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Version history for VLC

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Changes for v3.0.10 - v3.0.11 Beta

Access:
* rtp descriptor leak on error fix
Demux:
* Fixed regression with some encrypted HLS streams
* Live HLS delay until first update fix
* HLS rendition switch regression fix
* Fix imprecise m4a seek
Decoder:
* Fixed missing captions with some capture cards
Audio filters:
* soxr resampling fixes
Contribs:
* Updated libfaad to 2.9.2 (Parametric Stereo regression)
* Updated libarchive to 3.4.2
macOS:
* Fixed moving video window with mouse
* Fixed UI issue showing "permissions warning" unnecessarily often
* Fixed stack buffer overflow listing bluray mount points
* Fixed potential crashes at startup
Audio Output:
* Fix sound not coming back after a pause with CoreAudio (macOS/iOS)
Misc:
* Update Youtube script

Changes for v3.0.8 - v3.0.10

Misc:
* Update Twitch & VLSub scripts
Changes between 3.0.9.1 and 3.0.9.2:
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Misc:
* Properly bump the version in configure.ac
Changes between 3.0.9 and 3.0.9.1:
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Misc:
* Fix VLSub returning 401 for earch request
Changes between 3.0.8 and 3.0.9:
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Core:
* Work around busy looping when playing an invalid item through VLM
Access:
* Multiple dvdread and dvdnav crashs fixes
* Fixed DVD glitches on clip change
* Fixed dvdread commands/data sequence inversion in some cases causing unwanted glitches
* Better handling of authored as corrupted DVD
* Added libsmb2 support for SMB2/3 shares
Demux:
* Fix TTML entities not passed to decoder
* Fixed some WebVTT styling tags being not applied
* Misc raw H264/HEVC frame rate fixes
* Fix adaptive regression on TS format change (mostly HLS)
* Fixed MP4 regression with twos/sowt PCM audio
* Fixed some MP4 raw quicktime and ms-PCM audio
* Fixed MP4 interlacing handling
* Multiple adaptive stack (DASH/HLS/Smooth) fixes
* Enabled Live seeking for HLS
* Fixed seeking in some cases for HLS
* Improved Live playback for Smooth and DASH
* Fixed adaptive unwanted end of stream in some cases
* Faster adaptive start and new buffering control options
Packetizers:
* Fixes H264/HEVC incomplete draining in some cases
* packetizer_helper: Fix potential trailing junk on last packet
* Added missing drain in packetizers that was causing missing last frame or audio
* Improved check to prevent fLAC synchronization drops
Decoder:
* avcodec: revector video decoder to fix incomplete drain
* spudec: implemented palette updates, fixing missing subtitles on some DVD
* Fixed WebVTT CSS styling not being applied on Windows/macOS
* Fixed Hebrew teletext pages support in zvbi
* Fixed Dav1d aborting decoding on corrupted picture
* Extract and display of all CEA708 subtitles
* Update libfaad to 2.9.1
* Add DXVA support for VP9 Profile 2 (10 bits)
* Mediacodec aspect ratio with Amazon devices
Audio output:
* Added support for iOS audiounit audio above 48KHz
* Added support for amem audio up to 384KHz
Video output:
* Fix for opengl glitches in some drivers
* Fix GMA950 opengl support on macOS
* YUV to RGB StretchRect fixes with NVIDIA drivers
* Use libpacebo new tone mapping desaturation algorithm
Text renderer:
* Fix crashes on macOS with SSA/ASS subtitles containing emoji
* Fixed unwanted growing background in Freetype rendering and Y padding
Mux:
* Fixed some YUV mappings
macOS:
* Use a layer based video output on 10.14 and higher, which should fix various rendering issues where the vout would glitch between a wrong size and the correct size. Additionally this works around OpenGL issues with Macs that have a dedicated NVIDIA GPU, which caused rendering artifacts in the whole OS, especially when the "Reduce transparency" accessibility option is used
* Remove qtsound module and add avaudiocapture module as replacement
* Fix audio capture on macOS Catalina by using avaudiocapture
* Inform the user in case OS permissions are missing for certain actions
* Fix Apple Remote support on macOS Catalina
* Add support for pausing Apple Music on macOS Catalina
* Fix UPnP discovery crash without an active network interface
* Fix rare placement issues with fullscreen panel
* Fix problem in audio output remembering the last device configuration in digital mode
Service Discovery:
* Update libmicrodns to 0.1.2
Misc:
* Update YouTube, SoundCloud and Vocaroo scripts: this restores playback of YouTube URLs.
* Add missing .wpl & .zpl file associations on Windows
* Improved chromecast audio quality

Changes for v3.0.7.1 - v3.0.8

Core:
* Fix stuttering for low framerate videos
Demux:
* Fix channel ordering in some MP4 files
* Fix glitches in TS over HLS
* Add real probing of HLS streams
* Fix HLS MIME type fallback
Decoder:
* Fix WebVTT subtitles rendering
Stream filter:
* Improve network buffering
Misc:
* Update Youtube script
Audio Output:
* macOS/iOS: Fix stuttering or blank audio when starting or seeking when using
external audio devices (bluetooth for example)
* macOS: Fix AV synchronization when using external audio devices
Video Output:
* Direct3D11: Fix hardware acceleration for some AMD drivers
Stream output:
* Fix transcoding when the decoder does not set the chroma
Security:
* Fix a buffer overflow in the MKV demuxer (CVE-2019-14970)
* Fix a read buffer overflow in the avcodec decoder (CVE-2019-13962)
* Fix a read buffer overflow in the FAAD decoder
* Fix a read buffer overflow in the OGG demuxer (CVE-2019-14437, CVE-2019-14438)
* Fix a read buffer overflow in the ASF demuxer (CVE-2019-14776)
* Fix a use after free in the MKV demuxer (CVE-2019-14777, CVE-2019-14778)
* Fix a use after free in the ASF demuxer (CVE-2019-14533)
* Fix a couple of integer underflows in the MP4 demuxer (CVE-2019-13602)
* Fix a null dereference in the dvdnav demuxer
* Fix a null dereference in the ASF demuxer (CVE-2019-14534)
* Fix a null dereference in the AVI demuxer
* Fix a division by zero in the CAF demuxer (CVE-2019-14498)
* Fix a division by zero in the ASF demuxer (CVE-2019-14535)
Contribs:
* Update to a newer libmodplug version (0.8.9.0)

Changes for v3.0.7 - v3.0.7.1

Access:
* Update libbluray to 1.1.2
Video Output:
* Fix hardware acceleration with some AMD drivers
* Improve direct3d11 HDR support

Changes for v3.0.6 - v3.0.7

Access:
* Improve Blu-ray support
* Fix sftp module build with libssh >= 1.8.1
Audio output:
* Fix pass-through on Android-23
* Fix DirectSound drain
Demux:
* Improve MP4 support
Video Output:
* Fix 12 bits sources playback with Direct3D11
* Fix crash on iOS
* Fix midstream aspect-ratio changes when Windows hardware decoding is on
* Fix HLG display with Direct3D11
Stream Output:
* Improve Chromecast support with new ChromeCast apps
macOS:
* Fix UPNP service discovery, services are discovered on the highest priority
active network interface now
* Fix video distortion on macOS Mojave
Misc:
* Update Youtube, Dailymotion, Vimeo, Soundcloud scripts
* Work around busy looping when playing an invalid item with loop enabled
Translations:
* Update of most translations
Security:
* Fix multiple buffer overflows in the ps demuxer
* Fix a buffer overflow when copying a biplanar YUV image
* Fix multiple buffer overflows in the faad decoder
* Fix buffer overflow in the svcdsub decoder
* Fix buffer overflows in the ogg muxer & demuxer
* Fix buffer overflows in libavformat demuxer
* Fix multiple buffer overflows in the MKV demuxer
* Fix a buffer overflow in the MP4 demuxer
* Fix a buffer overflow in the textst decoder
* Fix a buffer overflow in the webvtt decoder
* Fix a buffer overflow in the ASF demux
* Fix a buffer overflow in the UPNP SD
* Fix use after free in the ogg demuxer
* Fix multiple use after free in the MKV demuxer
* Fix multiple use after free in the DMO decoder
* Fix integer underflow in the MKV demuxer
* Fix an updater NULL pointer dereference on invalid signing keys
* Fix NULL pointer dereference in the MKV demuxer
* Fix an integer overflow in the spudec decoder
* Fix an integer overflow in the nsc demuxer
* Fix an integer overflow in the avi demuxer
* Fix reads of uninitialized pointers in the MKV demuxer
* Fix a floating point exception in the MKV demuxer
* Fix an infinite loop in the flac packetizer

