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 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
9 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...).
10 This replaces the --http-user-agent and the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
11 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time.
12 This replace the ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions. See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
13 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
16 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
19 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
20 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
21 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
22 * Fixes for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
23 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
29 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
30 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
31 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
34 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
35 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
38 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
39 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
40 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
43 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer, Brazilian Portuguese,
46 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
47 --------------------------------
49 Important changes for users:
50 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
51 Update to alsa-lib v1.0.23-2-g8d80d5f or later, or use the libpulse audio
52 output plugin instead of the ALSA one (if you have PulseAudio).
54 Important changes for packagers:
55 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
56 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
57 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
58 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
59 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
61 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
63 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
64 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
65 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
66 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
67 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
71 * Support for the sftp protocol
72 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
73 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
74 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
75 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
76 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
79 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
80 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
81 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
83 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
84 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
85 * Invmem module improvements
86 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
87 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
88 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
89 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
90 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
91 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
92 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
93 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
94 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
95 * Support for VP8 codec
96 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
99 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
100 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
101 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
102 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
103 * Various EGP improvements
104 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
105 * Metadata and cover art improvements
108 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
109 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
110 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
111 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
112 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
113 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
114 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
115 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
116 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
117 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
118 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
121 * New content extensions framework for lua
124 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
125 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
126 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
127 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
128 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
129 * NEON assembly audio converter module
130 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
133 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
134 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
135 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
136 * Podcast images are now displayed
139 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
140 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
141 * Service discovery based on libudev
142 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
145 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
146 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
147 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
148 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
149 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
150 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
151 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
154 * New smem module, streaming to memory
155 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
156 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
159 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
161 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
162 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
165 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
168 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
169 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
170 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
171 by Andy Matuschak et al.
172 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
173 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
174 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
177 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
178 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
181 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
182 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
183 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
187 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
188 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
189 * Improved Solaris port
192 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
193 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
196 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
197 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
198 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
199 * transrate: broken since too long
200 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
201 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
202 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
203 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
204 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
205 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
206 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
207 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
208 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
209 * cddax: use cdda instead.
