1 Changes between 2.0.x and 2.1.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
4 Important changes for packagers:
5 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed. To tune
6 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually.
7 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
9 3rd party libraries (contrib):
10 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a better system in /contrib
14 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
17 * Support for OPUS via libopus.
18 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec.
19 * Numerous improvements in OpenMAX IL codec
20 * Support for Ulead DV audio
21 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
22 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1)
23 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
24 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
25 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
26 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
27 * Support for VDPAU hardware video decoding acceleration on Linux
30 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
33 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
34 remove support for previous OS X releases
35 * Major improvements in DASH support
36 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
37 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
38 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
39 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
40 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
43 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
44 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
45 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
46 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
47 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
48 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
49 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
50 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
51 * Support for more MJPEG streams
52 * Add support for liveleak streams
55 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
56 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
57 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES module
58 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
59 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1 and 7.1 playback and layouts
60 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
61 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
62 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
63 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
64 * Rewrite of AudioQueue module for iOS (and OS X)
67 * new remapping channel filter
68 * new filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
69 * new VSXu visualization plugin
72 * DecklinkOutput: New module using Blackmagic cards
73 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
74 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
75 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
78 * new anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
79 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images.
80 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
81 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
82 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
83 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
86 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
87 * Options support for AVIO output module
90 * configurable password for the HTTP server.
91 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server.
92 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows.
93 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
94 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
95 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
99 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
102 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based and 32bit Intel-based Macs
103 * VLC requires Mac OS X 10.6 or later now
106 * add support for multiple video outputs
107 * add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
109 * add a GUI to manage podcasts
110 * add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
111 * add a GUI for the QTSound access module to process audio captured locally
112 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time.
113 * add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
114 * add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
115 VLC's internal volume level
116 * add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
117 selection and to manage the list of presets
118 * add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
119 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
120 * add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
121 * add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
122 * add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
123 * add an option to show next / previous buttons
124 * add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
125 * add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
127 * add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
128 * add an option to play videos as a desktop background
129 * add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
130 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
131 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
132 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
136 * Partial support for Qt5.0
137 * Menus modifications and improvements
138 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
139 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
143 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
144 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
145 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
146 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
147 * new libvlc_log_subscribe and libvlc_log_unsubscribe function to register logging callbacks
148 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
149 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
152 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
153 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
154 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
155 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
156 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
157 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
159 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
160 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
161 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
164 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
165 --------------------------------
168 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
171 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
172 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
173 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
176 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
177 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
178 * Fix koreus lua parser
179 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
180 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
181 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
182 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
185 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
186 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
189 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
192 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
193 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
194 * Fix Time counter UI look
195 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
198 * Fix https streaming
201 * Fix audio and video track selection:
202 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
203 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
206 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
207 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
208 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
209 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
210 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
213 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
214 --------------------------------
217 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
218 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
219 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
220 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
221 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
222 during playback on Mac OS X
225 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
226 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
227 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
230 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
231 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
232 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
233 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
234 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
237 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
238 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
239 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
240 * Support Youtube live streams
243 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
246 * Fix media info dialog update
247 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
248 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
249 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
250 * Fix album art display at start
253 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
254 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
255 * Fix menus display and behavior
256 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
257 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
258 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
259 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
260 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
261 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
262 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
265 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
266 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
267 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
268 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
269 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
270 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
271 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
272 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
273 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
276 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
277 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
278 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
279 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
280 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
283 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
284 --------------------------------
287 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
290 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
291 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
294 * Add GateKeeper support
295 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
296 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
297 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
300 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
303 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
304 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
305 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
306 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
307 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
310 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
311 --------------------------------
314 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
315 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
316 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
317 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
318 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
319 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
320 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
321 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
322 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
323 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
324 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
328 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
329 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
330 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
331 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
332 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
333 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
334 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
335 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
336 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
337 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
338 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
339 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
342 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
343 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
345 * Fix MP3 free format support
348 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
349 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
350 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
351 * Fix for DVB channels file support
352 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
355 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
356 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
358 Audio filters and output:
359 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
360 * Fix DirectSound device selection
361 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
362 * Do not apply volume in file output
363 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
364 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
367 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
368 the persistant media library
369 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
370 to the media library or the temporary playlist
371 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
372 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
373 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
374 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
375 press on the Play/Pause button
376 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
377 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
378 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
379 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
380 * Many Fullscreen fixes
381 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
382 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
383 Synchronization panel
384 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
385 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
386 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
387 * Fix crashes on exit
388 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
390 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
391 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
392 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
393 automatically reset on the first launch.
