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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.

The HTTP Interface is now only available on the local machine by default.

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

On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts

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

The "rtp" access output module has been removed:

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}'

Important Changes

Playlist

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

Input/Demuxers

UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
Proxy support for MMSH stream
JACK audio input support
MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
Fixed aiff stereo file
Fixed audio glitch on seek
Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
AAC tags support
APEv1/2 tags support
Improved ID3v2 tags support
Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
Raw video support
Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
Tivo Series 2 support
v4l2 access module support
CD+G karaoke Files support
MXF files support

Decoders

VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
MKV USF subtitles support
HTML based subtitles support
Flash Screen Video support
CamStudio Screen Video support
DOSBox Capture support
Karl Morton's Video support
limited atrac3 support
Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files: Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, Tivo, DVB/ATSC)
H.264 PAFF support
DNxHD / VC-3 support
NellyMoser ASAO support
APE (Monkey audio) support
VBI & EBU (Teletext) support

Encoders

Flash Screen Video support

Video output and filters

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

Audio output and filters

Replay gain support.
Play audio when going slower/faster ( no pitch filter yet ).
New spatializer audio filter.

Stream output

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

Interfaces

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