1 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2-git
2 --------------------------------
5 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
6 --------------------------------
9 * New capabilities for libVLC:
10 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
11 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
12 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
13 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
14 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
15 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
16 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
17 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
18 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
19 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
20 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
21 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
22 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
23 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
24 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
28 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
29 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
30 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
31 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
32 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
35 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
38 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
39 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
40 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
44 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
47 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
48 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
49 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
52 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
53 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
54 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
55 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
58 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
59 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
62 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
63 --------------------------------
65 Important changes for users:
66 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
67 Update to alsa-lib v1.0.23-2-g8d80d5f or later, or use the libpulse audio
68 output plugin instead of the ALSA one (if you have PulseAudio).
70 Important changes for packagers:
71 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
72 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
73 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
74 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
75 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
77 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
79 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
80 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
81 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
82 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
83 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
87 * Support for the sftp protocol
88 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
89 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
90 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
91 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
92 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
95 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
96 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
97 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
99 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
100 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
101 * Invmem module improvements
102 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
103 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
104 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
105 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
106 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
107 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
108 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
109 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
110 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
111 * Support for VP8 codec
112 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
115 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
116 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
117 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
118 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
119 * Various EGP improvements
120 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
121 * Metadata and cover art improvements
124 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
125 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
126 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
127 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
128 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
129 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
130 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
131 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
132 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
133 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
134 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
137 * New content extensions framework for lua
140 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
141 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
142 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
143 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
144 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
145 * NEON assembly audio converter module
146 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
149 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
150 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
151 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
152 * Podcast images are now displayed
155 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
156 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
157 * Service discovery based on libudev
158 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
161 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
162 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
163 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
164 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
165 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
166 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
167 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
170 * New smem module, streaming to memory
171 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
172 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
175 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
177 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
178 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
181 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
184 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
185 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
186 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
187 by Andy Matuschak et al.
188 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
189 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
190 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
193 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
194 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
197 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
198 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
199 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
203 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
204 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
205 * Improved Solaris port
208 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
209 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
212 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
213 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
214 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
215 * transrate: broken since too long
216 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
217 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
218 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
219 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
220 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
221 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
222 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
223 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
224 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
225 * cddax: use cdda instead.
