1 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.1.0-rc2:
2 ------------------------------------
3 Important changes for users:
4 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
5 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
7 Important changes for packagers:
8 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
9 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
10 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
11 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
12 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
14 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
16 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
17 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
18 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
19 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
20 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
23 * Support for the sftp protocol
24 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
25 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
26 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
27 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
28 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
31 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
32 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
33 * Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP usage
35 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
36 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
37 * Invmem module improvements
38 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
39 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
40 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
41 * Support for Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec natively on all platforms
42 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
43 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
44 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
45 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
46 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
47 * Support for VP8 codec (source code version only)
50 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
51 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
52 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
53 * Various EGP improvements
54 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
55 * Many fixes on Matroska support and support for Webm format
56 * Metadata and cover art improvements
59 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
60 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
61 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
62 * Podcast images are now displayed
65 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
66 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
67 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
68 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
69 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
70 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
71 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
72 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
73 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
74 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
75 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
78 * New content extensions lua framework
81 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
82 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
83 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
84 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
85 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
86 * NEON assembly audio converter module
87 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
90 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
93 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
94 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
95 * Service discovery based on libudev
96 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
99 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
100 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
101 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
102 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
103 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
104 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
105 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
108 * New smem module, streaming to memory
109 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
110 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
113 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
115 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
116 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
119 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
120 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
121 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
122 by Andy Matuschak et al.
123 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
124 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
125 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
128 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
129 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
132 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
133 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
134 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
138 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
139 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
142 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
143 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
146 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
147 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
148 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
149 * transrate: broken since too long
150 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
151 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
152 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
153 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
154 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
155 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
156 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
157 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
158 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
159 * cddax: use cdda instead.
