1 Changes between 3.0.0 and 3.0.1:
2 --------------------------------
5 * Fix use-after-free when cleaning playlists
6 * Fix crash on exit on Windows
9 * Fix HLG tone mapping on some systems like macOS.
10 * Fix screensaver inhibition on Windows XP
11 * Fix various Direct3D11 crashes
12 * Fix HDR tone mapping in Direct3d11
13 * Fix pink screen on Windows
16 * macOS: enable SMB file sharing
19 * Fix potential stack buffer overflow with faad
20 * Enable Cineform HD in avcodec
23 * macOS: Improve HEVC 10bit performance with Videotoolbox
24 * android: Add MPEG2 support via MediaCodec
25 * Fix HEVC decoding with some files on Android/macOS/iOS
26 * Improve Direct3D11 memory usage
29 * Improve MKV seeking speed
30 * Fix xspf base URL handling
31 * Fix reading mp4 trun with moof based offsets
32 * Fix adaptive http redirections
33 * Replace old API, fixing adaptive TLS leak
34 * Use mime type as fallback for HLS segment type
35 * Fix subtitle (srt,ssa..) seek when having a single entry
36 * Flag non default HDMV subset video streams
37 * Increase TS probing amount for 4K streams
38 * Miscellaneous MKV, MP4 & AVI crash fixes
41 * Fix out of bounds read in mpeg4video
44 * Improve chromecast loading speed
45 * Improve local/chromecast transition during playback
46 * Fix chromecast loading with some versions of Windows
47 * Fix chromecast loading with some chromecast devices (TVs and Android boxes)
48 * Fix wrong first cover art when casting
52 * Re-add option to disable the fullscreen controller panel
53 * Auto-layout improvements
54 * Remove misleading playback warning indicator
55 * Fix crash with the interface for lua extensions (like VLSub)
56 * Fix show sidebar setting being ignored on restart
57 * Fix MKV files association
58 * Fix chromecast audio detection
61 * Improve scaling on HiDPI displays
64 * Improve interface look and feel.
66 Changes between 2.2.8 and 3.0.0:
67 --------------------------------
69 Platform support changes:
70 * 3.0.x will be maintained as a LTS (best-effort basis, mostly for security)
71 that will be the last working version for quite a few systems.
73 Indeed the 3.0.x branch will contain the last releases running on:
74 - Windows XP, Vista, and the servers equivalent of those Windows versions
75 - macOS 10.7, 10.8 & 10.9, iOS 7 & 8
76 - Android 2.x, 3.x, 4.0.x & 4.1.x
77 - Compilers before gcc 5.0 and clang 3.4, or equivalent
79 * For the 3.0 branch, please note:
80 * The Windows XP/2003/2003R2 support for VLC is now on a best-effort basis:
81 it should work, but not without limitations.
82 libVLC support for Windows XP is deprecated.
83 You _really_ should upgrade to a more modern Windows version!
84 * Windows Vista (all versions) without Platform Upgrade is not supported.
85 * 64bit version of VLC for Windows is recommended.
86 * Linux support requires now a kernel newer than 2.6.26.
87 * Mac OS X 10.6 support is now removed. You need OS X 10.7.
90 * Support network browsing for distant filesystems (SMB, FTP, SFTP, NFS...)
91 and rewrite the parsing of the media files and inputs
92 * Support keystores: fetch and store passwords securely (sic!) for common
93 protocols (HTTP, SMB, SFTP, FTP, RTSP ...)
94 * Autodetect external audio tracks (ac3, m4a, aac, dts...) similar to subtitles
95 * Support HDMI passthrough for Audio HD codecs, like E-AC3, TrueHD or DTS-HD
96 * Support for 12bits codec and extended colorspaces (HDR)
97 * Support output renderers, like ChromeCast
98 * VLC now assumes vlcrc config file is in UTF-8
99 * Support portable version of Windows build (create a "portable/" folder)
100 * Support wayland surface type
101 * Allow to start the video paused on the first frame
102 * Refactor preparsing input
103 * EPG rework: table and single event updates, now using network time
104 * Refactor and fix subtitles es selection. Demuxers can now override
105 es category single only or multiple es behavior
106 * Support for 360 video and audio, including viewpoint modification
107 * Support for ambisonic audio and more than 8 audio channels
108 * Support subtitles size live adjustments
111 * New NFS access module using libnfs
112 * New SMB access module using libdsm
113 * Adaptive streaming:
114 * Rewrite MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support, including
115 MPEG2TS and ISOBMFF profiles
116 * Support HDS (Http Dynamic Streaming) from Adobe (f4m, f4v, etc.)
117 * Large rework of the Smooth Streaming module
118 * Replaced httplive stream filter with new HLS demuxer, replaced smooth
119 stream filter with new Smooth demuxer, both using unified adaptive module
120 * Support HLSv4-7, including MP4 and raw muxing and ID3 tags
121 * Support decompression and extraction through libarchive (tar, zip, rar...)
122 * New HTTP/TLS access module for HTTP 2.0 support
123 * Improvements of cookie handling (share cookies between playlist items,
124 domain / path matching, Secure cookies)
125 * Support DVB-T2 on Windows BDA
126 * Support depayloading Opus from RTP
127 * New UPnP access module, to list directories without infinite recursions
128 * SMB/FTP/SFTP accesses can list directories
129 * Support sftp username and passwords options in URL, and key authentication
130 * New WASAPI audio capture module on Windows
131 * New "concat" access module for concatenating byte streams
132 * Named pipes and device nodes are no longer included in directory listings
133 by default. Use --list-special-files to include them back.
134 * Support for timeout in UDP input --udp-timeout=<seconds>
135 * New SAT>IP access module, to receive DVB-S via IP networks
136 * Improvements on DVB scanning
137 * BluRay module can open ISO over network and has full BD-J support
138 * Support for DVD ISO over network
139 * New SRT access module using libsrt
142 * Support HEVC hardware decoding on Windows, using DxVA2 and D3D11
143 * Support hardware decoding using Direct3D11, including GPU-zerocopy mode,
144 and hardware filtering, for deinterlace and adjust
145 * DxVA2 GPU-zerocopy for hardware decoding and displaying on Windows,
146 and support for hardware filtering, for deinterlace and adjust
147 * Support HEVC hardware decoding using OMX and MediaCodec (Android)
148 * Use MediaCodec via NDK native API after Android Lollipop
149 * Support MPEG-2, VC1/WMV3 on Android using MediaCodec
150 * OMX GPU-zerocopy support for decoding and display on Android using OpenMax IL
151 * Support 4:4:4 and 4:2:2 chroma samplings with VDPAU hw acceleration
152 * Important VAAPI improvements for 10bits, HEVC, direct-rendering support
153 * Support VP9 and WMV3 decoding using OMX and performance improvements
154 * Important improvements for the MMAL decoder and output for rPI and rPI2
155 * New hardware accelerated decoder for OS X and and iOS based on Video Toolbox
156 supporting H.263, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, H.265/HEVC, MPEG-4 Part 2, and DV
159 * Support for experimental AV1 video
160 * Support for ARIB STD-B24 subtitles
161 * Support for experimental Daala video
162 * New MPEG-1 & 2 audio layer I, II, III + MPEG 2.5 decoder based on libmpg123
163 * New BPG decoder based on libbpg
164 * Fix uncompressed DVD-Audio (AOB) LPCM decoding
165 * Rewrite WPL playlists and add ZPL playlists support (Zune)
166 * Support TDSC, Canopus HQX, Cineform, SpeedHQ, Pixlet, QDMC and FMVC codecs
167 * TTML subtitles support, including EBU-TT-D variant
168 * Rewrite of webVTT subtitles support, including CSS style support
169 * Support 9-bit and 10-bit GBR planar formats
170 * Support for the OggSpots video codec
171 * HEVC packetization is mostly fixed
172 * H264 packetizer can now generate timestamps
173 * Packetizers have support for captions in SEI
174 * DTS packetizer handle DTS extensions (like DTS-HD): decoders like avcodec
175 can now decode up to 8 channels
176 * JPEG images correctly oriented using embedded orientation tag, if present
177 * Support VPX high bit depth support
178 * Extend MicroDVD support with color, fontname, size, position extensions
179 * BluRay text subtitles (HDMV) are now decoded
180 * Improve Closed Captions detection, notably inside the video streams
182 * New MIDI decoder for macOS and iOS using the AudioToolbox framework, works
183 without a soundfont or with SoundFont2 and DLS soundfonts
186 * Important rework of the MP4 demuxer, including:
187 * Support for fragmented MP4
188 * Support EIA-608/708 subtitles in MP4/mov
189 * Support WMV and WMAV in MP4/mov, aka Flip4Mac files
190 * Support bitmap audio channel reordering in MP4/mov
191 * Support for RTP Reception Hint Track with H.264, GSM and Speex payloads
192 * Support for XiphQT(MP4) vorbis and Flac
193 * Support for VP8/VP9/VP10/AV1 in MP4
194 * Support GoPro HiLight chapters
195 * Support for TTML and WebVTT in ISOBMFF/MP4 and DASH
196 * Add new metadata fields
197 * Important rework of the TS demuxer, including:
198 * Support Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
199 * Fix program selection with recorded TS (TopField, DreamBox and others)
