1 Changes between 2.2.x and 3.0.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
5 * The Windows XP/2003/2003R2 support for VLC is now on a best-efforts basis:
6 it should work, but not without limitations.
7 libVLC support for Windows XP is deprecated.
8 You _really_ should upgrade.
9 * Windows Vista (all versions) without Platform Upgrade is not supported.
10 * Linux support requires now a kernel newer than 2.6.26
11 * Mac OS X 10.6 support is now removed. You need OS X 10.7 to run VLC.
14 * Support network browsing for distant file system (SMB, FTP, SFTP, ...)
15 and rewrite the parsing of those files
16 * Add a keystore API: fetch and store password for common protocols (HTTP,
17 SMB, SFTP, FTP, RTSP ...)
18 * Autodetect external audio tracks (ac3, m4a, aac, dts...), similar to subs
19 * Support HDMI passthrough for Audio HD codecs, like E-AC3, TrueHD
20 * Support for 12bits codec and extended colorspaces (HDR)
21 * Support output renderers, like ChromeCast
22 * VLC now assumes vlcrc config file is in UTF-8
23 * Support portable version of Windows build
24 * Support wayland surface type
25 * Allow to start the video paused on the first frame
26 * Refactor preparsing input
29 * New NFS access module using libnfs
30 * New SMB access module using libdsm
31 * Rewrite MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support, including
32 MPEG2TS and ISOFF profiles
33 * Support HDS (Http Dynamic Streaming) from Adobe (f4m, f4v, etc.)
34 * Large rework of the Smooth Streaming module
35 * Replaced httplive stream filter with new HLS demuxer, replaced smooth
36 stream filter with new Smooth demuxer, both using unified adaptive module
37 * Support HLSv4-7, including TS and raw muxing and ID3 tags
38 * Screen capture plugin for Wayland display
39 * Support decompression and extraction through libarchive (tar, zip, rar...)
40 * Improvements of cookie handling (share cookies between playlist items,
41 domain / path matching, Secure cookies)
42 * Support DVB-T2 on Windows BDA
43 * Support depayloading Opus from RTP
44 * Support sftp username and passwords options in URL, and key authentication
45 * New UPnP access module, to list directories without infinite recursions
46 * New WASAPI audio capture module on Windows
47 * SMB/FTP/SFTP accesses can list directories
48 * New "concat" access module for concatenating byte streams
49 * New HTTP/TLS access module for HTTP 2.0 support
50 * Named pipes and device nodes are no longer included in directory listings
51 by default. Use --list-special-files to include them back.
52 * Support for timeout in UDP input --udp-timeout=<seconds>
53 * New SAT>IP access module, to receive DVB-S via IP networks
54 * Improvements on DVB scanning
55 * BluRay module can open ISO over network and has full BD-J support
58 * OMX GPU-zerocopy support for decoding and display on Android using OpenMax IL
59 * Support 4:4:4 and 4:2:2 chroma samplings with VDPAU hw acceleration
60 * Support for ARIB STD-B24 subtitles
61 * Support for experimental Daala video
62 * Support for experimental AV1 video
63 * Important improvements for the MMAL decoder and output for rPI and rPI2
64 * Support HEVC hardware decoding on Windows, using DxVA2 and D3D11
65 * Support hardware decoding using Direct3D11, including GPU-zerocopy mode
66 * DxVA2 GPU-zerocopy for hardware decoding and displaying on Windows
67 * Support HEVC hardware decoding using OMX and MediaCodec (Android)
68 * Use MediaCodec via NDK native API after Android Lollipop
69 * Support MPEG-2, VC1/WMV3 on Android using MediaCodec
70 * Support VP9 and WMV3 decoding using OMX and performance improvements
71 * New MPEG-1 & 2 audio layer I, II, III + MPEG 2.5 decoder based on libmpg123
72 * New BPG decoder based on libbpg
73 * Fixed uncompressed DVD-Audio (AOB) LPCM decoding
74 * Rewrite WPL playlists and add ZPL playlists support (Zune)
75 * Support TDSC, Canopus HQX codecs
76 * TTML subtitles support, including EBU-TT-D variant
77 * Support 9-bit and 10-bit GBR planar formats
78 * New hardware accelerated decoder for OS X and and iOS based on Video Toolbox
79 supporting H.263, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, MPEG-4 Part 2, and DV depending on device
81 * Support for the OggSpots video codec
82 * JPEG images correctly oriented using embedded orientation tag, if present
83 * Support VPX high bit depth support
84 * Extend MicroDVD support with color, fontname, size, position extensions
87 * Support HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS)
88 * Support Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
89 * Support Daala in Ogg
90 * Important rework of the MP4 demuxer, including:
91 * Support for fragmented MP4
92 * Support EIA-608 subtitles in MP4/mov
93 * Support WMV and WMAV in MP4/mov, aka Flip4Mac files
94 * Support bitmap audio channel reordering in MP4/mov
95 * Support for RTP Reception Hint Track with H.264, GSM and Speex payloads
96 * Support for XiphQt(MP4) vorbis and Flac
97 * Support for VP8/VP9/VP10 in MP4
98 * Support GoPro HiLight chapters
99 * Important rework of the TS demuxer, including:
100 * Fixed program selection with recorded TS (TopField, DreamBox and others)
101 * Fixed TS playback with PAT/PMT less recordings
102 * Basic support for MPEG4-SL in TS and T-DMB
103 * Support for lame's replaygain extension in mpeg files
104 * Fixes for DTS detection in WAV and MKV files
105 * Support for Creative ADPCM/alaw/ulaw/S16L in VOC files
106 * Support for Creative ADPCM in AVI
107 * Support WMV extended content metadata
108 * Directory Demux can now sort items, ignore extensions and hidden files
109 * Support SBV subtitles
110 * Support AlbumArtist and DiscNumber metadata
111 * Support SCTE-18 / EAS inside TS
112 * Support raw h265/hevc files
113 * Support multi-channel WAV without channel-maps
114 * Rewrite MKV seeking
115 * Fix Quicktime Mp4 inside MKV and unpacketized VC1
118 * Added ADF stream filter
119 * Added ARIB STD-B25 TS streams decoder
120 * Added stream prebuffering plugin
121 * Removed HTTP Live streaming stream filter
122 * Added zlib (a.k.a. deflate) decompression filter
125 * Added a demuxer filter chain to filter or intercept control commands and demuxing
128 * Complete rewrite of the AudioTrack Android module, it is now the default
129 module for Android. It now supports HDMI/SPDIF passthrough for AC3/DTS/EAC3,
130 5.1/7.1 channels and float output, depending on the Android version.
