2017 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2018 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2021 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2022 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2023 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2026 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2029 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2030 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2031 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2032 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2035 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2036 --------------------------------
2039 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2042 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2043 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2046 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2047 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2050 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2053 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2054 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2057 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2060 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2063 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2064 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2068 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2069 --------------------------------
2072 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2073 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2077 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2078 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2079 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2081 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2082 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2085 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2088 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2091 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2092 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2096 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2097 --------------------------------
2100 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2101 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2105 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2106 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2107 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2108 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2109 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2112 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2113 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2114 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2117 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2118 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2119 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2122 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2123 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2124 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2125 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2126 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2129 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2130 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2131 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2134 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2137 * Improved build system.
2138 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2139 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2140 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2141 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2144 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2145 --------------------------------
2148 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2151 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2152 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2153 * Video 4 Linux support
2154 * CD Digital Audio support
2155 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2158 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2159 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2160 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2161 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2164 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2165 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2166 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2167 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2168 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2169 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2170 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2173 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2174 * New HTTP remote control interface
2177 * 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.
2178 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2179 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2180 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2183 * New reset option for the preferences
2184 * You can set your language in the prefences
2185 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2186 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2187 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2188 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2191 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2192 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2193 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2196 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2197 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2198 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2199 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2200 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2201 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2202 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2203 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2204 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2205 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2208 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2209 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2210 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2211 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2212 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2213 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2214 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2217 * Interface localization
2218 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2219 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2220 * New full-featured Preferences window
2223 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2224 --------------------------------
2227 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2228 * support for skins at the interface level
2229 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2230 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2231 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2232 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2233 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2236 * fixed HTTP redirects
2237 * support for opening an entire directory
2238 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2239 * new video4linux access plug-in
2240 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2243 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2244 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2245 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2248 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2249 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2250 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2251 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2252 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2253 * new codec for raw I420 video
2254 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2257 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2258 (although it still misses some important features)
2259 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2262 * new HTTP output support
2263 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2264 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2267 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2270 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2273 * reorderable playlist
2274 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2275 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2276 * support for mono audio output devices
2277 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2278 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2279 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2280 * the messages window remembers more lines
2281 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2282 * http and ogg stream output options
2283 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2286 * new skinnable interface
2287 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2289 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2290 * support for FLAC audio format
2291 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2293 * network tab in the interface
2294 * "apply" handling in preferences
2297 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2298 ---------------------------------
2301 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2302 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2303 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2304 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2306 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2307 * DTS S/PDIF support
2310 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2311 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2312 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2313 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2316 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2317 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2320 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2323 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2326 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2328 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2329 * rc interface is now fully useable
2330 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2333 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2334 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2335 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2336 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2337 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2339 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2340 * support for mouse gestures
2341 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2344 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2345 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2348 * improved ID3 tag detection
2349 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2350 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2351 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2353 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2356 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2357 ---------------------------------
2360 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2361 English was set as the preferred language
2364 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2365 --------------------------------
2368 * new mouse gesture interface
2369 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2373 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2374 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2375 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2378 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2379 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2383 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2386 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2387 without the user consent
2390 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2392 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2393 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2394 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2397 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2398 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2399 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2400 * playlist enhancements
2401 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2402 * new step forward/step backward commands
2403 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2404 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2405 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2408 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2409 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2410 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2413 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2414 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2417 * native video output is working again
2418 * only commandline interface support
2419 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2422 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2423 --------------------------------
2426 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2427 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2428 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2429 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2430 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2431 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2432 and A/52 streams are supported)
2433 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2438 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2439 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2440 * VCD entry points support
2441 * VCD image file support
2444 * support for *.asf format
2445 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2446 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2447 * support for ogg encapsulation
2448 * support for raw DV format
2449 * support for *.wav format
2450 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2453 Stream discovery & playlists:
2454 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2455 * support for .m3u file format
2456 * support for .asx file format
2457 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2460 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
2461 (only available with the .avi demux)
2462 * support for ADPCM audio codec
2463 * support for raw PCM data
2464 * support for Cinepak video codec
2465 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
2466 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
2467 * support for Xvid codec
2468 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
2469 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
2470 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
2472 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
2474 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
2477 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
2480 * new WxWindows interface
2481 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
2482 device and the channels configuration
2483 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
2484 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
2485 format that VLC can play
2486 * new swedish translation
2487 * enhancements of the playlist window
2488 * new messages window to see debug info
2489 * fixed a few crashes
2492 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
2493 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
2494 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
2495 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working