200 * Fix TS playback with PAT/PMT less recordings
201 * Basic support for MPEG4-SL in TS and T-DMB
202 * Support SCTE-18 / EAS inside TS
203 * Support for new descriptors and ETT tables
204 * Support for ARIB channel logos, as attachements, ARIB TR-B21/TR-B14-1
205 * Improve broken-PCR probing and fixing
206 * Improvements for scrambled state detection
207 * Support HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS)
208 * Important rework of the PS demuxer, including:
210 * Fix large number of samples, notably with PSM-less H264
211 * Partial support of PSMF
212 * Fix broken SCR samples
213 * Fix CDXA mpeg-1 support
214 * Improvements on MKV:
215 * Rewrite MKV seeking
216 * Support FFv1 inside MKV
217 * Improve ADTS and LATM inside MKV
218 * Improve DVD-menus support
219 * Support for lame's replaygain extension in mpeg files
220 * Support Daala in Ogg
221 * Improve Chained-Ogg support
222 * Fixes for DTS detection in WAV and MKV files
223 * Support for Creative ADPCM/alaw/ulaw/S16L in VOC files
224 * Support for Creative ADPCM in AVI
225 * Support WMV extended content metadata
226 * Directory Demux can now sort items, ignore extensions and hidden files
227 * Support AlbumArtist and DiscNumber metadata
228 * Support raw H265/HEVC files
229 * Support multi-channel WAV without channel-maps
230 * Support SBV subtitles
231 * Support for Scenarist Closed Caption
232 * Fix Quicktime Mp4 inside MKV and unpacketized VC1
233 * Support for isofLaC
234 * Improve fLaC seeking
235 * Replace --demux dvb-open option with --stream-filter dvb to parse
236 channels.conf digital TV channel list files
239 * Add an ADF stream filter
240 * Add a ARIB STD-B25 TS streams decoder
241 * Add a stream prebuffering plugin
242 * Rewrite libarchive module as a stream_extractor
243 * Remove HTTP Live streaming stream filter
244 * Add a zlib (a.k.a. deflate) decompression filter
245 * Add a skiptags module to help demuxers skip ID3/APE tags
248 * Add a demuxer filter chain to filter or intercept control commands and demuxing
249 * Add a demuxer filter to block seeking (--demux-filter noseek)
252 * Complete rewrite of the AudioTrack Android module, it is now the default
253 module for Android. It now supports HDMI/SPDIF passthrough for AC3/DTS/EAC3,
254 5.1/7.1 channels and float output, depending on the Android version.
255 * Add Tizen audio module
256 * HDMI/SPDIF pass-through support for WASAPI (AC3/DTS/DTSHD/EAC3/TRUEHD)
257 * Support EAC3 and TRUEHD pass-through for PulseAudio
258 * Important rework of the AudioUnit modules to share more code between iOS and macOS
259 * Support Ambisonics audio with viewpoint changes
262 * Add SoX Resampler library audio filter module (converter and resampler)
263 * a52tospdif and dtstospdif audio converters are merged into tospdif,
264 this new converter can convert AC3, DTS, EAC3 and TRUEHD to a IEC61937 frame
265 * Add a Spatialaudio module with 2 submodules:
266 * an Ambisonics audio renderer, supporting up to 3rd order
267 * an Binauralizer audio filter, working with Ambisonics or 5.1/7.1 streams
268 * Add Headphones option in Stereo Mode: use the spatialaudio module for
270 * Add a pitch shifting module
273 * Linux/BSD default video output is now OpenGL, instead of Xvideo
275 * New OpenGL provider for Windows
276 * Drop OpenGL 1.x and OpenGL ES 1 support
277 * Direct rendering with OpenGL (starting OpenGL 4.4)
278 * Hardware direct displaying with VA-API interop
279 * Hardware direct displaying with VDPAU interop
280 * Hardware direct displaying with DxVA2/D3D9Ex interop
281 * Hardware direct displaying with VideoToolbox interop (iOS and macOS)
282 * HDR tonemapping support through libplacebo
283 * Wayland shell surface window provider
284 * Wayland shared memory video output
285 * Large rework of the Android video outputs: there is now Surface (2.1, 2.2)
286 NativeWindow (2.3+, supports hw rotation, subpicture blending, opaque)
287 * Support rotation in Android NativeWindow output and hardware decoders
288 * Rename the Direct3D output module to Direct3D9
289 * Add a Direct3D11 video output supporting both Windows desktop and WinRT modes,
290 supporting subpicture blending and hardware acceleration
291 * Support HDR10 in Direct3D11 with Windows 10 Fall Creator Update
292 * EFL Evas video output with Tizen TBM Surface support
295 * Hardware deinterlacing on the rPI, using MMAL
296 * New video filter to convert between fps rates
297 * Add 9-bit and 10-bit support to image adjust filter
298 * New edge detection filter uses the Sobel operator to detect edges
299 * Hardware accelerated deinterlacing/adjust/sharpen/chroma with VA-API
300 * Hardware accelerated adjust/invert/posterize/sepia/sharpen with CoreImage
301 * Hardware accelerated deinterlacing/adjust/chroma with D3D9 and D3D11
304 * CTL support through Harfbuzz in the Freetype module
305 * New font fallback algorithm on most platforms
306 * More conforming EIA608 captions layout and aspect ratio
307 * More styles support for TTML, WebVTT and 708
310 * Chromecast output module
311 * RGB24 and YCbCr 4:2:0 RTP packetization
314 * Support for Daala video in 4:2:0 and 4:4:4
315 * VP8 and VP9 encoder using libvpx
318 * Add fragmented/streamable MP4 muxer
319 * Add support for muxing VC1 and WMAPro in MP4
320 * Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
324 * New NetBios service discovery using libdsm
325 * New mDNS services discovery using libmicrodns
326 * New mDNS services discovery using Bonjour (Mac OS X, tvOS, iOS)
327 * Rewrite of the UPnP service discovery
330 * Drop support for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
331 * Support right-to-left user interface layout for right-to-left languages
332 * New resizable fullscreen controller with improved design
333 * Add status bar icon which displays metadata and play controls
334 * Add support for keyboard blacklight dimming during fullscreen video playback
335 * Improve and simplify preferences window
336 * Huge performance improvements in playlist handling and other areas
337 * New AppleScript API giving access to audio desynchronization
338 * Expand AppleScript API for menu detection and navigation
339 * Support for building with disabled sparkle update mechanism
340 * Remove deprecated transcoding wizard, use convert and save dialog instead
343 * Drop support for iOS 6.x
346 * Batch convert support
347 * It is now possible to specify 'stop-time' in Convert/Save dialog
350 * Support key accelerators
353 * Add libvlc_media_new_callbacks for custom input byte streams
354 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_enum to enumerate devices of current aout
355 * Split of libvlc_media_discoverer_new_from_name into libvlc_media_discoverer_new,
356 libvlc_media_discoverer_start and libvlc_media_discoverer_stop
357 This allows to attach media events between create and start
358 * Add libvlc_media_get_codec_description to get a human readable description of a codec
359 * Add libvlc_MediaListEndReached Event to get notified when a media list reached the end
360 * Add libvlc_media_list_player_get_media_player to get the media player instance of a list player
361 * Add libvlc_media_parse_with_options that uses a flag to specify parse options
362 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_get to get the currently selected audio output device
363 identifier (if there is one available)
364 * Add libvlc_media_get_type to get the type of the media
365 * Add libvlc_media_player_get_full_title_descriptions to get full title info of the media
366 and +libvlc_title_descriptions_release to match it
367 * Add libvlc_media_player_get_full_chapter_descriptions to get full chapter info of the media
368 and libvlc_chapter_descriptions_release to match it
369 * Deprecate libvlc_video_get_title_description, libvlc_video_get_chapter_description,
370 libvlc_media_player_get_agl, libvlc_media_player_set_agl
371 * Add libvlc_media_player_set_android_context to integrate in an Android surface
372 * Add a new libvlc dialog API to forward dialogs requests to the applications:
373 libvlc_dialog_set_context, libvlc_dialog_get_context, libvlc_dialog_set_callbacks,
374 libvlc_dialog_dismiss, libvlc_dialog_post_action, libvlc_dialog_post_login
375 * Add libvlc_media_discoverer_list_get|release to list the media discoverers
376 * Add libvlc_media_slaves_add, libvlc_media_slaves_clear
377 libvlc_media_slaves_get, libvlc_media_slaves_release to add and get slaves
379 * Add libvlc_media_player_(get|set)_role to set the media role
380 * Add libvlc_media_player_add_slave to replace libvlc_video_set_subtitle_file,
381 working with MRL and supporting also audio slaves
382 * Add vlc_epg_event_(New|Delete|Duplicate), vlc_epg_AddEvent, vlc_epg_Duplicate
383 and removes vlc_epg_Merge
386 * Support for the SystemD Journal
387 * Use --syslog and --syslog-debug command line options to include debug
388 messages in syslog. With --syslog, errors and warnings will be sent only.
