April 11th, 2013Mac OS X:
· Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
· Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
· Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console) in the advanced preferences panel
· Fix spatializer audio filter panel
· Fix crash within the video output code
· Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
· Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
· Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller, lua extensions, ...)
· Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
Access:
· Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
Audio Output:
· Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
Demuxers:
· Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
· Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
· Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
· Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
· Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
· Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
Decoders:
· Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
· Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
· Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
· 3rd party codecs updates
Translations:
· Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian, Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German Slovenian Norwegian BokmÃ¥l, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian, Dutch, Danish, translations
· New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
December 15th, 2012HIGHLIGHTS:
· Improved reliability for MKV file playback
· Fixed MPEG2 audio and video encoding
· Resolved potential security issues in HTML subtitle parser and AIFF demuxer.
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
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
October 18th, 2012Audio Output:
· Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
· 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
· Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
· Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
Codecs:
· Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
· Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
· Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
· Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
· Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
Demuxers:
· Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
· Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
· Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
· Support Youtube live streams
Qt:
· Fix media info dialog update
· Fix random/repeat preferences saving
· Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
· Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
· Fix album art display at start
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
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
July 19th, 2012Access:
· 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
June 29th, 2012Video:
· Rewritten video output core and modules, allowing subpicture blending in GPU.
· Shader support in the OpenGL output, for colorspace conversion, including 10bits.
· New video outputs for Windows 7, Android, iOS and OS/2.
· New debanding, grain, denoising and anti-flickering filters.
· New deinterlacing filter, including an Inverse Telecine algorithm.
Audio:
· New resamplers for higher quality audio.
· New dynamic range compressor and karaoke filters.
· Simplification of the audio core for faster processing.
· New audio outputs for iOS, Android and OS/2.
Formats:
· Multi-threaded decoding for H.264, MPEG-4/Xvid and WebM.
· Support for 10bits codecs, WMV image and some other codecs.
· Rewritten support for images, including jpeg, png, xcf, bmp...
· Important changes in RealVideo and Real Format support.
· CrystalHD cards and Android OpenMAX support for hardware decoding.
Input and Devices:
· Experimental support for BluRay discs: menus are deactivated in this release (will come soon); AACS and BD+ DRM libraries and keys are not shipped, for legal reasons.
· Support for SDI capture cards and QTKit devices.
· Support for new adaptive streaming protocols, like HLS and DASH.
For Mac Users:
Completely new, single window interface:
· - Available in 2 colors: Lion grey and QTX black.
· - Extensions support and better Lion integration.
· Support for all QTKit devices through qtcapture and qtsound modules.
· Continued support for X 10.5 and PPC users (1080p and ProRes on Dual-G5!).
For Anime Fans:
· Vastly improved MKV demuxer.
· Rewritten linked segments and ordered chapter files support.
· Correct support for FLAC, RV and Hi10p in MKV.
· Rewritten seeking support in cue files.
· Various ASS subtitles improvements.
For professional Users:
· Support for ProRes 422 and 4444, AVC/Intra.
· Support for Jpeg-2000, Dirac and DNxHD/VC-3 in 10bits.
· Support for EBU subtitles (stl) and EIA-608.
· SDI and HD-SDI card support for input on Linux.
· New Dirac/VC-2 encoder, faster than the previous one.
For Developers:
· libVLC, libVLCcore and libcompat have switched from GPL to LGPLv2.1+.
· New libVLC examples are available: media player, photobooth and mediainfo clones.
· New JSON requests on the web interface to control running VLC instances.
· Implementation of the MPRIS2 interface to control media players.
· VLC's web plugins have been rewritten for better integration and stability in all browsers.
Specific changes:
· Rework of the Mac OS X interface
· Fix video output for old graphic cards on Windows XP, which are using DirectX
· Fix video output on old Macs, notably PowerPC and GMA950 intel Macs.
· Support for HiDPI, aka Retina Display
· Support for H264 v4l2 devices on Linux
· Translations updates and new Scottish Gaelic translation
· Fixes for splitted RAR, MKV segmented, mp4 and Real media files playback.