160 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
161 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
162 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
163 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
166 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
167 --------------------------------
170 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
172 Decoders/Packetizers:
173 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
176 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
177 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
178 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
179 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
180 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
183 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
184 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
187 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
188 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
191 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
192 and Walloon translations updated
193 * Sinhala translation started
196 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
197 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
200 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
201 --------------------------------
204 * SubRip extra styles improvements
205 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
208 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
211 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
212 increase performance and fix x264 issues
215 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
216 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
217 Russian, Slovak translation updates
218 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
221 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
222 --------------------------------
225 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
226 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
229 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
230 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
233 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
234 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
237 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
240 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
241 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
244 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
245 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
248 * New Walloon translation
249 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
252 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
253 --------------------------------
256 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
257 regressions in most popular drivers
258 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
261 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
262 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
263 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
266 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
267 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
270 * Update for appletrailers lua script
271 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
272 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
273 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
274 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
277 * New udev module for linux
280 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
283 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
286 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
287 --------------------------------
290 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
291 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
292 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
295 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
296 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
299 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
300 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
303 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
306 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
307 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
308 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
309 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
312 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
313 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
314 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
315 - no support for Goom and SDL
316 - limited text rendering support
317 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
320 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
321 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
322 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
323 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
324 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
325 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
326 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
327 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
328 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
332 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
335 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
338 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
339 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
340 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
341 Arabic and French translation updates
344 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
345 --------------------------------
348 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
349 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
350 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
351 * Fix Dailymotion access script
352 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
353 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
356 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
357 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
360 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
361 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
362 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
365 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
368 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
369 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
372 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
373 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
374 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
375 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
376 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
377 * Fix various crashes
380 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
382 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
385 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
386 ---------------------------------
390 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
391 See 'Access:' for more info.
392 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
395 * Instantaneous pausing
396 * Frame-by-Frame playback
397 * Finer speed control
398 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
399 * Timeshift for most medias
400 * RTSP trickplay support
401 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
404 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
405 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
406 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
407 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
408 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
409 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
410 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
411 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
412 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
413 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
416 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
417 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
418 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
419 * Metadata for mod files are supported
420 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
421 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
422 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
425 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
426 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
429 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
430 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
431 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
432 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
433 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
434 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
435 * DVB scanning on linux
436 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
437 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
438 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
439 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
440 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
441 * MTP device access on Unix
442 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
443 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
446 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
447 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
448 Windows and Mac OS X.
451 * Export the playlist in HTML
452 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
453 * Better metadata handling and reading
455 Linux/Windows interface:
456 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
457 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
458 * Recently played items list
459 * Interface toolbar customizations
460 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
463 - Improvements on many dialogs
464 - New dialog for plugins listing
465 - Fixed-size mode for videos
466 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
467 * Better integration in GTK environments
470 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
471 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
472 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
473 * Additional usability improvements
476 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
477 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
478 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
479 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
480 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
483 * New Maemo port with:
484 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
485 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
488 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
491 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
492 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
493 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
494 * Support for latest iSight models
497 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
498 * Surround support for PulseAudio
501 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
502 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
503 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
504 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
505 The old image video output has been removed.
506 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
507 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
510 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
518 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
519 --------------------------------------
525 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
526 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
527 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
528 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
529 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
530 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
531 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
533 Various fixes to the following modules:
536 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
537 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
540 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
545 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
546 ---------------------------------
549 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
550 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
553 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
554 ---------------------------------
557 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
560 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
563 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
564 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
565 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
566 main controller window.
567 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
570 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
575 * Updates of other localizations
578 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
579 * Lots of small bugfixes.
580 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
581 * Telnet fixes on Windows
582 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
585 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
586 ---------------------------------
589 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
591 Bunch of small bugfixes.
594 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
595 --------------------------------
600 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
601 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
604 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
605 --------------------------------
607 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
608 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
611 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
614 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
615 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
618 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
619 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
622 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
623 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
624 * Various fixed in playlist
627 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
630 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
633 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
634 ------------------------------------
636 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
637 * Fixes several memory leaks.
640 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
641 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
642 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
645 * Stability fix for the video output.
648 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
649 --------------------------------
652 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
653 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
654 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
655 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
656 * Fixed update system bugs
657 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
660 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
661 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
662 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
663 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
664 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
665 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
666 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
667 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
668 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
669 modern Mac OS X versions
672 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
673 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
675 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
676 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
679 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
680 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
681 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
682 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
683 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
684 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
687 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
688 --------------------------------
690 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
691 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
695 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
696 --------------------------------
698 * Multiple bug fixes.
701 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
702 ---------------------------------
706 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
707 recent to work correctly
708 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
709 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
710 edit the ".hosts" file.
711 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
712 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
713 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
714 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
715 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
716 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
717 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
718 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
719 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
720 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
721 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
722 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
723 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
724 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
725 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
726 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
727 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
728 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
729 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
730 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
731 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
732 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
733 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
734 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
735 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
736 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
737 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
738 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
739 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
740 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
741 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
742 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
743 and postproc modules.
744 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
745 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
746 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
747 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
749 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
751 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
752 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
754 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
755 * Glide video output module has been removed.
761 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
763 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
764 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
767 * Vastly improved playlist support:
768 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
770 * Shoutcast TV listings
771 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
773 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
774 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
776 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
779 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
780 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
781 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
782 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
783 * JACK audio input support
784 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
785 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
786 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
787 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
788 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
789 * Experimental EyeTV access module
790 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
791 (available as a separate download).
