1 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.1.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
3 Important changes for users:
5 Important changes for packagers:
6 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
7 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
8 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
9 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
10 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
14 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
15 * Support for the sftp protocol
16 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
17 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
18 * New memory input (imem) module to feed VLC from data in memory
19 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams
22 * HD dvb subtitles - Display Definition Segment support
23 * PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
24 * Invmem module improvements
25 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
26 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities
27 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles .SRT and .SSA
28 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
29 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
30 * Audio/Video decoder using OpenMAX IL components
31 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
32 * Support for Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec natively on all platforms
33 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
36 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
37 * EXPERIMENTAL support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM)
38 (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
39 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
40 * Various EGP improvements
41 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
44 * WPL playlist support
45 * ZPL playlist support
46 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
47 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
48 * Podcast images are now displayed
51 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
52 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
53 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
54 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
55 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
56 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
57 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
58 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
59 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
60 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
61 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
64 * new content extensions lua framework
68 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
69 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
70 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
71 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
72 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
73 * NEON assembly audio converter module
74 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
77 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
80 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
81 * Service discovery based on libudev
84 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
85 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
86 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
87 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
88 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
89 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
92 * New smem module, streaming to memory
93 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
94 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
97 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
99 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
102 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
103 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
104 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
105 by Andy Matuschak et al.
106 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
107 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
110 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
111 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
114 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
115 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
116 * Improvements to the maemo interface
120 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
121 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
124 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
127 * csri codec. Use the libass module instead.
128 * galaktos. Use the new projectM module instead.
129 * showintf. Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
131 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx. Use the new XCB modules instead.
132 * HAL. Use libudev instead.
133 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
134 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
135 * opie, qte and qte_main
136 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed. Use the ugly one.
137 * XvMC accelerated modules. Use VAAPI instead.
138 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux. Use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
139 * opengllayer. Use macosx_video instead.
140 * cddax. Use cdda instead.
