Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7: -------------------------------Input: * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only) * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted playlist files Decoders: * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback Encoders: * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac Muxers: * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files Video output: * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only) Mac OS X Interface * Minor improvements * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding HTTP Interface * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565) Translations: * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokml, Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh tr anslations * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6: -------------------------------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 Mac 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 Qt: * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit GNU/Linux: * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio Windows: * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\ 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 Bokml, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian, Dutch, Danish, translations * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5: -------------------------------Access: * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection Audio Output: * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist) * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems Demuxers: * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser * Fix koreus lua parser * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files. Video filters: * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases Encoders: * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization Mac OS X: * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names* Fix crash with local statistics disabled * Fix Time counter UI look * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5 Win32: * Fix https streaming libVLC: * Fix audio and video track selection: The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks. Translations: * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4: -------------------------------Audio Output: * 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 Windows: * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8 Qt: * Fix * Fix * Fix * Fix * Fix media info dialog update random/repeat preferences saving crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist crash on association dialog on Windows XP album art display at startMac 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 filterMiscellaneous: * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock. * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI * Codec and other 3rd party library updates * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates Translations: * Updates of Norwegian Bokml, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish, Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3: -------------------------------Access: * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels Demuxers: * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined) * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags Mac OS X: * Add GateKeeper support * Fix handling for some hotkeys * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces * Minor bugfixes and improvements Qt: * Fix Windows 8 interface style Translations: * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian, Thai, Turkish and Walloon * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2: --------------------------------Video Output: * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions. There were too many errors with broken drivers. * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500, an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra. * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later. * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called Retina Displays. Access: * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again * Fixes for RAR compressed files * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit * Improve PulseAudio input latency * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264) * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32 * Accept more extensions for DVD images * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback * Improvements and fixes in HLS support Codec: * Fix * Fix * Fix * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions G726 support MP3 free format supportDemuxers: * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support * Fix for DVB channels file support * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4 Encoders: * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a" * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots Audio filters and output: * Limitation of spatializer volume output * Fix DirectSound device selection * Correct PulseAudio volume control * Do not apply volume in file output * Fix sampling rate in JACK output * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers Mac OS X: * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and the persistant media library * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules to the media library or the temporary playlist * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AGmanufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry". * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer press on the Play/Pause button * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup. This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts. * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap * Many Fullscreen fixes * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track Synchronization panel * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop * Fix crashes on exit * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while VLC is running * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be automatically reset on the first launch. - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit. * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements Lua Scripts: * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues * Fixes for icecast SD Qt: * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dial og * Fix tags and file names display * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues Skins2: * Fix mousewheel on Windows * Fix for key events and focus loss Web interface: * Fix display of some buttons * Fix listing of files in the Open interface * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog Security: * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396) * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries Translation: * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer, Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish, Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian, Thai translations update * New Scottish Gaelic translationChanges between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1: -------------------------------Access: * 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 * Remove flawed ALSA channels The available ALSA channels * Fix delay when changing the ALSA. autodetection. MUST be configured now (stereo by default). volume on Mac OS XVideo 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 updateWeb interface: * fix mobiles display for remote control mode * support for .drc and .3ga extensions Service discovery: * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK * Update Jamendo selections Miscellaneous: * fix DBus crash * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc * fix a crash on VLM close Security: * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026) * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144) * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775) * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776) Translations: * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0: --------------------------------Important notes: * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+ * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options: - --file-caching specifies caching for local files, - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources, - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media. All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions. * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized: - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]". By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used. - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers. By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS. - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate), --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and --http-crl (optional CRL). * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly. Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively. * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0. * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later. Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported. * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines. Important changes for packagers: * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script. Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.* The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed. * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation. * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git Core: * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite: Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs. * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64. Access: * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module * DVB-S scanning support on Unix * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently) * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux) * PulseAudio audio input support * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port Codecs: * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4 are notably concerned. * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl) * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits * EIA-608 closed captions improvements * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2 Demuxers: * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2* * * * * * * * * *Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl) Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts) Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks Improved support of tracker files Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformatInterfaces: * Qt: effects dialogs rework * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist * Qt: port to MacOS X platform * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support and important cleanups and optimisations * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style) * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder * Qt: preferences are now searchable * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom Video Output: * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Upd ate) * New video output for iOS platform * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1 * Various vmem improvements * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for chroma conversion between YUV and RGB * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machin e * New video output based on kva API for OS/2 Audio Output * New audio * New audio * Important and Filters: output based on AudioQueue API for iOS output in memory (amem) 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 1.0Video Filter: * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay * New anti-flickering filter * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting blackbox and customizable shadow. NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually. The Win32 font selection was improved too. Stream output: * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3, venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{ access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8, index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames}, dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}" * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP * 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 trac k #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=a udio} #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa 3}: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_callbacksallow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time. Removed modules: * asademux, 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 Translations: * Update of translations for most languages. * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations. Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13: ---------------------------------Security: * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed. * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface. Audio outputs: * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix. * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery. Video outputs: * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC). * XVideo support for automatic color keying. * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix. Decoders: * Camtasia decoding fix. Qt interface: * Rare crash while seeking fixed. * V4L2 video standard selection fixed. Translations: * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages. Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12: ---------------------------------Audio outputs: * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF) including support for OS X Lion * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0 Unix port: * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1Misc: * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface) Translations: * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11: ---------------------------------Security: * 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 MiscellaneousWin32 port: * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash Translations: * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10: --------------------------------Windows and Mac OS X: * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues Mac OS X Interface: * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB * Fix for various crashes and small issues Demuxer: * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parserAudio output: * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one Win32 port: * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module Miscellaneous fixes in: * Windows 7 taskbar buttons * Qt interface * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer * RTP output and XML export * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows * v4l2 access Translations: * Update of Norwegian Bokml, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda, Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish, Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9: -------------------------------Windows and Mac OS X: * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue Demuxers: * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103) Mac OS X Interface: * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments * Improve Apple Remote handling * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc. ) Mac OS X Port: * Fix Growl local notification plugin * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework * Fixes for eyeTV Translations: * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish, German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations * New Luganda Translation Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8: -------------------------------Mac OS X Interface: * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert Interfaces: * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes* Qt and Mac OS X fixes * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins Encoder: * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one Access/Demuxers/Codecs: * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes * mp4 demuxer improvements * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection * fix a crash in malformed ape files Miscellaneous fixes in: * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276 * Configure and build system improvements * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated Translations: * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian, Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew * New icelandic translation Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7: -------------------------------Linux port: * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs #234484 and #260719. Mac OS X port: * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed and stability reasons Demuxers: * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability. VideoLAN-SA-1102 Translations: * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1: ---------------------------------Source: * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6: --------------------------------Audio output:* Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22. Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE) and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin. Access: * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows Decoders: * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working ) * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101 Demuxers: * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24) Subtitles and renderer: * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles * Mark more freetype options as safe * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable, discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522 Visualization: * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X Interfaces: * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements Miscellaneous fixes: * KDE device solid actions * XDG screensaver * Transcode integer overflow * HTTP Icy metadata reading * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers Translations: * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician, Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5: ---------------------------------Security: * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives, VideoLAN-SA-1006 Access: * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRLServices Discovery: * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com Demuxers: * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues * Playback of live http .Webm streams * Taglib thread-safety fix Decoders: * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from "Puget Systems" Skins: * Add an icon to VLC on Linux Video Output: * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB Interfaces: * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuratio n * fixes on luatelnet and luarc Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and TS-mux, Qt) libLVC: * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64) * Miscellaneous fixes Translations: * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutc h, Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician, French and Ukrainian * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek * New Asturian translation Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1: ---------------------------------Mac OS X: * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible by 16 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider Demuxer: * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams Qt interface: * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files * Various fixes for Windows Translations: * New Armenian translation * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk, Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, WallonChanges between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4: -------------------------------Win32: * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules, See VideoLAN-SA-1005 * Fix folders opening from the interface Translations: * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3: -------------------------------Access and demuxers: * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support * fix for podcasts parsing * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks Taglib: * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab, CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004 Playlist: * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played * fix m3u playlists exports Skins2: * fix video autoresize behaviour Translations: * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali Windows and Mac: * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed Mac: * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates BSD: * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2: -------------------------------Demuxers: * Avformat fps displaying fix * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too) Audio filters: * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback of mono streams, especially on Windows Windows: * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)* fix console output encoding Interface and extensions: * Youtube and other scripts updates * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1: -------------------------------libVLC: * New capabilities for libVLC: * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable, libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue, libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it. * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters. * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions. See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example. * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay between audio and video/subpictures for the current input. * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were called early Decoders/Demuxers: * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds Stream output: * Fix h264 streaming in ts Interfaces: * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders * Http: fix fullscreen toggle Linux: * Fix pulse closing * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection MacOS: * Multiple interface and crash fixes * Deinterlace selection is repaired * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes Windows: * Activation of DEP on XP SP3 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists * Fix crash when My Document isn't available * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video Translations:* Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0: -------------------------------Important changes for users: * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output. Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead. 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 rtm p:// * 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 audioDemuxers: * 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 Playlist: * WPL and ZPL playlist support * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image * Podcast images are now displayed Video Output: * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks. * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2) * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin) Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one) MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html) Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX) Extensions: * New content extensions lua framework Audio filters: * Chorus/Flanger audio filter * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited 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 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=32 0,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,selec t=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 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6: --------------------------------Access: * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path Decoders/Packetizers: * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support Demuxers: * Update LUA script for Youtube pages * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist X11 port: * Partial Xlib threading fixes More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update! Interfaces: * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist Translations: * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish and Walloon translations updated * Sinhala translation started Removed modules: * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed. Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5: -------------------------------Decoders: * SubRip extra styles improvements * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders Mac OS X Interface: * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote Windows port: * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly increase performance and fix x264 issues Translations: * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali, Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish Russian, Slovak translation updates * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4: -------------------------------Audio outputs: * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core * Make PulseAudio the default output if availableVideo outputs: * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing Input: * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm) Playlist: * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U) Unix: * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD Qt4 interface: * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard Translations: * New Walloon translation * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3: -------------------------------Video outputs: * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to regressions in most popular drivers * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms Decoders: * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks Encoders: * x264 has profile-limitter, like: #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..