Professional Documents
Culture Documents
5:
-------------------------------Access:
* Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
Audio Output:
* Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
(however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
* Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
Demuxers:
* Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
* Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
* Fix koreus lua parser
* Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
* Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
* Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
* Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
Video filters:
* Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
* Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
Encoders:
* Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
Mac OS
* Fix
* Fix
* Fix
X:
Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
crash with local statistics disabled
Time counter UI look
Win32:
* Fix https streaming
libVLC:
* Fix audio and video track selection:
The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
Translations:
* Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
* Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
-------------------------------Audio Output:
* Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
* Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
* Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
* Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
during playback on Mac OS X
Access:
* Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
Mac OS X:
* Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
* Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
* Fix menus display and behavior
* Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
* Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
* Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
* Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
* Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
Miscellaneous:
* Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
* Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
* Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
* Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
* Codec and other 3rd party library updates
* Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
* Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
* Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
* Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
Translations:
* Updates of Norwegian Bokml, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
* Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
--------------------------------
Access:
* Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
Demuxers:
* Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
* Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
Mac OS X:
* Add GateKeeper support
* Fix handling for some hotkeys
* Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
* Minor bugfixes and improvements
Qt:
* Fix Windows 8 interface style
Translations:
* Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
Thai, Turkish and Walloon
* New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
* Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
-------------------------------Video Output:
* XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
There were too many errors with broken drivers.
* More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
* Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
* Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
* Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
* Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
* Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
* Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
Retina Displays.
Access:
* Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
* Fixes for RAR compressed files
* Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
* Improve PulseAudio input latency
* Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
* v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
* Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
* IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
* Accept more extensions for DVD images
* Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
* Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
* Improvements and fixes in HLS support
Codec:
* Fix
* Fix
* Fix
* Fix
Demuxers:
* Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
* Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
* Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
* Fix for DVB channels file support
* Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
Encoders:
* Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
* Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
Audio filters and output:
* Limitation of spatializer volume output
* Fix DirectSound device selection
* Correct PulseAudio volume control
* Do not apply volume in file output
* Fix sampling rate in JACK output
* Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
Mac OS X:
* Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
the persistant media library
* Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
to the media library or the temporary playlist
* Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
* Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
press on the Play/Pause button
* Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
* Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
* Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
* Many Fullscreen fixes
* Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
* Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
Synchronization panel
* Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
* Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
* Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
* Fix crashes on exit
* Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
VLC is running
* Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
* Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
automatically reset on the first launch.
- This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
* Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
* Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
Lua Scripts:
* Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
* Fixes for icecast SD
Qt:
* Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
* Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
* Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
ALSA.
autodetection.
MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
volume on Mac OS X
Video filters:
* Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
Mac OS X interface:
* allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
* allow to hide the sidebar
* disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
- this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
* noticebly faster launch time
* correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
* re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
* improve track synchronization panel
* fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
* fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
Qt interface:
* allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
* fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
* fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
Skins interface:
* fix for menus display
* Addition of $R to display current playback speed
* documentation update
Web interface:
* fix mobiles display for remote control mode
* support for .drc and .3ga extensions
Service discovery:
* fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
* fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
* Update Jamendo selections
Miscellaneous:
* fix DBus crash
* fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
* fix a crash on VLM close
Security:
* Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
* Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
* Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
* Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
Translations:
* Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
--------------------------------Important notes:
* The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
* Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
* The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
- --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
- --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
- --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
- --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
* HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
- The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
- The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
- The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
--http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
--http-crl (optional CRL).
* RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
* The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
* The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
* The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
Important changes for packagers:
* The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
* The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
* The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
* OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
* The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
Core:
* Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
* Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
* Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
* Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
* Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
Access:
* Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
* Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
* DVB-S scanning support on Unix
* DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
* Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
* Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
* Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
* HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
* Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
* Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
* PulseAudio audio input support
* Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
* Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
* Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
* Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
* Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
* MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
* Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
Codecs:
* One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
are notably concerned.
* Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
* Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
* New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
* Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
* Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
* New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
* Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
* Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
* Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
* Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
* EIA-608 closed captions improvements
* Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
* Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
* One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
Demuxers:
* New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
* C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
* Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
* Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
* New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
* Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
* Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
* Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
* Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
* Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
* Improved support of tracker files
* Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
Interfaces:
* Qt: effects dialogs rework
* Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
* Qt: port to MacOS X platform
* Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
* Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
* Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
and important cleanups and optimisations
* Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
* Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
* Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
* Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
* Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
* Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
* Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
* Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
* The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
* lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
-I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
* ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
* dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
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dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
Qt: preferences are now searchable
Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
Video Output:
* New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Upd
ate)
* New video output for iOS platform
* Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
* Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
* Various vmem improvements
* OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
* New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
* Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
* Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machin
e
* New video output based on kva API for OS/2
Audio Output and Filters:
* New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
* New audio output in memory (amem)
* Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
* New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
* New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
* New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
* New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
* New simplistic Karaoke filter
* New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
* Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
Video Filter:
* New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
* Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
* New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
* Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
* New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
* New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
* New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
* New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
* New anti-flickering filter
* New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
* New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
* Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
blackbox and customizable shadow.
NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
The Win32 font selection was improved too.
Stream output:
* New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
Extensions:
* Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
Qt
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Interface:
Fix quitting on Linux
Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
Miscellaneous
Win32 port:
* Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
Translations:
* Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
--------------------------------Windows and Mac OS X:
* Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
Mac OS X Interface:
* Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
* Fix for various crashes and small issues
Demuxer:
* Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
Audio output:
* PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
Win32 port:
* Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
Miscellaneous fixes in:
* Windows 7 taskbar buttons
* Qt interface
* asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
* RTP output and XML export
* Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
* v4l2 access
Translations:
* Update of Norwegian Bokml, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
* Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
-------------------------------Windows and Mac OS X:
* Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
Demuxers:
* mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
Mac OS X Interface:
* Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
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Mac OS X Port:
* Fix Growl local notification plugin
* VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
* Fixes for eyeTV
Translations:
* Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
* New Luganda Translation
Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
-------------------------------Mac OS X Interface:
* New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
Interfaces:
* Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
* Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
* Qt and Mac OS X fixes
* numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
Encoder:
* new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
* Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
* vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
* mp4 demuxer improvements
* ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
* taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
* vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
* fix a crash in malformed ape files
Miscellaneous fixes in:
* Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
* Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
* Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
* Configure and build system improvements
* DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
Translations:
* Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
* New icelandic translation
Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
-------------------------------Linux port:
* Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
#234484 and #260719.
Mac OS X port:
* Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
* Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
and stability reasons
Demuxers:
* Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
VideoLAN-SA-1102
Translations:
* Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
---------------------------------Source:
* Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
--------------------------------Audio output:
* Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
Access:
* Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
Decoders:
* Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working
)
* Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
* Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
* Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
Demuxers:
* Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
* Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
* Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
Subtitles and renderer:
* Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
* Mark more freetype options as safe
* Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
* Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
Visualization:
* Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
* Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
* Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
* Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
Interfaces:
* Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
* Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
Miscellaneous fixes:
* KDE device solid actions
* XDG screensaver
* Transcode integer overflow
* HTTP Icy metadata reading
* Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
Translations:
* Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
---------------------------------Security:
* Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
VideoLAN-SA-1006
Access:
* Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
Services Discovery:
* Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
Demuxers:
* Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
* DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
* Playback of live http .Webm streams
* Taglib thread-safety fix
Decoders:
* Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
"Puget Systems"
Skins:
* Add an icon to VLC on Linux
Video Output:
* fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
Interfaces:
* fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuratio
n
* 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, Dutc
h,
Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
French and Ukrainian
* Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
* New Asturian translation
Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
---------------------------------Mac OS X:
* Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
by 16
* Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
Demuxer:
* Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
Qt interface:
* Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
* Various fixes for Windows
Translations:
* New Armenian translation
* Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
-------------------------------Win32:
* Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
See VideoLAN-SA-1005
* Fix folders opening from the interface
Translations:
* Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
-------------------------------Access and demuxers:
* fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
* fix for podcasts parsing
* DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
Taglib:
* fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
Playlist:
* fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
* fix m3u playlists exports
Skins2:
* fix video autoresize behaviour
Translations:
* Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
Windows and Mac:
* Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
Mac:
* architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
BSD:
* Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
-------------------------------Demuxers:
* Avformat fps displaying fix
* TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
Audio filters:
* fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
of mono streams, especially on Windows
Windows:
* fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
* fix console output encoding
Interface and extensions:
* Youtube and other scripts updates
* Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
-------------------------------libVLC:
* New capabilities for libVLC:
* Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
* libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
* libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
* libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
* libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
* Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
called early
Decoders/Demuxers:
* Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
* Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
Demuxers:
* Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
* Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NO
T present yet)
* Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
* Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
* Various EGP improvements
* Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
* Metadata and cover art improvements
Playlist:
* WPL and ZPL playlist support
* Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
* New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
* Podcast images are now displayed
Video Output:
* Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
* Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
* New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
* New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
* New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
* Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
Extensions:
* New content extensions lua framework
Audio filters:
* Chorus/Flanger audio filter
* 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
* Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
Bindings:
* new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
* phonon-VLC backend is now usable
Removed modules:
* csri codec: use the libass module instead.
* galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
* showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
* transrate: broken since too long
* Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
* HAL: Use libudev instead.
* gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
* WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
* opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
* linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
* XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
* MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
* opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
* cddax: use cdda instead.
* cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
* realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
* access_file removed in favor of filesystem
* RTMP input and output: use avio module
Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
-------------------------------Access:
* Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
Decoders/Packetizers:
* Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
Demuxers:
* Update LUA script for Youtube pages
* Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
* Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
* Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
* Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
X11 port:
* Partial Xlib threading fixes
More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
Interfaces:
* Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
* Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
Translations:
* Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
and Walloon translations updated
* Sinhala translation started
Removed modules:
* RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
-------------------------------Decoders:
* SubRip extra styles improvements
* Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
Mac OS X Interface:
* Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
Windows port:
* Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
increase performance and fix x264 issues
Translations:
* Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
Russian, Slovak translation updates
* New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
-------------------------------Audio outputs:
* Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
* Make PulseAudio the default output if available
Video outputs:
* Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
* Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
Input:
* Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
* Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
Playlist:
* Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
Unix:
* Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
* Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
Qt4 interface:
* Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
* Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
Translations:
* New Walloon translation
* Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
-------------------------------Video outputs:
* Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
regressions in most popular drivers
* New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
Decoders:
Interface:
a crash when updating VLC
a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
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:
Windows port:
* The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
Lithuanian
Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
--------------------------------Important notes:
---------------* Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
See 'Access:' for more info.
* Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
Playback:
* Instantaneous pausing
* Frame-by-Frame playback
* Finer speed control
* On-the-fly recording for all medias
* Timeshift for most medias
* RTSP trickplay support
* Subtitles core improvements and fixes
Decoders:
* New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
* New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
* New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
* New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
* New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
* Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
* New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
* Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
* Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
* Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
Demuxers:
* Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
* Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
* Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
* Metadata for mod files are supported
* GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
* New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
* New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
Encoders:
* Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
* Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
Access:
* RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
* On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
* Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
* DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
* New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
* DVB scanning on linux
* EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
* On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
*
*
*
*
Inputs:
* Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
* Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
Windows and Mac OS X.
Playlist:
* Export the playlist in HTML
* Lua script for BBC radio playback
* Better metadata handling and reading
Linux/Windows interface:
* Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
* Various fixes for skins2 interface
* Recently played items list
* Interface toolbar customizations
* Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
- More menus actions
- Finer speed slider
- Improvements on many dialogs
- New dialog for plugins listing
- Fixed-size mode for videos
- Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
* Better integration in GTK environments
Mac OS X Interface:
* Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
* Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
* Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
* Additional usability improvements
Stream output:
* Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
* Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
* bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
* Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
* Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
Maemo Port:
* New Maemo port with:
- an interface based on Hildon framework.
- scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
Windows CE Port:
EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
Mac OS X Port:
* EXPERIMENTAL 64bit
* Speed improvements
* New document icons
* Support for latest
support
by using llvm-gcc
by Dominic Spitaler
iSight models
Audio output:
* Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
Demuxers:
* Various fixes related to real demuxer
Mac OS X Interface:
* Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
- Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
main controller window.
* Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
Mac OS X Port:
* Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
New Localizations:
* Indonesian
* Bengali
* Updates of other localizations
Various bugfixes:
* Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
* Lots of small bugfixes.
* Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
* Telnet fixes on Windows
* Resampling fixes when transcoding
Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
--------------------------------Security update:
* Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
Bunch of small bugfixes.
Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
-------------------------------New Localizations:
* Ukrainian
Security updates:
* Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
* Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
-------------------------------Security updates:
* Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
* Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
Features:
* Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
Various bugfixes:
* Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
* Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
Windows port:
Interface:
Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
Various fixed in playlist
Access:
* MMAP module is now deactivated by default
Translations:
* Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
-----------------------------------Various bugfixes:
* Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
* Fixes several memory leaks.
Mac OS X
* Apple
arlier )
* Fixed
* Fixed
port:
machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or e
a crash with deletion of old preferences.
targetname for downloaded updates
Windows port:
* Stability fix for the video output.
Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
-------------------------------Various bugfixes:
* Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
* Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
* Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
* Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
* Fixed update system bugs
* Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...
+)
Mac OS X port:
* Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
* Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
* Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
* Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
* Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
* Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
* Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
* Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
* Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
modern Mac OS X versions
Windows port:
* Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
* Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
before installation
* Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
* Ncurses:
* Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
if libncursesw is available.
* Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
* Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
* Unix
* Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
* D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
(Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
* Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
* Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
* Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
Linux Port:
* VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
(which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
Mac OS X Port:
* Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
* New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
* Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
* It is now required to compile a fully featured build
* The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
LibVLC:
* Event management and various improvements in libvlc
(Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
New Localizations:
* Finnish
* Persian
* Polish
* Punjabi
* Bulgarian
Developers:
* LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
* Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
---------------------------------Security updates:
* Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
Various bugfixes:
* Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
* Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
* Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
(transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
SAP services discovery, http control interface)
* Updated Polish translation
Active X plugin:
* Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
Mac OS X Interface & Port:
* Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
* Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
* Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
* Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
two different movies
* Support for current Ogg file formats
NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
Encoders:
* Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
Other changes:
* The automatic updating facility was removed
* You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
* RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
---------------------------------Various bugfixes, notably:
* Windows Vista compatibility
* Cropping in Direct3D
* Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
* RSS filter string overflow
* Few memory leaks
* MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
* Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
Demuxers:
* Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
* Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
Decoders:
* Updated FLAC API compatibility
Input:
* Support for new v4l2 encoder API
Localisation:
* New localisation: Arabic, Persian
Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
---------------------------------Various bugfixes, notably:
* Out-of-bound read in demuxers
* Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
* Mac OS X Interface crashes
* VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
* 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
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
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-langu
age)
* 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
* 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:
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
Codecs:
* G.726 audio support
* 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
* MPEG-4 text support
* Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
* Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
* VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
Stream Output:
Encoders:
* Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
* Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
* Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
* Frame rate selection in the transcoder
* DVB subtitles encoder
* MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
* Improved vorbis/theora encoding
Muxers:
* Text track muxing for mp4
* Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
* 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
* Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
* Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
* New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
* Improved ASF muxer
Misc:
* H.263 RTP streaming support
* SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
* Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
Audio Output:
* New audio equalizer filter
* Very trivial volume normalizer
* True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
* More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
* New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
Video Output:
* Roku HD1000 Video output
* Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
with support for effects.
* Improved filter and subpictures support :
- New filters can be streamed.