Changes for v3.0.4 - v3.0.5

Access:
* Improve RTSP playback
* BluRay fixes and improvements, notably for menus and seeking
* Improve the UDP/RTP truncated issue
Codec:
* Add a new AV1 decoder based on dav1d library
* Enable libaom decoder by default
* Fix decoding of some HEVC streams with macOS hardware decoding
Demux:
* MP4: Fix reading of some HDR metadata
* Miscellaneous AV1 demuxing improvements
* Fix CAF integer-underflow
* Fix an MKV crash on iOS 12.0, on iPhone XS phones
Packetizer:
* Add an AV1 packetizer
macOS:
* Starting with VLC 3.0.5, VLC will be distributed with runtime hardening
enabled on macOS Mojave.
All external VLC plugins need to be signed by a DeveloperID certificate in order
to continue working with the official VLC package.
* Update the VLC dark UI to better match the dark mode of macOS Mojave
* Fix convert & save panel stream option
Audio output:
* Fix corking when the playback state is paused
* Improve corking on Android
Video Output:
* Fix Direct3D11 tone-mapping when HDR is displayed on an SDR screen
* More accurate colors for SD sources in Direct3D11
* Disable hardware decoding on some old Intel GPUs
* Fix zero-copy GPU acceleration on AMD RX Vega
* Misc Direct3D11 fixes
Miscellaneaous:
* Improve ChromeCast
* Update numerous 3rd party libraries, including for minor security issues
* Update Youtube support
* Fix subtitles rendering with specific fonts with negative horizontal advance

Changes for v3.0.3 - v3.0.4

Decoder:
* Blacklist some intel GPU when decoding HEVC
* Decode AV1 streams
* Fix playback of low-fps files
* Fix hardware decoding of low-latency sliced H.264 streams on macOS
* Fix seeking with streams containing WebVTT subtitles
* Fix decoding some CC-608 streams with roll-up
* Fix crashes with LPCM streams
* Fix colorspace of JPEG, PNG and screen inputs
* Fix MediaCodec rotation handling
Demux:
* Improve FLV fps detection
* Fix some ogg/flac
* Improve support for broken HEVC inside MKV
* Fix some AVI regression for broken files and for DVAudio
* Support files splitted in the .mts%d pattern
* Fixes for MKV seeking
* Fix for MP4 disabled track selection
* Fix playback of incomplete RAR files (downloading)
Audio Output:
* Improve iOS session management and resume-from-pause
* Improve macOS audio performance
* Support 44.1kHz DTS passthrough
* Fix crashes on DirectSound output
Video Output:
* Fix some crash in Direct3D11/Direct3D9 because of sensors
* Fix some broken DVD subtitles rendering (OpenGL, notably)
* Fix crashes on old mac machines, after some time
* Fix memleaks on the EGL output (Android notably)
* Fix misc display in Direct3D11 due to broken drivers
* Fix potential green screen on Windows XP
Text renderer:
* Fix rendering of arabic fonts fallback on macOS
* Fix head buffer overflow on macOS with some fonts
* Fix rendering of fonts with specific fonts
* Fix some RTL rendering
Misc:
* Fix live555, macOS-UI, screen capture crashes
* Change the extension registration names on Windows
* Fix VLM 'now' date
* Fixes on the HTTPD server
* Fix on the NTservice registration
* Fix --stop-time option
* Fix ChromeCast compatibility with web interface
* Fix subtitles alignment
* Fix infinite recursion on directory playback
* Fix detection SAT>IP servers
Qt:
* Fix tooltip display when using Wayland
macOS:
* macOS 10.7.5 is required now, VLC will no longer launch on earlier releases
* Fix delay and fps setting in subtitle dialog
* Modernized and improved support for media keys
* Fix issues with drag and drop of playlist items
* Fix support for audio capturing with qtsound module
* Fix layout issues in the Convert and Save panel
Translations:
* Update of most translations

Changes for v3.0.2 - v3.0.3

Core:
* Update subtitles display while paused
Access:
* Enable srt support on binary builds
Decoders:
* Allow videotoolbox hardware decoding to be disabled
* Disable VideoToolbox for 10bits H.264
* Fix VideoToolbox with some invalid HEVC streams
* Fix subsdec wide character support
* Fix 1st order Ambisonics in AAC
Demux:
* Miscellaneous ogg improvements & bugfixes, including oggds
* Fix forced tracks selection
* Fix Topfield files
* Probe AAC/ADTS inside TS
* Fix tracks detection issues with DolbyVision and Bluray streams
macOS:
* Fix "Open Network Stream" URL box focus
* Add option to disable hardware acceleration for video decoding
* Remove option to force dolby mode from simple preferences
Video Output:
* Fix crashes on Direct3D11
Qt:
* Fix tooltip display on some desktop environments
* Fix spurious movement of the main Window
* Fix playlist being displayed in fullscreen
Misc:
* Fix amem output
* Fix numerous issues on fonts fallback and font shaping
* Fix subtitles toggle through hotkeys
* Fix audioscrobbling
* Fix buffer over-read in avcodec audio encoding with non-default layouts
* Numerous 3rd party libraries updated, fixing security issues
Translations:
* Update of most languages

Changes for v3.0.1 - v3.0.2

Core:
* Fix snapshotting with subtitles when using hardware acceleration
* Fix green/missing line/column when the picture dimensions are odd
Decoders:
* Important improvements in hardware decoding for macOS, notably faster,
supporting more samples and removing crashes/deadlocks
* Improve compatibility for DxVA2 and D3D11 decoding, fix crashes when seeking
and fix blacklisting of broken drivers
* Fix SSA subtitles forced alignment
* Fix E-AC-3 stuttering
* Fix MIDI playback on macOS
* Add playback support for ProRes 4444 XQ
Demux:
* Fix wrong colors in some AVI files
* Fix IFO files playback to start DVDs
* Fix a crash with missing/invalid MPEG SDT
* Update VP8/9/10 ISOBMFF bindings and improve HDR for those cases
* Fix TTML inside MP4
* Improve MP4 read of color information
* Fix flac seeking and improve flac parsing
* Improve mkv opening & seeking speed
* Fix display of chapters with no name defined
* Miscellaneous MKV crash fixes
* Fix crash with multi-region DVDs
* Fix audio being muted on DVD chapter change
* Fix audio being muted when seeking in a BluRay disc
Access:
* Avoid a crash/assert in FTP after seeking
Audio output:
* Fix mmdevice default audio device handling
* Fix "reset audio volume" being forcefully deactivated
* Allow a default device to be used by VLC
* Only warn once about misconfiguration for AUhal devices on macOS
* Improve resampling and latency computation for CoreAudio
* Passthrough is now disabled by default
Audio filters:
* Fix audio stutter after unpausing with headphones
* Fix silence when dolby-surround was mis-selected in preferences
Video output:
* Fix OpenGL crashes or bad display with semi-planar chromas
* Fix OpenGL interop (zero-copy) disabled for tvOS
* Major rewrite of the iOS video output to fix numerous crashes
* Important improvements of the D3D11 video output to use less memory
and less GPU for HDR tone-mapping
* Fix crop on vertical videos with Direct3D11
* Fix Direct3D9 filters settings not being applied properly
* Fix transform filters with hardware decoding
* Fix snapshot and filters with HEVC hardware decoding
* Fix a buffer overrun during GPU/CPU image copy
* Fix glitches on DVD menus with Direct3D11
* Fix non-HDR content playback on HDR screens with Direct3D11
* Fix YUV full range displayed incorrectly in Direct3D11
* Fix miscellaneous crashes in Direct3D11
* Fix potential black screen with 10bits videos on Direct3D11
macOS:
* Fix Growl notifications on recent macOS versions
* Fix conversion output file name encoding
* Fix crash reporting on macOS 10.7 and 10.8
* Fix crash on exit
* Fix remember playback position
* Fix Blu-ray disc Java menu
* Fix swiping on time slider to change position
* Fix problems with restoring user name from keychain
* Fix localization issues
Qt:
* Fix last folder used in open dialogs
* Allow to customize the seek jump when using the mousewheel
* Fix fullscreen controller positionment on multiscreen setups
* Fix pasted URLs not being trimmed
* Fix jump size not being configurable
* Fix missing time labels updates
* Fix playback speed slider not accepting 1.0x value
* Fix raw input dump
* Fix window size after a fullscreen playback
Misc:
* Fix lua rc & oldrc interfaces host specification
* Fix crashes when searching for renderers
* Relocate localedir for Linux (improves snap i18n support)
* Fix VDPAU GLX usage on Linux
* Improve support for NetBSD
* Fix MSI script for Windows
* Fix libvlc_media_list not going to next media
* Fix character encoding on win32 consoles
* Miscellaneous chromecast improvements
* Fix missing OSD navigation feedback
* Various VLSub improvements
* lua: Fix scripts not being loaded on some filesystems
* lua: Add vlc.io APIs to handle UTF-8 paths