131 * Added Tizen audio module
132 * HDMI/SPDIF pass-through support for WASAPI (AC3/DTS/EAC3/TRUEHD)
133 * Support EAC3 and TRUEHD pass-through for PulseAudio
136 * Add SoX Resampler library audio filter module (converter and resampler)
137 * a52tospdif and dtstospdif audio converters are merged into tospdif,
138 this new converter can convert AC3, DTS, EAC3 and TRUEHD to a IEC61937 frame
141 * Linux/BSD default video output is now OpenGL, instead of Xvideo
142 * Wayland shell surface window provider
143 * Wayland shared memory video output
144 * Large rework of the Android video outputs: there is now Surface (2.1, 2.2)
145 NativeWindow (2.3+, supports hw rotation, subpicture blending, opaque)
146 * Support rotation in Android NativeWindow output and hardware decoders
147 * Renamed the Direct3D output module to Direct3D9
148 * Added Direct3D11 video mode supporting both Windows desktop and WinRT modes,
149 supporting subpicture blending and hardware acceleration
150 * EFL Evas video output with Tizen TBM Surface support
151 * New OpenGL provider for Windows
154 * CTL support through Harfbuzz in the Freetype module
157 * Hardware deinterlacing on the rPI, using MMAL
158 * New video filter to convert between fps rates
159 * Added 9-bit and 10-bit support to image adjust filter
160 * New edge detection filter uses the Sobel operator to detect edges
163 * Chromecast output module
164 * RGB24 and YCbCr 4:2:0 RTP packetization
167 * Support for Daala video in 4:2:0 and 4:4:4
168 * VP8 and VP9 encoder using libvpx
171 * Added fragmented/streamable MP4 muxer
172 * Added support for muxing VC1 and WMAPro in MP4
173 * Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
177 * New NetBios service discovery using libdsm
178 * New mDNS services discovery using libmicrodns
179 * New mDNS services discovery using Bonjour (Mac OS X, tvOS, iOS)
180 * Rewrite of the UPnP service discovery
183 * Dropped support for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
184 * Add support for keyboard blacklight dimming during fullscreen video playback
185 * new AppleScript API giving access to audio desynchronization
186 * Support for building with disabled sparkle update mechanism
187 * New configure flag to disable automatic updates
188 * Expanded AppleScript API for menu detection and navigation
189 * New resizable fullscreen controller with improved design
190 * Add status bar icon which displays metadata and play controls
193 * Dropped support for iOS 6.x
196 * Batch convert support
199 * Support key accelerators
202 * Add libvlc_media_new_callbacks for custom input byte streams
203 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_enum to enumerate devices of current aout
204 * Split of libvlc_media_discoverer_new_from_name into libvlc_media_discoverer_new,
205 libvlc_media_discoverer_start and libvlc_media_discoverer_stop
206 This allows to attach media events between create and start
207 * Add libvlc_media_get_codec_description to get a human readable description of a codec
208 * Add libvlc_MediaListEndReached Event to get notified when a media list reached the end
209 * Add libvlc_media_list_player_get_media_player to get the media player instance of a list player
210 * Add libvlc_media_parse_with_options that uses a flag to specify parse options
211 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_get to get the currently selected audio output device
212 identifier (if there is one available)
213 * Add libvlc_media_get_type to get the type of the media
214 * Add libvlc_media_player_get_full_title_descriptions to get full title info of the media
215 and +libvlc_title_descriptions_release to match it
216 * Add libvlc_media_player_get_full_chapter_descriptions to get full chapter info of the media
217 and libvlc_chapter_descriptions_release to match it
218 * Deprecate libvlc_video_get_title_description, libvlc_video_get_chapter_description,
219 libvlc_media_player_get_agl, libvlc_media_player_set_agl
220 * Add libvlc_media_player_set_android_context to integrate in an Android surface
221 * Add libvlc_media_player_set_evas_object to draw on an EFL/Evas Object
222 * Add a new libvlc dialog API to forward dialogs requests to the applications:
223 libvlc_dialog_set_context, libvlc_dialog_get_context, libvlc_dialog_set_callbacks,
224 libvlc_dialog_dismiss, libvlc_dialog_post_action, libvlc_dialog_post_login
225 * Add libvlc_media_discoverer_list_get|release to list the media discoverers
226 * Add libvlc_media_slaves_add, libvlc_media_slaves_clear
227 libvlc_media_slaves_get, libvlc_media_slaves_release to add and get slaves
229 * Add libvlc_media_player_(get|set)_role to set the media role
230 * Add libvlc_media_player_add_slave to replace libvlc_video_set_subtitle_file,
231 working with MRL and supporting also audio slaves
234 * Support for the SystemD Journal
235 * Use --syslog and --syslog-debug command line options to include debug
236 messages in syslog. With --syslog, errors and warnings will be sent only.
237 * New Android module for logging
240 * remove langfromtelx
241 * remove ZPL playlist format
242 * Update libVLC doxygen modules
243 * Add a text-to-speech renderer for subtitles on OS X/iOS
244 * Add a text-to-speech renderer for subtitles on Windows
245 * Add Gnome libsecret-based crypto keystore
246 * Add KDE Kwallet-based crypto keystore
247 * Add a memory keystore
248 * Add a file keystore that can use a submodule to crypt secrets
249 * Add Keychain based crypto keystore for iOS, Mac OS X and tvOS
253 * QTCapture access module (use AVCapture instead)
254 * httplive (use adaptive instead)
255 * smooth (use adaptive instead)
256 * Gnome-VFS access module (i.e. Gnome 2.x)
257 * QuartzText text renderer module (use Freetype instead)
258 * Win32 GDI text renderer module (use Freetype instead)
259 * Growl notification (replaced by osx_notifications)
260 * VCDX "extended" Video CD access module (use the normal VCD module)
261 * Mac OS X Dialog Provider (use VLCKit instead)
262 * iOS Dialog Provider (use MobileVLCKit / TVVLCKit instead)
263 * QuickTime decoder module (use native codecs)
264 * BD access module (use libbluray)
267 Changes between 2.2.0 and 2.2.1:
268 --------------------------------
271 * Fix compilation with older libavcodec versions
272 * Fix some VP9 decoding
274 * Fix lpcm channel ordering
275 * Fix potential NULL dereference in dmo
276 * Fix teletext framing code in DVB PES packets
277 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroendinger decoder (CVE-2014-9629)
282 * Fix MKV overseeking, introducing slowness over network shares
283 * Fix crash when playing SPC files
284 * Fix ATRAC3 playback in MKV
285 * Revert to older ASX code
286 * Workaround TS issue with mpeg-audio
289 * Fix sftp read and close sockets
290 * Fix DTV build with Linux DVB versions < 5.8
291 * Fix UDP/RTP input on Windows
294 * Fix Alsa HDMI plugs
295 * Improve Alsa output, with larger buffers
296 * Fix DirectSound output with multi-channel files
299 * Fix numerous crashes in the UI
300 * Fix video-wallpaper mode
301 * Fix race when starting VLC from command line
304 * Fix recent items behaviour
305 * Fix rotation filter activation
306 * Fix mux modules names for the streaming wizard
309 * Timestamp the signature of the dlls
310 * Fix extensions registration during install
311 * Fix extensions dialog crash
312 * Default to no DxVA decoding
315 * fix libvlc_media_get_stats
318 * Update of Afrikaans, Albanian, Azerbaijani, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch,
319 English (United Kingdom), Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian,
320 Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Macedonian, Malay, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål,
321 Norwegian Nynorsk, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian,
322 Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai,
323 Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian translations
326 Changes between 2.1.6 and 2.2.0:
327 --------------------------------
330 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+,
331 notably most of the streaming output, muxers and access output modules
334 * Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible
335 * Add extensions manager and downloading from external repositories
336 * Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies
337 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
340 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access
341 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes
342 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
343 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection
345 * Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM
346 * Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs
347 * Fix CDDB lookups, including pregap data
350 * Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
351 * Support MediaCodec acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
352 * Add Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder
353 * Add video decoder module based on GStreamer plugins
354 * Add MMAL decoder for Broadcom VideoCore chips (like the RaspberryPi)
355 supporting MPEG-2 and H.264, supporting GPU-zerocopy display
356 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
357 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
358 * Support MSN Audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1,
359 Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless, and numerous videogame codecs
360 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
361 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
362 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
363 * OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
364 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
365 * New jpeg image decoder
366 * Add tx3g subtitles decoder
367 * New SVG image decoder
368 * Fix Speex decoding over RTP and in flv
369 * Support more x264 and FFv1 RGB modes
370 * Improvements on ZVBI teletext decoder, notably for speed and alignments
373 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
374 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
375 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
376 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
377 * New png image encoder using libpng
380 * Support for Core Audio Format (CAF) files
381 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking,
382 streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg
383 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking,
384 synchronization and tracks exclusion
385 * AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations
386 * AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps
387 * MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio
388 and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion
389 * Support Opus in MKV
391 * Basic support for WebVTT
392 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 (AAC) Audio stream type in TS
393 * Support HDPR TS files
394 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
395 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
396 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
397 * Fix encoding issues and relative paths in some XML playlist formats
398 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
399 * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
400 * TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
401 * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
402 * Support SVG images files (on glib platforms)
403 * Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV
404 * Support detection of SRT languages based on filename
405 * Support for seeking Standard MIDI Files
408 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
409 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
410 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
411 * New Android native window provider module
412 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
413 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
414 * Add MMAL based video output for RaspberryPi
417 * New Oldmovie effect filter
418 * New VHS effect filter
419 * New Freeze effect filter
420 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
421 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
422 * Fix audiobargraph activation and usage
425 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
426 * Audio device notifications for WASAPI
427 * Fix replay of sound buffer in DirectSound
428 * Split of MMDevice and WinRT audio modules
429 * Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes
430 * Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules
433 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
434 * Fixes for the AVI muxer to respect the specification
436 * Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS
439 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
440 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
441 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
442 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
443 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
444 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
445 * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
446 * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
447 * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
449 * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
450 --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
451 * Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP
454 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
455 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
458 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
459 * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
462 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
463 * Add record button in Qt menus
464 * New module for core dialogs on iOS
465 * New layout for Qt buttons customization
466 * Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and OS X
469 * Support for OS X Yosemite
470 * Avoid grey bars in fullscreen when using Mavericks with multiple monitors
471 * Improve fullscreen behavior for the native and VLCs own mode
472 * Fixes for advanced preferences
473 * Added 'file size' column to playlist table
474 * in addition to iTunes, Spotify is automatically paused on playback start
475 * Option to increase playlist font size
476 * Improved crash log reporting
479 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
480 * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
481 * Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
482 * Update and improve Koreus, Dailymotion, Soundcloud and Youtube scripts
485 * Numerous integer and heap overflow in Ogg, AVI, ASF, TTA and MP4 demuxers
488 * iOS video output: use ios2
489 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
490 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
493 * New translation in Urdu, Tatar, Silesian, Samoan, Kapampangan, N'ko,
494 Kurdish, Kabyle, Mexican Spanish, Catalan, Amharic
495 * Update of all translations:
496 Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese, Uzbek, Ukrainian,
497 Turkish, Thai, Swedish, Serbian, Albanian, Slovenian, Slovak, Russian,