792 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
794 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
795 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
796 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
798 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
799 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
802 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
803 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
804 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
805 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
807 * APEv1/2 tags support
808 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
809 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
811 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
812 * TiVo Series 2 support
813 * CD+G karaoke Files support
818 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
819 * Flash Screen Video support
820 * CamStudio Screen Video support
821 * DosBox Capture support
822 * Karl Morton's Video support
823 * limited atrac3 support
825 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
826 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
827 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
829 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
830 * NellyMoser ASAO support
831 * APE (Monkey audio) support
832 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
833 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
836 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
837 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
838 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
839 * AQTitle subtitles support
840 * MKV USF subtitles support
841 * HTML-based subtitles support
842 * MPSub subtitles support
843 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
844 * MPL2 subtitles support
845 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
846 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
847 * Realtext subtitle support
848 * DKS subtitle support
849 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
850 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
853 * Flash Screen Video support
854 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
856 Video outputs and filters:
857 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
858 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
859 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
860 * New puzzle video output filter
861 * Re-written motion detection video filter
862 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
864 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
865 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
866 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
867 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
868 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
869 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
870 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
871 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
872 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
873 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
874 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
875 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
876 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
877 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
879 Audio outputs and filters:
880 * Replay gain support
881 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
882 new scaletempo audio filter)
883 * New spatializer audio filter
884 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
887 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
888 * New RTP payload formats:
889 * Speex voice audio codec
890 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
891 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
892 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
893 * DCCP transport for RTP
894 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
899 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
900 end-user suitable way.
901 * Improved user interaction
902 * Improved mouse gestures
903 * Vastly improved Update checker
904 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
906 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
907 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
909 * Improved video output features
910 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
911 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
912 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
913 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
914 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
916 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
917 if libncursesw is available.
918 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
919 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
920 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
922 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
923 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
924 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
925 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
926 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
927 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
928 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
929 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
932 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
933 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
934 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
937 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
938 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
939 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
940 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
941 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
942 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
945 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
946 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
956 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
957 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
958 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
961 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
962 ----------------------------------
965 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
968 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
969 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
970 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
971 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
972 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
973 * Updated Polish translation
976 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
977 ----------------------------------
980 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
981 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
982 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
985 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
986 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
987 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
988 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
989 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
990 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
991 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
992 to an unexpected application termination
993 * New Serbian translation
994 * Updated Romanian translation
997 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
998 ----------------------------------
1001 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1002 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1003 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1004 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1005 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1006 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1007 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1008 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1011 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1012 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1013 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1014 * Fixed AAC resampling
1015 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1016 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1019 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1020 ----------------------------------
1023 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1024 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1025 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1026 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1027 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1030 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1031 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1032 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1033 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1034 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1037 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1038 ----------------------------------
1041 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1042 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1045 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1046 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1047 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1048 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1050 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1054 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1057 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1060 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1063 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1066 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1067 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1068 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1069 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1070 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1072 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1073 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1074 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1075 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1078 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1081 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1082 ----------------------------------
1085 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1086 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1087 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1089 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1090 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1092 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1093 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1096 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1098 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1099 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1100 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1101 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1102 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1103 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1104 two different movies
1105 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1106 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1107 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1110 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1113 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1114 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1115 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1116 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1119 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1120 ----------------------------------
1122 Various bugfixes, notably:
1123 * Windows Vista compatibility
1124 * Cropping in Direct3D
1125 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1126 * RSS filter string overflow
1128 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1130 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1131 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1134 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1135 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1138 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1141 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1144 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1147 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1148 ----------------------------------
1150 Various bugfixes, notably:
1151 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1152 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1153 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1154 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1155 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1156 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1159 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1160 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1163 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1165 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1166 * Diverse usability improvements