Changes for v3.0 - v3.0.1

Core:
* Fix use-after-free when cleaning playlists
* Fix crash on exit on Windows
Video output:
* Fix HLG tone mapping on some systems like macOS.
* Fix screensaver inhibition on Windows XP
* Fix various Direct3D11 crashes
* Fix HDR tone mapping in Direct3d11
* Fix pink screen on Windows
Access:
* macOS: enable SMB file sharing
Decoder:
* Fix potential stack buffer overflow with faad
* Enable Cineform HD in avcodec
Hardware Decoder:
* macOS: Improve HEVC 10bit performance with Videotoolbox
* android: Add MPEG2 support via MediaCodec
* Fix HEVC decoding with some files on Android/macOS/iOS
* Improve Direct3D11 memory usage
Demux:
* Improve MKV seeking speed
* Fix xspf base URL handling
* Fix reading mp4 trun with moof based offsets
* Fix adaptive http redirections
* Replace old API, fixing adaptive TLS leak
* Use mime type as fallback for HLS segment type
* Fix subtitle (srt,ssa..) seek when having a single entry
* Flag non default HDMV subset video streams
* Increase TS probing amount for 4K streams
* Miscellaneous MKV, MP4 & AVI crash fixes
Packetizer:
* Fix out of bounds read in mpeg4video
Stream Output:
* Improve chromecast loading speed
* Improve local/chromecast transition during playback
* Fix chromecast loading with some versions of Windows
* Fix chromecast loading with some chromecast devices (TVs and Android boxes)
* Fix wrong first cover art when casting
* Fix casting to VP9
macOS Interface:
* Re-add option to disable the fullscreen controller panel
* Auto-layout improvements
* Remove misleading playback warning indicator
* Fix crash with the interface for lua extensions (like VLSub)
* Fix show sidebar setting being ignored on restart
* Fix MKV files association
* Fix chromecast audio detection
Qt Interface:
* Improve scaling on HiDPI displays
Snap:
* Improve interface look and feel.

Changes for v2.2.6 - v3.0

Platform support changes:
* 3.0.x will be maintained as a LTS (best-effort basis, mostly for security) that will be the last working version for quite a few systems.
Indeed the 3.0.x branch will contain the last releases running on: - Windows XP, Vista, and the servers equivalent of those Windows versions - macOS 10.7, 10.8 & 10.9, iOS 7 & 8 - Android 2.x, 3.x, 4.0.x & 4.1.x - Compilers before gcc 5.0 and clang 3.4, or equivalent
* For the 3.0 branch, please note: * The Windows XP/2003/2003R2 support for VLC is now on a best-effort basis: it should work, but not without limitations. libVLC support for Windows XP is deprecated. You _really_ should upgrade to a more modern Windows version! * Windows Vista (all versions) without Platform Upgrade is not supported. * 64bit version of VLC for Windows is recommended. * Linux support requires now a kernel newer than 2.6.26. * Mac OS X 10.6 support is now removed. You need OS X 10.7.
Core:
* Support network browsing for distant filesystems (SMB, FTP, SFTP, NFS...) and rewrite the parsing of the media files and inputs
* Support keystores: fetch and store passwords securely (sic!) for common protocols (HTTP, SMB, SFTP, FTP, RTSP ...)
* Autodetect external audio tracks (ac3, m4a, aac, dts...) similar to subtitles
* Support HDMI passthrough for Audio HD codecs, like E-AC3, TrueHD or DTS-HD
* Support for 12bits codec and extended colorspaces (HDR)
* Support output renderers, like ChromeCast
* VLC now assumes vlcrc config file is in UTF-8
* Support portable version of Windows build (create a "portable/" folder)
* Support wayland surface type
* Allow to start the video paused on the first frame
* Refactor preparsing input
* EPG rework: table and single event updates, now using network time
* Refactor and fix subtitles es selection. Demuxers can now override es category single only or multiple es behavior
* Support for 360 video and audio, including viewpoint modification
* Support for ambisonic audio and more than 8 audio channels
* Support subtitles size live adjustments
Access:
* New NFS access module using libnfs
* New SMB access module using libdsm
* Adaptive streaming: * Rewrite MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support, including MPEG2TS and ISOBMFF profiles * Support HDS (Http Dynamic Streaming) from Adobe (f4m, f4v, etc.) * Large rework of the Smooth Streaming module * Replaced httplive stream filter with new HLS demuxer, replaced smooth stream filter with new Smooth demuxer, both using unified adaptive module * Support HLSv4-7, including MP4 and raw muxing and ID3 tags
* Support decompression and extraction through libarchive (tar, zip, rar...)
* New HTTP/TLS access module for HTTP 2.0 support
* Improvements of cookie handling (share cookies between playlist items, domain / path matching, Secure cookies)
* Support DVB-T2 on Windows BDA
* Support depayloading Opus from RTP
* New UPnP access module, to list directories without infinite recursions
* SMB/FTP/SFTP accesses can list directories
* Support sftp username and passwords options in URL, and key authentication
* New WASAPI audio capture module on Windows
* New "concat" access module for concatenating byte streams
* Named pipes and device nodes are no longer included in directory listings by default. Use --list-special-files to include them back.
* Support for timeout in UDP input --udp-timeout=
* New SAT>IP access module, to receive DVB-S via IP networks
* Improvements on DVB scanning
* BluRay module can open ISO over network and has full BD-J support
* Support for DVD ISO over network
* New SRT access module using libsrt
Hardware Decoder:
* Support HEVC hardware decoding on Windows, using DxVA2 and D3D11
* Support hardware decoding using Direct3D11, including GPU-zerocopy mode, and hardware filtering, for deinterlace and adjust
* DxVA2 GPU-zerocopy for hardware decoding and displaying on Windows, and support for hardware filtering, for deinterlace and adjust
* Support HEVC hardware decoding using OMX and MediaCodec (Android)
* Use MediaCodec via NDK native API after Android Lollipop
* Support MPEG-2, VC1/WMV3 on Android using MediaCodec
* OMX GPU-zerocopy support for decoding and display on Android using OpenMax IL
* Support 4:4:4 and 4:2:2 chroma samplings with VDPAU hw acceleration
* Important VAAPI improvements for 10bits, HEVC, direct-rendering support
* Support VP9 and WMV3 decoding using OMX and performance improvements
* Important improvements for the MMAL decoder and output for rPI and rPI2
* New hardware accelerated decoder for OS X and and iOS based on Video Toolbox supporting H.263, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, H.265/HEVC, MPEG-4 Part 2, and DV
Decoders:
* Support for experimental AV1 video
* Support for ARIB STD-B24 subtitles
* Support for experimental Daala video
* New MPEG-1 & 2 audio layer I, II, III + MPEG 2.5 decoder based on libmpg123
* New BPG decoder based on libbpg
* Fix uncompressed DVD-Audio (AOB) LPCM decoding
* Rewrite WPL playlists and add ZPL playlists support (Zune)
* Support TDSC, Canopus HQX, Cineform, SpeedHQ, Pixlet, QDMC and FMVC codecs
* TTML subtitles support, including EBU-TT-D variant
* Rewrite of webVTT subtitles support, including CSS style support
* Support 9-bit and 10-bit GBR planar formats
* Support for the OggSpots video codec
* HEVC packetization is mostly fixed
* H264 packetizer can now generate timestamps
* Packetizers have support for captions in SEI
* DTS packetizer handle DTS extensions (like DTS-HD): decoders like avcodec can now decode up to 8 channels
* JPEG images correctly oriented using embedded orientation tag, if present
* Support VPX high bit depth support
* Extend MicroDVD support with color, fontname, size, position extensions
* BluRay text subtitles (HDMV) are now decoded
* Improve Closed Captions detection, notably inside the video streams
* CEA-708 decoder
* New MIDI decoder for macOS and iOS using the AudioToolbox framework, works without a soundfont or with SoundFont2 and DLS soundfonts
Demuxers:
* Important rework of the MP4 demuxer, including: * Support for fragmented MP4 * Support EIA-608/708 subtitles in MP4/mov * Support WMV and WMAV in MP4/mov, aka Flip4Mac files * Support bitmap audio channel reordering in MP4/mov * Support for RTP Reception Hint Track with H.264, GSM and Speex payloads * Support for XiphQT(MP4) vorbis and Flac * Support for VP8/VP9/VP10/AV1 in MP4 * Support GoPro HiLight chapters * Support for TTML and WebVTT in ISOBMFF/MP4 and DASH * Add new metadata fields
* Important rework of the TS demuxer, including: * Support Opus in MPEG Transport Stream * Fix program selection with recorded TS (TopField, DreamBox and others) * Fix TS playback with PAT/PMT less recordings * Basic support for MPEG4-SL in TS and T-DMB * Support SCTE-18 / EAS inside TS * Support for new descriptors and ETT tables * Support for ARIB channel logos, as attachements, ARIB TR-B21/TR-B14-1 * Improve broken-PCR probing and fixing * Improvements for scrambled state detection
* Support HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS)
* Important rework of the PS demuxer, including: * HEVC support * Fix large number of samples, notably with PSM-less H264 * Partial support of PSMF * Fix broken SCR samples * Fix CDXA mpeg-1 support
* Improvements on MKV: * Rewrite MKV seeking * Support FFv1 inside MKV * Improve ADTS and LATM inside MKV * Improve DVD-menus support
* Support for lame's replaygain extension in mpeg files
* Support Daala in Ogg
* Improve Chained-Ogg support
* Fixes for DTS detection in WAV and MKV files
* Support for Creative ADPCM/alaw/ulaw/S16L in VOC files
* Support for Creative ADPCM in AVI
* Support WMV extended content metadata
* Directory Demux can now sort items, ignore extensions and hidden files
* Support AlbumArtist and DiscNumber metadata
* Support raw H265/HEVC files
* Support multi-channel WAV without channel-maps
* Support SBV subtitles
* Support for Scenarist Closed Caption
* Fix Quicktime Mp4 inside MKV and unpacketized VC1
* Support for isofLaC
* Improve fLaC seeking
* Replace --demux dvb-open option with --stream-filter dvb to parse channels.conf digital TV channel list files
Stream filter:
* Add an ADF stream filter
* Add a ARIB STD-B25 TS streams decoder
* Add a stream prebuffering plugin
* Rewrite libarchive module as a stream_extractor
* Remove HTTP Live streaming stream filter
* Add a zlib (a.k.a. deflate) decompression filter
* Add a skiptags module to help demuxers skip ID3/APE tags
Demux filter:
* Add a demuxer filter chain to filter or intercept control commands and demuxing
* Add a demuxer filter to block seeking (--demux-filter noseek)
Audio output:
* Complete rewrite of the AudioTrack Android module, it is now the default module for Android. It now supports HDMI/SPDIF passthrough for AC3/DTS/EAC3, 5.1/7.1 channels and float output, depending on the Android version.
* Add Tizen audio module
* HDMI/SPDIF pass-through support for WASAPI (AC3/DTS/DTSHD/EAC3/TRUEHD)
* Support EAC3 and TRUEHD pass-through for PulseAudio
* Important rework of the AudioUnit modules to share more code between iOS and macOS
* Support Ambisonics audio with viewpoint changes
Audio filters:
* Add SoX Resampler library audio filter module (converter and resampler)
* a52tospdif and dtstospdif audio converters are merged into tospdif, this new converter can convert AC3, DTS, EAC3 and TRUEHD to a IEC61937 frame
* Add a Spatialaudio module with 2 submodules: * an Ambisonics audio renderer, supporting up to 3rd order * an Binauralizer audio filter, working with Ambisonics or 5.1/7.1 streams
* Add Headphones option in Stereo Mode: use the spatialaudio module for headphones effects
* Add a pitch shifting module
Video ouput:
* Linux/BSD default video output is now OpenGL, instead of Xvideo
* OpenGL: * New OpenGL pro

