$Id: NEWS 11524 2005-06-25 10:23:06Z dionoea $ 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 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-langu age) * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments * Many bugfixes... Input/Demuxers: * Support for SOCKS proxy * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server * Better support for Kasenna streams * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support * Massive Matroska improvements * Support for XA and VOC audio files * TiVo demuxer * Samba (Windows shares) access module * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items) * Fixes to Linux DVB support * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug * Support for FTP over IPv6 Decoders / Encoders: * Dirac decoder and encoder * PNG decoder/encoder * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec Access filters: * New Record and Timeshift filters Services discovery: * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist * Brand new SAP module * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )

* Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery * DAAP (iTunes shares) support * Shoutcast Audio output: * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM Video output: * Video snapshot support (png or jpg) * Image file video output (png) * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions) * Improvements to wall video filter * Support for font color and opacity Stream output: * Muxers - ASF improvements * VLM / VoD - Ability to load a configuration file on startup - Seeking support in VoD streams * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system) Interfaces: * wxWidgets - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ... - Improved preferences - Improvements to the wizard - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons * MacOS X - Redesigned playlist - Improved preferences * Skins - Support for multiple actions - Fixes * HTTP - Support for the new playlist system * Lirc - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc Windows port: * Screensaver disabling fix * DirectShow tuner configuration * Support for no-decoration windows 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

* 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 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1: ----------------------------------------------------Core support: * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available) * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface) Windows port: * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0) * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen WinCE port: * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output). Audio Output: * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements Video Output: * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available Demuxers: * Fixed crash with ODML avi files * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming Stream Output: * Encoders: * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module * Stream output: * Support of playlist group announcement Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0: ----------------------------------------------------Core support: * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...) * New plugins cache to speed up launch time * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background) * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem

Input: * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X (Stream your desktop) * Improved DVD support: - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming) * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it ) * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access (selection of titles/chapters). Demuxers: * Support for iTunes Music Store previews * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams) * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support * Windows Media Server RTSP support * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets) * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G) * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface) * Improved Ogg demuxer * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video. * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams Codecs: * G.726 audio support * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support * MPEG-4 text support * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743) * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska Stream Output: Encoders: * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on, everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output) * Frame rate selection in the transcoder * DVB subtitles encoder * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame * Improved vorbis/theora encoding Muxers: * Text track muxing for mp4 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G) * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS. * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio) * Improved ASF muxer Misc: * H.263 RTP streaming support * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental) Audio Output: * New audio equalizer filter * Very trivial volume normalizer * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19

Video Output: * Roku HD1000 Video output * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X) with support for effects. * Improved filter and subpictures support : - New filters can be streamed. - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video - Centralized scaling and blending * New filters : - "time", to display current time - "marq", to display a marquee Interfaces: * OSD sliders for volume and postition information * OSD icons for Play and Pause * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows) * A few skins2 improvements * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets * Improved CORBA control module Mac OS X port: * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video Linux port: * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible) * Experimental SVG rendering module * Support for DVB CAM modules. Windows port: * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3) * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode) WinCE port: * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output). Mozilla plugin: * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc. Misc: * Server/client network synchronization module * VBrick streams fully supported * Cisco IP/TV streams supported * VLM enhancements Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2: -------------------------------Core support: * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias. * Support for video output embedded in interfaces. * Improved HTTP daemon.

* Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options. Codecs: * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec. (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html) * New H.261 video decoder using openmash. * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer. * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding). * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding). Input: * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 ) * Improved directory access module. * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies. * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...). * New options to pass meta info to the input. * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television) Demux: * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support. * mmsh streaming fixes. * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files. Subtitles: * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support. * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path. * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys. Stream output: * Improved session announcement system. * Minimize threads usage by default. * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output. * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer. * Improved MPEG TS muxer. * Improved transrater. * Meta info options used by the muxers. * New configuration system. * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding. VideoLAN manager: * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC. * Supports live streams and VoD. * Supports scheduling. * Telnet interface for vlm. * HTTP interface for vlm. Interfaces: * Skins II (Windows and Linux only) - Ability to embed video output. - Support for bitmap fonts. - Lots of improvements. * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface) - New design and set of icons. - Ability to embed video output. - Support for hotkeys.

