3 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.9.0-git (not released yet):
4 -------------------------------------------------------
8 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
9 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
10 edit the ".hosts" file.
11 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
12 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
13 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
14 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
15 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
16 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
17 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
18 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux. This
19 interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC 0.8.6.
20 It will be replaced by a better alternative in the next version.
21 If you absolutely need it, we advise you to keep VLC 0.8.6.
22 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
23 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
24 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
25 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
26 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
27 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
28 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
29 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
30 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
31 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
32 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
33 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
34 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
35 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported. Use access://url instead.
36 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
37 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
38 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by avcodec, avformat, swscale
39 (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build) and postproc modules.
40 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the following
41 states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4, STOPPING=5,
42 FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and BACKWARD being
43 reserved for future implementations and are thus not functional atm.
44 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
46 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
47 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
49 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
55 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-??)
58 * Vastly improved playlist support:
59 * Media library support
61 * Shoutcast TV listings
62 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
64 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
65 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe and Google Video URLs)
66 * User definable Lua metadata and album art fetcher scripts. See
67 share/lua/meta/README.txt
70 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
71 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
72 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
73 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
74 * JACK audio input support
75 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
76 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
77 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
78 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
79 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
80 * Experimental EyeTV access module (Mac OS X only)
81 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
82 (available as a separate download).
84 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
85 taken from all QuickTime-compatible video devices (no audio yet)
86 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
88 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
89 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
92 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
93 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
94 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
95 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
97 * APEv1/2 tags support
98 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
99 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
101 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
102 * TiVo Series 2 support
103 * CD+G karaoke Files support
108 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
109 * Flash Screen Video support
110 * CamStudio Screen Video support
111 * DosBox Capture support
112 * Karl Morton's Video support
113 * limited atrac3 support
114 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
115 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
116 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
118 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
119 * NellyMoser ASAO support
120 * APE (Monkey audio) support
121 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
124 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
125 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
126 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
127 * AQTitle subtitles support
128 * MKV USF subtitles support
129 * HTML-based subtitles support
130 * MPSub subtitles support
131 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
132 * MPL2 subtitles support
133 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
134 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
135 * Realtext subtitle support
136 * DKS subtitle support
137 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
138 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
141 * Flash Screen Video support
142 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
144 Video outputs and filters:
145 * New CoreAnimation output module (Mac OS X 10.5 only)
146 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
147 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
148 * New puzzle video output filter
149 * Re-written motion detection video filter
150 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
152 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
153 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
154 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
155 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
156 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending. This improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
157 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
158 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
159 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
160 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
161 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
162 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
163 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
164 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
166 Audio outputs and filters:
167 * Replay gain support
168 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (no pitch filter yet)
169 * New spatializer audio filter
170 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
173 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
174 * New RTP payload formats:
175 * Speex voice audio codec
176 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
177 * G.711 (both A-law and ยต-law) output
178 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
179 * DCCP transport for RTP
180 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
185 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
187 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
188 end-user suitable way.
189 * Improved user interaction
190 * Improved mouse gestures
191 * Vastly improved Update checker
192 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
194 * Improved video output features
195 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
196 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
197 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
198 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
200 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
201 if libncursesw is available.
202 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
203 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua for more info
205 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
206 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
207 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
208 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
209 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
210 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
211 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
212 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
215 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
216 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
217 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
220 * Mac OS X Framework that can be used to embed VLC in third party
221 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
222 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
223 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
224 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
225 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 was discontinued.
