Version history for VLC for Mac OS X (Intel 64-bit)

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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

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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

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Changes for v3.0.7 - 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)

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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Changes for v2.2.5.1 - 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

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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

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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 v2.1.5 - 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 v2.1.4 - 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 v2.1.1 - 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

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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

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Changes for v2.0.7 - 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

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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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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, VLC 2.0.2 remains the latest release.

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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.

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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.

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Changes for v1.1.12 - 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

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Changes for v1.1.10.1 - 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..

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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