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Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:----------------------------------------------------------

Various bugfixes:* Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows* Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA

* Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrencesin input* Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing* Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code

Windows and Mac OS Binaries* FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows

Active X plugin:* Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703)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 betweenFullscreen and Windowed Video Output* Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of twodifferent movies* Support for current Ogg file formatsNOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher. Mac OS X 10.3.9 is notsupported 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 enableEXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.

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)

Demuxers:* Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI

Decoders:* Updated FLAC API compatibility


2/24

Input:* Support for new v4l2 encoder API

Localisation:* New localisation: Arabic, Persian

Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:----------------------------------

Various bugfixes, notably:* Out-of-bound read in demuxers* Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)* Mac OS X Interface crashes* VP31 decoding on Windows platforms* Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility* Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers

Decoders:* Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60

* Teletext subtitles (telx) support

Webbrowser plugins:* Rectified behaviour and improved usability

Mac OS X Interface & Port:* Diverse usability improvements* New wizard option to embed subtitles* Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused* Improved Delete-Preferences-Script

Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:

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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


3/24


4/24

* 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


5/24

- 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 supportInterfaces:* Mac OS X

- fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard

Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:

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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


6/24

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 ChannelMixer 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 fragmentsInterfaces:- 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:


7/24

* Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming* Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output

Translations:The following languages were added:* Galician* Korean* Romanian

* Simplified ChineseThe following languages were re-added:* Swedish


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 arenow 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


8/24

* 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 inthe "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


9/24

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 invarious configurations.

- Supports multichannel discrete analog output- Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because itis 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


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


10/24

Stream Output:* Encoders:* Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module

* Stream output:* Support of playlist group announcement


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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


11/24

* Improved vorbis/theora encodingMuxers:* 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 muxerMisc:* 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


12/24

* 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


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 afile at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a fewfileformats (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.


13/24

* 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 launchand 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.


Mac OS X:* Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug* Playing MOD files is working now.



14/24

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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 manysmall 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.


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 forsubtitle files at the core, and much much more.

Playlist:


15/24

* 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.


16/24

* 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)


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.


17/24

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 plaympeg1/2 videos.


Core support:* There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.

* VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clockafter 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 plaympeg1/2 videos.


Core support:* There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.* VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clockafter 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.


18/24

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 nowuse 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.


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 mostprominently) 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 itdoesn't work ;)

Codecs:* VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2* Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg


19/24

* 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 stoppingaltogether* 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 outputsallowing 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 yourown* 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


20/24


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 theinput 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


21/24

* 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 primarilyMac 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 Waveoutplugins

* 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 withM-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driverbug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, GriffiniMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)


22/24

* 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 isnot a PS stream, continuing" is one of these

* mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any usefulgestures

* some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast


Mac OS X port:* fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language whenEnglish was set as the preferred language


Core support:* new mouse gesture interface* audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file isplaying

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 theircontinuity 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 onlywithout the user consent

UNIX ports:* GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from thepopup menu

* X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)* KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1* ALSA: fixed mono files output


23/24

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


Core structure:* object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc* new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providingS/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 4and 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


24/24

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 compilingfrom 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 audiodevice and the channels configuration

* headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect* Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of anyformat that VLC can play

* new swedish translation

* enhancements of the playlist window* new messages window to see debug info* fixed a few crashes

iPaq port:* slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface* fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface* added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support* native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working

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