394 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
395 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
396 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
399 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
400 * Fixes for icecast SD
403 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
404 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
405 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
406 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
407 * Fix tags and file names display
408 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
411 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
412 * Fix for key events and focus loss
415 * Fix display of some buttons
416 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
417 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
420 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
421 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
422 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
425 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
426 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
427 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
428 Thai translations update
429 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
432 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
433 --------------------------------
436 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
437 * fix the samba module compilation
438 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
439 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
440 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
441 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
444 * Support for MXPEG files
445 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
446 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
449 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
450 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
451 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
454 * Fix ogm header creation
457 * limit spatializer filter distortions
458 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
461 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
462 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
463 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
464 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
467 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
470 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
471 * allow to hide the sidebar
472 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
473 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
474 * noticebly faster launch time
475 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
476 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
477 * improve track synchronization panel
478 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
479 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
482 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
483 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
484 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
485 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
488 * fix for menus display
489 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
490 * documentation update
493 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
494 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
497 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
498 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
499 * Update Jamendo selections
503 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
504 * fix a crash on VLM close
507 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
508 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
509 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
510 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
513 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
516 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
517 ---------------------------------
520 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
521 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
522 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
523 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
524 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
525 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
526 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
527 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
528 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
529 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
530 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
531 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
532 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
533 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
534 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
535 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
536 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
537 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
538 --http-crl (optional CRL).
539 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
540 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
541 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
542 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
543 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
544 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
545 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
547 Important changes for packagers:
548 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
549 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
550 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
551 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
552 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
553 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
554 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
555 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
556 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
557 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
560 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
561 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
562 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
563 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
564 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
565 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
566 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
569 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
570 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
571 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
572 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
573 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
574 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
575 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
576 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
577 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
578 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
579 * PulseAudio audio input support
580 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
581 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
582 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
583 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
584 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
585 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
586 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
587 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
590 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
591 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
592 are notably concerned.
593 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
594 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
595 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
596 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
597 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
598 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
599 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
600 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
601 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
602 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
603 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
604 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
605 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
606 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
607 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
610 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
611 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
612 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
613 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
614 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
615 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
616 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
617 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
618 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
619 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
620 * Improved support of tracker files
621 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
624 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
625 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
626 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
627 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
628 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
629 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
630 and important cleanups and optimisations
631 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
632 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
633 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
634 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
635 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
636 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
637 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
638 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
639 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
640 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
641 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
642 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
643 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
644 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
645 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
646 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
647 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
648 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
649 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
650 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
651 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
654 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
655 * New video output for iOS platform
656 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
657 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
658 * Various vmem improvements
659 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
660 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
661 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
662 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
663 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
664 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
666 Audio Output and Filters:
667 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
668 * New audio output in memory (amem)
669 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
670 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
671 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
672 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
673 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
674 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
675 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
676 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
679 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
680 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
681 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
682 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
683 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
684 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
685 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
686 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
687 * New anti-flickering filter
688 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
689 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
690 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
691 blackbox and customizable shadow.
692 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
693 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
694 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
697 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
698 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
699 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
700 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
701 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
702 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
703 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
704 * Major rework of VoD support
705 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
706 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
707 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
708 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
709 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
710 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
711 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
712 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
713 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
714 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
717 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
718 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
721 * New capabilities for libVLC:
722 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
723 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
724 list of available audio and video filters
725 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
726 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
727 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
730 * asademux, subsass: use libass
731 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
732 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
734 * upnp: use upnp_intel
735 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
736 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
737 * removal of the noise filter
738 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
739 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
740 removed in Growl's next release, too.
741 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
744 * Update of translations for most languages.
745 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
748 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
749 ----------------------------------
752 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
753 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
756 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
757 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
760 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
761 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
762 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
765 * Camtasia decoding fix.