498 Romanian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Punjabi, Dutch, Nepali, Norwegian
499 Bokmål, Malay, Marathi, Latvian, Lithuanian, Korean, Kannada, Khmer,
500 Japanese, Italian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Hebrew, Galician, Scottish
501 Gaelic, French, Finnish, Persian, Estonian, Spanish, Modern Greek, German,
502 Danish, Welsh, Czech, Bosnian, Bengali, Asturian
505 Changes between 2.1.5 and 2.1.6:
506 --------------------------------
512 * Fix heap overflow in decomp stream filter
513 * Fix buffer overflow in updater (CVE-2014-9625)
514 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroedinger encoder
515 * Fix null-pointer dereference in DMO decoder
516 * Fix buffer overflow in parsing of string boxes in mp4 demuxer (CVE-2014-9626,9627,9628)
517 * Fix SRTP integer overflow
518 * Fix potential crash in zip access
519 * Fix read overflow in Ogg demuxer
520 * Fix RTP overflow (CVE-2014-9630)
523 * Update translations and greek encoding
526 Changes between 2.1.4 and 2.1.5:
527 --------------------------------
530 * Fix compilation on OS/2
533 * Stability improvements for the QTSound capture module
535 Mac OS X audio output:
536 * Fix channel ordering
537 * Increase the buffersize
540 * Fix DxVA2 decoding of samples needing more surfaces
541 * Improve MAD resistance to broken mp3 streams
542 * Fix PGS alignment in MKV
545 * Don't rename mp3 converted files to .raw
548 * Correctly support video-on-top
549 * Fix video output event propagation on Macs with retina displays
550 * Stability improvements when using future VLC releases side by side
553 * Fix transcode when audio format changes
556 * Updated GnuTLS to 3.1.25 (CVE-2014-3466)
557 * Updated libpng to 1.6.10 (CVE-2014-0333)
560 * Update British English
563 Changes between 2.1.3 and 2.1.4:
564 --------------------------------
567 * Fix issue in WMV with multiple compressed payload and empty payloads
570 * Fix subtitles size rendering on Windows
573 * Fix DVD playback regression
574 * Fix misleading error message during video playback on OS X 10.9
575 * Fix hardware acceleration memleaks
578 Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3:
579 --------------------------------
582 * Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
583 * Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir
586 * Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
587 * Fix encrypted DVD playback
588 * Fix v4l2 frequency conversion
591 * Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
592 by updating codec libraries
593 * Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
594 * Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
595 * Fix teletext crash on Windows
598 * Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
599 * Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
600 * Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
601 * Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing
604 * Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
605 * Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X
608 * Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
609 * Fix transform off-by-one issue
610 * Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
611 * Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
612 * Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC
615 * Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
616 * Fix record file names
619 * Fix minimal size possible on start
620 * Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
621 * Fix a crash in the audio menu building
622 * Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
623 * Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows
626 * Fix album art display on Windows
629 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek,
630 Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew,
631 Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Nepali,
632 Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
633 Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
634 and Simplified Chinese translations
635 * Fix encoding for Windows installer translations
638 Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2:
639 --------------------------------
642 * Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
643 * Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
644 * Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external
645 audio devices on OS X
646 * Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
647 * Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS
650 * Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
651 * Various WMV playback improvements and fixes
654 * Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
655 * Fix playback of some HEVC samples
658 * Fix crash on deinterlace selection
661 * Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
662 * Improve A-B loop control
663 * Fix album art update when changing media
666 * Add a language option in the interface
667 * Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
668 * Improved UI resetting when requested in the preferences
669 * Fix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
670 * Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
671 * Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
672 * Fix crash when closing window without decorations
673 * Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled
676 * Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update
679 * Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian,
680 French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer,
681 Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala,
682 Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations
685 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
686 --------------------------------
689 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
691 * Fix some subtitles track selection
694 * VP9 support in WebM
695 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
696 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
699 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
700 * Support Speex in ogg files
701 * Fix some .mov playlists support
702 * Support Alac in mkv
703 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
704 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
707 * Fix DVB options parsing
708 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
709 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
712 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
713 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
716 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
717 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
720 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
721 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
722 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
723 * Fix play after drag'n drop
724 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
727 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
728 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
731 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
732 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
735 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
736 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
737 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
738 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
739 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
740 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
741 * Improves interface resizings
744 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
745 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
746 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
747 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
748 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
752 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
753 --------------------------------
756 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
757 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
758 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
759 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
760 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
762 3rd party libraries (contrib):
763 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
766 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
767 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
768 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
769 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
770 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
773 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
774 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
778 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
779 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
780 * Support for Ulead DV audio
781 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
782 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
783 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
784 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
785 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
786 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
787 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
788 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
789 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
790 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
793 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
794 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
795 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
798 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
799 remove support for previous OS X releases
800 * Major improvements in DASH support
801 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
802 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
803 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
804 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
805 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
806 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
807 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
808 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
809 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
810 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
811 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
814 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
815 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
816 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
817 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
818 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
819 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
820 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
821 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
822 * Support for more MJPEG streams
823 * Add support for liveleak streams
824 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
825 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
826 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
829 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
830 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
831 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
832 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
833 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
834 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
835 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
836 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
837 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
838 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
839 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
842 * New remapping channel filter
843 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
844 * New VSXu visualization plugin
845 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
846 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
847 * New gain audio filter
850 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
851 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
852 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
853 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
854 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
855 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
856 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
857 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
858 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
861 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
862 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
863 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
864 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
865 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
866 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
867 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
870 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
871 * Options support for AVIO output module
872 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
873 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
874 * Livehttp stream encryption support
875 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
876 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
879 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
882 * configurable password for the HTTP server
883 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
884 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
885 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
886 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
887 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
888 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
889 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
893 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
896 * Add support for multiple video outputs
897 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
899 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
900 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
901 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
902 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
903 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
904 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
905 VLC's internal volume level
906 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
908 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
909 selection and to manage the list of presets
910 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
911 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
912 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
913 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
914 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
915 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
916 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
917 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
918 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
919 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
921 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
922 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
923 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
924 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