1167 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1168 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1169 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1172 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1173 ---------------------------------
1175 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1176 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1179 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1182 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1183 --------------------------------
1186 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1189 * Support for RTSP authentication
1190 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1191 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1192 * ATSC support for DVB input
1193 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1194 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1195 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1198 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1199 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1200 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1201 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1202 * Matroska WavPack support
1203 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1204 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1205 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1208 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1209 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1210 * Improved libcaca support
1214 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1215 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1217 * Systray support in skins
1219 * Support for Apple Remote control
1220 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1221 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1222 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1223 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1225 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1228 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1229 Windows 9x/ME users:
1230 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1231 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1232 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1233 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1234 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1236 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1237 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1246 * Updates to the libvlc API
1247 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1250 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1251 --------------------------------
1254 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1255 * Support for downloading updates
1259 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1260 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1261 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1262 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1264 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1265 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1266 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1269 * Cook (Real audio) support
1271 Playlist / Services discovery:
1272 * XSPF playlist support
1274 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1277 * New JACK audio output
1280 * New video filters:
1281 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1282 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1283 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1284 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1285 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1286 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1289 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1292 * System to inform the user and request information
1293 - HTTP authentication
1297 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1298 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1299 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1302 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1303 - Improved playlist handling
1304 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1306 - Embedded Video output
1307 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1308 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1309 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1310 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1311 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1313 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1314 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1317 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1320 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1321 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1322 * Growl "Now playing" support
1325 * Ability to log to syslog
1326 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1329 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1331 * A bit more automatic testing
1334 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1335 ---------------------------------
1338 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1339 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1342 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1343 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1346 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1349 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1350 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1356 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1359 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1360 --------------------------------
1363 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1367 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1368 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1369 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1372 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1373 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1374 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1375 * GnomeVFS input module
1376 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1377 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1380 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1381 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1382 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1385 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1386 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1392 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1393 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1396 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1397 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1398 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1401 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1403 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1404 - New extended controls panel
1405 - New bookmarks window
1406 - Fixed playlist sorting
1407 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1409 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1410 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1411 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1412 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
1416 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
1417 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
1419 - Include macro to include other files
1423 * Should now work outside IE as well
1426 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
1429 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
1430 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
1433 The following languages were added:
1437 * Simplified Chinese
1438 The following languages were re-added:
1442 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
1443 --------------------------------
1446 * Rewrite of the playlist
1448 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
1449 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
1450 * Preferences improvements:
1451 - New organization, designed to improve usability
1452 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
1454 * Core image manipulation support
1455 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
1456 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
1457 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
1458 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
1459 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
1460 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
1461 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
1462 now separated by ':' instead of ','
1463 * Access filter architecture
1464 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
1465 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
1469 * Support for SOCKS proxy
1470 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
1471 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
1472 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
1473 * Better support for Kasenna streams
1474 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
1475 * Massive Matroska improvements
1476 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
1478 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
1479 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
1480 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
1481 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
1482 * Support for FTP over IPv6
1484 Decoders / Encoders:
1485 * Dirac decoder and encoder
1486 * PNG decoder/encoder
1487 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
1488 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
1491 * New Record and Timeshift filters
1494 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
1495 * Brand new SAP module
1496 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
1497 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
1498 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
1499 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1500 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1501 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1505 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1508 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1509 * Image file video output (png)
1510 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1511 * Improvements to wall video filter
1512 * Support for font color and opacity
1518 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1519 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1520 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1524 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1525 - Improved preferences
1526 - Improvements to the wizard
1527 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1529 - Redesigned playlist
1530 - Improved preferences
1532 - Support for multiple actions
1535 - Support for the new playlist system
1537 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1540 * Screensaver disabling fix
1541 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1542 * Support for no-decoration windows
1545 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1546 * The OpenGL video output is back
1547 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1548 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1549 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1550 is not yet available in the new module
1551 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1554 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1563 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1566 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1569 The following languages were added:
1575 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1576 --------------------------------
1579 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1580 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1583 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1584 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1585 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1588 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1591 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1594 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1597 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1598 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1599 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1603 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1605 * Support of playlist group announcement
1608 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1609 --------------------------------
1612 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1613 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1614 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1615 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
1616 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
1617 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
1620 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
1621 (Stream your desktop)
1622 * Improved DVD support:
1623 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
1624 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
1625 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
1626 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
1627 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
1628 (selection of titles/chapters).