228 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
229 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
237 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
238 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
239 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
242 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
243 ----------------------------------
246 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
247 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
248 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
251 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
252 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
253 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
254 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
255 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
256 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
257 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
258 to an unexpected application termination
259 * New Serbian translation
260 * Updated Romanian translation
263 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
264 ----------------------------------
267 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
268 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
269 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
270 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
271 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
272 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
273 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
274 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
277 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
278 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
279 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
280 * Fixed AAC resampling
281 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
282 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
285 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
286 ----------------------------------
289 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
290 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
291 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
292 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
293 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
296 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
297 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
298 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
299 * Close MMS access on network timeout
300 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
303 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
304 ----------------------------------
307 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
308 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
311 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
312 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
313 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
314 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
316 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
320 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
323 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
326 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
329 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
332 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
333 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
334 encoding on multi-cpu systems
335 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
336 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
338 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
339 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
340 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
341 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
344 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
347 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
348 ----------------------------------
351 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
352 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
353 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
355 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
356 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
358 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
359 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
362 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
364 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
365 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
366 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
367 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
368 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
369 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
371 * Support for current Ogg file formats
372 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
373 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
376 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
379 * The automatic updating facility was removed
380 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
381 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
382 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
385 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
386 ----------------------------------
388 Various bugfixes, notably:
389 * Windows Vista compatibility
390 * Cropping in Direct3D
391 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
392 * RSS filter string overflow
394 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
396 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
397 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
400 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
401 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
404 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
407 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
410 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
413 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
414 ----------------------------------
416 Various bugfixes, notably:
417 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
418 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
419 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
420 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
421 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
422 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
425 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
426 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
429 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
431 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
432 * Diverse usability improvements
433 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
434 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
435 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
438 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
439 ---------------------------------
442 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
445 * Fullscreen controller improvements
448 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
449 --------------------------------
452 * Shoutcast TV listings support
455 * Support for RTSP authentication
456 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
457 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
458 * ATSC support for DVB input
459 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
460 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
461 * Improved support for Flash Video files
464 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
465 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
466 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
467 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
468 * Matroska WavPack support
469 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
470 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
471 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
474 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
475 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
476 * Improved libcaca support
480 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
481 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
483 * Systray support in skins
485 * Support for Apple Remote control
486 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjรฆr Andersen)
487 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjรฆr Andersen)
488 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
489 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
491 * Notifications using notification-daemon
494 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
496 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
497 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
498 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
499 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
500 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
502 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
503 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
512 * Updates to the libvlc API
513 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
516 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
517 --------------------------------
520 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
521 * Support for downloading updates
525 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
526 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
527 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
528 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
530 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
531 * Improved subtitles encoding support
532 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
535 * Cook (Real audio) support
537 Playlist / Services discovery:
538 * XSPF playlist support
540 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
543 * New JACK audio output
547 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
548 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
549 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
550 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
551 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
552 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
555 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
558 * System to inform the user and request information
559 - HTTP authentication
563 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
564 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
565 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
568 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
569 - Improved playlist handling
570 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
572 - Embedded Video output
573 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
574 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
575 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
576 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
577 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
579 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
580 - A bunch of new RPN functions
583 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
586 * Mac-Intel compatibility
587 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
588 * Growl "Now playing" support
591 * Ability to log to syslog
592 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
595 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
597 * A bit more automatic testing
600 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
601 ---------------------------------
604 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
605 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
608 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
609 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
612 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
615 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
616 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
622 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
625 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
626 --------------------------------
629 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
633 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
634 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
635 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
638 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
639 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
640 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
641 * GnomeVFS input module
642 * Support for RTP packet reordering
643 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
646 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
647 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
648 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
651 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
652 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
658 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
659 Mixer and Dolby Surround
662 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
663 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
664 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
667 - new cone icon by Richard ยฏiestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
669 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
670 - New extended controls panel
671 - New bookmarks window
672 - Fixed playlist sorting
673 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
675 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
676 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
677 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
678 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
682 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
683 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
685 - Include macro to include other files
689 * Should now work outside IE as well
692 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
695 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
696 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
699 The following languages were added:
704 The following languages were re-added:
708 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
709 --------------------------------
712 * Rewrite of the playlist
714 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
715 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
716 * Preferences improvements:
717 - New organization, designed to improve usability
718 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
720 * Core image manipulation support
721 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
722 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
723 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
724 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
725 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
726 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
727 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
728 now separated by ':' instead of ','
729 * Access filter architecture
730 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
731 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
735 * Support for SOCKS proxy
736 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
737 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
738 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
739 * Better support for Kasenna streams
740 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
741 * Massive Matroska improvements
742 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
744 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
745 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
746 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
747 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
748 * Support for FTP over IPv6
751 * Dirac decoder and encoder
752 * PNG decoder/encoder
753 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
754 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
757 * New Record and Timeshift filters
760 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
761 * Brand new SAP module
762 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
763 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
764 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
765 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
766 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
767 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
771 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
774 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
775 * Image file video output (png)
776 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
777 * Improvements to wall video filter
778 * Support for font color and opacity
784 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
785 - Seeking support in VoD streams
786 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
790 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
791 - Improved preferences
792 - Improvements to the wizard
793 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
795 - Redesigned playlist
796 - Improved preferences
798 - Support for multiple actions
801 - Support for the new playlist system
803 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
806 * Screensaver disabling fix
807 * DirectShow tuner configuration
808 * Support for no-decoration windows
811 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
812 * The OpenGL video output is back
813 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
814 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
815 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
816 is not yet available in the new module
817 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
820 * Support for single-buffered overlay
829 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
832 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
835 The following languages were added:
841 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
842 --------------------------------
845 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
846 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
849 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
850 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
851 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
854 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
857 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
860 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
863 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
864 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
865 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
869 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
871 * Support of playlist group announcement
874 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
875 --------------------------------
878 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
879 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
880 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
881 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
882 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
883 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
886 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
887 (Stream your desktop)
888 * Improved DVD support:
889 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
890 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
891 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
892 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
893 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
894 (selection of titles/chapters).