· Rewrite of the Digital TV module on Windows
· Enhancements in HLS, Blu-Ray and various codecs support
· Fixes for subtitles auto-detection
· Fixes on Qt, skins2 and web interfaces
June 29th, 2012Access:
· fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
· fix the samba module compilation
· fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
· multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
· multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
· fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
Codecs:
· Support for MXPEG files
· limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
· fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
Demuxers:
· Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
· Fix a crash when seeking in mka
· Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
Muxers:
· Fix ogm header creation
Audio filters:
· limit spatializer filter distortions
· Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
Audio output:
· Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
· Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
· The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
· Fix delay when changing the 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
February 19th, 2012· With faster decoding on multi-core, GPU, and mobile hardware and the ability to open more formats, notably professional, HD and 10bits codecs, 2.0 is a major upgrade for VLC.
· Twoflower has a new rendering pipeline for video, with higher quality subtitles, and new video filters to enhance your videos.
· It supports many new devices and BluRay Discs (experimental).
· Completely reworked Mac and Web interfaces and improvements in the other interfaces make VLC easier than ever to use.
· Twoflower fixes several hundreds of bugs, in more than 7000 commits from 160 volunteers.
Video:
· Rewritten video output core and modules, allowing subpicture blending in GPU.
· Shader support in the OpenGL output, for colorspace conversion, including 10bits.
· New video outputs for Windows 7, Android, iOS and OS/2.
· New debanding, grain, denoising and anti-flickering filters.
· New deinterlacing filter, including an Inverse Telecine algorithm.
Audio:
· New resamplers for higher quality audio.
· New dynamic range compressor and karaoke filters.
· Simplification of the audio core for faster processing.
· New audio outputs for iOS, Android and OS/2.
Formats:
· Multi-threaded decoding for H.264, MPEG-4/Xvid and WebM.
· Support for 10bits codecs, WMV image and some other codecs.
· Rewritten support for images, including jpeg, png, xcf, bmp...
· Important changes in RealVideo and Real Format support.
· CrystalHD cards and Android OpenMAX support for hardware decoding.
Input and Devices:
· Experimental support for BluRay discs: Menus are deactivated in this release (will come soon), AACS and BD+ DRM libraries and keys are not shipped, for legal reasons.
· Support for SDI capture cards and QTKit devices.
· Support for new adaptive streaming protocols, like HLS and DASH.
For Mac Users:
· Completely new, single window interface: available in 2 colors (Lion grey and QTX black), and extensions support and better Lion integration.
· Support for all QTKit devices through qtcapture and qtsound modules.
· Continued support for X 10.5 and PPC users (1080p and ProRes on Dual-G5!).
For Anime Fans:
· Vastly improved MKV demuxer.
· Rewritten linked segments and ordered chapter files support.
· Correct support for FLAC, RV and Hi10p in MKV.
· Rewritten seeking support in cue files.
· Various ASS subtitles improvements.
For professional Users:
· Support for ProRes 422 and 4444, AVC/Intra.
· Support for Jpeg-2000 and DNxHD/VC-3 in 10bits.
· Support for EBU subtitles (stl) and EIA-608.
· SDI and HD-SDI card support for input on Linux.
· New Dirac/VC-2 encoder, faster than the previous one.
For Developers:
· libVLC, libVLCcore and libcompat have switched from GPL to LGPLv2.1+.
· New libVLC examples are available: media player, photobooth and mediainfo clones.
· New JSON requests on the web interface to control running VLC instances.
· Implementation of the MPRIS2 interface to control media players.
· VLC's web plugins have been rewritten for better integration and stability in all browsers.
December 29th, 2011Important 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. All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
· HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized: - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=2001:db8::1". By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used. - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers. By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS. - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate), --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and --http-crl (optional CRL).
· RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly. Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
· The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
· The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later. Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
Important changes for packagers:
· The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script. Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
· The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
· The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
· OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
· The webplugins has moved to git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
Core:
· Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite: Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside video outputs x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
· Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
· Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
· Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
· Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64
Access:
· Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
· BDA: experimental support for ClearQam devices
· DVB-S scanning support on Unix
· DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
· DShow: support for freq and video standard selection
· Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
· Blu-Ray Discs integration using libbluray
· HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
· Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
· Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
· PulseAudio audio input support
· RTP: support for dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
· Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
· QTCapture: added support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices
· QTSound: added support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices
· X11 Screen: support for capturing partially hidden windows
· MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
Codecs:
· You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc
· Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
· Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
· New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
· Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
· Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
· New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
· Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
· Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
· Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
· EIA-608 closed captions improvements
· Support for JPEG 2000 and Motion JPEG 2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
· Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
· One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
Demuxers:
· New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
· C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
· Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
· Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
· New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
· Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
· Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
· Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
· Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
· Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
· Improved support of tracker files
Interfaces:
· Qt: effects dialogs rework
· Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
· Qt: port to MacOS X platform
· Qt: small look improvements
· Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
· Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support and important cleanups and optimisations
· Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
· Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
· Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
· Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
· Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
· Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
· Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
· The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
· lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
· ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
· dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
· dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
· webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
· webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
· webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
· Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
· Qt: preferences are now searchable
Video Output:
· New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
· New video output for iOS platform
· Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
· Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
· Various vmem improvements
· OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for chroma conversion
· New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
· Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
· Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
· New video output based on kva API for OS/2
Audio Output and Filters:
· New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
· New audio output in memory (amem)
· Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
· New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
· New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
· New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
· New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
· New simplistic Karaoke filter
· New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
· Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
Video Filter:
· New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
· Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
· New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
· Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht up to 254 channels
· New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
· New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
· New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
· New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
· New anti-flickering filter
· New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
· New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
· Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting blackbox and customizable shadow. NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually. The Win32 font selection was improved too.
Stream output:
· New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3, venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{ access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8, index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames}, dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
· RTP: support for Vorbis and Theora
· Major rework of VoD support
· New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming: #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
· New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming: #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
· New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
· New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio} #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
· New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
Services Discovery:
· Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
· Upnp module was ported to Win32
libVLC:
New capabilities for libVLC:
· libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
· libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the list of available audio and video filters
· libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks, libvlc_audio_set_callbacks allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
Removed modules:
· asademux: use libass only
· subsass: use libass
· fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
· hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
· id3tag: use taglib
· upnp: use upnp_intel
· removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
· removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
· removal of the noise filter
· removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
· growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be removed in Growl's next release, too.
· removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
October 8th, 2011· A bug and security fix release with a improvements for audio output on MacOS and with PulseAudio.
· This release was necessary due to a security issue in the HTTP and RTSP server components, though this does not affect standard usage of the player.
July 16th, 2011Security:
· Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587) and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
Mac OS X:
· Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
· Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
· Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
· Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
· Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
· Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
· Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
Demuxers/Meta Readers:
· Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
Muxers/Output:
· Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
Extensions:
· Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
Qt Interface:
· Fix quitting on Linux
· Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
· Miscellaneous
Win32 port:
· Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
Translations:
· Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
June 6th, 2011Windows 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 Bokm√•l, 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
April 12th, 2011· Security update regarding a heap-based buffer overflow in mp4 demuxer
· Update of libmodplug for security reasons in Windows and Mac versions
· Major updates in most language translations
· Numerous updates and fixes on the interface and look of VLC for Mac OS X
· Growl on MacOS X is now bundled with VLC
· Many miscellaneous fixes
March 24th, 2011· Security update regarding video width concerning some demuxers
· Support for a new Dirac encoder based on libschroedinger
· Package of the new VP8/Webm encoder 'Bali'
· Notable updates in .mp4, .ogg, .ape demuxers
· Major updates in most language translations
· Fixes in skins2 supports of Winamp2 skins
· Upgrade on the look of VLC for Mac OS X
· Auto-detection for .txt subtitles is fixed
· Fixes on Windows integration, notably regarding volume keys
· Codecs updates
· Many miscellaneous fixes
February 2nd, 2011· Small new features, many bugfixes, updated translations and security issues were making the 1.1.6 release. Notable improvements include codecs, demuxers, Audio-CD support, subtitles, visualization and platform integration.
