Version History of VLC Player 0.8.2

Core support:

• Rewrite of the playlist
  • Tree structure
  • Input preparsing (for meta-data)
  • Grouping (by artist, ...) support
• Preferences improvements:
  • New organization, designed to improve usability
  • New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
• XML parsers
• Core image manipulation support
• Client-side SSL/TLS support
• SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
• Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
• Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
• Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
• Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
• filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are now separated by ':' instead of ','
• Access filter architecture
• Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
• Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
• Many bugfixes...

Input/Demuxers:

• Support for SOCKS proxy
• Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
• Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
• Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
• Better support for Kasenna streams
• RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
• Massive Matroska improvements
• Support for XA and VOC audio files
• TiVo demuxer
• Samba (Windows shares) access module
• Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
• Fixes to Linux DVB support
• Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
• Support for FTP over IPv6

Decoders / Encoders:

• Dirac decoder and encoder
• PNG decoder/encoder
• Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
• Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec

Access filters:

• New Record and Timeshift filters

Services discovery:

• New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
• Brand new SAP module
• To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
• Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
• HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
• DAAP (iTunes shares) support
• Shoutcast

Audio output:

• Support for 20/24 bits LPCM

Video output:

• Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
• Image file video output (png)
• Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
• Improvements to wall video filter
• Support for font color and opacity

Stream output:

• Muxers
  • ASF improvements
• VLM / VoD
  • Ability to load a configuration file on startup
  • Seeking support in VoD streams
• Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)