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Changes between 1.1.x and 1.2.0-git:
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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.
2011-02-12 17:06:17 +08:00
* The VLC plugins path can be overriden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
2010-08-11 19:41:47 +08:00
* The default tarballs are now .tar.xz
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* The NPAPI webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
2010-10-20 04:59:09 +08:00
* The ActiveX webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/activex-vlc.git
2010-07-03 23:07:58 +08:00
Access
* Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
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* BDA: experimental support for ClearQam devices
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* DVB-S scanning support
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* DVB-C scanning scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
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* DShow: support for freq and video standard selection
2010-11-02 00:02:27 +08:00
* Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
* Blu-Ray Discs integration using libbluray
2010-10-13 07:02:09 +08:00
* HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
* Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
* Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
* RTP: support for dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
2010-07-03 23:07:58 +08:00
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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 Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
2010-05-10 05:38:25 +08:00
Core:
* Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
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* Major Video Output and Video Core reworks and rewrites
* Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
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Demuxers:
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* id3tag plugin is now removed (superseded by taglib)
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* new images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
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* Ogg seeking improvements
2010-12-11 09:13:11 +08:00
* C64 SID file playback support using sidplay2
2010-07-20 04:27:13 +08:00
2010-06-18 05:32:06 +08:00
Interfaces
* The telnet interface has been removed in the favour of the lua one
2010-09-27 22:42:05 +08:00
* Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
2010-11-02 00:02:27 +08:00
* Qt: effects dialogs rework
* Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
2010-09-27 22:42:05 +08:00
* Qt: port to MacOS X platform
* Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
and important cleanups and optimisations
* ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
2010-07-29 17:05:39 +08:00
Video Output:
* New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
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* New video output for iOS platform
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* Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
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* Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
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* Various vmem improvements
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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
2011-03-30 20:10:44 +08:00
* New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
Audio Output:
* New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
2010-09-04 01:07:32 +08:00
Audio Filter:
* New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
Stream output:
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* 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}"
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* RTP: support for Vorbis and Theora
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* 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...
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* 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{...}
Services Discovery:
* Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
libVLC:
* New capabilities for libVLC:
** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
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** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
list of available audio and video filters
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Removed modules:
* asademux: use libass only
* fake: use the new image demuxers
* hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
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* id3tag: use taglib
* upnp: use upnp_intel
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Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
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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
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* 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
2011-02-02 07:19:40 +08:00
Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
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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:
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Source:
* Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
2011-01-24 08:24:29 +08:00
Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
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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
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* Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
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Demuxers:
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* Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
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* 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,
2011-02-02 07:19:40 +08:00
discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
2011-01-24 08:24:29 +08:00
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
2010-11-12 07:15:35 +08:00
Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
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Security:
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* Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
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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
2010-09-27 22:42:05 +08:00
Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
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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
2010-09-02 01:52:40 +08:00
Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
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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
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Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
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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:
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Demuxers:
* Avformat fps displaying fix
* TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
Audio filters:
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* 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
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Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
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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
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Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
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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.
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Important changes for packagers:
* The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
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generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
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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.
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Access:
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* 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
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* 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
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Decoders:
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* 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
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* Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
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* Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
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* Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
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* Invmem module improvements
* Support for Atrac1 audio codec
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* Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
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* Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
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* Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
* Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
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* Support for Indeo5 video codec
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* Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
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* Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
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* Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
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* Support for VP8 codec
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* Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
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Demuxers:
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* Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
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* Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
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* Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
* Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
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* Various EGP improvements
* Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
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* Metadata and cover art improvements
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Playlist:
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* WPL and ZPL playlist support
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* Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
* New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
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* Podcast images are now displayed
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Video Output:
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* Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
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* 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.
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* New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
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* New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
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* New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
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* 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)
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Extensions:
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* New content extensions lua framework
Audio filters:
* Chorus/Flanger audio filter
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* 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
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* Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
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Service discovery:
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* Service discoveries can now be written in lua
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* Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
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* Service discovery based on libudev
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* Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
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Encoders:
* x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
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* 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
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Stream output:
* New smem module, streaming to memory
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* Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
--sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
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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
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Visualization:
* Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
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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
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* New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
* Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
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Windows port:
* Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
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* Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
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Maemo port:
* Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
* Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
2010-04-13 06:31:28 +08:00
* Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
2009-09-28 16:17:17 +08:00
Misc:
* new sqlite module
2010-01-18 04:28:40 +08:00
* --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
2010-02-04 04:41:18 +08:00
* Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
2010-06-11 06:56:42 +08:00
* Improved Solaris port
Bindings:
* new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
2010-06-02 01:24:06 +08:00
* phonon-VLC backend is now usable
Removed modules:
2010-04-13 06:31:28 +08:00
* 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.
