Changes between 3.0.x and 4.0.0-dev:

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Platform support changes:

* 4.0.x requires:

- Windows 7/2008 R2 or later (with KB2533623 installed)

- macOS 10.11 or later

- iOS 9 or later

- Android 4.1.x or later (API-16)

- GCC 5.0 or Clang 3.4 (or equivalent)

* Windows on ARM is now supported

Core:

* New output clock (internal):

- The input clock (PCR) or the audio output can drive the output clock

- By default, the audio output will drive the output clock: no more audio

resampling or flush when the audio is late or early

* New medialibrary (vlc_media_library.h)

* New player (vlc_player.h):

- Replace the input_thread_t API that is now internal

- One instance is used to play subsequent medias

- Allow multiple track selection

- Fix TOCTOU issues (the player lock is exposed)

* New mediatree and mediasource (vlc_media_source.h)

- Browse local network and service discoveries

* New playlist (vlc_playlist.h)

- Replace the previous one

- Flat, new random implementation

- Can't browse anymore (cf. mediatree)

* Add support for dual subtitles selection (via the player)

Audio output:

* ALSA: HDMI passthrough support.

Use --alsa-passthrough to configure S/PDIF or HDMI passthrough.

Demuxer:

* Support for HEIF image and grid image formats

* Support for DASH WebM

* Support for DVBSUB in mkv

* Support for DAV video files

* Improved Bluray menus, clips and stream selection

* Support chapters in mp3 files

* Support for DMX audio music (MUS) files

Codecs:

* Support for experimental AV1 video encoding

* WebVTT encoder

* Remove iomx support for Android

* WebP image decoding

* Support for SMPTE-TT image profile

* Support for 16-bit greyscale

* Support IMM4 decoder

* Improve 708 decoder

* Support AGM decoder

* Support VP4 decoder

* Add NVDEC hardware decoder

Access:

* Enable SMB2 / SMB3 support on mobile ports with libsmb2

* Added support for the RIST (Reliable Internet Stream Transport) Protocol

* Added support for the AMT (Automatic Multicast Tunneling) Protocol

* Added support for the Gopher Protocol

* Added avaudiocapture module as a replacement for qtsound, which is removed now

* Audio CD data tracks are now correctly detected and skipped

* Deprecates Audio CD CDDB lookups in favor of more accurate Musicbrainz

* Improved CD-TEXT and added Shift-JIS encoding support

Access output:

* Added support for the RIST (Reliable Internet Stream Transport) Protocol

Video output:

* Added X11 RENDER video output plugin

* Remove aa plugin

* Remove evas plugin

* Remove omxil_vout plugin

* Remove RealRTSP plugin

* Remove Real demuxer plugin

* Fix washed out black on NVIDIA cards with Direct3D9

Video filter:

* Update yadif

* Remove remote OSD plugin

Stream output:

* New SDI output with improved audio and ancillary support.

Candidate for deprecation of decklink vout/aout modules.

* Support for DLNA/UPNP renderers

Muxers:

* MP4 files are no longer faststart by default

Service discovery:

* Support Renderer discovery with avahi

macOS:

* Remove Growl notification support

* Improved AppleScript API with support for playback modes, recording, rate

appleOS:

* Improved proxy configuration handling

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:

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Misc:

* Properly bump the version in configure.ac

Changes between 3.0.9 and 3.0.9.1:

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Misc:

* Fix VLSub returning 401 for earch request

Changes between 3.0.8 and 3.0.9:

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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

Changes between 3.0.7.1 and 3.0.8:

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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)

Changes between 3.0.7 and 3.0.7.1:

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Access:

* Update libbluray to 1.1.2

macOS:

* Fix bluray java menu playback regression in 3.0.7

Video Output:

* Fix hardware acceleration with some AMD drivers

* Improve direct3d11 HDR support

Changes between 3.0.6 and 3.0.7:

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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

Changes between 3.0.5 and 3.0.6:

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Core:

* Fix potential subtitle picture allocation failures

Codec:

* Add support for 12 bits decoding of AV1

* Fix HDR support in AV1 when the container provides the metadata

Changes between 3.0.4 and 3.0.5:

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Access:

* Improve RTSP playback

* BluRay fixes and improvements, notably for menus and seeking

* Improve the UDP/RTP truncated issue

Codec:

* Add a new AV1 decoder based on dav1d library

* Enable libaom decoder by default

* Fix decoding of some HEVC streams with macOS hardware decoding

Demux:

* MP4: Fix reading of some HDR metadata

* Miscellaneous AV1 demuxing improvements

* Fix CAF integer-underflow

* Fix an MKV crash on iOS 12.0, on iPhone XS phones

Packetizer:

* Add an AV1 packetizer

macOS:

* Starting with VLC 3.0.5, VLC will be distributed with runtime hardening

enabled on macOS Mojave.

