What's new in VLC 1.0.0:

· 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:

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:

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

· Bunch of small bugfixes.