} Input: * Update for appletrailers lua script * Fixes on the RAR stream filter * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer Service discovery: * New udev module for linux Qt4 interface: * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels Translations: * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian upd ates Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:-------------------------------Decoders: * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones * Various fixes on theora and ogg Demuxers: * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers Access: * Fixes for v4l2 devices * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning Qt Interface: * Fix some playlist sorting issues Mac OS X * Fixed * Fixed * Added * Added Interface: a crash when updating VLC a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only) the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave) the "Quit after Playback" featureMac OS X Port: * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6 - no support for Goom and SDL - limited text rendering support - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release. Encoders: * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults. * x264 rc-behaviour fixes: - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used - otherwise ABR-mode is used * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these: - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps) Playlist: * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback Unix builds: * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD Translations: * New Kazakh and Croatian translations * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian, Arabic and French translation updates Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1: --------------------------------Demuxers: * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326 * Fix Dailymotion access script * Fix crashes in xspf files handler * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version Access: * Add extra caching for files on network shares * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria Decoders: * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files * Improve SSA subtitles rendering * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version Muxers: * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio Qt Interface: * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening Mac OS X Interface: * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips * More reliable Information and Messages panels * Fix various crashes Windows port: * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0: --------------------------------Important notes: ---------------* Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses. See 'Access:' for more info. * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations Playback: * Instantaneous pausing * Frame-by-Frame playback * Finer speed control * On-the-fly recording for all medias * Timeshift for most medias * RTSP trickplay support * Subtitles core improvements and fixes Decoders: * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder* * * * * * * * *New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder New True HD/MLP decoder and parser New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and orderingDemuxers: * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb) * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD * Metadata for mod files are supported * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams Encoders: * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS) * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder Access: * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows) * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed. * DVB scanning on linux * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form 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 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on Windows and Mac OS X. Playlist: * Export the playlist in HTML * Lua script for BBC radio playback * Better metadata handling and reading Linux/Windows interface: * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux * Various fixes for skins2 interface * Recently played items list * Interface toolbar customizations * Various Improvements on the Qt interface: - More menus actions - Finer speed slider - Improvements on many dialogs - New dialog for plugins listing- Fixed-size mode for videos - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control * Better integration in GTK environments Mac OS X Interface: * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium) * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items. * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu * Additional usability improvements Stream output: * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module. * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible. * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream. * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module. * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again. Maemo Port: * New Maemo port with: - an interface based on Hildon framework. - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library. Windows CE Port: EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done. Mac OS X Port: * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit * Speed improvements * New document icons * Support for latest support by using llvm-gcc by Dominic Spitaler iSight modelsAudio 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. Miscellaneous: * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications New Localization: * Khmer * Mongolian * Sorani Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10: -------------------------------------HTTP Interface: * Fixed default ACL Mac OS X:* * * * * * *Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidiVarious fixes to the following modules: * access: - HTTP, SMB - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...) - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria * stream out: - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge * decoder: - TSCC Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a: --------------------------------Mac OS X: * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9: --------------------------------Decoders: * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 Demuxers: * Various fixes related to real demuxer Mac OS X Interface: * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the main controller window. * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard Mac OS X Port: * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs New Localizations: * Indonesian * Bengali * Updates of other localizations Various bugfixes: * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers. * Lots of small bugfixes. * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows * Telnet fixes on Windows * Resampling fixes when transcodingChanges between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a: --------------------------------Security update: * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276) Bunch of small bugfixes. Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6: -------------------------------New Localizations: * Ukrainian Security updates: * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032) * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036) Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5: -------------------------------Security updates: * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654) * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds Features: * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2 Various bugfixes: * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local) Windows port: * 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 playlistAccess: * MMAP module is now deactivated by default Translations: * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4: -----------------------------------Various bugfixes: * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread * Fixes several memory leaks. Mac OS X * Apple arlier ) * Fixed * Fixed port: machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or e a crash with deletion of old preferences. targetname for downloaded updatesWindows port: * Stability fix for the video output. Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3: -------------------------------Various bugfixes: * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype * Fixed update system bugs * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive... +) Mac OS X port: * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on modern Mac OS X versions Windows port: * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled before installation * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback * Multiple directory and path location fixes. Qt4 interface: * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues) * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...) Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2: -------------------------------* Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default. * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows. * Multiple bugfixes. Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0: -------------------------------* Multiple bug fixes. Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0: ---------------------------------Important notes: ---------------* This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more recent to work correctly * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default. If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to edit the ".hosts" file. - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts If you're using the old http interface, it's located in /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux. This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences. This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles. * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default. * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They now require a target name as their first argument. Example: vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example. These new commands are also available in the telnet interface. * The "rtp" access output module has been removed. Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.: Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}' New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}' * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683). * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities with some file names. Use access://url instead. E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ; udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec, avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build) and postproc modules. * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4, STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not functional atm. * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video filter. For example: transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100 }} * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter. For example: transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}} * Glide video output module has been removed. Changes: -------Security updates: * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,CVE-2008-1807) * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732) * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 ) Playlist: * Vastly improved playlist support: * Media library creation to save all your playlist items * "Live search" * Shoutcast TV listings * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support * Album art support * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and lots of other URLs) * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt Inputs: * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP * Proxy support for MMSH stream * JACK audio input support * Input run time option (improved live stream recording) * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11. * Experimental EyeTV access module This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app (available as a separate download). * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support). * RTMP input support * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support) * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access Authentication. * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate) Demuxers: * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files * Fixed audio glitch on seek * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data) * AAC tags support * APEv1/2 tags support * Improved ID3v2 tags support * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support * Raw video support * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support * TiVo Series 2 support * CD+G karaoke Files support * MXF files support * OMA support Decoders: * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support * Flash Screen Video support * CamStudio Screen Video support * DosBox Capture support* * * * * * * * * * *Karl Morton's Video support limited atrac3 support Fraps support Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts) New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files: Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ... H.264 PAFF support DNxHD / VC-3 support NellyMoser ASAO support APE (Monkey audio) support RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time) Dirac video support using libschroedingerSubtitles: * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC) * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS) * Ogg/Kate subtitles support * AQTitle subtitles support * MKV USF subtitles support * HTML-based subtitles support * MPSub subtitles support * JacoSub subtitles basic support * MPL2 subtitles support * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support * Realtext subtitle support * DKS subtitle support * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support Encoders: * Flash Screen Video support * Improved H.264 encoding speed Video outputs and filters: * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only) * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed * New puzzle video output filter * Re-written motion detection video filter * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a video) * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels) * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video) * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags (Google Summer of Code Student project) * Support for RGBA and I420 blending. The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*. * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module). * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module). This was previously part of the mosaic module. * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter. * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters * New croppadd and canvas video filters. Audio outputs and filters: * Replay gain support * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction vianew scaletempo audio filter) * New spatializer audio filter * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF Stream output: * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams * New RTP payload formats: * Speex voice audio codec * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output * G.711 (both A-law and -law) output * UDP-Lite transport for RTP * DCCP transport for RTP * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting * RTMP output Interfaces: * All * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an end-user suitable way. * Improved user interaction * Improved mouse gestures * Vastly improved Update checker * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2) * Windows/Linux * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite) * Mac OS X * Improved video output features * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme * Simplified Extended Controls panel * Ncurses: * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale, if libncursesw is available. * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do) * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info. * Unix * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface. * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces . * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux Linux Port: * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore) Mac OS X Port: * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only) * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard * It is now required to compile a fully featured build* The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued. LibVLC: * Event management and various improvements in libvlc (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project) New Localizations: * Finnish * Persian * Polish * Punjabi * Bulgarian Developers: * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly. A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided. * Java bindings are now built from a separate source. Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i: ---------------------------------Security updates: * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430) Various bugfixes: * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input, SAP services discovery, http control interface) * Updated Polish translation Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h: ---------------------------------Security updates: * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948, CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950) * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284) Goodies: * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements. * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface, playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs) * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead to an unexpected application termination * New Serbian translation * Updated Romanian translation Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g: ---------------------------------Security updates: * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX(CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804) * Removed loading plugins from the current directory (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805) * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382) * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109) * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423) * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004) Various bugfixes: * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS * Fixed AAC resampling * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X, if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected. Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f: ---------------------------------Security updates: * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881) * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073) * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768) * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769) - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803. Various bugfixes: * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer * Close MMS access on network timeout * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e: ---------------------------------Various bugfixes: * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11 Security updates: * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681) * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682) * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484) * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296, VideoLAN-SA-0801) * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130, VideoLAN-SA-0802) Audio filter: * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter Audio output: * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA Access: * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLsStream output: * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer Encoders: * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264 encoding on multi-cpu systems - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default) - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration) Mac OS X Interface & Port: * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing Localization: * Updated Romanian and Polish translations 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) 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, CVE-2007-6262) Mac OS X Interface & Port: * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of two different movies * Support for current Ogg file formats NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher. Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore. Encoders: * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X Other changes: * The automatic updating facility was removed * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684). Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c: ----------------------------------Various bugfixes, notably: * Windows Vista compatibility * Cropping in Direct3D * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X * RSS filter string overflow * Few memory leaks * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking) CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins: * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928) Demuxers: * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468) Decoders: * Updated FLAC API compatibility Input: * Support for new v4l2 encoder API Localisation: * New localisation: Arabic, Persian Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b: ---------------------------------Various bugfixes, notably: * Out-of-bound read in demuxers * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256) * Mac OS X Interface crashes * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms * 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: --------------------------------CDDA / VCDX plugins: * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017) Mac OS X Interface: * Fullscreen controller improvementsChanges between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6: -------------------------------Playlist: * Shoutcast TV listings support Input: * Support for RTSP authentication * Support for adding subtitles on the fly * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation * ATSC support for DVB input * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat * Improved support for Flash Video files Decoders: * Native WMV9/VC-1 support * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs) * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61) * The True Audio Lossless codec support * Matroska WavPack support * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF) * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles Video output: * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...) * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :) * Improved libcaca support Interfaces: * All * New hotkeys for crop and zoom * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface * Windows * Systray support in skins * OS X * Support for Apple Remote control * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjr Andersen) * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjr Andersen) * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode * Linux * Notifications using notification-daemon Windows port: * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above) Windows 9x/ME users: - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location: http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.ms px Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the fold er C:\Windows\System * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output) Localization:* * * *Add Add Add AddCzech Slovak Malay SlovenianDevelopers: * Updates to the libvlc API * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5 -------------------------------Core support: * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...) * Support for downloading updates * Updated strings Input: * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal) * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input * Improvements to the Audio CD input - Separate playlist entries for the tracks - Support for CDDB * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules * Improved subtitles encoding support * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web Decoders: * Cook (Real audio) support Playlist / Services discovery: * XSPF playlist support * Podcast support * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing Audio output: * New JACK audio output Video output: * New video filters: - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds. * Improvements to the subtitles rendering Stream output: * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams Interfaces: * System to inform the user and request information - HTTP authentication - Fatal errors - ... * wxWidgets - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...) - Drag & Drop support in the playlist* Skins2 - New default skin - Support for Winamp 2 skins - Improved playlist handling - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ... * OS X - Embedded Video output - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...) - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled) * HTTP - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard) - A bunch of new RPN functions Windows Port: * MSN messenger "Now playing" support OS * * * X Port: Mac-Intel compatibility Enhanced support of various audio output devices Growl "Now playing" support*Nix port: * Ability to log to syslog * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root Developers: * New libvlc API (not finished yet) * Java bindings * A bit more automatic testing Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a: --------------------------------Audio output: * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu. Decoder: * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263 Demux: * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks Services Discovery: * HAL fixes, should now work with new API * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows * UPnP fixes * Avahi 0.6 support Interfaces: * Mac OS X - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:-------------------------------Core support: * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based * New OSD system Video output: * Fixed problems with OpenGL output * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format Input: * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support * GnomeVFS input module * Support for RTP packet reordering * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs Decoders: * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types * Musepack decoder using libmpdec * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later) Services discovery: * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment) * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only) Video filters: * RSS feed overlay Audio filters: * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel Mixer and Dolby Surround Stream output: * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments Interfaces: - new cone icon by Richard iestad (Eurodata, retron.info) * Mac OS X - New streaming and transcoding wizard - New extended controls panel - New bookmarks window - Fixed playlist sorting - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist * wxWidgets - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets. - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-* - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support * Skins2 - Tree playlist * HTTP - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto) - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in the names of files - Include macro to include other files- CGI 1.0 support ActiveX plugin: * Should now work outside IE as well Mac OS X port: * New script to delete the preferences automatically Windows port: * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output Translations: The following languages were added: * Galician * Korean * Romanian * Simplified Chinese The following languages were re-added: * Swedish Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2: -------------------------------Core support: * Rewrite of the playlist - Tree structure - Input preparsing (for meta-data) - Grouping (by artist, ...) support * Preferences improvements: - New organization, designed to improve usability - New configuration types (list of modules, ...) * XML parsers * Core image manipulation support * Client-side SSL/TLS support * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD) * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are now separated by ':' instead of ',' * Access filter architecture *