Changes between 3.0.11.1 and 3.0.12:
----------------------------------
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
Changes between 3.0.11 and 3.0.11.1:
----------------------------------
Demux:
* Fixed HLS playlist update mechanism, unable to start
in some cases.
* Because of broken HLS servers, adaptive no longer
considers Content-Type as authoritative.
* Fixed handling of WEBM WebVTT subtitles
* Workaround invalid ADTS in TS from Makito encoders
* Fixed Opus when using avformat demuxer
Decoders:
* Fixed inverted explicit start/end positioning
Service Discovery:
* Fix listing of media on certain Panasonic recorders discovered via UPnP
macOS:
* Fix automatic playback resume with "Music" app
* Fix possible freeze after pause, seek, unpause
Changes between 3.0.9.2 and 3.0.10:
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Misc:
* Update Twitch & VLSub scripts
Changes between 3.0.9.1 and 3.0.9.2:
----------------------------------
Misc:
* Properly bump the version in configure.ac
Changes between 3.0.9 and 3.0.9.1:
----------------------------------
Misc:
* Fix VLSub returning 401 for earch request
Changes between 3.0.8 and 3.0.9:
----------------------------------
Core:
* Work around busy looping when playing an invalid item through VLM
Access:
* Multiple dvdread and dvdnav crashs fixes
* Fixed DVD glitches on clip change
* Fixed dvdread commands/data sequence inversion in some cases causing
unwanted glitches
* Better handling of authored as corrupted DVD
* Added libsmb2 support for SMB2/3 shares
Demux:
* Fix TTML entities not passed to decoder
* Fixed some WebVTT styling tags being not applied
* Misc raw H264/HEVC frame rate fixes
* Fix adaptive regression on TS format change (mostly HLS)
* Fixed MP4 regression with twos/sowt PCM audio
* Fixed some MP4 raw quicktime and ms-PCM audio
* Fixed MP4 interlacing handling
* Multiple adaptive stack (DASH/HLS/Smooth) fixes
* Enabled Live seeking for HLS
* Fixed seeking in some cases for HLS
* Improved Live playback for Smooth and DASH
* Fixed adaptive unwanted end of stream in some cases
* Faster adaptive start and new buffering control options
Packetizers:
* Fixes H264/HEVC incomplete draining in some cases
* packetizer_helper: Fix potential trailing junk on last packet
* Added missing drain in packetizers that was causing missing
last frame or audio
* Improved check to prevent fLAC synchronization drops
Decoder:
* avcodec: revector video decoder to fix incomplete drain
* spudec: implemented palette updates, fixing missing subtitles
on some DVD
* Fixed WebVTT CSS styling not being applied on Windows/macOS
* Fixed Hebrew teletext pages support in zvbi
* Fixed Dav1d aborting decoding on corrupted picture
* Extract and display of all CEA708 subtitles
* Update libfaad to 2.9.1
* Add DXVA support for VP9 Profile 2 (10 bits)
* Mediacodec aspect ratio with Amazon devices
Audio output:
* Added support for iOS audiounit audio above 48KHz
* Added support for amem audio up to 384KHz
Video output:
* Fix for opengl glitches in some drivers
* Fix GMA950 opengl support on macOS
* YUV to RGB StretchRect fixes with NVIDIA drivers
* Use libpacebo new tone mapping desaturation algorithm
Text renderer:
* Fix crashes on macOS with SSA/ASS subtitles containing emoji
* Fixed unwanted growing background in Freetype rendering and Y padding
Mux:
* Fixed some YUV mappings
macOS:
* Use a layer based video output on 10.14 and higher, which should
fix various rendering issues where the vout would glitch between
a wrong size and the correct size.
Additionally this works around OpenGL issues with Macs that have a
dedicated NVIDIA GPU, which caused rendering artifacts in the whole
OS, especially when the "Reduce transparency" accessibility option
is used
* Remove qtsound module and add avaudiocapture module as replacement
* Fix audio capture on macOS Catalina by using avaudiocapture
* Inform the user in case OS permissions are missing for certain actions
* Fix Apple Remote support on macOS Catalina
* Add support for pausing Apple Music on macOS Catalina
* Fix UPnP discovery crash without an active network interface
* Fix rare placement issues with fullscreen panel
* Fix problem in audio output remembering the last device configuration
in digital mode
Service Discovery:
* Update libmicrodns to 0.1.2
Misc:
* Update YouTube, SoundCloud and Vocaroo scripts: this restores
playback of YouTube URLs.
