Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.9.0

Important notes

This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux. This interface lacks a few features that used to be present in vlc 0.8.6:
- "Streaming wizard" and "VLM control". These features will be replaced by a better alternative in the next version. If you absolutely need these features, we advise you to keep vlc 0.8.6
- Similarly, "Bookmarks" will be reintroduced in an improved version at a later point
The default Interface is now Qt Interface on linux and windows.
The default for --sout-keep has 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 <somevideo>

You can then use commands like:

@test marq-marquee Goodbye

These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.

If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to edit the ".hosts" file.

If 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

Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:

Old: '#std{access=rtp,dst=239.255.1.2,sap}'

New: '#rtp{dst=239.255.1.2,sap}'

Vastly improved playlist support:
- Media library support
- "Live search"
- Shoutcast TV listings
- Audioscrobbler/last.fm support
Album art support
User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/luaplaylist/README.txt

(Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe and Google Video URLs)

User definable Lua metadata and album art fetcher scripts. See share/luameta/README.txt

Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
New puzzle video output filter
Rewrite 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 (remove a logo from a video)
Enhancements to subtitles' renderer to support bold, italics and some HTML tags
Support for RGBA and I420 blending. This 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.
Fix random characters problem in RSS filter.
Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
Support for Intel SSE2 intruction set in chroma converters
Improved use of Intel MMX intruction set in chroma converters

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 µ-law) output
UDP-Lite transport for RTP
DCCP transport for RTP
Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting

Windows/Linux
- Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
All
- Improved user interaction
- Improved mouse gestures
- Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua 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 - see DBus-spec), a common dbus control interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when finished: [1].
Motion module use disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
Ncurses interface now uses ncursesw to correctly display wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale.
Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl