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Nightly builds:
  VLC's Subversion sources built for BeOS 5. The packages are available here. Be adviced that these development builds are usually unstable.

nightly
 License:   GPL
 Updated:   July 25, 2004
 Source:   Source Not Available
 (no information provided)

  Note:  There are no downloads available for this version.


Release:
  This is the latest stable release of VLC.

Version 0.8.6c
 License:   GPL
 Updated:   July 3, 2007
 Source:   Source Available
VLC 0.8.6c for BeOS and Zeta. This is (generally) a security and stability update from 0.8.6

Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
----------------------------------

Various bugfixes, notably:
* Windows Vista compatibility
* Cropping in Direct3D
* Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
* RSS filter string overflow
* Few memory leaks
* MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)

CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
* Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702)

Demuxers:
* Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI

Decoders:
* Updated FLAC API compatibility

Input:
* Support for new v4l2 encoder API

Localisation:
* New localisation: Arabic, Persian


Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
----------------------------------

Various bugfixes, notably:
* Out-of-bound read in demuxers
* Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
* Mac OS X Interface crashes
* VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
* Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
* Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers

Decoders:
* Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
* Teletext subtitles (telx) support

Webbrowser plugins:
* Rectified behaviour and improved usability

Mac OS X Interface & Port:
* Diverse usability improvements
* New wizard option to embed subtitles
* Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
* Improved Delete-Preferences-Script


Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
---------------------------------

CDDA / VCDX plugins:
* Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701)

Mac OS X Interface:
* Fullscreen controller improvements


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Version 0.8.6
 License:   GPL
 Updated:   December 17, 2006
 Source:   Source Available
Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
--------------------------------

Playlist:
* Shoutcast TV listings support

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

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

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

Localization:
* Add Czech
* Add Slovak
* Add Malay
* Add Slovenian

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Version 0.8.5
 License:   GPL
 Updated:   May 13, 2006
 Source:   Source Available
Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5

Core support:
* Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
* Support for downloading updates
* Updated strings

Input:
* Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
* Improvements to the Audio CD input
- Separate playlist entries for the tracks
- Support for CDDB
* Improved subtitles encoding support
* Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web

Decoders:
* Cook (Real audio) support

Playlist / Services discovery:
* XSPF playlist support
* Podcast support
* Updated Shoutcast to use new listing

Audio output:
* New JACK audio output

Video output:
* New video filters:
- magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
- gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
- bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
* Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
* RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
* Improvements to the subtitles rendering

Stream output:
* Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams

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Version 0.8.4b
 License:   GPL
 Updated:   December 14, 2005
 Source:   Source Available
NEWS file, clipped for BeOS-relevance:

Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
---------------------------------

Decoder:
* Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
* Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263

Demux:
* Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks

Services Discovery:
* UPnP fixes

Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
--------------------------------

Core support:
* Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
* New OSD system

Video output:
* Fixed problems with OpenGL output
* New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
* Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format

Input:
* Support for RTP packet reordering
* Fixed syntax for FTP URLs

Decoders:
* Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
* Musepack decoder using libmpdec
* QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)

Video filters:
* RSS feed overlay

Audio filters:
* Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
Mixer and Dolby Surround

Stream output:
* New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
* Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
* Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments

Interfaces:
- new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
* HTTP
- New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
- Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
the names of files
- Include macro to include other files
- CGI 1.0 support

Translations:
The following languages were added:
* Galician
* Korean
* Romanian
* Simplified Chinese
The following languages were re-added:
* Swedish

Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
--------------------------------

Core support:
* Rewrite of the playlist
- Tree structure
- Input preparsing (for meta-data)
- Grouping (by artist, ...) support
* Preferences improvements:
- New organization, designed to improve usability
- New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
* XML parsers
* Core image manipulation support
* Client-side SSL/TLS support
* SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
* Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
* Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
* Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
* Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
* filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
now separated by ':' instead of ','
* Access filter architecture
* Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
* Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
* Many bugfixes...