Changes for v2.2.7 Beta - v2.2.8 Beta

Demuxers:
* Fix AVI invalid pointer dereferences
Translations updates
Changes between 2.2.6 and 2.2.7:
--------------------------------
Decoders:
* Fix flac heap write overflow on format change
* Fix crash in libavcodec module (heap write out-of band) (CVE-2017-10699)
* Fix infinite loop in sami subtitle
* Fix AAC 7.1 channels detection
Demuxers:
* Fix potential crash in ASX parser
* Fix AVI read/write overflow
Mac OS X:
* Fix compatibility with macOS High Sierra
* Fix regression in ASS subtitle decoding
* Fix crash during automatic update. Some users might need to manually
update to the newest version.
Video Output:
* Fix Direct3D9 output with odd offsets
Misc:
* Fix crash in MTP
* Support libupnp 1.8
Translations updates

Changes for v2.2.5.1 - v2.2.6

Video output:
* Fix systematic green line on nvidia
* Fix direct3d SPU texture offsets handling
Demuxer:
* Fix heap buffer overflows

Changes for v2.2.4 - v2.2.5.1

Security hardening for DLL hijacking environments
Translations updates
Misc:
* Update for Soundcloud, liveleak and Youtube scripts
* Fix potential out-of-band dereference in flac decoder
* Fix potential out-of-band reads in mpeg packetizers
* Fix infinite loop in subtitles demuxer
* Fix incorrect memory free in ogg demuxer
* Fix potential out-of-band reads in subtitle decoders and demuxers
* Fix green line on Windows with odd sizes
Changes between 2.2.4 and 2.2.5:
--------------------------------
Decoder:
* Fix mp3 playback quality regression in libmad
* Fix video scaling in VDPAU
* Fix playback of palettized codecs
* Fix ADPCM heap corruption (FG-VD-16-067)
* Fix AES3 16bps decoding
* Fix DVD/LPCM heap corruption (FG-VD-16-090)
* Fix SCTE-27 colors
Demuxer:
* Fix possible ASF integer overflow
* Fix MP4, VOC, XA, SMF divide-by-zero errors
* Fix MP4 heap buffer overflows
* Fix Flac metadata integer overflow
* Fix NSVf and AIFF infinite loops
* Fix flac null-pointer dereference
* Fix vorbis and opus comments integer overflows and leaks
Video output:
* Fix green line on Windows with AMD drivers
* Fix screenshots size
Access:
* Fix crash in screen recording on Windows
* Fix FTP scan string injection
* Fix HTTP size handling
Mux:
* Fix mp4 drift
Lua:
* Fix vimeo, youtube, dailymotion, cli, appletrailers, http, soundcloud scripts
Audio filter:
* Fix heap write in stereo_widen audio filter
Windows:
* The plugins loading will not load external DLLs by default. Plugins will need to LoadLibrary explicitely.
* Fix uninstaller path handling
* Fix taskbar buttons behavior
MacOS:
* Fix scrolling sensitivity on Sierra
* Resume points are deleted now if the user clears the list of recent items

Changes for v2.2.4 - v2.2.5.1 Beta

Security hardening for DLL hijacking environments
Translations updates
Misc:
* Update for Soundcloud, liveleak and Youtube scripts
* Fix potential out-of-band dereference in flac decoder
* Fix potential out-of-band reads in mpeg packetizers
* Fix infinite loop in subtitles demuxer
* Fix incorrect memory free in ogg demuxer
Changes between 2.2.4 and 2.2.5:
--------------------------------
Decoder:
* Fix mp3 playback quality regression in libmad
* Fix video scaling in VDPAU
* Fix playback of palettized codecs
* Fix ADPCM heap corruption (FG-VD-16-067)
* Fix AES3 16bps decoding
* Fix DVD/LPCM heap corruption (FG-VD-16-090)
* Fix SCTE-27 colors
Demuxer:
* Fix possible ASF integer overflow
* Fix MP4, VOC, XA, SMF divide-by-zero errors
* Fix MP4 heap buffer overflows
* Fix Flac metadata integer overflow
* Fix NSVf and AIFF infinite loops
* Fix flac null-pointer dereference
* Fix vorbis and opus comments integer overflows and leaks
Video output:
* Fix green line on Windows with AMD drivers
* Fix screenshots size
Access:
* Fix crash in screen recording on Windows
* Fix FTP scan string injection
* Fix HTTP size handling
Mux:
* Fix mp4 drift
Lua:
* Fix vimeo, youtube, dailymotion, cli, appletrailers, http, soundcloud scripts
Audio filter:
* Fix heap write in stereo_widen audio filter
Windows:
* The plugins loading will not load external DLLs by default. Plugins will need to LoadLibrary explicitely.
* Fix uninstaller path handling
* Fix taskbar buttons behavior
MacOS:
* Fix scrolling sensitivity on Sierra
* Resume points are deleted now if the user clears the list of recent items