925 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
926 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
927 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
928 3rd party applications
929 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
930 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
931 (system-wide settings)
932 * Add support for the Video Title option
933 * Add support for the Boss Key
934 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
935 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
938 * Partial support for Qt5.0
939 * Menus modifications and improvements
940 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
941 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
942 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
943 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
944 * EPG display fixes and improvements
945 * Add SD pixmap sources
946 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
947 * Display playlist total duration
948 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
949 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
950 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
955 * Extend sliders, offsets options
956 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
957 * Numerous fixes and improvements
958 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
961 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
962 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
963 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
964 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
965 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
966 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
967 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
968 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
969 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
970 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
973 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
974 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
975 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
976 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
977 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
978 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
980 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
981 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
982 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
983 * Broken crop video filter
985 * OSD parser and menu
986 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
987 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
988 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
989 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
993 * Update of all translations
996 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
997 --------------------------------
1000 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
1001 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
1004 * Fix modplug security issues
1007 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
1008 --------------------------------
1012 * Fix crash in QTsound
1013 * Fix screen mouse file location
1014 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
1017 * Fix use after free in sgimb
1018 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
1021 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
1024 * Fix interface crashes
1025 * Fix autostart playback option
1026 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
1029 * update Welsh translation
1030 * New Kannada translation
1033 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
1034 --------------------------------
1037 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
1038 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
1042 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
1045 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
1048 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
1051 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
1054 * Minor improvements
1055 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
1058 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
1061 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
1062 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
1063 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
1066 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
1067 --------------------------------
1070 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
1073 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
1076 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
1077 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
1078 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
1079 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
1080 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
1081 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
1084 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
1085 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
1086 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
1087 * 3rd party codecs updates
1090 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
1091 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
1092 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
1093 in the advanced preferences panel
1094 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
1095 * Fix crash within the video output code
1096 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
1097 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
1098 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
1099 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
1100 lua extensions, ...)
1101 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
1104 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
1107 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
1108 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
1111 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
1114 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
1115 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
1116 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
1117 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
1118 Dutch, Danish, translations
1119 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
1122 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
1123 --------------------------------
1126 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
1129 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
1130 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
1131 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
1134 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
1135 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
1136 * Fix koreus lua parser
1137 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
1138 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
1139 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
1140 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
1143 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
1144 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
1147 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
1150 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
1151 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
1152 * Fix Time counter UI look
1153 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
1156 * Fix https streaming
1159 * Fix audio and video track selection:
1160 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
1161 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
1164 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
1165 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
1166 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
1167 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
1168 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
1171 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
1172 --------------------------------
1175 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
1176 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
1177 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
1178 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
1179 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
1180 during playback on Mac OS X
1183 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
1184 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
1185 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
1188 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
1189 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
1190 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
1191 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
1192 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
1195 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
1196 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
1197 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
1198 * Support Youtube live streams
1201 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
1204 * Fix media info dialog update
1205 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
1206 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
1207 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
1208 * Fix album art display at start
1211 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
1212 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
1213 * Fix menus display and behavior
1214 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
1215 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
1216 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
1217 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
1218 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
1219 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
1220 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
1223 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
1224 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
1225 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
1226 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
1227 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
1228 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
1229 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
1230 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
1231 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
1234 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
1235 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
1236 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
1237 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
1238 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
1241 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
1242 --------------------------------
1245 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
1248 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
1249 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
1252 * Add GateKeeper support
1253 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
1254 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
1255 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
1258 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
1261 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
1262 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
1263 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
1264 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
1265 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
1268 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
1269 --------------------------------
1272 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
1273 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
1274 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
1275 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
1276 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
1277 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
1278 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
1279 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
1280 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
1281 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
1282 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
1286 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
1287 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
1288 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
1289 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
1290 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
1291 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
1292 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
1293 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
1294 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
1295 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
1296 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
1297 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
1300 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
1301 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
1303 * Fix MP3 free format support
1306 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
1307 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
1308 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
1309 * Fix for DVB channels file support
1310 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
1313 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
1314 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
1316 Audio filters and output:
1317 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
1318 * Fix DirectSound device selection
1319 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
1320 * Do not apply volume in file output
1321 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
1322 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
1325 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
1326 the persistant media library
1327 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
1328 to the media library or the temporary playlist
1329 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
1330 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
1331 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
1332 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
1333 press on the Play/Pause button
1334 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
1335 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
1336 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
1337 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
1338 * Many Fullscreen fixes
1339 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
1340 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
1341 Synchronization panel
1342 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
1343 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
1344 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
1345 * Fix crashes on exit
1346 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
1348 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
1349 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
1350 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
1351 automatically reset on the first launch.