Input/Demuxers:
* Support for SOCKS proxy
* Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
* Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
* Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
* Better support for Kasenna streams
* RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
* Massive Matroska improvements
* Support for XA and VOC audio files
* TiVo demuxer
* Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
* Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug

Decoders / Encoders:
* Dirac decoder and encoder
* PNG decoder/encoder
* Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec

Access filters:
* New Record and Timeshift filters

Services discovery:
* New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
* Brand new SAP module
* To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
* Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
* HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
* Shoutcast

Audio output:
* Support for 20/24 bits LPCM

Video output:
* Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
* Image file video output (png)
* Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
* Improvements to wall video filter
* Support for font color and opacity

Stream output:
* Muxers
- ASF improvements
* VLM / VoD
- Ability to load a configuration file on startup
- Seeking support in VoD streams
* Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)

Interfaces:
* HTTP
- Support for the new playlist system

BeOS port:
* Support for single-buffered overlay

Translations:
The following languages were added:
* Catalan
* Danish
* Turkish


Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
-----------------------------------------------------

Video Output:
* Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available

Demuxers:
* Fixed crash with ODML avi files
* Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
* Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming

Stream Output:
* Encoders:
* Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
* Stream output:
* Support of playlist group announcement

Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
-----------------------------------------------------

Core support:
* Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
* Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
* New plugins cache to speed up launch time
* New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
* Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
* Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem

Input:
* New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
(Stream your desktop)
* Improved DVD support:
- uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
- uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
* Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
* Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
* More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
(selection of titles/chapters).

Demuxers:
* Support for iTunes Music Store previews
* Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
* Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
* Windows Media Server RTSP support
* Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
* Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
* Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
* Improved Ogg demuxer
* Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
* Support for so called AACPlus webstreams

Codecs:
* G.726 audio support
* 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
* MPEG-4 text support
* Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
* Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
* VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska

Stream Output:
Encoders:
* Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
* Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
* Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
* Frame rate selection in the transcoder
* MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
* Improved vorbis/theora encoding
Muxers:
* Text track muxing for mp4
* Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
* 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
* Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
* New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
* Improved ASF muxer
Misc:
* H.263 RTP streaming support
* SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
* Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)

Audio Output:
* New audio equalizer filter
* Very trivial volume normalizer
* True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
* More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
* New audio output plugin using portaudio v19

Video Output:
* Improved filter and subpictures support :
- New filters can be streamed.
- "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
- Centralized scaling and blending
* New filters :
- "time", to display current time
- "marq", to display a marquee

Interfaces:
* OSD sliders for volume and postition information
* OSD icons for Play and Pause

Misc:
* Server/client network synchronization module
* VBrick streams fully supported
* Cisco IP/TV streams supported
* VLM enhancements

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Version 0.7.2
 License:   GPL
 Updated:   May 23, 2004
 Source:   Source Available
Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
--------------------------------

Core support:
* Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
* Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
* Improved HTTP daemon.
* Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.

Codecs:
* New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
(http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
* New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
* H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
* Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
(allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
* Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).

Input:
* --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
* Improved directory access module.
* New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
* Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
* New options to pass meta info to the input.
* It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
(satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)

Demux:
* Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
* mmsh streaming fixes.
* Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.

Subtitles:
* Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
* Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
* Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.

Stream output:
* Improved session announcement system.
* Minimize threads usage by default.
* Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
* Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
* Improved MPEG TS muxer.
* Improved transrater.
* Meta info options used by the muxers.
* New configuration system.
* Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.

VideoLAN manager:
* New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
* Supports live streams and VoD.
* Supports scheduling.
* Telnet interface for vlm.
* HTTP interface for vlm.

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Version 0.7.1
 License:   GPL
 Updated:   March 2, 2004
 Source:   Source Available
Core support:
* Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.

Codecs:
* Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
(http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
* Fixed DTS S/PDIF output

Playlist:
* Internal improvments
* Improved import/export

Input:
* Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
container formars.
* New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
small and strange formats.
* New PVA demux.
* New MOD audio demux.
* Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
* Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
* Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.

Stream output:
* MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
* Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
* Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).


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Version 0.7.0
 License:   GPL
 Updated:   January 4, 2004
 Source:   Source Available
Core support:
* Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
* New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
* Video outputs are recycled if possible.
This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
* Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
* New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for subtitle files at the core, and much much more.

Playlist:
* Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
* Playlist sorting

Input:
* RTP/RTSP support.
* Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
* Support for Flac in Ogg files.
* MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
* Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
* cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
* Reworked DVB tuning.
* Better Icecast support.
* New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
* New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.

Codecs:
* Support for Theora video encoding.
* Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
* Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
* Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
* Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
* MPEG 2.5 audio support.
* Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).

Stream output:
* Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
* New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
* Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
* Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
* Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
* Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
* MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
* --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
* Preliminary RTP support.
* Fixes to SAP announces.

Interface:
* New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
* HTTP
- Improvements of the standard pages
- Support for new commands
* OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).

