What's new in Portable VLC Media Player 3.0.20

Oct 31, 2023
  • Video Output:
  • Fix green line in fullscreen in D3D11 video output
  • Fix crash with some AMD drivers old versions
  • Fix events propagation issue when double-clicking with mouse wheel
  • Decoders:
  • Fix crash when AV1 hardware decoder fails
  • Interface:
  • Fix annoying disappearance of the Windows fullscreen controller
  • Demuxers:
  • Fix potential security issue (OOB Write) on MMS:// by checking user size bounds

New in Portable VLC Media Player 3.0.19 (Oct 9, 2023)

  • Core:
  • Fix next-frame freezing in most scenarios
  • Demux:
  • Fix FLAC playback quality regression with variable frame size
  • Support RIFF INFO tags for Wav files
  • Fix AVI files with flipped RAW video planes
  • Fix duration on short and small Ogg/Opus files
  • Fix some HLS/TS streams with ID3 prefix
  • Fix some HLS playlist refresh drift
  • Fix for GoPro MAX spatial metadata
  • Improve FFmpeg-muxed MP4 chapters handling
  • Improve playback for QNap-produced AVI files
  • Improve playback of some old RealVideo files
  • Fix duration probing on some MP4 with missing information
  • Decoders:
  • Multiple fixes on AAC handling
  • Activate hardware decoding of AV1 on Windows (DxVA)
  • Improve AV1 HDR support with software decoding
  • Fix some AV1 GBRP streams, AV1 super-resolution streams and monochrome ones
  • Fix black screen on poorly edited MP4 files on Android Mediacodec
  • Fix rawvid video in NV12
  • Fix several issues on Windows hardware decoding (including "too large resolution in DxVA")
  • Improve crunchyroll-produced SSA rendering
  • Video Output:
  • Super Resolution scaling with nVidia and Intel GPUs
  • Fix for an issue when cropping on Direct3D9
  • Multiple fixes for hardware decoding on D3D11 and OpenGL interop
  • Fix an issue when playing -90°rotated video
  • Fix subtitles rendering blur on recent macOS
  • Input:
  • Improve SMB compatibility with Windows 11 hosts
  • Contribs:
  • Update of fluidlite, fixing some MIDI rendering on Windows
  • Update of zlib to 1.2.13 (CVE-2022-37434)
  • Update of FFmpeg, vpx (CVE-2023-5217), ebml, dav1d, libass
  • Misc:
  • Improve muxing timestamps in a few formats (reset to 0)
  • Fix some rendering issues on Linux with the fullscreen controller
  • Fix GOOM visualization
  • Fixes for Youtube playback
  • Fix some MPRIS inconsistencies that broke some OS widgets on Linux
  • Implement MPRIS TrackList signals

New in Portable VLC Media Player 3.0.18 RC 2 (Oct 10, 2022)

  • Codec/Demux:
  • Add support for Y16 chroma
  • Fix build of gme plugin
  • Lua:
  • Fix script for vocaroo
  • Fix script for youtube to allow throttled playback
  • Note: Restrictions on youtube still prevent unthrottled playback)
  • Service Discovery:
  • Fix UPnP regression on Windows
  • Video Output:
  • Fix video placement with caopengllayer
  • Misc:
  • Fix password search in kwallet module
  • Contribs:
  • Update FFmpeg

New in Portable VLC Media Player 3.0.18 RC (Sep 1, 2022)

  • Demux:
  • Major adaptive streaming update, notably for multiple timelies and webvtt
  • Fix seeking with some fragmented MP4 files
  • Add support for DVBSub inside MKV
  • Fix some Flac files that could not be played
  • Improve seeking in Ogg files
  • Decoders:
  • Fix DxVA/D3D11 crashes on HEVC files with bogus references
  • Fix libass storage size and crash
  • Fix decoding errors on macOS hw decoding on some HEVC files
  • Video Output:
  • Fix color regression with VAAPI/iOS and OpenGL output
  • Fix some resizing issues with OpenGL on GLX/EGL/X11/XV
  • Fix Direct3d9 texture stretching
  • Fix 10-bit accelerated video filters on macOS
  • Playlist:
  • Avoid playlist liveloop on failed/tiny items (temporize EOS bursts)
  • Misc:
  • Misc fixes for the extension UI on macOS
  • Improve SMBv1 and SMBv2 behaviours
  • Improve FTP compatibility
  • Support RISC-V
  • Fix AVI muxing for Windows Media Player compatibility
  • Fix seeking speed on macOS
  • Contribs:
  • update FFmpeg, bluray, upnp, pthread, x265, freetype, libsmb2, aom, dav1d,
  • libass, libxml2 (contains CVE), dvdread, harfbuzz, zlib, gme, nettle, GnuTLS,
  • mpg123, speex, bluray, libvpx

New in Portable VLC Media Player 3.0.17 (Apr 19, 2022)

