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- Changes between 1.1.x and 1.2.0-pre3:
- ------------------------------------
- Important notes:
- * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
- * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
- conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
- from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
- title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
- * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
- - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
- - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
- - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
- - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
- All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
- * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
- - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=2001:db8::1".
- By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
- - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
- By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
- - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
- --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
- --http-crl (optional CRL).
- * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
- Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
- * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
- output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
- * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
- Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
- Important changes for packagers:
- * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
- its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
- not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
- Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
- * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
- variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
- * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
- * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
- configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
- * The webplugins has moved to git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
- Core:
- * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
- Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside video outputs
- x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
- * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
- * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
- * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
- * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64
- Access:
- * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
- * BDA: experimental support for ClearQam devices
- * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
- * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
- * DShow: support for freq and video standard selection
- * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
- * Blu-Ray Discs integration using libbluray
- * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
- * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
- * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
- * PulseAudio audio input support
- * RTP: support for dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
- in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
- * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
- * QTCapture: added support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices
- * QTSound: added support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices
- * X11 Screen: support for capturing partially hidden windows
- * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
- * Support for HTTPS is now fixed for the Windows port
- Codecs:
- * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc
- * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
- * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
- * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
- * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
- * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
- * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
- The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
- * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
- * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
- * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
- * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
- * Support for JPEG 2000 and Motion JPEG 2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
- * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
- * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
- Demuxers:
- * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
- * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
- * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
- * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
- * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
- * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
- * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
- * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
- * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
- * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
- * Improved support of tracker files
- Interfaces:
- * Qt: effects dialogs rework
- * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
- * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
- * Qt: small look improvements
- * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
- * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
- and important cleanups and optimisations
- * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
- * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
- * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
- * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
- * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
- * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
- * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
- * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
- * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
- -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
- * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
- * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
- * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
- * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
- * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
- * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
- * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
- * Qt: preferences are now searchable
- * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
- Video Output:
- * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
- * New video output for iOS platform
- * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
- * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
- * Various vmem improvements
- * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
- chroma conversion
- * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
- * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
- * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
- * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
- Audio Output and Filters:
- * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
- * New audio output in memory (amem)
- * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
- * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
- * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
- * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
- * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
- * New simplistic Karaoke filter
- * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
- * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
- Video Filter:
- * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
- * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
- * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
- * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht up to 254 channels
- * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
- * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
- * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
- * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
- * New anti-flickering filter
- * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
- * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
- * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
- blackbox and customizable shadow.
- NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
- the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
- The Win32 font selection was improved too.
- Stream output:
- * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
- example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
- venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
- access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
- index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
- dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
- * RTP: support for Vorbis and Theora
- * Major rework of VoD support
- * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
- #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
- * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
- #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
- * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
- a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
- * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
- #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
- #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
- * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
- Services Discovery:
- * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
- * Upnp module was ported to Win32
- libVLC:
- * New capabilities for libVLC:
- ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
- ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
- list of available audio and video filters
- ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
- libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
- allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
- Removed modules:
- * asademux: use libass only
- * subsass: use libass
- * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
- * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
- * id3tag: use taglib
- * upnp: use upnp_intel
- * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
- * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
- * removal of the noise filter
- * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
- * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
- removed in Growl's next release, too.
- * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
- Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
- ----------------------------------
- Audio outputs:
- * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
- including support for OS X Lion
- * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
- * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
- Unix port:
- * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
- Misc:
- * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
- * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
- * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
- Translations:
- * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
- Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
- ----------------------------------
- Security:
- * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
- and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
- Mac OS X:
- * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
- * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
- * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
- * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
- * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
- Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
- * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
- * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
- Demuxers/Meta Readers:
- * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
- Muxers/Output:
- * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
- Extensions:
- * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
- Qt Interface:
- * Fix quitting on Linux
- * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
- * Miscellaneous
- Win32 port:
- * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
- Translations:
- * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
- Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
- ---------------------------------
- Windows and Mac OS X:
- * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
- Mac OS X Interface:
- * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
- * Fix for various crashes and small issues
- Demuxer:
- * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
- Audio output:
- * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
- Win32 port:
- * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
- Miscellaneous fixes in:
- * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
- * Qt interface
- * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
- * RTP output and XML export
- * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
- * v4l2 access
- Translations:
- * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
- Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
- Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
- * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
- Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
- --------------------------------
- Windows and Mac OS X:
- * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
- Demuxers:
- * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
- Mac OS X Interface:
- * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
- * Improve Apple Remote handling
- * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
- * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
- * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
- * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
- Mac OS X Port:
- * Fix Growl local notification plugin
- * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
- * Fixes for eyeTV
- Translations:
- * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
- German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
- * New Luganda Translation
- Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
- --------------------------------
- Mac OS X Interface:
- * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
- Interfaces:
- * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
- * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
- * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
- * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
- Encoder:
- * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
- Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
- * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
- * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
- * mp4 demuxer improvements
- * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
- * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
- * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
- * fix a crash in malformed ape files
- Miscellaneous fixes in:
- * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
- * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
- * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
- See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
- * Configure and build system improvements
- * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
- Translations:
- * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
- Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
- * New icelandic translation
- Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
- --------------------------------
- Linux port:
- * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
- #234484 and #260719.