768 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
769 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
772 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
775 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
776 ----------------------------------
779 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
780 including support for OS X Lion
781 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
782 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
785 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
788 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
789 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
790 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
793 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
796 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
797 ----------------------------------
800 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
801 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
804 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
805 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
806 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
807 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
808 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
810 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
811 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
812 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
814 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
815 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
818 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
821 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
824 * Fix quitting on Linux
825 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
829 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
832 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
835 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
836 ---------------------------------
838 Windows and Mac OS X:
839 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
842 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
843 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
846 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
849 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
852 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
854 Miscellaneous fixes in:
855 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
857 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
858 * RTP output and XML export
859 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
863 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
864 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
865 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
866 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
869 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
870 --------------------------------
872 Windows and Mac OS X:
873 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
876 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
879 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
880 * Improve Apple Remote handling
881 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
882 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
883 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
884 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
887 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
888 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
892 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
893 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
894 * New Luganda Translation
897 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
898 --------------------------------
901 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
904 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
905 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
906 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
907 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
910 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
912 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
913 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
914 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
915 * mp4 demuxer improvements
916 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
917 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
918 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
919 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
921 Miscellaneous fixes in:
922 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
923 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
924 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
925 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
926 * Configure and build system improvements
927 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
930 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
931 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
932 * New icelandic translation
935 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
936 --------------------------------
939 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
943 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
944 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
945 and stability reasons
948 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
952 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
955 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
956 ----------------------------------
959 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
962 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
963 ---------------------------------
966 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
967 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
968 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
969 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
972 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
975 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
976 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
977 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
978 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
981 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
982 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
983 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
985 Subtitles and renderer:
986 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
987 * Mark more freetype options as safe
988 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
989 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
990 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
993 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
994 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
995 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
996 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
999 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1000 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1002 Miscellaneous fixes:
1003 * KDE device solid actions
1005 * Transcode integer overflow
1006 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1007 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1010 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1011 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1012 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1015 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1016 ----------------------------------
1019 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1023 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1026 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1029 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1030 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1031 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1032 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1035 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1039 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1042 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1045 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1046 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1048 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1052 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1053 * Miscellaneous fixes
1056 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1057 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1058 French and Ukrainian
1059 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1060 * New Asturian translation
1063 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1064 ----------------------------------
1067 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1069 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1072 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1075 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1076 * Various fixes for Windows
1079 * New Armenian translation
1080 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1081 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1084 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1085 --------------------------------
1088 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1089 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1090 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1093 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1094 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1097 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1098 --------------------------------
1100 Access and demuxers:
1101 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1102 * fix for podcasts parsing
1103 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1106 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1107 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1110 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1111 * fix m3u playlists exports
1114 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1117 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1120 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1123 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1126 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1129 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1130 --------------------------------
1133 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1134 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1137 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1138 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1141 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1142 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1143 * fix console output encoding
1145 Interface and extensions:
1146 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1147 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1150 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1151 --------------------------------
1154 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1155 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1156 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1157 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1158 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1159 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1160 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1161 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1162 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1163 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1164 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1165 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1166 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1167 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1168 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1169 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1173 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1174 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1175 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1176 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1177 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1180 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1183 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1184 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1185 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1189 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1192 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1193 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1194 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1197 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1198 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1199 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1200 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1203 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1204 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1207 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1208 --------------------------------
1210 Important changes for users:
1211 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1212 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1214 Important changes for packagers:
1215 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1216 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1217 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1218 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1219 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1221 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1223 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1224 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1225 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1226 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1227 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1230 * Support for the sftp protocol
1231 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1232 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1233 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1234 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1235 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1238 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1239 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1240 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1242 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1243 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1244 * Invmem module improvements
1245 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1246 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1247 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1248 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1249 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1250 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1251 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1252 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1253 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1254 * Support for VP8 codec
1255 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1258 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1259 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1260 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1261 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1262 * Various EGP improvements
1263 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1264 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1267 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1268 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1269 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1270 * Podcast images are now displayed
1273 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1274 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1275 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1276 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1277 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1278 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1279 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1280 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1281 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1282 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1283 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1286 * New content extensions lua framework
1289 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1290 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1291 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1292 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1293 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1294 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1295 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
1298 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
1299 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
1300 * Service discovery based on libudev
1301 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
1304 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
1305 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
1306 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
1307 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
1308 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
1309 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
1310 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
1313 * New smem module, streaming to memory
1314 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
1315 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
1318 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
1320 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
1321 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
1324 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
1327 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
1328 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
1329 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
1330 by Andy Matuschak et al.
1331 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
1332 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
1333 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
1336 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
1337 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
1340 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
1341 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
1342 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
1346 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
1347 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
1348 * Improved Solaris port
1351 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
1352 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
1355 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
1356 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
1357 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
1358 * transrate: broken since too long
1359 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
1360 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
1361 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
1362 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
1363 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
1364 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
1365 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
1366 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
1367 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
1368 * cddax: use cdda instead.