January 24th, 2011· Security updates in codecs and demuxers
· Support for RTP/PCM 24bits, audio/L24
· Support for MPC SV7/SV8 on Windows and MacOS builds
· Faster Webm/VP8 decoding
· Support for Midi on MacOS
· Major updates in most language translations
· Support for projectM visualisation on Windows
· KDE and PulseAudio integration improvements
· Subtitles fixes and improvements
· Improvements in visualisations and interfaces
· Codecs updates
· Many miscellaneous fixes
November 14th, 2010· 1000 Web-shows listing integrated inside VLC's playlist, provided by Channels.com
· New Game Music Emu (GME) support
· Windows SMB security issue - VideoLAN-SA-1006
· Major updates in translations, and new translations in Asturian, Armenian and Modern Greek
· Mac/Power-PC port fixed in 1.1.4.1
September 27th, 2010· A fourth bugfix release of the VLC 1.1.x branch. This release does only target PowerPC-based Macs. It is the first release of this branch for this platform and includes all the features, improvements and bug-fixes you have been waiting for.
· This is a security update, so we recommend all users to update to this new version (CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004).
August 18th, 2010Access 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
July 30th, 2010· Extensions and scrips updates
· Miscellaneous fixes in interfaces
· Updated translations
· Various crashes and errors fixed
· TS and DVB demuxing fixes
· Audio filters fixes to solve the "mono" bug
· Fix of the direct3d output module that display nothing on older nVidia and ATI cards, when overlay was activated
July 25th, 2010libVLC:
New capabilities for libVLC:
· Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable, libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue, libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
· libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
· libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
· libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions. See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
· libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
· Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were called early
Decoders/Demuxers:
· Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
· You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
· Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
· Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
· Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
Stream output:
· Fix h264 streaming in ts
Interfaces:
· Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
· Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
· Http: fix fullscreen toggle
MacOS:
· Multiple interface and crash fixes
· Deinterlace selection is repaired
· Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
Translations:
· Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
June 22nd, 2010Important changes for users:
· On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output. Update to alsa-lib v1.0.23-2-g8d80d5f or later, or use the libpulse audio output plugin instead of the ALSA one (if you have PulseAudio).
Important changes for packagers:
· The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to launch each time.
· Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses - xproto, - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb), - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils), - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
· On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
Access:
· Support for the sftp protocol
· Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
· New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
· New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
· Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
· Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
Decoders:
· Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
· Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
· Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
· Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
· Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
· Invmem module improvements
· Support for Atrac1 audio codec
· Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
· Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
· Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
· Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
· Support for Indeo5 video codec
· Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
· Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
· Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
· Support for VP8 codec
· Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
Demuxers:
· Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
· Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
· Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
· Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
· Various EGP improvements
· Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
· Metadata and cover art improvements
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 framework for lua
Audio filters:
· Chorus/Flanger audio filter
· 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
· Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
· NEON assembly audio converter module
· Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
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
Service discovery:
· Service discoveries can now be written in lua
· Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
· Service discovery based on libudev
· Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
Encoders:
· x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
· x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
· x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given, uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
· libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
· x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
Stream output:
· New smem module, streaming to memory
· Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like: --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
Interfaces:
· Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet and oldhttp.
· rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
· qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
Visualization:
· Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
Mac OS X Port:
· Vastly improved VLCKit framework
· A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
· Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework by Andy Matuschak et al.
· New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
· New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
· Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
Windows port:
· Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
· Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
Maemo port:
· Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
· Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
· Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
Misc:
· new sqlite module
· --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
· Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
· Improved Solaris port
Bindings:
· new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
· phonon-VLC backend is now usable
Removed modules:
· csri codec: use the libass module instead.
· galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
· showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
· transrate: broken since too long
· Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
· HAL: Use libudev instead.
· gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
· WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
· opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
· linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
· XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
· MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
· opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
· cddax: use cdda instead.
· cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
· realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
· access_file removed in favor of filesystem
· RTMP input and output: use avio module
April 15th, 2010Important changes for packagers:
· The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to launch each time.
Access:
· Support for the sftp protocol
· Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
· New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
· New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
· Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
· Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
Decoders:
· Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
· Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
· Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP usage
· Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
· Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
· Invmem module improvements
· Support for Atrac1 audio codec
· Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
· Multiple improvements for subtitles styles .SRT and .SSA
· Support for Indeo5 video codec
· Support for Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec natively on all platforms
· Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
· Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
· Direct rendering is always used with H.264 in avcodec module
· Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
Demuxers:
· Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
· Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
· Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
· Various EGP improvements
· Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
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 forClassic 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
· IMDb extension
Audio filters:
· Chorus/Flanger audio filter
· F1R to stereo down-mix filter
· Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimitedresampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIFand A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
· NEON assembly audio converter module
· Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
Visualization:
· Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
Service discovery:
· Service discoveries can now be written in lua
· Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
· Service discovery based on libudev
· Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
Encoders:
· x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
· x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example#transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
· x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given, uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
· libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
Stream output:
· New smem module, streaming to memory
· Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like: --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
Interfaces:
· Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet and oldhttp.
· rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
Mac OS X Port:
· Vastly improved VLCKit framework
· A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
· Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework by Andy Matuschak et al.
· New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
· New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
Windows port:
· Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
· Experimental playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
Maemo port:
· Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
· Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
· Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
Misc:
· new sqlite module
· save-config command line option not supported anymore.
· Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
Bindings:
· new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
· phonon bindings are 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
January 31st, 2010Decoders:
· SubRip extra styles improvements.
· Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders.
Interface:
· Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote.
Translations:
· Portuguese Brazilian, Lithunanian, Romanian, Ukranian, Japanese, Bengali, Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish, Russian, Slovak translation updates.
· New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations.
January 31st, 2010Audio 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.
October 31st, 2009Access:
· Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
· Support for the sftp protocol
· Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on Windows version
Decoders:
· Support for Atrac1
· HD dvb subtitles - Display Definition Segment support
· PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
· Invmem modules improvements
Demuxers:
· Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
· EXPERIMENTAL support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
· Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) files
· Various EGP improvements
Playlist:
· WPL playlist support
· 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
Audio filters:
· Chorus/Flanger audio filter
· 3F1R to stereo downmix filter
· Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_float, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
· NEON assembly audio converter module
Encoders:
· x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
· x264, add profile-limitter sameway as x264.eve has, for example #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
· x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given, uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
· libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
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 and xv modules based on XCB
· New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
Visualisation:
· Support of .milk visualisation files using projectM libraries
Service discovery:
· Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
· Service discovery based on libudev
Stream output:
· New smem module, streaming to memory
Mac OS X Interface:
· Completely reworked user interface (based upon works from GSoC 2008)
Windows port:
· Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
Maemo port:
· Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
Removed modules:
· csri
· galaktos
· showintf
· transrate
· Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo (use XCB instead)
· HAL (use libudev instead)
· gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
September 23rd, 2009Access:
· Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
Demuxers:
· Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
· EXPERIMENTAL support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
· Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) files
Playlist:
· WPL playlist support
· ZPL playlist support
· Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
Audio filters:
· Chorus/Flanger audio filter
Encoders:
· x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
· x264, add profile-limitter sameway as x264.eve has, for example #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
· x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given, uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
Video Output:
· 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 and xv modules based on XCB
Visualisation:
· Support of .milk visualisation files using projectM libraries
Service discovery:
· Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
Mac OS X Interface:
· Completely reworked user interface (based upon works from GSoC 2008)
Windows port:
· Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
Removed modules:
· csri
· galaktos
· showintf
· transrate
· x11, xvideo, xvid
· gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interface
July 28th, 2009Notable fixes and improvements include:
· flv and mpeg2 seeking.