All external VLC plugins need to be signed by a DeveloperID certificate in order

to continue working with the official VLC package.

* Update the VLC dark UI to better match the dark mode of macOS Mojave

* Fix convert & save panel stream option

Audio output:

* Fix corking when the playback state is paused

* Improve corking on Android

Video Output:

* Fix Direct3D11 tone-mapping when HDR is displayed on an SDR screen

* More accurate colors for SD sources in Direct3D11

* Disable hardware decoding on some old Intel GPUs

* Fix zero-copy GPU acceleration on AMD RX Vega

* Misc Direct3D11 fixes

Miscellaneaous:

* Improve ChromeCast

* Update numerous 3rd party libraries, including for minor security issues

* Update Youtube support

* Fix subtitles rendering with specific fonts with negative horizontal advance

Changes between 3.0.3 and 3.0.4:

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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

macOS:

* macOS 10.7.5 is required now, VLC will no longer launch on earlier releases

* Fix delay and fps setting in subtitle dialog

* Modernized and improved support for media keys

* Fix issues with drag and drop of playlist items

* Fix support for audio capturing with qtsound module

* Fix layout issues in the Convert and Save panel

Translations:

* Update of most translations

Changes between 3.0.2 and 3.0.3:

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Core:

* Update subtitles display while paused

Access:

* Enable srt support on binary builds

Decoders:

* Allow videotoolbox hardware decoding to be disabled

* Disable VideoToolbox for 10bits H.264

* Fix VideoToolbox with some invalid HEVC streams

* Fix subsdec wide character support

* Fix 1st order Ambisonics in AAC

Demux:

* Miscellaneous ogg improvements & bugfixes, including oggds

* Fix forced tracks selection

* Fix Topfield files

* Probe AAC/ADTS inside TS

* Fix tracks detection issues with DolbyVision and Bluray streams

macOS:

* Fix "Open Network Stream" URL box focus

* Add option to disable hardware acceleration for video decoding

* Remove option to force dolby mode from simple preferences

Video Output:

* Fix crashes on Direct3D11

Qt:

* Fix tooltip display on some desktop environments

* Fix spurious movement of the main Window

* Fix playlist being displayed in fullscreen

Misc:

* Fix amem output

* Fix numerous issues on fonts fallback and font shaping

* Fix subtitles toggle through hotkeys

* Fix audioscrobbling

* Fix buffer over-read in avcodec audio encoding with non-default layouts

* Numerous 3rd party libraries updated, fixing security issues

Translations:

* Update of most languages

Changes between 3.0.1 and 3.0.2:

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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

Changes between 3.0.0 and 3.0.1:

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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

macOS Interface:

* Re-add option to disable the fullscreen controller panel

* Auto-layout improvements

* Remove misleading playback warning indicator

* Fix crash with the interface for lua extensions (like VLSub)

* Fix show sidebar setting being ignored on restart

* Fix MKV files association

* Fix chromecast audio detection

Qt Interface:

* Improve scaling on HiDPI displays

Snap:

* Improve interface look and feel.

Changes between 2.2.8 and 3.0.0:

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Platform support changes:

* 3.0.x will be maintained as a LTS (best-effort basis, mostly for security)

that will be the last working version for quite a few systems.

Indeed the 3.0.x branch will contain the last releases running on:

- Windows XP, Vista, and the servers equivalent of those Windows versions

- macOS 10.7, 10.8 & 10.9, iOS 7 & 8

- Android 2.x, 3.x, 4.0.x & 4.1.x

- Compilers before gcc 5.0 and clang 3.4, or equivalent

* 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.

* Linux support requires now a kernel newer than 2.6.26.

* Mac OS X 10.6 support is now removed. You need OS X 10.7.

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

* Screen capture plugin for Wayland display

* 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 output:

* 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

Mac OS X Interface

* Drop support for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard

* Support right-to-left user interface layout for right-to-left languages

* New resizable fullscreen controller with improved design

* Add status bar icon which displays metadata and play controls

* Add support for keyboard blacklight dimming during fullscreen video playback

* Improve and simplify preferences window

* Huge performance improvements in playlist handling and other areas

* New AppleScript API giving access to audio desynchronization

* Expand AppleScript API for menu detection and navigation

* Support for building with disabled sparkle update mechanism

* Remove deprecated transcoding wizard, use convert and save dialog instead

iOS:

* Drop support for iOS 6.x

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