VLC Media Player Changelog

What's new in VLC Media Player 3.0.15

June 9, 2021

Demux:
Fix asf regression with broadcast streams
MP4: Fix audio drop on seek
Video Output:
Fix seek & volume sliders overlapping with subtitles
Fix delays when seeking with D3D11
Text renderer:
Improve freetype fonts outlining
Misc:
Fix GnuTLS support for Windows XP

New in VLC Media Player 3.0.14 (May 10, 2021)

New in VLC Media Player 3.0.13 (April 30, 2021)

New in VLC Media Player 3.0.12 (January 18, 2021)

New in VLC Media Player 3.0.12 Beta (January 8, 2021)

New in VLC Media Player 3.0.11 (June 15, 2020)

New in VLC Media Player 3.0.10 (April 26, 2020)

New in VLC Media Player 3.0.9.2 (April 9, 2020)

New in VLC Media Player 3.0.9.1 (April 9, 2020)

New in VLC Media Player 3.0.9 (April 9, 2020)

Core:
Work around busy looping when playing an invalid item through VLM
Access:
Multiple dvdread and dvdnav crashs fixes
Fixed DVD glitches on clip change
Fixed dvdread commands/data sequence inversion in some cases causing
unwanted glitches
Better handling of authored as corrupted DVD
Added libsmb2 support for SMB2/3 shares
Demux:
Fix TTML entities not passed to decoder
Fixed some WebVTT styling tags being not applied
Misc raw H264/HEVC frame rate fixes
Fix adaptive regression on TS format change (mostly HLS)
Fixed MP4 regression with twos/sowt PCM audio
Fixed some MP4 raw quicktime and ms-PCM audio
Fixed MP4 interlacing handling
Multiple adaptive stack (DASH/HLS/Smooth) fixes
Enabled Live seeking for HLS
Fixed seeking in some cases for HLS
Improved Live playback for Smooth and DASH
Fixed adaptive unwanted end of stream in some cases
Faster adaptive start and new buffering control options
Packetizers:
Fixes H264/HEVC incomplete draining in some cases
packetizer_helper: Fix potential trailing junk on last packet
Added missing drain in packetizers that was causing missing
last frame or audio
Improved check to prevent fLAC synchronization drops
Decoder:
avcodec: revector video decoder to fix incomplete drain
spudec: implemented palette updates, fixing missing subtitles
on some DVD
Fixed WebVTT CSS styling not being applied on Windows/macOS
Fixed Hebrew teletext pages support in zvbi
Fixed Dav1d aborting decoding on corrupted picture
Extract and display of all CEA708 subtitles
Update libfaad to 2.9.1
Add DXVA support for VP9 Profile 2 (10 bits)
Mediacodec aspect ratio with Amazon devices
Audio output:
Added support for iOS audiounit audio above 48KHz
Added support for amem audio up to 384KHz
Video output:
Fix for opengl glitches in some drivers
Fix GMA950 opengl support on macOS
YUV to RGB StretchRect fixes with NVIDIA drivers
Use libpacebo new tone mapping desaturation algorithm
Text renderer:
Fix crashes on macOS with SSA/ASS subtitles containing emoji
Fixed unwanted growing background in Freetype rendering and Y padding
Mux:
Fixed some YUV mappings
Service Discovery:
Update libmicrodns to 0.1.2
Misc:
Update YouTube, SoundCloud and Vocaroo scripts: this restores
playback of YouTube URLs
Add missing .wpl & .zpl file associations on Windows
Improved chromecast audio quality

New in VLC Media Player 3.0.8 (August 19, 2019)

New in VLC Media Player 3.0.7.1 (June 12, 2019)

New in VLC Media Player 3.0.7 (June 6, 2019)

New in VLC Media Player 3.0.6 (January 11, 2019)

New in VLC Media Player 3.0.4 (September 2, 2018)

New in VLC Media Player 3.0.3 (May 30, 2018)

New in VLC Media Player 3.0.1 / 3.0.2 RC (April 23, 2018)

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

New in VLC Media Player 3.0.1 (February 27, 2018)

