3 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.9.0-git (not released yet):
4 -------------------------------------------------------
8 * On Linux, localization will be disabled if you have glibc 2.6 or 2.7 due
9 to a major bug in libintl with these glibc versions.
10 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
11 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
12 edit the ".hosts" file.
13 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
14 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
15 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
16 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
17 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
18 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
19 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
20 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux. This
21 interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC 0.8.6.
22 It will be replaced by a better alternative in the next version.
23 If you absolutely need it, we advise you to keep VLC 0.8.6.
24 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
25 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
26 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
27 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
28 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
29 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
30 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
31 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
32 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
33 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
34 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
35 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
36 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
37 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported. Use access://url instead.
38 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
39 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
45 * Vastly improved playlist support:
46 * Media library support
48 * Shoutcast TV listings
49 * Audioscrobbler/last.fm support
51 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
52 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe and Google Video URLs)
53 * User definable Lua metadata and album art fetcher scripts. See
54 share/lua/meta/README.txt
57 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
58 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
59 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
60 * JACK audio input support
61 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
62 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
63 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
64 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
65 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
67 * APEv1/2 tags support
68 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
69 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
71 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
72 * TiVo Series 2 support
73 * v4l2 access module support
74 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
75 * CD+G karaoke Files support
77 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X using OpenGL
79 * Experimental EyeTV access module (Mac OS X only)
80 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
81 (available as a separate download).
82 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
86 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
87 * MKV USF subtitles support
88 * HTML-based subtitles support
89 * Flash Screen Video support
90 * CamStudio Screen Video support
91 * DosBox Capture support
92 * Karl Morton's Video support
93 * limited atrac3 support
94 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
95 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
96 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
97 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
99 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
100 * NellyMoser ASAO support
101 * APE (Monkey audio) support
102 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support
103 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
106 * Flash Screen Video support
107 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
109 Video output and filters:
110 * New CoreAnimation output module (Mac OS X 10.5 only)
111 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
112 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
113 * New puzzle video output filter
114 * Re-written motion detection video filter
115 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
117 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
118 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
119 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
120 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
121 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending. This improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
122 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
123 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
124 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
125 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
126 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
127 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
128 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
130 Audio output and filters
131 * Replay gain support
132 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (no pitch filter yet)
133 * New spatializer audio filter
134 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
137 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
138 * New RTP payload formats:
139 * Speex voice audio codec
140 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
141 * G.711 (both A-law and ยต-law) output
142 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
143 * DCCP transport for RTP
144 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
148 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
150 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
151 end-user suitable way.
152 * Improved user interaction
153 * Improved mouse gestures
154 * Fastly improved Update checker
155 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
157 * Improved video output features
158 * Access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
159 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
160 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
161 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
163 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
164 if libncursesw is available.
165 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
166 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua for more info
168 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
169 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
170 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
171 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
172 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
173 * Motion module use disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
174 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
175 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
178 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
179 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
180 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
183 * Mac OS X Framework that can be used to embed VLC in third party
184 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
185 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
186 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
187 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 was discontinued.