- Support for bookmarks. * Mac OS X - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties. - Better hotkeys handling. Mac OS X port: * OpenGL video output is now the default when available. * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a). * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device. * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested). Win32 port: * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices. * Disable monitor power down when watching movies. * Improved Windows installer. Linux port: * PowerPC fixes. Misc: * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin. * Roku HD1000 audio output. Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a: --------------------------------Mac OS X: * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug * Playing MOD files is working now. Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1: --------------------------------Core support: * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times. * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux. Codecs: * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html) * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles Playlist: * Internal improvments * Improved import/export Input: * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm) container formars. * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many small and strange formats. * New PVA demux. * New MOD audio demux. * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files. * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD. * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav). * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.

Stream output: * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...). * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer. * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...). Service discovery: * Fixed sdp in SAP. Mac OS X port: * New opengl video output plugin. Win32 port: * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin. * Fixed ipv6 name resolution. Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0: --------------------------------Core support: * Brand new decoder/packetizer api. Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins. * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available). * Video outputs are recycled if possible. This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files. * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters. * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for subtitle files at the core, and much much more. Playlist: * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over. * Playlist sorting Input: * RTP/RTSP support. * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages). * Support for Flac in Ogg files. * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams. * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer. * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only) * Reworked DVB tuning. * Better Icecast support. * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer. * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer. Codecs: * Support for Theora video encoding. * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding. * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support. * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs). * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering. * MPEG 2.5 audio support. * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio). Stream output: * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer. * New transrating module for MPEG2 video. * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams. * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams. * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding. * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.

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MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio. --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input. Preliminary RTP support. Fixes to SAP announces.

Interface: * Skins: - Bugfixes - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option). * New standardized and customizable hotkeys. * wxWindows - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons). - Improvements and help in preferences - New streaming wizard - Revised Disc Open menu * HTTP - Improvements of the standard pages - Support for new commands * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ). Service discovery: * Many fixes to the SAP module * SAP now supports HTTP streams Subtitles: * Text subtitles now have a black outline. * Text subtitles autodetection. * Text subtitles charset autodetection. * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary. * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially. * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles. * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support. * Support for subtitles in Matroska files. * Support for subtitles in DVB streams. Mac OS X port: * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com * Save playlist. * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem. * Support for Panther. * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk. * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental). Win32 port: * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...). * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service. * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface. * Support for 3F2R in audio output. * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC. * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental). * Multimonitor support (untested). * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems. Linux port: * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input. * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges. * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface. iPaq port: * Brand new Gtk 2 interface

Miscellaneous: * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random). * Audio visual effects filter using goom. * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations. * libcaca video output (colored ascii) Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2: --------------------------------Core support: * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable. Stream output: * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better. * Improved MPEG TS muxer. Access input: * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels. * Few fixes to the VCD navigation. Interfaces: * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface. UNIX ports: * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested. * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity. Win32 port: * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines. iPaq port: * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated). Miscellaneous: * Text subtitles now centered on the picture. * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play mpeg1/2 videos. Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1: --------------------------------Core support: * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs. * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock after a pause. Stream output: * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming. * Added vorbis audio transcoding support. * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame). UNIX ports: * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested. * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity. Win32 port: * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines. iPaq port: * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).

Miscellaneous: * Text subtitles now centered on the picture. * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play mpeg1/2 videos. Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1: --------------------------------Core support: * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs. * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock after a pause. Stream output: * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming. * Added vorbis audio transcoding support. * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame). * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers. * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now. Win32 port: * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards. * Fixed sound on Windows NT. UNIX ports: * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output. * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus. iPaq port: * Gtk+2 interface called PDA * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode) * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law). Interfaces: * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface. * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML page s. * A new CORBA control plugin. Input demux: * Improved support for the Matroska container format. Miscellaneous: * Improved build system. * New video filter plugin to overlay logos. * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files. * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any siz e. Should also work with languages like russion for instance. Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0: --------------------------------Core Support:

* Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated) Input access: * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX mos t prominently) to view ftp and http streams. * Fixed large file support on Windows * Video 4 Linux support * CD Digital Audio support * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX. Input demux: * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files * Support for OpenDML avi files * More complete .mp4/.mov support * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it do esn't work ;) Codecs: * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content. * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg) * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altoget her * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX) Interfaces: * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe * New HTTP remote control interface Stream output: * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outpu ts allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time. * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly. * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content . * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6) Miscellaneous: * New reset option for the preferences * You can set your language in the prefences * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate yo ur own * SAP/SDP IPv6 support UNIX ports: * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension. * New skinable interface ported to X11. * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer Mac OS X port: * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically. * New about panel and revamped preferences panel. * Fixed the deinterlace menu. * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out. * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities. * New icons by Davor Orel.

