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Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:

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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


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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


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Windows and Mac OS X:

* Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues

Mac OS X Interface:

* Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB

* Fix for various crashes and small issues

Demuxer:

* Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser


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Audio output:

* PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one

Win32 port:

* Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module

Miscellaneous fixes in:

* Windows 7 taskbar buttons

* Qt interface

* asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer* RTP output and XML export

* Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows

* v4l2 access

Translations:

* Update of Norwegian Bokml, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,

Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,

Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations

* Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations


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Windows and Mac OS X:

* Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue


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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


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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


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* 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:


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* Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations

Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:

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Source:

* Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux


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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 alreadyworking)

* Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X

* Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries


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* 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


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* 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:

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Security:

* Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,

VideoLAN-SA-1006

Access:

* Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL

Services Discovery:

* Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com

Demuxers:

* Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API


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* 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 configuration

* 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:


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* Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,

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:

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Mac OS X:

* Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible

by 16

* Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider

Demuxer:

* Fix crash when closing rtsp streams

Qt interface:

* Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files

* Various fixes for Windows

Translations:

* New Armenian translation

* Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,

Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon


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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, Ukranian

Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician


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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


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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


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Demuxers:

* Avformat fps displaying fix


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* 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


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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.


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* 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 werecalled 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


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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


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Important changes for users:

* On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.


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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 fromdata 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:


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* 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 componentsfor 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 NOTpresent yet)

* Support for ADPCM in .flv streams

* Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files

* Various EGP improvements


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* 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:


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* 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=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


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* 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


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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.


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* 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


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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


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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, Swedishand 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.


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Decoders:

* SubRip extra styles improvements

* Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders

Mac OS X Interface:


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* 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


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Audio outputs:

* Fix deadlocks in the audio output core

* Make PulseAudio the default output if available

Video outputs:

* Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers

* Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing

Input:

* Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3


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* 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


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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


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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 Ukrainianupdates


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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 Interface:

* Fixed a crash when updating VLC

* Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)

* Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)

* Added the "Quit after Playback" feature

Mac OS X Port:


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* 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:


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* New Kazakh and Croatian translations

* Lithunanian translation is available on Windows

* Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,

Arabic and French translation updates


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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


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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


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Important notes:

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* Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.

See 'Access:' for more info.

* Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations

Playback:

* Instantaneous pausing

* Frame-by-Frame playback

* Finer speed control

* On-the-fly recording for all medias

* Timeshift for most medias* RTSP trickplay support

* Subtitles core improvements and fixes

Decoders:

* New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder

* New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder

* New True HD/MLP decoder and parser

* New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder

* New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder

* Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder

* New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder

* Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded

* Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode

* Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering

Demuxers:


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* 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://'

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* 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


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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 support

* Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc

* New document icons by Dominic Spitaler


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* Support for latest iSight models

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.

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:

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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, fribidi

Various 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:


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---------------------------------

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


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New Localizations:

* Indonesian

* Bengali

* Updates of other localizations

Various bugfixes:

* Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.

* Lots of small bugfixes.

* Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows

* Telnet fixes on Windows* Resampling fixes when transcoding


---------------------------------

Security update:

* Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)

Bunch of small bugfixes.


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New Localizations:

* Ukranian


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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)


--------------------------------

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


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* Various fixed in playlist

Access:

* MMAP module is now deactivated by default

Translations:

* Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation

Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:------------------------------------

Various bugfixes:

* Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread

* Fixes several memory leaks.

Mac OS X port:

* Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 orearlier )

* Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.

* Fixed targetname for downloaded updates

Windows port:

* Stability fix for the video output.


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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


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* 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...)


--------------------------------

* Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.

* Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.

* Multiple bugfixes.


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* Multiple bug fixes.

Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:


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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/.hostsIf 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

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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 ambiguitieswith 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 FORWARDand

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}}


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* 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


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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


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* 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


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* NellyMoser ASAO support

* APE (Monkey audio) support

* RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)

* Dirac video support using libschroedinger

Subtitles:

* 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


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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 via


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new 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)


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* 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


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(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.