190 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
191 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
199 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
200 ----------------------------------
203 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
204 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
205 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
206 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
207 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
210 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
211 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
212 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
213 * Close MMS access on network timeout
214 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
217 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
218 ----------------------------------
221 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
222 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
225 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
226 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
227 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
228 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
230 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
234 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
237 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
240 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
243 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
246 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
247 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
248 encoding on multi-cpu systems
249 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
250 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
252 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
253 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
254 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
255 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
258 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
261 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
262 ----------------------------------
265 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
266 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
267 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
269 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
270 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
272 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
273 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
276 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
278 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
279 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
280 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
281 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
282 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
283 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
285 * Support for current Ogg file formats
286 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
287 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
290 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
293 * The automatic updating facility was removed
294 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
295 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
296 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
299 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
300 ----------------------------------
302 Various bugfixes, notably:
303 * Windows Vista compatibility
304 * Cropping in Direct3D
305 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
306 * RSS filter string overflow
308 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
310 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
311 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
314 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
315 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
318 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
321 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
324 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
327 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
328 ----------------------------------
330 Various bugfixes, notably:
331 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
332 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
333 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
334 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
335 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
336 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
339 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
340 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
343 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
345 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
346 * Diverse usability improvements
347 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
348 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
349 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
352 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
353 ---------------------------------
356 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
359 * Fullscreen controller improvements
362 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
363 --------------------------------
366 * Shoutcast TV listings support
369 * Support for RTSP authentication
370 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
371 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
372 * ATSC support for DVB input
373 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
374 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
375 * Improved support for Flash Video files
378 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
379 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
380 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
381 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
382 * Matroska WavPack support
383 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
384 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
385 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
388 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
389 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
390 * Improved libcaca support
394 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
395 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
397 * Systray support in skins
399 * Support for Apple Remote control
400 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjรฆr Andersen)
401 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjรฆr Andersen)
402 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
403 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
405 * Notifications using notification-daemon
408 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
410 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
411 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
412 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
413 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
414 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
416 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
417 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
426 * Updates to the libvlc API
427 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
430 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
431 --------------------------------
434 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
435 * Support for downloading updates
439 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
440 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
441 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
442 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
444 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
445 * Improved subtitles encoding support
446 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
449 * Cook (Real audio) support
451 Playlist / Services discovery:
452 * XSPF playlist support
454 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
457 * New JACK audio output
461 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
462 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
463 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
464 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
465 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
466 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
469 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
472 * System to inform the user and request information
473 - HTTP authentication
477 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
478 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
479 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
482 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
483 - Improved playlist handling
484 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
486 - Embedded Video output
487 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
488 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
489 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
490 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
491 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
493 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
494 - A bunch of new RPN functions
497 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
500 * Mac-Intel compatibility
501 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
502 * Growl "Now playing" support
505 * Ability to log to syslog
506 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
509 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
511 * A bit more automatic testing
514 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
515 ---------------------------------
518 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
519 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
522 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
523 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
526 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
529 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
530 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
536 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
539 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
540 --------------------------------
543 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
547 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
548 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
549 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
552 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
553 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
554 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
555 * GnomeVFS input module
556 * Support for RTP packet reordering
557 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
560 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
561 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
562 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
565 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
566 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
572 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
573 Mixer and Dolby Surround
576 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
577 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
578 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
581 - new cone icon by Richard ยฏiestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
583 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
584 - New extended controls panel
585 - New bookmarks window
586 - Fixed playlist sorting
587 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
589 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
590 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
591 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
592 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
596 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
597 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
599 - Include macro to include other files
603 * Should now work outside IE as well
606 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
609 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
610 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
613 The following languages were added:
618 The following languages were re-added:
622 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
623 --------------------------------
626 * Rewrite of the playlist
628 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
629 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
630 * Preferences improvements:
631 - New organization, designed to improve usability
632 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
634 * Core image manipulation support
635 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
636 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
637 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
638 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
639 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
640 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
641 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
642 now separated by ':' instead of ','
643 * Access filter architecture
644 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
645 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
649 * Support for SOCKS proxy
650 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
651 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
652 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
653 * Better support for Kasenna streams
654 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
655 * Massive Matroska improvements
656 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
658 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
659 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
660 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
661 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
662 * Support for FTP over IPv6
665 * Dirac decoder and encoder
666 * PNG decoder/encoder
667 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
668 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
671 * New Record and Timeshift filters
674 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
675 * Brand new SAP module
676 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
677 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
678 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
679 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
680 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
681 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
685 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
688 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
689 * Image file video output (png)
690 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
691 * Improvements to wall video filter
692 * Support for font color and opacity
698 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
699 - Seeking support in VoD streams
700 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
704 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
705 - Improved preferences
706 - Improvements to the wizard
707 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
709 - Redesigned playlist
710 - Improved preferences
712 - Support for multiple actions
715 - Support for the new playlist system
717 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
720 * Screensaver disabling fix
721 * DirectShow tuner configuration
722 * Support for no-decoration windows
725 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
726 * The OpenGL video output is back
727 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
728 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
729 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
730 is not yet available in the new module
731 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
734 * Support for single-buffered overlay
743 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
746 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
749 The following languages were added:
755 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
756 --------------------------------
759 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
760 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
763 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
764 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
765 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
768 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
771 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
774 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
777 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
778 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
779 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
783 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
785 * Support of playlist group announcement
788 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
789 --------------------------------
792 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
793 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
794 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
795 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
796 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
797 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
800 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
801 (Stream your desktop)
802 * Improved DVD support:
803 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
804 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
805 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
806 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
807 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
808 (selection of titles/chapters).