Changes for v2.2.1 - v2.2.2 Beta

Access:
* Fix SetupFormat for continuous framesize in v4l2
* Fix off-by-one buffer overflow in RealRtsp module
* Fix screen recording aspect-ratio, framerate and potential crash
* Fix Windows directshow input freeze
* Fix MMS segmentation fault/abort when server forces a large allocation
Demux:
* Fix support for ms-dvr files
* Fix time detection in AVI files over HTTP
* HLS: fix hang on stop, crashes and small improvements
* Fix mp4 NULL dereference reported by by Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs
* Fix regression for VC-1 in WMV
* Fix MXF crashes on stop
* Fix EAC3 detection in some TS files
Decoders:
* Fix importing surface from main memory in VDPAU
* Fix possible double-free in ADPCM decoder
* Support 9-bit and 10-bit GBR planar formats
* Support GoToMeeting 2 and GoToMeeting 3 codecs
* Fix crash in teletext (zvbi) decoder
* Fix Bluray subtitles (PGS) timestamps
Audio output:
* Fix audio drop after a flush with pulseaudio
* Fix audio initialization on iOS
* Fix audio stuttering with AirPlay devices on OS X (2 sec delay needs to
be set manually by the user)
* Fix pulseaudio latency computation
* Fix alsa default device selection
Skins2:
* Fix video control that fails to show up
* Fix UTF-8 conversion issues
* Fix Unicode folders location failing to open the skins
* Fix crash over malformed skins bitmaps
* Fix fullscreen for Gnome3/Unity Window Managers
OS X:
* Support for OS X El Capitan
* Fix code signature for releases on El Capitan
* Improve resume dialog, starting time, preferences, lua extensions
* Fix threads ordering, preferences crashes, URL drag'n drops
Qt:
* Fix crash when opening multiple items on Windows
* Fix recent items appending when using a playlist
* Improve addons manager dialog, playlist
* Fix changing the audio-device in the menu
* Fix key and mouse event support for Qt >= 5.5 under X11
* Fix memory leaks
Video Output:
* Fix build if one disables XCB but activate VDPAU on Unix
* Fix Direct3D plane allocation size to avoid colour bleeding
* Fix some crashes in swscale resizing
Misc:
* Fix build with recent FreeRDP versions
* Fix interface crashes when input-title-format option is empty
* Fix MP4 mux divide-by-zero crash
* Improve PNG encoding time
* Fix some UPnP initialization lag
* Rewrite of the Jamendo Service Discovery
* Fix snapshot aspect ratio for anamorphic contents
* Fix custom snapshot sizes
* Dynamic generation of GnuTLS Diffie-Hellman parameters
* Fix "vb" transcoding parameter
* Fix superfluous audio channel extraction in the core
* Fix miscellaneous crashes, double-frees, integer overflows, infinite loops,
read overflow, invalid frees and division by zero issues
* Fix support for lua 5.2 and fix XSS in the http interface
* Update and improve Soundcloud, Vimeo and Youtube scripts
* Update of codecs and libraries to fix 3rd party security issues (like
TALOS-CAN-0036, TALOS-CAN-0037, CVE-2015-7981, CVE-2015-8126
Translations:
* Add Kashmiri and Maithili languages
* Update of most translations
libVLC:
* Expose audio mute, cork and volume change events: libvlc_MediaPlayerCorked,
libvlc_MediaPlayerUncorked, libvlc_MediaPlayerMuted,
libvlc_MediaPlayerUnmuted and libvlc_MediaPlayerAudioVolume
* Fix propagation of libvlc_MediaPlayerTitleChanged event
Translations:
* Update of most translations

Changes for v2.2.0 - v2.2.1

Codec:
Fix compilation with older libavcodec versions
Fix some VP9 decoding
Fix flac crashes
Fix lpcm channel ordering
Fix potential NULL dereference in dmo
Fix teletext framing code in DVB PES packets
Fix potential buffer overflow in schroendinger decoder
Fix AAC samplerate
Demuxers:
Fix MP4 chapters
Fix MKV overseeking, introducing slowness over network shares
Fix crash when playing SPC files
Fix ATRAC3 playback in MKV
Revert to older ASX code
Workaround TS issue with mpeg-audio
Access:
Fix sftp read and close sockets
Fix DTV build with Linux DVB versions < 5.8
Fix UDP/RTP input on Windows
Audio output:
Fix Alsa HDMI plugs
Improve Alsa output, with larger buffers
Fix DirectSound output with multi-channel files
OS X:
Fix numerous crashes in the UI
Fix video-wallpaper mode
Fix race when starting VLC from command line
Qt:
Fix recent items behaviour
Fix rotation filter activation
Fix mux modules names for the streaming wizard
Win32:
Timestamp the signature of the dlls
Fix extensions registration during install
Fix extensions dialog crash
Default to no DxVA decoding
libVLC:
fix libvlc_media_get_stats
Translations:
Update of Afrikaans, Albanian, Azerbaijani, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (United Kingdom), Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Macedonian, Malay, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian translations

Changes for v2.1.5 - v2.2.0 RC2

Important changes:
* The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+, notably most of the streaming output, muxers and access output modules
Core:
* Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible
* Add extensions manager and downloading from external repositories
* Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies
* Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
Access:
* Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes
* MMS audio selection on split audio streams
* Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection and BD-J navigation
* Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM
* Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs
Decoder:
* Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
* Support MediaCodec acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
* Add Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder
* Add video decoder module based on GStreamer plugins
* Add MMAL decoder for Broadcom VideoCore chips (like the RaspberryPi) supporting MPEG-2 and H.264, supporting GPU-zerocopy display
* Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
* libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
* Support MSN Audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1, Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless, and numerous videogame codecs
* Teletext subtitles display improvements
* Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
* Support setting the post processing level in Theora
* OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
* Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
* New jpeg image decoder
* Add tx3g subtitles decoder
* New SVG image decoder
* Fix Speex decoding over RTP and in flv
* Support more x264 and FFv1 RGB modes
* Improvements on ZVBI teletext decoder, notably for speed and alignments
Encoder:
* Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
* Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
* Support for Opus encoding using libopus
* New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
* New png image encoder using libpng
Demuxer:
* Support for Core Audio Format (CAF) files
* Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking, streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg
* Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking, synchronization and tracks exclusion
* AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations
* AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps
* MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion
* Support Opus in MKV
* Support VP8 in OGG
* Basic support for WebVTT
* Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 (AAC) Audio stream type in TS
* Support HDPR TS files
* Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
* FLAC packets validation using CRC
* Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
* Fix encoding issues in some XML playlist formats
* Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
* New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
* TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
* Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
* Support SVG images files (on glib platforms)
* Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV
* Support detection of SRT languages based on filename
* Support for seeking Standard MIDI Files
Video Output:
* Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
* New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
* New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
* New Android native window provider module
* Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
* Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
* Add MMAL based video output for RaspberryPi
Video Filter:
* New Oldmovie effect filter
* New VHS effect filter
* New Freeze effect filter
* Support I422 and J422 in transform
* NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
* Fix audiobargraph activation and usage
Audio Output:
* Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
* Audio device notifications for WASAPI
* Fix replay of sound buffer in DirectSound
* Split of MMDevice and WinRT audio modules
* Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes
* Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules
Muxers:
* Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
* Fixes for the AVI muxer to respect the specification
* Support VP8 in OGG
* Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS
Streaming:
* Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
* WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers vlc vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128} :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
* GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
* HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
* new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
* transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
* VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour with --no-sout-all
* --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
* Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP
libVLC:
* add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
* add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
Visualizations:
* Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
* Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
Interfaces:
* Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
* Add record button in Qt menus
* New module for core dialogs on iOS
* New layout for Qt buttons customization
* Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and OS X
Mac OS X Interface:
* Avoid grey bars in fullscreen when using Mavericks with multiple monitors
* Improve fullscreen behavior for the native and VLCs own mode
* Fixes for advanced preferences
* Added 'file size' column to playlist table
* in addition to iTunes, Spotify is automatically paused on playback start
* Option to increase playlist font size
* Improved crash log reporting
Misc:
* New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
* Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
* Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
Security:
* Numerous integer and heap overflow in Ogg, AVI, ASF, TTA and MP4 demuxers
Removed modules:
* iOS video output: use ios2
* OpenMash H.261 video decoder
* dirac encoder: use schroedinger
Translations:
* New translation in Urdu, Tatar, Silesian, Samoan, Kapampangan, N'ko, Kurdish, Kabyle, Mexican Spanish, Catalan, Amharic
* Update of all translations: Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese, Uzbek, Ukrainian, Turkish, Thai, Swedish, Serbian, Albanian, Slovenian, Slovak, Russian, Romanian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Punjabi, Dutch, Nepali, Norwegian Bokmål, Malay, Marathi, Latvian, Lithuanian, Korean, Kannada, Khmer, Japanese, Italian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Hebrew, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, French, Finnish, Persian, Estonian, Spanish, Modern Greek, German, Danish, Welsh, Czech, Bosnian, Bengali, Asturian

Changes for v2.1.5 - v2.2.0 RC 1

Important changes:
The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+, notably most of the streaming output, muxers and access output modules
Core:
Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible
Add extensions manager and downloading from external repositories
Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies
Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
Access:
Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes
MMS audio selection on split audio streams
Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection and BD-J navigation
Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM
Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs
Decoder:
Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
Support MediaCodec acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
Add Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder
Add video decoder module based on GStreamer plugins
Add MMAL decoder for Broadcom VideoCore chips (like the RaspberryPi) supporting MPEG-2 and H.264, supporting GPU-zerocopy display
Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
Support MSN Audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1, Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless, and numerous videogame codecs
Teletext subtitles display improvements
Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
Support setting the post processing level in Theora
OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
New jpeg image decoder
Add tx3g subtitles decoder
New SVG image decoder
Fix Speex decoding over RTP and in flv
Support more x264 and FFv1 RGB modes
Improvements on ZVBI teletext decoder, notably for speed and alignments
Encoder:
Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
Support for Opus encoding using libopus
New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
New png image encoder using libpng
Demuxer:
Support for Core Audio Format (CAF) files
Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking, streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg
Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking, synchronization and tracks exclusion
AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations
AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps
MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion
Support Opus in MKV
Support VP8 in OGG
Basic support for WebVTT
Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 (AAC) Audio stream type in TS
Support HDPR TS files
Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
FLAC packets validation using CRC
Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
Fix encoding issues in some XML playlist formats
Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
Support SVG images files (on glib platforms)
Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV
Support detection of SRT languages based on filename
Support for seeking Standard MIDI Files
Video Output:
Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
New Android native window provider module
Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
Add MMAL based video output for RaspberryPi
Video Filter:
New Oldmovie effect filter
New VHS effect filter
New Freeze effect filter
Support I422 and J422 in transform
NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
Fix audiobargraph activation and usage
Audio Output:
Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
Audio device notifications for WASAPI
Fix replay of sound buffer in DirectSound
Split of MMDevice and WinRT audio modules
Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes
Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules
Muxers:
Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
Fixes for the AVI muxer to respect the specification
Support VP8 in OGG
Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS
Streaming:
Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
vlc vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
:std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
with --no-sout-all
--ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
--demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP
libVLC:
add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
Visualizations:
Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
Interfaces:
Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
Add record button in Qt menus
New module for core dialogs on iOS
New layout for Qt buttons customization
Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and OS X
Mac OS X Interface:
Avoid grey bars in fullscreen when using Mavericks with multiple monitors
Improve fullscreen behavior for the native and VLCs own mode
Fixes for advanced preferences
Added 'file size' column to playlist table
in addition to iTunes, Spotify is automatically paused on playback start
Option to increase playlist font size
Improved crash log reporting
Misc:
New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
Security:
Numerous integer and heap overflow in Ogg, AVI, ASF, TTA and MP4 demuxers
Removed modules:
iOS video output: use ios2
OpenMash H.261 video decoder
dirac encoder: use schroedinger
Translations:
Update of all translations

Changes for v2.1.3 - v2.1.5

Important changes:
The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
Core:
Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
Add extensions download from external repositories
Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible
Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies
Access:
Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access. New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes.
MMS audio selection on split audio streams
Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection and navigation
Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM
Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs
Decoder:
Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
Support MediaCodec acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
Add Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder
Add video decoder module based on GStreamer plugins
Add MMAL decoder for Broadcom VideoCore chips (like the RaspberryPi) supporting MPEG-2 and H.264, supporting GPU-zerocopy display
Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
Support MSN Audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1, Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless, and numerous videogame codecs
Teletext subtitles display improvements
Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
Support setting the post processing level in Theora
OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
New jpeg image decoder
Add tx3g subtitles decoder
New SVG image decoder
Fix Speex decoding over RTP and in flv
Support more x264 and FFv1 RGB modes
Improvements on ZVBI teletext decoder, notably for speed and alignments
Encoder:
Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
Support for Opus encoding using libopus
New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
New png image encoder using libpng
Demuxer:
New CAF format module
Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking, streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg
Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking, synchronization and tracks exclusion
AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations
AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps
Support Opus in MKV
Support VP8 in OGG
Basic support for WebVTT
Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 (AAC) Audio stream type in TS
Support HDPR TS files
Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
FLAC packets validation using CRC
Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
Fix encoding issues in some XML playlist formats
Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion
Support SVG images files (on glib platforms)
Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV
Support detection of SRT languages based on filename
Support for seeking Standard MIDI Files
Muxers:
Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
Fixes for the AVI muxer for specification respect
Support VP8 in OGG
Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS
Video Output:
Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
New Android native window provider module
Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
Add mmal based video output
Video Filter:
New Oldmovie effect filter
New VHS effect filter
New Freeze effect filter
Support I422 and J422 in transform
NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
Fix audiobargraph activation and usage
Audio Output:
Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
Audio device notifications for WASAPI
Fix replay of sound buffer in DirectSound
Split of MMDevice and WinRT audio modules
Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes
Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules
Streaming:
Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers vlc vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128} :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour with --no-sout-all
--ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump. --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP
libVLC:
add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
Visualizations:
Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
Interfaces:
Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
Add record button in Qt menus
New module for core dialogs on iOS
New layout for Qt buttons customization
Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and MacOS
Mac OS X Interface:
Avoid grey bars in fullscreen when using Mavericks with multiple monitors
Improve fullscreen behavior for the native and VLCs own mode
Fixes for advanced preferences
Option to increase playlist font size
Misc:
New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
Removed modules:
ios video output: use ios2
OpenMash H.261 video decoder
dirac encoder: use schroedinger

Changes for v2.1.2 - v2.1.3

Core:
Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir
Access:
Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
Fix encrypted DVD playback
Fix v4l2 frequency conversion
Decoders:
Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid) by updating codec libraries
Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
Fix teletext crash on Windows
Demuxers:
Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing
Audio output:
Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X
Video Output:
Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
Fix transform off-by-one issue
Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC
Stream output:
Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
Fix record file names
Qt interface:
Fix minimal size possible on start
Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
Fix a crash in the audio menu building
Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows
HTTP interface:
Fix album art display on Windows
Translations:
Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek, Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian BokmÃ¥l, Nepali, Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian and Simplified Chinese translations
Fix encoding for Windows installer translations

Changes for v2.1.0 - v2.1.1

Core:
Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
Fix recording
Fix some subtitles track selection
Decoders:
VP9 support in WebM
HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
Demuxers:
Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
Support Speex in ogg files
Fix some .mov playlists support
Support Alac in mkv
Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
Access:
Fix DVB options parsing
Fix DeckLink HDMI input
Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
Audio output:
Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
Interfaces:
Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
Fix D-Bus volume setting
Qt:
Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
Fix play after drag'n drop
Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
Stream out:
Fix transcoding audio drift issues
Fix numerous audio encoding issues
Win32 installer:
Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
Mac OS X interface:
Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
Fix crashes on proxy lookups
Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
Fixes on the streaming dialogs
Improves interface resizings
Translations:
Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian BokmÃ¥l, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek translations

Changes for v2.0.8 - v2.1.0

Important changes:
The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+ Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
3rd party libraries (contrib):
/extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
Core:
Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management, better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
Port to Android
Port to iOS
Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
Remove SQL support
Decoders:
Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
Support for Ulead DV audio
Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen, Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
Encoders:
high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
Access:
Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later, remove support for previous OS X releases
Major improvements in DASH support
Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
Demuxers:
MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
Support for total number of tracks in major container
Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
Support for more MJPEG streams
Add support for liveleak streams
Add support for Wave/RF64 files
Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
Audio output:
Windows Audio Session API audio output support
OpenBSD sndio audio output support
Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
Android AudioTrack audio output support
OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices. This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
Audio Filters:
New remapping channel filter
New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
New VSXu visualization plugin
ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
New gain audio filter
Video Outputs:
New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
Video Filters:
New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
Stream Output:
Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
Options support for AVIO output module
Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
Livehttp stream encryption support
Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
Fingerprinters:
Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
Interfaces:
configurable password for the HTTP server
.hosts removed from the HTTP server
fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
Hotkey support for TS program selection
Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out rotate mode into the rotate video filter
Services discovery:
UPnP A/V subtitles
Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
OS X Interface:
Add support for multiple video outputs
Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen controller
Add a GUI to manage podcasts
Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
- This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of VLC's internal volume level
Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during playback
Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current selection and to manage the list of presets
Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
Add an option to show next / previous buttons
Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description, date and language
Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through 3rd party applications
Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams (system-wide settings)
Add support for the Video Title option
Add support for the Boss Key
The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
Qt:
Partial support for Qt5.0
Menus modifications and improvements
Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
Streaming output wizard rewrite
Add bitrate graph in information panels
Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
EPG display fixes and improvements
Add SD pixmap sources
Preferences hotkeys management fixes
Display playlist total duration
Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
Numerous fixes
Skins2:
Port to OS/2
Extend sliders, offsets options
New bitmaps caching mechanism
Numerous fixes and improvements
Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
libVLC:
new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
Removed modules:
portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
Hildon GUI
MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
Broken crop video filter
Switcher module
OSD parser and menu
Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
htcpcp :)
Translations:
Update of all translations