New in VLC Media Player 3.0.0 (February 9, 2018)

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.
Core:
Support network browsing for distant filesystems (SMB, FTP, SFTP, NFS...)
and rewrite the parsing of the media files and inputs
Support keystores: fetch and store passwords securely (sic!) for common
protocols (HTTP, SMB, SFTP, FTP, RTSP ...)
Autodetect external audio tracks (ac3, m4a, aac, dts...) similar to subtitles
Support HDMI passthrough for Audio HD codecs, like E-AC3, TrueHD or DTS-HD
Support for 12bits codec and extended colorspaces (HDR)
Support output renderers, like ChromeCast
VLC now assumes vlcrc config file is in UTF-8
Support portable version of Windows build (create a "portable/" folder)
Support wayland surface type
Allow to start the video paused on the first frame
Refactor preparsing input
EPG rework: table and single event updates, now using network time
Refactor and fix subtitles es selection. Demuxers can now override
es category single only or multiple es behavior
Support for 360 video and audio, including viewpoint modification
Support for ambisonic audio and more than 8 audio channels
Support subtitles size live adjustments
Access:
New NFS access module using libnfs
New SMB access module using libdsm
Adaptive streaming:
Rewrite MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support, including
MPEG2TS and ISOBMFF profiles
Support HDS (Http Dynamic Streaming) from Adobe (f4m, f4v, etc.)
Large rework of the Smooth Streaming module
Replaced httplive stream filter with new HLS demuxer, replaced smooth
stream filter with new Smooth demuxer, both using unified adaptive module
Support HLSv4-7, including MP4 and raw muxing and ID3 tags
Support decompression and extraction through libarchive (tar, zip, rar...)
New HTTP/TLS access module for HTTP 2.0 support
Improvements of cookie handling (share cookies between playlist items,
domain / path matching, Secure cookies)
Support DVB-T2 on Windows BDA
Support depayloading Opus from RTP
New UPnP access module, to list directories without infinite recursions
SMB/FTP/SFTP accesses can list directories
Support sftp username and passwords options in URL, and key authentication
New WASAPI audio capture module on Windows
New "concat" access module for concatenating byte streams
Named pipes and device nodes are no longer included in directory listings
by default. Use --list-special-files to include them back.
Support for timeout in UDP input --udp-timeout=<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
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

New in VLC Media Player 2.2.8 (November 30, 2017)

New in VLC Media Player 2.2.7 (November 30, 2017)

New in VLC Media Player 2.2.6 (May 24, 2017)

New in VLC Media Player 2.2.5.1 (May 11, 2017)

New in VLC Media Player 2.2.5.1 Testing (March 15, 2017)

New in VLC Media Player 2.2.5 Testing (February 20, 2017)

New in VLC Media Player 3.0.0 Testing (November 25, 2016)