141 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
142 * realaudio codecs are removed in favor of libavcodec
143 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
146 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
147 --------------------------------
150 * SubRip extra styles improvements
151 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
154 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
157 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
158 increase performance and fix x264 issues
161 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
162 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
163 Russian, Slovak translation updates
164 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
167 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
168 --------------------------------
171 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
172 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
175 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
176 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
179 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
180 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
183 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
186 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
187 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
190 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
191 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
194 * New Walloon translation
195 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
198 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
199 --------------------------------
202 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
203 regressions in most popular drivers
204 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
207 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
208 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
209 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
212 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
213 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
216 * Update for appletrailers lua script
217 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
218 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
219 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
220 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
223 * New udev module for linux
226 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
229 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
232 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
233 --------------------------------
236 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
237 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
238 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
241 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
242 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
245 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
246 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
249 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
252 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
253 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
254 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
255 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
258 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
259 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
260 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
261 - no support for Goom and SDL
262 - limited text rendering support
263 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
266 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
267 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
268 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
269 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
270 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
271 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
272 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
273 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
274 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
278 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
281 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
284 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
285 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
286 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
287 Arabic and French translation updates
290 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
291 --------------------------------
294 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
295 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
296 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
297 * Fix Dailymotion access script
298 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
299 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
302 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
303 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
306 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
307 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
308 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
311 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
314 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
315 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
318 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
319 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
320 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
321 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
322 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
323 * Fix various crashes
326 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
328 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
331 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
332 ---------------------------------
336 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
337 See 'Access:' for more info.
338 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
341 * Instantaneous pausing
342 * Frame-by-Frame playback
343 * Finer speed control
344 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
345 * Timeshift for most medias
346 * RTSP trickplay support
347 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
350 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
351 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
352 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
353 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
354 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
355 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
356 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
357 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
358 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
359 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
362 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
363 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
364 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
365 * Metadata for mod files are supported
366 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
367 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
368 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
371 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
372 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
375 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
376 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
377 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
378 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
379 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
380 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
381 * DVB scanning on linux
382 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
383 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
384 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
385 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
386 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
387 * MTP device access on Unix
388 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
389 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
392 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
393 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
394 Windows and Mac OS X.
397 * Export the playlist in HTML
398 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
399 * Better metadata handling and reading
401 Linux/Windows interface:
402 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
403 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
404 * Recently played items list
405 * Interface toolbar customizations
406 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
409 - Improvements on many dialogs
410 - New dialog for plugins listing
411 - Fixed-size mode for videos
412 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
413 * Better integration in GTK environments
416 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
417 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
418 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
419 * Additional usability improvements
422 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
423 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
424 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
425 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
426 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
429 * New Maemo port with:
430 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
431 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
434 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
437 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
438 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
439 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
440 * Support for latest iSight models
443 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
444 * Surround support for PulseAudio
447 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
448 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
449 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
450 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
451 The old image video output has been removed.
452 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
453 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
456 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
464 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
465 --------------------------------------
471 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
472 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
473 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
474 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
475 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
476 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
477 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
479 Various fixes to the following modules:
482 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
483 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
486 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
491 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
492 ---------------------------------
495 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
496 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
499 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
500 ---------------------------------
503 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
506 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
509 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
510 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
511 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
512 main controller window.
513 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
516 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
521 * Updates of other localizations
524 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
525 * Lots of small bugfixes.
526 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
527 * Telnet fixes on Windows
528 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
531 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
532 ---------------------------------
535 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
537 Bunch of small bugfixes.
540 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
541 --------------------------------
546 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
547 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
550 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
551 --------------------------------
553 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
554 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
557 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
560 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
561 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
564 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
565 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
568 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
569 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
570 * Various fixed in playlist
573 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
576 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
579 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
580 ------------------------------------
582 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
583 * Fixes several memory leaks.
586 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
587 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
588 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
591 * Stability fix for the video output.
594 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
595 --------------------------------
598 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
599 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
600 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
601 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
602 * Fixed update system bugs
603 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
606 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
607 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
608 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
609 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
610 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
611 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
612 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
613 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
614 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
615 modern Mac OS X versions
618 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
619 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
621 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
622 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
625 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
626 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
627 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
628 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
629 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
630 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
633 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
634 --------------------------------
636 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
637 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
641 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
642 --------------------------------
644 * Multiple bug fixes.
647 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
648 ---------------------------------
652 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
653 recent to work correctly
654 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
655 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
656 edit the ".hosts" file.
657 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
658 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
659 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
660 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
661 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
662 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
663 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
664 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
665 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
666 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
667 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
668 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
669 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
670 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
671 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
672 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
673 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
674 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
675 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
676 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
677 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
678 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
679 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
680 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
681 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
682 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
683 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
684 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
685 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
686 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
687 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
688 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
689 and postproc modules.
690 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
691 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
692 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
693 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
695 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
697 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
698 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
700 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
701 * Glide video output module has been removed.
707 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
709 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
710 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
713 * Vastly improved playlist support:
714 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
716 * Shoutcast TV listings
717 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
719 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
720 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
722 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
725 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
726 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
727 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
728 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
729 * JACK audio input support
730 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
731 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
732 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
733 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
734 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
735 * Experimental EyeTV access module
736 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
737 (available as a separate download).