Subtitles:
* Text subtitles now have a black outline.
* Text subtitles autodetection.
* Text subtitles charset autodetection.
* Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
* Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
* Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
* Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
* Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
* Support for subtitles in DVB streams.


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Version 0.6.2
 License:   GPL
 Updated:   August 14, 2003
 Source:   Source Available
Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
---------------------------------

Core support:
* Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.

Stream output:
* Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
* Improved MPEG TS muxer.

Miscellaneous:
* Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
* Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
  mpeg1/2 videos.

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Version 0.6.1
 License:   GPL
 Updated:   August 3, 2003
 Source:   Source Available
Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
---------------------------------

Core support:
* There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
* VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
  after a pause.

Stream output:
* Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
* Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
* Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
* PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
* You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.

Win32 port:
* Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
* Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
* Fixed sound on Windows NT.

UNIX ports:
* Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
* X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
  use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.

iPaq port:
* Gtk+2 interface called PDA
* Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
* Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
* Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
* Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).

Interfaces:
* Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
* Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
* A new CORBA control plugin.

Input demux:
* Improved support for the Matroska container format.

Miscellaneous:
* Improved build system.
* New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
* Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
* New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
  Should also work with languages like russion for instance.

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Version 0.6.0
 License:   GPL
 Updated:   June 22, 2003
 Source:   Source Available
Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
---------------------------------

Core Support:
* Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)

Input access:
* Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
* Fixed large file support on Windows
* Video 4 Linux support
* CD Digital Audio support
* Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.

Input demux:
* Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
* Support for OpenDML avi files
* More complete .mp4/.mov support
* Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)

Codecs:
* VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
* Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
* OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
* Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
* Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
* If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
* Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)

Interfaces:
* The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
* New HTTP remote control interface

Stream output:
* New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
* The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
* Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
* SAP (Session Announcement Protocol) support.

Miscellaneous:
* New reset option for the preferences
* You can set your language in the prefences
* New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
* Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
* Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own

UNIX ports:
* Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
* New skinable interface ported to X11.
* Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer

Mac OS X port:
* When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
* New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
* Fixed the deinterlace menu.
* Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
* New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
* New icons by Davor Orel.
* New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
* Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
* We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
* Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD

Win32 port:
* the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
* The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
* Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
* Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
* Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
* Fixed SVCD chapters support.
* Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.

BeOS port:
* Interface localization
* Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
* A few new keyboard shortcuts
* New full-featured Preferences window

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Version 0.5.3
 License:   GPL
 Updated:   April 8, 2003
 Source:   Source Available
Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
---------------------------------

Core Support:
* fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
* support for skins at the interface level
* new OSD module using Freetype2
* video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
* the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
input level before dropping out of date frames.
* configuration option to disable the translation of the interface

Input access:
* fixed HTTP redirects
* support for opening an entire directory
* EOF should be detected more reliably

Input demux:
* added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
* fix for some ogg web radio streams
* fixed reading TS streams over HTTP

Codecs:
* support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
* support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
* support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
* support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
* better SSA4 subtitles recognition
* new codec for raw I420 video
* improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder

Stream output:
* new HTTP output support
* fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
* fixed AV synchronization issues

Miscellaneous:
* support for oldstyle id3 genres

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Version 0.5.2
 License:   GPL
 Updated:   March 11, 2003
 Source:   Source Available
Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.2:

Core support:
* advanced config options are now hidden by default
* new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
* fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
* new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily Mac OS X
* fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
* DTS S/PDIF support

Codecs:
* support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
* new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
* fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)

Stream output:
* support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
* new --ttl option for Time To Live

DVD support:
* fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support

Miscellaneous:
* improved ID3 tag detection
* changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
* mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful gestures
* some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast

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Version 0.5.1
 License:   GPL
 Updated:   February 17, 2003
 Source:   Source Available
Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:

Core support:
* new mouse gesture interface
* audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
playing

Input access:
* various minor fixes on the network inputs
* fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)

Input demux:
* fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
* new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
continuity counter

Codecs:
* support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams

DVD support:
* fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
without the user consent

BeOS port:
* smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
* few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)

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Version 0.5.0a
 License:   GPL
 Updated:   February 6, 2003
 Source:   Source Available
Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:

Core structure:
* object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
* new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing S/PDIF and multi-channel support
* localization support via gettext on most architectures
* new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4 and A/52 streams are supported)
* build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint

Input access:
* mms:// support
* ftp:// support
* stability fixes in the HTTP access
* auto-detection of RTP encapsulation

Input demux:
* support for *.asf format
* improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
* support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
* support for ogg encapsulation
* support for *.wav format
* new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
* raw AAC support

Stream discovery & playlists:
* support for .m3u file format
* support for .asx file format

Codecs:
* support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats (only available with the .avi demux)
* support for ADPCM audio codec
* support for raw PCM data
* support for Cinepak video codec
* support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
* support for Xvid codec
* support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
* support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
* support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling from sources)
* new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263, H263i, MJPEG A/B

DVD support:
* experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay

Miscellaneous:
* headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
* Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any format that VLC can play

BeOS port:
* new settings window for adjusting post-processing, brightness, contrast, etc
* enhancements of the playlist window
* new messages window to see debug info
* fixed a few crashes


Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.0a:
* tuned priorities for a better playback
* improved playlist and file loading
* compatibility with SoundPlay's drag'n'drop
* the package includes debug symbols to avoid unreadable bug reports

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Version 0.5.0
 License:   GPL
 Updated:   February 3, 2003
 Source:   Source Available
Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:

Core structure:
* object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
* new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing S/PDIF and multi-channel support
* localization support via gettext on most architectures
* new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4 and A/52 streams are supported)
* build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint

Input access:
* mms:// support
* ftp:// support
* stability fixes in the HTTP access
* auto-detection of RTP encapsulation

Input demux:
* support for *.asf format
* improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
* support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
* support for ogg encapsulation
* support for *.wav format
* new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
* raw AAC support

Stream discovery & playlists:
* support for .m3u file format
* support for .asx file format

Codecs:
* support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats (only available with the .avi demux)
* support for ADPCM audio codec
* support for raw PCM data
* support for Cinepak video codec
* support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
* support for Xvid codec
* support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
* support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
* support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling from sources)
* new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263, H263i, MJPEG A/B

DVD support:
* experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay

Miscellaneous:
* headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
* Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any format that VLC can play

BeOS port:
* new settings window for adjusting post-processing, brightness, contrast, etc
* enhancements of the playlist window
* new messages window to see debug info
* fixed a few crashes

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Version 0.4.6a
 License:   GPL
 Updated:   November 29, 2002
 Source:   Source Available
New in 0.4.6:
This new release uses a52dec as the default decoder for AC3 sound for a better quality.

New in 0.4.6a:
This new build should not crash anymore in BeOS Max Edition or similar versions (thx vasper). Please report problems.

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Version 0.4.6
 License:   GPL
 Updated:   November 20, 2002
 Source:   Source Available
This new release uses a52dec as the default decoder for AC3 sound for a better quality.

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Version 0.4.5
 License:   GPL
 Updated:   October 15, 2002
 Source:   Source Available
More GUI enhancements, including dragging and dropping of DVD icons.
Fix to the deinterlacing filter.


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Version 0.4.4c
 License:   GPL
 Updated:   September 28, 2002
 Source:   Source Available
  • screen shots are now saved in the right proportion, if aspect correction is on
  • added direct access to titles and chapters in navigation menu (makes it easier to get to the movie of poorly produced DVDs)
  • workarround for problem, when a doubleclick was actually produced by two different mouse buttons (fixes unexpected fullscreen toggle)
  • changed Subtitle menu to work as before (it does not strip empty entries anymore)
  • in the playlist, text is truncated to the list view width
  • merged with changes done on the stable vlc tree in the meantime


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Version 0.4.4b
 License:   GPL
 Updated:   September 23, 2002
 Source:   Source Available
Ok Stippi has been at it again! :)
The playlist is now functioning. Double click on an entry to play, a green arrow shows the active movie and drag and drop support.
New screen capture option.
Improved audio handling of default volume and muting.
Better audio menu defaults.
Also working subtitles!!
Look around it is better.