IMPORTANT CHANGES:
Windows Vista (all versions) without Platform Upgrade is not supported.
The Windows XP/2003/2003R2 support for VLC is now on a best-efforts basis:
it should work, but not without limitations.
libVLC support for Windows XP is deprecated.
You _really_ should upgrade.
CORE:
Support network browsing for distant file system (SMB, FTP, SFTP, ...) and rewrite the parsing of those files
Add a keystore API: fetch and store password for common protocols (HTTP, SMB, SFTP, FTP, RTSP ...)
Autodetect external audio tracks (ac3, m4a, aac, dts...), similar to subs
Support HDMI passthrough for Audio HD codecs, like E-AC3, TrueHD
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
Support wayland surface type
Allow to start the video paused on the first frame
Refactor preparsing input
ACCESS:
New NFS access module using libnfs
New SMB access module using libdsm
Rewrite MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support, including MPEG2TS and ISOFF 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 TS and raw muxing and ID3 tags
Screen capture plugin for Wayland display
Support decompression and extraction through libarchive (tar, zip, rar...)
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
Support sftp username and passwords options in URL, and key authentication
New UPnP access module, to list directories without infinite recursions
New WASAPI audio capture module on Windows
SMB/FTP/SFTP accesses can list directories
New "concat" access module for concatenating byte streams
New HTTP/TLS access module for HTTP 2.0 support
Named pipes and device nodes are no longer included in directory listings by default. Use --list-special-files to include them back.
Support for timeout in UDP input --udp-timeout=
New SAT>IP access module, to receive DVB-S via IP networks
Improvements on DVB scanning
BluRay module can open ISO over network and has full BD-J support
DECODER:
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
Support for ARIB STD-B24 subtitles
Support for experimental Daala video
Support for experimental AV1 video
Important improvements for the MMAL decoder and output for rPI and rPI2
Support HEVC hardware decoding on Windows, using DxVA2 and D3D11
Support hardware decoding using Direct3D11, including GPU-zerocopy mode
DxVA2 GPU-zerocopy for hardware decoding and displaying on Windows
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
Support VP9 and WMV3 decoding using OMX and performance improvements
New MPEG-1 & 2 audio layer I, II, III + MPEG 2.5 decoder based on libmpg123
New BPG decoder based on libbpg
Fixed uncompressed DVD-Audio (AOB) LPCM decoding
Rewrite WPL playlists and add ZPL playlists support (Zune)
Support TDSC, Canopus HQX codecs
TTML subtitles support, including EBU-TT-D variant
Support 9-bit and 10-bit GBR planar formats
New hardware accelerated decoder for OS X and and iOS based on Video Toolbox supporting H.263, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, MPEG-4 Part 2, and DV depending on device and OS version
Support for the OggSpots video codec
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
DEMUXERS:
Support HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS)
Support Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
Support Daala in Ogg
Support for lame's replaygain extension in mpeg files
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 SBV subtitles
Support AlbumArtist and DiscNumber metadata
Support SCTE-18 / EAS inside TS
Support raw h265/hevc files
Support multi-channel WAV without channel-maps
Rewrite MKV seeking
Fix Quicktime Mp4 inside MKV and unpacketized VC1
Important rework of the MP4 demuxer, including:
Support for fragmented MP4
Support EIA-608 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 in MP4
Support GoPro HiLight chapters
Important rework of the TS demuxer, including:
Fixed program selection with recorded TS (TopField, DreamBox and others)
Fixed TS playback with PAT/PMT less recordings
Basic support for MPEG4-SL in TS and T-DMB
STREAM FILTER:
Added ADF stream filter
Added ARIB STD-B25 TS streams decoder
Added stream prebuffering plugin
Removed HTTP Live streaming stream filter
Added zlib (a.k.a. deflate) decompression filter
DEMUX FILTER:
Added a demuxer filter chain to filter or intercept control commands and demuxing
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.
Added Tizen audio module
HDMI/SPDIF pass-through support for WASAPI (AC3/DTS/EAC3/TRUEHD)
Support EAC3 and TRUEHD pass-through for PulseAudio
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
VIDEO OUTPUT:
Linux/BSD default video output is now OpenGL, instead of Xvideo
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
Renamed the Direct3D output module to Direct3D9
Added Direct3D11 video mode supporting both Windows desktop and WinRT modes, supporting subpicture blending and hardware acceleration
EFL Evas video output with Tizen TBM Surface support
New OpenGL provider for Windows
TEXT RENDERER:
CTL support through Harfbuzz in the Freetype module
VIDEO FILTER:
Hardware deinterlacing on the rPI, using MMAL
New video filter to convert between fps rates
Added 9-bit and 10-bit support to image adjust filter
New edge detection filter uses the Sobel operator to detect edges
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:
Added fragmented/streamable MP4 muxer
Added 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
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 libvlc_media_player_set_evas_object to draw on an EFL/Evas Object
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
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)

New in VLC Media Player 2.2.4 Testing (June 2, 2016)

New in VLC Media Player 2.2.3 (May 3, 2016)

New in VLC Media Player 2.2.2 (February 6, 2016)

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

New in VLC Media Player 2.2.1 (April 14, 2015)

New in VLC Media Player 2.2.0 (March 30, 2015)

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 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
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

New in VLC Media Player 2.1.6 (February 27, 2015)

New in VLC Media Player 2.2.0-RC2 (November 23, 2014)