738 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
740 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
741 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
742 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
744 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
745 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
748 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
749 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
750 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
751 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
753 * APEv1/2 tags support
754 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
755 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
757 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
758 * TiVo Series 2 support
759 * CD+G karaoke Files support
764 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
765 * Flash Screen Video support
766 * CamStudio Screen Video support
767 * DosBox Capture support
768 * Karl Morton's Video support
769 * limited atrac3 support
771 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
772 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
773 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
775 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
776 * NellyMoser ASAO support
777 * APE (Monkey audio) support
778 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
779 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
782 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
783 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
784 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
785 * AQTitle subtitles support
786 * MKV USF subtitles support
787 * HTML-based subtitles support
788 * MPSub subtitles support
789 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
790 * MPL2 subtitles support
791 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
792 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
793 * Realtext subtitle support
794 * DKS subtitle support
795 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
796 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
799 * Flash Screen Video support
800 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
802 Video outputs and filters:
803 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
804 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
805 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
806 * New puzzle video output filter
807 * Re-written motion detection video filter
808 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
810 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
811 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
812 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
813 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
814 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
815 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
816 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
817 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
818 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
819 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
820 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
821 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
822 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
823 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
825 Audio outputs and filters:
826 * Replay gain support
827 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
828 new scaletempo audio filter)
829 * New spatializer audio filter
830 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
833 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
834 * New RTP payload formats:
835 * Speex voice audio codec
836 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
837 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
838 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
839 * DCCP transport for RTP
840 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
845 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
846 end-user suitable way.
847 * Improved user interaction
848 * Improved mouse gestures
849 * Vastly improved Update checker
850 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
852 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
853 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
855 * Improved video output features
856 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
857 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
858 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
859 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
860 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
862 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
863 if libncursesw is available.
864 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
865 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
866 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
868 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
869 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
870 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
871 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
872 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
873 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
874 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
875 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
878 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
879 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
880 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
883 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
884 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
885 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
886 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
887 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
888 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
891 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
892 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
902 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
903 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
904 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
907 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
908 ----------------------------------
911 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
914 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
915 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
916 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
917 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
918 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
919 * Updated Polish translation
922 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
923 ----------------------------------
926 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
927 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
928 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
931 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
932 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
933 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
934 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
935 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
936 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
937 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
938 to an unexpected application termination
939 * New Serbian translation
940 * Updated Romanian translation
943 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
944 ----------------------------------
947 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
948 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
949 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
950 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
951 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
952 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
953 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
954 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
957 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
958 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
959 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
960 * Fixed AAC resampling
961 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
962 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
965 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
966 ----------------------------------
969 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
970 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
971 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
972 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
973 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
976 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
977 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
978 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
979 * Close MMS access on network timeout
980 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
983 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
984 ----------------------------------
987 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
988 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
991 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
992 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
993 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
994 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
996 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1000 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1003 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1006 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1009 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1012 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1013 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1014 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1015 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1016 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1018 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1019 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1020 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1021 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1024 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1027 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1028 ----------------------------------
1031 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1032 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1033 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1035 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1036 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1038 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1039 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1042 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1044 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1045 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1046 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1047 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1048 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1049 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1050 two different movies
1051 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1052 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1053 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1056 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1059 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1060 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1061 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1062 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1065 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1066 ----------------------------------
1068 Various bugfixes, notably:
1069 * Windows Vista compatibility
1070 * Cropping in Direct3D
1071 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1072 * RSS filter string overflow
1074 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1076 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1077 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1080 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1081 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1084 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1087 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1090 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1093 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1094 ----------------------------------
1096 Various bugfixes, notably:
1097 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1098 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1099 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1100 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1101 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1102 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1105 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1106 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1109 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1111 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1112 * Diverse usability improvements
