$Id: NEWS 18491 2007-01-03 18:23:24Z fkuehne $ Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a: -------------------------------- CDDA / VCDX plugins: * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701) Mac OS X Interface: * Fullscreen controller improvements Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6: -------------------------------- Playlist: * Shoutcast TV listings support Input: * Support for RTSP authentication * Support for adding subtitles on the fly * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation * ATSC support for DVB input * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat * Improved support for Flash Video files Decoders: * Native WMV9/VC-1 support * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs) * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61) * The True Audio Lossless codec support * Matroska WavPack support * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF) * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles Video output: * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...) * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :) * Improved libcaca support Interfaces: * All * New hotkeys for crop and zoom * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface * Windows * Systray support in skins * OS X * Support for Apple Remote control * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen) * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen) * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode * Linux * Notifications using notification-daemon Windows port: * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above) Windows 9x/ME users: - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location: http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder C:\Windows\System * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output) Localization: * Add Czech * Add Slovak * Add Malay * Add Slovenian Developers: * Updates to the libvlc API * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5: ---------------------------------- Core support: * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...) * Support for downloading updates * Updated strings Input: * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal) * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input * Improvements to the Audio CD input - Separate playlist entries for the tracks - Support for CDDB * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules * Improved subtitles encoding support * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web Decoders: * Cook (Real audio) support Playlist / Services discovery: * XSPF playlist support * Podcast support * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing Audio output: * New JACK audio output Video output: * New video filters: - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds. * Improvements to the subtitles rendering Stream output: * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams Interfaces: * System to inform the user and request information - HTTP authentication - Fatal errors - ... * wxWidgets - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...) - Drag & Drop support in the playlist * Skins2 - New default skin - Support for Winamp 2 skins - Improved playlist handling - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ... * OS X - Embedded Video output - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...) - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled) * HTTP - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard) - A bunch of new RPN functions Windows Port: * MSN messenger "Now playing" support OS X Port: * Mac-Intel compatibility * Enhanced support of various audio output devices * Growl "Now playing" support *Nix port: * Ability to log to syslog * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root Developers: * New libvlc API (not finished yet) * Java bindings * A bit more automatic testing Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a: --------------------------------- Audio output: * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu. Decoder: * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263 Demux: * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks Services Discovery: * HAL fixes, should now work with new API * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows * UPnP fixes * Avahi 0.6 support Interfaces: * Mac OS X - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4: -------------------------------- Core support: * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based * New OSD system Video output: * Fixed problems with OpenGL output * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format Input: * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support * GnomeVFS input module * Support for RTP packet reordering * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs Decoders: * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types * Musepack decoder using libmpdec * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later) Services discovery: * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment) * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only) Video filters: * RSS feed overlay Audio filters: * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel Mixer and Dolby Surround Stream output: * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments Interfaces: - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info) * Mac OS X - New streaming and transcoding wizard - New extended controls panel - New bookmarks window - Fixed playlist sorting - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist * wxWidgets - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets. - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-* - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support * Skins2 - Tree playlist * HTTP - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto) - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in the names of files - Include macro to include other files - CGI 1.0 support ActiveX plugin: * Should now work outside IE as well Mac OS X port: * New script to delete the preferences automatically Windows port: * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output Translations: The following languages were added: * Galician * Korean * Romanian * Simplified Chinese The following languages were re-added: * Swedish Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2: -------------------------------- Core support: * Rewrite of the playlist - Tree structure - Input preparsing (for meta-data) - Grouping (by artist, ...) support * Preferences improvements: - New organization, designed to improve usability - New configuration types (list of modules, ...) * XML parsers * Core image manipulation support * Client-side SSL/TLS support * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD) * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are now separated by ':' instead of ',' * Access filter architecture * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language) * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments * Many bugfixes... Input/Demuxers: * Support for SOCKS proxy * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server * Better support for Kasenna streams * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support * Massive Matroska improvements * Support for XA and VOC audio files * TiVo demuxer * Samba (Windows shares) access module * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items) * Fixes to Linux DVB support * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug * Support for FTP over IPv6 Decoders / Encoders: * Dirac decoder and encoder * PNG decoder/encoder * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec Access filters: * New Record and Timeshift filters Services discovery: * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist * Brand new SAP module * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default ) * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery * DAAP (iTunes shares) support * Shoutcast Audio output: * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM Video output: * Video snapshot support (png or jpg) * Image file video output (png) * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions) * Improvements to wall video filter * Support for font color and opacity Stream output: * Muxers - ASF improvements * VLM / VoD - Ability to load a configuration file on startup - Seeking support in VoD streams * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system) Interfaces: * wxWidgets - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ... - Improved preferences - Improvements to the wizard - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons * MacOS X - Redesigned playlist - Improved preferences * Skins - Support for multiple actions - Fixes * HTTP - Support for the new playlist system * Lirc - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc Windows port: * Screensaver disabling fix * DirectShow tuner configuration * Support for no-decoration windows MacOS X port: * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes * The OpenGL video output is back * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations. - Supports multichannel discrete analog output - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it is not yet available in the new module - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information. BeOS port: * Support for single-buffered overlay Pocket PC port: * Many fixes * New interface * New video output Mozilla Plugin: * Javascript fixes * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed) IE Plugin: * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin Translations: The following languages were added: * Catalan * Danish * Turkish Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1: ----------------------------------------------------- Core support: * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available) * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface) Windows port: * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0) * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen WinCE port: * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output). Audio Output: * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements Video Output: * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available Demuxers: * Fixed crash with ODML avi files * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming Stream Output: * Encoders: * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module * Stream output: * Support of playlist group announcement Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0: ----------------------------------------------------- Core support: * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...) * New plugins cache to speed up launch time * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background) * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem Input: * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X (Stream your desktop) * Improved DVD support: - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming) * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it ) * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access (selection of titles/chapters). Demuxers: * Support for iTunes Music Store previews * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams) * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support * Windows Media Server RTSP support * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets) * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G) * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface) * Improved Ogg demuxer * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video. * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams Codecs: * G.726 audio support * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support * MPEG-4 text support * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743) * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska Stream Output: Encoders: * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on, everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output) * Frame rate selection in the transcoder * DVB subtitles encoder * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame * Improved vorbis/theora encoding Muxers: * Text track muxing for mp4 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G) * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS. * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio) * Improved ASF muxer Misc: * H.263 RTP streaming support * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental) Audio Output: * New audio equalizer filter * Very trivial volume normalizer * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19 Video Output: * Roku HD1000 Video output * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X) with support for effects. * Improved filter and subpictures support : - New filters can be streamed. - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video - Centralized scaling and blending * New filters : - "time", to display current time - "marq", to display a marquee Interfaces: * OSD sliders for volume and postition information * OSD icons for Play and Pause * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows) * A few skins2 improvements * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets * Improved CORBA control module Mac OS X port: * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video Linux port: * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible) * Experimental SVG rendering module * Support for DVB CAM modules. Windows port: * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3) * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode) WinCE port: * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output). Mozilla plugin: * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc. Misc: * Server/client network synchronization module * VBrick streams fully supported * Cisco IP/TV streams supported * VLM enhancements Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2: -------------------------------- Core support: * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias. * Support for video output embedded in interfaces. * Improved HTTP daemon. * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options. Codecs: * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec. (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html) * New H.261 video decoder using openmash. * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer. * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding). * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding). Input: * --start-time and --stop-time to start and stop playing a file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 ) * Improved directory access module. * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies. * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...). * New options to pass meta info to the input. * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television) Demux: * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support. * mmsh streaming fixes. * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files. Subtitles: * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support. * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path. * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys. Stream output: * Improved session announcement system. * Minimize threads usage by default. * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output. * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer. * Improved MPEG TS muxer. * Improved transrater. * Meta info options used by the muxers. * New configuration system. * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding. VideoLAN manager: * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC. * Supports live streams and VoD. * Supports scheduling. * Telnet interface for vlm. * HTTP interface for vlm. Interfaces: * Skins II (Windows and Linux only) - Ability to embed video output. - Support for bitmap fonts. - Lots of improvements. * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface) - New design and set of icons. - Ability to embed video output. - Support for hotkeys. - Support for bookmarks. * Mac OS X - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties. - Better hotkeys handling. Mac OS X port: * OpenGL video output is now the default when available. * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a). * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device. * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested). Win32 port: * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices. * Disable monitor power down when watching movies. * Improved Windows installer. Linux port: * PowerPC fixes. Misc: * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin. * Roku HD1000 audio output. Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a: --------------------------------- Mac OS X: * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug * Playing MOD files is working now. Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1: --------------------------------- Core support: * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times. * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux. Codecs: * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html) * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles Playlist: * Internal improvments * Improved import/export Input: * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm) container formars. * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many small and strange formats. * New PVA demux. * New MOD audio demux. * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files. * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD. * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav). * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer. Stream output: * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...). * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer. * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...). Service discovery: * Fixed sdp in SAP. Mac OS X port: * New opengl video output plugin. Win32 port: * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin. * Fixed ipv6 name resolution. Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0: --------------------------------- Core support: * Brand new decoder/packetizer api. Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins. * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available). * Video outputs are recycled if possible. This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files. * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters. * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for subtitle files at the core, and much much more. Playlist: * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over. * Playlist sorting Input: * RTP/RTSP support. * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages). * Support for Flac in Ogg files. * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams. * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer. * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only) * Reworked DVB tuning. * Better Icecast support. * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer. * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer. Codecs: * Support for Theora video encoding. * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding. * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support. * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs). * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering. * MPEG 2.5 audio support. * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio). Stream output: * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer. * New transrating module for MPEG2 video. * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams. * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams. * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding. * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support. * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio. * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input. * Preliminary RTP support. * Fixes to SAP announces. Interface: * Skins: - Bugfixes - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option). * New standardized and customizable hotkeys. * wxWindows - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons). - Improvements and help in preferences - New streaming wizard - Revised Disc Open menu * HTTP - Improvements of the standard pages - Support for new commands * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ). Service discovery: * Many fixes to the SAP module * SAP now supports HTTP streams Subtitles: * Text subtitles now have a black outline. * Text subtitles autodetection. * Text subtitles charset autodetection. * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary. * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially. * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles. * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support. * Support for subtitles in Matroska files. * Support for subtitles in DVB streams. Mac OS X port: * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com * Save playlist. * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem. * Support for Panther. * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk. * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental). Win32 port: * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...). * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service. * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface. * Support for 3F2R in audio output. * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC. * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental). * Multimonitor support (untested). * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems. Linux port: * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input. * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges. * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface. iPaq port: * Brand new Gtk 2 interface Miscellaneous: * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random). * Audio visual effects filter using goom. * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations. * libcaca video output (colored ascii) Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2: --------------------------------- Core support: * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable. Stream output: * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better. * Improved MPEG TS muxer. Access input: * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels. * Few fixes to the VCD navigation. Interfaces: * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface. UNIX ports: * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested. * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity. Win32 port: * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines. iPaq port: * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated). Miscellaneous: * Text subtitles now centered on the picture. * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play mpeg1/2 videos. Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1: --------------------------------- Core support: * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs. * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock after a pause. Stream output: * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming. * Added vorbis audio transcoding support. * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame). UNIX ports: * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested. * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity. Win32 port: * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines. iPaq port: * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated). Miscellaneous: * Text subtitles now centered on the picture. * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play mpeg1/2 videos. Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1: --------------------------------- Core support: * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs. * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock after a pause. Stream output: * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming. * Added vorbis audio transcoding support. * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame). * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers. * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now. Win32 port: * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards. * Fixed sound on Windows NT. UNIX ports: * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output. * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus. iPaq port: * Gtk+2 interface called PDA * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode) * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law). Interfaces: * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface. * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages. * A new CORBA control plugin. Input demux: * Improved support for the Matroska container format. Miscellaneous: * Improved build system. * New video filter plugin to overlay logos. * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files. * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size. Should also work with languages like russion for instance. Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0: --------------------------------- Core Support: * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated) Input access: * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams. * Fixed large file support on Windows * Video 4 Linux support * CD Digital Audio support * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX. Input demux: * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files * Support for OpenDML avi files * More complete .mp4/.mov support * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;) Codecs: * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content. * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg) * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX) Interfaces: * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe * New HTTP remote control interface Stream output: * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time. * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly. * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content. * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6) Miscellaneous: * New reset option for the preferences * You can set your language in the prefences * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own * SAP/SDP IPv6 support UNIX ports: * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension. * New skinable interface ported to X11. * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer Mac OS X port: * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically. * New about panel and revamped preferences panel. * Fixed the deinterlace menu. * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out. * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities. * New icons by Davor Orel. * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster. * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug) * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD Win32 port: * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs). * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files) * Fixed SVCD chapters support. * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio. BeOS port: * Interface localization * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen * A few new keyboard shortcuts * New full-featured Preferences window Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3: --------------------------------- Core Support: * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines * support for skins at the interface level * new OSD module using Freetype2 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the input level before dropping out of date frames. * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface Input access: * fixed HTTP redirects * support for opening an entire directory * EOF should be detected more reliably * new video4linux access plug-in * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver Input demux: * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders * fix for some ogg web radio streams * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP Codecs: * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions) * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 ) * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete) * better SSA4 subtitles recognition * new codec for raw I420 video * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder Interfaces: * improvements to wxWindows based interface (although it still misses some important features) * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in Stream output: * new HTTP output support * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer * fixed AV synchronization issues Miscellaneous: * support for oldstyle id3 genres UNIX ports: * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines Mac OS X port: * reorderable playlist * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers * support for mono audio output devices * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC * fixed several cosmetic issues * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be) * the messages window remembers more lines * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files * http and ogg stream output options * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well Win32 port: * new skinnable interface * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events. iPAQ familiar Linux port: * support for FLAC audio format * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation * playlist * network tab in the interface * "apply" handling in preferences Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2: --------------------------------- Core support: * advanced config options are now hidden by default * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily Mac OS X * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work * DTS S/PDIF support Codecs: * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library * support for FLAC audio through libflac * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks) Stream output: * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS * new --ttl option for Time To Live DVD support: * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support UNIX ports: * fixed the GNU-pth support Win32 port: * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout plugins * localization support via gettext is now fully working * rc interface is now fully useable * fixed the MSVC project files generation Mac OS X port: * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work) * VLC now uses the default audio device * new info panel * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript * support for mouse gestures * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines Linupy port: * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it Miscellaneous: * improved ID3 tag detection * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful gestures * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a: --------------------------------- Mac OS X port: * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when English was set as the preferred language Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1: -------------------------------- Core support: * new mouse gesture interface * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is playing Input access: * various minor fixes on the network inputs * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry_AT_coin.mpg) * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing Input demux: * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their continuity counter Codecs: * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams DVD support: * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only without the user consent UNIX ports: * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the popup menu * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver) * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1 * ALSA: fixed mono files output Mac OS X port: * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs * playlist enhancements * added half, normal and double video window menu items * new step forward/step backward commands * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support * vlc.app is now VLC.app Win32 port: * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font BeOS port: * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window) Opie port: * native video output is working again * only commandline interface support * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0: -------------------------------- Core structure: * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing S/PDIF and multi-channel support * localization support via gettext on most architectures * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast, multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4 and A/52 streams are supported) * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint Input access: * mms:// support * ftp:// support * stability fixes in the HTTP access * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation * VCD entry points support * VCD image file support Input demux: * support for *.asf format * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format * support for ogg encapsulation * support for raw DV format * support for *.wav format * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file * raw AAC support Stream discovery & playlists: * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols * support for .m3u file format * support for .asx file format * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp Codecs: * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats (only available with the .avi demux) * support for ADPCM audio codec * support for raw PCM data * support for Cinepak video codec * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2 * support for Xvid codec * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources) * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling from sources) * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263, H263i, MJPEG A/B * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec DVD support: * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay Miscellaneous: * new WxWindows interface * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio device and the channels configuration * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any format that VLC can play * new swedish translation * enhancements of the playlist window * new messages window to see debug info * fixed a few crashes iPaq port: * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working