1352 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
1353 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
1354 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
1357 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
1358 * Fixes for icecast SD
1361 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
1362 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
1363 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
1364 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
1365 * Fix tags and file names display
1366 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
1369 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
1370 * Fix for key events and focus loss
1373 * Fix display of some buttons
1374 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
1375 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
1378 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
1379 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
1380 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
1383 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
1384 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
1385 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
1386 Thai translations update
1387 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
1390 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
1391 --------------------------------
1394 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
1395 * fix the samba module compilation
1396 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1397 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
1398 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
1399 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
1402 * Support for MXPEG files
1403 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
1404 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
1407 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
1408 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
1409 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
1412 * Fix ogm header creation
1415 * limit spatializer filter distortions
1416 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
1419 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
1420 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
1421 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
1422 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
1425 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
1428 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
1429 * allow to hide the sidebar
1430 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
1431 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
1432 * noticebly faster launch time
1433 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
1434 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
1435 * improve track synchronization panel
1436 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
1437 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
1440 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
1441 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
1442 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
1443 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
1446 * fix for menus display
1447 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
1448 * documentation update
1451 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
1452 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
1455 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
1456 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1457 * Update Jamendo selections
1461 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
1462 * fix a crash on VLM close
1465 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
1466 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
1467 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
1468 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
1471 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
1474 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
1475 ---------------------------------
1478 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1479 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
1480 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
1481 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
1482 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
1483 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
1484 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
1485 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
1486 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
1487 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
1488 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
1489 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
1490 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
1491 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
1492 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
1493 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
1494 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
1495 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
1496 --http-crl (optional CRL).
1497 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
1498 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
1499 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
1500 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
1501 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
1502 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
1503 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
1505 Important changes for packagers:
1506 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
1507 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
1508 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
1509 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
1510 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
1511 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
1512 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
1513 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
1514 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
1515 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
1518 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
1519 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
1520 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
1521 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
1522 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
1523 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
1524 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
1527 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
1528 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
1529 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
1530 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
1531 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
1532 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
1533 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
1534 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
1535 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
1536 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
1537 * PulseAudio audio input support
1538 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
1539 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
1540 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
1541 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
1542 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
1543 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
1544 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
1545 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
1548 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
1549 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
1550 are notably concerned.
1551 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
1552 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
1553 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
1554 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
1555 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
1556 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
1557 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
1558 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
1559 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
1560 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
1561 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
1562 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
1563 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
1564 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
1565 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
1568 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
1569 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
1570 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
1571 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
1572 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
1573 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
1574 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
1575 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
1576 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
1577 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
1578 * Improved support of tracker files
1579 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
1582 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
1583 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
1584 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
1585 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
1586 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
1587 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
1588 and important cleanups and optimisations
1589 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
1590 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
1591 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
1592 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
1593 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
1594 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
1595 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
1596 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
1597 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
1598 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
1599 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
1600 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
1601 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
1602 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
1603 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
1604 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
1605 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
1606 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
1607 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
1608 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
1609 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
1612 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
1613 * New video output for iOS platform
1614 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
1615 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
1616 * Various vmem improvements
1617 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
1618 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
1619 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
1620 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
1621 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
1622 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
1624 Audio Output and Filters:
1625 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
1626 * New audio output in memory (amem)
1627 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
1628 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
1629 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
1630 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
1631 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
1632 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
1633 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
1634 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
1637 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
1638 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
1639 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
1640 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
1641 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
1642 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
1643 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
1644 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
1645 * New anti-flickering filter
1646 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
1647 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
1648 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
1649 blackbox and customizable shadow.
1650 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
1651 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
1652 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
1655 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
1656 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
1657 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
1658 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
1659 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
1660 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
1661 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
1662 * Major rework of VoD support
1663 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
1664 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
1665 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
1666 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
1667 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
1668 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
1669 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
1670 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
1671 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
1672 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
1675 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
1676 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
1679 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1680 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
1681 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
1682 list of available audio and video filters
1683 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
1684 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
1685 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
1688 * asademux, subsass: use libass
1689 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
1690 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
1691 * id3tag: use taglib
1692 * upnp: use upnp_intel
1693 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
1694 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
1695 * removal of the noise filter
1696 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
1697 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
1698 removed in Growl's next release, too.
1699 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
1702 * Update of translations for most languages.
1703 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
1706 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
1707 ----------------------------------
1710 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
1711 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
1714 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
1715 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
1718 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
1719 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
1720 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
1723 * Camtasia decoding fix.
1726 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
1727 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
1730 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
1733 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
1734 ----------------------------------
1737 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
1738 including support for OS X Lion
1739 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
1740 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
1743 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
1746 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
1747 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
1748 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
1751 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
1754 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
1755 ----------------------------------
1758 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
1759 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
1762 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
1763 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
1764 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
1765 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
1766 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
1768 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
1769 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
1770 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
1772 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
1773 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
1776 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
1779 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
1782 * Fix quitting on Linux
1783 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
1787 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
1790 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
1793 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
1794 ---------------------------------
1796 Windows and Mac OS X:
1797 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
1800 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
1801 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
1804 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
1807 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
1810 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
1812 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1813 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
1815 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
1816 * RTP output and XML export
1817 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
1821 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
1822 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
1823 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
1824 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
1827 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
1828 --------------------------------
1830 Windows and Mac OS X:
1831 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
1834 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
1837 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
1838 * Improve Apple Remote handling
1839 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
1840 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
1841 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
1842 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
1845 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
1846 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
1850 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
1851 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
1852 * New Luganda Translation
1855 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
1856 --------------------------------
1859 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
1862 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
1863 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
1864 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
1865 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
1868 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
1870 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
1871 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
1872 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
1873 * mp4 demuxer improvements
1874 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
1875 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
1876 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
1877 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
1879 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1880 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
1881 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
1882 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
1883 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
1884 * Configure and build system improvements
1885 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
1888 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
1889 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
1890 * New icelandic translation
1893 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
1894 --------------------------------
1897 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
1898 #234484 and #260719.
1901 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
1902 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1903 and stability reasons
1906 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1910 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1913 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1914 ----------------------------------
1917 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1920 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1921 ---------------------------------
1924 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1925 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1926 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1927 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1930 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1933 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1934 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1935 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1936 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1939 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1940 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1941 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1943 Subtitles and renderer:
1944 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1945 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1946 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1947 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1948 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1951 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1952 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1953 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1954 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1957 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1958 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1960 Miscellaneous fixes:
1961 * KDE device solid actions
1963 * Transcode integer overflow
1964 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1965 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1968 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1969 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1970 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1973 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1974 ----------------------------------
1977 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1981 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1984 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1987 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1988 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1989 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1990 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1993 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1997 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
2000 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
2003 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
2004 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
2006 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
2010 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
2011 * Miscellaneous fixes
2014 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
2015 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
2016 French and Ukrainian
2017 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
2018 * New Asturian translation
2021 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
2022 ----------------------------------
2025 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
2027 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
2030 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
2033 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
2034 * Various fixes for Windows
2037 * New Armenian translation
2038 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
2039 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
2042 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
2043 --------------------------------
2046 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
2047 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
2048 * Fix folders opening from the interface
2051 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
2052 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
2055 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
2056 --------------------------------
2058 Access and demuxers:
2059 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
2060 * fix for podcasts parsing
2061 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
2064 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
2065 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
2068 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
2069 * fix m3u playlists exports
2072 * fix video autoresize behaviour
2075 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
2078 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
2081 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
2084 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
2087 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
2088 --------------------------------
2091 * Avformat fps displaying fix
2092 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
2095 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
2096 of mono streams, especially on Windows
2099 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
2100 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
2101 * fix console output encoding
2103 Interface and extensions:
2104 * Youtube and other scripts updates
2105 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
2108 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
2109 --------------------------------
2112 * New capabilities for libVLC:
2113 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
2114 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
2115 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
2116 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
2117 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
2118 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
2119 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
2120 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
2121 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
2122 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
2123 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
2124 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
2125 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
2126 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
2127 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
2131 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
2132 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
2133 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
2134 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
2135 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
2138 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
2141 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
2142 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
2143 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
2147 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
2150 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
2151 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
2152 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
2155 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
2156 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
2157 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
2158 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
2161 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
2162 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
2165 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
2166 --------------------------------
2168 Important changes for users:
2169 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
2170 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
2172 Important changes for packagers:
2173 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
2174 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
2175 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
2176 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
2177 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
2179 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
2181 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
2182 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
2183 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
2184 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
2185 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
2188 * Support for the sftp protocol
2189 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
2190 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
2191 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
2192 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
2193 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
2196 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
2197 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
2198 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
2200 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
2201 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
2202 * Invmem module improvements
2203 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
2204 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
2205 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
2206 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
2207 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
2208 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
2209 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
2210 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
2211 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
2212 * Support for VP8 codec
2213 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
2216 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
2217 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
2218 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
2219 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
2220 * Various EGP improvements
2221 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
2222 * Metadata and cover art improvements
2225 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
2226 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
2227 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
2228 * Podcast images are now displayed
2231 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
2232 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
2233 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
2234 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
2235 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
2236 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
2237 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
2238 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
2239 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
2240 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
2241 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
2244 * New content extensions lua framework
2247 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
2248 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
2249 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
2250 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
2251 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
2252 * NEON assembly audio converter module
2253 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
2256 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
2257 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
2258 * Service discovery based on libudev
2259 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
2262 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
2263 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
2264 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
2265 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
2266 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
2267 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
2268 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
2271 * New smem module, streaming to memory
2272 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
2273 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
2276 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
2278 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
2279 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
2282 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
2285 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
2286 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
2287 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
2288 by Andy Matuschak et al.