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New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster. Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug) We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD

Win32 port: * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs). * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files) * Fixed SVCD chapters support. * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio. BeOS port: * Interface localization * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen * A few new keyboard shortcuts * New full-featured Preferences window Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3: --------------------------------Core Support: * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines * support for skins at the interface level * new OSD module using Freetype2 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the input level before dropping out of date frames. * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface Input access: * fixed HTTP redirects * support for opening an entire directory * EOF should be detected more reliably * new video4linux access plug-in * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver Input demux: * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders * fix for some ogg web radio streams * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP Codecs: * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions) * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 ) * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete) * better SSA4 subtitles recognition * new codec for raw I420 video * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder Interfaces: * improvements to wxWindows based interface (although it still misses some important features) * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in Stream output: * new HTTP output support

* fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer * fixed AV synchronization issues Miscellaneous: * support for oldstyle id3 genres UNIX ports: * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines Mac OS X port: * reorderable playlist * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers * support for mono audio output devices * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC * fixed several cosmetic issues * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be) * the messages window remembers more lines * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files * http and ogg stream output options * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well Win32 port: * new skinnable interface * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events. iPAQ familiar Linux port: * support for FLAC audio format * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation * playlist * network tab in the interface * "apply" handling in preferences Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2: --------------------------------Core support: * advanced config options are now hidden by default * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily Mac OS X * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work * DTS S/PDIF support Codecs: * support * support * new but * fixed a for DV audio through the ffmpeg library for FLAC audio through libflac basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2 major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)

Stream output: * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS * new --ttl option for Time To Live DVD support: * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support UNIX ports:

* fixed the GNU-pth support Win32 port: * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout plugins * localization support via gettext is now fully working * rc interface is now fully useable * fixed the MSVC project files generation Mac OS X port: * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work) * VLC now uses the default audio device * new info panel * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript * support for mouse gestures * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines Linupy port: * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it Miscellaneous: * improved ID3 tag detection * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful gestures * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a: --------------------------------Mac OS X port: * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when English was set as the preferred language Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1: -------------------------------Core support: * new mouse gesture interface * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is playing Input access: * various minor fixes on the network inputs * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry_AT_coin.mpg) * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing Input demux: * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their continuity counter Codecs:

* support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams DVD support: * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only without the user consent UNIX ports: * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the popup menu * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver) * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1 * ALSA: fixed mono files output Mac OS X port: * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs * playlist enhancements * added half, normal and double video window menu items * new step forward/step backward commands * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support * vlc.app is now VLC.app Win32 port: * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font BeOS port: * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window) Opie port: * native video output is working again * only commandline interface support * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0: -------------------------------Core structure: * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing S/PDIF and multi-channel support * localization support via gettext on most architectures * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast, multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4 and A/52 streams are supported) * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint Input access: * mms:// support * ftp:// support * stability fixes in the HTTP access * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation * VCD entry points support * VCD image file support

Input demux: * support for *.asf format * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format * support for ogg encapsulation * support for raw DV format * support for *.wav format * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file * raw AAC support Stream discovery & playlists: * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols * support for .m3u file format * support for .asx file format * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp Codecs: * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats (only available with the .avi demux) * support for ADPCM audio codec * support for raw PCM data * support for Cinepak video codec * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2 * support for Xvid codec * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources) * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling from sources) * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263, H263i, MJPEG A/B * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec DVD support: * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay Miscellaneous: * new WxWindows interface * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio device and the channels configuration * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any format that VLC can play * new swedish translation * enhancements of the playlist window * new messages window to see debug info * fixed a few crashes iPaq port: * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working