- Mac OS X port:
- * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
- * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
- and stability reasons
- Demuxers:
- * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
- VideoLAN-SA-1102
- Translations:
- * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
- Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
- ----------------------------------
- Source:
- * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
- Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
- ---------------------------------
- Audio output:
- * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
- PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
- Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
- and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
- Access:
- * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
- Decoders:
- * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
- * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
- * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
- * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
- Demuxers:
- * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
- * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
- * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
- Subtitles and renderer:
- * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
- * Mark more freetype options as safe
- * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
- * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
- discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
- Visualization:
- * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
- * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
- * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
- * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
- Interfaces:
- * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
- * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
- Miscellaneous fixes:
- * KDE device solid actions
- * XDG screensaver
- * Transcode integer overflow
- * HTTP Icy metadata reading
- * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
- Translations:
- * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
- Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
- Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
- Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
- ----------------------------------
- Security:
- * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
- VideoLAN-SA-1006
- Access:
- * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
- Services Discovery:
- * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
- Demuxers:
- * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
- * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
- * Playback of live http .Webm streams
- * Taglib thread-safety fix
- Decoders:
- * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
- "Puget Systems"
- Skins:
- * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
- Video Output:
- * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
- Interfaces:
- * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
- * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
- Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
- TS-mux, Qt)
- libLVC:
- * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
- * Miscellaneous fixes
- Translations:
- * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
- Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
- French and Ukrainian
- * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
- * New Asturian translation
- Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
- ----------------------------------
- Mac OS X:
- * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
- by 16
- * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
- Demuxer:
- * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
- Qt interface:
- * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
- * Various fixes for Windows
- Translations:
- * New Armenian translation
- * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
- Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
- Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
- --------------------------------
- Win32:
- * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
- See VideoLAN-SA-1005
- * Fix folders opening from the interface
- Translations:
- * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
- Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
- Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
- --------------------------------
- Access and demuxers:
- * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
- * fix for podcasts parsing
- * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
- Taglib:
- * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
- CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
- Playlist:
- * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
- * fix m3u playlists exports
- Skins2:
- * fix video autoresize behaviour
- Translations:
- * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
- Windows and Mac:
- * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
- Mac:
- * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
- BSD:
- * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
- Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
- --------------------------------
- Demuxers:
- * Avformat fps displaying fix
- * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
- Audio filters:
- * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
- of mono streams, especially on Windows
- Windows:
- * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
- playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
- * fix console output encoding
- Interface and extensions:
- * Youtube and other scripts updates
- * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
- Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
- --------------------------------
- libVLC:
- * New capabilities for libVLC:
- * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
- libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
- libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
- * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
- libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
- * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
- protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
- the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
- * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
- video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
- ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
- See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
- * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
- between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
- * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
- called early
- Decoders/Demuxers:
- * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
- You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
- * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
- * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
- * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
- Stream output:
- * Fix h264 streaming in ts
- Interfaces:
- * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
- * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
- * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
- Linux:
- * Fix pulse closing
- * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
- MacOS:
- * Multiple interface and crash fixes
- * Deinterlace selection is repaired
- * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
- Windows:
- * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
- * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
- * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
- * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
- Translations:
- * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
- Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
- Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
- --------------------------------
- Important changes for users:
- * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
- Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
- Important changes for packagers:
- * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
- generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
- later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
- by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
- can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
- launch each time.
- * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
- - xproto,
- - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
- - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
- - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
- * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
- required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
- Access:
- * Support for the sftp protocol
- * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
- * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
- * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
- * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
- * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
- Decoders:
- * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
- * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
- * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
- * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
- * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
- * Invmem module improvements
- * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
- * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
- * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
- * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
- * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
- * Support for Indeo5 video codec
- * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
- * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
- * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
- * Support for VP8 codec
- * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
- Demuxers:
- * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
- * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
- * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
- * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
- * Various EGP improvements
- * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
- * Metadata and cover art improvements
- Playlist:
- * WPL and ZPL playlist support
- * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
- * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
- * Podcast images are now displayed
- Video Output:
- * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
- * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
- desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
- * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
- * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
- * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
- * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
- Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
- Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
- MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
- Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
- Extensions:
- * New content extensions lua framework
- Audio filters:
- * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
- * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
- * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
- resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
- and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
- * NEON assembly audio converter module
- * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
- Service discovery:
- * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
- * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
- * Service discovery based on libudev
- * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
- Encoders:
- * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
- * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
- #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
- * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
- uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
- * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
- * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
- Stream output:
- * New smem module, streaming to memory
- * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
- --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
- Interfaces:
- * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
- and oldhttp.
- * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
- * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
- Visualization:
- * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
- Mac OS X Port:
- * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
- * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
- * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
- by Andy Matuschak et al.
- * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
- * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
- * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
- Windows port:
- * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
- * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
- Maemo port:
- * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
- * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
- * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
- Misc:
- * new sqlite module
- * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
- * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
- * Improved Solaris port
- Bindings:
- * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
- * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
- Removed modules:
- * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
- * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
- * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
- * transrate: broken since too long
- * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
- * HAL: Use libudev instead.
- * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
- * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
- * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
- * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
- * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
- * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
- * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
- * cddax: use cdda instead.
- * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
- * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
- * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
- * RTMP input and output: use avio module
- Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
- --------------------------------
- Access:
- * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
- Decoders/Packetizers:
- * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
- Demuxers:
- * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
- * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
- * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
- * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
- * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
- X11 port:
- * Partial Xlib threading fixes
- More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
- Interfaces:
- * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
- * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
- Translations:
- * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
- and Walloon translations updated
- * Sinhala translation started
- Removed modules:
- * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
- to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
- Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
- --------------------------------
- Decoders:
- * SubRip extra styles improvements
- * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
- Mac OS X Interface:
- * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
- Windows port:
- * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
- increase performance and fix x264 issues
- Translations:
- * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
- Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
- Russian, Slovak translation updates
- * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
- Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
- --------------------------------
- Audio outputs:
- * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
- * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
- Video outputs:
- * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
- * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
- Input:
- * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
- * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
- Playlist:
- * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
- Unix:
- * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
- * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
- Qt4 interface:
- * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
- * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
- Translations:
- * New Walloon translation
- * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
- Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
- --------------------------------
- Video outputs:
- * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
- regressions in most popular drivers
- * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
- Decoders:
- * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
- didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
- * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
- Encoders:
- * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
- #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
- Input:
- * Update for appletrailers lua script
- * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
- * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
- * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
- * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
- Service discovery:
- * New udev module for linux
- Qt4 interface:
- * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
- Translations:
- * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
- Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
- --------------------------------
- Decoders:
- * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
- * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
- * Various fixes on theora and ogg
- Demuxers:
- * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
- * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
- Access:
- * Fixes for v4l2 devices
- * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
- Qt Interface:
- * Fix some playlist sorting issues
- Mac OS X Interface:
- * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
- * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
- * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
- * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
- Mac OS X Port:
- * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
- with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
- * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
- - no support for Goom and SDL
- - limited text rendering support
- - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
- Encoders:
- * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
- * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
- * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
- - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
- - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
- - otherwise ABR-mode is used
- * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
- - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
- - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
- Playlist:
- * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
- Unix builds:
- * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
- Translations:
- * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
- * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
- * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
- Arabic and French translation updates
- Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
- --------------------------------
- Demuxers:
- * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
- * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
- * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
- * Fix Dailymotion access script
- * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
- * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
- Access:
- * Add extra caching for files on network shares
- * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
- DZCORE Labs, Algeria
- Decoders:
- * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
- * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
- * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
- Muxers:
- * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
- Qt Interface:
- * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
- * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
- Mac OS X Interface:
- * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
- * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
- * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
- * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
- * More reliable Information and Messages panels
- * Fix various crashes
- Windows port:
- * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
- Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
- Lithuanian
- Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
- ---------------------------------
- Important notes:
- ----------------
- * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
- See 'Access:' for more info.
- * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
- Playback:
- * Instantaneous pausing
- * Frame-by-Frame playback
- * Finer speed control
- * On-the-fly recording for all medias
- * Timeshift for most medias
- * RTSP trickplay support
- * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
- Decoders:
- * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
- * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
- * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
- * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
- * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
- * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
- * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
- * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
- * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
- * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
- Demuxers:
- * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
- * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
- * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
- * Metadata for mod files are supported
- * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
- * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
- * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
- Encoders:
- * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
- * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
- Access:
- * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
- * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
- * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
- * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
- * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
- OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
- * DVB scanning on linux
- * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
- * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
- zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
- zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
- * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
- * MTP device access on Unix
- * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
- * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
- Inputs:
- * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
- * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
- Windows and Mac OS X.
- Playlist:
- * Export the playlist in HTML
- * Lua script for BBC radio playback
- * Better metadata handling and reading
- Linux/Windows interface:
- * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
- * Various fixes for skins2 interface
- * Recently played items list
- * Interface toolbar customizations
- * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
- - More menus actions
- - Finer speed slider
- - Improvements on many dialogs
- - New dialog for plugins listing
- - Fixed-size mode for videos
- - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
- * Better integration in GTK environments
- Mac OS X Interface:
- * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
- * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
- * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
- * Additional usability improvements
- Stream output:
- * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
- * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
- * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
- * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
- * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
- Maemo Port:
- * New Maemo port with:
- - an interface based on Hildon framework.
- - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
- Windows CE Port:
- EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
- Mac OS X Port:
- * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
- * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
- * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
- * Support for latest iSight models
- Audio output:
- * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
- * Surround support for PulseAudio
- Video output:
- * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
- * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
- (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
- * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
- The old image video output has been removed.
- * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
- withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
- Miscellaneous:
- * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
- New Localization:
- * Khmer
- * Mongolian
- * Sorani
- Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
- --------------------------------------
- HTTP Interface:
- * Fixed default ACL
- Mac OS X:
- * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
- * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
- * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
- * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
- * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
- * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
- * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
- Various fixes to the following modules:
- * access:
- - HTTP, SMB
- - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
- - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
- DZCORE Labs, Algeria
- * stream out:
- - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
- * decoder:
- - TSCC
- Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
- ---------------------------------
- Mac OS X:
- * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
- * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
- Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
- ---------------------------------
- Decoders:
- * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
- Demuxers:
- * Various fixes related to real demuxer
- Mac OS X Interface:
- * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
- - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
- instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
- main controller window.
- * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
- Mac OS X Port:
- * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
- New Localizations:
- * Indonesian
- * Bengali
- * Updates of other localizations
- Various bugfixes:
- * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
- * Lots of small bugfixes.
- * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
- * Telnet fixes on Windows
- * Resampling fixes when transcoding
- Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
- ---------------------------------
- Security update:
- * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
- Bunch of small bugfixes.
- Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
- --------------------------------
- New Localizations:
- * Ukranian
- Security updates:
- * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
- * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
- Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
- --------------------------------
- Security updates:
- * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
- * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
- Features:
- * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
- Various bugfixes:
- * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
- * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
- Windows port:
- * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
- * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
- Qt Interface:
- * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
- * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
- * Various fixed in playlist
- Access:
- * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
- Translations:
- * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
- Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
- ------------------------------------
- Various bugfixes:
- * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
- * Fixes several memory leaks.
- Mac OS X port:
- * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
- * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
- * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
- Windows port:
- * Stability fix for the video output.
- Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
- --------------------------------
- Various bugfixes:
- * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
- * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
- * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
- * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
- * Fixed update system bugs
- * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
- Mac OS X port:
- * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
- * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
- * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
- * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
- * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
- * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
- * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
- * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
- * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
- modern Mac OS X versions
- Windows port:
- * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
- * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
- before installation
- * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
- * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
- Qt4 interface:
- * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
- * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
- * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
- * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
- * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
- * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
- Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
- --------------------------------
- * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
- * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
- * Multiple bugfixes.
- Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
- --------------------------------
- * Multiple bug fixes.
- Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
- ---------------------------------
- Important notes:
- ----------------
- * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
- recent to work correctly
- * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
- If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
- edit the ".hosts" file.
- - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
- If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
- /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
- - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
- C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
- - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
- and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
- * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
- This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
- This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
- 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
- * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
- * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
- now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
- vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
- You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
- If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
- plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
- These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
- * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
- Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
- Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
- New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
- * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
- EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
- of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
- * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
- with some file names. Use access://url instead.
- E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
- udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
- * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
- avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
- and postproc modules.
- * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
- following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
- STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
- BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
- functional atm.
- * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
- filter. For example:
- transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
- * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
- For example:
- transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
- * Glide video output module has been removed.
- Changes:
- --------
- Security updates:
- * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
- CVE-2008-1807)
- * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
- * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
- Playlist:
- * Vastly improved playlist support:
- * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
- * "Live search"
- * Shoutcast TV listings
- * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
- * Album art support
- * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
- (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
- lots of other URLs)
- * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
- Inputs:
- * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
- * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
- * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
- * Proxy support for MMSH stream
- * JACK audio input support
- * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
- * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
- * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
- using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
- * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
- * Experimental EyeTV access module
- This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
- (available as a separate download).
- * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
- * RTMP input support
- * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
- taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
- * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
- Authentication.
- * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
- frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
- Demuxers:
- * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
- * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
- * Fixed audio glitch on seek
- * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
- * AAC tags support
- * APEv1/2 tags support
- * Improved ID3v2 tags support
- * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
- * Raw video support
- * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
- * TiVo Series 2 support
- * CD+G karaoke Files support
- * MXF files support
- * OMA support
- Decoders:
- * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
- * Flash Screen Video support
- * CamStudio Screen Video support
- * DosBox Capture support
- * Karl Morton's Video support
- * limited atrac3 support
- * Fraps support
- * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
- * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
- Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
- * H.264 PAFF support
- * DNxHD / VC-3 support
- * NellyMoser ASAO support
- * APE (Monkey audio) support
- * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
- * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
- Subtitles:
- * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
- * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
- * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
- * AQTitle subtitles support
- * MKV USF subtitles support
- * HTML-based subtitles support
- * MPSub subtitles support
- * JacoSub subtitles basic support
- * MPL2 subtitles support
- * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
- * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
- * Realtext subtitle support
- * DKS subtitle support
- * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
- * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
- Encoders:
- * Flash Screen Video support
- * Improved H.264 encoding speed
- Video outputs and filters:
- * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
- * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
- Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
- * New puzzle video output filter
- * Re-written motion detection video filter
- * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
- video)
- * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
- * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
- * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
- (Google Summer of Code Student project)
- * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
- The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
- * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
- * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
- This was previously part of the mosaic module.
- * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
- * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
- * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
- * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
- * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
- Audio outputs and filters:
- * Replay gain support
- * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
- new scaletempo audio filter)
- * New spatializer audio filter
- * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
- Stream output:
- * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
- * New RTP payload formats:
- * Speex voice audio codec
- * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
- * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
- * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
- * DCCP transport for RTP
- * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
- * RTMP output
- Interfaces:
- * All
- * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
- end-user suitable way.
- * Improved user interaction
- * Improved mouse gestures
- * Vastly improved Update checker
- * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
- * Windows/Linux
- * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
- * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
- * Mac OS X
- * Improved video output features
- * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
- * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
- * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
- * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
- * Simplified Extended Controls panel
- * Ncurses:
- * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
- if libncursesw is available.
- * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
- * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
- share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
- * Unix
- * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
- * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
- (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
- interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
- finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
- * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
- * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
- * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
- Linux Port:
- * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
- http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
- (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
- Mac OS X Port:
- * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
- applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
- * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
- * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
- * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
- * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
- LibVLC:
- * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
- (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
- New Localizations:
- * Finnish
- * Persian
- * Polish
- * Punjabi
- * Bulgarian
- Developers:
- * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
- A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
- * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
- Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
- ----------------------------------
- Security updates:
- * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
- Various bugfixes:
- * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
- * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
- * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
- (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
- SAP services discovery, http control interface)
- * Updated Polish translation
- Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
- ----------------------------------
- Security updates:
- * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
- CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
- * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
- Goodies:
- * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
- * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
- (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
- playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
- * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
- * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
- * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
- to an unexpected application termination
- * New Serbian translation
- * Updated Romanian translation
- Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
- ----------------------------------
- Security updates:
- * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
- (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
- * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
- (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
- * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
- * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
- * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
- * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
- Various bugfixes:
- * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
- * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
- * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
- * Fixed AAC resampling
- * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
- if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
- Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
- ----------------------------------
- Security updates:
- * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
- * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
- * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
- * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
- - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
- Various bugfixes:
- * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
- * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
- * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
- * Close MMS access on network timeout
- * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
- Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
- ----------------------------------
- Various bugfixes:
- * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
- * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
- Security updates:
- * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
- * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
- * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
- * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
- VideoLAN-SA-0801)
- * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
- VideoLAN-SA-0802)
- Audio filter:
- * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
- Audio output:
- * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
- Access:
- * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
- Stream output:
- * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
- Encoders:
- * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
- * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
- encoding on multi-cpu systems
- - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
- - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
- Mac OS X Interface & Port:
- * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
- * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
- * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
- Localization:
- * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
- Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
- ----------------------------------
- Various bugfixes:
- * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
- * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
- * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
- in input
- * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
- * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
- Windows and Mac OS Binaries
- * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
- Active X plugin:
- * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
- Mac OS X Interface & Port:
- * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
- * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
- * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
- Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
- * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
- two different movies
- * Support for current Ogg file formats
- NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
- Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
- Encoders:
- * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
- Other changes:
- * The automatic updating facility was removed
- * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
- EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
- * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
- Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
- ----------------------------------
- Various bugfixes, notably:
- * Windows Vista compatibility
- * Cropping in Direct3D
- * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
- * RSS filter string overflow
- * Few memory leaks
- * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
- CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
- * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
- Demuxers:
- * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
- * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
- Decoders:
- * Updated FLAC API compatibility
- Input:
- * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
- Localisation:
- * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
- Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
- ----------------------------------
- Various bugfixes, notably:
- * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
- * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
- * Mac OS X Interface crashes
- * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
- * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
- * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
- Decoders:
- * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
- * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
- Webbrowser plugins:
- * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
- Mac OS X Interface & Port:
- * Diverse usability improvements
- * New wizard option to embed subtitles
- * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
- * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
- Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
- ---------------------------------
- CDDA / VCDX plugins:
- * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
- Mac OS X Interface:
- * Fullscreen controller improvements
- Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
- --------------------------------
- Playlist:
- * Shoutcast TV listings support
- Input:
- * Support for RTSP authentication
- * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
- * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
- * ATSC support for DVB input
- * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
- * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
- * Improved support for Flash Video files
- Decoders:
- * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
- * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
- * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
- * The True Audio Lossless codec support
- * Matroska WavPack support
- * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
- * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
- * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
- Video output:
- * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
- * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
- * Improved libcaca support
- Interfaces:
- * All
- * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
- * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
- * Windows
- * Systray support in skins
- * OS X
- * Support for Apple Remote control
- * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
- * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
- * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
- * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
- * Linux
- * Notifications using notification-daemon
- Windows port:
- * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
- Windows 9x/ME users:
- - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
- - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
- Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
- http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
- Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
- C:\Windows\System
- * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
- * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
- Localization:
- * Add Czech
- * Add Slovak
- * Add Malay
- * Add Slovenian
- Developers:
- * Updates to the libvlc API
- * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
- Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
- --------------------------------
- Core support:
- * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
- * Support for downloading updates
- * Updated strings
- Input:
- * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
- * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
- * Improvements to the Audio CD input
- - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
- - Support for CDDB
- * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
- * Improved subtitles encoding support
- * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
- Decoders:
- * Cook (Real audio) support
- Playlist / Services discovery:
- * XSPF playlist support
- * Podcast support
- * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
- Audio output:
- * New JACK audio output
- Video output:
- * New video filters:
- - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
- - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
- - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
- * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
- * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
- * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
- Stream output:
- * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
- Interfaces:
- * System to inform the user and request information
- - HTTP authentication
- - Fatal errors
- - ...
