Latest Version of VLC Media Player

[Marxel]

VLC media player 0.9.9




Multimedia player VLC media player

In version 0.9.9 of VLC media player, the developers include support for Real media formats improved.
Also the fullscreen playback on multiple monitors should now work more smoothly.
In addition to performance increases for the Mac version has been in the new version
also numerous bug fixes introduced.

VLC media player is a free multimedia player,
a large number of formats supported.
In addition to the playback of Video CDs and DVDs, he mastered various streaming protocols
and can also itself as a streaming server.

Among the specific capabilities of the playback software is one of incomplete
and to a certain extent corrupted files,
for example, by broken downloads can arise.
In addition to some filters, which even in real time can be applied,
The player also offers several settings for the audio and video track.

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[Marxel]

VLC Media Player 1.0.0 RC1


Changes between 0.9.9a and 1.0.0-rc1:
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12-05-09
Important notes:
----------------
* Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
See 'Access:' for more info.

Playback:
* Instantaneous pausing
* Frame-by-Frame playback
* Finer speed control
* On-the-fly recording for all medias
* Timeshift for most medias
* RTSP trickplay support
* Subtitles core improvements and fixes

Decoders:
* New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
* New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
* New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
* New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
* New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
* Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
* New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
* Close Caption under SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
* Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
* Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering

Demuxers:
* Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
* Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
* Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
* Metadata for mod files are supported
* GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
* New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
* New dirac demuxer for raw dirac streams

Encoders:
* Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
* Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder

Access:
* RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
* On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
* Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
* DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
* New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
* DVB scanning on linux
* EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
* On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form zip://file.zip|file.avi to specify the file)
* Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
* MTP device access on Unix
* CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
* :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values

Inputs:
* Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
* Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
Windows.

Playlist:
* Export the playlist in HTML
* Lua script for BBC radio playback
* Better metadata handling and reading

Linux/Windows interface:
* Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
* Various fixes for skins2 interface
* Recently played items list
* Interface toolbar customizations
* Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
- More menus actions
- Finer speed slider
- Improvements on many dialogs
- New dialog for plugins listing
- Fixed-size mode for videos
- Better teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
* Better integration in GTK environments

Mac OS X Interface:
* Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
* Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
* Easy addition of Subtitles through the Video menu
* Additional usability improvements

Stream output:
* Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
* Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
* bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
* Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
* Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.

Maemo Port:
* New Maemo port with:
- an interface based on Hildon framework.
- scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.

Windows CE Port:
EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.

Mac OS X Port:
* Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
* Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc

Audio output:
* Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
* Surround support for PulseAudio

Video output:
* Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
* Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
(hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
* Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
The old image video output has been removed.
* Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.

Miscellanous:
* Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications

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[Marxel]

VLC Media Player 1.0.0-rc3

Changes between 1.0.0-rc2 and 1.1.0-git:
Mac OS X Interface:
* Completely reworked user interface
(based upon works from GSoC 2008)

Playlist:
* WPL playlist support
* ZPL playlist support

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[Marxel]

VLC Media Player 1.0.2

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

[Marxel]

VLC 1.0.3 Release Candidate and Windows 7

2009-10-22_What's New in This Release: 

Decoders:
· Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
· Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
· Various fixes on theora and ogg
Demuxers:
· Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
· Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
Access:
· Fixes for v4l2 devices
· Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
Qt Interface:
· Fix some playlist sorting issues
Mac OS X Interface:
· Fixed a crash when updating VLC
· Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
· Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
· Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
Mac OS X Port:
· The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
· with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
· Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
· no support for Goom and SDL
· limited text rendering support
· This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
· Encod...

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[Marxel]

VLC 1.0.3 Final is out

Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
--------------------------------

Video outputs:
 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
   regressions in most popular drivers
 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms

Decoders:
 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
   didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks

Encoders:
 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
    #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}

Input:
 * Update for appletrailers lua script
 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer

Service discovery:
 * New udev module for linux

Qt4 interface:
 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels

Translations:
 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates

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[Marxel]

VLC media player 1.0.4

10-12-09

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[Marxel]

VLC media player 1.0.5

31.01.2010
Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
--------------------------------

Decoders:
 * SubRip extra styles improvements
 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders

Mac OS X Interface:
 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote

Windows port:
 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
   increase performance and fix x264 issues

Translations:
 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithunanian, Romanian, Ukranian, Japanese, Bengali,
   Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
   Russian, Slovak translation updates
 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations

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[Marxel]

VLC Media Player 1.0.6

The VLC development team is proud to introduce a new version of its 'Goldeneye' branch.
 This release bridges the gap between version 1.0.5 and the upcoming 1.1.0 VLC release.
 It fixes several vulnerabilities which were uncovered during the development of VLC 1.1.0.
 It also introduces a number of additional stability and other fixes. Binaries for Windows and Mac OS are not yet on the pipe.

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[Marxel]

VLC 1.1.0 Release Candidate 1

VideoLAN and the VLC developers are proud 
to announce the first Release Candidate of the 1.1.0 version of VLC.
This test release, aimed at power-users is a major update
 on the current VLC 1.0.x branch. It includes numerous changes
 modification and improvements, including GPU/DSP decoding, support for more formats and codecs and extensions.


Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.1.0-rc:
------------------------------------
Important changes for users:
 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
   Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.

Important changes for packagers:
 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
   generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
   later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
   by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
   can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
   launch each time.
 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
   - xproto,
   - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
   - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
   - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
   required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.

Access:
 * Support for the sftp protocol
 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0

Decoders:
 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
 * Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP usage

 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
 * Invmem module improvements
 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles .SRT and .SSA
 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
 * Support for Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec natively on all platforms
 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
 * Direct rendering is always used with H.264 in avcodec module
 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
 * Support for VP8 codec

Demuxers:
 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
 * Various EGP improvements
 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
 * Many fixes on Matroska support and support for webm format

Playlist:
 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
 * Podcast images are now displayed

Video Output:
 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
   desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
     Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
     Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
     MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
     Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)

Extensions:
 * New content extensions lua framework
 * IMDb extension

Audio filters:
 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited 
   resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF 
   and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
 * NEON assembly audio converter module
 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input

Visualization:
 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries

Service discovery:
 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
 * Service discovery based on libudev
 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed

Encoders:
 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
    #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
   uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported

Stream output:
 * New smem module, streaming to memory
 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
   --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"

Interfaces:
 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
   and oldhttp.
 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.

Mac OS X Port:
 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
   by Andy Matuschak et al.
 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote

Windows port:
 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
 * Experimental playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module

Maemo port:
 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface

Misc:
 * new sqlite module
 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.

Bindings:
 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
 * phonon bindings are now usable

Removed modules:
 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
 * transrate: broken since too long
 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
 * cddax: use cdda instead.
 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
 * RTMP input and output: use avio module

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