210 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
211 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
212 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
213 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
216 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
217 --------------------------------
220 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
222 Decoders/Packetizers:
223 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
226 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
227 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
228 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
229 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
230 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
233 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
234 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
237 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
238 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
241 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
242 and Walloon translations updated
243 * Sinhala translation started
246 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
247 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
250 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
251 --------------------------------
254 * SubRip extra styles improvements
255 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
258 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
261 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
262 increase performance and fix x264 issues
265 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
266 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
267 Russian, Slovak translation updates
268 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
271 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
272 --------------------------------
275 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
276 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
279 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
280 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
283 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
284 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
287 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
290 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
291 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
294 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
295 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
298 * New Walloon translation
299 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
302 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
303 --------------------------------
306 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
307 regressions in most popular drivers
308 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
311 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
312 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
313 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
316 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
317 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
320 * Update for appletrailers lua script
321 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
322 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
323 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
324 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
327 * New udev module for linux
330 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
333 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
336 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
337 --------------------------------
340 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
341 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
342 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
345 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
346 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
349 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
350 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
353 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
356 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
357 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
358 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
359 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
362 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
363 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
364 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
365 - no support for Goom and SDL
366 - limited text rendering support
367 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
370 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
371 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
372 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
373 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
374 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
375 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
376 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
377 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
378 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
382 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
385 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
388 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
389 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
390 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
391 Arabic and French translation updates
394 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
395 --------------------------------
398 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
399 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
400 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
401 * Fix Dailymotion access script
402 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
403 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
406 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
407 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
410 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
411 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
412 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
415 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
418 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
419 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
422 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
423 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
424 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
425 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
426 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
427 * Fix various crashes
430 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
432 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
435 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
436 ---------------------------------
440 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
441 See 'Access:' for more info.
442 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
445 * Instantaneous pausing
446 * Frame-by-Frame playback
447 * Finer speed control
448 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
449 * Timeshift for most medias
450 * RTSP trickplay support
451 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
454 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
455 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
456 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
457 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
458 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
459 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
460 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
461 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
462 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
463 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
466 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
467 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
468 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
469 * Metadata for mod files are supported
470 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
471 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
472 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
475 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
476 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
479 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
480 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
481 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
482 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
483 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
484 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
485 * DVB scanning on linux
486 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
487 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
488 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
489 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
490 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
491 * MTP device access on Unix
492 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
493 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
496 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
497 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
498 Windows and Mac OS X.
501 * Export the playlist in HTML
502 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
503 * Better metadata handling and reading
505 Linux/Windows interface:
506 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
507 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
508 * Recently played items list
509 * Interface toolbar customizations
510 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
513 - Improvements on many dialogs
514 - New dialog for plugins listing
515 - Fixed-size mode for videos
516 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
517 * Better integration in GTK environments
520 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
521 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
522 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
523 * Additional usability improvements
526 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
527 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
528 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
529 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
530 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
533 * New Maemo port with:
534 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
535 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
538 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
541 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
542 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
543 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
544 * Support for latest iSight models
547 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
548 * Surround support for PulseAudio
551 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
552 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
553 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
554 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
555 The old image video output has been removed.
556 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
557 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
560 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
568 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
569 --------------------------------------
575 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
576 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
577 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
578 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
579 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
580 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
581 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
583 Various fixes to the following modules:
586 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
587 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
590 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
595 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
596 ---------------------------------
599 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
600 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
603 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
604 ---------------------------------
607 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
610 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
613 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
614 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
615 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
616 main controller window.
617 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
620 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
625 * Updates of other localizations
628 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
629 * Lots of small bugfixes.
630 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
631 * Telnet fixes on Windows
632 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
635 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
636 ---------------------------------
639 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
641 Bunch of small bugfixes.
644 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
645 --------------------------------
650 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
651 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
654 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
655 --------------------------------
657 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
658 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
661 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
664 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
665 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
668 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
669 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
672 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
673 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
674 * Various fixed in playlist
677 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
680 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
683 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
684 ------------------------------------
686 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
687 * Fixes several memory leaks.
690 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
691 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
692 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
695 * Stability fix for the video output.
698 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
699 --------------------------------
702 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
703 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
704 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
705 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
706 * Fixed update system bugs
707 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
710 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
711 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
712 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
713 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
714 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
715 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
716 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
717 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
718 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
719 modern Mac OS X versions
722 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
723 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
725 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
726 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
729 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
730 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
731 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
732 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
733 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
734 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
737 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
738 --------------------------------
740 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
741 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
745 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
746 --------------------------------
748 * Multiple bug fixes.
751 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
752 ---------------------------------
756 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
757 recent to work correctly
758 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
759 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
760 edit the ".hosts" file.
761 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
762 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
763 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
764 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
765 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
766 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
767 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
768 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
769 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
770 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
771 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
772 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
773 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
774 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
775 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
776 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
777 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
778 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
779 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
780 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
781 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
782 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
783 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
784 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
785 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
786 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
787 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
788 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
789 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
790 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
791 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
792 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
793 and postproc modules.
794 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
795 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
796 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
797 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
799 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
801 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
802 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
804 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
805 * Glide video output module has been removed.
811 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
813 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
814 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
817 * Vastly improved playlist support:
818 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
820 * Shoutcast TV listings
821 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
823 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
824 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
826 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
829 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
830 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
831 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
832 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
833 * JACK audio input support
834 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
835 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
836 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
837 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
838 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
839 * Experimental EyeTV access module
840 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
841 (available as a separate download).
