Version History of VLC Player 0.8.4

• Core support:
• Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
• New OSD system
• Video output:
• Fixed problems with OpenGL output
• New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
• Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
• Input:
• Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
• IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
• IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
• GnomeVFS input module
• Support for RTP packet reordering
• Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
• Decoders:
• Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
• Musepack decoder using libmpdec
• QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
• Services discovery:
• UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
• Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
• Video filters:
• RSS feed overlay
• Audio filters:
• * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel Mixer and Dolby Surround
• Stream output:
• New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
• Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
• Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
• Interfaces:
• new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
• Mac OS X
• - New streaming and transcoding wizard
• - New extended controls panel
• - New bookmarks window
• - Fixed playlist sorting
• - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
• wxWidgets
• - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
• - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
• - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
• - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
• Skins2
• - Tree playlist
• HTTP
• - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
• - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in the names of files
• - Include macro to include other files
• - CGI 1.0 support
• ActiveX plugin:
• * Should now work outside IE as well
• Mac OS X port:
• * New script to delete the preferences automatically
• Windows port:
• * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
• * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
• Translations:
• The following languages were added:
• Galician
• Korean
• Romanian
• Simplified Chinese
• The following languages were re-added:
• Swedish