New in VLC Media Player 2.2.0-RC1 (November 6, 2014)

New in VLC Media Player 2.2.0-pre3 (September 1, 2014)

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

New in VLC Media Player 2.1.5 (July 26, 2014)

New in VLC Media Player 2.1.4 (March 1, 2014)

New in VLC Media Player 2.1.3 (February 5, 2014)

New in VLC Media Player 2.1.2 (December 10, 2013)

New in VLC Media Player 2.1.1 (November 14, 2013)

New in VLC Media Player 2.1.0 (September 25, 2013)

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

New in VLC Media Player 2.1.0-RC2 (September 10, 2013)

New in VLC Media Player 2.0.8 (July 29, 2013)

New in VLC Media Player 2.1.0-pre1 (July 15, 2013)

Important changes:
The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed. To tune compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually.
3rd party libraries (contrib):
/extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner system in /contrib
Core:
Audio core rewrite
Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
Partial support for Windows Store App
Removed SQL support
Add an audio fingerprinter
Disabled and marked obsolete --language selection
Port to Android
Decoders:
Support for OPUS via libopus.
Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec.
Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec
Support for Ulead DV audio
Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen, Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
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
AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
Access:
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 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
Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
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
Video Filters:
New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images.
Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
Stream Output:
Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
Options support for AVIO output module
Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
Livehttp stream encryption support
Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
Fingerprinters:
Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
Interfaces:
configurable password for the HTTP server.
.hosts removed from the HTTP server.
fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows.
Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
Hotkey support for TS program selection
Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
Services discovery:
UPnP A/V subtitles
Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
Qt:
Partial support for Qt5.0
Menus modifications and improvements
Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
Streaming output wizard rewrite
Add bitrate graph in information panels
Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
EPG display fixes and improvements
Add SD pixmap sources
Preferences hotkeys management fixes
Display playlist total duration
Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
Numerous fixes
Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
Remove language preference
New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality. Added new profiles.
Skins2:
Port to OS/2
Extend sliders, offsets options
New bitmaps caching mechanism
Numerous fixes and improvements
Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
libVLC:
new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
Removed modules:
portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
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

New in VLC Media Player 2.0.7 (June 10, 2013)

New in VLC Media Player 2.0.6 (April 9, 2013)

New in VLC Media Player 2.0.5 (December 15, 2012)

New in VLC Media Player 2.0.4 (October 18, 2012)

New in VLC Media Player 2.0.3 (July 20, 2012)

New in VLC Media Player 2.0.2 (June 29, 2012)

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
Improvements and fixes in HLS support
Codec:
Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
Fix G726 support
Fix MP3 free format support
Demuxers:
Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
Fix for DVB channels file support
Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
Encoders:
Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
Audio filters and output:
Limitation of spatializer volume output
Fix DirectSound device selection
Correct PulseAudio volume control
Do not apply volume in file output
Fix sampling rate in JACK output
Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
Lua Scripts:
Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
Fixes for icecast SD
Qt:
Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
Fix tags and file names display
Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
Skins2:
Fix mousewheel on Windows
Fix for key events and focus loss
Web interface:
Fix display of some buttons
Fix listing of files in the Open interface
Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
Security:
Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
Translation:
Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukranian,
Thai translations update
New Scottish Gaelic translation

New in VLC Media Player 2.0.1 (March 19, 2012)

New in VLC Media Player 2.0.0 RC1 (January 27, 2012)

