VLC 2.0.6 - Changelog

What's new in VLC 2.0.6:

April 8th, 2013

Access:
· Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected

Audio Output:
· Fix lookup for device names in auhal plugin

Demuxers:
· Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
· Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
· Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
· Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
· Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
· Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser

Decoders:
· Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
· Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
· Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
· 3rd party codecs updates

Mac OS X:
· Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
· Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
· Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console) in the advanced preferences panel
· Fix spatializer audio filter panel
· Fix crash within the video output code
· Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
· Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
· Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
· Fix various interface rendering issues

Qt:
· Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit

GNU/Linux:
· Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
· Reject broken versions of PulseAudio

Windows:
· Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\

Translations:
· Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian, Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German Slovenian Norwegian BokmÃ¥l, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian, Dutch, Danish, translations
· New Gujarati, Aragonese translations

What's new in VLC 2.0.5:

December 13th, 2012

Access:
· Fix DVB-S delivery system detection

Audio Output:
· Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
· (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
· Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems

Demuxers:
· Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
· Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
· Fix koreus lua parser
· Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
· Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
· Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
· Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.

Video filters:
· Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
· Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases

Encoders:
· Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization

Mac OS X:
· Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
· Fix crash with local statistics disabled
· Fix Time counter UI look

Win32:
· Fix https streaming

libVLC:
· Fix audio and video track selection: The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.

Translations:
· Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations. Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua

What's new in VLC 2.0.4:

October 17th, 2012

Audio Output:
· Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
· Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
· Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
· Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
· Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged during playback on Mac OS X

Access:
· Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
· Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
· Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake

Codecs:
· Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
· Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
· Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
· Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
· Fix crashes when using hardware decoding

Demuxers:
· Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
· Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
· Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
· Support Youtube live streams

Windows:
· Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8

Qt:
· Fix media info dialog update
· Fix random/repeat preferences saving
· Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
· Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
· Fix album art display at start

Mac OS X:
· Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
· Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
· Fix menus display and behavior
· Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons, streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
· Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
· Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
· Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
· Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter

Miscellaneous:
· Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
· Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
· Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
· Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
· Codec and other 3rd party library updates
· Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
· Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
· Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
· Codecs and 3rd party libary updates

Translations:
· Updates of Norwegian BokmÃ¥l, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish, Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
· Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian

What's new in VLC 2.0.0:

February 18th, 2012

Video:

· Rewritten video output core and modules, allowing subpicture blending in GPU.
· Shader support in the OpenGL output, for colorspace conversion, including 10bits.
· New video outputs for Windows 7, Android, iOS and OS/2.
· New debanding, grain, denoising and anti-flickering filters.
· New deinterlacing filter, including an Inverse Telecine algorithm.

Audio:

· New resamplers for higher quality audio.
· New dynamic range compressor and karaoke filters.
· Simplification of the audio core for faster processing.
· New audio outputs for iOS, Android and OS/2.

Formats:

· Multi-threaded decoding for H.264, MPEG-4/Xvid and WebM.
· Support for 10bits codecs, WMV image and some other codecs.
· Rewritten support for images, including jpeg, png, xcf, bmp...
· Important changes in RealVideo and Real Format support.
· CrystalHD cards and Android OpenMAX support for hardware decoding.

For professional Users:

· Support for ProRes 422 and 4444, AVC/Intra.
· Support for Jpeg-2000 and DNxHD/VC-3 in 10bits.
· Support for EBU subtitles (stl) and EIA-608.
· SDI and HD-SDI card support for input on Linux.
· New Dirac/VC-2 encoder, faster than the previous one.

Audio:

· New resamplers for higher quality audio.
· New dynamic range compressor and karaoke filters.
· Simplification of the audio core for faster processing.
· New audio outputs for iOS, Android and OS/2.

Input and Devices:

Experimental support for BluRay discs:
· - Menus are deactivated in this release (will come soon).
· - AACS and BD+ DRM libraries and keys are not shipped, for legal reasons.
· Support for SDI capture cards and QTKit devices.
· Support for new adaptive streaming protocols, like HLS and DASH.

For Anime Fans:

· Vastly improved MKV demuxer.
· Rewritten linked segments and ordered chapter files support.
· Correct support for FLAC, RV and Hi10p in MKV.
· Rewritten seeking support in cue files.
· Various ASS subtitles improvements.

For Developers:

· libVLC, libVLCcore and libcompat have switched from GPL to LGPLv2.1+.
· New libVLC examples are available: media player, photobooth and mediainfo clones.
· New JSON requests on the web interface to control running VLC instances.
· Implementation of the MPRIS2 interface to control media players.
· VLC's web plugins have been rewritten for better integration and stability in all browsers.

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.