389 * New Android module for logging
392 * remove langfromtelx
393 * remove ZPL playlist format
394 * Update libVLC doxygen modules
395 * Add a text-to-speech renderer for subtitles on OS X/iOS
396 * Add a text-to-speech renderer for subtitles on Windows
397 * Add Gnome libsecret-based crypto keystore
398 * Add KDE Kwallet-based crypto keystore
399 * Add a memory keystore
400 * Add a file keystore that can use a submodule to crypt secrets
401 * Add Keychain based crypto keystore for iOS, Mac OS X and tvOS
405 * QTCapture access module (use AVCapture instead)
406 * httplive (use adaptive instead)
407 * smooth (use adaptive instead)
408 * Gnome-VFS access module (i.e. Gnome 2.x)
409 * QuartzText text renderer module (use Freetype instead)
410 * Win32 GDI text renderer module (use Freetype instead)
411 * Growl notification (replaced by osx_notifications)
412 * VCDX "extended" Video CD access module (use the normal VCD module)
413 * Mac OS X Dialog Provider (use VLCKit instead)
414 * iOS Dialog Provider (use MobileVLCKit / TVVLCKit instead)
415 * QuickTime decoder module (use native codecs)
416 * BD access module (use libbluray)
417 * Direct2D module (use Direct3D11)
418 * EyeTV access module
419 * Rar access and stream filter: use libarchive
420 * VDA decoder: use VT
421 * Audioqueue: use audiounit
422 * SDL video output module
423 * DirectFB video output module
424 * RAOP stream output module
427 Changes between 2.2.7 and 2.2.8:
428 --------------------------------
431 * Fix AVI invalid pointer dereferences
436 Changes between 2.2.6 and 2.2.7:
437 --------------------------------
440 * Fix flac heap write overflow on format change
441 * Fix crash in libavcodec module (heap write out-of band) (CVE-2017-10699)
442 * Fix infinite loop in sami subtitle
443 * Fix AAC 7.1 channels detection
446 * Fix potential crash in ASX parser
447 * Fix AVI read/write overflow
450 * Fix compatibility with macOS High Sierra
451 * Fix regression in ASS subtitle decoding
452 * Fix crash during automatic update. Some users might need to manually
453 update to the newest version.
456 * Fix Direct2D9 output with odd offsets
460 * Support libupnp 1.8
465 Changes between 2.2.5.1 and 2.2.6:
466 ----------------------------------
469 * Fix systematic green line on nvidia
470 * Fix direct3d SPU texture offsets handling
473 * Fix heap buffer overflows (CVE-2017-8310, 8311, 8312, 8313)
475 Changes between 2.2.5 and 2.2.5.1:
476 ----------------------------------
478 Security hardening for DLL hijacking environments
483 * Update for Soundcloud, liveleak and Youtube scripts
484 * Fix potential out-of-band dereference in flac decoder (CVE-2017-9300)
485 * Fix potential out-of-band reads in mpeg packetizers (CVE-2017-9301)
486 * Fix infinite loop in subtitles demuxer
487 * Fix incorrect memory free in ogg demuxer
488 * Fix potential out-of-band reads in subtitle decoders and demuxers
489 * Fix green line on Windows with odd sizes
492 Changes between 2.2.4 and 2.2.5:
493 --------------------------------
496 * Fix mp3 playback quality regression in libmad
497 * Fix video scaling in VDPAU
498 * Fix playback of palettized codecs
499 * Fix ADPCM heap corruption (FG-VD-16-067)
500 * Fix AES3 16bps decoding
501 * Fix DVD/LPCM heap corruption (FG-VD-16-090)
505 * Fix possible ASF integer overflow
506 * Fix MP4, VOC, XA, SMF divide-by-zero errors
507 * Fix MP4 heap buffer overflows
508 * Fix Flac metadata integer overflow
509 * Fix NSVf and AIFF infinite loops
510 * Fix flac null-pointer dereference
511 * Fix vorbis and opus comments integer overflows and leaks
514 * Fix green line on Windows with AMD drivers
515 * Fix screenshots size
518 * Fix crash in screen recording on Windows
519 * Fix FTP scan string injection
520 * Fix HTTP size handling
526 * Fix vimeo, youtube, dailymotion, cli, appletrailers, http,
530 * Fix heap write in stereo_widen audio filter
533 * The plugins loading will not load external DLLs by default.
534 Plugins will need to LoadLibrary explicitely.
535 * Fix uninstaller path handling
536 * Fix taskbar buttons behavior
539 * Fix scrolling sensitivity on Sierra
540 * Resume points are deleted now if the user clears the list of
544 Changes between 2.2.3 and 2.2.4:
545 --------------------------------
548 * Fix crash in G.711 wav files
549 * Fix mp3 crash in libmad
550 * Fix out-of-bound write in adpcm QT IMA codec (CVE-2016-5108)
553 * Fix resizing issues
556 * Fix overlay creation on Windows XP for DirectDraw video output
559 * Build fixes for Hurd
562 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, German, French, Italian, Marathi, Norwegian
563 Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Portuguese, Slovak, Spanish (Mexico), Swedish,
564 Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese translations
567 Changes between 2.2.2 and 2.2.3:
568 --------------------------------
571 * Fix HLS quality selection and a potential stack overflow
572 * Fix potential MKV infinite loop and improve MKV tags support
576 * Fix hardware decoding with libvdpau-va-gl
577 * Fix crashes with libvpx
578 * Use libass without caching dialog
581 * Fix green lines on Direct3D output
584 * Fix maximizing Window in multi-screen context
587 * Fix resume where you left off
588 * Fix infinite recursion in the customize dialog
589 * Fix size when switching to/from the minimal interface
590 * Fix size after resume toolbar is displayed
593 * Fix crashes in media information panel
594 * Correctly respect the disable-screensaver option
597 * Allow opening more than 15 elements in Explorer
600 * Update of most translations
603 Changes between 2.2.1 and 2.2.2:
604 --------------------------------
607 * Fix SetupFormat for continuous framesize in v4l2
608 * Fix off-by-one buffer overflow in RealRtsp module
609 * Fix screen recording aspect-ratio, framerate and potential crash
610 * Fix Windows directshow input freeze
611 * Fix MMS segmentation fault/abort when server forces a large allocation
614 * Fix support for ms-dvr files
615 * Fix time detection in AVI files over HTTP
616 * HLS: fix hang on stop, crashes and small improvements
617 * Fix mp4 NULL dereference reported by by Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs
618 * Fix regression for VC-1 in WMV
619 * Fix MXF crashes on stop
620 * Fix EAC3 detection in some TS files
623 * Fix importing surface from main memory in VDPAU
624 * Fix possible double-free in ADPCM decoder
625 * Support 9-bit and 10-bit GBR planar formats
626 * Support GoToMeeting 2 and GoToMeeting 3 codecs
627 * Fix crash in teletext (zvbi) decoder
628 * Fix Bluray subtitles (PGS) timestamps
631 * Fix audio drop after a flush with pulseaudio
632 * Fix audio initialization on iOS
633 * Fix audio stuttering with AirPlay devices on OS X (2 sec delay needs to
634 be set manually by the user)
635 * Fix pulseaudio latency computation
636 * Fix alsa default device selection
639 * Fix video control that fails to show up
640 * Fix UTF-8 conversion issues
641 * Fix Unicode folders location failing to open the skins
642 * Fix crash over malformed skins bitmaps
643 * Fix fullscreen for Gnome3/Unity Window Managers
646 * Support for OS X El Capitan
647 * Fix code signature for releases on El Capitan
648 * Improve resume dialog, starting time, preferences, lua extensions
649 * Fix threads ordering, preferences crashes, URL drag'n drops
652 * Fix crash when opening multiple items on Windows
653 * Fix recent items appending when using a playlist
654 * Improve addons manager dialog, playlist
655 * Fix changing the audio-device in the menu
656 * Fix key and mouse event support for Qt >= 5.5 under X11
660 * Fix build if one disables XCB but activate VDPAU on Unix
661 * Fix Direct3D plane allocation size to avoid colour bleeding
662 * Fix some crashes in swscale resizing
665 * Fix build with recent FreeRDP versions
666 * Fix interface crashes when input-title-format option is empty
667 * Fix MP4 mux divide-by-zero crash
668 * Improve PNG encoding time
669 * Fix some UPnP initialization lag
670 * Rewrite of the Jamendo Service Discovery
671 * Fix snapshot aspect ratio for anamorphic contents
672 * Fix custom snapshot sizes
673 * Dynamic generation of GnuTLS Diffie-Hellman parameters
674 * Fix "vb" transcoding parameter
675 * Fix superfluous audio channel extraction in the core
676 * Fix miscellaneous crashes, double-frees, integer overflows, infinite loops,
677 read overflow, invalid frees and division by zero issues
678 * Fix support for lua 5.2 and fix XSS in the http interface
679 * Update and improve Soundcloud, Vimeo and Youtube scripts
680 * Update of codecs and libraries to fix 3rd party security issues (like
681 TALOS-CAN-0036, TALOS-CAN-0037, CVE-2015-7981, CVE-2015-8126
684 * Add Kashmiri and Maithili languages
685 * Update of most translations
688 * Expose audio mute, cork and volume change events: libvlc_MediaPlayerCorked,
689 libvlc_MediaPlayerUncorked, libvlc_MediaPlayerMuted,
690 libvlc_MediaPlayerUnmuted and libvlc_MediaPlayerAudioVolume
691 * Fix propagation of libvlc_MediaPlayerTitleChanged event
694 * Update of most translations
697 Changes between 2.2.0 and 2.2.1:
698 --------------------------------
701 * Fix compilation with older libavcodec versions
702 * Fix some VP9 decoding
704 * Fix lpcm channel ordering
705 * Fix potential NULL dereference in dmo
706 * Fix teletext framing code in DVB PES packets
707 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroendinger decoder (CVE-2014-9629)
712 * Fix MKV overseeking, introducing slowness over network shares
713 * Fix crash when playing SPC files
714 * Fix ATRAC3 playback in MKV
715 * Revert to older ASX code
716 * Workaround TS issue with mpeg-audio
719 * Fix sftp read and close sockets
720 * Fix DTV build with Linux DVB versions < 5.8
721 * Fix UDP/RTP input on Windows
724 * Fix Alsa HDMI plugs
725 * Improve Alsa output, with larger buffers
726 * Fix DirectSound output with multi-channel files
729 * Fix numerous crashes in the UI
730 * Fix video-wallpaper mode
731 * Fix race when starting VLC from command line
734 * Fix recent items behaviour
735 * Fix rotation filter activation
736 * Fix mux modules names for the streaming wizard
739 * Timestamp the signature of the dlls
740 * Fix extensions registration during install
741 * Fix extensions dialog crash
742 * Default to no DxVA decoding
745 * fix libvlc_media_get_stats
748 * Update of Afrikaans, Albanian, Azerbaijani, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch,
749 English (United Kingdom), Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian,
750 Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Macedonian, Malay, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål,
751 Norwegian Nynorsk, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian,
752 Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai,
753 Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian translations
756 Changes between 2.1.6 and 2.2.0:
757 --------------------------------
760 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+,
761 notably most of the streaming output, muxers and access output modules
764 * Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible
765 * Add extensions manager and downloading from external repositories
766 * Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies
767 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
770 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access
771 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes
772 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
773 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection
775 * Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM
776 * Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs
777 * Fix CDDB lookups, including pregap data
780 * Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
781 * Support MediaCodec acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
782 * Add Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder
783 * Add video decoder module based on GStreamer plugins
784 * Add MMAL decoder for Broadcom VideoCore chips (like the RaspberryPi)
785 supporting MPEG-2 and H.264, supporting GPU-zerocopy display
786 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
787 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
788 * Support MSN Audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1,
789 Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless, and numerous videogame codecs
790 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
791 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
792 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
793 * OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
794 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
795 * New jpeg image decoder
796 * Add tx3g subtitles decoder
797 * New SVG image decoder
798 * Fix Speex decoding over RTP and in flv
799 * Support more x264 and FFv1 RGB modes
800 * Improvements on ZVBI teletext decoder, notably for speed and alignments
803 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
804 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
805 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
806 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
807 * New png image encoder using libpng
810 * Support for Core Audio Format (CAF) files
811 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking,
812 streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg
813 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking,
814 synchronization and tracks exclusion
815 * AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations
816 * AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps
817 * MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio
818 and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion
819 * Support Opus in MKV
821 * Basic support for WebVTT
822 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 (AAC) Audio stream type in TS
823 * Support HDPR TS files
824 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
825 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
826 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
827 * Fix encoding issues and relative paths in some XML playlist formats
828 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
829 * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
830 * TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
831 * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
832 * Support SVG images files (on glib platforms)
833 * Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV
834 * Support detection of SRT languages based on filename
835 * Support for seeking Standard MIDI Files
838 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
839 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
840 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
841 * New Android native window provider module
842 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
843 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
844 * Add MMAL based video output for RaspberryPi
847 * New Oldmovie effect filter
848 * New VHS effect filter
849 * New Freeze effect filter
850 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
851 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
852 * Fix audiobargraph activation and usage
855 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
856 * Audio device notifications for WASAPI
857 * Fix replay of sound buffer in DirectSound
858 * Split of MMDevice and WinRT audio modules
859 * Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes
860 * Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules
863 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
864 * Fixes for the AVI muxer to respect the specification
866 * Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS
869 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
870 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
871 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
872 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
873 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
874 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
875 * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
876 * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
877 * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
879 * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
880 --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
881 * Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP
884 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
885 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
888 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
889 * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
892 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
893 * Add record button in Qt menus
894 * New module for core dialogs on iOS
895 * New layout for Qt buttons customization
896 * Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and OS X
899 * Support for OS X Yosemite
900 * Avoid grey bars in fullscreen when using Mavericks with multiple monitors
901 * Improve fullscreen behavior for the native and VLCs own mode
902 * Fixes for advanced preferences
903 * Added 'file size' column to playlist table
904 * in addition to iTunes, Spotify is automatically paused on playback start
905 * Option to increase playlist font size
906 * Improved crash log reporting
909 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
910 * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
911 * Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
912 * Update and improve Koreus, Dailymotion, Soundcloud and Youtube scripts
915 * Numerous integer and heap overflow in Ogg, AVI, ASF, TTA and MP4 demuxers
918 * iOS video output: use ios2
919 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
920 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
923 * New translation in Urdu, Tatar, Silesian, Samoan, Kapampangan, N'ko,
924 Kurdish, Kabyle, Mexican Spanish, Catalan, Amharic
925 * Update of all translations:
926 Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese, Uzbek, Ukrainian,
927 Turkish, Thai, Swedish, Serbian, Albanian, Slovenian, Slovak, Russian,
928 Romanian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Punjabi, Dutch, Nepali, Norwegian
929 Bokmål, Malay, Marathi, Latvian, Lithuanian, Korean, Kannada, Khmer,
930 Japanese, Italian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Hebrew, Galician, Scottish
931 Gaelic, French, Finnish, Persian, Estonian, Spanish, Modern Greek, German,
932 Danish, Welsh, Czech, Bosnian, Bengali, Asturian
935 Changes between 2.1.5 and 2.1.6:
936 --------------------------------
942 * Fix heap overflow in decomp stream filter
943 * Fix buffer overflow in updater (CVE-2014-9625)
944 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroedinger encoder
945 * Fix null-pointer dereference in DMO decoder
946 * Fix buffer overflow in parsing of string boxes in mp4 demuxer (CVE-2014-9626,9627,9628)
947 * Fix SRTP integer overflow
948 * Fix potential crash in zip access
949 * Fix read overflow in Ogg demuxer
950 * Fix RTP overflow (CVE-2014-9630)
953 * Update translations and greek encoding
956 Changes between 2.1.4 and 2.1.5:
957 --------------------------------
960 * Fix compilation on OS/2
963 * Stability improvements for the QTSound capture module
965 Mac OS X audio output:
966 * Fix channel ordering
967 * Increase the buffersize
970 * Fix DxVA2 decoding of samples needing more surfaces
971 * Improve MAD resistance to broken mp3 streams
972 * Fix PGS alignment in MKV
975 * Don't rename mp3 converted files to .raw
978 * Correctly support video-on-top
979 * Fix video output event propagation on Macs with retina displays
980 * Stability improvements when using future VLC releases side by side
983 * Fix transcode when audio format changes
986 * Updated GnuTLS to 3.1.25 (CVE-2014-3466)
987 * Updated libpng to 1.6.10 (CVE-2014-0333)
990 * Update British English
993 Changes between 2.1.3 and 2.1.4:
994 --------------------------------
997 * Fix issue in WMV with multiple compressed payload and empty payloads
1000 * Fix subtitles size rendering on Windows
1003 * Fix DVD playback regression
1004 * Fix misleading error message during video playback on OS X 10.9
1005 * Fix hardware acceleration memleaks
1008 Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3:
1009 --------------------------------
1012 * Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
1013 * Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir
1016 * Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
1017 * Fix encrypted DVD playback
1018 * Fix v4l2 frequency conversion
1021 * Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
1022 by updating codec libraries
1023 * Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
1024 * Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
1025 * Fix teletext crash on Windows
1028 * Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
1029 * Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
1030 * Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
1031 * Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing
1034 * Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
1035 * Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X
1038 * Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
1039 * Fix transform off-by-one issue
1040 * Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
1041 * Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
1042 * Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC
1045 * Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
1046 * Fix record file names
1049 * Fix minimal size possible on start
1050 * Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
1051 * Fix a crash in the audio menu building
1052 * Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
1053 * Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows
1056 * Fix album art display on Windows
1059 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek,
1060 Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew,
1061 Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Nepali,
1062 Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
1063 Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
1064 and Simplified Chinese translations
1065 * Fix encoding for Windows installer translations
1068 Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2:
1069 --------------------------------
1072 * Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
1073 * Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
1074 * Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external
1075 audio devices on OS X
1076 * Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
1077 * Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS
1080 * Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
1081 * Various WMV playback improvements and fixes
1084 * Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
1085 * Fix playback of some HEVC samples
1088 * Fix crash on deinterlace selection
1091 * Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
1092 * Improve A-B loop control
1093 * Fix album art update when changing media
1096 * Add a language option in the interface
1097 * Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
1098 * Improved UI resetting when requested in the preferences
1099 * Fix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
1100 * Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
1101 * Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
1102 * Fix crash when closing window without decorations
1103 * Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled
1106 * Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update
1109 * Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian,
1110 French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer,
1111 Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala,
1112 Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations
1115 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
1116 --------------------------------
1119 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
1121 * Fix some subtitles track selection
1124 * VP9 support in WebM
1125 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
1126 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
1129 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
1130 * Support Speex in ogg files
1131 * Fix some .mov playlists support
1132 * Support Alac in mkv
1133 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
1134 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
1137 * Fix DVB options parsing
1138 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
1139 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
1142 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
1143 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
1146 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
1147 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
1150 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
1151 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
1152 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
1153 * Fix play after drag'n drop
1154 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
1157 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
1158 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
1161 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
1162 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
1165 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
1166 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
1167 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
1168 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
1169 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
1170 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
1171 * Improves interface resizings
1174 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
1175 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
1176 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
1177 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
1178 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
1182 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
1183 --------------------------------
1186 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1187 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
1188 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