  • Core:
  • Fix a regression in parsing secondary source MRLs
  • Allow brackets in path part of URLs
  • Access:
  • Fix support for screen capture on macOS with avcapture
  • Fix closing of HTTP 1.x connections
  • Improve HTTP2 memory usage
  • Improve AVCapture module
  • Improve AudioCD support (audio/data mixed mode, musicbrainz)
  • Improve SMB compatibility by changing the read size
  • Several improvements on the SRT modules (including streamID)
  • Decoders/Packetizers:
  • Add support for DTS LBR
  • Fix some HEVC hardware decoding on Windows and crashes when aspect ratio changes
  • Fix hardware decoding for some AMD GPU drivers
  • Add support for new Fourcc for E-AC3, AV1, GeoVision
  • Fix crashes with VP9 streams
  • Fix styling issues with subs tx3g (mp4) tracks
  • Fix playback of live AV1 streams
  • Audio Output:
  • iOS/tvOS: add support for spatial audio
  • macOS: fix some channels ordering for > 5.1 channels
  • Android: rework audio volume management
  • Video Output:
  • Fix a D3D11 crash when the stream changes aspect ratio
  • Demux:
  • Major overhaul of the adaptive streaming stack
  • Support for DAV video files
  • Add WebP image mapping
  • Fix missing audio start of Opus audio in MKV/WebM
  • Fix an infinite loop in MP4
  • Fix attachments extractions in ogg files
  • Support Uncompressed audio in mp4 (ISO/IEC 23003-5)
  • Fix some lip sync issue in rare MPEG-TS streams
  • Interface:
  • Qt/macOS: Fixup user provided URLs
  • Add safe area handling on macOS
  • Qt: improve preferences search
  • Qt: fix --no-mouse-events option
  • Misc:
  • Update YouTube script
  • Fix Icecast directory parsing which could lead to missing entries
  • Improve UPnP compatibility with some servers
  • 3rd party libraries (contrib):
  • Update FFmpeg to 4.4
  • Update libflac to 1.3.4 to fix CVE-2020-0499 and CVE-2021-0561
  • Update libsmb2 to fix invalid UTF-8 encoding of some filenames
  • Update taglib to fix corruptions when editing some OGG metadata
  • Update dav1d to 0.9.2
  • Update fribidi to 1.0.11
  • Update freetype to 2.11.1
  • Update libass to 0.15.2
  • Drop pthreadGC2 in favor of winpthreads
  • Enable Java support for blurays on Apple M1
  • Update libsrt to 1.4.4
  • Update twolame to 0.4.0
  • Update mpg123 to 1.29.3
  • Update libnfs to 5.0.1
  • Update libarchive to 3.6.0
  • Update AOM encoder to 3.1.1

New in Portable VLC Media Player 3.0.15 (Jun 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 Portable VLC Media Player 3.0.14 (May 10, 2021)

  • Core:
  • Fix double loading of slave input
  • Fix an issue causing the auto-updater not to launch the new version installer

New in Portable VLC Media Player 3.0.13 (Apr 30, 2021)

  • Demux:
  • Adaptive: fix artefacts in HLS streams with wrong profiles/levels
  • Fix regression on some MP4 files for the audio track
  • Fix MPGA and ADTS probing in TS files
  • Fix Flac inside AVI files
  • Fix VP9/Webm artefacts when seeking
  • Codec:
  • Support SSA text scaling
  • Fix rotation on Android rotation
  • Fix WebVTT subtitles that start at 00:00
  • Access:
  • Update libnfs to support NFSv4
  • Improve SMB2 integration
  • Fix Blu-ray files using Unicode names on Windows
  • Disable mcast lookups on Android for RTSP playback
  • Video Output:
  • Rework the D3D11 rendering wait, to fix choppiness on display
  • Interfaces:
  • Fix VLC getting stuck on close on X11 (#21875)
  • Improve RTL on preferences on macOS
  • Add mousewheel horizontal axis control
  • Fix crash on exit on macOS
  • Fix sizing of the fullscreen controls on macOS
  • Windows:
  • Fix subtitles/OSD under Windows XP
  • Misc:
  • Update translations
  • Improve MIDI fonts search on Linux
  • Update Soundcloud, Youtube, liveleak
  • Fix compilation with GCC11
  • Fix input-slave option for subtitles

New in Portable VLC Media Player 3.0.12 (Jan 18, 2021)

  • Access:
  • Add new RIST access module compliant with simple profile (VSF_TR-06-1)
  • Access Output:
  • Add new RIST access output module compliant with simple profile (VSF_TR-06-1)
  • Demux:
  • Fixed adaptive's handling of resolution settings
  • Audio output:
  • Fix audio distortion on macOS during start of playback
  • Video Output:
  • Direct3D11: Fix some potential crashes when using video filters
  • MacOS:
  • Add native support for Apple Silicon / ARM-64
  • Visual UI adaptations for macOS Big Sur
  • Fix displaying EQ bands in the UI depending on which frequency presets are set for the EQ in advanced preferences
  • Fix UI issues in bookmarks window
  • Misc:
  • Several fixes in the web interface, including privacy and security improvements
  • Update YouTube and Vocaroo scripts