842 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
844 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
845 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
846 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
848 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
849 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
852 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
853 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
854 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
855 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
857 * APEv1/2 tags support
858 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
859 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
861 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
862 * TiVo Series 2 support
863 * CD+G karaoke Files support
868 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
869 * Flash Screen Video support
870 * CamStudio Screen Video support
871 * DosBox Capture support
872 * Karl Morton's Video support
873 * limited atrac3 support
875 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
876 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
877 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
879 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
880 * NellyMoser ASAO support
881 * APE (Monkey audio) support
882 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
883 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
886 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
887 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
888 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
889 * AQTitle subtitles support
890 * MKV USF subtitles support
891 * HTML-based subtitles support
892 * MPSub subtitles support
893 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
894 * MPL2 subtitles support
895 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
896 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
897 * Realtext subtitle support
898 * DKS subtitle support
899 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
900 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
903 * Flash Screen Video support
904 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
906 Video outputs and filters:
907 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
908 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
909 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
910 * New puzzle video output filter
911 * Re-written motion detection video filter
912 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
914 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
915 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
916 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
917 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
918 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
919 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
920 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
921 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
922 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
923 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
924 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
925 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
926 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
927 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
929 Audio outputs and filters:
930 * Replay gain support
931 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
932 new scaletempo audio filter)
933 * New spatializer audio filter
934 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
937 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
938 * New RTP payload formats:
939 * Speex voice audio codec
940 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
941 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
942 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
943 * DCCP transport for RTP
944 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
949 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
950 end-user suitable way.
951 * Improved user interaction
952 * Improved mouse gestures
953 * Vastly improved Update checker
954 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
956 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
957 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
959 * Improved video output features
960 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
961 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
962 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
963 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
964 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
966 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
967 if libncursesw is available.
968 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
969 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
970 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
972 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
973 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
974 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
975 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
976 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
977 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
978 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
979 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
982 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
983 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
984 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
987 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
988 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
989 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
990 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
991 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
992 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
995 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
996 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1006 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1007 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1008 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1011 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1012 ----------------------------------
1015 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1018 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1019 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1020 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1021 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1022 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1023 * Updated Polish translation
1026 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1027 ----------------------------------
1030 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1031 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1032 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1035 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1036 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1037 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1038 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1039 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1040 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1041 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1042 to an unexpected application termination
1043 * New Serbian translation
1044 * Updated Romanian translation
1047 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1048 ----------------------------------
1051 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1052 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1053 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1054 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1055 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1056 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1057 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1058 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1061 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1062 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1063 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1064 * Fixed AAC resampling
1065 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1066 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1069 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1070 ----------------------------------
1073 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1074 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1075 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1076 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1077 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1080 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1081 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1082 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1083 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1084 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1087 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1088 ----------------------------------
1091 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1092 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1095 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1096 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1097 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1098 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1100 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1104 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1107 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1110 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1113 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1116 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1117 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1118 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1119 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1120 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1122 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1123 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1124 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1125 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1128 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1131 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1132 ----------------------------------
1135 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1136 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1137 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1139 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1140 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1142 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1143 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1146 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1148 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1149 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1150 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1151 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1152 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1153 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1154 two different movies
1155 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1156 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1157 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1160 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1163 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1164 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1165 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1166 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1169 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1170 ----------------------------------
1172 Various bugfixes, notably:
1173 * Windows Vista compatibility
1174 * Cropping in Direct3D
1175 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1176 * RSS filter string overflow
1178 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1180 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1181 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1184 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1185 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1188 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1191 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1194 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1197 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1198 ----------------------------------
1200 Various bugfixes, notably:
1201 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1202 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1203 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1204 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1205 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1206 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1209 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1210 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1213 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1215 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1216 * Diverse usability improvements
