VLC 3.0 "Vetinari"
Highlights
- Decodificación por hardware por defecto para vídeo en 4k y 8k
- Soporte HDR y 10 bits
- Soporte para vídeo 360 y audio 3D
- Soporte para reproducción en chromecast de forma nativa
- Posibilidad de ejecutar los menús en java de algunos Blurays
- Soporte para reproducción en NAS y discos locales
Página de descarga de VLC
Changes between 3.0.0 and 3.0.1:
Access:
- macOS: enable SMB file sharing
Hardware Decoder:
- macOS: Improve HEVC 10bits performances with Videotoolbox
Changes between 2.2.8 and 3.0.0:
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
- Windows XP, Vista, and the servers equivalent of those Windows versions
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.
- The Windows XP/2003/2003R2 support for VLC is now on a best-effort basis:
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
- Rewrite MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support, including
- 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=<seconds>
- 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 provider for Windows
- Drop OpenGL 1.x and OpenGL ES 1 support
- Direct rendering with OpenGL (starting OpenGL 4.4)
- Hardware direct displaying with VA-API interop
- Hardware direct displaying with VDPAU interop
- Hardware direct displaying with DxVA2/D3D9Ex interop
- Hardware direct displaying with VideoToolbox interop (iOS and macOS)
- HDR tonemapping support through libplacebo
- Wayland shell surface window provider
- Wayland shared memory video output
- Large rework of the Android video outputs: there is now Surface (2.1, 2.2)
NativeWindow (2.3+, supports hw rotation, subpicture blending, opaque) - Support rotation in Android NativeWindow output and hardware decoders
- Rename the Direct3D output module to Direct3D9
- Add a Direct3D11 video output supporting both Windows desktop and WinRT modes,
supporting subpicture blending and hardware acceleration - Support HDR10 in Direct3D11 with Windows 10 Fall Creator Update
- EFL Evas video output with Tizen TBM Surface support
Video filter:
- Hardware deinterlacing on the rPI, using MMAL
- New video filter to convert between fps rates
- Add 9-bit and 10-bit support to image adjust filter
- New edge detection filter uses the Sobel operator to detect edges
- Hardware accelerated deinterlacing/adjust/sharpen/chroma with VA-API
- Hardware accelerated adjust/invert/posterize/sepia/sharpen with CoreImage
- Hardware accelerated deinterlacing/adjust/chroma with D3D9 and D3D11
Text renderer:
- CTL support through Harfbuzz in the Freetype module
- New font fallback algorithm on most platforms
- More conforming EIA608 captions layout and aspect ratio
- More styles support for TTML, WebVTT and 708
Stream Output:
- Chromecast output module
- RGB24 and YCbCr 4:2:0 RTP packetization
Encoder:
- Support for Daala video in 4:2:0 and 4:4:4
- VP8 and VP9 encoder using libvpx
Muxers:
- Add fragmented/streamable MP4 muxer
- Add support for muxing VC1 and WMAPro in MP4
- Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
- Daala in Ogg
Service Discovery:
- New NetBios service discovery using libdsm
- New mDNS services discovery using libmicrodns
- New mDNS services discovery using Bonjour (Mac OS X, tvOS, iOS)
- Rewrite of the UPnP service discovery
Mac OS X Interface
- Drop support for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
- Support right-to-left user interface layout for right-to-left languages
- New resizable fullscreen controller with improved design
- Add status bar icon which displays metadata and play controls
- Add support for keyboard blacklight dimming during fullscreen video playback
- Improve and simplify preferences window
- Huge performance improvements in playlist handling and other areas
- New AppleScript API giving access to audio desynchronization
- Expand AppleScript API for menu detection and navigation
- Support for building with disabled sparkle update mechanism
- Remove deprecated transcoding wizard, use convert and save dialog instead
iOS:
- Drop support for iOS 6.x
Qt interface:
- Batch convert support
- It is now possible to specify 'stop-time' in Convert/Save dialog
Skins2:
- Support key accelerators
libVLC:
- Add libvlc_media_new_callbacks for custom input byte streams
- Add libvlc_audio_output_device_enum to enumerate devices of current aout
- Split of libvlc_media_discoverer_new_from_name into libvlc_media_discoverer_new,
libvlc_media_discoverer_start and libvlc_media_discoverer_stop
This allows to attach media events between create and start - Add libvlc_media_get_codec_description to get a human readable description of a codec
- Add libvlc_MediaListEndReached Event to get notified when a media list reached the end
- Add libvlc_media_list_player_get_media_player to get the media player instance of a list player
- Add libvlc_media_parse_with_options that uses a flag to specify parse options
- Add libvlc_audio_output_device_get to get the currently selected audio output device
identifier (if there is one available) - Add libvlc_media_get_type to get the type of the media
- Add libvlc_media_player_get_full_title_descriptions to get full title info of the media
and +libvlc_title_descriptions_release to match it - Add libvlc_media_player_get_full_chapter_descriptions to get full chapter info of the media
and libvlc_chapter_descriptions_release to match it - Deprecate libvlc_video_get_title_description, libvlc_video_get_chapter_description,
libvlc_media_player_get_agl, libvlc_media_player_set_agl - Add libvlc_media_player_set_android_context to integrate in an Android surface
- Add a new libvlc dialog API to forward dialogs requests to the applications:
libvlc_dialog_set_context, libvlc_dialog_get_context, libvlc_dialog_set_callbacks,
libvlc_dialog_dismiss, libvlc_dialog_post_action, libvlc_dialog_post_login - Add libvlc_media_discoverer_list_get|release to list the media discoverers
- Add libvlc_media_slaves_add, libvlc_media_slaves_clear
libvlc_media_slaves_get, libvlc_media_slaves_release to add and get slaves
from a libvlc_media - Add libvlc_media_player(get|set)role to set the media role
- Add libvlc_media_player_add_slave to replace libvlc_video_set_subtitle_file,
working with MRL and supporting also audio slaves - Add vlc_epg_event_(New|Delete|Duplicate), vlc_epg_AddEvent, vlc_epg_Duplicate
and removes vlc_epg_Merge
Logging
- Support for the SystemD Journal
- Use --syslog and --syslog-debug command line options to include debug
messages in syslog. With --syslog, errors and warnings will be sent only. - New Android module for logging
Misc
- remove langfromtelx
- remove ZPL playlist format
- Update libVLC doxygen modules
- Add a text-to-speech renderer for subtitles on OS X/iOS
- Add a text-to-speech renderer for subtitles on Windows
- Add Gnome libsecret-based crypto keystore
- Add KDE Kwallet-based crypto keystore
- Add a memory keystore