Changes for v2.0.8 - v2.1.0 RC 2

Important changes:
The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
Discontinued support for PowerPC-based and 32bit Intel-based Macs VLC requires Mac OS X 10.6 or later now on 64bit hardware
The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed. To tune compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually.
3rd party libraries (contrib):
/extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner system in /contrib
Core:
Audio core rewrite
Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
Partial support for Windows Store App
Removed SQL support
Add an audio fingerprinter
Disabled and marked obsolete --language selection
Decoders:
Support for OPUS via libopus.
Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec.
Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec
Support for Ulead DV audio
Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen, Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
Support for VDPAU hardware video decoding acceleration on Linux
Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
Encoders:
high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
Access:
Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later, remove support for previous OS X releases
Major improvements in DASH support
Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation
Demuxers:
MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
Support for total number of tracks in major container
Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
Support for more MJPEG streams
Add support for liveleak streams
Add support for Wave/RF64 files
Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV causing the program to terminate.
Add protection against several heap buffer overflow in libebml
Audio output:
Windows Audio Session API audio output support
OpenBSD sndio audio output support
Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES module
Android AudioTrack audio output support
OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices. This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
Rewrite of AudioQueue module for iOS (and OS X)
New, simplified AudioUnit output module for iOS
Audio Filters:
New remapping channel filter
New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
New VSXu visualization plugin
ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
Video Outputs:
New module to output using Decklink Blackmagic cards
New module using OpenMAX IL to output video
OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 modules Also, subpictures now work in the OpenGL ES2 module
Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
Video Filters:
New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images.
Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
Stream Output:
Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
Options support for AVIO output module
Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
Livehttp stream encryption support
Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
Fingerprinters:
Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
Interfaces:
configurable password for the HTTP server.
.hosts removed from the HTTP server.
fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows.
Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
Hotkey support for TS program selection
Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
Services discovery:
UPnP A/V subtitles
Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
OS X Interface:
Add support for multiple video outputs
Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen controller
Add a GUI to manage podcasts
Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
Add a GUI for the QTSound access module to process audio captured locally - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time.
Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of VLC's internal volume level
Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during playback
Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current selection and to manage the list of presets
Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
Add an option to show next / previous buttons
Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description, date and language
Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through 3rd party applications
Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams (system-wide settings)
Add support for the Video Title option
Add support for the Boss Key
The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are deprecated now and will be removed in a future release.
Qt:
Partial support for Qt5.0
Menus modifications and improvements
Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
Streaming output wizard rewrite
Add bitrate graph in information panels
Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
EPG display fixes and improvements
Add SD pixmap sources
Preferences hotkeys management fixes
Display playlist total duration
Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
Numerous fixes
Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
Remove language preference
New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality.
Added new profiles.
Skins2:
Port to OS/2
Extend sliders, offsets options
New bitmaps caching mechanism
Numerous fixes and improvements
Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
libVLC:
new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
Removed modules:
portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
Hildon GUI
MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
Broken crop video filter
Switcher module
OSD parser and menu
Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
htcpcp :)

Changes for v2.0.7 - v2.0.8

Access:
* Fix ISDB-S tuning
* Fix crash in QTsound
* Fix screen mouse file location
* Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
Demux:
* Fix use after free in sgimb
* Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
Decoders:
* Fix crash in the libavcodec module
Mac OS X:
* Fix interface crashes
* Fix autostart playback option
* Respect "playlist-autostart" option
Translations:
* update Welsh translation
* New Kannada translation

Changes for v2.0.6 - v2.0.7

Fix track selection for PowerPC machines.
Fix audio decoding for WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4.
Fix audio encoding for MP3 and AAC.
Numerous translations updates and new Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations.
Fix a memory leak when creating AVI files
Fix two XSS vulnerabilities in the Web UI
Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability in some playlist files
Fix a libVLC crash in MacOS X port

Changes for v2.0.5 - v2.0.6

Access:
Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
Audio Output:
Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
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
Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller, lua extensions, ...)
Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
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 Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian, Dutch, Danish, translations
New Gujarati, Aragonese translations

Changes for v2.0.4 - v2.0.5

Notable changes include improved reliability for MKV file playback, fixed MPEG2 audio and video encoding, pulseaudio synchronization, Mac OS interface, and other fixes. It also resolves potential security issues in HTML subtitle parser, freetype renderer, AIFF demuxer and SWF demuxer.

Changes for v2.0.3 - v2.0.4

is a major update that fixes a lot of regressions of the 2.0.x branch of VLC.
introduces an important number of fixes and improvements for all playback, notably for Blu-Ray, DVD, HLS, Ogg and MKV files; but also for Youtube, Vimeo, Koreus and Soundcloud.
adds Opus codec support, including multichannel ones and streams, and MSS playback through DMO libraries.
fixes numerous issues, including audio device selection, Qt and Mac OS interface, security issues and Windows wallpaper mode...
With faster decoding on multi-core, GPU, and mobile hardware and the ability to open more formats, notably professional, HD and 10bits codecs, 2.0 was a major upgrade for VLC.
fixes around a hundreds of bugs, and adds more than 300 commits on top of 2.0.3.

Changes for v2.0.2 - v2.0.3

VideoLAN and the VLC development are proud to present a minor update adding support for OS X Mountain Lion as well as improving VLC's overall stability on OS X. Additionally, this version includes updates for 18 translations and adds support for Uzbek and Marathi. For MS Windows, you can update manually if you need the translation updates.

Changes for v2.0.1 - v2.0.2

2.0.2 is a major update that fixes a lot of regressions of the 2.0.x branch of VLC.
2.0.2 introduces an important number of features for the MacOS platform, notably improving the interface, to be on-par with the classic VLC interface, better performance, removal of font cache and Retina display support.
2.0.2 fixes playback on older platforms, like old drivers on Windows XP, PowerPC on OSX or GMA950 on Intel OSX.
With faster decoding on multi-core, GPU, and mobile hardware and the ability to open more formats, notably professional, HD and 10bits codecs, 2.0 was a major upgrade for VLC.
2.0.2 fixes a couple of hundreds of bugs, and adds more than 500 commits on top of 2.0.1.

Changes for v2.0.0 - v2.0.1

Support for MxPEG files and streams
New features in the Mac OS X interface for more customization.
Numerous fixes in the Qt, the Mac OS and the skins interfaces.
Fixes for HTTP Live Streaming, CDDB, UDP/RTP support.
Security issues SA-1201 and SA-1202.
Limited support for Bluray discs menus.
Numerous fixes for MKV support.
Fix for splitted RAR files playback.
Numerous fixes for more than 120 bugs.
Codec and 3rd party libraries security updates.

Changes for v1.1.11 - v2.0.0

After 485 million downloads of VLC 1.1.x versions, VideoLAN and the VLC development team present VLC 2.0.0 "Twoflower", a major new release.
With faster decoding on multi-core, GPU, and mobile hardware and the ability to open more formats, notably professional, HD and 10bits codecs, 2.0 is a major upgrade for VLC.
Twoflower has a new rendering pipeline for video, with higher quality subtitles, and new video filters to enhance your videos.
It supports many new devices and BluRay Discs (experimental).
It features a completely reworked Mac and Web interfaces and improvements in the other interfaces make VLC easier than ever to use.
Twoflower fixes several hundreds of bugs, in more than 7000 commits from 160 volunteers.
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/releases/2.0.0.html

Changes for v1.1.10 - v1.1.11

VideoLAN and the VLC development team present VLC 1.1.11, a security release with some other improvements.
This release was necessary due to two security issues in the real and avi demuxers. It also contains improvements in the fullscreen mode of the Win32 mozilla plugin, the MacOSX Media Key handling and Auhal audio output as well as bug fixes in GUI, decoders and demuxers..

Changes for v1.1.9 - v1.1.10

Two months after VLC 1.1.9, we present you a minor release of VLC.
Fixing important bugs and security issues, here is VLC 1.1.10.
Security update regarding an integer overflow in xspf demuxer
Rewrite of the pulseaudio audio output module
Update of libmodplug for security reasons in Windows and Mac versions
Major updates in most language translations

Changes for v1.1.8 - v1.1.9

# Windows and Mac OS X:
- Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
# Demuxers:
- mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
# Mac OS X Interface:
- Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
- Improve Apple Remote handling
- Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
- Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
- Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
- Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
# Mac OS X Port:
- Fix Growl local notification plugin
- VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
- Fixes for eyeTV
# Translations:
- Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
- New Luganda Translation

Changes for v1.1.7 - v1.1.8

Two months after VLC 1.1.8, and after more than 50 million downloads of VLC 1.1.7, here is a minor release of VLC 1.1.8.
Introducing small features and fixing important bugs and a security issues, here is VLC 1.1.8.
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

Changes for v1.1.6 - v1.1.7

VideoLAN and the VLC development team present VLC 1.1.7, a small security update on 1.1.6.
Small new features, many bugfixes, updated translations and security issues were making the 1.1.6 release. Notable improvements include codecs, demuxers, Audio-CD support, subtitles, visualization and platform integration.