1631 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
1632 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
1633 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
1634 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
1635 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
1636 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1637 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
1638 * Improved Ogg demuxer
1639 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
1640 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
1643 * G.726 audio support
1644 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
1645 * MPEG-4 text support
1646 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
1647 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
1648 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
1652 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
1653 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
1654 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
1655 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
1656 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
1657 * DVB subtitles encoder
1658 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
1659 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
1661 * Text track muxing for mp4
1662 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
1663 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
1664 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1665 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
1666 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
1667 * Improved ASF muxer
1669 * H.263 RTP streaming support
1670 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
1671 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
1674 * New audio equalizer filter
1675 * Very trivial volume normalizer
1676 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
1677 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
1678 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
1681 * Roku HD1000 Video output
1682 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
1683 with support for effects.
1684 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
1685 - New filters can be streamed.
1686 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1687 - Centralized scaling and blending
1689 - "time", to display current time
1690 - "marq", to display a marquee
1693 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1694 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1695 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1696 * A few skins2 improvements
1697 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1698 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1699 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1700 * Improved CORBA control module
1703 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1704 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1705 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1708 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1709 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1710 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1713 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1714 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1715 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1716 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1717 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1720 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1723 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1724 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1727 * Server/client network synchronization module
1728 * VBrick streams fully supported
1729 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1733 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1734 --------------------------------
1737 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1738 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1739 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1740 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1743 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1744 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1745 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1746 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1747 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1748 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1749 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1752 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1753 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1754 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1755 * Improved directory access module.
1756 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1757 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1758 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1759 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1760 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1763 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1764 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1765 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1768 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1769 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1770 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1773 * Improved session announcement system.
1774 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1775 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1776 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1777 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1778 * Improved transrater.
1779 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1780 * New configuration system.
1781 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1784 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1785 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1786 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1787 * Supports scheduling.
1788 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1789 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1792 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1793 - Ability to embed video output.
1794 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1795 - Lots of improvements.
1796 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1797 - New design and set of icons.
1798 - Ability to embed video output.
1799 - Support for hotkeys.
1800 - Support for bookmarks.
1802 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1803 - Better hotkeys handling.
1806 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1807 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1808 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1809 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1812 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1813 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1814 * Improved Windows installer.
1820 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1821 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1824 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1825 ---------------------------------
1828 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1829 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1832 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1833 --------------------------------
1836 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1837 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1840 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1841 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1842 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1843 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1846 * Internal improvments
1847 * Improved import/export
1850 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1852 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1853 small and strange formats.
1855 * New MOD audio demux.
1856 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1857 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1858 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1859 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1862 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1863 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1864 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1870 * New opengl video output plugin.
1873 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1874 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1877 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1878 --------------------------------
1881 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1882 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1883 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1884 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1885 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1886 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1887 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1888 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1891 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1896 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1897 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1898 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1899 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1900 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1901 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1902 * Better Icecast support.
1903 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1904 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1907 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1908 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1909 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1910 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1911 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1912 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1913 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1916 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1917 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1918 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1919 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1920 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1921 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1922 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1923 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1924 * Preliminary RTP support.
1925 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1930 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1931 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1933 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1934 - Improvements and help in preferences
1935 - New streaming wizard
1936 - Revised Disc Open menu
1938 - Improvements of the standard pages
1939 - Support for new commands
1940 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1943 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1944 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1947 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1948 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1949 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1950 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1951 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1952 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1953 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1954 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1955 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1958 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1960 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1961 * Support for Panther.
1962 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1963 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1966 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1967 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1968 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1969 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1970 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1971 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1972 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1973 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1976 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1977 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1978 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1981 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1984 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1985 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1986 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1987 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1990 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1991 --------------------------------
1994 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1997 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1998 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2001 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2002 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2005 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2008 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2009 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2012 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2015 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2018 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2019 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2023 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2024 --------------------------------
2027 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2028 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2032 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2033 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2034 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2036 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2037 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2040 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2043 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2046 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2047 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2051 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2052 --------------------------------
2055 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2056 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2060 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2061 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2062 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2063 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2064 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2067 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2068 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2069 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2072 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2073 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2074 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2077 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2078 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2079 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2080 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2081 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2084 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2085 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2086 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2089 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2092 * Improved build system.