226 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
227 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
228 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
229 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
232 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
233 --------------------------------
236 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
238 Decoders/Packetizers:
239 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
242 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
243 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
244 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
245 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
246 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
249 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
250 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
253 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
254 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
257 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
258 and Walloon translations updated
259 * Sinhala translation started
262 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
263 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
266 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
267 --------------------------------
270 * SubRip extra styles improvements
271 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
274 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
277 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
278 increase performance and fix x264 issues
281 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
282 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
283 Russian, Slovak translation updates
284 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
287 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
288 --------------------------------
291 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
292 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
295 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
296 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
299 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
300 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
303 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
306 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
307 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
310 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
311 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
314 * New Walloon translation
315 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
318 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
319 --------------------------------
322 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
323 regressions in most popular drivers
324 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
327 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
328 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
329 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
332 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
333 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
336 * Update for appletrailers lua script
337 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
338 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
339 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
340 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
343 * New udev module for linux
346 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
349 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
352 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
353 --------------------------------
356 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
357 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
358 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
361 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
362 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
365 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
366 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
369 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
372 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
373 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
374 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
375 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
378 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
379 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
380 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
381 - no support for Goom and SDL
382 - limited text rendering support
383 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
386 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
387 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
388 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
389 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
390 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
391 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
392 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
393 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
394 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
398 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
401 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
404 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
405 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
406 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
407 Arabic and French translation updates
410 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
411 --------------------------------
414 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
415 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
416 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
417 * Fix Dailymotion access script
418 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
419 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
422 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
423 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
426 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
427 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
428 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
431 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
434 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
435 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
438 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
439 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
440 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
441 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
442 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
443 * Fix various crashes
446 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
448 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
451 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
452 ---------------------------------
456 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
457 See 'Access:' for more info.
458 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
461 * Instantaneous pausing
462 * Frame-by-Frame playback
463 * Finer speed control
464 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
465 * Timeshift for most medias
466 * RTSP trickplay support
467 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
470 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
471 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
472 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
473 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
474 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
475 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
476 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
477 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
478 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
479 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
482 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
483 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
484 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
485 * Metadata for mod files are supported
486 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
487 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
488 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
491 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
492 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
495 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
496 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
497 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
498 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
499 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
500 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
501 * DVB scanning on linux
502 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
503 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
504 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
505 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
506 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
507 * MTP device access on Unix
508 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
509 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
512 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
513 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
514 Windows and Mac OS X.
517 * Export the playlist in HTML
518 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
519 * Better metadata handling and reading
521 Linux/Windows interface:
522 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
523 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
524 * Recently played items list
525 * Interface toolbar customizations
526 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
529 - Improvements on many dialogs
530 - New dialog for plugins listing
531 - Fixed-size mode for videos
532 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
533 * Better integration in GTK environments
536 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
537 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
538 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
539 * Additional usability improvements
542 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
543 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
544 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
545 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
546 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
549 * New Maemo port with:
550 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
551 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
554 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
557 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
558 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
559 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
560 * Support for latest iSight models
563 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
564 * Surround support for PulseAudio
567 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
568 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
569 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
570 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
571 The old image video output has been removed.
572 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
573 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
576 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
584 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
585 --------------------------------------
591 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
592 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
593 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
594 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
595 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
596 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
597 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
599 Various fixes to the following modules:
602 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
603 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
606 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
611 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
612 ---------------------------------
615 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
616 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
619 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
620 ---------------------------------
623 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
626 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
629 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
630 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
631 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
632 main controller window.
633 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
636 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
641 * Updates of other localizations
644 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
645 * Lots of small bugfixes.
646 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
647 * Telnet fixes on Windows
648 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
651 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
652 ---------------------------------
655 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
657 Bunch of small bugfixes.
660 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
661 --------------------------------
666 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
667 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
670 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
671 --------------------------------
673 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
674 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
677 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
680 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
681 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
684 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
685 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
688 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
689 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
690 * Various fixed in playlist
693 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
696 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
699 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
700 ------------------------------------
702 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
703 * Fixes several memory leaks.
706 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
707 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
708 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
711 * Stability fix for the video output.
714 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
715 --------------------------------
718 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
719 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
720 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
721 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
722 * Fixed update system bugs
723 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
726 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
727 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
728 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
729 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
730 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
731 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
732 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
733 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
734 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
735 modern Mac OS X versions
738 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
739 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
741 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
742 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
745 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
746 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
747 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
748 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
749 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
750 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
753 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
754 --------------------------------
756 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
757 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
761 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
762 --------------------------------
764 * Multiple bug fixes.
767 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
768 ---------------------------------
772 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
773 recent to work correctly
774 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
775 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
776 edit the ".hosts" file.
777 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
778 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
779 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
780 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
781 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
782 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
783 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
784 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
785 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
786 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
787 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
788 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
789 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
790 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
791 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
792 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
793 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
794 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
795 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
796 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
797 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
798 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
799 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
800 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
801 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
802 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
803 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
804 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
805 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
806 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
807 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
808 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
809 and postproc modules.
810 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
811 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
812 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
813 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
815 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
817 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
818 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
820 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
821 * Glide video output module has been removed.
827 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
829 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
830 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
833 * Vastly improved playlist support:
834 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
836 * Shoutcast TV listings
837 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
839 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
840 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
842 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
845 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
846 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
847 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
848 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
849 * JACK audio input support
850 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
851 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
852 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
853 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
854 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
855 * Experimental EyeTV access module
856 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
857 (available as a separate download).
