VLC-Qt Changelog

1.1.0 (2016-06-19)

  • Update VLC to 2.2.4
  • Requires libVLC 2.1 or newer
  • libVLC 2.2 headers are provided as submodule
  • Native logging support with ability to set log level
  • Add ability to set application ID
  • VLC media: add parsed state, async parse request, duration and current state
  • VLC media list player: next item signal now also sends pointer to VlcMedia
  • VLC media player: seekable status
  • New frame stream class
  • New QML player and video rendering (deprecates old VlcQmlVideoPlayer)
  • New QML plugin
  • QML audio, video and subtitles tracks support
  • Deinterlacing, aspect ratio and crop ratio changed signals
  • Reading libvlc arguments from environment variable VLC_ARGS
  • Initial automatic testing support
  • Deprecated: VlcError:clearerr is not needed and causes issues so it is deprecated and will be removed in 2.0 (currently does nothing)

1.0.1 (2016-02-09)

  • Update VLC to 2.2.2
  • Support Homebrew provided Qt (issue #128)
  • Error messages are marked as proper warnings/errors on console output
  • Fix: Video output should be default first
  • Fix: Add LIB_SUFFIX to generated CMake modules install path (related to issue #132)

1.0.0 (2015-12-27)

  • Add audio and video filter module list (issue #112)
  • Add "Ignore" ratio that enables QML player to stretch video to container (issue #113)
  • Add ability to set playback rate (issue #127)
  • Do not abort if libVLC fails to initialise but leave this for application to handle (issue #124)
  • QML player should have enum values as strings not integers, as enums can change unexpectedly
  • Expose protected methods on widgets to enable subclassing
  • Fix: Do not set time, if not playing (issue #120)

0.90.0 - 1.0 beta 1 (2015-09-20)

  • Renamed to VLCQtCore, VLCQtQml and VLCQtWidgets
  • Autogenerated CMake search scripts for full modularity
  • Added Equalizer
  • Added support for functions from newer libVLC versions
  • Added audio channel selection
  • Added volumeChanged and muteChanged slots to VlcAudio
  • Made WidgetSeek more flexible with supporting sliders and progress bars
  • Fix: Building with Qt4 (issue #59)
  • Fix: Missing break in event parsing
  • Fix: Windows does not need patched headers anymore
  • Updated documentation

0.10.0 (2015-03-15)

  • Full Qt5 QML support
  • Ability to set VLC plugin path
  • VLC 2.2 support
  • Stats support (issue #28)
  • Debug/Release postfix in library filenames (issue #29)
  • Fix: Make VlcError::errmsg() return QString, not void (issue #48)
  • Fix: Add remaining pkgconfig files (issue #51)

0.9.0 (2013-09-26)

  • Official OS X support (10.6 or later, 64-bit only)
  • Static build support
  • Simplified volume slider
  • Experimental Qt5 QML support (disabled by default)
  • Fix: Use UTF-8 encoding on all platforms
  • Windows SDK updated to Qt 5.1.1 MSVC2012 and VLC 2.0.8

0.8.1 (2013-04-27)

  • Autodetect Qt4 or Qt5
  • Restored MinGW support
  • Windows SDK updated to Qt 5.0.2 and VLC 2.0.6 with release and debug builds

0.8.0 (2013-01-26)

  • Separate library into modules: core, widgets and qml
  • Introduce position() and setPosition() methods
  • Fix pause method and introduce togglePause method
  • Removed mouse and fullscreen functions from WidgetVideo
  • Full support for MSVC and Qt5
  • Fix: Use proper track ids
  • Fix: Install pkg-config file to correct path (issue #12)
  • Fix: Don't use exit() (issue #13)

0.7.0 (2012-10-14)

  • Re-licensed under GNU Lesser General Public License v3
  • Native MSVC support
  • Basic QML Video Player
  • New MediaList and MediaListPlayer
  • Support for libvlc events
  • Ability to access current media and other set objects
  • Ability to check track type
  • Enums for common audio/video outputs
  • Logo and marquee support
  • Scale video function
  • Added and changed some common instance arguments
  • Drop support for older versions of Qt and VLC Supported are Qt 4.8 or later and VLC 2.0 or later.

0.6.2 (2012-07-02)

  • New take snapshot and size functions for video
  • New seek widget
  • [FIX] #6: Window-resize cursor
  • Updated examples and tests
  • MSVC linking support
  • Windows SDK based on VLC 2.0.2 and Qt 4.8.1

0.6.1 (2012-05-27)

  • Updated VideoWidget to remove X11 compositing problems
  • Qt5 improved support

0.6.0 (2012-05-03)

  • Multiple instances and players support
  • Basic recording support
  • Examples for new VLC-Qt based projects
  • Improved Windows support
  • Basic Mac OS X support
  • Various bugfixes and improvements

0.5.1 (2011-06-27)

  • Pkgconfig support
  • Changes in audio/video controllers
  • Teletext updates

0.5.0 (2011-04-03)

  • Auto-hide option for seek widget
  • Update for Audio and Video control classes
  • Added recorder args
  • Added ability to set default audio language
  • New status signals
  • [FIX] Bug #1 - Support for meta data

0.4.0 (2010-10-08)

  • QVlc project is now separated from Tano and now known as VLC-Qt.
  • Only libvlc 1.1 and later are supported.
  • Instance has been split into VlcError, VlcInstance, VlcMedia and VlcMediaPlayer classes.
  • New VlcAudio and VlcVideo classes
  • Code cleanup and optimisation
  • Doxygen documentation update