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Version 0.4.4a
 License:   GPL
 Updated:   September 4, 2002
 Source:   Source Available
- added ability to open a file by dropping its icon onto the vlc icon
- reacts on Escape and Tab key to switch fullscreen/window mode
- blanks cursor when no activity
- Fixed a memory leak in VideoWindow::ScreenChanged()
- Fixed the ugly scrambled video content before any decoding actually begins
- Added selectable aspect ratio correction
- Implemented dynamic view layout
- Added "Speed" menu
- Added ability to enable navigation menu items according to features of current stream
- better support for muting and volume info
- better support for scrubbing and detection of stopped stream
- Exchanged rewind/fastforward buttons for skip buttons that skip to the next chapter if stream supports it.
- made nicer looking SeekSlider similar to BeOS MediaPlayer
- made VolumeSlider similar to BeOS MediaPlayer, plus additional features that one doesn't have (muted state)
- fixed a bug in toggle_muted()

Note: This version now requires the libdl.so. You can find it in the "Related Links" section below.

Thanks to Stippi !!! Great work!!!

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Version 0.4.4
 License:   GPL
 Updated:   August 20, 2002
 Source:   Source Available
Various Bug fixes.

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Version 0.4.3
 License:   GPL
 Updated:   August 2, 2002
 Source:   Source Available
New BeOS version has:
* better "broken" file handling.
* "safer" overlay code
* right-click menu on video screen
* auto-play on file and disc open
* many other bug fixes


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Version 0.4.2
 License:   GPL
 Updated:   July 10, 2002
 Source:   Source Available
Version 0.4.2 has the following new features:
* Support for multicast IPv6.
* Enhanced deinterlacing routines.
* Controls for audio output and deinterlacing in the OSX interface.

And the following bugfixes:
* Fix for the Gtk+ preferences menu crash.
* Better Win32 thread_cond_wait implementation.
* Subtitle rendering fixes.
* BeOS software rendering works again.

The full ChangeLog is at : http://www.videolan.org/vlc/changelog.html

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Version 0.4.1
 License:   GPL
 Updated:   June 6, 2002
 Source:   Source Available
The VideoLAN team is happy to announce version 0.4.1 of VLC, the VideoLAN Client, a multimedia player for MPEG, DVD and DivX under various operating systems.

Version 0.4.1 features the following changes:

* Support for AVI files with AC3 audio.
* Additional MMX optimizations in the video decoder.
* Improved Win32 interface with new icons and an eject button.
* Lots of bugfixes for slanted subtitles, bad colors in RGB mode, non-ASCII characters in MacOS X filenames, a playlist crash under BeOS, a memory leak in the Win32 port, and a few remaining crashes.

The full ChangeLog is at : http://www.videolan.org/vlc/changelog.html


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Version 0.4.0
 License:   GPL
 Updated:   May 25, 2002
 Source:   Source Available
The VideoLAN team is very excited to deliver version 0.4.0 of VLC,
the VideoLAN Client. This release features major advances, and
includes :

* MPEG-4/DivX/OpenDivX support via the ffmpeg and mad libraries ;
* Fixes for most known crash and freeze causes ;
* .mp3 files support ;
* A usable Mac OS X interface (no need for command-line any more) ;
* IPv6 and HTTP support for Win32 systems ;
* VCD support under FreeBSD ;
* Internationalized interface [wanted! we need more translators].

The full ChangeLog is at : http://www.videolan.org/vlc/changelog.html

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Version 0.3.1
 License:   GPL
 Updated:   April 20, 2002
 Source:   Source Available

The VideoLAN team is happy to deliver version 0.3.1 of vlc, the VideoLAN Client. This release fixes a lot of bugs discovered in 0.3.0, including:

  • Fixes in the input layer, especially satellite input.
  • AltiVec modules were fixed.
  • The Gtk+ interface doesn't crash anymore when accessing the popup menu.
  • The Solaris version doesn't segfault on startup.
  • Subtitles work under BeOS in software mode.
  • NVidia overlay support under BeOS.
  • The Win32 interface doesn't get stuck anymore.
  • The MacOS X port has proper aspect ratio.
The full changelog is at changelog.



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Version 0.3.0a
 License:   GPL
 Updated:   April 11, 2002
 Source:   Source Available
Improvements over 0.3.0:
No segfault when video finishes or is stopped.
Overlay now works on all cards that support YUV422, YCbCr422, RGB32 or RGB16 overlay modes.
This is confirmed to work on most GeForce and Voodoo Cards.

Thanks to misza (for the compile) and Bertil (for the nVidia code fix)

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Version 0.3.0 Non-BONE
 License:   GPL
 Updated:   April 9, 2002
 Source:   Source Available
Fixed segfault on stopping or ending. This version now works on non-Bone Machines. See my site for more details.
nVidia card owners remember you MUST run with the --nooverlay option.

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