1189 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
1190 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
1192 3rd party libraries (contrib):
1193 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
1196 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
1197 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
1198 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
1199 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
1200 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
1203 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
1204 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
1205 * Remove SQL support
1208 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
1209 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
1210 * Support for Ulead DV audio
1211 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
1212 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
1213 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
1214 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
1215 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
1216 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
1217 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
1218 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
1219 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
1220 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
1223 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
1224 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
1225 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
1228 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
1229 remove support for previous OS X releases
1230 * Major improvements in DASH support
1231 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
1232 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
1233 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
1234 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
1235 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
1236 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
1237 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
1238 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
1239 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
1240 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
1241 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
1244 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
1245 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
1246 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
1247 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
1248 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
1249 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
1250 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
1251 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
1252 * Support for more MJPEG streams
1253 * Add support for liveleak streams
1254 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
1255 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
1256 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
1259 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
1260 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
1261 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
1262 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
1263 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
1264 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
1265 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
1266 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
1267 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
1268 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
1269 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
1272 * New remapping channel filter
1273 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
1274 * New VSXu visualization plugin
1275 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
1276 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
1277 * New gain audio filter
1280 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
1281 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
1282 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
1283 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
1284 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
1285 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
1286 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
1287 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
1288 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
1291 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
1292 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
1293 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
1294 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
1295 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
1296 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
1297 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
1300 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
1301 * Options support for AVIO output module
1302 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
1303 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
1304 * Livehttp stream encryption support
1305 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
1306 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
1309 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
1312 * configurable password for the HTTP server
1313 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
1314 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
1315 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
1316 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
1317 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
1318 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
1319 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
1322 * UPnP A/V subtitles
1323 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
1326 * Add support for multiple video outputs
1327 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
1329 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
1330 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
1331 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
1332 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
1333 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
1334 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
1335 VLC's internal volume level
1336 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
1338 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
1339 selection and to manage the list of presets
1340 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
1341 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
1342 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
1343 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
1344 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
1345 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
1346 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
1347 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
1348 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
1349 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
1351 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
1352 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
1353 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
1354 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
1355 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
1356 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
1357 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
1358 3rd party applications
1359 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
1360 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
1361 (system-wide settings)
1362 * Add support for the Video Title option
1363 * Add support for the Boss Key
1364 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
1365 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
1368 * Partial support for Qt5.0
1369 * Menus modifications and improvements
1370 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
1371 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
1372 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
1373 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
1374 * EPG display fixes and improvements
1375 * Add SD pixmap sources
1376 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
1377 * Display playlist total duration
1378 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
1379 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
1380 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
1385 * Extend sliders, offsets options
1386 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
1387 * Numerous fixes and improvements
1388 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
1391 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
1392 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
1393 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
1394 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
1395 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
1396 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
1397 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
1398 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
1399 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
1400 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
1403 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
1404 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
1405 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
1406 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
1407 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
1408 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
1410 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
1411 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
1412 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
1413 * Broken crop video filter
1415 * OSD parser and menu
1416 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
1417 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
1418 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
1419 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
1423 * Update of all translations
1426 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
1427 --------------------------------
1430 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
1431 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
1434 * Fix modplug security issues
1437 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
1438 --------------------------------
1442 * Fix crash in QTsound
1443 * Fix screen mouse file location
1444 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
1447 * Fix use after free in sgimb
1448 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
1451 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
1454 * Fix interface crashes
1455 * Fix autostart playback option
1456 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
1459 * update Welsh translation
1460 * New Kannada translation
1463 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
1464 --------------------------------
1467 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
1468 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
1472 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
1475 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
1478 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
1481 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
1484 * Minor improvements
1485 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
1488 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
1491 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
1492 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
1493 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
1496 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
1497 --------------------------------
1500 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
1503 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
1506 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
1507 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
1508 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
1509 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
1510 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
1511 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
1514 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
1515 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
1516 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
1517 * 3rd party codecs updates
1520 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
1521 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
1522 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
1523 in the advanced preferences panel
1524 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
1525 * Fix crash within the video output code
1526 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
1527 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
1528 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
1529 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
1530 lua extensions, ...)