811 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
812 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
813 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
814 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
815 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
816 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
817 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
818 * Improved Ogg demuxer
819 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
820 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
823 * G.726 audio support
824 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
825 * MPEG-4 text support
826 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
827 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
828 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
832 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
833 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
834 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
835 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
836 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
837 * DVB subtitles encoder
838 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
839 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
841 * Text track muxing for mp4
842 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
843 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
844 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
845 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
846 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
849 * H.263 RTP streaming support
850 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
851 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
854 * New audio equalizer filter
855 * Very trivial volume normalizer
856 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
857 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
858 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
861 * Roku HD1000 Video output
862 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
863 with support for effects.
864 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
865 - New filters can be streamed.
866 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
867 - Centralized scaling and blending
869 - "time", to display current time
870 - "marq", to display a marquee
873 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
874 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
875 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
876 * A few skins2 improvements
877 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
878 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
879 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
880 * Improved CORBA control module
883 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
884 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
885 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
888 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
889 * Experimental SVG rendering module
890 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
893 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
894 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
895 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
896 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
897 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
900 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
903 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
904 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
907 * Server/client network synchronization module
908 * VBrick streams fully supported
909 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
913 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
914 --------------------------------
917 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
918 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
919 * Improved HTTP daemon.
920 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
923 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
924 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
925 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
926 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
927 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
928 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
929 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
932 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
933 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
934 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
935 * Improved directory access module.
936 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
937 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
938 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
939 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
940 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
943 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
944 * mmsh streaming fixes.
945 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
948 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
949 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
950 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
953 * Improved session announcement system.
954 * Minimize threads usage by default.
955 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
956 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
957 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
958 * Improved transrater.
959 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
960 * New configuration system.
961 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
964 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
965 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
966 * Supports live streams and VoD.
967 * Supports scheduling.
968 * Telnet interface for vlm.
969 * HTTP interface for vlm.
972 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
973 - Ability to embed video output.
974 - Support for bitmap fonts.
975 - Lots of improvements.
976 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
977 - New design and set of icons.
978 - Ability to embed video output.
979 - Support for hotkeys.
980 - Support for bookmarks.
982 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
983 - Better hotkeys handling.
986 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
987 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
988 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
989 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
992 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
993 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
994 * Improved Windows installer.
1000 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1001 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1004 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1005 ---------------------------------
1008 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1009 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1012 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1013 --------------------------------
1016 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1017 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1020 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1021 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1022 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1023 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1026 * Internal improvments
1027 * Improved import/export
1030 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1032 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1033 small and strange formats.
1035 * New MOD audio demux.
1036 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1037 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1038 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1039 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1042 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1043 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1044 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1050 * New opengl video output plugin.
1053 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1054 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1057 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1058 --------------------------------
1061 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1062 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1063 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1064 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1065 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1066 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1067 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1068 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1071 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1076 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1077 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1078 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1079 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1080 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1081 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1082 * Better Icecast support.
1083 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1084 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1087 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1088 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1089 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1090 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1091 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1092 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1093 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1096 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1097 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1098 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1099 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1100 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1101 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1102 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1103 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1104 * Preliminary RTP support.
1105 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1110 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1111 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1113 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1114 - Improvements and help in preferences
1115 - New streaming wizard
1116 - Revised Disc Open menu
1118 - Improvements of the standard pages
1119 - Support for new commands
1120 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1123 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1124 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1127 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1128 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1129 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1130 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1131 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1132 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1133 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1134 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1135 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1138 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1140 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1141 * Support for Panther.