1369 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
1370 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
1371 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
1372 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
1375 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
1376 --------------------------------
1379 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
1381 Decoders/Packetizers:
1382 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
1385 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
1386 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
1387 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
1388 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
1389 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
1392 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
1393 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
1396 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
1397 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
1400 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
1401 and Walloon translations updated
1402 * Sinhala translation started
1405 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
1406 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
1409 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
1410 --------------------------------
1413 * SubRip extra styles improvements
1414 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
1417 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
1420 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
1421 increase performance and fix x264 issues
1424 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
1425 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
1426 Russian, Slovak translation updates
1427 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
1430 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
1431 --------------------------------
1434 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
1435 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
1438 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
1439 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
1442 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
1443 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
1446 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
1449 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
1450 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
1453 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
1454 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
1457 * New Walloon translation
1458 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
1461 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
1462 --------------------------------
1465 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
1466 regressions in most popular drivers
1467 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
1470 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
1471 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
1472 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
1475 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
1476 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
1479 * Update for appletrailers lua script
1480 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
1481 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
1482 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
1483 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
1486 * New udev module for linux
1489 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
1492 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
1495 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
1496 --------------------------------
1499 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
1500 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
1501 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
1504 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
1505 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
1508 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
1509 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
1512 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
1515 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
1516 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
1517 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
1518 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
1521 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
1522 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
1523 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
1524 - no support for Goom and SDL
1525 - limited text rendering support
1526 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
1529 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
1530 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
1531 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
1532 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
1533 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
1534 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
1535 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
1536 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
1537 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
1541 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
1544 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
1547 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
1548 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
1549 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
1550 Arabic and French translation updates
1553 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
1554 --------------------------------
1557 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
1558 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
1559 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
1560 * Fix Dailymotion access script
1561 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
1562 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
1565 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
1566 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1567 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1570 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
1571 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
1572 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
1575 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
1578 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
1579 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
1582 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
1583 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
1584 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1585 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
1586 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
1587 * Fix various crashes
1590 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
1592 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
1596 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
1597 ---------------------------------
1601 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
1602 See 'Access:' for more info.
1603 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1606 * Instantaneous pausing
1607 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1608 * Finer speed control
1609 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1610 * Timeshift for most medias
1611 * RTSP trickplay support
1612 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1615 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1616 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1617 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1618 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1619 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1620 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1621 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1622 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1623 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1624 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1627 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1628 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1629 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1630 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1631 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1632 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1633 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1636 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1637 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1640 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1641 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1642 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1643 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1644 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1645 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1646 * DVB scanning on linux
1647 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1648 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1649 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1650 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1651 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1652 * MTP device access on Unix
1653 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1654 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1657 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1658 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1659 Windows and Mac OS X.
1662 * Export the playlist in HTML
1663 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1664 * Better metadata handling and reading
1666 Linux/Windows interface:
1667 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1668 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1669 * Recently played items list
1670 * Interface toolbar customizations
1671 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1672 - More menus actions
1673 - Finer speed slider
1674 - Improvements on many dialogs
1675 - New dialog for plugins listing
1676 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1677 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1678 * Better integration in GTK environments
1681 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1682 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1683 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1684 * Additional usability improvements
1687 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1688 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1689 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1690 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1691 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1694 * New Maemo port with:
1695 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1696 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1699 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1702 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1703 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1704 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1705 * Support for latest iSight models
1708 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1709 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1712 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1713 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1714 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1715 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1716 The old image video output has been removed.
1717 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1718 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1721 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1729 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1730 --------------------------------------
1736 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1737 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1738 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1739 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1740 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1741 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1742 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1744 Various fixes to the following modules:
1747 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1748 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1749 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1751 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1756 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1757 ---------------------------------
1760 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1761 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1764 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1765 ---------------------------------
1768 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1771 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1774 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1775 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1776 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1777 main controller window.
1778 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1781 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1786 * Updates of other localizations
1789 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1790 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1791 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1792 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1793 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1796 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1797 ---------------------------------
1800 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1802 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1805 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1806 --------------------------------
1811 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1812 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1815 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1816 --------------------------------
1818 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1819 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1822 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1825 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1826 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1829 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1830 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1833 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1834 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1835 * Various fixed in playlist
1838 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1841 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1844 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1845 ------------------------------------
1847 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1848 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1851 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1852 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1853 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1856 * Stability fix for the video output.
1859 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1860 --------------------------------
1863 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1864 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1865 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1866 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1867 * Fixed update system bugs
1868 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1871 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1872 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1873 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1874 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1875 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1876 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1877 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1878 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1879 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1880 modern Mac OS X versions
1883 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1884 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1886 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1887 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1890 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1891 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1892 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1893 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1894 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1895 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1898 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1899 --------------------------------
1901 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1902 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1903 * Multiple bugfixes.