* Add missing .wpl & .zpl file associations on Windows
* Improved chromecast audio quality
XXX libarchive option is broken with netbsd-9 so has to be disabled
(version number detection fails)
Changes between 3.0.7.1 and 3.0.8:
----------------------------------
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)
Based on work in pkgsrc-wip.
I've had the opportunity to test this in a NetBSD-8 bulk build - it seems
the package is now fixed. Hopefully.
The 3.0.x release series is considered for long-term support by upstream.
Notably for pkgsrc, this means it will be the last release series that
supports older compilers.
Note that VLC now depends on Qt5 instead of Qt4. Various config flags have
been tweaked (enabled/disabled) to match what other vendors (mainly FreeBSD)
are doing. I have also added an alsa package option.
The full list of upstream changes is probably too long to list.
Includes significant security fixes allowing code execution via
a crafted subtitles file (fixes CVE-2017-8310, CVE-2017-8311,
CVE-2017-8312, CVE-2017-8313)
pkgsrc changes:
pull in <atomic> in a C++11 case rather than clang case,
it's a C++11 header. however I couldn't build with -std=c++11 for
other reasons.
it builds and runs clang 4.0, but the mkv plugin dies on an
undefined reference.
Changes between 2.2.5.1 and 2.2.6:
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Video output:
* Fix systematic green line on nvidia
* Fix direct3d SPU texture offsets handling
Demuxer:
* Fix heap buffer overflows
Changes between 2.2.5 and 2.2.5.1:
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Security hardening for DLL hijacking environments
Translations updates
Misc:
* Update for Soundcloud, liveleak and Youtube scripts
* Fix potential out-of-band dereference in flac decoder
* Fix potential out-of-band reads in mpeg packetizers
* Fix infinite loop in subtitles demuxer
* Fix incorrect memory free in ogg demuxer
* Fix potential out-of-band reads in subtitle decoders and demuxers
* Fix green line on Windows with odd sizes
Changes between 2.2.4 and 2.2.5:
--------------------------------
Decoder:
* Fix mp3 playback quality regression in libmad
* Fix video scaling in VDPAU
* Fix playback of palettized codecs
* Fix ADPCM heap corruption (FG-VD-16-067)
* Fix AES3 16bps decoding
* Fix DVD/LPCM heap corruption (FG-VD-16-090)
* Fix SCTE-27 colors
Demuxer:
* Fix possible ASF integer overflow
* Fix MP4, VOC, XA, SMF divide-by-zero errors
* Fix MP4 heap buffer overflows
* Fix Flac metadata integer overflow
* Fix NSVf and AIFF infinite loops
* Fix flac null-pointer dereference
* Fix vorbis and opus comments integer overflows and leaks
Video output:
* Fix green line on Windows with AMD drivers
* Fix screenshots size
Access:
* Fix crash in screen recording on Windows
* Fix FTP scan string injection
* Fix HTTP size handling
Mux:
* Fix mp4 drift
Lua:
* Fix vimeo, youtube, dailymotion, cli, appletrailers, http,
soundcloud scripts
Audio filter:
* Fix heap write in stereo_widen audio filter
Windows:
* The plugins loading will not load external DLLs by default.
Plugins will need to LoadLibrary explicitely.
* Fix uninstaller path handling
* Fix taskbar buttons behavior
MacOS:
* Fix scrolling sensitivity on Sierra
* Resume points are deleted now if the user clears the list of
recent items
Changes between 2.2.3 and 2.2.4:
--------------------------------
Decoder:
* Fix crash in G.711 wav files
* Fix mp3 crash in libmad
* Fix out-of-bound write in adpcm QT IMA codec (CVE-2016-5108)
Qt:
* Fix resizing issues
Win32:
* Fix overlay creation on Windows XP for DirectDraw video output
Misc:
* Build fixes for Hurd
Translations:
* Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, German, French, Italian, Marathi, Norwegian
Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Portuguese, Slovak, Spanish (Mexico), Swedish,
Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese translations
Changes between 2.2.2 and 2.2.3:
--------------------------------
Demux:
* Fix HLS quality selection and a potential stack overflow
* Fix potential MKV infinite loop and improve MKV tags support
* Fix WMV regression
Decoder:
* Fix hardware decoding with libvdpau-va-gl
* Fix crashes with libvpx
* Use libass without caching dialog
Video Ouptut:
* Fix green lines on Direct3D output
Skins2:
* Fix maximizing Window in multi-screen context
Qt:
* Fix resume where you left off
* Fix infinite recursion in the customize dialog
* Fix size when switching to/from the minimal interface
* Fix size after resume toolbar is displayed
MacOS X:
* Fix crashes in media information panel
* Correctly respect the disable-screensaver option
Win32:
* Allow opening more than 15 elements in Explorer
Translations:
* Update of most translations
Changes between 2.2.1 and 2.2.2:
--------------------------------
Access:
* Fix SetupFormat for continuous framesize in v4l2
* Fix off-by-one buffer overflow in RealRtsp module
* Fix screen recording aspect-ratio, framerate and potential crash
* Fix Windows directshow input freeze
* Fix MMS segmentation fault/abort when server forces a large allocation
Demux:
* Fix support for ms-dvr files
* Fix time detection in AVI files over HTTP
* HLS: fix hang on stop, crashes and small improvements
* Fix mp4 NULL dereference reported by by Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs
* Fix regression for VC-1 in WMV
* Fix MXF crashes on stop
* Fix EAC3 detection in some TS files
Decoders:
* Fix importing surface from main memory in VDPAU
* Fix possible double-free in ADPCM decoder
* Support 9-bit and 10-bit GBR planar formats
* Support GoToMeeting 2 and GoToMeeting 3 codecs
* Fix crash in teletext (zvbi) decoder
* Fix Bluray subtitles (PGS) timestamps
Audio output:
* Fix audio drop after a flush with pulseaudio
* Fix audio initialization on iOS
* Fix audio stuttering with AirPlay devices on OS X (2 sec delay needs to
be set manually by the user)
* Fix pulseaudio latency computation
* Fix alsa default device selection
Skins2:
* Fix video control that fails to show up
* Fix UTF-8 conversion issues
* Fix Unicode folders location failing to open the skins
* Fix crash over malformed skins bitmaps
* Fix fullscreen for Gnome3/Unity Window Managers
OS X:
* Support for OS X El Capitan
* Fix code signature for releases on El Capitan
* Improve resume dialog, starting time, preferences, lua extensions
* Fix threads ordering, preferences crashes, URL drag'n drops
Qt:
* Fix crash when opening multiple items on Windows
* Fix recent items appending when using a playlist
* Improve addons manager dialog, playlist
* Fix changing the audio-device in the menu
* Fix key and mouse event support for Qt >= 5.5 under X11
* Fix memory leaks
Video Output:
* Fix build if one disables XCB but activate VDPAU on Unix
* Fix Direct3D plane allocation size to avoid colour bleeding
* Fix some crashes in swscale resizing
Misc:
* Fix build with recent FreeRDP versions
* Fix interface crashes when input-title-format option is empty
* Fix MP4 mux divide-by-zero crash
* Improve PNG encoding time
* Fix some UPnP initialization lag
* Rewrite of the Jamendo Service Discovery
* Fix snapshot aspect ratio for anamorphic contents
* Fix custom snapshot sizes
* Dynamic generation of GnuTLS Diffie-Hellman parameters
* Fix "vb" transcoding parameter
* Fix superfluous audio channel extraction in the core
* Fix miscellaneous crashes, double-frees, integer overflows, infinite loops,
read overflow, invalid frees and division by zero issues
* Fix support for lua 5.2 and fix XSS in the http interface
* Update and improve Soundcloud, Vimeo and Youtube scripts
* Update of codecs and libraries to fix 3rd party security issues (like
TALOS-CAN-0036, TALOS-CAN-0037, CVE-2015-7981, CVE-2015-8126
Translations:
* Add Kashmiri and Maithili languages
* Update of most translations
libVLC:
* Expose audio mute, cork and volume change events: libvlc_MediaPlayerCorked,
libvlc_MediaPlayerUncorked, libvlc_MediaPlayerMuted,
libvlc_MediaPlayerUnmuted and libvlc_MediaPlayerAudioVolume
* Fix propagation of libvlc_MediaPlayerTitleChanged event
Translations:
* Update of most translations
Based on the wip version by Ian D. Leroux and Tobias Nygren.
2.2.1 Highlights
VLC 2.2.1 "Terry Pratchett" is a fixed version of 2.2.0 "WeatherWax"
It fixes numerous crashes (FLAC, SPC), codec issues (VP9, Atrac3,
AAC), regressions and several issues (Resume, MP4 chapters, MKV
over network) and security issues.
2.2.0 Highlights
VLC 2.2.0 auto-rotates the videos taken from phones, to fight
Vertical Video Syndrome!
VLC now resumes where you left off in all versions
Improves support for new HD codecs, VP9, opus and H.265/HEVC, for
decoding and for encoding.
Extensions are now downloadable from within the application.
VLSub extension can download subtitles from the application.