897 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
898 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
899 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
900 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
901 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
902 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
903 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
904 * Improved Ogg demuxer
905 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
906 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
909 * G.726 audio support
910 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
911 * MPEG-4 text support
912 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
913 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
914 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
918 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
919 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
920 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
921 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
922 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
923 * DVB subtitles encoder
924 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
925 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
927 * Text track muxing for mp4
928 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
929 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
930 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
931 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
932 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
935 * H.263 RTP streaming support
936 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
937 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
940 * New audio equalizer filter
941 * Very trivial volume normalizer
942 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
943 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
944 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
947 * Roku HD1000 Video output
948 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
949 with support for effects.
950 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
951 - New filters can be streamed.
952 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
953 - Centralized scaling and blending
955 - "time", to display current time
956 - "marq", to display a marquee
959 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
960 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
961 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
962 * A few skins2 improvements
963 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
964 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
965 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
966 * Improved CORBA control module
969 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
970 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
971 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
974 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
975 * Experimental SVG rendering module
976 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
979 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
980 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
981 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
982 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
983 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
986 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
989 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
990 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
993 * Server/client network synchronization module
994 * VBrick streams fully supported
995 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
999 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1000 --------------------------------
1003 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1004 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1005 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1006 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1009 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1010 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1011 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1012 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1013 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1014 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1015 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1018 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1019 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1020 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1021 * Improved directory access module.
1022 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1023 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1024 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1025 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1026 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1029 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1030 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1031 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1034 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1035 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1036 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1039 * Improved session announcement system.
1040 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1041 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1042 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1043 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1044 * Improved transrater.
1045 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1046 * New configuration system.
1047 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1050 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1051 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1052 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1053 * Supports scheduling.
1054 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1055 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1058 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1059 - Ability to embed video output.
1060 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1061 - Lots of improvements.
1062 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1063 - New design and set of icons.
1064 - Ability to embed video output.
1065 - Support for hotkeys.
1066 - Support for bookmarks.
1068 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1069 - Better hotkeys handling.
1072 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1073 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1074 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1075 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1078 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1079 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1080 * Improved Windows installer.
1086 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1087 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1090 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1091 ---------------------------------
1094 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1095 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1098 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1099 --------------------------------
1102 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1103 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1106 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1107 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1108 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1109 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1112 * Internal improvments
1113 * Improved import/export
1116 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1118 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1119 small and strange formats.
1121 * New MOD audio demux.
1122 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1123 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1124 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1125 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1128 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1129 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1130 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1136 * New opengl video output plugin.
1139 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1140 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1143 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1144 --------------------------------
1147 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1148 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1149 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1150 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1151 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1152 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1153 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1154 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1157 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1162 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1163 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1164 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1165 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1166 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1167 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1168 * Better Icecast support.
1169 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1170 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1173 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1174 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1175 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1176 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1177 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1178 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1179 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1182 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1183 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1184 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1185 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1186 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1187 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1188 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1189 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1190 * Preliminary RTP support.
1191 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1196 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1197 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1199 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1200 - Improvements and help in preferences
1201 - New streaming wizard
1202 - Revised Disc Open menu
1204 - Improvements of the standard pages
1205 - Support for new commands
1206 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1209 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1210 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1213 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1214 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1215 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1216 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1217 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1218 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1219 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1220 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1221 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1224 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1226 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1227 * Support for Panther.