2289 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
2290 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
2291 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
2294 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
2295 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
2298 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
2299 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
2300 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
2304 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
2305 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
2306 * Improved Solaris port
2309 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
2310 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
2313 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
2314 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
2315 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
2316 * transrate: broken since too long
2317 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
2318 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
2319 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
2320 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
2321 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
2322 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
2323 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
2324 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
2325 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
2326 * cddax: use cdda instead.
2327 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
2328 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
2329 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
2330 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
2333 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
2334 --------------------------------
2337 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
2339 Decoders/Packetizers:
2340 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
2343 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
2344 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
2345 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
2346 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
2347 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
2350 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
2351 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
2354 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
2355 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
2358 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
2359 and Walloon translations updated
2360 * Sinhala translation started
2363 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
2364 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
2367 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
2368 --------------------------------
2371 * SubRip extra styles improvements
2372 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
2375 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
2378 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
2379 increase performance and fix x264 issues
2382 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
2383 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
2384 Russian, Slovak translation updates
2385 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
2388 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
2389 --------------------------------
2392 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
2393 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
2396 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
2397 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
2400 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
2401 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
2404 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
2407 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
2408 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
2411 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
2412 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
2415 * New Walloon translation
2416 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
2419 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
2420 --------------------------------
2423 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
2424 regressions in most popular drivers
2425 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
2428 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
2429 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
2430 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
2433 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
2434 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
2437 * Update for appletrailers lua script
2438 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
2439 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
2440 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
2441 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
2444 * New udev module for linux
2447 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
2450 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
2453 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
2454 --------------------------------
2457 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
2458 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
2459 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
2462 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
2463 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
2466 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
2467 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
2470 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
2473 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
2474 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
2475 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
2476 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
2479 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
2480 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
2481 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
2482 - no support for Goom and SDL
2483 - limited text rendering support
2484 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
2487 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
2488 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
2489 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
2490 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
2491 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
2492 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
2493 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
2494 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
2495 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
2499 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
2502 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
2505 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
2506 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
2507 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
2508 Arabic and French translation updates
2511 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
2512 --------------------------------
2515 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
2516 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
2517 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
2518 * Fix Dailymotion access script
2519 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
2520 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
2523 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
2524 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2525 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2528 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
2529 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
2530 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
2533 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
2536 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
2537 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
2540 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
2541 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
2542 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2543 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
2544 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
2545 * Fix various crashes
2548 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
2550 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
2554 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
2555 ---------------------------------
2559 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
2560 See 'Access:' for more info.
2561 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
2564 * Instantaneous pausing
2565 * Frame-by-Frame playback
2566 * Finer speed control
2567 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
2568 * Timeshift for most medias
2569 * RTSP trickplay support
2570 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
2573 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
2574 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
2575 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
2576 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
2577 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
2578 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
2579 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
2580 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
2581 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
2582 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
2585 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
2586 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
2587 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
2588 * Metadata for mod files are supported
2589 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
2590 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
2591 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
2594 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
2595 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
2598 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
2599 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
2600 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
2601 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
2602 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
2603 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
2604 * DVB scanning on linux
2605 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
2606 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
2607 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
2608 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
2609 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
2610 * MTP device access on Unix
2611 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
2612 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
2615 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
2616 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
2617 Windows and Mac OS X.
2620 * Export the playlist in HTML
2621 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
2622 * Better metadata handling and reading
2624 Linux/Windows interface:
2625 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
2626 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
2627 * Recently played items list
2628 * Interface toolbar customizations
2629 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
2630 - More menus actions
2631 - Finer speed slider
2632 - Improvements on many dialogs
2633 - New dialog for plugins listing
2634 - Fixed-size mode for videos
2635 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
2636 * Better integration in GTK environments
2639 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
2640 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
2641 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
2642 * Additional usability improvements
2645 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
2646 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
2647 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
2648 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
2649 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
2652 * New Maemo port with:
2653 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
2654 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
2657 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
2660 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
2661 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
2662 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
2663 * Support for latest iSight models
2666 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
2667 * Surround support for PulseAudio
2670 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
2671 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
2672 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
2673 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
2674 The old image video output has been removed.
2675 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
2676 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
2679 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
2687 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
2688 --------------------------------------
2694 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
2695 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
2696 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
2697 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
2698 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
2699 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2700 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
2702 Various fixes to the following modules:
2705 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
2706 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2707 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2709 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
2714 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
2715 ---------------------------------
2718 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
2719 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
2722 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
2723 ---------------------------------
2726 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
2729 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
2732 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
2733 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
2734 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
2735 main controller window.
2736 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
2739 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
2744 * Updates of other localizations
2747 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
2748 * Lots of small bugfixes.
2749 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
2750 * Telnet fixes on Windows
2751 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
2754 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
2755 ---------------------------------
2758 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
2760 Bunch of small bugfixes.
2763 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
2764 --------------------------------
2769 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
2770 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
2773 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
2774 --------------------------------
2776 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
2777 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
2780 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
2783 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
2784 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
2787 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
2788 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
2791 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
2792 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
2793 * Various fixed in playlist
2796 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
2799 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
2802 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
2803 ------------------------------------
2805 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
2806 * Fixes several memory leaks.
2809 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
2810 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
2811 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
2814 * Stability fix for the video output.
2817 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
2818 --------------------------------
2821 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
2822 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
2823 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
2824 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
2825 * Fixed update system bugs
2826 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
2829 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
2830 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
2831 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
2832 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
2833 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
2834 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
2835 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
2836 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
2837 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
2838 modern Mac OS X versions
2841 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
2842 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
2844 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
2845 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
2848 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
2849 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
2850 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
2851 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
2852 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
2853 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
2856 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
2857 --------------------------------
2859 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
2860 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
2861 * Multiple bugfixes.