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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.


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* 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:

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* 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

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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 URLs

Stream output:

* Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer


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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


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* 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)


* 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

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* 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


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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


* Diverse usability improvements

* New wizard option to embed subtitles


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* Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused

* Improved Delete-Preferences-Script


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CDDA / VCDX plugins:

* Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)

Mac OS X Interface:

* Fullscreen controller improvements


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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


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* 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


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* 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.mspx

Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder

C:\Windows\System

* Fixed IPv6 support on the client side

* Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)

Localization:

* Add Czech

* Add Slovak

* Add Malay

* Add Slovenian

Developers:


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* Updates to the libvlc API

* Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins

Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5

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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

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* 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


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- 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


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*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


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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


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* 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


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* 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)


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* 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


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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 ChineseThe following languages were re-added:

* Swedish


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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


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* Core image manipulation support

* Client-side SSL/TLS support

* SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)

* Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track

* Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin

* Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track

* Renamed --filter to --vout-filter

* filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are

now separated by ':' instead of ','

* Access filter architecture* Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-

language)

* Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments

* Many bugfixes...

Input/Demuxers:

* Support for SOCKS proxy

* Support for Shoutcast Meta-data

* Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams

* Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server

* Better support for Kasenna streams

* RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support

* Massive Matroska improvements

* Support for XA and VOC audio files

* TiVo demuxer

* Samba (Windows shares) access module

* Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)


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* Fixes to Linux DVB support

* Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug

* Support for FTP over IPv6

Decoders / Encoders:

* Dirac decoder and encoder

* PNG decoder/encoder

* Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder

* Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec

Access filters:

* New Record and Timeshift filters

Services discovery:

* New type of modules, that add items to the playlist

* Brand new SAP module

* To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in

the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu

( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )

* Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed

* HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery

* DAAP (iTunes shares) support

* Shoutcast

Audio output:

* Support for 20/24 bits LPCM


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Video output:

* Video snapshot support (png or jpg)

* Image file video output (png)

* Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)

* Improvements to wall video filter

* Support for font color and opacity

Stream output:

* Muxers- ASF improvements

* VLM / VoD

- Ability to load a configuration file on startup

- Seeking support in VoD streams

* Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)

Interfaces:

* wxWidgets

- Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...

- Improved preferences

- Improvements to the wizard

- DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons

* MacOS X

- Redesigned playlist

- Improved preferences

* Skins


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- Support for multiple actions

- Fixes

* HTTP

- Support for the new playlist system

* Lirc

- Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc

Windows port:

* Screensaver disabling fix

* DirectShow tuner configuration* Support for no-decoration windows

MacOS X port:

* Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes

* The OpenGL video output is back

* A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in

various configurations.

- Supports multichannel discrete analog output

- Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it

is not yet available in the new module

- Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.

BeOS port:

* Support for single-buffered overlay

Pocket PC port:

* Many fixes


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* New interface

* New video output

Mozilla Plugin:

* Javascript fixes

* Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)

IE Plugin:

* Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin

Translations:

The following languages were added:

* Catalan

* Danish

* Turkish


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Core support:

* Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)

* SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)

Windows port:

* Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)


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* Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input

* Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen

WinCE port:

* A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).

Audio Output:

* Portaudio audio output plugin improvements

Video Output:* Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available

Demuxers:

* Fixed crash with ODML avi files

* Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files

* Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming

Stream Output:

* Encoders:

* Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module

* Stream output:

* Support of playlist group announcement


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Core support:

* Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions

* Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)

* New plugins cache to speed up launch time

* New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item

* Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)

* Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem

Input:* New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X

(Stream your desktop)

* Improved DVD support:

- uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support

- uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)

* Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )

* Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams

* More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access

(selection of titles/chapters).