The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options. All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized: - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=2001:db8::1". By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used. - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers. By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS. - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate), --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and --http-crl (optional CRL).
RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly. Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later. Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
Important changes for packagers:
The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script. Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
The webplugins has moved to git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
Core:
Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite: Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside video outputs x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64
Access:
Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
BDA: experimental support for ClearQam devices
DVB-S scanning support on Unix
DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
DShow: support for freq and video standard selection
Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
Blu-Ray Discs integration using libbluray
HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
PulseAudio audio input support
RTP: support for dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
QTCapture: added support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices
QTSound: added support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices
X11 Screen: support for capturing partially hidden windows
MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
Codecs:
You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc
Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
EIA-608 closed captions improvements
Support for JPEG 2000 and Motion JPEG 2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
Demuxers:
New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
Improved support of tracker files
Interfaces:
Qt: effects dialogs rework
Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
Qt: small look improvements
Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support and important cleanups and optimisations
The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
Qt: preferences are now searchable
Video Output:
New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
New video output for iOS platform
Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
Various vmem improvements
OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for chroma conversion
New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
New video output based on kva API for OS/2
Audio Output and Filters:
New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
New audio output in memory (amem)
Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
New simplistic Karaoke filter
New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
Video Filter:
New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht up to 254 channels
New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
New anti-flickering filter
New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting blackbox and customizable shadow. NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually. The Win32 font selection was improved too.
Stream output:
New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3, venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{ access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8, index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames}, dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
RTP: support for Vorbis and Theora
Major rework of VoD support
New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming: #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming: #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio} #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
Services Discovery:
Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
Upnp module was ported to Win32
libVLC:
New capabilities for libVLC:
libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the list of available audio and video filters
libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks, libvlc_audio_set_callbacks allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
Removed modules:
asademux: use libass only
subsass: use libass
fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
id3tag: use taglib
upnp: use upnp_intel
removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
removal of the noise filter
removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be removed in Growl's next release, too.
removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one

New in VLC Media Player 1.1.11 (July 16, 2011)

New in VLC Media Player 1.1.10 (June 6, 2011)

New in VLC Media Player 1.1.9 (April 12, 2011)

New in VLC Media Player 1.1.8 (March 24, 2011)

New in VLC Media Player 1.1.7 (February 2, 2011)

New in VLC Media Player 1.1.6 (January 24, 2011)

New in VLC Media Player 1.1.5 (November 15, 2010)

New in VLC Media Player 1.1.4.1 (November 15, 2010)

New in VLC Media Player 1.1.4 (August 28, 2010)

New in VLC Media Player 1.1.4 Test (August 27, 2010)

New in VLC Media Player 1.1.3 (August 19, 2010)

New in VLC Media Player 1.1.2 (July 30, 2010)

New in VLC Media Player 1.1.1 (July 22, 2010)

New in VLC Media Player 1.1.0 (June 22, 2010)

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

New in VLC Media Player 1.0.5 Goldeneye (June 22, 2010)

New in VLC Media Player 1.0.4 Goldeneye (January 31, 2010)

New in VLC Media Player 1.0.3 Goldeneye (October 31, 2009)

New in VLC Media Player 1.0.2 Goldeneye (September 23, 2009)

New in VLC Media Player 1.0.1 Goldeneye (July 28, 2009)

New in VLC Media Player 1.0.0 RC1 Goldeneye (May 14, 2009)

Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
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.
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
Windows interface:
Global Hotkeys
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
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.
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

New in VLC Media Player 0.9.9 (April 2, 2009)

New in VLC Media Player 0.9.8a (December 4, 2008)

New in VLC Media Player 0.9.4 (October 7, 2008)

New in VLC Media Player 0.9.3 (September 29, 2008)

New in VLC Media Player 0.9.2 (September 15, 2008)