1142 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1143 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1146 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1147 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1148 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1149 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1150 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1151 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1152 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1153 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1156 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1157 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1158 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1161 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1164 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1165 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1166 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1167 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1170 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1171 --------------------------------
1174 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1177 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1178 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1181 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1182 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1185 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1188 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1189 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1192 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1195 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1198 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1199 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1203 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1204 --------------------------------
1207 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1208 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1212 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1213 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1214 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1216 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1217 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1220 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1223 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1226 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1227 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1231 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1232 --------------------------------
1235 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1236 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1240 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1241 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1242 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1243 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1244 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1247 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1248 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1249 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1252 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1253 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1254 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1257 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1258 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1259 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1260 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1261 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1264 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1265 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1266 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1269 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1272 * Improved build system.
1273 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1274 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1275 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1276 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1279 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1280 --------------------------------
1283 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1286 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1287 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1288 * Video 4 Linux support
1289 * CD Digital Audio support
1290 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1293 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1294 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1295 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1296 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1299 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1300 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1301 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1302 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1303 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1304 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1305 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1308 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1309 * New HTTP remote control interface
1312 * 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.
1313 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1314 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1315 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1318 * New reset option for the preferences
1319 * You can set your language in the prefences
1320 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1321 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1322 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1323 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1326 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1327 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1328 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1331 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1332 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1333 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1334 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1335 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1336 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1337 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1338 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1339 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1340 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1343 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1344 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1345 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1346 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1347 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1348 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1349 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1352 * Interface localization
1353 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1354 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1355 * New full-featured Preferences window
1358 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1359 --------------------------------
1362 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1363 * support for skins at the interface level
1364 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1365 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1366 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1367 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1368 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1371 * fixed HTTP redirects
1372 * support for opening an entire directory
1373 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1374 * new video4linux access plug-in
1375 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1378 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1379 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1380 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1383 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1384 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1385 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1386 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1387 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1388 * new codec for raw I420 video
1389 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1392 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1393 (although it still misses some important features)
1394 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1397 * new HTTP output support
1398 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1399 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1402 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1405 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1408 * reorderable playlist
1409 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1410 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1411 * support for mono audio output devices
1412 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1413 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1414 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1415 * the messages window remembers more lines
1416 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1417 * http and ogg stream output options
1418 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1421 * new skinnable interface
1422 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1424 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1425 * support for FLAC audio format
1426 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1428 * network tab in the interface
1429 * "apply" handling in preferences
1432 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1433 ---------------------------------
1436 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1437 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1438 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1439 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1441 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1442 * DTS S/PDIF support
1445 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1446 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1447 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1448 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1451 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1452 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1455 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1458 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1461 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1463 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1464 * rc interface is now fully useable
1465 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1468 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1469 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1470 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1471 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1472 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1474 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1475 * support for mouse gestures
1476 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1479 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1480 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1483 * improved ID3 tag detection
1484 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1485 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1486 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1488 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1491 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1492 ---------------------------------
1495 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1496 English was set as the preferred language
1499 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1500 --------------------------------
1503 * new mouse gesture interface
1504 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1508 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1509 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1510 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1513 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1514 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1518 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1521 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1522 without the user consent
1525 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1527 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1528 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1529 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1532 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1533 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1534 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1535 * playlist enhancements
1536 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1537 * new step forward/step backward commands
1538 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1539 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1540 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1543 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1544 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1545 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1548 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1549 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1552 * native video output is working again
1553 * only commandline interface support
1554 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1557 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1558 --------------------------------
1561 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1562 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1563 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1564 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1565 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1566 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1567 and A/52 streams are supported)
1568 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1573 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1574 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1575 * VCD entry points support
1576 * VCD image file support
1579 * support for *.asf format
1580 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1581 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1582 * support for ogg encapsulation
1583 * support for raw DV format
1584 * support for *.wav format
1585 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1588 Stream discovery & playlists:
1589 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1590 * support for .m3u file format
1591 * support for .asx file format
1592 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1595 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1596 (only available with the .avi demux)
1597 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1598 * support for raw PCM data
1599 * support for Cinepak video codec
1600 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1601 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1602 * support for Xvid codec
1603 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1604 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1605 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1607 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1609 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1612 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1615 * new WxWindows interface
1616 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1617 device and the channels configuration
1618 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1619 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1620 format that VLC can play
1621 * new swedish translation
1622 * enhancements of the playlist window
1623 * new messages window to see debug info
1624 * fixed a few crashes
1627 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1628 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1629 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1630 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working