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

  • Access:
  • Add new RIST access module compliant with simple profile (VSF_TR-06-1)
  • Access Output:
  • Add new RIST access output module compliant with simple profile (VSF_TR-06-1)
  • Demux:
  • Fixed adaptive’s handling of resolution settings
  • Audio output:
  • Fix audio distortion on macOS during start of playback
  • Video Output:
  • Direct3D11: Fix some potential crashes when using video filters
  • macOS:
  • Add native support for Apple Silicon / ARM-64
  • Visual UI adaptations for macOS Big Sur
  • Fix displaying EQ bands in the UI depending on which frequency presets are set for the EQ in advanced preferences
  • Fix UI issues in bookmarks window
  • Misc:
  • Several fixes in the web interface, including privacy and security improvements
  • Update YouTube and Vocaroo scripts

New in Portable VLC Media Player 3.0.11 (Jun 16, 2020)

  • Access:
  • rtp descriptor leak on error fix
  • Demux:
  • Fixed regression with some encrypted HLS streams
  • Live HLS delay until first update fix
  • HLS rendition switch regression fix
  • Fix imprecise m4a seek
  • Decoder:
  • Fixed missing captions with some capture cards
  • Audio filters:
  • soxr resampling fixes
  • Contribs:
  • Updated libfaad to 2.9.2 (Parametric Stereo regression)
  • Updated libarchive to 3.4.2
  • Audio Output:
  • Fix sound not coming back after a pause with CoreAudio (macOS/iOS)
  • Misc:
  • Update Youtube script

New in Portable VLC Media Player 3.0.10 (Apr 26, 2020)

  • Misc:
  • Update Twitch & VLSub scripts

New in Portable VLC Media Player 3.0.9.2 (Apr 10, 2020)

  • Properly bump the version in configure.ac

New in Portable VLC Media Player 3.0.8 (Aug 19, 2019)

  • Core:
  • Fix stuttering for low framerate videos
  • Demux:
  • Fix channel ordering in some MP4 files
  • Fix glitches in TS over HLS
  • Add real probing of HLS streams
  • Fix HLS MIME type fallback
  • Decoder:
  • Fix WebVTT subtitles rendering
  • Stream filter:
  • Improve network buffering
  • Misc:
  • Update Youtube script
  • Audio Output:
  • macOS/iOS: Fix stuttering or blank audio when starting or seeking when using
  • external audio devices (bluetooth for example)
  • macOS: Fix AV synchronization when using external audio devices
  • Video Output:
  • Direct3D11: Fix hardware acceleration for some AMD drivers
  • Stream output:
  • Fix transcoding when the decoder does not set the chroma
  • Security:
  • Fix a buffer overflow in the MKV demuxer (CVE-2019-14970)
  • Fix a read buffer overflow in the avcodec decoder (CVE-2019-13962)
  • Fix a read buffer overflow in the FAAD decoder
  • Fix a read buffer overflow in the OGG demuxer (CVE-2019-14437, CVE-2019-14438)
  • Fix a read buffer overflow in the ASF demuxer (CVE-2019-14776)
  • Fix a use after free in the MKV demuxer (CVE-2019-14777, CVE-2019-14778)
  • Fix a use after free in the ASF demuxer (CVE-2019-14533)
  • Fix a couple of integer underflows in the MP4 demuxer (CVE-2019-13602)
  • Fix a null dereference in the dvdnav demuxer
  • Fix a null dereference in the ASF demuxer (CVE-2019-14534)
  • Fix a null dereference in the AVI demuxer
  • Fix a division by zero in the CAF demuxer (CVE-2019-14498)
  • Fix a division by zero in the ASF demuxer (CVE-2019-14535)
  • Contribs:
  • Update to a newer libmodplug version (0.8.9.0)

New in Portable VLC Media Player 3.0.7 (Jun 6, 2019)