1906 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1907 --------------------------------
1909 * Multiple bug fixes.
1912 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1913 ---------------------------------
1917 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1918 recent to work correctly
1919 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1920 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1921 edit the ".hosts" file.
1922 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1923 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1924 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1925 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1926 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1927 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1928 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1929 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1930 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1931 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1932 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1933 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1934 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1935 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1936 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1937 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1938 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1939 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1940 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1941 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1942 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1943 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1944 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1945 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1946 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1947 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1948 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1949 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1950 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1951 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1952 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1953 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1954 and postproc modules.
1955 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1956 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1957 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1958 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1960 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1961 filter. For example:
1962 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1963 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1965 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1966 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1972 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1974 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1975 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1978 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1979 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1981 * Shoutcast TV listings
1982 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1984 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1985 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1987 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1990 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1991 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1992 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1993 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1994 * JACK audio input support
1995 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1996 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1997 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1998 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1999 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2000 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2001 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2002 (available as a separate download).
2003 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2004 * RTMP input support
2005 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2006 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2007 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2009 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2010 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2013 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2014 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2015 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2016 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2018 * APEv1/2 tags support
2019 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2020 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2022 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2023 * TiVo Series 2 support
2024 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2029 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2030 * Flash Screen Video support
2031 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2032 * DosBox Capture support
2033 * Karl Morton's Video support
2034 * limited atrac3 support
2036 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2037 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2038 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2039 * H.264 PAFF support
2040 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2041 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2042 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2043 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2044 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2047 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2048 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2049 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2050 * AQTitle subtitles support
2051 * MKV USF subtitles support
2052 * HTML-based subtitles support
2053 * MPSub subtitles support
2054 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2055 * MPL2 subtitles support
2056 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2057 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2058 * Realtext subtitle support
2059 * DKS subtitle support
2060 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2061 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2064 * Flash Screen Video support
2065 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2067 Video outputs and filters:
2068 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2069 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2070 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2071 * New puzzle video output filter
2072 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2073 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2075 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2076 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2077 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2078 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2079 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2080 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2081 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2082 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2083 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2084 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2085 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2086 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2087 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2088 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2090 Audio outputs and filters:
2091 * Replay gain support
2092 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2093 new scaletempo audio filter)
2094 * New spatializer audio filter
2095 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2098 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2099 * New RTP payload formats:
2100 * Speex voice audio codec
2101 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2102 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2103 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2104 * DCCP transport for RTP
2105 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2110 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2111 end-user suitable way.
2112 * Improved user interaction
2113 * Improved mouse gestures
2114 * Vastly improved Update checker
2115 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2117 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2118 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2120 * Improved video output features
2121 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2122 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2123 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2124 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2125 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2127 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2128 if libncursesw is available.
2129 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2130 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2131 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2133 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2134 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2135 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2136 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2137 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2138 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2139 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2140 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2143 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2144 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2145 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2148 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2149 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2150 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2151 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2152 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2153 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2156 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2157 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2167 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2168 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2169 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2172 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2173 ----------------------------------
2176 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2179 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2180 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2181 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2182 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2183 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2184 * Updated Polish translation
2187 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2188 ----------------------------------
2191 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2192 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2193 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2196 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2197 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2198 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2199 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2200 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2201 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2202 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2203 to an unexpected application termination
2204 * New Serbian translation
2205 * Updated Romanian translation
2208 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2209 ----------------------------------
2212 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2213 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2214 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2215 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2216 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2217 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2218 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2219 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2222 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2223 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2224 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2225 * Fixed AAC resampling
2226 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2227 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2230 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2231 ----------------------------------
2234 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2235 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2236 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2237 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2238 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2241 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2242 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2243 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2244 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2245 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2248 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2249 ----------------------------------
2252 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2253 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2256 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2257 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2258 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2259 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2261 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2265 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2268 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2271 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2274 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2277 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2278 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2279 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2280 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2281 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2283 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2284 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2285 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2286 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2289 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2292 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2293 ----------------------------------
2296 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
2297 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
2298 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
2300 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
2301 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
2303 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
2304 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
2307 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
2309 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2310 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
2311 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2312 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
2313 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
