http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.videolan.announce hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.videolan.announce/165 <pre>Dear VLC community, I am very glad to present, in the name of the whole development team, VLC 1.1.10. This eleventh release of the "The luggage" branch brings, as usual, security fixes and minor to small features improvements. The most notable ones are: - Update of libmodplug in binaries to fix multiple security issues - Fix an integer overflow XSPF playlist demultiplexer - Rewrite of the PulseAudio output on Linux/BSD - Removal of FontCache building in Freetype module on Win32 - Many OS X interface and hotkey fixes - Misc fixes and codec updates - Update of translations Source and Binary can be found on our main ftp or on the sourceforge mirroring system. Please note that the only official website of VLC can be found at: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ More information about the changes can be found at: http://www.videolan.org/developers/vlc-branch/NEWS With my best regards, </pre> Jean-Baptiste Kempf 2011-06-06T10:32:31 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.videolan.announce/154 <pre>Hello all, This is a long overdue update on the state of the two VLC plugins for web browsers, i.e. the ActiveX plugin for Microsoft Internet Explorer, and the Mozilla plugin for just about every other browser. Effective today, the web plugins will be separated from the VLC media player. This is mostly an organizational change for us developers and should not directly affect our end-users. There are several motivations behind this: ❶ Prove the plugins are really independent from the stand-alone player. The web plugins will be used as a testbed to ensure the quality of "LibVLC". LibVLC is our Software Development Kit; it enables third party computer programs to leverage the power of the VLC media player engine. ❷ Let the web plugins development follow its own pace and decouple it from the VLC media player development cycle. This will enable the VideoLAN project to deliver innovations and important improvements to its flagship VLC media player to end users faster than previously. Similarly, enhancements to the web plugins will not anymore be kept on hold for months until the next major version of VLC media player major is released. ❸ Work on the web plugins will become much easier once separated from VLC. Hopefully more developers will be able to join the VideoLAN project's efforts to deliver a best-of-breed open-source cross-platform cost-free multimedia stack. But that was the good news. Many of you surely noticed that the web plugins in VLC 1.1 were not on the level of quality that you should expect, and not as good as previous versions by any measure. While VLC 1.1 was a great new release of the media player, it was more of a brown-paper bag release as far as the web was concerned. That's the bad news. The explanation to this unsatisfactory state of affairs is rather trivial. The last active developer who was working on our web plugins left the VideoLAN project 2 and a half years ago. Since VideoLAN is a volunteer project, we are entirely dependent on staff sponsored by third parties, and hobbyists - by far mostly on hobbyists in fact at the moment. As is, nobody has stepped up to take the plugins over. Unfortunately, I cannot promise that we will address this problem as, well... we're dependent on goodwill. Obviously, any help is welcome. By that, I mean time, not money (if you have money and no time, then hire someone who has time and no money). I don't need to say that, we also welcome skilled and motivated developers willing to help with other areas of the VideoLAN project as ever. Thank you for your attention and continued support, </pre> Rémi Denis-Courmont 2010-10-11T17:47:07 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.videolan.announce/152 <pre>Dear users, developers and community, VideoLAN and the VLC development team are very glad to announce the new version of VLC. This version, 1.1.1, is a bugfix version, released to fix shortcomings of the VLC 1.1.0 version. VLC 1.1.0 was released one month ago and was downloaded more than 17 million times. Thanks for the support. This version introduces many fixes and improvements: - Many fixes on decoders and demuxers, especially for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules - ATI GPU decoding should now work on Windows with drivers Catalyst 10.7 - Interfaces fixes and improvements - libVLC was extended with new functions, especially to control the adjust filter - Updated translations - Various fixes against crashes on MacOS and Windows port and many other things. You can download and get more details on: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/releases/1.1.1.html We hope you will like it. </pre> Jean-Baptiste Kempf 2010-07-21T21:50:51 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.videolan.announce/151 <pre>Hello, The official release of VLC media player and LibVLC version 1.1.0 is coming to a close. The badly stretched VLC development team is not currently able to maintain more than two development branches at a time. The team has been focusing on the VLC 1.2 future series and the VLC 1.1 stable series. As a consequence, source code for VLC 1.0 is not officially unmaintained anymore. There will be no further security or major bug fixes. The last version was 1.0.6 and will be marked formally obsolete if/when a major issue is discovered. I would also like to remind you that: - the LibVLC API is known to be broken in all 1.0.x releases, - that the Mozilla plugin is broken on X11 platforms in release 1.0.6, and - that binary packages (Windows, MacOS) have already been discontinued. If you need any of these, please update to VLC 1.1.0-RC3 already, or 1.1.0 at