- * wxWidgets
- - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
- - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
- - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
- * Skins2
- - New default skin
- - Support for Winamp 2 skins
- - Improved playlist handling
- - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
- * OS X
- - Embedded Video output
- - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
- - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
- - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
- - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
- - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
- * HTTP
- - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
- - A bunch of new RPN functions
- Windows Port:
- * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
- OS X Port:
- * Mac-Intel compatibility
- * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
- * Growl "Now playing" support
- *Nix port:
- * Ability to log to syslog
- * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
- Developers:
- * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
- * Java bindings
- * A bit more automatic testing
- Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
- ---------------------------------
- Audio output:
- * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
- * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
- Decoder:
- * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
- * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
- Demux:
- * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
- Services Discovery:
- * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
- * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
- * UPnP fixes
- * Avahi 0.6 support
- Interfaces:
- * Mac OS X
- - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
- Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
- --------------------------------
- Core support:
- * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
- * New OSD system
- Video output:
- * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
- * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
- * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
- Input:
- * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
- * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
- * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
- * GnomeVFS input module
- * Support for RTP packet reordering
- * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
- Decoders:
- * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
- * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
- * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
- Services discovery:
- * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
- * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
- Video filters:
- * RSS feed overlay
- Audio filters:
- * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
- Mixer and Dolby Surround
- Stream output:
- * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
- * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
- * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
- Interfaces:
- - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
- * Mac OS X
- - New streaming and transcoding wizard
- - New extended controls panel
- - New bookmarks window
- - Fixed playlist sorting
- - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
- * wxWidgets
- - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
- - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
- - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
- - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
- * Skins2
- - Tree playlist
- * HTTP
- - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
- - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
- the names of files
- - Include macro to include other files
- - CGI 1.0 support
- ActiveX plugin:
- * Should now work outside IE as well
- Mac OS X port:
- * New script to delete the preferences automatically
- Windows port:
- * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
- * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
- Translations:
- The following languages were added:
- * Galician
- * Korean
- * Romanian
- * Simplified Chinese
- The following languages were re-added:
- * Swedish
- Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
- --------------------------------
- Core support:
- * Rewrite of the playlist
- - Tree structure
- - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
- - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
- * Preferences improvements:
- - New organization, designed to improve usability
- - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
- * XML parsers
- * Core image manipulation support
- * Client-side SSL/TLS support
- * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
- * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
- * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
- * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
- * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
- * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
- now separated by ':' instead of ','
- * Access filter architecture
- * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
- * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
- * Many bugfixes...
- Input/Demuxers:
- * Support for SOCKS proxy
- * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
- * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
- * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
- * Better support for Kasenna streams
- * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
- * Massive Matroska improvements
- * Support for XA and VOC audio files
- * TiVo demuxer
- * Samba (Windows shares) access module
- * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
- * Fixes to Linux DVB support
- * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
- * Support for FTP over IPv6
- Decoders / Encoders:
- * Dirac decoder and encoder
- * PNG decoder/encoder
- * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
- * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
- Access filters:
- * New Record and Timeshift filters
- Services discovery:
- * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
- * Brand new SAP module
- * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
- the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
- ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
- * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
- * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
- * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
- * Shoutcast
- Audio output:
- * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
- Video output:
- * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
- * Image file video output (png)
- * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
- * Improvements to wall video filter
- * Support for font color and opacity
- Stream output:
- * Muxers
- - ASF improvements
- * VLM / VoD
- - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
- - Seeking support in VoD streams
- * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
- Interfaces:
- * wxWidgets
- - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
- - Improved preferences
- - Improvements to the wizard
- - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
- * MacOS X
- - Redesigned playlist
- - Improved preferences
- * Skins
- - Support for multiple actions
- - Fixes
- * HTTP
- - Support for the new playlist system
- * Lirc
- - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
- Windows port:
- * Screensaver disabling fix
- * DirectShow tuner configuration
- * Support for no-decoration windows
- MacOS X port:
- * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
- * The OpenGL video output is back
- * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
- - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
- - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
- is not yet available in the new module
- - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
- BeOS port:
- * Support for single-buffered overlay
- Pocket PC port:
- * Many fixes
- * New interface
- * New video output
- Mozilla Plugin:
- * Javascript fixes
- * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
- IE Plugin:
- * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
- Translations:
- The following languages were added:
- * Catalan
- * Danish
- * Turkish
- Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
- --------------------------------
- Core support:
- * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
- * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
- Windows port:
- * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
- * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
- * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
- WinCE port:
- * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
- Audio Output:
- * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
- Video Output:
- * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
- Demuxers:
- * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
- * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
- * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
- Stream Output:
- * Encoders:
- * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
- * Stream output:
- * Support of playlist group announcement
- Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
- --------------------------------
- Core support:
- * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
- * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
- * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
- * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
- * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
- * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
- Input:
- * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
- (Stream your desktop)
- * Improved DVD support:
- - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
- - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
- * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
- * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
- * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
- (selection of titles/chapters).
- Demuxers:
- * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
- * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
- * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
- * Windows Media Server RTSP support
- * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
- * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
- * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
- * Improved Ogg demuxer
- * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
- * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
- Codecs:
- * G.726 audio support
- * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
- * MPEG-4 text support
- * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
- * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
- * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
- Stream Output:
- Encoders:
- * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
- everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
- * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
- * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
- * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
- * DVB subtitles encoder
- * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
- * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
- Muxers:
- * Text track muxing for mp4
- * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
- * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
- * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
- * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
- * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
- * Improved ASF muxer
- Misc:
- * H.263 RTP streaming support
- * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
- * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
- Audio Output:
- * New audio equalizer filter
- * Very trivial volume normalizer
- * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
- * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
- * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
- Video Output:
- * Roku HD1000 Video output
- * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
- with support for effects.
- * Improved filter and subpictures support :
- - New filters can be streamed.
- - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
- - Centralized scaling and blending
- * New filters :
- - "time", to display current time
- - "marq", to display a marquee
- Interfaces:
- * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
- * OSD icons for Play and Pause
- * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
- * A few skins2 improvements
- * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
- * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
- * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
- * Improved CORBA control module
- Mac OS X port:
- * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
- * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
- * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
- Linux port:
- * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
- * Experimental SVG rendering module
- * Support for DVB CAM modules.