2093 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2094 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2095 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2096 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2099 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2100 --------------------------------
2103 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2106 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2107 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2108 * Video 4 Linux support
2109 * CD Digital Audio support
2110 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2113 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2114 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2115 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2116 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2119 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2120 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2121 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2122 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2123 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2124 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2125 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2128 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2129 * New HTTP remote control interface
2132 * 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.
2133 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2134 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2135 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2138 * New reset option for the preferences
2139 * You can set your language in the prefences
2140 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2141 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2142 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2143 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2146 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2147 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2148 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2151 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2152 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2153 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2154 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2155 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2156 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2157 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2158 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2159 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2160 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2163 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2164 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2165 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2166 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2167 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2168 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2169 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2172 * Interface localization
2173 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2174 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2175 * New full-featured Preferences window
2178 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2179 --------------------------------
2182 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2183 * support for skins at the interface level
2184 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2185 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2186 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2187 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2188 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2191 * fixed HTTP redirects
2192 * support for opening an entire directory
2193 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2194 * new video4linux access plug-in
2195 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2198 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2199 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2200 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2203 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2204 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2205 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2206 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2207 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2208 * new codec for raw I420 video
2209 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2212 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2213 (although it still misses some important features)
2214 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2217 * new HTTP output support
2218 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2219 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2222 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2225 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2228 * reorderable playlist
2229 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2230 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2231 * support for mono audio output devices
2232 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2233 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2234 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2235 * the messages window remembers more lines
2236 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2237 * http and ogg stream output options
2238 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2241 * new skinnable interface
2242 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2244 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2245 * support for FLAC audio format
2246 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2248 * network tab in the interface
2249 * "apply" handling in preferences
2252 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2253 ---------------------------------
2256 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2257 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2258 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2259 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2261 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2262 * DTS S/PDIF support
2265 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2266 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2267 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2268 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2271 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2272 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2275 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2278 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2281 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2283 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2284 * rc interface is now fully useable
2285 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2288 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2289 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2290 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2291 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2292 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2294 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2295 * support for mouse gestures
2296 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2299 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2300 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2303 * improved ID3 tag detection
2304 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2305 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2306 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2308 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2311 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2312 ---------------------------------
2315 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2316 English was set as the preferred language
2319 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2320 --------------------------------
2323 * new mouse gesture interface
2324 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2328 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2329 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2330 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2333 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2334 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2338 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2341 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2342 without the user consent
2345 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2347 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2348 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2349 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2352 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2353 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2354 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2355 * playlist enhancements
2356 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2357 * new step forward/step backward commands
2358 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2359 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2360 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2363 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2364 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2365 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2368 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2369 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2372 * native video output is working again
2373 * only commandline interface support
2374 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2377 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2378 --------------------------------
2381 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2382 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2383 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2384 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2385 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2386 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2387 and A/52 streams are supported)
2388 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2393 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2394 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2395 * VCD entry points support
2396 * VCD image file support
2399 * support for *.asf format
2400 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2401 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2402 * support for ogg encapsulation
2403 * support for raw DV format
2404 * support for *.wav format
2405 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2408 Stream discovery & playlists:
2409 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2410 * support for .m3u file format
2411 * support for .asx file format
2412 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2415 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
2416 (only available with the .avi demux)
2417 * support for ADPCM audio codec
2418 * support for raw PCM data
2419 * support for Cinepak video codec
2420 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
2421 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
2422 * support for Xvid codec
2423 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
2424 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
2425 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
2427 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
2429 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
2432 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
2435 * new WxWindows interface
2436 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
2437 device and the channels configuration
2438 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
2439 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
2440 format that VLC can play
2441 * new swedish translation
2442 * enhancements of the playlist window
2443 * new messages window to see debug info
2444 * fixed a few crashes
2447 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
2448 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
2449 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
2450 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working