2009-10-17 23:24:28 +08:00
* gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
2010-01-22 01:19:39 +08:00
* WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
2010-04-13 06:31:28 +08:00
* 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.
2010-04-13 06:31:28 +08:00
* realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
2010-01-31 03:10:21 +08:00
* access_file removed in favor of filesystem
2010-04-13 06:31:28 +08:00
* RTMP input and output: use avio module
2010-06-02 01:24:06 +08:00
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.
2010-01-31 21:33:20 +08:00
Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
--------------------------------
Decoders:
* SubRip extra styles improvements
* Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
2010-01-05 04:35:34 +08:00
Mac OS X Interface:
* Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
2010-01-31 21:33:20 +08:00
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:
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* Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
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Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
Russian, Slovak translation updates
* New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
2010-01-05 04:35:34 +08:00
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
2010-01-05 04:35:34 +08:00
2009-08-10 06:05:34 +08:00
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
2009-09-23 07:47:50 +08:00
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
2009-09-23 07:47:50 +08:00
2009-08-10 06:05:34 +08:00
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:
2009-06-17 18:08:07 +08:00
---------------------------------
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Important notes:
----------------
* Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
See 'Access:' for more info.
2009-05-21 20:23:49 +08:00
* Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
2009-03-28 23:04:37 +08:00
2008-11-14 01:40:41 +08:00
Playback:
* Instantaneous pausing
* Frame-by-Frame playback
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* Finer speed control
* On-the-fly recording for all medias
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* Timeshift for most medias
* RTSP trickplay support
2009-05-06 21:16:05 +08:00
* Subtitles core improvements and fixes
2009-05-06 21:16:05 +08:00
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
2009-05-06 21:16:05 +08:00
* 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)
2009-03-01 22:18:46 +08:00
* Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
2009-05-02 02:55:43 +08:00
* Metadata for mod files are supported
* GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
2009-05-09 07:15:30 +08:00
* 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)
2009-03-01 22:18:46 +08:00
* Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
2008-11-14 01:40:41 +08:00
Access:
* RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
2008-12-11 01:30:35 +08:00
* 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
2009-01-04 04:29:58 +08:00
* 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
2009-02-21 17:58:13 +08:00
* 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)
2009-02-21 17:58:13 +08:00
* Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
2009-02-26 07:43:33 +08:00
* MTP device access on Unix
* CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
2009-05-02 02:55:43 +08:00
* :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
2008-11-14 01:40:41 +08:00
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
2009-03-01 22:18:46 +08:00
* Better metadata handling and reading
2008-08-25 07:36:34 +08:00
2008-11-14 01:40:41 +08:00
Linux/Windows interface:
* Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
2009-02-26 07:43:33 +08:00
* Various fixes for skins2 interface
2009-03-01 22:18:46 +08:00
* Recently played items list
2009-02-26 07:43:33 +08:00
* 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
2009-02-26 07:43:33 +08:00
* Better integration in GTK environments
2008-11-14 01:40:41 +08:00
Mac OS X Interface:
* Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
2008-11-14 01:40:41 +08:00
* Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
* Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
2009-03-03 22:05:43 +08:00
* Additional usability improvements
2008-11-14 01:40:41 +08:00
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.
2008-11-14 01:40:41 +08:00
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.
2009-03-03 22:05:43 +08:00
Mac OS X Port:
* EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
2009-03-03 22:05:43 +08:00
* Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
* New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
* Support for latest iSight models
2009-03-03 22:05:43 +08:00
2008-10-31 01:05:16 +08:00
Audio output:
* Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
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* Surround support for PulseAudio
2008-10-31 01:05:16 +08:00
Video output:
* Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
2009-04-19 18:20:52 +08:00
* 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:
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* 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
2009-05-09 07:22:45 +08:00
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
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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.
2008-11-08 09:08:26 +08:00
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)
2008-11-08 09:08:26 +08:00
2008-10-25 05:45:55 +08:00
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
2008-10-07 06:42:31 +08:00
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.
2008-09-26 23:44:32 +08:00
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:
--------------------------------
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* Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
* Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
* Multiple bugfixes.
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Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
--------------------------------
* Multiple bug fixes.