2864 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
2865 --------------------------------
2867 * Multiple bug fixes.
2870 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2871 ---------------------------------
2875 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
2876 recent to work correctly
2877 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
2878 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
2879 edit the ".hosts" file.
2880 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
2881 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
2882 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
2883 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
2884 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
2885 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
2886 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
2887 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
2888 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
2889 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
2890 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
2891 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
2892 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
2893 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
2894 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
2895 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
2896 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
2897 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
2898 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
2899 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2900 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
2901 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
2902 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2903 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2904 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2905 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2906 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2907 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2908 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2909 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2910 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2911 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2912 and postproc modules.
2913 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2914 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2915 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2916 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2918 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2919 filter. For example:
2920 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2921 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2923 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2924 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2930 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2932 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2933 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2936 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2937 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2939 * Shoutcast TV listings
2940 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2942 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2943 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2945 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2948 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2949 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2950 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2951 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2952 * JACK audio input support
2953 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2954 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2955 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2956 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2957 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2958 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2959 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2960 (available as a separate download).
2961 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2962 * RTMP input support
2963 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2964 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2965 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2967 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2968 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2971 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2972 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2973 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2974 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2976 * APEv1/2 tags support
2977 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2978 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2980 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2981 * TiVo Series 2 support
2982 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2987 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2988 * Flash Screen Video support
2989 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2990 * DosBox Capture support
2991 * Karl Morton's Video support
2992 * limited atrac3 support
2994 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2995 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2996 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2997 * H.264 PAFF support
2998 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2999 * NellyMoser ASAO support
3000 * APE (Monkey audio) support
3001 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
3002 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
3005 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
3006 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
3007 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
3008 * AQTitle subtitles support
3009 * MKV USF subtitles support
3010 * HTML-based subtitles support
3011 * MPSub subtitles support
3012 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
3013 * MPL2 subtitles support
3014 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
3015 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
3016 * Realtext subtitle support
3017 * DKS subtitle support
3018 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
3019 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
3022 * Flash Screen Video support
3023 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
3025 Video outputs and filters:
3026 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
3027 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
3028 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
3029 * New puzzle video output filter
3030 * Re-written motion detection video filter
3031 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
3033 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
3034 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
3035 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
3036 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
3037 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
3038 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
3039 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
3040 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
3041 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
3042 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
3043 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
3044 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
3045 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
3046 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
3048 Audio outputs and filters:
3049 * Replay gain support
3050 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
3051 new scaletempo audio filter)
3052 * New spatializer audio filter
3053 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
3056 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
3057 * New RTP payload formats:
3058 * Speex voice audio codec
3059 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
3060 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
3061 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
3062 * DCCP transport for RTP
3063 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
3068 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
3069 end-user suitable way.
3070 * Improved user interaction
3071 * Improved mouse gestures
3072 * Vastly improved Update checker
3073 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
3075 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
3076 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
3078 * Improved video output features
3079 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
3080 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
3081 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
3082 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
3083 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
3085 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
3086 if libncursesw is available.
3087 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
3088 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
3089 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
3091 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
3092 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
3093 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
3094 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
3095 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
3096 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
3097 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
3098 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
3101 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
3102 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
3103 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
3106 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
3107 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
3108 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
3109 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
3110 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
3111 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
3114 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
3115 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
3125 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
3126 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
3127 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
3130 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
3131 ----------------------------------
3134 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
3137 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
3138 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
3139 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
3140 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
3141 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
3142 * Updated Polish translation
3145 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
3146 ----------------------------------
3149 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
3150 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
3151 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
3154 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
3155 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
3156 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
3157 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
3158 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
3159 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
3160 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
3161 to an unexpected application termination
3162 * New Serbian translation
3163 * Updated Romanian translation
3166 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
3167 ----------------------------------
3170 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
3171 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
3172 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
3173 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
3174 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
3175 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
3176 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
3177 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
3180 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
3181 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
3182 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
3183 * Fixed AAC resampling
3184 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
3185 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
3188 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
3189 ----------------------------------
3192 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
3193 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
3194 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
3195 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
3196 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
3199 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
3200 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
3201 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
3202 * Close MMS access on network timeout
3203 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
3206 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
3207 ----------------------------------
3210 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
3211 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
3214 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
3215 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
3216 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
3217 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
3219 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
3223 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
3226 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
3229 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
3232 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
3235 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
3236 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
3237 encoding on multi-cpu systems
3238 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
3239 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
3241 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3242 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
3243 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
3244 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
3247 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
3250 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
3251 ----------------------------------
3254 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
3255 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
3256 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
3258 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
3259 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
3261 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
3262 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
3265 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
3267 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3268 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
3269 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
3270 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
3271 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
3272 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
3273 two different movies
3274 * Support for current Ogg file formats
3275 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
3276 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
3279 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
3282 * The automatic updating facility was removed
3283 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
3284 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
3285 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
3288 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
3289 ----------------------------------
3291 Various bugfixes, notably:
3292 * Windows Vista compatibility
3293 * Cropping in Direct3D
3294 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
3295 * RSS filter string overflow
3297 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
3299 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
3300 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
3303 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
3304 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
3307 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
3310 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
3313 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
3316 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
3317 ----------------------------------
3319 Various bugfixes, notably:
3320 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
3321 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
3322 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
3323 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
3324 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
3325 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
3328 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
3329 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
3332 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
3334 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3335 * Diverse usability improvements
3336 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
3337 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
3338 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
3341 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
3342 ---------------------------------
3344 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
3345 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
3348 * Fullscreen controller improvements
3351 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
3352 --------------------------------
3355 * Shoutcast TV listings support
3358 * Support for RTSP authentication
3359 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
3360 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
3361 * ATSC support for DVB input
3362 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
3363 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
3364 * Improved support for Flash Video files
3367 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
3368 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
3369 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
3370 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
3371 * Matroska WavPack support
3372 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
3373 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
3374 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
3377 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
3378 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
3379 * Improved libcaca support
3383 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
3384 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
3386 * Systray support in skins
3388 * Support for Apple Remote control
3389 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3390 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3391 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
3392 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
3394 * Notifications using notification-daemon
3397 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
3398 Windows 9x/ME users:
3399 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
3400 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
3401 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
3402 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
3403 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
3405 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
3406 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
3415 * Updates to the libvlc API
3416 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
3419 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
3420 --------------------------------
3423 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
3424 * Support for downloading updates
3428 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
3429 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
3430 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
3431 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
3433 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
3434 * Improved subtitles encoding support
3435 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
3438 * Cook (Real audio) support
3440 Playlist / Services discovery:
3441 * XSPF playlist support
3443 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
3446 * New JACK audio output
3449 * New video filters:
3450 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
3451 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
3452 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
3453 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
3454 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
3455 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
3458 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
3461 * System to inform the user and request information
3462 - HTTP authentication
3466 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
3467 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3468 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
3471 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
3472 - Improved playlist handling
3473 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