  • Access:
  • Improve Blu-ray support
  • Fix sftp module build with libssh >= 1.8.1
  • Audio output:
  • Fix pass-through on Android-23
  • Fix DirectSound drain
  • Demux:
  • Improve MP4 support
  • Video Output:
  • Fix 12 bits sources playback with Direct3D11
  • Fix crash on iOS
  • Fix midstream aspect-ratio changes when Windows hardware decoding is on
  • Fix HLG display with Direct3D11
  • Stream Output:
  • Improve Chromecast support with new ChromeCast apps
  • macOS:
  • Fix UPNP service discovery, services are discovered on the highest priority
  • active network interface now
  • Fix video distortion on macOS Mojave
  • Misc:
  • Update Youtube, Dailymotion, Vimeo, Soundcloud scripts
  • Work around busy looping when playing an invalid item with loop enabled
  • Translations:
  • Update of most translations
  • Security:
  • Fix multiple buffer overflows in the ps demuxer
  • Fix a buffer overflow when copying a biplanar YUV image
  • Fix multiple buffer overflows in the faad decoder
  • Fix buffer overflow in the svcdsub decoder
  • Fix buffer overflows in the ogg muxer & demuxer
  • Fix buffer overflows in libavformat demuxer
  • Fix multiple buffer overflows in the MKV demuxer
  • Fix a buffer overflow in the MP4 demuxer
  • Fix a buffer overflow in the textst decoder
  • Fix a buffer overflow in the webvtt decoder
  • Fix a buffer overflow in the ASF demux
  • Fix a buffer overflow in the UPNP SD
  • Fix use after free in the ogg demuxer
  • Fix multiple use after free in the MKV demuxer
  • Fix multiple use after free in the DMO decoder
  • Fix integer underflow in the MKV demuxer
  • Fix an updater NULL pointer dereference on invalid signing keys
  • Fix NULL pointer dereference in the MKV demuxer
  • Fix an integer overflow in the spudec decoder
  • Fix an integer overflow in the nsc demuxer
  • Fix an integer overflow in the avi demuxer
  • Fix reads of uninitialized pointers in the MKV demuxer
  • Fix a floating point exception in the MKV demuxer
  • Fix an infinite loop in the flac packetizer

New in Portable VLC Media Player 3.0.4 (Sep 2, 2018)

  • Decoder:
  • Blacklist some intel GPU when decoding HEVC
  • Decode AV1 streams
  • Fix playback of low-fps files
  • Fix hardware decoding of low-latency sliced H.264 streams on macOS
  • Fix seeking with streams containing WebVTT subtitles
  • Fix decoding some CC-608 streams with roll-up
  • Fix crashes with LPCM streams
  • Fix colorspace of JPEG, PNG and screen inputs
  • Fix MediaCodec rotation handling
  • Demux:
  • Improve FLV fps detection
  • Fix some ogg/flac
  • Improve support for broken HEVC inside MKV
  • Fix some AVI regression for broken files and for DVAudio
  • Support files splitted in the .mts%d pattern
  • Fixes for MKV seeking
  • Fix for MP4 disabled track selection
  • Fix playback of incomplete RAR files (downloading)
  • Audio Output:
  • Improve iOS session management and resume-from-pause
  • Improve macOS audio performance
  • Support 44.1kHz DTS passthrough
  • Fix crashes on DirectSound output
  • Video Output:
  • Fix some crash in Direct3D11/Direct3D9 because of sensors
  • Fix some broken DVD subtitles rendering (OpenGL, notably)
  • Fix crashes on old mac machines, after some time
  • Fix memleaks on the EGL output (Android notably)
  • Fix misc display in Direct3D11 due to broken drivers
  • Fix potential green screen on Windows XP
  • Text renderer:
  • Fix rendering of arabic fonts fallback on macOS
  • Fix head buffer overflow on macOS with some fonts
  • Fix rendering of fonts with specific fonts
  • Fix some RTL rendering
  • Misc:
  • Fix live555, macOS-UI, screen capture crashes
  • Change the extension registration names on Windows
  • Fix VLM 'now' date
  • Fixes on the HTTPD server
  • Fix on the NTservice registration
  • Fix --stop-time option
  • Fix ChromeCast compatibility with web interface
  • Fix subtitles alignment
  • Fix infinite recursion on directory playback
  • Fix detection SAT>IP servers
  • Qt:
  • Fix tooltip display when using Wayland
  • Translations:
  • Update of most translations

New in Portable VLC Media Player 3.0.2 RC (Apr 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 Portable VLC Media Player 3.0.1 (Feb 27, 2018)

  • Core:
  • Fix use-after-free when cleaning playlists
  • Fix crash on exit on Windows
  • Video output:
  • Fix HLG tone mapping on some systems like macOS.
  • Fix screensaver inhibition on Windows XP
  • Fix various Direct3D11 crashes
  • Fix HDR tone mapping in Direct3d11
  • Fix pink screen on Windows
  • Decoder:
  • Fix potential stack buffer overflow with faad
  • Enable Cineform HD in avcodec
  • Hardware Decoder:
  • macOS: Improve HEVC 10bit performance with Videotoolbox
  • android: Add MPEG2 support via MediaCodec
  • Fix HEVC decoding with some files on Android/macOS/iOS
  • Improve Direct3D11 memory usage
  • Demux:
  • Improve MKV seeking speed
  • Fix xspf base URL handling
  • Fix reading mp4 trun with moof based offsets
  • Fix adaptive http redirections
  • Replace old API, fixing adaptive TLS leak
  • Use mime type as fallback for HLS segment type
  • Fix subtitle (srt,ssa..) seek when having a single entry
  • Flag non default HDMV subset video streams
  • Increase TS probing amount for 4K streams
  • Miscellaneous MKV, MP4 & AVI crash fixes
  • Packetizer:
  • Fix out of bounds read in mpeg4video
  • Stream Output:
  • Improve chromecast loading speed
  • Improve local/chromecast transition during playback
  • Fix chromecast loading with some versions of Windows
  • Fix chromecast loading with some chromecast devices (TVs and Android boxes)
  • Fix wrong first cover art when casting
  • Fix casting to VP9
  • Qt Interface:
  • Improve scaling on HiDPI displays
  • Snap:
  • Improve interface look and feel.