the earliest. N.B.: VLC 1.0.5, 0.9.10, 0.8.6i and older versions exhibit known published security issues. Update urgently if you have not already done so. Best regards, </pre> Rémi Denis-Courmont 2010-06-18T02:04:42 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.videolan.announce/148 <pre> Dear subscribers, The VLC development team is proud to introduce a new version of its 'Goldeneye' branch. This release bridges the gap between version 1.0.5 and the upcoming 1.1.0 VLC release. It fixes several vulnerabilities which were uncovered during the development of VLC 1.1.0. It also introduces a number of additional stability and other fixes. Binaries for Windows and Mac OS are not yet on the pipe. The full change list is below. Best regards, Summary changes: ---------------- Access: * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path Decoders/Packetizers: * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support Demuxers: * Update LUA script for Youtube pages * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist X11 port: * Partial Xlib threading fixes More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update! Interfaces: * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist Translations: * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish and Walloon translations updated * Sinhala translation started Removed modules: * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed. Detailed changes: ----------------- Christophe Mutricy (2): RTMP: Don't trust the length given by the stream Avoid integer overflow David González (3): l10n: Spanish update l10n: Spanish update l10n: nsis spanish update Dean Lee (2): l10n: Chinese update l10n: Chinese update Erwan Tulou (1): demux(avi): fix crash occuring when trying to open some avi files Felix Paul Kühne (6): contribs: use package 23 for the 1.0.5 release on OS X contribs: updated binary package with proper libass contribs: updated contrib package for Mac OS X including the recent x264, libdvdcss and ffmpeg changes Updated Swedish translation by Daniel Nylander French l10n: fixed typo contribs: updated to latest binary package for OS X Francois Cartegnie (1): Fix segfault in preparser Fumio Nakayama (2): l10n: Japanese update l10n: Japanese translation for .desktop Gaëtan Rousseaux (1): l10n: Walloon update H.Shalitha Vikum (1): l10n: Initial Sinhala translation Ilkka Ollakka (2): x264.c: handle dts/pts from libx264 on X264_BUILD &gt;= 83 onward x264.c: compile fix Jakob Leben (2): Qt: fix deleting playlist items by key press Playlist: fix faulty duration sorting due to integer overflow Jean-Baptiste Kempf (2): On the road again to 1.0.6 Fix typo copy-pasting Laurent Aimar (17): Fixed invalid accesses in decoder with corrupted subtitles streams. Fixed memleak if no data are read or poke (zip). Cosmetics (zip). Fixed read(NULL, size) in zipstream. Fixed segfault with corrupted zip file. Simplified and fixed mmst/u pausing (close #2673). Fixed an assert with still frame in dvdnav. Fixed a few memleaks in AVI demuxer. Fixed segfault with corrupted AVI ODML index. Fixed signed integer overflow when loading AVI ODML index. Fixed division by 0 with invalid files in avformat wrapper. Fixed invalid read in ASF_ReadObject_Index (asf). Cosmetics. Fixed segfault when seeking in ASF with broken index. Fixed segfault with corrupted mkv files with compressed data. Fixed segfault with incomplete mkv files. Prevent a potential integer overflow (mkv). Mihkel (1): l10n: Estonian update Pierre Ynard (2): rtp sout: fix DCCP socket leak lua: update the youtube script to the new version of their website (cherry picked from commit eda3dd800526984cd54024f72a0c69a3446eb333) Ricardo Pérez López (1): .desktop Spanish translation Rémi Denis-Courmont (37): XSPF export: XML-encode the location fr: improve translation of "dump" RTP out: fix race condition in SDP generation from RTSP DESCRIBE Missing initializer (cherry picked from commit 5c89f557dd29eb3d2c268edbd29ec718de989e12) UIs: call XInitThreads if using X11 ParseExecute: robustify and cleanup Distribute and install the CUE parser FTP: handle ftp://HOST correctly Typo, use after free (fixes: #3372) XSPF: fix NULL dereference on empty &lt;location&gt; MSN: fix assertion (fixes #2930) Cosmetic Qt4: bookmarks: don't give an anonymous temporary object to qtu dvdnav: fix race between still image timeout and other interaction Fixed potential memleaks in avformat wrapper. On the way to 1.0.6 Pulse: uses Xlib, needs XInitThreads() Call XInitThreads in non-1.1 Xlib-dependent plugins RTMP: totally broken, disabled for the time being Disable A52, DTS and MPEG Audio dummy decoder plugins News for 1.0.6 Fixed potential segfault with corrupted streams (audio codecs). Avoid warnings Happy new year *cough* *cough* Win32: handle WSAEINTR correctly, should fix #3101 Revert "Avoid warnings" Restore liba52 and libdca functionality Fix A/52 decoding when liba52 is not present Mostly restore libmad functionality Update NEWS vlc_readdir: thread-safety fix skins: use readdir_r() instead of readdir() (cherry picked from commit 4bf419574b51ced5dea893f9e247fe38a2a0d163) Bump libvlccore revision NAME_MAX requires &lt;limits.h&gt; (cherry picked from commit 1bad2ec163eaee9bcbf9402494bc3355bf3e3006) build the static VLC binary with $(make core) (cherry picked from commit f1a2b56f7efc2530e76d9b5b203328fefe536c7d) live555: fix use-after-free in TCP rollover on MS-RTSP (cherry picked from commit 3725a9efb8dc096397b34331ff4bfbc01bc45405) Sync PO files Rémi Duraffort (8): Typo. (cherry picked from commit 252c9d11a2dfd168cd9186eeaa880d206d5c97d7) growl: fix pontential use after free (var_delcallbacl called to late). (cherry picked from commit 0c33ffc1b394a41b099dbc7e949ba705d8d44e54) Growl: cosmetics. (cherry picked from commit ed6f4ee4beb8dc649bc561fd450800581f7c0132) Growl: fix bad memset. (cherry picked from commit 7b7d26d88a500582c22f47a8c5e6d001967dd491) Grow: fix crash when the password is NULL. (cherry picked from commit 5ef889a45334e524519e976d7a7ff80679b614f8) growl: fix a buffer overflow. (cherry picked from commit 6af8bf05b784b6dc9743c8f353ef187d41f1fe7e) Growl: fix a second buffer overflow. (cherry picked from commit 49f13e0e08beffc1d44ceb356d6e8c027119f41e) Growl: cosmetics. (cherry picked from commit 1f3432f3c21a72734a9db4029ce6541bcad34f76) airplanez (2): l10n: Korean update l10n: Korean update Éric Lassauge (1): l10n: French update </pre> Rémi Denis-Courmont 2010-04-23T07:23:40 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.videolan.announce/147 <pre>Dear VideoLAN users, We are very glad to announce the first public release of Multicat. It is a set of tools designed to easily and efficiently manipulate multicast streams in general, and MPEG-2 Transport Streams in particular: - multicat is a multicast equivalent of netcat; a gateway application between files and multicast streams - ingests parses a transport stream to generate a timestamp file suitable for multicat streaming; the combination of ingests and multicat makes a simple and efficient TS file streamer - offsets allows to cut a media file at a precise time boundary - aggregartp and desaggregartp can split a single multicast stream onto several contribution links For more information please proceed to the project page: http://www.videolan.org/projects/multicat.html Direct link for downloads: http://downloads.videolan.org/pub/videolan/multicat/1.0/multicat-1.0.tar.bz2 Enjoy! </pre> Christophe Massiot 2010-03-01T23:12:51 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.videolan.announce/146 <pre>Dear VideoLAN users, We are very proud to announce version 1.2 of DVBlast, a powerful DVB demux and streaming application. In addition to multiple demux and descrambling fixes, it brings exciting new features: * IPv6 output and duplicate * Input from Computer Modules DVB-ASI cards * Input from (IPv4) RTP / UDP stream Direct link for downloads: http://downloads.videolan.org/pub/videolan/dvblast/1.2/dvblast-1.2.tar.bz2 Enjoy! </pre> Christophe Massiot 2010-03-01T22:58:36 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.videolan.announce/144 <pre>Dear VLC users and community, VideoLAN and the VLC developers are very proud to introduce VLC 1.0.5. This version is a minor bugfix version that provides various fixes, translation updates and codec updates that should provide decoding speed-ups. This version introduces a new compiler for the Windows version and support for the latest Apple remotes for the Mac version. We hope you will enjoy this version, With all our best wishes for 2010, VideoLAN Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5: -------------------------------- Decoders: * SubRip extra styles improvements * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders Mac OS X Interface: * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote 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, Lithunanian, Romanian, Ukranian, Japanese, Bengali, Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish Russian, Slovak translation updates * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations </pre> Jean-Baptiste Kempf 2010-02-01T08:02:20 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.videolan.announce/142 <pre>Hello, The VideoLAN project is happy to announce the immediate source code release[1] of the latest stable version 1.0.4 of VLC media player[2]. This release mostly addresses bugs, especially on X11 (Linux, BSD, Solaris) platforms. We recommend affected users and distributions upgrade as soon as possible. The most important changes are noted below. N.B.: There are currently no plans to ship binary releases for this version. [1] http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-sources.html [2] http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4: -------------------------------- 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, Japanes and French translation update Best regards, </pre> Rémi Denis-Courmont 2009-12-10T18:42:53 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.videolan.announce/138 <pre>Hello every one, The VideoLAN team has released version 1.0.2 of its VLC media player, including many bug fixes, a few security fixes, and a couple of enhancement (especially support for the WMA Professional codec). If you haven't done so already, we recommend you update as soon as possible. N.B.: there is a bug in VLC 1.0.0 and 1.0.1 that might prevent automatic update on Windows and MacOS. If this happens to you, please download VLC manually from http://www.videolan.org/ The issue should be fixed in the forthcoming updates. Sorry for the inconvenience. Detailed changes from 1.0.1 follow: 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 Best regards, </pre> Rémi Denis-Courmont 2009-10-03T16:14:36 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.videolan.announce/138 <pre>Hello every one, The VideoLAN team has released version 1.0.2 of its VLC media player, including many bug fixes, a few security fixes, and a couple of enhancement (especially support for the WMA Professional codec). If you haven't done so already, we recommend you update as soon as possible. N.B.: there is a bug in VLC 1.0.0 and 1.0.1 that might prevent automatic update on Windows and MacOS. If this happens to you, please download VLC manually from http://www.videolan.org/ The issue should be fixed in the forthcoming updates. Sorry for the inconvenience. Detailed changes from 1.0.1 follow: 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 Best regards, </pre> Rémi Denis-Courmont 2009-10-03T16:14:36 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.comp.video.videolan.announce