1217 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1218 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1219 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1222 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1223 ---------------------------------
1225 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1226 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1229 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1232 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1233 --------------------------------
1236 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1239 * Support for RTSP authentication
1240 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1241 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1242 * ATSC support for DVB input
1243 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1244 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1245 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1248 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1249 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1250 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1251 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1252 * Matroska WavPack support
1253 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1254 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1255 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1258 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1259 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1260 * Improved libcaca support
1264 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1265 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1267 * Systray support in skins
1269 * Support for Apple Remote control
1270 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1271 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1272 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1273 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1275 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1278 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1279 Windows 9x/ME users:
1280 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1281 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1282 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1283 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1284 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1286 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1287 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1296 * Updates to the libvlc API
1297 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1300 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1301 --------------------------------
1304 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1305 * Support for downloading updates
1309 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1310 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1311 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1312 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1314 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1315 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1316 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1319 * Cook (Real audio) support
1321 Playlist / Services discovery:
1322 * XSPF playlist support
1324 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1327 * New JACK audio output
1330 * New video filters:
1331 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1332 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1333 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1334 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1335 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1336 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1339 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1342 * System to inform the user and request information
1343 - HTTP authentication
1347 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1348 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1349 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1352 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1353 - Improved playlist handling
1354 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1356 - Embedded Video output
1357 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1358 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1359 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1360 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1361 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1363 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1364 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1367 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1370 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1371 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1372 * Growl "Now playing" support
1375 * Ability to log to syslog
1376 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1379 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1381 * A bit more automatic testing
1384 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1385 ---------------------------------
1388 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1389 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1392 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1393 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1396 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1399 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1400 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1406 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1409 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1410 --------------------------------
1413 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1417 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1418 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1419 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1422 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1423 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1424 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1425 * GnomeVFS input module
1426 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1427 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1430 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1431 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1432 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1435 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1436 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1442 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1443 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1446 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1447 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1448 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1451 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1453 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1454 - New extended controls panel
1455 - New bookmarks window
1456 - Fixed playlist sorting
1457 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1459 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1460 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1461 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1462 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
1466 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
1467 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
1469 - Include macro to include other files
1473 * Should now work outside IE as well
1476 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
1479 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
1480 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
1483 The following languages were added:
1487 * Simplified Chinese
1488 The following languages were re-added:
1492 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
1493 --------------------------------
1496 * Rewrite of the playlist
1498 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
1499 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
1500 * Preferences improvements:
1501 - New organization, designed to improve usability
1502 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
1504 * Core image manipulation support
1505 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
1506 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
1507 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
1508 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
1509 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
1510 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
1511 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
1512 now separated by ':' instead of ','
1513 * Access filter architecture
1514 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
1515 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
1519 * Support for SOCKS proxy
1520 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
1521 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
1522 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
1523 * Better support for Kasenna streams
1524 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
1525 * Massive Matroska improvements
1526 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
1528 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
1529 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
1530 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
1531 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
1532 * Support for FTP over IPv6
1534 Decoders / Encoders:
1535 * Dirac decoder and encoder
1536 * PNG decoder/encoder
1537 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
1538 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
1541 * New Record and Timeshift filters
1544 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
1545 * Brand new SAP module
1546 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
1547 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
1548 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
1549 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1550 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1551 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1555 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1558 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1559 * Image file video output (png)
1560 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1561 * Improvements to wall video filter
1562 * Support for font color and opacity
1568 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1569 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1570 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1574 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1575 - Improved preferences
1576 - Improvements to the wizard
1577 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1579 - Redesigned playlist
1580 - Improved preferences
1582 - Support for multiple actions
1585 - Support for the new playlist system
1587 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1590 * Screensaver disabling fix
1591 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1592 * Support for no-decoration windows
1595 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1596 * The OpenGL video output is back
1597 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1598 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1599 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1600 is not yet available in the new module
1601 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1604 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1613 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1616 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1619 The following languages were added:
1625 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1626 --------------------------------
1629 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1630 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1633 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1634 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1635 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1638 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1641 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1644 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1647 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1648 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1649 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1653 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1655 * Support of playlist group announcement
1658 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1659 --------------------------------
1662 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1663 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1664 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1665 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
1666 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
1667 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
1670 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
1671 (Stream your desktop)
1672 * Improved DVD support:
1673 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
1674 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
1675 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
1676 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
1677 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
1678 (selection of titles/chapters).