New in Portable VLC Media Player 3.0.0 (Feb 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 Portable VLC Media Player 2.2.8 (Dec 1, 2017)

  • Demuxers:
  • Fix AVI invalid pointer dereferences
  • Translations updates

New in Portable VLC Media Player 2.2.6 (May 25, 2017)

  • Video output:
  • Fix systematic green line on nvidia
  • Fix direct3d SPU texture offsets handling
  • Demuxer:
  • Fix heap buffer overflows

New in Portable VLC Media Player 2.2.5.1 (May 24, 2017)

  • Misc:
  • Fix potential out-of-band reads in subtitle decoders and demuxers
  • Fix green line on Windows with odd sizes

New in Portable VLC Media Player 2.2.4 (Jun 6, 2016)

  • Decoder:
  • Fix crash in G.711 wav files
  • Fix mp3 crash in libmad
  • Fix out-of-bound write in adpcm QT IMA codec (CVE-2016-5108)
  • Qt:
  • Fix resizing issues
  • Win32:
  • Fix overlay creation on Windows XP for DirectDraw video output
  • Misc:
  • Build fixes for Hurd
  • Translations:
  • Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, German, French, Italian, Marathi, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Portuguese, Slovak, Spanish (Mexico), Swedish, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese translations

New in Portable VLC Media Player 2.2.3 (May 17, 2016)

  • Demux:
  • Fix HLS quality selection and a potential stack overflow
  • Fix potential MKV infinite loop and improve MKV tags support
  • Fix WMV regression
  • Decoder:
  • Fix hardware decoding with libvdpau-va-gl
  • Fix crashes with libvpx
  • Use libass without caching dialog
  • Video Output:
  • Fix green lines on Direct3D output
  • Skins2:
  • Fix maximizing Window in multi-screen context
  • Qt:
  • Fix resume where you left off
  • Fix infinite recursion in the customize dialog
  • Fix size when switching to/from the minimal interface
  • Fix size after resume toolbar is displayed
  • Win32:
  • Allow opening more than 15 elements in Explorer
  • Translations:
  • Update of most translations

New in Portable VLC Media Player 2.2.2 (Feb 9, 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 Portable VLC Media Player 2.2.1 (Apr 21, 2015)

  • Codec:
  • Fix compilation with older libavcodec versions
  • Fix some VP9 decoding
  • Fix flac crashes
  • Fix lpcm channel ordering
  • Fix potential NULL dereference in dmo
  • Fix teletext framing code in DVB PES packets
  • Fix potential buffer overflow in schroendinger decoder
  • Fix AAC samplerate
  • Demuxers:
  • Fix MP4 chapters
  • Fix MKV overseeking, introducing slowness over network shares
  • Fix crash when playing SPC files
  • Fix ATRAC3 playback in MKV
  • Revert to older ASX code
  • Workaround TS issue with mpeg-audio
  • Access:
  • Fix sftp read and close sockets
  • Fix DTV build with Linux DVB versions < 5.8
  • Fix UDP/RTP input on Windows
  • Audio output:
  • Fix Alsa HDMI plugs
  • Improve Alsa output, with larger buffers
  • Fix DirectSound output with multi-channel files
  • OS X:
  • Fix numerous crashes in the UI
  • Fix video-wallpaper mode
  • Fix race when starting VLC from command line
  • Qt:
  • Fix recent items behaviour
  • Fix rotation filter activation
  • * Fix mux modules names for the streaming wizard
  • Win32:
  • Timestamp the signature of the dlls
  • Fix extensions registration during install
  • Fix extensions dialog crash
  • Default to no DxVA decoding
  • libVLC:
  • fix libvlc_media_get_stats
  • Translations:
  • Update of Afrikaans, Albanian, Azerbaijani, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (United Kingdom), Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Macedonian, Malay, Modern Greek, Norwegian BokmÃ¥l, Norwegian Nynorsk, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian translations

New in Portable VLC Media Player 2.2.0 (Mar 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 Portable VLC Media Player 2.1.6 (Mar 3, 2015)