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Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
---------------------------------
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2006-12-04 00:31:08 +08:00
Important notes:
----------------
* This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
recent to work correctly
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* 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.
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- 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
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- 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.
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This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
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0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
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* 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
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If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
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These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
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* The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2007-09-29 00:14:07 +08:00
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
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of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
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* The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
with some file names. Use access://url instead.
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E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
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* 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}}
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* Glide video output module has been removed.
2006-12-04 00:31:08 +08:00
Changes:
--------
Security updates:
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* Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
CVE-2008-1807)
* TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2008-08-27 03:28:15 +08:00
* MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2006-09-18 05:37:10 +08:00
Playlist:
* Vastly improved playlist support:
* Media library creation to save all your playlist items
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* "Live search"
* Shoutcast TV listings
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* 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
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2008-06-09 15:27:51 +08:00
Inputs:
* Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
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* 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)
2008-06-09 15:27:51 +08:00
* BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
* Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2008-06-09 15:27:51 +08:00
using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
* Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
* Experimental EyeTV access module
2008-06-09 15:27:51 +08:00
This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
(available as a separate download).
2008-08-09 22:50:27 +08:00
* Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2008-06-09 15:27:51 +08:00
* 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)
2008-06-09 15:27:51 +08:00
* 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
2008-04-07 21:57:27 +08:00
* 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:
2007-03-30 05:57:15 +08:00
* VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
* Flash Screen Video support
2007-05-12 06:46:50 +08:00
* CamStudio Screen Video support
* DosBox Capture support
* Karl Morton's Video support
* limited atrac3 support
2008-07-26 10:26:37 +08:00
* Fraps support
* Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2007-09-15 18:23:33 +08:00
* New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
* H.264 PAFF support
* DNxHD / VC-3 support
2007-10-19 10:32:16 +08:00
* NellyMoser ASAO support
* APE (Monkey audio) support
* RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2008-06-29 23:20:36 +08:00
* Dirac video support using libschroedinger
Subtitles:
* Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
* VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2008-05-02 23:35:56 +08:00
* 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
2008-06-15 09:02:17 +08:00
* Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2007-03-30 05:57:15 +08:00
Encoders:
* Flash Screen Video support
2008-04-18 19:22:26 +08:00
* Improved H.264 encoding speed
2008-06-09 15:27:51 +08:00
Video outputs and filters:
* New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2007-04-01 04:07:58 +08:00
* Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2006-11-25 19:15:25 +08:00
* New puzzle video output filter
* Re-written motion detection video filter
2007-04-01 04:07:58 +08:00
* New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
video)
2007-02-06 08:01:14 +08:00
* 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)
2008-08-24 22:26:23 +08:00
* Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2007-04-16 05:04:40 +08:00
* 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.
2007-06-21 04:42:24 +08:00
* 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.
2006-05-22 05:39:34 +08:00
2008-06-09 15:27:51 +08:00
Audio outputs and filters:
* Replay gain support
2008-08-12 00:32:44 +08:00
* Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
new scaletempo audio filter)
* New spatializer audio filter
* Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2007-06-19 05:59:34 +08:00
2007-02-06 01:21:56 +08:00
Stream output:
2007-09-15 18:31:01 +08:00
* RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
* New RTP payload formats:
2007-09-29 00:07:42 +08:00
* Speex voice audio codec
2007-10-11 03:06:26 +08:00
* ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
* G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2007-09-29 00:07:42 +08:00
* UDP-Lite transport for RTP
* DCCP transport for RTP
2007-09-15 18:31:01 +08:00
* Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
* RTMP output
2007-02-06 01:21:56 +08:00
2006-08-31 06:59:21 +08:00
Interfaces:
2006-09-18 05:37:10 +08:00
* All
* New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
end-user suitable way.
2006-09-18 05:37:10 +08:00
* Improved user interaction
2007-05-12 06:46:50 +08:00
* Improved mouse gestures
2008-05-29 15:10:21 +08:00
* Vastly improved Update checker
2008-04-07 21:57:27 +08:00
* 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
2008-04-18 19:22:26 +08:00
* When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
* Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
* Simplified Extended Controls panel
2008-04-07 21:57:27 +08:00
* 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.