1681 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
1682 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
1683 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
1684 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
1685 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
1686 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1687 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
1688 * Improved Ogg demuxer
1689 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
1690 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
1693 * G.726 audio support
1694 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
1695 * MPEG-4 text support
1696 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
1697 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
1698 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
1702 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
1703 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
1704 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
1705 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
1706 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
1707 * DVB subtitles encoder
1708 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
1709 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
1711 * Text track muxing for mp4
1712 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
1713 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
1714 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1715 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
1716 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
1717 * Improved ASF muxer
1719 * H.263 RTP streaming support
1720 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
1721 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
1724 * New audio equalizer filter
1725 * Very trivial volume normalizer
1726 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
1727 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
1728 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
1731 * Roku HD1000 Video output
1732 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
1733 with support for effects.
1734 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
1735 - New filters can be streamed.
1736 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1737 - Centralized scaling and blending
1739 - "time", to display current time
1740 - "marq", to display a marquee
1743 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1744 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1745 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1746 * A few skins2 improvements
1747 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1748 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1749 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1750 * Improved CORBA control module
1753 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1754 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1755 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1758 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1759 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1760 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1763 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1764 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1765 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1766 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1767 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1770 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1773 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1774 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1777 * Server/client network synchronization module
1778 * VBrick streams fully supported
1779 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1783 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1784 --------------------------------
1787 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1788 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1789 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1790 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1793 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1794 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1795 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1796 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1797 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1798 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1799 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1802 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1803 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1804 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1805 * Improved directory access module.
1806 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1807 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1808 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1809 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1810 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1813 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1814 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1815 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1818 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1819 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1820 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1823 * Improved session announcement system.
1824 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1825 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1826 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1827 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1828 * Improved transrater.
1829 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1830 * New configuration system.
1831 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1834 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1835 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1836 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1837 * Supports scheduling.
1838 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1839 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1842 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1843 - Ability to embed video output.
1844 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1845 - Lots of improvements.
1846 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1847 - New design and set of icons.
1848 - Ability to embed video output.
1849 - Support for hotkeys.
1850 - Support for bookmarks.
1852 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1853 - Better hotkeys handling.
1856 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1857 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1858 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1859 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1862 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1863 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1864 * Improved Windows installer.
1870 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1871 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1874 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1875 ---------------------------------
1878 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1879 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1882 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1883 --------------------------------
1886 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1887 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1890 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1891 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1892 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1893 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1896 * Internal improvments
1897 * Improved import/export
1900 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1902 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1903 small and strange formats.
1905 * New MOD audio demux.
1906 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1907 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1908 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1909 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1912 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1913 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1914 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1920 * New opengl video output plugin.
1923 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1924 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1927 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1928 --------------------------------
1931 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1932 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1933 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1934 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1935 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1936 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1937 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1938 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1941 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1946 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1947 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1948 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1949 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1950 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1951 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1952 * Better Icecast support.
1953 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1954 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1957 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1958 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1959 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1960 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1961 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1962 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1963 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1966 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1967 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1968 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1969 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1970 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1971 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1972 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1973 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1974 * Preliminary RTP support.
1975 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1980 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1981 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1983 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1984 - Improvements and help in preferences
1985 - New streaming wizard
1986 - Revised Disc Open menu
1988 - Improvements of the standard pages
1989 - Support for new commands
1990 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1993 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1994 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1997 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1998 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1999 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2000 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2001 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2002 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2003 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2004 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2005 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2008 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2010 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2011 * Support for Panther.
2012 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2013 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2016 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2017 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2018 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2019 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2020 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2021 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2022 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2023 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2026 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2027 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2028 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2031 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2034 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2035 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2036 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2037 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2040 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2041 --------------------------------
2044 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2047 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2048 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2051 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2052 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2055 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2058 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2059 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2062 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2065 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2068 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2069 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2073 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2074 --------------------------------
2077 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2078 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2082 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2083 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2084 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2086 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2087 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2090 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2093 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2096 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2097 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2101 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2102 --------------------------------
2105 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2106 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2110 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2111 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2112 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2113 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2114 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2117 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2118 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2119 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2122 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2123 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2124 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2127 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2128 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2129 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2130 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2131 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2134 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2135 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2136 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2139 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2142 * Improved build system.