1113 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1114 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1115 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1118 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1119 ---------------------------------
1121 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1122 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1125 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1128 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1129 --------------------------------
1132 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1135 * Support for RTSP authentication
1136 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1137 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1138 * ATSC support for DVB input
1139 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1140 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1141 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1144 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1145 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1146 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1147 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1148 * Matroska WavPack support
1149 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1150 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1151 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1154 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1155 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1156 * Improved libcaca support
1160 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1161 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1163 * Systray support in skins
1165 * Support for Apple Remote control
1166 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1167 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1168 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1169 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1171 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1174 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1175 Windows 9x/ME users:
1176 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1177 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1178 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1179 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1180 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1182 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1183 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1192 * Updates to the libvlc API
1193 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1196 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1197 --------------------------------
1200 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1201 * Support for downloading updates
1205 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1206 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1207 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1208 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1210 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1211 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1212 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1215 * Cook (Real audio) support
1217 Playlist / Services discovery:
1218 * XSPF playlist support
1220 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1223 * New JACK audio output
1226 * New video filters:
1227 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1228 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1229 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1230 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1231 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1232 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1235 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1238 * System to inform the user and request information
1239 - HTTP authentication
1243 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1244 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1245 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1248 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1249 - Improved playlist handling
1250 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1252 - Embedded Video output
1253 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1254 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1255 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1256 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1257 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1259 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1260 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1263 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1266 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1267 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1268 * Growl "Now playing" support
1271 * Ability to log to syslog
1272 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1275 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1277 * A bit more automatic testing
1280 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1281 ---------------------------------
1284 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1285 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1288 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1289 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1292 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1295 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1296 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1302 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1305 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1306 --------------------------------
1309 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1313 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1314 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1315 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1318 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1319 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1320 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1321 * GnomeVFS input module
1322 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1323 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1326 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1327 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1328 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1331 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1332 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1338 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1339 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1342 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1343 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1344 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1347 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1349 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1350 - New extended controls panel
1351 - New bookmarks window
1352 - Fixed playlist sorting
1353 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1355 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1356 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1357 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1358 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
1362 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
1363 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
1365 - Include macro to include other files
1369 * Should now work outside IE as well
1372 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
1375 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
1376 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
1379 The following languages were added:
1383 * Simplified Chinese
1384 The following languages were re-added:
1388 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
1389 --------------------------------
1392 * Rewrite of the playlist
1394 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
1395 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
1396 * Preferences improvements:
1397 - New organization, designed to improve usability
1398 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
1400 * Core image manipulation support
1401 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
1402 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
1403 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
1404 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
1405 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
1406 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
1407 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
1408 now separated by ':' instead of ','
1409 * Access filter architecture
1410 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
1411 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
1415 * Support for SOCKS proxy
1416 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
1417 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
1418 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
1419 * Better support for Kasenna streams
1420 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
1421 * Massive Matroska improvements
1422 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
1424 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
1425 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
1426 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
1427 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
1428 * Support for FTP over IPv6
1430 Decoders / Encoders:
1431 * Dirac decoder and encoder
1432 * PNG decoder/encoder
1433 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
1434 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
1437 * New Record and Timeshift filters
1440 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
1441 * Brand new SAP module
1442 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
1443 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
1444 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
1445 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1446 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1447 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1451 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1454 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1455 * Image file video output (png)
1456 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1457 * Improvements to wall video filter
1458 * Support for font color and opacity
1464 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1465 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1466 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1470 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1471 - Improved preferences
1472 - Improvements to the wizard
1473 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1475 - Redesigned playlist
1476 - Improved preferences
1478 - Support for multiple actions
1481 - Support for the new playlist system
1483 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1486 * Screensaver disabling fix
1487 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1488 * Support for no-decoration windows
1491 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1492 * The OpenGL video output is back
1493 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1494 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1495 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1496 is not yet available in the new module
1497 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1500 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1509 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1512 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1515 The following languages were added:
1521 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1522 --------------------------------
1525 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1526 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1529 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1530 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1531 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1534 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1537 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1540 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1543 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1544 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1545 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1549 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1551 * Support of playlist group announcement
1554 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1555 --------------------------------
1558 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1559 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1560 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1561 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
1562 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
1563 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
1566 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
1567 (Stream your desktop)
1568 * Improved DVD support:
1569 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
1570 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
1571 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
1572 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
1573 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
1574 (selection of titles/chapters).