2007-09-01 05:57:07 +08:00
* 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
2007-09-01 05:57:07 +08:00
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
2006-11-06 07:23:35 +08:00
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)
2007-10-21 01:29:34 +08:00
Mac OS X Port:
* Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2008-04-18 19:22:26 +08:00
applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2008-06-09 15:27:51 +08:00
* New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
* Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2008-04-18 19:22:26 +08:00
* 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)
2007-10-21 01:29:34 +08:00
New Localizations:
* Finnish
* Persian
* Polish
2008-08-08 05:23:36 +08:00
* Punjabi
2008-08-25 20:17:29 +08:00
* 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.
2008-07-02 01:23:23 +08:00
Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
----------------------------------
Security updates:
* Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2008-07-13 00:04:10 +08:00
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
2008-07-02 01:23:23 +08:00
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.
2008-04-03 20:32:38 +08:00
Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
----------------------------------
Security updates:
* Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2008-04-03 20:32:38 +08:00
* Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2008-04-19 23:50:02 +08:00
* 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:
2008-04-03 20:32:38 +08:00
* 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
2007-06-15 01:23:08 +08:00
2007-12-01 01:35:54 +08:00
Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
----------------------------------
2007-12-01 01:35:54 +08:00
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
2007-12-01 01:35:54 +08:00
* 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:
2008-01-20 04:38:59 +08:00
* Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
2007-12-01 01:35:54 +08:00
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
2007-12-01 01:35:54 +08:00
* 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.
2007-12-01 01:35:54 +08:00
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.
2008-01-20 04:38:59 +08:00
* RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
2007-12-01 01:35:54 +08:00
2007-06-13 06:38:01 +08:00
Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
----------------------------------
2007-06-13 06:38:01 +08:00
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)
2007-06-15 01:23:08 +08:00
CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
2008-01-20 04:38:59 +08:00
* Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
2007-06-13 06:38:01 +08:00
2007-06-15 01:23:08 +08:00
Demuxers:
* Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
2008-01-20 04:38:59 +08:00
* Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
2007-06-15 01:23:08 +08:00
2007-06-16 21:12:25 +08:00
Decoders:
* Updated FLAC API compatibility
Input:
* Support for new v4l2 encoder API
2007-06-15 01:23:08 +08:00
Localisation:
* New localisation: Arabic, Persian
Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
2007-06-13 06:38:01 +08:00
----------------------------------
2007-04-20 15:50:54 +08:00
Various bugfixes, notably:
* Out-of-bound read in demuxers
* Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
2007-02-23 21:33:05 +08:00
* Mac OS X Interface crashes
* VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
2007-04-20 15:50:54 +08:00
* Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
* Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
2007-02-23 21:33:05 +08:00
Decoders:
* Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
* Teletext subtitles (telx) support
Webbrowser plugins:
2007-04-20 15:50:54 +08:00
* Rectified behaviour and improved usability
Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2007-04-20 15:50:54 +08:00
* Diverse usability improvements
* New wizard option to embed subtitles
* Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
* Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
2007-02-23 21:33:05 +08:00
Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
---------------------------------
CDDA / VCDX plugins:
2008-01-20 04:38:59 +08:00
* Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
2007-02-23 21:33:05 +08:00
Mac OS X Interface:
* Fullscreen controller improvements
2006-12-12 00:04:32 +08:00
Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
2006-09-18 05:37:10 +08:00
--------------------------------
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
2006-08-31 06:59:21 +08:00
2006-09-18 05:37:10 +08:00
Decoders:
* Native WMV9/VC-1 support
2006-09-18 05:37:10 +08:00
* WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
2006-12-12 00:04:32 +08:00
* VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
2006-11-06 07:23:35 +08:00
* The True Audio Lossless codec support
2006-12-12 00:04:32 +08:00
* 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
2006-11-06 07:23:35 +08:00
2006-09-18 05:37:10 +08:00
Video output:
* Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
* Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
2006-09-18 05:37:10 +08:00
* Improved libcaca support
2006-09-18 05:37:10 +08:00
Interfaces:
2006-11-06 07:23:35 +08:00
* All
* New hotkeys for crop and zoom
* Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
* Windows
* Systray support in skins
2006-09-18 06:54:08 +08:00
* OS X
2006-11-06 07:23:35 +08:00
* Support for Apple Remote control
* Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
* New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2006-11-06 07:23:35 +08:00
* right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
* Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
2006-11-06 07:23:35 +08:00
* Linux
* Notifications using notification-daemon
2006-11-15 19:28:39 +08:00
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
2006-11-15 19:28:39 +08:00
* Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
* Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
2006-11-15 19:28:39 +08:00
2006-05-22 05:39:34 +08:00
Localization:
2006-09-18 05:37:10 +08:00
* Add Czech
* Add Slovak
2006-10-17 16:00:53 +08:00
* Add Malay
2006-11-06 07:23:35 +08:00
* Add Slovenian
2006-09-18 05:37:10 +08:00
Developers:
* Updates to the libvlc API
2006-11-06 07:23:35 +08:00
* Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
2006-05-22 05:39:34 +08:00
2006-05-07 06:39:02 +08:00
Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
2007-06-15 01:23:08 +08:00
--------------------------------
2005-12-18 02:38:45 +08:00
Core support:
* Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
2006-03-09 17:31:36 +08:00
* Support for downloading updates
* Updated strings
2005-12-18 02:38:45 +08:00
Input:
* Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
* Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
* Improvements to the Audio CD input
2006-03-06 03:05:07 +08:00
- Separate playlist entries for the tracks
- Support for CDDB
2005-12-18 02:38:45 +08:00
* Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
* Improved subtitles encoding support
2006-03-06 03:05:07 +08:00
* Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
2005-12-18 02:38:45 +08:00
Decoders:
* Cook (Real audio) support
2006-03-09 17:31:36 +08:00
Playlist / Services discovery:
2006-03-31 16:41:34 +08:00
* XSPF playlist support
2005-12-18 02:38:45 +08:00
* Podcast support
2006-04-28 20:15:27 +08:00
* Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
2005-12-18 02:38:45 +08:00
2006-02-19 22:54:57 +08:00
Audio output:
* New JACK audio output
Video output:
2006-03-06 03:05:07 +08:00
* New video filters:
2006-03-09 17:31:36 +08:00
- magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
- gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
2006-03-12 07:30:07 +08:00
- bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
2006-02-19 07:10:54 +08:00
* Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
* RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
2006-03-06 03:05:07 +08:00
* Improvements to the subtitles rendering
Stream output:
* Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
2005-12-18 02:38:45 +08:00
Interfaces:
* System to inform the user and request information
- HTTP authentication
- Fatal errors
- ...
* wxWidgets
- VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
2006-03-09 17:31:36 +08:00
- Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2006-03-06 03:05:07 +08:00
- Drag & Drop support in the playlist
2005-12-18 02:38:45 +08:00
* Skins2
- New default skin
2005-12-18 02:38:45 +08:00
- 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
2006-03-31 22:24:32 +08:00
- Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
2006-03-09 17:31:36 +08:00
- 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)
2005-12-18 02:38:45 +08:00
* HTTP
2006-03-19 01:14:54 +08:00
- New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
2006-02-17 22:59:36 +08:00
- A bunch of new RPN functions
2005-12-18 02:38:45 +08:00
2005-12-19 05:20:17 +08:00
Windows Port:
* MSN messenger "Now playing" support
2005-12-18 02:38:45 +08:00
OS X Port:
* Mac-Intel compatibility
2006-03-06 03:05:07 +08:00
* Enhanced support of various audio output devices
* Growl "Now playing" support
2005-12-18 02:38:45 +08:00
*Nix port:
* Ability to log to syslog
* Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
Developers:
* New libvlc API (not finished yet)
2005-12-18 02:38:45 +08:00
* Java bindings
2006-03-06 03:05:07 +08:00
* A bit more automatic testing
2005-12-18 02:38:45 +08:00
2007-06-15 01:23:08 +08:00
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:
2005-12-11 00:10:46 +08:00
* 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
2007-06-15 01:23:08 +08:00
2005-11-22 18:24:51 +08:00
Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
--------------------------------
Core support:
2005-09-27 02:45:44 +08:00
* Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
* New OSD system
2005-08-19 00:20:43 +08:00
Video output:
2005-09-27 02:45:44 +08:00
* Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2005-11-04 16:12:16 +08:00
* New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
* Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
Input:
2005-09-27 02:45:44 +08:00
* 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
2005-11-04 16:12:16 +08:00
* Support for RTP packet reordering
* Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
Decoders:
2005-09-27 02:45:44 +08:00
* Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
* Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2005-11-04 16:12:16 +08:00
* QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
Services discovery:
2005-11-04 16:12:16 +08:00
* UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
* Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
Video filters:
2005-09-27 02:45:44 +08:00
* RSS feed overlay
2005-07-31 08:25:10 +08:00
Audio filters:
* Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
Mixer and Dolby Surround
2005-08-29 04:08:26 +08:00
Stream output:
2005-09-27 02:45:44 +08:00
* New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
* Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2005-11-04 16:12:16 +08:00
* Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2005-08-29 04:08:26 +08:00
Interfaces:
2006-02-02 03:40:01 +08:00
- new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