2314 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
2315 two different movies
2316 * Support for current Ogg file formats
2317 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
2318 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
2321 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
2324 * The automatic updating facility was removed
2325 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2326 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
2327 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
2330 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
2331 ----------------------------------
2333 Various bugfixes, notably:
2334 * Windows Vista compatibility
2335 * Cropping in Direct3D
2336 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
2337 * RSS filter string overflow
2339 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
2341 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
2342 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
2345 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
2346 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
2349 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
2352 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
2355 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
2358 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
2359 ----------------------------------
2361 Various bugfixes, notably:
2362 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
2363 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
2364 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
2365 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
2366 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
2367 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
2370 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
2371 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
2374 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
2376 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2377 * Diverse usability improvements
2378 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
2379 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
2380 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
2383 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
2384 ---------------------------------
2386 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
2387 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
2390 * Fullscreen controller improvements
2393 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
2394 --------------------------------
2397 * Shoutcast TV listings support
2400 * Support for RTSP authentication
2401 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
2402 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
2403 * ATSC support for DVB input
2404 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
2405 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
2406 * Improved support for Flash Video files
2409 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
2410 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
2411 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
2412 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
2413 * Matroska WavPack support
2414 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
2415 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
2416 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
2419 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
2420 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
2421 * Improved libcaca support
2425 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
2426 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
2428 * Systray support in skins
2430 * Support for Apple Remote control
2431 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2432 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2433 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
2434 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
2436 * Notifications using notification-daemon
2439 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
2440 Windows 9x/ME users:
2441 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
2442 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
2443 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
2444 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
2445 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
2447 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
2448 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
2457 * Updates to the libvlc API
2458 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
2461 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
2462 --------------------------------
2465 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
2466 * Support for downloading updates
2470 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
2471 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
2472 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
2473 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
2475 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
2476 * Improved subtitles encoding support
2477 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
2480 * Cook (Real audio) support
2482 Playlist / Services discovery:
2483 * XSPF playlist support
2485 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
2488 * New JACK audio output
2491 * New video filters:
2492 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
2493 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
2494 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
2495 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
2496 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
2497 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
2500 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
2503 * System to inform the user and request information
2504 - HTTP authentication
2508 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
2509 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2510 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
2513 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
2514 - Improved playlist handling
2515 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
2517 - Embedded Video output
2518 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
2519 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
2520 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2521 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
2522 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
2524 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
2525 - A bunch of new RPN functions
2528 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
2531 * Mac-Intel compatibility
2532 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
2533 * Growl "Now playing" support
2536 * Ability to log to syslog
2537 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
2540 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
2542 * A bit more automatic testing
2545 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
2546 ---------------------------------
2549 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
2550 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
2553 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
2554 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
2557 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
2560 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
2561 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
2567 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
2570 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
2571 --------------------------------
2574 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
2578 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2579 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
2580 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
2583 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
2584 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
2585 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
2586 * GnomeVFS input module
2587 * Support for RTP packet reordering
2588 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
2591 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
2592 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2593 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
2596 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
2597 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2603 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2604 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2607 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2608 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2609 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2612 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2614 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2615 - New extended controls panel
2616 - New bookmarks window
2617 - Fixed playlist sorting
2618 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2620 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2621 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2622 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2623 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2627 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2628 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2630 - Include macro to include other files
2634 * Should now work outside IE as well
2637 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2640 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2641 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2644 The following languages were added:
2648 * Simplified Chinese
2649 The following languages were re-added:
2653 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2654 --------------------------------
2657 * Rewrite of the playlist
2659 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2660 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2661 * Preferences improvements:
2662 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2663 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2665 * Core image manipulation support
2666 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2667 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2668 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2669 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2670 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2671 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2672 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2673 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2674 * Access filter architecture
2675 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2676 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2680 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2681 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2682 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2683 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2684 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2685 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2686 * Massive Matroska improvements
2687 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2689 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2690 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2691 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2692 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2693 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2695 Decoders / Encoders:
2696 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2697 * PNG decoder/encoder
2698 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2699 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2702 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2705 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2706 * Brand new SAP module
2707 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2708 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2709 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2710 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2711 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2712 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2716 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2719 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2720 * Image file video output (png)
2721 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2722 * Improvements to wall video filter
2723 * Support for font color and opacity
2729 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2730 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2731 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2735 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2736 - Improved preferences
2737 - Improvements to the wizard
2738 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2740 - Redesigned playlist
2741 - Improved preferences
2743 - Support for multiple actions
2746 - Support for the new playlist system
2748 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2751 * Screensaver disabling fix
2752 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2753 * Support for no-decoration windows
2756 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2757 * The OpenGL video output is back
2758 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2759 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2760 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2761 is not yet available in the new module
2762 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2765 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2774 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2777 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2780 The following languages were added:
2786 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2787 --------------------------------
2790 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2791 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2794 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2795 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2796 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2799 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2802 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2805 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2808 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2809 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2810 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2814 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2816 * Support of playlist group announcement
2819 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2820 --------------------------------
2823 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2824 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2825 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2826 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2827 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2828 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2831 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2832 (Stream your desktop)
2833 * Improved DVD support:
2834 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2835 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2836 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2837 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2838 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2839 (selection of titles/chapters).