2143 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2144 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2145 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2146 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2149 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2150 --------------------------------
2153 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2156 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2157 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2158 * Video 4 Linux support
2159 * CD Digital Audio support
2160 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2163 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2164 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2165 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2166 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2169 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2170 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2171 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2172 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2173 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2174 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2175 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2178 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2179 * New HTTP remote control interface
2182 * 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.
2183 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2184 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2185 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2188 * New reset option for the preferences
2189 * You can set your language in the prefences
2190 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2191 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2192 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2193 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2196 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2197 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2198 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2201 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2202 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2203 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2204 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2205 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2206 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2207 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2208 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2209 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2210 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2213 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2214 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2215 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2216 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2217 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2218 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2219 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2222 * Interface localization
2223 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2224 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2225 * New full-featured Preferences window
2228 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2229 --------------------------------
2232 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2233 * support for skins at the interface level
2234 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2235 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2236 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2237 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2238 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2241 * fixed HTTP redirects
2242 * support for opening an entire directory
2243 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2244 * new video4linux access plug-in
2245 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2248 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2249 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2250 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2253 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2254 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2255 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2256 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2257 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2258 * new codec for raw I420 video
2259 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2262 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2263 (although it still misses some important features)
2264 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2267 * new HTTP output support
2268 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2269 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2272 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2275 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2278 * reorderable playlist
2279 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2280 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2281 * support for mono audio output devices
2282 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2283 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2284 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2285 * the messages window remembers more lines
2286 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2287 * http and ogg stream output options
2288 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2291 * new skinnable interface
2292 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2294 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2295 * support for FLAC audio format
2296 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2298 * network tab in the interface
2299 * "apply" handling in preferences
2302 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2303 ---------------------------------
2306 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2307 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2308 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2309 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2311 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2312 * DTS S/PDIF support
2315 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2316 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2317 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2318 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2321 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2322 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2325 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2328 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2331 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2333 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2334 * rc interface is now fully useable
2335 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2338 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2339 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2340 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2341 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2342 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2344 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2345 * support for mouse gestures
2346 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2349 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2350 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2353 * improved ID3 tag detection
2354 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2355 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2356 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2358 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2361 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2362 ---------------------------------
2365 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2366 English was set as the preferred language
2369 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2370 --------------------------------
2373 * new mouse gesture interface
2374 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2378 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2379 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2380 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2383 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2384 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2388 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2391 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2392 without the user consent
2395 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2397 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2398 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2399 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2402 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2403 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2404 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2405 * playlist enhancements
2406 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2407 * new step forward/step backward commands
2408 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2409 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2410 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2413 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2414 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2415 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2418 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2419 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2422 * native video output is working again
2423 * only commandline interface support
2424 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2427 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2428 --------------------------------
2431 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2432 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2433 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2434 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2435 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2436 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2437 and A/52 streams are supported)
2438 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2443 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2444 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2445 * VCD entry points support
2446 * VCD image file support
2449 * support for *.asf format
2450 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2451 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2452 * support for ogg encapsulation
2453 * support for raw DV format
2454 * support for *.wav format
2455 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2458 Stream discovery & playlists:
2459 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2460 * support for .m3u file format
2461 * support for .asx file format
2462 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2465 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
2466 (only available with the .avi demux)
2467 * support for ADPCM audio codec
2468 * support for raw PCM data
2469 * support for Cinepak video codec
2470 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
2471 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
2472 * support for Xvid codec
2473 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
2474 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
2475 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
2477 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
2479 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
2482 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
2485 * new WxWindows interface
2486 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
2487 device and the channels configuration
2488 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
2489 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
2490 format that VLC can play
2491 * new swedish translation
2492 * enhancements of the playlist window
2493 * new messages window to see debug info
2494 * fixed a few crashes
2497 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
2498 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
2499 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
2500 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working