1531 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
1534 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
1537 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
1538 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
1541 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
1544 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
1545 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
1546 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
1547 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
1548 Dutch, Danish, translations
1549 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
1552 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
1553 --------------------------------
1556 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
1559 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
1560 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
1561 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
1564 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
1565 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
1566 * Fix koreus lua parser
1567 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
1568 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
1569 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
1570 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
1573 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
1574 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
1577 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
1580 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
1581 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
1582 * Fix Time counter UI look
1583 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
1586 * Fix https streaming
1589 * Fix audio and video track selection:
1590 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
1591 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
1594 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
1595 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
1596 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
1597 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
1598 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
1601 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
1602 --------------------------------
1605 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
1606 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
1607 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
1608 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
1609 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
1610 during playback on Mac OS X
1613 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
1614 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
1615 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
1618 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
1619 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
1620 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
1621 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
1622 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
1625 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
1626 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
1627 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
1628 * Support Youtube live streams
1631 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
1634 * Fix media info dialog update
1635 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
1636 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
1637 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
1638 * Fix album art display at start
1641 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
1642 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
1643 * Fix menus display and behavior
1644 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
1645 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
1646 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
1647 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
1648 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
1649 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
1650 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
1653 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
1654 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
1655 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
1656 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
1657 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
1658 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
1659 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
1660 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
1661 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
1664 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
1665 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
1666 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
1667 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
1668 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
1671 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
1672 --------------------------------
1675 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
1678 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
1679 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
1682 * Add GateKeeper support
1683 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
1684 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
1685 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
1688 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
1691 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
1692 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
1693 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
1694 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
1695 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
1698 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
1699 --------------------------------
1702 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
1703 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
1704 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
1705 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
1706 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
1707 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
1708 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
1709 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
1710 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
1711 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
1712 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
1716 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
1717 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
1718 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
1719 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
1720 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
1721 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
1722 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
1723 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
1724 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
1725 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
1726 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
1727 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
1730 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
1731 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
1733 * Fix MP3 free format support
1736 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
1737 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
1738 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
1739 * Fix for DVB channels file support
1740 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
1743 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
1744 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
1746 Audio filters and output:
1747 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
1748 * Fix DirectSound device selection
1749 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
1750 * Do not apply volume in file output
1751 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
1752 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
1755 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
1756 the persistant media library
1757 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
1758 to the media library or the temporary playlist
1759 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
1760 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
1761 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
1762 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
1763 press on the Play/Pause button
1764 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
1765 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
1766 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
1767 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
1768 * Many Fullscreen fixes
1769 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
1770 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
1771 Synchronization panel
1772 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
1773 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
1774 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
1775 * Fix crashes on exit
1776 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
1778 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
1779 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
1780 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
1781 automatically reset on the first launch.
1782 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
1783 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
1784 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
1787 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
1788 * Fixes for icecast SD
1791 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
1792 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
1793 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
1794 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
1795 * Fix tags and file names display
1796 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
1799 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
1800 * Fix for key events and focus loss
1803 * Fix display of some buttons
1804 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
1805 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
1808 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
1809 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
1810 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
1813 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
1814 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
1815 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
1816 Thai translations update
1817 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
1820 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
1821 --------------------------------
1824 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
1825 * fix the samba module compilation
1826 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1827 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
1828 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
1829 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
1832 * Support for MXPEG files
1833 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
1834 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
1837 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
1838 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
1839 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
1842 * Fix ogm header creation
1845 * limit spatializer filter distortions
1846 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
1849 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
1850 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
1851 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
1852 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
1855 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
1858 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
1859 * allow to hide the sidebar
1860 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
1861 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
1862 * noticebly faster launch time
1863 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
1864 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
1865 * improve track synchronization panel
1866 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
1867 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
1870 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
1871 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
1872 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
1873 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
1876 * fix for menus display
1877 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
1878 * documentation update
1881 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
1882 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
1885 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
1886 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1887 * Update Jamendo selections
1891 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
1892 * fix a crash on VLM close
1895 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
1896 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
1897 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
1898 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
1901 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
1904 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
1905 ---------------------------------
1908 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1909 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
1910 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
1911 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
1912 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
1913 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
1914 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
1915 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
1916 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
1917 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
1918 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
1919 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
1920 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
1921 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
1922 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
1923 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
1924 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
1925 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
1926 --http-crl (optional CRL).
1927 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
1928 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
1929 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
1930 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
1931 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
1932 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
1933 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
1935 Important changes for packagers:
1936 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
1937 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
1938 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
1939 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
1940 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
1941 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
1942 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
1943 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
1944 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
1945 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
1948 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
1949 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
1950 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
1951 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
1952 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
1953 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
1954 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
1957 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
1958 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
1959 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
1960 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
1961 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
1962 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
1963 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
1964 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
1965 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
1966 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
1967 * PulseAudio audio input support
1968 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
1969 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
1970 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
1971 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
1972 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
1973 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
1974 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
1975 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
1978 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
1979 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
1980 are notably concerned.
1981 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
1982 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
1983 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
1984 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
1985 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
1986 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
1987 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
1988 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
1989 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
1990 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
1991 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
1992 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
1993 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
1994 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
1995 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
1998 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
1999 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
2000 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
2001 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
2002 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
2003 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
2004 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
2005 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
2006 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
2007 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
2008 * Improved support of tracker files
2009 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
2012 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
2013 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
2014 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
2015 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
2016 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
2017 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
2018 and important cleanups and optimisations
2019 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
2020 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
2021 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
2022 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
2023 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
2024 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
2025 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
2026 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
2027 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
2028 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
2029 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
2030 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
2031 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
2032 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
2033 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
2034 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
2035 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
2036 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
2037 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
2038 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
2039 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
2042 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
2043 * New video output for iOS platform
2044 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
2045 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
2046 * Various vmem improvements
2047 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
2048 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
2049 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
2050 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
2051 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
2052 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
2054 Audio Output and Filters:
2055 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
2056 * New audio output in memory (amem)
2057 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
2058 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
2059 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
2060 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
2061 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
2062 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
2063 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
2064 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
2067 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
2068 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
2069 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
2070 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
2071 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
2072 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
2073 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
2074 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
2075 * New anti-flickering filter
2076 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
2077 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
2078 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
2079 blackbox and customizable shadow.
2080 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
2081 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
2082 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
2085 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
2086 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
2087 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
2088 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
2089 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
2090 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
2091 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
2092 * Major rework of VoD support
2093 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
2094 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
2095 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
2096 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
2097 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
2098 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
2099 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
2100 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
2101 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
2102 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
2105 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
2106 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
2109 * New capabilities for libVLC:
2110 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
2111 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
2112 list of available audio and video filters
2113 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
2114 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
2115 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
2118 * asademux, subsass: use libass
2119 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
2120 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
2121 * id3tag: use taglib
2122 * upnp: use upnp_intel
2123 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
2124 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
2125 * removal of the noise filter
2126 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
2127 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
2128 removed in Growl's next release, too.
2129 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
2132 * Update of translations for most languages.
2133 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
2136 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
2137 ----------------------------------
2140 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
2141 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
2144 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
2145 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
2148 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
2149 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
2150 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
2153 * Camtasia decoding fix.
2156 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
2157 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
2160 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
2163 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
2164 ----------------------------------
2167 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
2168 including support for OS X Lion
2169 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
2170 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
2173 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
2176 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
2177 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
2178 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
2181 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
2184 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
2185 ----------------------------------
2188 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
2189 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
2192 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
2193 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
2194 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
2195 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
2196 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
2198 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
2199 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
2200 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
2202 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
2203 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
2206 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
2209 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
2212 * Fix quitting on Linux
2213 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
2217 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
2220 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
2223 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
2224 ---------------------------------
2226 Windows and Mac OS X:
2227 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
2230 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
2231 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
2234 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
2237 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
2240 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
2242 Miscellaneous fixes in:
2243 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
2245 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
2246 * RTP output and XML export
2247 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
2251 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
2252 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
2253 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
2254 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
2257 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
2258 --------------------------------
2260 Windows and Mac OS X:
2261 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
2264 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
2267 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
2268 * Improve Apple Remote handling
2269 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
2270 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
2271 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
2272 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
2275 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
2276 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
2280 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
2281 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
2282 * New Luganda Translation
2285 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
2286 --------------------------------
2289 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
2292 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
2293 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
2294 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
2295 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
2298 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
2300 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
2301 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
2302 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
2303 * mp4 demuxer improvements
2304 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
2305 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
2306 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
2307 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
2309 Miscellaneous fixes in:
2310 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
2311 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
2312 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
2313 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
2314 * Configure and build system improvements
2315 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
2318 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
2319 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
2320 * New icelandic translation
2323 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
2324 --------------------------------
2327 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
2328 #234484 and #260719.