- Add a file keystore that can use a submodule to crypt secrets
- Add Keychain based crypto keystore for iOS, Mac OS X and tvOS
Removed modules
- Atmo video filter
- QTCapture access module (use AVCapture instead)
- httplive (use adaptive instead)
- smooth (use adaptive instead)
- Gnome-VFS access module (i.e. Gnome 2.x)
- QuartzText text renderer module (use Freetype instead)
- Win32 GDI text renderer module (use Freetype instead)
- Growl notification (replaced by osx_notifications)
- VCDX "extended" Video CD access module (use the normal VCD module)
- Mac OS X Dialog Provider (use VLCKit instead)
- iOS Dialog Provider (use MobileVLCKit / TVVLCKit instead)
- QuickTime decoder module (use native codecs)
- BD access module (use libbluray)
- Direct2D module (use Direct3D11)
- EyeTV access module
- Rar access and stream filter: use libarchive
- VDA decoder: use VT
- Audioqueue: use audiounit
- SDL video output module
- DirectFB video output module
- RAOP stream output module
Changes between 2.2.7 and 2.2.8:
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 between 2.2.5.1 and 2.2.6:
Video output:
- Fix systematic green line on nvidia
- Fix direct3d SPU texture offsets handling
Demuxer:
- Fix heap buffer overflows (CVE-2017-8310, 8311, 8312, 8313)
Changes between 2.2.5 and 2.2.5.1:
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 (CVE-2017-9300)
- Fix potential out-of-band reads in mpeg packetizers (CVE-2017-9301)
- 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 between 2.2.3 and 2.2.4:
Decoder:
- Fix crash in G.711 wav files
- Fix mp3 crash in libmad
- Fix out-of-bound write in adpcm QT IMA codec (CVE-2016-5108)
Qt:
- Fix resizing issues
Win32:
- Fix overlay creation on Windows XP for DirectDraw video output
Misc:
- Build fixes for Hurd
Translations:
- Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, German, French, Italian, Marathi, Norwegian
Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Portuguese, Slovak, Spanish (Mexico), Swedish,
Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese translations
Changes between 2.2.2 and 2.2.3:
Demux:
- Fix HLS quality selection and a potential stack overflow
- Fix potential MKV infinite loop and improve MKV tags support
- Fix WMV regression
Decoder:
- Fix hardware decoding with libvdpau-va-gl
- Fix crashes with libvpx
- Use libass without caching dialog
Video Ouptut:
- Fix green lines on Direct3D output
Skins2:
- Fix maximizing Window in multi-screen context
Qt:
- Fix resume where you left off
- Fix infinite recursion in the customize dialog
- Fix size when switching to/from the minimal interface
- Fix size after resume toolbar is displayed
MacOS X:
- Fix crashes in media information panel
- Correctly respect the disable-screensaver option
Win32:
- Allow opening more than 15 elements in Explorer
Translations:
- Update of most translations
Changes between 2.2.1 and 2.2.2:
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 between 2.2.0 and 2.2.1:
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 (CVE-2014-9629)
- 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 between 2.1.6 and 2.2.0:
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
- Fix CDDB lookups, including pregap data
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 and relative paths 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 <your-source> 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:
- Support for OS X Yosemite
- 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
- Update and improve Koreus, Dailymotion, Soundcloud and Youtube scripts
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 between 2.1.5 and 2.1.6:
Audio output:
- Fix OSS stuttering
Security:
- Fix heap overflow in decomp stream filter
- Fix buffer overflow in updater (CVE-2014-9625)
- Fix potential buffer overflow in schroedinger encoder
- Fix null-pointer dereference in DMO decoder
- Fix buffer overflow in parsing of string boxes in mp4 demuxer (CVE-2014-9626,9627,9628)
- Fix SRTP integer overflow
- Fix potential crash in zip access
- Fix read overflow in Ogg demuxer
- Fix RTP overflow (CVE-2014-9630)
Win32 installer:
- Update translations and greek encoding
Changes between 2.1.4 and 2.1.5:
Core:
- Fix compilation on OS/2
Access:
- Stability improvements for the QTSound capture module
Mac OS X audio output:
- Fix channel ordering
- Increase the buffersize
Decoders:
- Fix DxVA2 decoding of samples needing more surfaces
- Improve MAD resistance to broken mp3 streams
- Fix PGS alignment in MKV
Qt Interface:
- Don't rename mp3 converted files to .raw
Mac OS X Interface:
- Correctly support video-on-top
- Fix video output event propagation on Macs with retina displays
- Stability improvements when using future VLC releases side by side
Streaming:
- Fix transcode when audio format changes
Security contents:
- Updated GnuTLS to 3.1.25 (CVE-2014-3466)
- Updated libpng to 1.6.10 (CVE-2014-0333)
Translations:
- Update British English
Changes between 2.1.3 and 2.1.4:
Demuxers:
- Fix issue in WMV with multiple compressed payload and empty payloads
Video Output:
- Fix subtitles size rendering on Windows
Mac OS X:
- Fix DVD playback regression
- Fix misleading error message during video playback on OS X 10.9
- Fix hardware acceleration memleaks
Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3:
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 Bokmål, 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 between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2:
Audio output:
- Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
- Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
- Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external
audio devices on OS X - Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
- Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS
Demuxers:
- Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
- Various WMV playback improvements and fixes
Decoders:
- Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
- Fix playback of some HEVC samples
Video filters:
- Fix crash on deinterlace selection
Qt interface:
- Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
- Improve A-B loop control
- Fix album art update when changing media
Mac OS X interface:
- Add a language option in the interface
- Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
- Improved UI resetting when requested in the preferences
- Fix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
- Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
- Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
- Fix crash when closing window without decorations
- Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled
Win32 installer:
- Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update
Translations:
- Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian,
French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer,
Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala,
Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations
Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
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 Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
translations
Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
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 between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
Demux:
- Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
- Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
Contribs:
- Fix modplug security issues
Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
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 between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
Input:
- Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
- Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
playlist files
Decoders:
- Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
Encoders:
- Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
Muxers:
- Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
Video output:
- Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
Mac OS X Interface
- Minor improvements
- Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
HTTP Interface
- Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
Translations:
- Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations - New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
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 between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
Access:
- Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
Audio Output:
- Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
(however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist) - Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
Demuxers:
- Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
- Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
- Fix koreus lua parser
- Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
- Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
- Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
- Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
Video filters:
- Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
- Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
Encoders:
- Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
Mac OS X:
- Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
- Fix crash with local statistics disabled
- Fix Time counter UI look
- Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
Win32:
- Fix https streaming
libVLC:
- Fix audio and video track selection:
The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
Translations:
- Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations - Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
Audio Output:
- Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
- Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
- Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
- Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
- Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
during playback on Mac OS X
Access:
- Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
- Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
- Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
Codecs:
- Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
- Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
- Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
- Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
- Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
Demuxers:
- Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
- Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
- Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
- Support Youtube live streams
Windows:
- Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
Qt:
- Fix media info dialog update
- Fix random/repeat preferences saving
- Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
- Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
- Fix album art display at start
Mac OS X:
- Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
- Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
- Fix menus display and behavior
- Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller - Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
- Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback. - Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
- Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
Miscellaneous:
- Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
- Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
- Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
- Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
- Codec and other 3rd party library updates
- Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
- Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
- Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
- Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
Translations:
- Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations - Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
Access:
- Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
Demuxers:
- Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
- Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
Mac OS X:
- Add GateKeeper support
- Fix handling for some hotkeys
- Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
- Minor bugfixes and improvements
Qt:
- Fix Windows 8 interface style
Translations:
- Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
Thai, Turkish and Walloon - New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
- Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
Video Output:
- XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
There were too many errors with broken drivers. - More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
- Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
- Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
- Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
- Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra. - Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later. - Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
Retina Displays.
Access:
- Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
- Fixes for RAR compressed files
- Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
- Improve PulseAudio input latency
- Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
- v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
- Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
- IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
- Accept more extensions for DVD images
- Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
- Improvements in Blu-Ray playback