· wmv, wav, rtsp and ssa support.
· Fixes for Qt and MacOS interface.
· Fix of an integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module.
· Translations updates.
· Port of the ZVBI module to Windows for full teletext support.
· Codecs updates for Windows and Mac OS.
July 7th, 2009· Introduces many new features, new formats and new codecs to the VLC multimedia framework.
· Fixes a very high number of bugs that were present in the 0.9.x or 0.8.6 versions.
May 30th, 2009Important notes:
· Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
· 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.
· Close Caption under 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.
· 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.
· EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
· On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore).
· Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'.
· MTP device access on Unix.
· CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio).
· :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values.
Inputs:
· Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
Playlist:
· Export the playlist in HTML.
· Lua script for BBC radio playback.
· Better metadata handling and reading.
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.
Mac OS X Port:
· Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc.
· New Document icons by Dominic Spitaler.
Audio output:
· Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins.
· Surround support for PulseAudio.
Video output:
· Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output.
· Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders.
· Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
· The old image video output has been removed.
· Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
Miscellanous:
· Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications.
April 5th, 2009· Fixes VLC's behaviour on PowerPC-based Macs and includes updated libraries for all Mac OS X platforms.
April 3rd, 2009· fullscreen behavior on Windows with multiple screens,
· workaround bug with libxml2 >=2.7.3,
· video performance on Intel-based Macs,
· various decoders updates on Windows.
December 11th, 2008· Security update: Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276) Bunch of small bugfixes.
December 8th, 2008· Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276).
· Bunch of small bugfixes.
November 6th, 2008New Localizations:
· Ukranian
Security updates:
· Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-xxxx)
· Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-xxxx)
October 25th, 2008Security updates:
· Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
· Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
Features:
· Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
Various bugfixes:
· Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
· Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
Windows port:
· Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
· Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
Qt Interface:
· Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
· Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
· Various fixed in playlist
Access:
· MMAP module is now deactivated by default
Translations:
· Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
October 8th, 2008· Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
· Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on windows.
· AES3 (SMPTE 302M) support
· E-AC3 (A/52b) support
· Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
· Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
· bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
· Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items
September 27th, 2008· Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
· Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on windows.
· AES3 (SMPTE 302M) support
· E-AC3 (A/52b) support
· Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
· Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
· Bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
September 15th, 2008· Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules.
· Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on windows.
· AES3 (SMPTE 302M) support.
· E-AC3 (A/52b) support.
· Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
· Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
· Bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
June 6th, 2008· This is a bugfix release.
· VLC media player 0.8.6g (a source code release) and earlier versions suffer from security vulnerabilities in the libraries GnuTLS, libgcrypt and libxml2. VLC media player 0.8.6f and earlier versions suffer from security vulnerabilities in the Mozilla and ActiveX plugins, in the libpng, libid3tag, libvorbis libraries and in the Speex codec. Technical details are available in our security advisories.
· This update also includes reliability improvements in multiple modules.
April 3rd, 2008· This is a bugfix release. VLC media player 0.8.6e and earlier versions suffer from security vulnerabilities in the Subtitle demuxer, Real RTSP demuxer, MP4 demuxer and Cinepak codec.
· This release also includes improved video output on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X and compatibility with Windows 9x/ME has been restored.
February 28th, 2008· esume playback for viewing content over FTP
· Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
· Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
· HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
· Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
· Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296, VideoLAN-SA-0801)
· Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130, VideoLAN-SA-0802)
· Audio filter: Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
· Audio output: Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
· Access: Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
· Stream output: Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
· Encoders: Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
· Encoders: Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264 encoding on multi-cpu systems
· Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
· Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
· VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
· Updated Romanian and Polish translations
December 20th, 2007Various bugfixes:
· Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
· Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
· Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences in input
· Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
· Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
· Windows and Mac OS Binaries
· FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
Active X plugin:
· Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703)
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:
· 28Improved 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.
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