1577 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
1578 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
1579 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
1580 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
1581 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
1582 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1583 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
1584 * Improved Ogg demuxer
1585 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
1586 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
1589 * G.726 audio support
1590 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
1591 * MPEG-4 text support
1592 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
1593 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
1594 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
1598 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
1599 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
1600 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
1601 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
1602 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
1603 * DVB subtitles encoder
1604 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
1605 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
1607 * Text track muxing for mp4
1608 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
1609 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
1610 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1611 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
1612 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
1613 * Improved ASF muxer
1615 * H.263 RTP streaming support
1616 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
1617 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
1620 * New audio equalizer filter
1621 * Very trivial volume normalizer
1622 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
1623 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
1624 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
1627 * Roku HD1000 Video output
1628 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
1629 with support for effects.
1630 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
1631 - New filters can be streamed.
1632 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1633 - Centralized scaling and blending
1635 - "time", to display current time
1636 - "marq", to display a marquee
1639 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1640 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1641 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1642 * A few skins2 improvements
1643 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1644 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1645 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1646 * Improved CORBA control module
1649 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1650 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1651 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1654 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1655 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1656 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1659 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1660 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1661 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1662 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1663 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1666 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1669 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1670 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1673 * Server/client network synchronization module
1674 * VBrick streams fully supported
1675 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1679 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1680 --------------------------------
1683 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1684 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1685 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1686 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1689 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1690 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1691 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1692 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1693 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1694 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1695 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1698 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1699 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1700 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1701 * Improved directory access module.
1702 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1703 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1704 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1705 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1706 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1709 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1710 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1711 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1714 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1715 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1716 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1719 * Improved session announcement system.
1720 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1721 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1722 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1723 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1724 * Improved transrater.
1725 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1726 * New configuration system.
1727 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1730 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1731 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1732 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1733 * Supports scheduling.
1734 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1735 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1738 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1739 - Ability to embed video output.
1740 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1741 - Lots of improvements.
1742 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1743 - New design and set of icons.
1744 - Ability to embed video output.
1745 - Support for hotkeys.
1746 - Support for bookmarks.
1748 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1749 - Better hotkeys handling.
1752 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1753 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1754 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1755 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1758 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1759 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1760 * Improved Windows installer.
1766 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1767 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1770 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1771 ---------------------------------
1774 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1775 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1778 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1779 --------------------------------
1782 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1783 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1786 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1787 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1788 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1789 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1792 * Internal improvments
1793 * Improved import/export
1796 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1798 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1799 small and strange formats.
1801 * New MOD audio demux.
1802 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1803 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1804 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1805 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1808 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1809 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1810 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1816 * New opengl video output plugin.
1819 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1820 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1823 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1824 --------------------------------
1827 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1828 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1829 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1830 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1831 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1832 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1833 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1834 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1837 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1842 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1843 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1844 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1845 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1846 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1847 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1848 * Better Icecast support.
1849 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1850 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1853 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1854 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1855 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1856 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1857 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1858 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1859 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1862 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1863 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1864 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1865 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1866 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1867 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1868 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1869 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1870 * Preliminary RTP support.
1871 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1876 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1877 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1879 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1880 - Improvements and help in preferences
1881 - New streaming wizard
1882 - Revised Disc Open menu
1884 - Improvements of the standard pages
1885 - Support for new commands
1886 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1889 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1890 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1893 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1894 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1895 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1896 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1897 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1898 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1899 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1900 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1901 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1904 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1906 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1907 * Support for Panther.
1908 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1909 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1912 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1913 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1914 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1915 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1916 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1917 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1918 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1919 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1922 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1923 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1924 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1927 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1930 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1931 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1932 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1933 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1936 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1937 --------------------------------
1940 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1943 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1944 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1947 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1948 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1951 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1954 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1955 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1958 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1961 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1964 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1965 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1969 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1970 --------------------------------
1973 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1974 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1978 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1979 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1980 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1982 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1983 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1986 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1989 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1992 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1993 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1997 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1998 --------------------------------
2001 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2002 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2006 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2007 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2008 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2009 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2010 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2013 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2014 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2015 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2018 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2019 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2020 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2023 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2024 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2025 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2026 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2027 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2030 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2031 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2032 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2035 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2038 * Improved build system.