* Mac OS X
2005-08-29 04:08:26 +08:00
- New streaming and transcoding wizard
- New extended controls panel
- New bookmarks window
- Fixed playlist sorting
- Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2005-07-31 08:25:10 +08:00
* wxWidgets
- Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2005-10-06 00:13:43 +08:00
- All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2005-11-04 16:12:16 +08:00
- Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2005-10-06 00:13:43 +08:00
- Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2005-09-27 02:45:44 +08:00
* Skins2
- Tree playlist
* HTTP
2005-08-29 04:08:26 +08:00
- New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
- Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
the names of files
2005-08-29 04:08:26 +08:00
- Include macro to include other files
2005-09-27 02:45:44 +08:00
- CGI 1.0 support
2005-08-29 04:08:26 +08:00
ActiveX plugin:
* Should now work outside IE as well
Mac OS X port:
* New script to delete the preferences automatically
2005-11-04 16:12:16 +08:00
Windows port:
* Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2005-11-29 05:23:27 +08:00
* Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2005-11-04 16:12:16 +08:00
2005-08-07 04:48:15 +08:00
Translations:
The following languages were added:
2005-11-29 05:23:27 +08:00
* Galician
* Korean
2005-08-07 04:48:15 +08:00
* Romanian
* Simplified Chinese
The following languages were re-added:
* Swedish
2007-06-15 01:23:08 +08:00
2005-06-25 18:25:08 +08:00
Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2005-08-19 00:20:43 +08:00
--------------------------------
Core support:
* Rewrite of the playlist
2005-01-23 19:06:17 +08:00
- Tree structure
- Input preparsing (for meta-data)
- Grouping (by artist, ...) support
* Preferences improvements:
2005-01-23 19:06:17 +08:00
- New organization, designed to improve usability
- New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
* XML parsers
* Core image manipulation support
* Client-side SSL/TLS support
2005-03-11 06:18:47 +08:00
* 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
2005-05-12 22:29:58 +08:00
* filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2005-06-25 18:25:08 +08:00
now separated by ':' instead of ','
2005-05-12 22:29:58 +08:00
* Access filter architecture
* Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2005-06-25 18:25:08 +08:00
* Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2005-03-11 06:18:47 +08:00
* Many bugfixes...
2005-01-23 19:06:17 +08:00
2005-03-11 06:18:47 +08:00
Input/Demuxers:
2005-01-23 19:06:17 +08:00
* Support for SOCKS proxy
* Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
* Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2005-01-23 19:06:17 +08:00
* Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
* Better support for Kasenna streams
2005-03-11 06:18:47 +08:00
* RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
* Massive Matroska improvements
* Support for XA and VOC audio files
2005-05-12 22:29:58 +08:00
* TiVo demuxer
2005-03-11 06:18:47 +08:00
* Samba (Windows shares) access module
2005-01-23 19:06:17 +08:00
* Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
* Fixes to Linux DVB support
2005-03-11 06:18:47 +08:00
* Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2005-05-22 03:11:00 +08:00
* Support for FTP over IPv6
2005-01-23 19:06:17 +08:00
Decoders / Encoders:
* Dirac decoder and encoder
* PNG decoder/encoder
2005-03-11 06:18:47 +08:00
* Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
* Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2005-01-23 19:06:17 +08:00
2005-05-12 22:29:58 +08:00
Access filters:
* New Record and Timeshift filters
Services discovery:
2005-01-23 19:06:17 +08:00
* New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
* Brand new SAP module
2005-05-07 14:18:17 +08:00
* To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2005-05-12 22:29:58 +08:00
( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
* Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2005-01-23 19:06:17 +08:00
* HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
* DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2005-05-12 22:29:58 +08:00
* Shoutcast
2005-01-23 19:06:17 +08:00
2005-03-11 06:18:47 +08:00
Audio output:
* Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2005-01-23 19:06:17 +08:00
Video output:
* Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
* Image file video output (png)
2005-01-23 19:06:17 +08:00
* Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2005-03-11 06:18:47 +08:00
* Improvements to wall video filter
* Support for font color and opacity
2005-01-23 19:06:17 +08:00
Stream output:
* Muxers
- ASF improvements
* VLM / VoD
- Ability to load a configuration file on startup
- Seeking support in VoD streams
2005-05-12 22:29:58 +08:00
* Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2005-01-23 19:06:17 +08:00
Interfaces:
2005-05-12 22:29:58 +08:00
* wxWidgets
2005-01-23 19:06:17 +08:00
- Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
- Improved preferences
2005-03-11 06:18:47 +08:00
- Improvements to the wizard
2005-01-23 19:06:17 +08:00
- DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
* MacOS X
- Redesigned playlist
2005-05-12 22:29:58 +08:00
- Improved preferences
2005-01-23 19:06:17 +08:00
* Skins
2005-05-12 22:29:58 +08:00
- Support for multiple actions
2005-01-23 19:06:17 +08:00
- Fixes
* HTTP
- Support for the new playlist system
* Lirc
- Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2005-01-23 19:06:17 +08:00
Windows port:
* Screensaver disabling fix
* DirectShow tuner configuration
* Support for no-decoration windows
2005-05-12 22:29:58 +08:00
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.