- Windows port:
- * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
- * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
- * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
- * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
- * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
- WinCE port:
- * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
- Mozilla plugin:
- * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
- * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
- Misc:
- * Server/client network synchronization module
- * VBrick streams fully supported
- * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
- * VLM enhancements
- Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
- --------------------------------
- Core support:
- * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
- * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
- * Improved HTTP daemon.
- * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
- Codecs:
- * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
- (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
- * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
- * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
- * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
- (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
- * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
- Input:
- * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
- file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
- fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
- * Improved directory access module.
- * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
- * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
- * New options to pass meta info to the input.
- * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
- (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
- Demux:
- * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
- * mmsh streaming fixes.
- * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
- Subtitles:
- * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
- * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
- * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
- Stream output:
- * Improved session announcement system.
- * Minimize threads usage by default.
- * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
- * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
- * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
- * Improved transrater.
- * Meta info options used by the muxers.
- * New configuration system.
- * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
- VideoLAN manager:
- * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
- and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
- * Supports live streams and VoD.
- * Supports scheduling.
- * Telnet interface for vlm.
- * HTTP interface for vlm.
- Interfaces:
- * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
- - Ability to embed video output.
- - Support for bitmap fonts.
- - Lots of improvements.
- * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
- - New design and set of icons.
- - Ability to embed video output.
- - Support for hotkeys.
- - Support for bookmarks.
- * Mac OS X
- - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
- - Better hotkeys handling.
- Mac OS X port:
- * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
- * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
- * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
- * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
- Win32 port:
- * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
- * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
- * Improved Windows installer.
- Linux port:
- * PowerPC fixes.
- Misc:
- * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
- * Roku HD1000 audio output.
- Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
- ---------------------------------
- Mac OS X:
- * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
- * Playing MOD files is working now.
- Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
- --------------------------------
- Core support:
- * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
- * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
- Codecs:
- * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
- (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
- * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
- * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
- Playlist:
- * Internal improvments
- * Improved import/export
- Input:
- * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
- container formars.
- * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
- small and strange formats.
- * New PVA demux.
- * New MOD audio demux.
- * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
- * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
- * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
- * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
- Stream output:
- * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
- * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
- * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
- Service discovery:
- * Fixed sdp in SAP.
- Mac OS X port:
- * New opengl video output plugin.
- Win32 port:
- * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
- * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
- Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
- --------------------------------
- Core support:
- * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
- Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
- * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
- * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
- This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
- * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
- * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
- subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
- Playlist:
- * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
- * Playlist sorting
- Input:
- * RTP/RTSP support.
- * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
- * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
- * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
- * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
- * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
- * Reworked DVB tuning.
- * Better Icecast support.
- * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
- * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
- Codecs:
- * Support for Theora video encoding.
- * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
- * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
- * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
- * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
- * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
- * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
- Stream output:
- * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
- * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
- * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
- * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
- * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
- * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
- * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
- * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
- * Preliminary RTP support.
- * Fixes to SAP announces.
- Interface:
- * Skins:
- - Bugfixes
- - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
- * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
- * wxWindows
- - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
- - Improvements and help in preferences
- - New streaming wizard
- - Revised Disc Open menu
- * HTTP
- - Improvements of the standard pages
- - Support for new commands
- * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
- Service discovery:
- * Many fixes to the SAP module
- * SAP now supports HTTP streams
- Subtitles:
- * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
- * Text subtitles autodetection.
- * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
- * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
- * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
- * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
- * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
- * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
- * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
- Mac OS X port:
- * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
- * Save playlist.
- * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
- * Support for Panther.
- * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
- * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
- Win32 port:
- * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
- * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
- * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
- * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
- * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
- * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
- * Multimonitor support (untested).
- * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
- Linux port:
- * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
- * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
- * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
- iPaq port:
- * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
- Miscellaneous:
- * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
- * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
- * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
- * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
- Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
- --------------------------------
- Core support:
- * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
- Stream output:
- * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
- * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
- Access input:
- * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
- * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
- Interfaces:
- * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
- UNIX ports:
- * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
- * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
- Win32 port:
- * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
- iPaq port:
- * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
- Miscellaneous:
- * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
- * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
- mpeg1/2 videos.
- Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
- --------------------------------
- Core support:
- * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
- * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
- after a pause.
- Stream output:
- * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
- * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
- * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
- UNIX ports:
- * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
- * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
- Win32 port:
- * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
- iPaq port:
- * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
- Miscellaneous:
- * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
- * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
- mpeg1/2 videos.
- Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
- --------------------------------
- Core support:
- * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
- * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
- after a pause.
- Stream output:
- * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
- * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
- * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
- * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
- * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
- Win32 port:
- * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
- * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
- * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
- UNIX ports:
- * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
- * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
- use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
- iPaq port:
- * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
- * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
- * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
- * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
- * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
- Interfaces:
- * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
- * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
- * A new CORBA control plugin.
- Input demux:
- * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
- Miscellaneous:
- * Improved build system.
- * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
- * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
- * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
- Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
- Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
- --------------------------------
- Core Support:
- * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
- Input access:
- * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
- (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
- * Fixed large file support on Windows
- * Video 4 Linux support
- * CD Digital Audio support
- * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
- Input demux:
- * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
- * Support for OpenDML avi files
- * More complete .mp4/.mov support
- * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
- Codecs:
- * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
- * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
- * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
- * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
- * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
- * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
- * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
- Interfaces:
- * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
- * New HTTP remote control interface
- Stream output:
- * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
- allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
- * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
- * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
- * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
- Miscellaneous:
- * New reset option for the preferences
- * You can set your language in the prefences
- * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
- * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
- * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
- * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
- UNIX ports:
- * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
- * New skinable interface ported to X11.
- * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
- Mac OS X port:
- * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
- * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
- * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
- * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
- * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
- * New icons by Davor Orel.
- * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
- * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
- * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
- * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
- Win32 port:
- * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
- * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
- * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
- * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
- * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
- * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
- * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
- BeOS port:
- * Interface localization
- * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
- * A few new keyboard shortcuts
- * New full-featured Preferences window
- Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
- --------------------------------
- Core Support:
- * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
- * support for skins at the interface level
- * new OSD module using Freetype2
- * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
- * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
- input level before dropping out of date frames.
- * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
- Input access:
- * fixed HTTP redirects
- * support for opening an entire directory
- * EOF should be detected more reliably
- * new video4linux access plug-in
- * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
- Input demux:
- * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
- * fix for some ogg web radio streams
- * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
- Codecs:
- * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
- * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
- * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
- * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
- * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
- * new codec for raw I420 video
- * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
- Interfaces:
- * improvements to wxWindows based interface
- (although it still misses some important features)
- * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
- Stream output:
- * new HTTP output support
- * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
- * fixed AV synchronization issues
- Miscellaneous:
- * support for oldstyle id3 genres
- UNIX ports:
- * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
- Mac OS X port:
- * reorderable playlist
- * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
- * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
- * support for mono audio output devices
- * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
- * fixed several cosmetic issues
- * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
- * the messages window remembers more lines
- * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
- * http and ogg stream output options
- * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
- Win32 port:
- * new skinnable interface
- * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
- iPAQ familiar Linux port:
- * support for FLAC audio format
- * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
- * playlist
- * network tab in the interface
- * "apply" handling in preferences
- Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
- ---------------------------------
- Core support:
- * advanced config options are now hidden by default
- * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
- * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
- * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
- Mac OS X
- * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
- * DTS S/PDIF support
- Codecs:
- * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
- * support for FLAC audio through libflac
- * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
- * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
- Stream output:
- * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
- * new --ttl option for Time To Live
- DVD support:
- * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
- UNIX ports:
- * fixed the GNU-pth support
- Win32 port:
- * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
- plugins
- * localization support via gettext is now fully working
- * rc interface is now fully useable
- * fixed the MSVC project files generation
- Mac OS X port:
- * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
- M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
- bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
- iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
- * VLC now uses the default audio device
- * new info panel
- * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
- * support for mouse gestures
- * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
- Linupy port:
- * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
- YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
- Miscellaneous:
- * improved ID3 tag detection
- * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
- not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
- * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
- gestures
- * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
- Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
- ---------------------------------
- Mac OS X port:
- * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
- English was set as the preferred language
- Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
- --------------------------------
- Core support:
- * new mouse gesture interface
- * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
- playing
- Input access:
- * various minor fixes on the network inputs
- * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
- * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
- Input demux:
- * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
- * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
- continuity counter
- Codecs:
- * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
- DVD support:
- * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
- without the user consent
- UNIX ports:
- * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
- popup menu
- * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
- * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
- * ALSA: fixed mono files output
- Mac OS X port:
- * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
- * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
- * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
- * playlist enhancements
- * added half, normal and double video window menu items
- * new step forward/step backward commands
- * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
- * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
- * vlc.app is now VLC.app
- Win32 port:
- * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
- * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
- * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
- BeOS port:
- * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
- * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
- Opie port:
- * native video output is working again
- * only commandline interface support
- * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
- Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
- --------------------------------
- Core structure:
- * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
- * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
- S/PDIF and multi-channel support
- * localization support via gettext on most architectures
- * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
- multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
- and A/52 streams are supported)
- * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
- Input access:
- * mms:// support
- * ftp:// support
- * stability fixes in the HTTP access
- * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
- * VCD entry points support
- * VCD image file support
- Input demux:
- * support for *.asf format
- * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
- * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
- * support for ogg encapsulation
- * support for raw DV format
- * support for *.wav format
- * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
- * raw AAC support
- Stream discovery & playlists:
- * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
- * support for .m3u file format
- * support for .asx file format
- * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
- Codecs:
- * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
- (only available with the .avi demux)
- * support for ADPCM audio codec
- * support for raw PCM data
- * support for Cinepak video codec
- * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
- * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
- * support for Xvid codec
- * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
- * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
- * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
- from sources)
- * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
- H263i, MJPEG A/B
- * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
- DVD support:
- * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
- Miscellaneous:
- * new WxWindows interface
- * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
- device and the channels configuration
- * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
- * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
- format that VLC can play
- * new swedish translation
- * enhancements of the playlist window
- * new messages window to see debug info
- * fixed a few crashes
- iPaq port:
- * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
- * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
- * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
- * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working
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