1228 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1229 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1232 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1233 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1234 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1235 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1236 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1237 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1238 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1239 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1242 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1243 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1244 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1247 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1250 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1251 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1252 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1253 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1256 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1257 --------------------------------
1260 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1263 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1264 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1267 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1268 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1271 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1274 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1275 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1278 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1281 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1284 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1285 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1289 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1290 --------------------------------
1293 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1294 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1298 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1299 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1300 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1302 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1303 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1306 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1309 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1312 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1313 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1317 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1318 --------------------------------
1321 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1322 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1326 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1327 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1328 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1329 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1330 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1333 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1334 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1335 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1338 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1339 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1340 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1343 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1344 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1345 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1346 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1347 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1350 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1351 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1352 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1355 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1358 * Improved build system.
1359 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1360 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1361 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1362 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1365 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1366 --------------------------------
1369 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1372 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1373 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1374 * Video 4 Linux support
1375 * CD Digital Audio support
1376 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1379 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1380 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1381 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1382 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1385 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1386 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1387 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1388 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1389 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1390 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1391 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1394 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1395 * New HTTP remote control interface
1398 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
1399 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1400 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1401 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1404 * New reset option for the preferences
1405 * You can set your language in the prefences
1406 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1407 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1408 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1409 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1412 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1413 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1414 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1417 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1418 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1419 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1420 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1421 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1422 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1423 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1424 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1425 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1426 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1429 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1430 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1431 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1432 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1433 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1434 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1435 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1438 * Interface localization
1439 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1440 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1441 * New full-featured Preferences window
1444 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1445 --------------------------------
1448 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1449 * support for skins at the interface level
1450 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1451 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1452 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1453 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1454 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1457 * fixed HTTP redirects
1458 * support for opening an entire directory
1459 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1460 * new video4linux access plug-in
1461 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1464 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1465 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1466 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1469 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1470 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1471 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1472 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1473 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1474 * new codec for raw I420 video
1475 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1478 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1479 (although it still misses some important features)
1480 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1483 * new HTTP output support
1484 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1485 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1488 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1491 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1494 * reorderable playlist
1495 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1496 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1497 * support for mono audio output devices
1498 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1499 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1500 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1501 * the messages window remembers more lines
1502 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1503 * http and ogg stream output options
1504 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1507 * new skinnable interface
1508 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1510 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1511 * support for FLAC audio format
1512 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1514 * network tab in the interface
1515 * "apply" handling in preferences
1518 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1519 ---------------------------------
1522 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1523 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1524 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1525 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1527 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1528 * DTS S/PDIF support
1531 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1532 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1533 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1534 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1537 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1538 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1541 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1544 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1547 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1549 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1550 * rc interface is now fully useable
1551 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1554 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1555 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1556 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1557 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1558 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1560 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1561 * support for mouse gestures
1562 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1565 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1566 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1569 * improved ID3 tag detection
1570 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1571 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1572 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1574 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1577 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1578 ---------------------------------
1581 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1582 English was set as the preferred language
1585 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1586 --------------------------------
1589 * new mouse gesture interface
1590 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1594 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1595 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1596 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1599 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1600 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1604 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1607 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1608 without the user consent
1611 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1613 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1614 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1615 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1618 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1619 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1620 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1621 * playlist enhancements
1622 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1623 * new step forward/step backward commands
1624 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1625 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1626 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1629 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1630 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1631 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1634 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1635 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1638 * native video output is working again
1639 * only commandline interface support
1640 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1643 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1644 --------------------------------
1647 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1648 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1649 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1650 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1651 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1652 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1653 and A/52 streams are supported)
1654 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1659 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1660 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1661 * VCD entry points support
1662 * VCD image file support
1665 * support for *.asf format
1666 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1667 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1668 * support for ogg encapsulation
1669 * support for raw DV format
1670 * support for *.wav format
1671 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1674 Stream discovery & playlists:
1675 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1676 * support for .m3u file format
1677 * support for .asx file format
1678 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1681 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1682 (only available with the .avi demux)
1683 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1684 * support for raw PCM data
1685 * support for Cinepak video codec
1686 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1687 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1688 * support for Xvid codec
1689 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1690 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1691 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1693 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1695 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1698 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1701 * new WxWindows interface
1702 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1703 device and the channels configuration
1704 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1705 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1706 format that VLC can play
1707 * new swedish translation
1708 * enhancements of the playlist window
1709 * new messages window to see debug info
1710 * fixed a few crashes
1713 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1714 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1715 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1716 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working