858 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
860 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
861 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
862 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
864 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
865 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
868 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
869 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
870 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
871 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
873 * APEv1/2 tags support
874 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
875 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
877 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
878 * TiVo Series 2 support
879 * CD+G karaoke Files support
884 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
885 * Flash Screen Video support
886 * CamStudio Screen Video support
887 * DosBox Capture support
888 * Karl Morton's Video support
889 * limited atrac3 support
891 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
892 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
893 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
895 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
896 * NellyMoser ASAO support
897 * APE (Monkey audio) support
898 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
899 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
902 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
903 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
904 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
905 * AQTitle subtitles support
906 * MKV USF subtitles support
907 * HTML-based subtitles support
908 * MPSub subtitles support
909 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
910 * MPL2 subtitles support
911 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
912 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
913 * Realtext subtitle support
914 * DKS subtitle support
915 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
916 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
919 * Flash Screen Video support
920 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
922 Video outputs and filters:
923 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
924 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
925 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
926 * New puzzle video output filter
927 * Re-written motion detection video filter
928 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
930 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
931 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
932 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
933 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
934 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
935 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
936 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
937 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
938 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
939 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
940 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
941 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
942 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
943 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
945 Audio outputs and filters:
946 * Replay gain support
947 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
948 new scaletempo audio filter)
949 * New spatializer audio filter
950 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
953 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
954 * New RTP payload formats:
955 * Speex voice audio codec
956 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
957 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
958 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
959 * DCCP transport for RTP
960 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
965 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
966 end-user suitable way.
967 * Improved user interaction
968 * Improved mouse gestures
969 * Vastly improved Update checker
970 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
972 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
973 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
975 * Improved video output features
976 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
977 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
978 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
979 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
980 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
982 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
983 if libncursesw is available.
984 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
985 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
986 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
988 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
989 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
990 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
991 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
992 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
993 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
994 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
995 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
998 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
999 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1000 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1003 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1004 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1005 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1006 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1007 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1008 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1011 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1012 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1022 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1023 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1024 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1027 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1028 ----------------------------------
1031 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1034 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1035 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1036 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1037 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1038 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1039 * Updated Polish translation
1042 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1043 ----------------------------------
1046 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1047 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1048 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1051 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1052 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1053 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1054 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1055 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1056 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1057 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1058 to an unexpected application termination
1059 * New Serbian translation
1060 * Updated Romanian translation
1063 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1064 ----------------------------------
1067 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1068 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1069 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1070 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1071 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1072 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1073 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1074 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1077 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1078 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1079 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1080 * Fixed AAC resampling
1081 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1082 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1085 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1086 ----------------------------------
1089 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1090 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1091 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1092 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1093 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1096 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1097 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1098 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1099 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1100 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1103 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1104 ----------------------------------
1107 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1108 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1111 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1112 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1113 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1114 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1116 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1120 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1123 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1126 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1129 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1132 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1133 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1134 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1135 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1136 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1138 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1139 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1140 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1141 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1144 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1147 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1148 ----------------------------------
1151 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1152 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1153 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1155 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1156 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1158 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1159 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1162 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1164 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1165 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1166 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1167 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1168 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1169 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1170 two different movies
1171 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1172 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1173 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1176 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1179 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1180 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1181 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1182 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1185 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1186 ----------------------------------
1188 Various bugfixes, notably:
1189 * Windows Vista compatibility
1190 * Cropping in Direct3D
1191 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1192 * RSS filter string overflow
1194 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1196 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1197 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1200 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1201 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1204 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1207 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1210 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1213 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1214 ----------------------------------
1216 Various bugfixes, notably:
1217 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1218 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1219 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1220 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1221 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1222 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1225 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1226 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1229 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1231 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1232 * Diverse usability improvements