  • Audio output:
  • Fix OSS stuttering
  • Security:
  • Fix heap overflow in decomp stream filter
  • Fix buffer overflow in updater
  • Fix potential buffer overflow in schroedinger encoder
  • Fix null-pointer dereference in DMO decoder
  • Fix buffer overflow in parsing of string boxes in mp4 demuxer
  • Fix SRTP integer overflow
  • Fix potential crash in zip access
  • Fix read overflow in Ogg demuxer
  • Win32 installer:
  • Update translations and greek encoding

New in Portable VLC Media Player 2.1.5 (Jul 28, 2014)

  • Access:
  • Stability improvements for the QTSound capture module
  • Decoders:
  • Fix DxVA2 decoding of samples needing more surfaces
  • Improve MAD resistance to broken mp3 streams
  • Fix PGS alignment in MKV
  • Qt Interface:
  • Don't rename mp3 converted files to .raw
  • Streaming:
  • Fix transcode when audio format changes
  • Security contents:
  • Updated GnuTLS to 3.1.25 (CVE-2014-3466)
  • Updated libpng to 1.6.10 (CVE-2014-0333)
  • Translations:
  • Update British English

New in Portable VLC Media Player 2.1.3 (Feb 10, 2014)

  • Core:
  • Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
  • Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir
  • Access:
  • Fix encrypted DVD playback
  • Fix v4l2 frequency conversion
  • Decoders:
  • Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
  • by updating codec libraries
  • Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
  • Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
  • Fix teletext crash on Windows
  • Demuxers:
  • Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
  • Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
  • Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
  • Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing
  • Video Output:
  • Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
  • Fix transform off-by-one issue
  • Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
  • Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
  • Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC
  • Stream output:
  • Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
  • Fix record file names
  • Qt interface:
  • Fix minimal size possible on start
  • Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
  • Fix a crash in the audio menu building
  • Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
  • Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows
  • HTTP interface:
  • Fix album art display on Windows
  • Translations:
  • Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek,
  • Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew,
  • Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian BokmÃ¥l, Nepali, Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
  • Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
  • and Simplified Chinese translations
  • Fix encoding for Windows installer translations

New in Portable VLC Media Player 2.1.2 (Dec 11, 2013)

  • Audio output:
  • Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
  • Demuxers:
  • Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
  • Various WMV playback improvements and fixes
  • Decoders:
  • Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
  • Fix playback of some HEVC samples
  • Video filters:
  • Fix crash on deinterlace selection
  • Qt interface:
  • Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
  • Improve A-B loop control
  • Fix album art update when changing media
  • Win32 installer:
  • Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update
  • Translations:
  • Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian, French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer, Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations

New in Portable VLC Media Player 2.1.0 (Sep 27, 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 Portable VLC Media Player 2.0.8 (Jul 31, 2013)

  • Access:
  • Fix ISDB-S tuning
  • Fix crash in QTsound
  • Fix screen mouse file location
  • Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
  • Demux:
  • Fix use after free in sgimb
  • Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
  • Decoders:
  • Fix crash in the libavcodec module
  • Translations:
  • Updated Welsh translation
  • New Kannada translation

New in Portable VLC Media Player 2.0.7 (Jun 11, 2013)

  • Input:
  • Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted playlist files
  • Decoders:
  • Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
  • Encoders:
  • Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
  • Muxers:
  • Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
  • HTTP Interface:
  • Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
  • Translations:
  • Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmol, Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations, New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations

New in Portable VLC Media Player 2.0.6 (Apr 12, 2013)

  • Access:
  • Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
  • Audio Output:
  • Fix lookup for device names in auhal plugin
  • Demuxers:
  • Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
  • Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
  • Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
  • Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
  • Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
  • Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
  • Decoders:
  • Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
  • Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
  • Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
  • 3rd party codecs updates
  • Qt:
  • Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
  • Windows:
  • Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\

New in Portable VLC Media Player 2.0.5 (Dec 17, 2012)

  • Access:
  • Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
  • Audio Output:
  • Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
  • Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
  • Demuxers:
  • Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
  • Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
  • Fix koreus lua parser
  • Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
  • Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
  • Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
  • Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
  • Video filters:
  • Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
  • Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
  • Encoders:
  • Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
  • Win32:
  • Fix https streaming
  • libVLC:
  • Fix audio and video track selection:
  • The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
  • Translations:
  • Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
  • Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua

New in Portable VLC Media Player 2.0.4 (Oct 20, 2012)

  • Audio Output:
  • Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
  • Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
  • Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
  • Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
  • Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
  • during playback on Mac OS X
  • Access:
  • Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
  • Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
  • Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
  • Codecs:
  • Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
  • Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
  • Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
  • Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
  • Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
  • Demuxers:
  • Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
  • Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
  • Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
  • Support Youtube live streams
  • Windows:
  • Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
  • Qt:
  • Fix media info dialog update
  • Fix random/repeat preferences saving
  • Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
  • Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
  • Fix album art display at start
  • Miscellaneous:
  • Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
  • Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
  • Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
  • Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
  • Codec and other 3rd party library updates
  • Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
  • Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
  • Fix recording behavior in Windows network environments
  • Codecs and 3rd party library updates