- "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
- Centralized scaling and blending
* New filters :
- "time", to display current time
- "marq", to display a marquee
Interfaces:
* OSD sliders for volume and postition information
* OSD icons for Play and Pause
* New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
* A few skins2 improvements
* Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
* Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
* The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
* Improved CORBA control module
Mac OS X port:
* Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
* Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
* The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
Linux port:
* New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
* Experimental SVG rendering module
* Support for DVB CAM modules.
Windows port:
* DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
* DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
* Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
* Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
* Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
WinCE port:
* Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
Mozilla plugin:
* Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
* Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
Misc:
* Server/client network synchronization module
* VBrick streams fully supported
* Cisco IP/TV streams supported
* VLM enhancements
Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
-------------------------------Core support:
* Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
* Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
* Improved HTTP daemon.
* Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
Codecs:
* New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
(http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
* New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
* H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
* Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
(allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
* Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
Input:
* --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
* Improved directory access module.
* New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
* Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
* New options to pass meta info to the input.
* It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
(satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
Demux:
* Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
* mmsh streaming fixes.
* Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
Subtitles:
* Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
* Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
* Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
Stream output:
* Improved session announcement system.
* Minimize threads usage by default.
* Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
* Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
* Improved MPEG TS muxer.
* Improved transrater.
* Meta info options used by the muxers.
* New configuration system.
* Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
VideoLAN manager:
* New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
* Supports live streams and VoD.
* Supports scheduling.
* Telnet interface for vlm.
* HTTP interface for vlm.
Interfaces:
* Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
- Ability to embed video output.
- Support for bitmap fonts.
- Lots of improvements.
* wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
- New design and set of icons.
- Ability to embed video output.
- Support for hotkeys.
- Support for bookmarks.
* Mac OS X
- Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
- Better hotkeys handling.
Mac OS X port:
* OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
* Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
* Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
* Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
Win32 port:
* DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
* Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
* Improved Windows installer.
Linux port:
* PowerPC fixes.
Misc:
* Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
* Roku HD1000 audio output.
Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
--------------------------------Mac OS X:
* Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
* Playing MOD files is working now.
Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
-------------------------------Core support:
* Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
* IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
Codecs:
* Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
(http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
* Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
* SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
Playlist:
* Internal improvments
* Improved import/export
Input:
* Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
container formars.
* New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
small and strange formats.
* New PVA demux.
* New MOD audio demux.
* Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
* Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
* New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
* Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
Stream output:
* MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
* Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
* Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
Service discovery:
* Fixed sdp in SAP.
Mac OS X port:
* New opengl video output plugin.
Win32 port:
* A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
* Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
-------------------------------Core support:
* Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
* New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
* Video outputs are recycled if possible.
This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
* Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
* New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
Playlist:
* Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
* Playlist sorting
Input:
* RTP/RTSP support.
* Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
* Support for Flac in Ogg files.
* MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
* Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
* cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
* Reworked DVB tuning.
* Better Icecast support.
* New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
* New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
Codecs:
* Support for Theora video encoding.
* Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
* Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
* Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
* Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
* MPEG 2.5 audio support.
* Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
Stream output:
* Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
* New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
* Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
* Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
* Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
* Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
* MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
* --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
* Preliminary RTP support.
* Fixes to SAP announces.
Interface:
* Skins:
- Bugfixes
- misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
-------------------------------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.
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:
Stream output:
* support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
* new --ttl option for Time To Live
DVD support:
* fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
UNIX ports:
* fixed the GNU-pth support
Win32 port:
* multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
plugins
* localization support via gettext is now fully working
* rc interface is now fully useable
* fixed the MSVC project files generation
Mac OS X port:
* several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
* VLC now uses the default audio device
* new info panel
* very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
* support for mouse gestures
* new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
Linupy port:
* there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
Miscellaneous:
* improved ID3 tag detection
* changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
* mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
gestures
* some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
--------------------------------Mac OS X port:
* fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
English was set as the preferred language
Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
-------------------------------Core support:
* new mouse gesture interface
* audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
playing
Input access:
* various minor fixes on the network inputs
* fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
* VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
Input demux:
* fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
* new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
continuity counter
Codecs:
* support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
DVD support:
* fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
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