Changes for v1.1.5 - v1.1.6

Small new features, many bugfixes, updated translations and security issues are making this release. Notable improvements include codecs, demuxers, Audio-CD support, subtitles, visualisation and platform integration.

Changes for v1.1.4 - v1.1.5

Two and a half months after VLC 1.1.4, and after almost 50 million downloads of VLC 1.1.4, here is a minor release of VLC 1.1.5.
Introducing small features and fixing important bug and a security issue, here is VLC 1.1.5.
1000 Web-shows listing integrated inside VLC's playlist, provided by Channels.com
New Game Music Emu (GME) support
Windows SMB security issue - VideoLAN-SA-1006
Major updates in translations, and new translations in Asturian, Armenian and Modern Greek
Mac/Power-PC port fixed in 1.1.4.1
live .webm streams support
GPU HD decoding using Intel IGP on Windows, using DxVA2
Miscellaneous fixes on all Interfaces, Demuxers and Decoders modules
Codecs updates

Changes for v1.1.3 - v1.1.4

A bit after the 1.1.3, an important security issue was discovery in most windows applications, and VLC is affected too. Since security issues matters, here is a new release, targeted for the Windows platform!
Windows Dll loading security issue, in Qt4 and dmo modules - VideoLAN-SA-1005
Fix for folders opening issue on Windows
Updated translations

Changes for v1.1.2 - v1.1.3

A bit after the 1.1.2, we had to fix some important crashing bugs and you deserve a new release!
Taglib crash (CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004)
Fixes for FTP relative paths and directories
Fixes for Podcast and DVD modules
... and many other crashes and errors fixed
Extensions and scripts updates
Miscellaneous fixes in interfaces
Updated translations

Changes for v1.0.6 - v1.1.0

Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
Important changes for users:
On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output. Update to alsa-lib v1.0.23-2-g8d80d5f or later, or use the libpulse audio output plugin instead of the ALSA one (if you have PulseAudio).
Important changes for packagers:
The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to launch each time.
Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
- xproto,
- xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
- xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
- x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
Access:
Support for the sftp protocol
Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
Decoders:
Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
Invmem module improvements
Support for Atrac1 audio codec
Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
Support for Indeo5 video codec
Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
Support for VP8 codec
Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
Demuxers:
Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
Various EGP improvements
Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
Metadata and cover art improvements
Video Output:
Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
Extensions:
New content extensions framework for lua
Audio filters:
Chorus/Flanger audio filter
3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
NEON assembly audio converter module
Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
Playlist:
WPL and ZPL playlist support
Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
Podcast images are now displayed
Service discovery:
Service discoveries can now be written in lua
Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
Service discovery based on libudev
Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
Encoders:
x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given, uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
Stream output:
New smem module, streaming to memory
Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like: --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
Interfaces:
Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet and oldhttp.
rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
Visualization:
Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
Mac OS X Port:
Vastly improved VLCKit framework
A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework by Andy Matuschak et al.
New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
Windows port:
Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
Maemo port:
Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
Misc:
new sqlite module
--save-config command line option not supported anymore.
Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
Improved Solaris port
Bindings:
new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
phonon-VLC backend is now usable
Removed modules:
csri codec: use the libass module instead.
galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
transrate: broken since too long
Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
HAL: Use libudev instead.
gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
cddax: use cdda instead.
cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
access_file removed in favor of filesystem
RTMP input and output: use avio module

Changes for v1.0.5 - v1.1.0 RC

Important changes for users:
On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output. Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
Important changes for packagers:
The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to launch each time.
Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
- xproto,
- xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
- xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
- x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
Access:
Support for the sftp protocol
Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
Decoders:
Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP usage
Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
Invmem module improvements
Support for Atrac1 audio codec
Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
Multiple improvements for subtitles styles .SRT and .SSA
Support for Indeo5 video codec
Support for Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec natively on all platforms
Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
Direct rendering is always used with H.264 in avcodec module
Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
Support for VP8 codec
Demuxers:
Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
Various EGP improvements
Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
Many fixes on Matroska support and support for webm format
Playlist:
WPL and ZPL playlist support
Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
Podcast images are now displayed
Video Output:
Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin) Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one) MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html) Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
Extensions:
New content extensions lua framework
IMDb extension
Audio filters:
Chorus/Flanger audio filter
3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
NEON assembly audio converter module
Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
Visualization:
Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
Service discovery:
Service discoveries can now be written in lua
Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
Service discovery based on libudev
Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
Encoders:
x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given, uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
Stream output:
New smem module, streaming to memory
Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like: --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
Interfaces:
Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet and oldhttp.
rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
Mac OS X Port:
Vastly improved VLCKit framework
A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework by Andy Matuschak et al.
New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
Windows port:
Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
Experimental playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
Maemo port:
Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
Misc:
new sqlite module
--save-config command line option not supported anymore.
Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
Bindings:
new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
phonon bindings are now usable
Removed modules:
csri codec: use the libass module instead.
galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
transrate: broken since too long
Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
HAL: Use libudev instead.
gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
cddax: use cdda instead.
cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
access_file removed in favor of filesystem
RTMP input and output: use avio module

Changes for v1.0.3 - v1.0.5

Decoders:
SubRip extra styles improvements
Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
Mac OS X Interface:
Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
Windows port:
Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly increase performance and fix x264 issues
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

Changes for v1.0.2 - v1.0.3

Video outputs:
Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to regressions in most popular drivers
New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
Decoders:
Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
Encoders:
x264 has profile-limitter, like: #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
Input:
Update for appletrailers lua script
Fixes on the RAR stream filter
Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
Service discovery:
New udev module for linux
Qt4 interface:
Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
Translations:
French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates

Changes for v1.0.1 - v1.0.2

This version introduces many fixes, notably for SSA decoding, v4l2, MacOS interface, ogg/theora, x264 modules and security issues. It also introduces the port to 64bits for Mac OS platform and 2 new languages (Kazakh and Croatian).
Because of the security issues, we strongly recommand everybody to update its version of VLC.

Changes for v1.0.0 - v1.0.1

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

Changes for v0.9.9 - v1.0.0

Important notes:
Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses. See 'Access:' for more info.
Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
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
Closed Captions using the 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 - the development form of zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
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 and Mac OS X.
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: - More menus actions - Finer speed slider - Improvements on many dialogs - New dialog for plugins listing - Fixed-size mode for videos - 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: - an interface based on Hildon framework. - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
Windows CE Port:
EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
Mac OS X Port:
Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
Support for latest iSight models
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.
Miscellaneous:
Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications

Changes for v0.9.8a - v0.9.9

fullscreen behaviour on Windows with multiple screens,
workaround bug with libxml2 >=2.7.3,
video performance on Intel-based Macs,
various decoders updates on Windows.

Changes for v0.9.4 - v0.9.6

This is a bugfix release. VLC media player 0.9.5 and earlier versions suffer from a security vulnerability in CUE and Realtext subtitle demuxer. Further technical details are available in our advisory.
We recommend all users upgrade to this new version.

Changes for v0.9.0 Test 2 - v0.9.2

Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
Multiple bugfixes.

Changes for v0.8.6h - v0.8.6i

Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)

Changes for v0.8.6e - v0.8.6f

Security updates:
Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489)
Fixed cinepak integer overflow
Various bugfixes:
The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
Close MMS access on network timeout
Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer

Changes for v0.8.6d - v0.8.6e

Various bugfixes:
Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
Security updates:
Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296, VideoLAN-SA-0801)
Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130, VideoLAN-SA-0802)
Audio filter:
Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
Audio output:
Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
Access:
Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
Stream output:
Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
Encoders:
Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264 encoding on multi-cpu systems
- Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
- Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
Mac OS X Interface & Port:
Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
Localization:
Updated Romanian and Polish translations

Changes for v0.8.6c - v0.8.6d

Various bugfixes:
Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences in input
Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
Windows and Mac OS Binaries:
FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
Active X plugin:
Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703)
Mac OS X Interface & Port:
Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of two different movies
Support for current Ogg file formats
NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher. Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
Encoders:
Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
Other changes:
The automatic updating facility was removed
You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.

Changes for v0.8.6a - v0.8.6b Test 1

Fix: out-of-bound read in demuxers
Fix: demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
Fix: Mac OS X Interface crashes
Fix: VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
Fix: Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
Fix: correct behaviour for feeding streams to icecast or shoutcast servers
Decoder: Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
Decoder: Teletext subtitles support
Webbrowser plugin: Rectified behaviour and improved usability
Mac OS X: Diverse usability improvements
Mac OS X: New wizard option to include subtitles
Mac OS X: Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
Mac OS X: Improved Delete-Preferences-Script

Changes for v0.8.6 - v0.8.6a

Fixes security vulnerability which can lead to arbitrary code execution (Security Advisory 0701)
Improves the usability of the Fullscreen Controller on Mac OS X

Changes for v1.0.0 - v1.0.1

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

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