1233 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1234 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1235 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1238 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1239 ---------------------------------
1241 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1242 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1245 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1248 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1249 --------------------------------
1252 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1255 * Support for RTSP authentication
1256 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1257 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1258 * ATSC support for DVB input
1259 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1260 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1261 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1264 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1265 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1266 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1267 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1268 * Matroska WavPack support
1269 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1270 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1271 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1274 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1275 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1276 * Improved libcaca support
1280 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1281 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1283 * Systray support in skins
1285 * Support for Apple Remote control
1286 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1287 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1288 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1289 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1291 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1294 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1295 Windows 9x/ME users:
1296 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1297 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1298 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1299 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1300 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1302 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1303 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1312 * Updates to the libvlc API
1313 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1316 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1317 --------------------------------
1320 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1321 * Support for downloading updates
1325 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1326 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1327 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1328 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1330 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1331 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1332 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1335 * Cook (Real audio) support
1337 Playlist / Services discovery:
1338 * XSPF playlist support
1340 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1343 * New JACK audio output
1346 * New video filters:
1347 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1348 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1349 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1350 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1351 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1352 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1355 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1358 * System to inform the user and request information
1359 - HTTP authentication
1363 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1364 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1365 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1368 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1369 - Improved playlist handling
1370 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1372 - Embedded Video output
1373 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1374 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1375 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1376 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1377 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1379 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1380 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1383 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1386 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1387 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1388 * Growl "Now playing" support
1391 * Ability to log to syslog
1392 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1395 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1397 * A bit more automatic testing
1400 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1401 ---------------------------------
1404 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1405 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1408 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1409 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1412 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1415 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1416 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1422 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1425 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1426 --------------------------------
1429 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1433 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1434 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1435 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1438 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1439 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1440 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1441 * GnomeVFS input module
1442 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1443 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1446 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1447 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1448 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1451 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1452 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1458 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1459 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1462 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1463 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1464 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1467 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1469 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1470 - New extended controls panel
1471 - New bookmarks window
1472 - Fixed playlist sorting
1473 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1475 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1476 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1477 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1478 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
1482 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
1483 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
1485 - Include macro to include other files
1489 * Should now work outside IE as well
1492 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
1495 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
1496 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
1499 The following languages were added:
1503 * Simplified Chinese
1504 The following languages were re-added:
1508 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
1509 --------------------------------
1512 * Rewrite of the playlist
1514 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
1515 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
1516 * Preferences improvements:
1517 - New organization, designed to improve usability
1518 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
1520 * Core image manipulation support
1521 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
1522 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
1523 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
1524 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
1525 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
1526 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
1527 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
1528 now separated by ':' instead of ','
1529 * Access filter architecture
1530 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
1531 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
1535 * Support for SOCKS proxy
1536 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
1537 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
1538 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
1539 * Better support for Kasenna streams
1540 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
1541 * Massive Matroska improvements
1542 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
1544 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
1545 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
1546 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
1547 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
1548 * Support for FTP over IPv6
1550 Decoders / Encoders:
1551 * Dirac decoder and encoder
1552 * PNG decoder/encoder
1553 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
1554 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
1557 * New Record and Timeshift filters
1560 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
1561 * Brand new SAP module
1562 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
1563 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
1564 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
1565 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1566 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1567 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1571 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1574 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1575 * Image file video output (png)
1576 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1577 * Improvements to wall video filter
1578 * Support for font color and opacity
1584 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1585 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1586 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1590 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1591 - Improved preferences
1592 - Improvements to the wizard
1593 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1595 - Redesigned playlist
1596 - Improved preferences
1598 - Support for multiple actions
1601 - Support for the new playlist system
1603 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1606 * Screensaver disabling fix
1607 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1608 * Support for no-decoration windows
1611 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1612 * The OpenGL video output is back
1613 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1614 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1615 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1616 is not yet available in the new module
1617 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1620 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1629 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1632 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1635 The following languages were added:
1641 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1642 --------------------------------
1645 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1646 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1649 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1650 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1651 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1654 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1657 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1660 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1663 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1664 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1665 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1669 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1671 * Support of playlist group announcement
1674 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1675 --------------------------------
1678 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1679 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1680 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1681 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
1682 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
1683 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
1686 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
1687 (Stream your desktop)
1688 * Improved DVD support:
1689 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
1690 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
1691 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
1692 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
1693 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
1694 (selection of titles/chapters).