2.2.x Features
Core
Auto-rotation of phone movies, to fight Vertical Video Syndrome
Resume playback where you left off
Extensions API and repository to download extensions directly from the application
GPU 0-copy support for decoding and displaying using hardware
Improved support for UltraHD codecs, notably H.265 and VP9
Subtitles download from the web, using OpenSubtitles
Audio core upgrade, notably to support short samples
Formats
Support for BD-Java menus and overlay in Blu-Ray
Acceleration of VP9 and H.265/HEVC decoders
Rewritten support for WMV, Ogg, MP4 and AVI, notably for seeking
Support for encoding in H.265, Opus and VP9
Support for WebVTT, Ogg/VP8, Opus/MKV, CAF
Support for THP, Renderware and Escape Replay videogames files
Support for SRT language detection
Acceleration
GPU 0-copy decoding-rendering for Android using MediaCodec
GPU accelerated auto-rotation, in OpenGL, Direct3D and Mediacodec
GPU 0-copy decoding-rendering for Linux using VDPAU
Support for HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder for Windows Vista/7
GPU 0-copy decoding-rendering for RaspberryPi using MMAL
OpenMAX IL improvements for Android, Linux and rPi
Support GStreamer codecs on Linux
Codecs / Protocols
Support for MMS split streams for audio selection (European Parliament)
Support FTPS (FTP/TLS) protocol
New decoder for VP8 and VP9 using libvpx for Linux distributions without avcodec
Improvements on Teletext, Subrip, and Tx3g subtitles
Support for MSN audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4
Support for IMC, Vivo g723.1, Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless
Support x264 and FFv1 codecs RGB modes
Fixes for DVD, Audio-CD, M2TS LPCM audio, Speex
Professional
Support for Digital Cinema Packages and encrypted DCP with KDM
HEVC encoding and muxing in MP4 and TS
Support VP8 encoding inside Ogg
Improvements of audio bar graph, for speed and resiliance
Support MPEG-2 video encoding through x262
Large improvements of teletext rendering, for speed and alignments
Platform integration
Port of the interface to Yosemite
Support drag'n drop in the skins2 interface
New TLS module on OS X and iOS, using the central store
Signature of the Windows binaries
Improvement of audio device detections on OS X and Windows
Support of audio ducking in various audio outputs
Mobile Versions
VLC for iOS 2.5.0 release is out
VLC for Windows Phone 1.2.0 public beta is out
VLC for WinRT 1.2.0, x86 and ARM
VLC for Android TV 1.2.6
VLC for Android 1.2.6
For developers
Add equalizer API for libVLC
Add functions for scrambling detection
Experimental new C++11 libVLC library: libvlcpp
New Android buildsystem and Java SDK
New WinRT library component for libVLC: libVLCX
Improvements for iOS/OSX VLCKit: Swift support and ARC
Android
Complete switch to Material design, including black theme
Support for Audio playlists and modtracker files
Support for AC-3 Passthrough and 5.1/7.1 audio
Support switch to background video playback
Large improvements on the first Android TV release
Support chapter selections
iOS
Support for iCloud, box.com and OneDrive
Support 10-band equalizer
Support sharing media between devices
Support Chapters and Title selections
New player design
Add media information dialog and timer for playback
as __int64_t, and when moc parses and creates the signal string prototype
functions, it uses "int64_t", but when the code that calls them is compiled
the strings formed are tokenized, so they become "__int64_t" so there is a
mismatch. Fixing the NetBSD headers would be TRT to do, but it is too involved.
Instead since the use of int64_t is limited in parameter types, define a
new pctime_t as int64_t and use that instead. I think that moc functions
should use only qt-specified typedefs to avoid portability problems anyway.
changes:
Security update regarding an integer overflow in xspf demuxer
Rewrite of the pulseaudio audio output module
Major updates in most language translations
Many miscellaneous fixes in decoders, demuxers and subtitles
3rd party libraries updates
pkgsrc change and notes:
* Update PLIST to reflect PKG_OPTION setting.
* With pulseaudio and sdl PKG_OPTION, I couldn't build the package because
of vlc-cache-gen core dump.
* x11 PKG_OPTION could be elminated since the package won't build without it.
Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
--------------------------------
Mac OS X Interface:
* New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
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
changes:
-fix for CVE-2011-0531 (was patched in pkgsrc)
-improvements to codecs, demuxers, Audio-CD
support, subtitles, visualization and platform integration
changes:
Audio outputs:
* Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
* Make PulseAudio the default output if available
Video outputs:
* Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
* Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
Input:
* Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
* Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
Playlist:
* Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
Unix:
* Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
* Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
Qt4 interface:
* Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
* Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
Translations:
* New Walloon translation
* Swedish, Ukrainian an French translation update
--------------------------------
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