3475 - Embedded Video output
3476 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
3477 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
3478 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3479 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
3480 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
3482 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
3483 - A bunch of new RPN functions
3486 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
3489 * Mac-Intel compatibility
3490 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
3491 * Growl "Now playing" support
3494 * Ability to log to syslog
3495 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
3498 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
3500 * A bit more automatic testing
3503 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
3504 ---------------------------------
3507 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
3508 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
3511 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
3512 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
3515 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
3518 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
3519 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
3525 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
3528 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
3529 --------------------------------
3532 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
3536 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
3537 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
3538 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
3541 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
3542 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
3543 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
3544 * GnomeVFS input module
3545 * Support for RTP packet reordering
3546 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
3549 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
3550 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
3551 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
3554 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
3555 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
3561 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
3562 Mixer and Dolby Surround
3565 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
3566 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
3567 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
3570 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
3572 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
3573 - New extended controls panel
3574 - New bookmarks window
3575 - Fixed playlist sorting
3576 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
3578 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
3579 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
3580 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
3581 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
3585 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
3586 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
3588 - Include macro to include other files
3592 * Should now work outside IE as well
3595 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
3598 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
3599 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
3602 The following languages were added:
3606 * Simplified Chinese
3607 The following languages were re-added:
3611 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
3612 --------------------------------
3615 * Rewrite of the playlist
3617 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
3618 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
3619 * Preferences improvements:
3620 - New organization, designed to improve usability
3621 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
3623 * Core image manipulation support
3624 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
3625 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
3626 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
3627 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
3628 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
3629 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
3630 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
3631 now separated by ':' instead of ','
3632 * Access filter architecture
3633 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
3634 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
3638 * Support for SOCKS proxy
3639 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
3640 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
3641 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
3642 * Better support for Kasenna streams
3643 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
3644 * Massive Matroska improvements
3645 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
3647 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
3648 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
3649 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
3650 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
3651 * Support for FTP over IPv6
3653 Decoders / Encoders:
3654 * Dirac decoder and encoder
3655 * PNG decoder/encoder
3656 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
3657 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
3660 * New Record and Timeshift filters
3663 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
3664 * Brand new SAP module
3665 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
3666 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
3667 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
3668 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
3669 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
3670 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
3674 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
3677 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
3678 * Image file video output (png)
3679 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
3680 * Improvements to wall video filter
3681 * Support for font color and opacity
3687 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
3688 - Seeking support in VoD streams
3689 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
3693 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
3694 - Improved preferences
3695 - Improvements to the wizard
3696 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
3698 - Redesigned playlist
3699 - Improved preferences
3701 - Support for multiple actions
3704 - Support for the new playlist system
3706 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
3709 * Screensaver disabling fix
3710 * DirectShow tuner configuration
3711 * Support for no-decoration windows
3714 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
3715 * The OpenGL video output is back
3716 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
3717 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
3718 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
3719 is not yet available in the new module
3720 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
3723 * Support for single-buffered overlay
3732 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
3735 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
3738 The following languages were added:
3744 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
3745 --------------------------------
3748 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
3749 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
3752 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
3753 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
3754 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
3757 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3760 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
3763 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
3766 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
3767 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
3768 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
3772 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
3774 * Support of playlist group announcement
3777 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
3778 --------------------------------
3781 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
3782 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
3783 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
3784 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
3785 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
3786 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
3789 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
3790 (Stream your desktop)
3791 * Improved DVD support:
3792 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
3793 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
3794 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
3795 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
3796 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
3797 (selection of titles/chapters).
3800 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
3801 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
3802 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
3803 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
3804 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
3805 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3806 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
3807 * Improved Ogg demuxer
3808 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
3809 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
3812 * G.726 audio support
3813 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
3814 * MPEG-4 text support
3815 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
3816 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
3817 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
3821 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
3822 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
3823 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
3824 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
3825 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
3826 * DVB subtitles encoder
3827 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
3828 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
3830 * Text track muxing for mp4
3831 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
3832 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
3833 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3834 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
3835 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
3836 * Improved ASF muxer
3838 * H.263 RTP streaming support
3839 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
3840 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
3843 * New audio equalizer filter
3844 * Very trivial volume normalizer
3845 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
3846 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
3847 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
3850 * Roku HD1000 Video output
3851 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
3852 with support for effects.
3853 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
3854 - New filters can be streamed.
3855 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
3856 - Centralized scaling and blending
3858 - "time", to display current time
3859 - "marq", to display a marquee
3862 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
3863 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
3864 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
3865 * A few skins2 improvements
3866 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
3867 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
3868 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
3869 * Improved CORBA control module
3872 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
3873 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
3874 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
3877 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
3878 * Experimental SVG rendering module
3879 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
3882 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
3883 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
3884 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
3885 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
3886 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
3889 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3892 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
3893 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
3896 * Server/client network synchronization module
3897 * VBrick streams fully supported
3898 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
3902 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3903 --------------------------------
3906 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3907 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3908 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3909 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3912 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3913 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3914 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3915 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3916 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3917 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3918 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3921 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3922 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3923 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3924 * Improved directory access module.
3925 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3926 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3927 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3928 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3929 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3932 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3933 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3934 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3937 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3938 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3939 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3942 * Improved session announcement system.
3943 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3944 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3945 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3946 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3947 * Improved transrater.
3948 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3949 * New configuration system.
3950 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3953 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3954 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3955 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3956 * Supports scheduling.
3957 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3958 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3961 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3962 - Ability to embed video output.
3963 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3964 - Lots of improvements.
3965 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3966 - New design and set of icons.
3967 - Ability to embed video output.
3968 - Support for hotkeys.
3969 - Support for bookmarks.
3971 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3972 - Better hotkeys handling.
3975 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3976 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3977 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3978 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3981 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3982 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3983 * Improved Windows installer.
3989 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3990 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3993 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3994 ---------------------------------
3997 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3998 * Playing MOD files is working now.
4001 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
4002 --------------------------------
4005 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
4006 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
4009 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
4010 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
4011 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
4012 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
4015 * Internal improvments
4016 * Improved import/export
4019 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
4021 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
4022 small and strange formats.
4024 * New MOD audio demux.
4025 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
4026 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
4027 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
4028 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
4031 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
4032 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
4033 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
4039 * New opengl video output plugin.
4042 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
4043 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
4046 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
4047 --------------------------------
4050 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
4051 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
4052 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
4053 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
4054 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
4055 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
4056 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
4057 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
4060 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
4065 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
4066 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
4067 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
4068 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
4069 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
4070 * Reworked DVB tuning.
4071 * Better Icecast support.
4072 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
4073 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
4076 * Support for Theora video encoding.
4077 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
4078 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
4079 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
4080 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
4081 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
4082 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
4085 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
4086 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
4087 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
4088 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
4089 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
4090 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
4091 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
4092 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
4093 * Preliminary RTP support.
4094 * Fixes to SAP announces.
4099 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
4100 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
4102 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
4103 - Improvements and help in preferences
4104 - New streaming wizard
4105 - Revised Disc Open menu
4107 - Improvements of the standard pages
4108 - Support for new commands
4109 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
4112 * Many fixes to the SAP module
4113 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
4116 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
4117 * Text subtitles autodetection.
4118 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
4119 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
4120 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
4121 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
4122 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
4123 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
4124 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
4127 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
4129 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
4130 * Support for Panther.
4131 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
4132 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
4135 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
4136 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
4137 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
4138 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
4139 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
4140 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
4141 * Multimonitor support (untested).
4142 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
4145 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
4146 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
4147 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
4150 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
4153 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
4154 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.