1697 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
1698 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
1699 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
1700 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
1701 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
1702 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1703 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
1704 * Improved Ogg demuxer
1705 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
1706 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
1709 * G.726 audio support
1710 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
1711 * MPEG-4 text support
1712 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
1713 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
1714 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
1718 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
1719 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
1720 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
1721 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
1722 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
1723 * DVB subtitles encoder
1724 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
1725 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
1727 * Text track muxing for mp4
1728 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
1729 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
1730 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1731 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
1732 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
1733 * Improved ASF muxer
1735 * H.263 RTP streaming support
1736 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
1737 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
1740 * New audio equalizer filter
1741 * Very trivial volume normalizer
1742 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
1743 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
1744 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
1747 * Roku HD1000 Video output
1748 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
1749 with support for effects.
1750 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
1751 - New filters can be streamed.
1752 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1753 - Centralized scaling and blending
1755 - "time", to display current time
1756 - "marq", to display a marquee
1759 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1760 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1761 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1762 * A few skins2 improvements
1763 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1764 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1765 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1766 * Improved CORBA control module
1769 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1770 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1771 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1774 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1775 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1776 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1779 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1780 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1781 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1782 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1783 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1786 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1789 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1790 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1793 * Server/client network synchronization module
1794 * VBrick streams fully supported
1795 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1799 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1800 --------------------------------
1803 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1804 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1805 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1806 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1809 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1810 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1811 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1812 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1813 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1814 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1815 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1818 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1819 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1820 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1821 * Improved directory access module.
1822 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1823 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1824 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1825 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1826 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1829 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1830 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1831 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1834 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1835 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1836 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1839 * Improved session announcement system.
1840 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1841 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1842 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1843 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1844 * Improved transrater.
1845 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1846 * New configuration system.
1847 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1850 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1851 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1852 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1853 * Supports scheduling.
1854 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1855 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1858 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1859 - Ability to embed video output.
1860 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1861 - Lots of improvements.
1862 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1863 - New design and set of icons.
1864 - Ability to embed video output.
1865 - Support for hotkeys.
1866 - Support for bookmarks.
1868 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1869 - Better hotkeys handling.
1872 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1873 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1874 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1875 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1878 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1879 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1880 * Improved Windows installer.
1886 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1887 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1890 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1891 ---------------------------------
1894 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1895 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1898 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1899 --------------------------------
1902 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1903 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1906 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1907 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1908 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1909 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1912 * Internal improvments
1913 * Improved import/export
1916 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1918 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1919 small and strange formats.
1921 * New MOD audio demux.
1922 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1923 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1924 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1925 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1928 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1929 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1930 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1936 * New opengl video output plugin.
1939 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1940 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1943 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1944 --------------------------------
1947 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1948 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1949 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1950 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1951 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1952 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1953 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1954 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1957 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1962 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1963 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1964 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1965 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1966 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1967 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1968 * Better Icecast support.
1969 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1970 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1973 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1974 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1975 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1976 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1977 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1978 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1979 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1982 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1983 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1984 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1985 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1986 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1987 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1988 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1989 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1990 * Preliminary RTP support.
1991 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1996 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1997 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1999 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2000 - Improvements and help in preferences
2001 - New streaming wizard
2002 - Revised Disc Open menu
2004 - Improvements of the standard pages
2005 - Support for new commands
2006 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2009 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2010 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2013 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2014 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2015 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2016 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2017 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2018 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2019 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2020 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2021 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2024 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2026 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2027 * Support for Panther.
2028 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2029 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2032 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2033 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2034 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2035 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2036 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2037 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2038 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2039 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2042 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2043 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2044 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2047 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2050 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2051 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2052 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2053 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2056 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2057 --------------------------------
2060 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2063 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2064 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2067 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2068 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2071 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2074 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2075 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2078 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2081 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2084 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2085 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2089 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2090 --------------------------------
2093 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2094 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2098 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2099 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2100 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2102 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2103 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2106 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2109 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2112 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2113 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2117 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2118 --------------------------------
2121 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2122 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2126 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2127 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2128 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2129 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2130 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2133 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2134 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2135 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2138 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2139 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2140 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2143 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2144 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2145 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2146 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2147 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2150 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2151 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2152 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2155 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2158 * Improved build system.