Demuxers:

* Support for iTunes Music Store previews

* Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)

* Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support

* Windows Media Server RTSP support

* Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)


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* Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)

* Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)

* Improved Ogg demuxer

* Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.

* Support for so called AACPlus webstreams

Codecs:

* G.726 audio support

* 14496-17 MPEG TS text support

* MPEG-4 text support* Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)

* Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering

* VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska

Stream Output:

Encoders:

* Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,

everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well

* Subtitles overlaying in transcoder

* Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)

* Frame rate selection in the transcoder

* DVB subtitles encoder

* MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame

* Improved vorbis/theora encoding

Muxers:

* Text track muxing for mp4


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* Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser

* 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS

* Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)

* Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.

* New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)

* Improved ASF muxer

Misc:

* H.263 RTP streaming support

* SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now

* Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)

Audio Output:

* New audio equalizer filter

* Very trivial volume normalizer

* True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo

* More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect

* New audio output plugin using portaudio v19

Video Output:

* Roku HD1000 Video output

* Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)

with support for effects.

* Improved filter and subpictures support :

- New filters can be streamed.

- "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video

- Centralized scaling and blending


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* New filters :

- "time", to display current time

- "marq", to display a marquee

Interfaces:

* OSD sliders for volume and postition information

* OSD icons for Play and Pause

* New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)

* A few skins2 improvements

* Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface* Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface

* The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets

* Improved CORBA control module

Mac OS X port:

* Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem

* Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output

* The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video

Linux port:

* New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)

* Experimental SVG rendering module

* Support for DVB CAM modules.

Windows port:

* DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)


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* DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder

* Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak

* Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering

* Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)

WinCE port:

* Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).

Mozilla plugin:

* Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality* Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.

Misc:

* Server/client network synchronization module

* VBrick streams fully supported

* Cisco IP/TV streams supported

* VLM enhancements


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Core support:

* Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.

* Support for video output embedded in interfaces.

* Improved HTTP daemon.


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* Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.

Codecs:

* New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.

(http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)

* New H.261 video decoder using openmash.

* H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.

* Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed

(allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).

* Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).

Input:

* --start-time and --stop-time to start and stop playing a

file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few

fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )

* Improved directory access module.

* New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.

* Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).

* New options to pass meta info to the input.

* It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream

(satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)

Demux:

* Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.

* mmsh streaming fixes.

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Subtitles:

* Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.

* Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.

* Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.

Stream output:

* Improved session announcement system.

* Minimize threads usage by default.

* Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.* Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.

* Improved MPEG TS muxer.

* Improved transrater.

* Meta info options used by the muxers.

* New configuration system.

* Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.

VideoLAN manager:

* New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch

and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.

* Supports live streams and VoD.

* Supports scheduling.

* Telnet interface for vlm.

* HTTP interface for vlm.

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* Skins II (Windows and Linux only)

- Ability to embed video output.

- Support for bitmap fonts.

- Lots of improvements.

* wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)

- New design and set of icons.

- Ability to embed video output.

- Support for hotkeys.

- Support for bookmarks.

* Mac OS X- Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.

- Better hotkeys handling.

Mac OS X port:

* OpenGL video output is now the default when available.

* Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).

* Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.

* Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).

Win32 port:

* DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.

* Disable monitor power down when watching movies.

* Improved Windows installer.

Linux port:

* PowerPC fixes.


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Misc:

* Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.

* Roku HD1000 audio output.


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Mac OS X:* Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug

* Playing MOD files is working now.


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Core support:

* Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.

* IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.

Codecs:

* Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts

(http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)

* Fixed DTS S/PDIF output

* SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles


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Playlist:

* Internal improvments

* Improved import/export

Input:

* Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)

container formars.

* New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many

small and strange formats.* New PVA demux.

* New MOD audio demux.

* Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.

* Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.

* New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).

* Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.

Stream output:

* MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).

* Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.

* Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).

Service discovery:

* Fixed sdp in SAP.

Mac OS X port:


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* New opengl video output plugin.

Win32 port:

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