What's new in VLC 1.1.11:

July 17th, 2011

Security:
· Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587) and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).

Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
· Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
· Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32

Demuxers/Meta Readers:
· Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma

Muxers/Output:
· Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players

Extensions:
· Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues

Qt Interface:
· Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows

Translations:
· Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian

What's new in VLC 1.1.8:

March 24th, 2011

· Security update regarding video width concerning some demuxers
· Support for a new Dirac encoder based on libschroedinger
· Package of the new VP8/Webm encoder 'Bali'
· Notable updates in .mp4, .ogg, .ape demuxers
· Major updates in most language translations
· Fixes in skins2 supports of Winamp2 skins
· Upgrade on the look of VLC for Mac OS X
· Auto-detection for .txt subtitles is fixed
· Fixes on Windows integration, notably regarding volume keys
· Codecs updates
· Many miscellaneous fixes

What's new in VLC 1.1.2:

July 30th, 2010

Demuxers:

· Avformat fps displaying fix
· TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)

Audio filters:

· fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback of mono streams, especially on Windows

Interface and extensions:

· Youtube and other scripts updates
· Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface

What's new in VLC 1.1.0:

June 22nd, 2010

Ready for HD:

· GPU decoding on Windows Vista and 7, using DxVA2 for H.264, VC-1 and MPEG-2
· GPU decoding on GNU/Linux, using VAAPI for H.264, VC-1 and MPEG-2
· DSP decoding using OpenMax IL, for compatible embedded devices
· Improved support for MKV HD, including seeking fixes, and 7.1 channels codecs
· Support for new codecs, like Blu-Ray subtitles, MPEG-4 lossless and VP8

· NB: so far, on Windows for GPU decoding, VideoLAN is recommending nVidia® GPU, until ATI® drivers are working with VLC architecture, and until the VLC developers get access to some Intel® hardware supporting GPU decoding.

Extensions:
· New add-ons and script framework so one can personalize its vlc.

· Written in lua
2 main types of scripts:
· content add-ons, integrated in the playlist
· functionnalities extensions, like metadata searching on the web, or subtitles look-ups
· Very Simple

Web improvements:

· Support for WebM decoding and encoding
· Improved web plugins
· Better streaming capabilities

Better Audio experience:

· Integrated playlist in the Qt4 interface
· Multiple views (like album art) in the playlist in the Qt4 interface
· Support for AMR-NB, Mpeg-4 ALS, Vorbis 6.1/7.1, FLAC 6.1/7.1 and WMAS
· CDDB and CD-Text works now on the Windows port when listening to CD-Audio
· Support for DVD-Audio files (.aob)
· Improved meta-data and album-art support

Faster, Lighter:

· Faster decoding, with up to 40% speed-ups, in HD resolutions
· First part of the Video Output core rewrite
· Removal or rewrite of dozens of modules, code simplification and tens of thousands of lines of code removed
· Some functionalities that are less used are now moved to extensions
· More assembly optimizatinons, especially SSSE3/SSE4 and ARM Neon
· Fewer threads used

Better for developers:

· Simplified and improved libVLC, removal of exceptions for better C integration
· New phonon-backend for Qt applications, on all platforms
· New C++ bindings

What's new in VLC 1.1.0 RC:

May 28th, 2010

· GPU and DSP decoding, depending on the platform
· Faster and more stable
· New codecs and HD codecs enhancements
· Webm and VP8 support
· MKV, mp4 and avi improvements
· Extensions
· Important code cleanup and rewrite
· Interface and playlist reworked
· Completely Free

What's new in VLC 1.0.5:

February 1st, 2010

Decoders:
· SubRip extra styles improvements
· Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders

Translations:
· Portuguese Brazilian, Lithunanian, Romanian, Ukranian, Japanese, Bengali, Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish Russian, Slovak translation updates
· New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations

What's new in VLC 1.0.0:

July 7th, 2009

· Free, Open Source and cross-platform
· Independant of systems codecs to support most video types
· Live recording
· Instant pausing and Frame-by-Frame support
· Finer speed controls
· New HD codecs (AES3, Dolby Digital Plus, TrueHD, Blu-Ray Linear PCM, Real Video 3.0 and 4.0, ...)
· New formats (Raw Dirac, M2TS, ...) and major improvements in many formats...
· New Dirac encoder and MP3 fixed-point encoder
· Video scaling in fullscreen
· RTSP Trickplay support
· Zipped file playback
· Customizable toolbars
· Easier encoding GUI in Qt interface
· Better integration in Gtk environments
· MTP devices on linux
· AirTunes streaming
· New skin for the skins2 interface

What's new in VLC 1.0 RC1:

May 13th, 2009

Important notes:

· Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses. See 'Access:' for more info.

Playback:

· Instantaneous pausing
· Frame-by-Frame playback
· Finer speed control
· On-the-fly recording for all medias
· Timeshift for most medias
· RTSP trickplay support
· Subtitles core improvements and fixes

Decoders:

· New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
· New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
· New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
· New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
· New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
· Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
· New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
· Close Caption under SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
· Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
· Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering

Demuxers:

· Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
· Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
· Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
· Metadata for mod files are supported
· GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
· New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
· New dirac demuxer for raw dirac streams

Encoders:

· Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
· Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder

Access:

· RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
· On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
· Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
· 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)
· Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
· MTP device access on Unix
· CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
· :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values

Inputs:

· Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
· Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on Windows.

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:
· o More menus actions
· o Finer speed slider
· o Improvements on many dialogs
· o New dialog for plugins listing
· o Fixed-size mode for videos
· o Better teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
· Better integration in GTK environments

Mac OS X Interface:

· Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
· Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
· Easy addition of Subtitles through the Video menu
· Additional usability improvements

Stream output:

· Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
· Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
· bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
· Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
· Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.

Maemo Port:

New Maemo port with:
· o an interface based on Hildon framework.
· o scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.

Windows CE Port:

· EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.

Mac OS X Port:

· Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
· Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc

Audio output:

· Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
· Surround support for PulseAudio

Video output:

· Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
· Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
· Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'. The old image video output has been removed.
· Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.

Miscellanous:

· Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications

What's new in VLC 0.9.8a:

December 11th, 2008

Security update:
· Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)

· Bunch of small bugfixes.