2159 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2160 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2161 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2162 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2165 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2166 --------------------------------
2169 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2172 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2173 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2174 * Video 4 Linux support
2175 * CD Digital Audio support
2176 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2179 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2180 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2181 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2182 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2185 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2186 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2187 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2188 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2189 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2190 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2191 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2194 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2195 * New HTTP remote control interface
2198 * 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.
2199 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2200 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2201 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2204 * New reset option for the preferences
2205 * You can set your language in the prefences
2206 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2207 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2208 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2209 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2212 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2213 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2214 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2217 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2218 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2219 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2220 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2221 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2222 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2223 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2224 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2225 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2226 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2229 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2230 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2231 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2232 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2233 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2234 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2235 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2238 * Interface localization
2239 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2240 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2241 * New full-featured Preferences window
2244 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2245 --------------------------------
2248 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2249 * support for skins at the interface level
2250 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2251 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2252 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2253 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2254 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2257 * fixed HTTP redirects
2258 * support for opening an entire directory
2259 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2260 * new video4linux access plug-in
2261 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2264 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2265 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2266 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2269 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2270 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2271 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2272 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2273 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2274 * new codec for raw I420 video
2275 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2278 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2279 (although it still misses some important features)
2280 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2283 * new HTTP output support
2284 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2285 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2288 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2291 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2294 * reorderable playlist
2295 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2296 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2297 * support for mono audio output devices
2298 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2299 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2300 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2301 * the messages window remembers more lines
2302 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2303 * http and ogg stream output options
2304 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2307 * new skinnable interface
2308 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2310 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2311 * support for FLAC audio format
2312 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2314 * network tab in the interface
2315 * "apply" handling in preferences
2318 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2319 ---------------------------------
2322 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2323 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2324 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2325 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2327 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2328 * DTS S/PDIF support
2331 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2332 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2333 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2334 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2337 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2338 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2341 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2344 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2347 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2349 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2350 * rc interface is now fully useable
2351 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2354 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2355 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2356 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2357 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2358 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2360 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2361 * support for mouse gestures
2362 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2365 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2366 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2369 * improved ID3 tag detection
2370 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2371 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2372 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2374 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2377 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2378 ---------------------------------
2381 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2382 English was set as the preferred language
2385 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2386 --------------------------------
2389 * new mouse gesture interface
2390 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2394 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2395 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2396 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2399 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2400 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2404 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2407 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2408 without the user consent
2411 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2413 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2414 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2415 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2418 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2419 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2420 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2421 * playlist enhancements
2422 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2423 * new step forward/step backward commands
2424 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2425 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2426 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2429 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2430 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2431 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2434 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2435 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2438 * native video output is working again
2439 * only commandline interface support
2440 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2443 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2444 --------------------------------
2447 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2448 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2449 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2450 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2451 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2452 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2453 and A/52 streams are supported)
2454 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2459 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2460 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2461 * VCD entry points support
2462 * VCD image file support
2465 * support for *.asf format
2466 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2467 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2468 * support for ogg encapsulation
2469 * support for raw DV format
2470 * support for *.wav format
2471 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2474 Stream discovery & playlists:
2475 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2476 * support for .m3u file format
2477 * support for .asx file format
2478 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2481 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
2482 (only available with the .avi demux)
2483 * support for ADPCM audio codec
2484 * support for raw PCM data
2485 * support for Cinepak video codec
2486 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
2487 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
2488 * support for Xvid codec
2489 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
2490 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
2491 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
2493 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
2495 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
2498 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
2501 * new WxWindows interface
2502 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
2503 device and the channels configuration
2504 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
2505 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
2506 format that VLC can play
2507 * new swedish translation
2508 * enhancements of the playlist window
2509 * new messages window to see debug info
2510 * fixed a few crashes
2513 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
2514 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
2515 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
2516 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working