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Transcluded from Changelog/1.0.1

Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1

Demuxers

Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
Fix Dailymotion access script
Fix crashes in xspf files handler
Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version

Access

Add extra caching for files on network shares
Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria

Decoders

Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
Improve SSA subtitles rendering
Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version

Muxers

Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio

Qt Interface

Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening

Mac OS X Interface

Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
More reliable Information and Messages panels
Fix various crashes

Windows port

The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support

Translation updates

Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian

Transcluded from Changelog/0.9.10

Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10

HTTP Interface

Fixed default ACL

Mac OS X

Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi

Various fixes to the following modules

access:
- HTTP, SMB
- updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
- Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
stream out:
- RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
decoder:
- TSCC

Transcluded from Changelog/0.9.0

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

Linux Port

VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)

Mac OS X Port

Mac OS X Framework that can be used to embed VLC in third party applications. (Google Summer Of Code Student project).

LibVLC

Event management and various improvement in libvlc. (Part of a Google Summer Of Code Student project).

Capture

new BDA device driver plugin for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows

Localisations

Finnish
Persian
Polish

Changes in between

Links to changelogs between:

Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6

Playlist

Shoutcast TV listings support

Input

Support for RTSP authentication
Support for adding subtitles on the fly
Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
ATSC support for DVB input
Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
Improved support for Flash Video files

Decoders

Native WMV9/VC-1 support
WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
The True Audio Lossless codec support
Matroska WavPack support
Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles

Video output

Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
Improved libcaca support

Interfaces

All
- New hotkeys for crop and zoom
- Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
Windows
- Systray support in skins
OS X
- Support for Apple Remote control
- Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
- New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
- right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
- Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
Linux
- Notifications using notification-daemon

Windows port

Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
Windows 9x/ME users:
- Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
- Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
  Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location: http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
  
  Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder C:\Windows\System
Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)

Localization

Add Czech
Add Slovak
Add Malay
Add Slovenian

Developers

Updates to the libvlc API
Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins

Release changes

Contents

Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1

Demuxers

Access

Decoders

Muxers

Qt Interface

Mac OS X Interface

Windows port

Translation updates

Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10

HTTP Interface

Mac OS X

Various fixes to the following modules

Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.9.0

Important notes

Important Changes

Playlist

Input/Demuxers

Decoders

Encoders

Video output and filters

Audio output and filters

Stream output

Interfaces

Linux Port

Mac OS X Port

LibVLC

Capture

Localisations

Changes in between

Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6

Playlist

Input

Decoders

Video output

Interfaces

Windows port

Localization

Developers

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