2331 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
2332 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
2333 and stability reasons
2336 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
2340 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
2343 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
2344 ----------------------------------
2347 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
2350 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
2351 ---------------------------------
2354 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
2355 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
2356 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
2357 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
2360 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
2363 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
2364 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
2365 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
2366 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
2369 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
2370 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
2371 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
2373 Subtitles and renderer:
2374 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
2375 * Mark more freetype options as safe
2376 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
2377 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
2378 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
2381 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
2382 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
2383 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
2384 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
2387 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
2388 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
2390 Miscellaneous fixes:
2391 * KDE device solid actions
2393 * Transcode integer overflow
2394 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
2395 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
2398 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
2399 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
2400 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
2403 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
2404 ----------------------------------
2407 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
2411 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
2414 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
2417 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
2418 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
2419 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
2420 * Taglib thread-safety fix
2423 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
2427 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
2430 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
2433 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
2434 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
2436 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
2440 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
2441 * Miscellaneous fixes
2444 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
2445 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
2446 French and Ukrainian
2447 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
2448 * New Asturian translation
2451 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
2452 ----------------------------------
2455 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
2457 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
2460 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
2463 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
2464 * Various fixes for Windows
2467 * New Armenian translation
2468 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
2469 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
2472 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
2473 --------------------------------
2476 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
2477 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
2478 * Fix folders opening from the interface
2481 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
2482 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
2485 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
2486 --------------------------------
2488 Access and demuxers:
2489 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
2490 * fix for podcasts parsing
2491 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
2494 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
2495 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
2498 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
2499 * fix m3u playlists exports
2502 * fix video autoresize behaviour
2505 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
2508 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
2511 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
2514 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
2517 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
2518 --------------------------------
2521 * Avformat fps displaying fix
2522 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
2525 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
2526 of mono streams, especially on Windows
2529 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
2530 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
2531 * fix console output encoding
2533 Interface and extensions:
2534 * Youtube and other scripts updates
2535 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
2538 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
2539 --------------------------------
2542 * New capabilities for libVLC:
2543 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
2544 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
2545 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
2546 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
2547 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
2548 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
2549 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
2550 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
2551 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
2552 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
2553 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
2554 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
2555 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
2556 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
2557 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
2561 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
2562 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
2563 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
2564 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
2565 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
2568 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
2571 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
2572 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
2573 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
2577 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
2580 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
2581 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
2582 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
2585 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
2586 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
2587 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
2588 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
2591 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
2592 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
2595 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
2596 --------------------------------
2598 Important changes for users:
2599 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
2600 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
2602 Important changes for packagers:
2603 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
2604 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
2605 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
2606 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
2607 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
2609 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
2611 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
2612 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
2613 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
2614 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
2615 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
2618 * Support for the sftp protocol
2619 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
2620 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
2621 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
2622 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
2623 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
2626 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
2627 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
2628 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
2630 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
2631 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
2632 * Invmem module improvements
2633 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
2634 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
2635 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
2636 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
2637 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
2638 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
2639 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
2640 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
2641 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
2642 * Support for VP8 codec
2643 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
2646 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
2647 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
2648 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
2649 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
2650 * Various EGP improvements
2651 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
2652 * Metadata and cover art improvements
2655 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
2656 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
2657 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
2658 * Podcast images are now displayed
2661 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
2662 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
2663 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
2664 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
2665 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
2666 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
2667 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
2668 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
2669 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
2670 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
2671 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
2674 * New content extensions lua framework
2677 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
2678 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
2679 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
2680 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
2681 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
2682 * NEON assembly audio converter module
2683 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
2686 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
2687 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
2688 * Service discovery based on libudev
2689 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
2692 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
2693 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
2694 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
2695 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
2696 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
2697 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
2698 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
2701 * New smem module, streaming to memory
2702 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
2703 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
2706 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
2708 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
2709 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
2712 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
2715 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
2716 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
2717 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
2718 by Andy Matuschak et al.
2719 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
2720 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
2721 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
2724 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
2725 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
2728 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
2729 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
2730 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
2734 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
2735 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
2736 * Improved Solaris port
2739 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
2740 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
2743 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
2744 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
2745 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
2746 * transrate: broken since too long
2747 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
2748 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
2749 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
2750 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
2751 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
2752 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
2753 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
2754 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
2755 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
2756 * cddax: use cdda instead.
2757 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
2758 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
2759 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
2760 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
2763 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
2764 --------------------------------
2767 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
2769 Decoders/Packetizers:
2770 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
2773 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
2774 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
2775 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
2776 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
2777 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
2780 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
2781 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
2784 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
2785 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
2788 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
2789 and Walloon translations updated
2790 * Sinhala translation started
2793 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
2794 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
2797 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
2798 --------------------------------
2801 * SubRip extra styles improvements
2802 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
2805 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
2808 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
2809 increase performance and fix x264 issues
2812 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
2813 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
2814 Russian, Slovak translation updates
2815 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
2818 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
2819 --------------------------------
2822 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
2823 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
2826 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
2827 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
2830 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
2831 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
2834 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
2837 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
2838 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
2841 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
2842 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
2845 * New Walloon translation
2846 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
2849 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
2850 --------------------------------
2853 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
2854 regressions in most popular drivers
2855 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
2858 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
2859 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
2860 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
2863 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
2864 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
2867 * Update for appletrailers lua script
2868 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
2869 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
2870 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
2871 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
2874 * New udev module for linux
2877 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
2880 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
2883 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
2884 --------------------------------
2887 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
2888 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
2889 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
2892 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
2893 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
2896 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
2897 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
2900 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
2903 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
2904 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
2905 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
2906 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
2909 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
2910 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
2911 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
2912 - no support for Goom and SDL
2913 - limited text rendering support
2914 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
2917 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
2918 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
2919 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
2920 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
2921 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
2922 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
2923 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
2924 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
2925 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
2929 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
2932 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
2935 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
2936 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
2937 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
2938 Arabic and French translation updates
2941 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
2942 --------------------------------
2945 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
2946 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
2947 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
2948 * Fix Dailymotion access script
2949 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
2950 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
2953 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
2954 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2955 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2958 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
2959 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
2960 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
2963 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
2966 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
2967 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
2970 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
2971 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
2972 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2973 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
2974 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
2975 * Fix various crashes
2978 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
2980 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
2984 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
2985 ---------------------------------
2989 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
2990 See 'Access:' for more info.
2991 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
2994 * Instantaneous pausing
2995 * Frame-by-Frame playback
2996 * Finer speed control
2997 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
2998 * Timeshift for most medias
2999 * RTSP trickplay support
3000 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
3003 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
3004 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
3005 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
3006 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
3007 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
3008 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
3009 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
3010 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
3011 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
3012 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
3015 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
3016 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
3017 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
3018 * Metadata for mod files are supported
3019 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
3020 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
3021 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
3024 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
3025 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
3028 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
3029 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
3030 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
3031 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
3032 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
3033 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
3034 * DVB scanning on linux
3035 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
3036 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
3037 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
3038 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
3039 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
3040 * MTP device access on Unix
3041 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
3042 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
3045 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
3046 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
3047 Windows and Mac OS X.
3050 * Export the playlist in HTML
3051 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
3052 * Better metadata handling and reading
3054 Linux/Windows interface:
3055 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
3056 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
3057 * Recently played items list
3058 * Interface toolbar customizations
3059 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
3060 - More menus actions
3061 - Finer speed slider
3062 - Improvements on many dialogs
3063 - New dialog for plugins listing
3064 - Fixed-size mode for videos
3065 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
3066 * Better integration in GTK environments
3069 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
3070 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
3071 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
3072 * Additional usability improvements
3075 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
3076 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
3077 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
3078 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
3079 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
3082 * New Maemo port with:
3083 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
3084 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
3087 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
3090 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
3091 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
3092 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
3093 * Support for latest iSight models
3096 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
3097 * Surround support for PulseAudio
3100 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
3101 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
3102 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
3103 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
3104 The old image video output has been removed.
3105 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
3106 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
3109 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
3117 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
3118 --------------------------------------
3124 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
3125 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
3126 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
3127 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
3128 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
3129 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
3130 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
3132 Various fixes to the following modules:
3135 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
3136 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
3137 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
3139 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
3144 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
3145 ---------------------------------
3148 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
3149 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
3152 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
3153 ---------------------------------
3156 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
3159 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
3162 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
3163 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
3164 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
3165 main controller window.
3166 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
3169 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
3174 * Updates of other localizations
3177 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
3178 * Lots of small bugfixes.
3179 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
3180 * Telnet fixes on Windows
3181 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
3184 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
3185 ---------------------------------
3188 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
3190 Bunch of small bugfixes.
3193 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
3194 --------------------------------
3199 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
3200 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
3203 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
3204 --------------------------------
3206 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
3207 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
3210 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
3213 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
3214 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
3217 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
3218 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
3221 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
3222 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
3223 * Various fixed in playlist
3226 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
3229 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
3232 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
3233 ------------------------------------
3235 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
3236 * Fixes several memory leaks.
3239 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
3240 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
3241 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
3244 * Stability fix for the video output.