2005-05-12 22:29:58 +08:00
2004-12-11 01:53:32 +08:00
BeOS port:
* Support for single-buffered overlay
Pocket PC port:
2005-01-23 19:06:17 +08:00
* Many fixes
* New interface
2005-05-12 22:29:58 +08:00
* New video output
2005-01-23 19:06:17 +08:00
Mozilla Plugin:
* Javascript fixes
* Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2005-01-23 19:06:17 +08:00
IE Plugin:
* Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2005-01-23 19:06:17 +08:00
Translations:
2005-06-25 18:25:08 +08:00
The following languages were added:
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* Catalan
2005-01-23 19:06:17 +08:00
* Danish
2005-06-25 18:25:08 +08:00
* Turkish
2005-01-23 19:06:17 +08:00
Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2007-06-15 01:23:08 +08:00
--------------------------------
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
2007-06-15 01:23:08 +08:00
Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2007-06-15 01:23:08 +08:00
--------------------------------
Core support:
2004-08-30 21:14:05 +08:00
* 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)
2004-10-01 03:44:43 +08:00
* Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
Input:
2004-08-30 21:14:05 +08:00
* 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)
2004-08-30 21:14:05 +08:00
* Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
* Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2004-08-30 21:14:05 +08:00
* More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
(selection of titles/chapters).
2004-08-30 21:14:05 +08:00
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)
2004-08-30 18:35:19 +08:00
* Improved Ogg demuxer
2004-10-01 03:44:43 +08:00
* Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2004-09-29 23:26:25 +08:00
* 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
2004-09-26 04:05:02 +08:00
* VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
Stream Output:
2004-08-30 21:14:05 +08:00
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)
2004-08-30 21:14:05 +08:00
* 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.
2004-10-01 03:44:43 +08:00
* New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2004-08-30 21:14:05 +08:00
* Improved ASF muxer
Misc:
2004-09-26 04:05:02 +08:00
* 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
2004-10-01 03:44:43 +08:00
* 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
2004-07-25 16:34:08 +08:00
* 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)
2004-08-20 18:19:42 +08:00
* 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
2004-10-01 03:44:43 +08:00
* VLM enhancements
2007-06-15 01:23:08 +08:00
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.
2004-04-27 05:14:02 +08:00
* 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.
2004-04-27 05:14:02 +08:00
* 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.
2004-05-17 01:03:31 +08:00
* It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
(satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
Demux:
2004-04-27 05:14:02 +08:00
* Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
* mmsh streaming fixes.
* Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2004-04-26 00:07:15 +08:00
Subtitles:
* Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2004-04-27 05:14:02 +08:00
* Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
* Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2004-04-26 00:07:15 +08:00
Stream output:
* Improved session announcement system.
* Minimize threads usage by default.
* Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2004-04-20 07:00:57 +08:00
* Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
* Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2004-04-27 05:14:02 +08:00
* Improved transrater.
* Meta info options used by the muxers.
2004-04-27 05:14:02 +08:00
* 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:
2004-05-16 23:29:24 +08:00
* Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
- Ability to embed video output.
- Support for bitmap fonts.
- Lots of improvements.
2004-05-16 23:29:24 +08:00
* wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
- New design and set of icons.
- Ability to embed video output.
- Support for hotkeys.
2004-05-16 23:29:24 +08:00
- Support for bookmarks.
2004-04-27 05:14:02 +08:00
* 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).
2004-05-16 23:29:24 +08:00
* 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.
2004-05-16 23:29:24 +08:00
* Improved Windows installer.