2039 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2040 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2041 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2042 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2045 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2046 --------------------------------
2049 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2052 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2053 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2054 * Video 4 Linux support
2055 * CD Digital Audio support
2056 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2059 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2060 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2061 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2062 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2065 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2066 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2067 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2068 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2069 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2070 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2071 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2074 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2075 * New HTTP remote control interface
2078 * 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.
2079 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2080 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2081 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2084 * New reset option for the preferences
2085 * You can set your language in the prefences
2086 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2087 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2088 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2089 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2092 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2093 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2094 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2097 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2098 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2099 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2100 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2101 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2102 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2103 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2104 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2105 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2106 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2109 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2110 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2111 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2112 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2113 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2114 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2115 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2118 * Interface localization
2119 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2120 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2121 * New full-featured Preferences window
2124 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2125 --------------------------------
2128 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2129 * support for skins at the interface level
2130 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2131 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2132 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2133 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2134 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2137 * fixed HTTP redirects
2138 * support for opening an entire directory
2139 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2140 * new video4linux access plug-in
2141 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2144 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2145 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2146 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2149 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2150 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2151 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2152 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2153 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2154 * new codec for raw I420 video
2155 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2158 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2159 (although it still misses some important features)
2160 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2163 * new HTTP output support
2164 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2165 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2168 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2171 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2174 * reorderable playlist
2175 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2176 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2177 * support for mono audio output devices
2178 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2179 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2180 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2181 * the messages window remembers more lines
2182 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2183 * http and ogg stream output options
2184 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2187 * new skinnable interface
2188 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2190 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2191 * support for FLAC audio format
2192 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2194 * network tab in the interface
2195 * "apply" handling in preferences
2198 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2199 ---------------------------------
2202 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2203 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2204 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2205 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2207 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2208 * DTS S/PDIF support
2211 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2212 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2213 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2214 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2217 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2218 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2221 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2224 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2227 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2229 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2230 * rc interface is now fully useable
2231 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2234 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2235 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2236 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2237 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2238 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2240 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2241 * support for mouse gestures
2242 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2245 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2246 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2249 * improved ID3 tag detection
2250 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2251 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2252 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2254 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2257 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2258 ---------------------------------
2261 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2262 English was set as the preferred language
2265 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2266 --------------------------------
2269 * new mouse gesture interface
2270 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2274 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2275 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2276 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2279 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2280 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2284 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2287 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2288 without the user consent
2291 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2293 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2294 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2295 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2298 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2299 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2300 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2301 * playlist enhancements
2302 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2303 * new step forward/step backward commands
2304 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2305 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2306 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2309 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2310 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2311 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2314 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2315 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2318 * native video output is working again
2319 * only commandline interface support
2320 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2323 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2324 --------------------------------
2327 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2328 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2329 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2330 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2331 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2332 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2333 and A/52 streams are supported)
2334 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2339 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2340 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2341 * VCD entry points support
2342 * VCD image file support
2345 * support for *.asf format
2346 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2347 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2348 * support for ogg encapsulation
2349 * support for raw DV format
2350 * support for *.wav format
2351 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2354 Stream discovery & playlists:
2355 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2356 * support for .m3u file format
2357 * support for .asx file format
2358 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2361 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
2362 (only available with the .avi demux)
2363 * support for ADPCM audio codec
2364 * support for raw PCM data
2365 * support for Cinepak video codec
2366 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
2367 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
2368 * support for Xvid codec
2369 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
2370 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
2371 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
2373 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
2375 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
2378 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
2381 * new WxWindows interface
2382 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
2383 device and the channels configuration
2384 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
2385 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
2386 format that VLC can play
2387 * new swedish translation
2388 * enhancements of the playlist window
2389 * new messages window to see debug info
2390 * fixed a few crashes
2393 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
2394 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
2395 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
2396 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working