This release will need Windows 2000 to work correctly
The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default. If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to edit the ".hosts" file.
On Windows they are in C:Program FilesVideoLANVLChttp.hosts and C:Program FilesVideoLANVLChttpold.hosts
This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows. This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences. This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They now require a target name as their first argument. Example: vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye. If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example. These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
The "rtp" access output module has been removed. Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683). The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities with some file names. Use access://url instead. E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ; udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)and postproc modules.
The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4, STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not functional atm.
Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
filter. For example: transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter. For example: transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
Glide video output module has been removed.
Security updates:
Updated libfreetype on Windows (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1807)
TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
Playlist:
Vastly improved playlist support:
Media library creation to save all your playlist items
"Live search"
Shoutcast TV listings
Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
Album art support
User definable Lua playlist scripts. (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and lots of other URLs)
User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts.
Inputs:
UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
Proxy support for MMSH stream
JACK audio input support
Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
Experimental EyeTV access module. This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app (available as a separate download).
Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
RTMP input support
HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access Authentication.
New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
Demuxers:
MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
Fixed audio glitch on seek
Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
AAC tags support
APEv1/2 tags support
Improved ID3v2 tags support
Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
Raw video support
Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
TiVo Series 2 support
CD+G karaoke Files support
MXF files support
OMA support
Decoders:
VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
Flash Screen Video support
CamStudio Screen Video support
DosBox Capture support
Karl Morton's Video support
limited atrac3 support
Fraps support
Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files: Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
H.264 PAFF support
DNxHD / VC-3 support
NellyMoser ASAO support
APE (Monkey audio) support
RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
Dirac video support using libschroedinger
Subtitles:
Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
Ogg/Kate subtitles support
AQTitle subtitles support
MKV USF subtitles support
HTML-based subtitles support
MPSub subtitles support
JacoSub subtitles basic support
MPL2 subtitles support
Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
Realtext subtitle support
DKS subtitle support
SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
Encoders:
Flash Screen Video support
Improved H.264 encoding speed
Video outputs and filters:
Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
New puzzle video output filter
Re-written motion detection video filter
New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a video)
New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags(Google Summer of Code Student project)
Support for RGBA and I420 blending. The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module). This was previously part of the mosaic module.
Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
New croppadd and canvas video filters.
Audio outputs and filters:
Replay gain support
Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via new scaletempo audio filter)
New spatializer audio filter
Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
Stream output:
RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
New RTP payload formats:
Speex voice audio codec
ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
G.711 (both A-law and Âµ-law) output
UDP-Lite transport for RTP
DCCP transport for RTP
Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
RTMP output
Interfaces:
New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an end-user suitable way.
Improved user interaction
Improved mouse gestures
Vastly improved Update checker
Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
Ncurses:
Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale, if libncursesw is available.
Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
LibVLC: Event management and various improvements in libvlc (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
New Localizations:
Finnish
Persian
Polish
Punjabi
Bulgarian
LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly. A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
Java bindings are now built from a separate source.

New in VLC Media Player 0.9.0 Beta 2 (August 28, 2008)

Security updates: Updated libfreetype
Vastly improved playlist support: Media library creation to save all your playlist items; "Live search"; Shoutcast TV listings; Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
Album art support
User definable Lua playlist scripts. (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe and Google Video URLs)
User definable Lua metadata and album art fetcher scripts.
Inputs:
UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
Proxy support for MMSH stream
JACK audio input support
Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
Experimental EyeTV access module. This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app (available as a separate download).
RTMP input support
HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access Authentication.
New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
Decoders:
VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
Flash Screen Video support
CamStudio Screen Video support
DosBox Capture support
Karl Morton's Video support
limited atrac3 support
Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files: Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
H.264 PAFF support
DNxHD / VC-3 support
NellyMoser ASAO support
APE (Monkey audio) support
RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
Dirac video support using libschroedinger
Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
Ogg/Kate subtitles support
AQTitle subtitles support
MKV USF subtitles support
HTML-based subtitles support
MPSub subtitles support
JacoSub subtitles basic support
MPL2 subtitles support
Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
Realtext subtitle support
DKS subtitle support
SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
Flash Screen Video support
Improved H.264 encoding speed
Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
New puzzle video output filter
Re-written motion detection video filter
New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a video)
New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags (Google Summer of Code Student project)
Support for RGBA and I420 blending. This improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module). This was previously part of the mosaic module.
Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
New croppadd and canvas video filters.
Replay gain support
Audio playback when going slower/faster (no pitch filter yet)
New spatializer audio filter
Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
New RTP payload formats:
Speex voice audio codec
ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
UDP-Lite transport for RTP
DCCP transport for RTP
Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
RTMP output
New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an end-user suitable way.
Improved user interaction
Improved mouse gestures
Vastly improved Update checker
Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux Composite)
Event management and various improvements in libvlc (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
New Localizations: Finnish, Persian, Polish
LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
"vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
Java bindings are now built from a separate source.

New in VLC Media Player 0.8.6h (May 29, 2008)

New in VLC Media Player 0.8.6d Final (November 29, 2007)

New in VLC Media Player 0.8.6c Final (August 7, 2007)