3247 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
3248 --------------------------------
3251 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
3252 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
3253 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
3254 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
3255 * Fixed update system bugs
3256 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
3259 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
3260 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
3261 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
3262 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
3263 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
3264 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
3265 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
3266 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
3267 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
3268 modern Mac OS X versions
3271 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
3272 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
3274 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
3275 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
3278 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
3279 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
3280 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
3281 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
3282 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
3283 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
3286 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
3287 --------------------------------
3289 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
3290 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
3291 * Multiple bugfixes.
3294 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
3295 --------------------------------
3297 * Multiple bug fixes.
3300 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
3301 ---------------------------------
3305 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
3306 recent to work correctly
3307 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
3308 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
3309 edit the ".hosts" file.
3310 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
3311 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
3312 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
3313 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
3314 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
3315 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
3316 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
3317 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
3318 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
3319 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
3320 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
3321 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
3322 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
3323 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
3324 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
3325 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
3326 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
3327 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
3328 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
3329 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
3330 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
3331 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
3332 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
3333 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
3334 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
3335 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
3336 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
3337 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
3338 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
3339 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
3340 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
3341 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
3342 and postproc modules.
3343 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
3344 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
3345 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
3346 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
3348 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
3349 filter. For example:
3350 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
3351 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
3353 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
3354 * Glide video output module has been removed.
3360 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
3362 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
3363 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
3366 * Vastly improved playlist support:
3367 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
3369 * Shoutcast TV listings
3370 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
3372 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
3373 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
3375 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
3378 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
3379 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
3380 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
3381 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
3382 * JACK audio input support
3383 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
3384 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
3385 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
3386 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
3387 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
3388 * Experimental EyeTV access module
3389 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
3390 (available as a separate download).
3391 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
3392 * RTMP input support
3393 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
3394 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
3395 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
3397 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
3398 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
3401 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
3402 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
3403 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
3404 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
3406 * APEv1/2 tags support
3407 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
3408 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
3410 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
3411 * TiVo Series 2 support
3412 * CD+G karaoke Files support
3417 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
3418 * Flash Screen Video support
3419 * CamStudio Screen Video support
3420 * DosBox Capture support
3421 * Karl Morton's Video support
3422 * limited atrac3 support
3424 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
3425 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
3426 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
3427 * H.264 PAFF support
3428 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
3429 * NellyMoser ASAO support
3430 * APE (Monkey audio) support
3431 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
3432 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
3435 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
3436 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
3437 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
3438 * AQTitle subtitles support
3439 * MKV USF subtitles support
3440 * HTML-based subtitles support
3441 * MPSub subtitles support
3442 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
3443 * MPL2 subtitles support
3444 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
3445 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
3446 * Realtext subtitle support
3447 * DKS subtitle support
3448 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
3449 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
3452 * Flash Screen Video support
3453 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
3455 Video outputs and filters:
3456 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
3457 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
3458 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
3459 * New puzzle video output filter
3460 * Re-written motion detection video filter
3461 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
3463 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
3464 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
3465 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
3466 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
3467 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
3468 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
3469 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
3470 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
3471 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
3472 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
3473 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
3474 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
3475 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
3476 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
3478 Audio outputs and filters:
3479 * Replay gain support
3480 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
3481 new scaletempo audio filter)
3482 * New spatializer audio filter
3483 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
3486 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
3487 * New RTP payload formats:
3488 * Speex voice audio codec
3489 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
3490 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
3491 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
3492 * DCCP transport for RTP
3493 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
3498 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
3499 end-user suitable way.
3500 * Improved user interaction
3501 * Improved mouse gestures
3502 * Vastly improved Update checker
3503 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
3505 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
3506 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
3508 * Improved video output features
3509 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
3510 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
3511 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
3512 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
3513 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
3515 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
3516 if libncursesw is available.
3517 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
3518 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
3519 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
3521 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
3522 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
3523 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
3524 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
3525 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
3526 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
3527 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
3528 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
3531 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
3532 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
3533 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
3536 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
3537 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
3538 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
3539 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
3540 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
3541 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
3544 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
3545 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
3555 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
3556 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
3557 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
3560 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
3561 ----------------------------------
3564 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
3567 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
3568 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
3569 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
3570 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
3571 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
3572 * Updated Polish translation
3575 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
3576 ----------------------------------
3579 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
3580 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
3581 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
3584 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
3585 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
3586 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
3587 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
3588 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
3589 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
3590 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
3591 to an unexpected application termination
3592 * New Serbian translation
3593 * Updated Romanian translation
3596 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
3597 ----------------------------------
3600 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
3601 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
3602 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
3603 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
3604 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
3605 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
3606 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
3607 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
3610 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
3611 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
3612 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
3613 * Fixed AAC resampling
3614 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
3615 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
3618 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
3619 ----------------------------------
3622 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
3623 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
3624 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
3625 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
3626 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
3629 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
3630 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
3631 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
3632 * Close MMS access on network timeout
3633 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
3636 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
3637 ----------------------------------
3640 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
3641 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
3644 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
3645 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
3646 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
3647 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
3649 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
3653 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
3656 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
3659 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
3662 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
3665 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
3666 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
3667 encoding on multi-cpu systems
3668 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
3669 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
3671 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3672 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
3673 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
3674 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
3677 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
3680 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
3681 ----------------------------------
3684 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
3685 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
3686 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
3688 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
3689 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
3691 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
3692 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
3695 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
3697 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3698 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
3699 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
3700 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
3701 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
3702 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
3703 two different movies
3704 * Support for current Ogg file formats
3705 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
3706 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
3709 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
3712 * The automatic updating facility was removed
3713 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
3714 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
3715 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
3718 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
3719 ----------------------------------
3721 Various bugfixes, notably:
3722 * Windows Vista compatibility
3723 * Cropping in Direct3D
3724 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
3725 * RSS filter string overflow
3727 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
3729 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
3730 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
3733 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
3734 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
3737 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
3740 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
3743 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
3746 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
3747 ----------------------------------
3749 Various bugfixes, notably:
3750 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
3751 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
3752 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
3753 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
3754 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
3755 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
3758 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
3759 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
3762 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
3764 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3765 * Diverse usability improvements
3766 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
3767 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
3768 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
3771 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
3772 ---------------------------------
3774 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
3775 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
3778 * Fullscreen controller improvements
3781 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
3782 --------------------------------
3785 * Shoutcast TV listings support
3788 * Support for RTSP authentication
3789 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
3790 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
3791 * ATSC support for DVB input
3792 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
3793 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
3794 * Improved support for Flash Video files
3797 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
3798 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
3799 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
3800 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
3801 * Matroska WavPack support
3802 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
3803 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
3804 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
3807 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
3808 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
3809 * Improved libcaca support
3813 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
3814 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
3816 * Systray support in skins
3818 * Support for Apple Remote control
3819 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3820 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3821 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
3822 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
3824 * Notifications using notification-daemon
3827 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
3828 Windows 9x/ME users:
3829 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
3830 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
3831 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
3832 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
3833 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
3835 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
3836 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
3845 * Updates to the libvlc API
3846 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
3849 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
3850 --------------------------------
3853 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
3854 * Support for downloading updates
3858 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
3859 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
3860 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
3861 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
3863 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
3864 * Improved subtitles encoding support
3865 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
3868 * Cook (Real audio) support
3870 Playlist / Services discovery:
3871 * XSPF playlist support
3873 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
3876 * New JACK audio output
3879 * New video filters:
3880 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
3881 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
3882 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
3883 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
3884 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
3885 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
3888 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
3891 * System to inform the user and request information
3892 - HTTP authentication
3896 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
3897 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3898 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
3901 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
3902 - Improved playlist handling
3903 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
3905 - Embedded Video output
3906 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
3907 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
3908 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3909 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
3910 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
3912 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
3913 - A bunch of new RPN functions
3916 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
3919 * Mac-Intel compatibility
3920 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
3921 * Growl "Now playing" support
3924 * Ability to log to syslog
3925 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
3928 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
3930 * A bit more automatic testing
3933 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
3934 ---------------------------------
3937 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
3938 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
3941 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
3942 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
3945 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
3948 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
3949 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
3955 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
3958 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
3959 --------------------------------
3962 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
3966 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
3967 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
3968 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
3971 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
3972 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
3973 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
3974 * GnomeVFS input module
3975 * Support for RTP packet reordering
3976 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
3979 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
3980 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
3981 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
3984 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
3985 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
3991 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
3992 Mixer and Dolby Surround
3995 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
3996 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
3997 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
4000 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
4002 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
4003 - New extended controls panel
4004 - New bookmarks window
4005 - Fixed playlist sorting
4006 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
4008 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
4009 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
4010 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
4011 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
4015 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
4016 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
4018 - Include macro to include other files
4022 * Should now work outside IE as well