New in Portable VLC Media Player 2.0.3 (Jul 25, 2012)

  • Access:
  • Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
  • Demuxers:
  • Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
  • Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
  • Qt:
  • Fix Windows 8 interface style
  • Translations:
  • Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian, Thai, Turkish and Walloon
  • New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
  • Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations

New in Portable VLC Media Player 2.0.2 (Jul 6, 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 behavior 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 Portable VLC Media Player 2.0.1 (Mar 20, 2012)

  • Access:
  • fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
  • fix the samba module compilation
  • fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
  • multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
  • multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
  • fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
  • Codecs:
  • Support for MXPEG files
  • limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
  • fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
  • Demuxers:
  • Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
  • Fix a crash when seeking in mka
  • Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
  • Muxers:
  • Fix ogm header creation
  • Audio filters:
  • limit spatializer filter distortions
  • Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
  • Audio output:
  • Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
  • Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection. The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
  • Video filters:
  • Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
  • Qt interface:
  • allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
  • fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
  • fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
  • Skins interface:
  • fix for menus display
  • Addition of $R to display current playback speed
  • documentation update
  • Web interface:
  • fix mobiles display for remote control mode
  • support for .drc and .3ga extensions
  • Service discovery:
  • fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
  • Update Jamendo selections
  • Miscellaneous:
  • fix DBus crash
  • fix a crash on VLM close
  • Security:
  • Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
  • Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
  • Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201)
  • Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202)
  • Translations:
  • Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations

New in Portable VLC Media Player 2.0.0 (Feb 21, 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:
  • file-caching specifies caching for local files,
  • network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
  • live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
  • disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
  • 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.
  • The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
  • 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
  • OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
  • configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
  • The webplugins have 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 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
  • Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
  • DVB-S scanning support on Unix
  • DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
  • Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
  • Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
  • Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
  • HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
  • Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
  • Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
  • PulseAudio audio input support
  • Support for RTP 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
  • Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
  • Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
  • Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
  • MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
  • Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
  • Codecs:
  • One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
  • on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
  • are notably concerned.
  • 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
  • Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 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
  • Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
  • Interfaces:
  • Qt: effects dialogs rework
  • Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
  • Qt: port to MacOS X platform
  • Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
  • Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
  • Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
  • and important cleanups and optimisations
  • Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
  • It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
  • Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
  • Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
  • Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
  • Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
  • Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
  • Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
  • Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
  • 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: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
  • dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
  • 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
  • Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
  • 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 between YUV and RGB
  • 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 support 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}"
  • Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
  • 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, 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
  • Translations:
  • Update of translations for most languages.
  • New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.

New in Portable VLC Media Player 1.1.11 (Jul 18, 2011)

  • Security:
  • Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587) and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
  • Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
  • Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
  • Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
  • Demuxers/Meta Readers:
  • Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
  • Muxers/Output:
  • Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
  • Extensions:
  • Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
  • Qt Interface:
  • Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
  • Miscellaneous
  • Win32 port:
  • Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
  • Translations:
  • Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian

New in Portable VLC Media Player 1.1.10 (Jun 8, 2011)

  • Windows:
  • Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
  • Demuxer:
  • Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
  • Audio output:
  • PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
  • Win32 port:
  • Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
  • Miscellaneous fixes in:
  • Windows 7 taskbar buttons
  • Qt interface
  • asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
  • RTP output and XML export
  • Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
  • v4l2 access
  • Translations:
  • Update of Norwegian Bokmol, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda, Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish, Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
  • Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations

New in Portable VLC Media Player 1.1.9 (Apr 13, 2011)

  • Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
  • Demuxers:
  • mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
  • Translations:
  • Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish, German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
  • New Luganda Translation

New in Portable VLC Media Player 1.1.8 (Mar 25, 2011)

  • Interfaces:
  • Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
  • Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
  • Qt and Mac OS X fixes
  • numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
  • Encoder:
  • new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
  • Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
  • Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
  • vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
  • mp4 demuxer improvements
  • ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
  • taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
  • vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
  • fix a crash in malformed ape files
  • Miscellaneous fixes in:
  • Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
  • Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
  • Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
  • See CORE-2011-0208
  • Configure and build system improvements
  • DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
  • Translations:
  • Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
  • Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
  • New icelandic translation

New in Portable VLC Media Player 1.1.7 (Feb 2, 2011)

  • Demuxers:
  • Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability. VideoLAN-SA-1102
  • Translations:
  • Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations

New in Portable VLC Media Player 1.1.6 (Feb 2, 2011)