2842 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2843 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2844 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2845 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2846 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2847 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2848 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2849 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2850 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2851 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2854 * G.726 audio support
2855 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2856 * MPEG-4 text support
2857 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2858 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2859 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2863 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2864 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2865 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2866 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2867 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2868 * DVB subtitles encoder
2869 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2870 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2872 * Text track muxing for mp4
2873 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2874 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2875 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2876 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2877 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2878 * Improved ASF muxer
2880 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2881 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2882 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2885 * New audio equalizer filter
2886 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2887 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2888 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2889 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2892 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2893 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2894 with support for effects.
2895 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2896 - New filters can be streamed.
2897 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2898 - Centralized scaling and blending
2900 - "time", to display current time
2901 - "marq", to display a marquee
2904 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2905 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2906 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2907 * A few skins2 improvements
2908 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2909 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2910 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2911 * Improved CORBA control module
2914 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2915 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2916 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2919 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2920 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2921 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2924 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2925 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2926 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2927 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2928 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2931 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2934 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2935 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2938 * Server/client network synchronization module
2939 * VBrick streams fully supported
2940 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2944 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2945 --------------------------------
2948 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2949 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2950 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2951 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2954 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2955 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2956 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2957 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2958 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2959 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2960 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2963 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2964 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2965 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2966 * Improved directory access module.
2967 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2968 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2969 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2970 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2971 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2974 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2975 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2976 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2979 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2980 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2981 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2984 * Improved session announcement system.
2985 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2986 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2987 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2988 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2989 * Improved transrater.
2990 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2991 * New configuration system.
2992 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2995 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2996 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2997 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2998 * Supports scheduling.
2999 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3000 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3003 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3004 - Ability to embed video output.
3005 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3006 - Lots of improvements.
3007 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3008 - New design and set of icons.
3009 - Ability to embed video output.
3010 - Support for hotkeys.
3011 - Support for bookmarks.
3013 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3014 - Better hotkeys handling.
3017 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3018 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3019 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3020 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3023 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3024 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3025 * Improved Windows installer.
3031 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3032 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3035 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3036 ---------------------------------
3039 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3040 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3043 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3044 --------------------------------
3047 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3048 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3051 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3052 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3053 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3054 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3057 * Internal improvments
3058 * Improved import/export
3061 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3063 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3064 small and strange formats.
3066 * New MOD audio demux.
3067 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3068 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3069 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3070 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3073 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3074 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3075 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3081 * New opengl video output plugin.
3084 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3085 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3088 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3089 --------------------------------
3092 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3093 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3094 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3095 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3096 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3097 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3098 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3099 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3102 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3107 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3108 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3109 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3110 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3111 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3112 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3113 * Better Icecast support.
3114 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3115 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3118 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3119 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3120 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3121 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3122 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3123 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3124 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3127 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3128 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3129 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3130 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3131 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3132 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3133 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3134 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3135 * Preliminary RTP support.
3136 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3141 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3142 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3144 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3145 - Improvements and help in preferences
3146 - New streaming wizard
3147 - Revised Disc Open menu
3149 - Improvements of the standard pages
3150 - Support for new commands
3151 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3154 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3155 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3158 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3159 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3160 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3161 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3162 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3163 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3164 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3165 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3166 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3169 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3171 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3172 * Support for Panther.
3173 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3174 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3177 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3178 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3179 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3180 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3181 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3182 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3183 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3184 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3187 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3188 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3189 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3192 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3195 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3196 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3197 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3198 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3201 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3202 --------------------------------
3205 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3208 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3209 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3212 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3213 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3216 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3219 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3220 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3223 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3226 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3229 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3230 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3234 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3235 --------------------------------
3238 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3239 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3243 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3244 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3245 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3247 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3248 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3251 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3254 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3257 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3258 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3262 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3263 --------------------------------
3266 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3267 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3271 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3272 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3273 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3274 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3275 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3278 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3279 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3280 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3283 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3284 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3285 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3288 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3289 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3290 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3291 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3292 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3295 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3296 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
3297 * A new CORBA control plugin.