2004-04-26 00:07:15 +08:00
Linux port:
2004-04-27 05:14:02 +08:00
* PowerPC fixes.
2004-04-26 00:07:15 +08:00
Misc:
2004-05-16 23:29:24 +08:00
* Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
* Roku HD1000 audio output.
2004-03-03 07:49:38 +08:00
2007-06-15 01:23:08 +08:00
2004-03-03 07:49:38 +08:00
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:
2007-06-15 01:23:08 +08:00
--------------------------------
Core support:
* Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2004-03-01 03:12:00 +08:00
* 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.
2004-02-22 08:15:33 +08:00
* 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).
2004-03-01 03:12:00 +08:00
* 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.
2004-02-22 08:15:33 +08:00
* 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.
2004-02-22 08:15:33 +08:00
* Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2007-06-15 01:23:08 +08:00
2003-11-23 22:28:15 +08:00
Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2007-06-15 01:23:08 +08:00
--------------------------------
Core support:
2003-11-19 02:45:33 +08:00
* Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2003-11-23 22:28:15 +08:00
* 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.
2003-11-19 02:45:33 +08:00
* 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.
2003-11-19 02:45:33 +08:00
* Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2003-11-23 22:28:15 +08:00
* Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2003-11-19 02:45:33 +08:00
* MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2003-11-23 22:28:15 +08:00
* Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
* cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
* Reworked DVB tuning.
* Better Icecast support.
2003-11-23 22:28:15 +08:00
* New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2003-12-13 19:22:15 +08:00
* New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
Codecs:
2003-11-19 02:45:33 +08:00
* Support for Theora video encoding.
2003-11-23 22:28:15 +08:00
* 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).
2003-12-13 19:22:15 +08:00
* Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2003-11-23 22:28:15 +08:00
* MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2003-11-19 02:45:33 +08:00
* 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.
2003-11-23 22:28:15 +08:00
* Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
* Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2003-11-23 22:28:15 +08:00
* 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
2003-12-13 23:28:41 +08:00
- 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.
2003-11-07 06:23:27 +08:00
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:
2003-12-13 19:22:15 +08:00
* 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).
2003-12-13 19:22:15 +08:00
* Multimonitor support (untested).
* Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2003-11-19 02:45:33 +08:00
Linux port:
* Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
* Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2003-11-23 22:28:15 +08:00
* Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2003-11-19 02:45:33 +08:00
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)
2007-06-15 01:23:08 +08:00
Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2007-06-15 01:23:08 +08:00
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2003-08-11 05:26:07 +08:00
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.
2003-08-11 05:26:07 +08:00
* Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
Interfaces:
* Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2003-08-11 05:26:07 +08:00
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:
2003-08-11 05:26:07 +08:00
* 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.
2007-06-15 01:23:08 +08:00
Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2007-06-15 01:23:08 +08:00
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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.
2007-06-15 01:23:08 +08:00
Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2007-06-15 01:23:08 +08:00
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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.
2003-07-29 04:23:58 +08:00
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:
2007-06-15 01:23:08 +08:00
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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)
2003-06-12 02:45:41 +08:00
* 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.
2003-06-12 02:45:41 +08:00
* 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.
2003-06-12 02:45:41 +08:00
* Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2003-05-05 21:15:06 +08:00
BeOS port:
* Interface localization
* Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
* A few new keyboard shortcuts
* New full-featured Preferences window
2007-06-15 01:23:08 +08:00
Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2007-06-15 01:23:08 +08:00
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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)
2003-04-07 07:00:24 +08:00
* 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
2003-04-07 07:00:24 +08:00
* 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
2003-04-07 07:00:24 +08:00
* 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:
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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:
2003-02-17 14:15:21 +08:00
* 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:
2003-02-17 14:15:21 +08:00
* 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
2003-02-17 14:15:21 +08:00
* 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
2003-02-17 14:15:21 +08:00
* 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
2003-02-17 14:15:21 +08:00
* VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
* fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
BeOS port:
2003-02-17 14:15:21 +08:00
* smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2003-02-16 09:38:36 +08:00
* few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
Opie port:
2003-02-17 14:15:21 +08:00
* 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:
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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
2003-02-03 00:08:08 +08:00
* 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
2003-02-02 06:03:42 +08:00
* 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
2003-02-02 05:24:06 +08:00
* enhancements of the playlist window
* new messages window to see debug info
* fixed a few crashes
2003-02-02 04:59:37 +08:00
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