  • Audio output:
  • Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
  • PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
  • Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
  • and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
  • Access:
  • Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
  • Decoders:
  • Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
  • Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
  • Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
  • Demuxers:
  • Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
  • Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
  • Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
  • Subtitles and renderer:
  • Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
  • Mark more freetype options as safe
  • Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
  • Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
  • discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi
  • Visualization:
  • Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
  • Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
  • Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
  • Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
  • Interfaces:
  • Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
  • Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
  • KDE: work-around open dialog first slow opening because of KMimeTypeRepository
  • Miscellaneous fixes:
  • KDE device solid actions
  • XDG screensaver
  • Transcode integer overflow
  • HTTP Icy metadata reading
  • Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
  • Translations:
  • Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
  • Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
  • Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish

New in Portable VLC Media Player 1.1.5 (Nov 20, 2010)

  • Security:
  • Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives, VideoLAN-SA-1006
  • Access:
  • Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
  • Services Discovery:
  • Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
  • Demuxers:
  • Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
  • DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
  • Playback of live http .Webm streams
  • Taglib thread-safety fix
  • Decoders:
  • Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to a donation
  • Video Output:
  • fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
  • Interfaces:
  • fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
  • fixes on luatelnet and luarc
  • Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and TS-mux, Qt)
  • libLVC:
  • add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
  • Miscellaneous fixes
  • Translations:
  • Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch, Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician, French and Ukrainian
  • Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
  • New Asturian translation

New in Portable VLC Media Player 1.1.4 (Sep 9, 2010)

  • Win32:
  • Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
  • See VideoLAN-SA-1005
  • Fix folders opening from the interface
  • Translations:
  • Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
  • Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician

New in Portable VLC Media Player 1.1.3 (Sep 9, 2010)

  • Access and demuxers:
  • fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
  • fix for podcasts parsing
  • DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
  • Taglib:
  • fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
  • CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
  • Playlist:
  • fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
  • fix m3u playlists exports
  • Skins2:
  • fix video autoresize behaviour
  • Translations:
  • Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
  • Windows:
  • Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
  • BSD:
  • Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc

New in Portable VLC Media Player 1.1.2 (Jul 31, 2010)

  • Demuxers:
  • Avformat fps displaying fix
  • TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
  • Audio filters:
  • fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoqued issues when playback
  • of mono streams, especially on Windows
  • Windows:
  • fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
  • playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
  • fix console output encoding
  • Interface and extensions:
  • Youtube and other scripts updates
  • Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs)

New in Portable VLC Media Player 1.1.0 (Jun 23, 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 Portable VLC Media Player 1.0.5 Goldeneye (Jun 23, 2010)

  • Decoders:
  • SubRip extra styles improvements
  • Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
  • Windows port:
  • Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly increase performance and fix x264 issues
  • Translations:
  • Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali, Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish Russian, Slovak translation updates
  • New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations

New in Portable VLC Media Player 1.0.3 Goldeneye (Nov 2, 2009)

  • Video outputs:
  • Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to regressions in most popular drivers
  • New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
  • Decoders:
  • Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
  • Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
  • Encoders:
  • x264 has profile-limitter, like:
  • #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
  • Input:
  • Update for appletrailers lua script
  • Fixes on the RAR stream filter
  • Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
  • Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
  • Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
  • Service discovery:
  • New udev module for linux
  • Qt4 interface:
  • Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
  • Translations:
  • French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates

New in Portable VLC Media Player 1.0.2 Goldeneye (Oct 12, 2009)

  • Decoders:
  • Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
  • Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
  • Various fixes on theora and ogg
  • Demuxers:
  • Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
  • Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
  • Access:
  • Fixes for v4l2 devices
  • Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
  • Qt Interface:
  • Fix some playlist sorting issues
  • Mac OS X Interface:
  • Fixed a crash when updating VLC
  • Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
  • Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
  • Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
  • Mac OS X Port:
  • The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
  • with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
  • Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
  • no support for Goom and SDL
  • limited text rendering support
  • This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
  • Encoders:
  • MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
  • x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
  • x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
  • if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
  • otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
  • otherwise ABR-mode is used
  • x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
  • ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
  • vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
  • Playlist:
  • Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
  • Unix builds:
  • Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
  • Translations:
  • New Kazakh and Croatian translations
  • Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
  • Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Brazilian, Arabic and French translation updates

New in Portable VLC Media Player 1.0.1 Goldeneye (Jul 30, 2009)

  • Demuxers:
  • Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
  • Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
  • Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
  • Fix Dailymotion access script
  • Fix crashes in xspf files handler
  • Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
  • Access:
  • Add extra caching for files on network shares
  • Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
  • Decoders:
  • Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
  • Improve SSA subtitles rendering
  • Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
  • Muxers:
  • Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
  • Qt Interface:
  • Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
  • Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
  • Windows port:
  • The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
  • Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian

New in Portable VLC Media Player 0.8.6e (Mar 1, 2008)

  • Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
  • Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
  • Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
  • HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
  • Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
  • Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296, VideoLAN-SA-0801)
  • Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130, VideoLAN-SA-0802)
  • Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
  • Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
  • Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
  • Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
  • Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
  • Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264 encoding on multi-cpu systems
  • Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
  • Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
  • Updated Romanian and Polish translations