3300 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
3303 * Improved build system.
3304 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
3305 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
3306 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
3307 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
3310 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
3311 --------------------------------
3314 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
3317 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
3318 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
3319 * Fixed large file support on Windows
3320 * Video 4 Linux support
3321 * CD Digital Audio support
3322 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
3325 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
3326 * Support for OpenDML avi files
3327 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
3328 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
3331 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
3332 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
3333 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
3334 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
3335 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
3336 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
3337 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
3340 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
3341 * New HTTP remote control interface
3344 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
3345 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
3346 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
3347 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
3348 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
3351 * New reset option for the preferences
3352 * You can set your language in the prefences
3353 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
3354 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
3355 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
3356 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
3359 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
3360 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
3361 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
3364 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
3365 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
3366 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
3367 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
3368 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
3369 * New icons by Davor Orel.
3370 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
3371 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
3372 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
3373 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
3376 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
3377 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
3378 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
3379 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
3380 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
3381 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
3382 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
3385 * Interface localization
3386 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
3387 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
3388 * New full-featured Preferences window
3391 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
3392 --------------------------------
3395 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
3396 * support for skins at the interface level
3397 * new OSD module using Freetype2
3398 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
3399 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
3400 input level before dropping out of date frames.
3401 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
3404 * fixed HTTP redirects
3405 * support for opening an entire directory
3406 * EOF should be detected more reliably
3407 * new video4linux access plug-in
3408 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
3411 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
3412 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
3413 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
3416 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
3417 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
3418 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
3419 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
3420 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
3421 * new codec for raw I420 video
3422 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
3425 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
3426 (although it still misses some important features)
3427 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
3430 * new HTTP output support
3431 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
3432 * fixed AV synchronization issues
3435 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
3438 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
3441 * reorderable playlist
3442 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
3443 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
3444 * support for mono audio output devices
3445 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
3446 * fixed several cosmetic issues
3447 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
3448 * the messages window remembers more lines
3449 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
3450 * http and ogg stream output options
3451 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
3454 * new skinnable interface
3455 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
3457 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
3458 * support for FLAC audio format
3459 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
3461 * network tab in the interface
3462 * "apply" handling in preferences
3465 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
3466 ---------------------------------
3469 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
3470 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
3471 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
3472 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
3474 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
3475 * DTS S/PDIF support
3478 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
3479 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
3480 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
3481 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
3484 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
3485 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
3488 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
3491 * fixed the GNU-pth support
3494 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
3496 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
3497 * rc interface is now fully useable
3498 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
3501 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
3502 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
3503 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
3504 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
3505 * VLC now uses the default audio device
3507 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
3508 * support for mouse gestures
3509 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
3512 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
3513 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
3516 * improved ID3 tag detection
3517 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
3518 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
3519 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
3521 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
3524 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
3525 ---------------------------------
3528 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
3529 English was set as the preferred language
3532 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
3533 --------------------------------
3536 * new mouse gesture interface
3537 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
3541 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
3542 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
3543 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
3546 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
3547 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
3551 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
3554 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
3555 without the user consent
3558 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
3560 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
3561 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
3562 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
3565 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
3566 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
3567 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
3568 * playlist enhancements
3569 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
3570 * new step forward/step backward commands
3571 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
3572 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
3573 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
3576 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
3577 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
3578 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
3581 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
3582 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
3585 * native video output is working again
3586 * only commandline interface support
3587 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
3590 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
3591 --------------------------------
3594 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
3595 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
3596 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
3597 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
3598 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
3599 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
3600 and A/52 streams are supported)
3601 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3606 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3607 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3608 * VCD entry points support
3609 * VCD image file support
3612 * support for *.asf format
3613 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3614 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3615 * support for ogg encapsulation
3616 * support for raw DV format
3617 * support for *.wav format
3618 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3621 Stream discovery & playlists:
3622 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3623 * support for .m3u file format
3624 * support for .asx file format
3625 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3628 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3629 (only available with the .avi demux)
3630 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3631 * support for raw PCM data
3632 * support for Cinepak video codec
3633 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3634 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3635 * support for Xvid codec
3636 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3637 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3638 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
3640 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
3642 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3645 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3648 * new WxWindows interface
3649 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3650 device and the channels configuration
3651 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3652 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3653 format that VLC can play
3654 * new swedish translation
3655 * enhancements of the playlist window
3656 * new messages window to see debug info
3657 * fixed a few crashes
3660 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3661 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3662 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3663 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working