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Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.1.0-pre3:
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Important changes for users:

Important changes for packagers:
 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
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   generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
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   later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
   by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
   can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
   launch each time.
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 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
   - xproto,
   - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
   - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
   - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
   required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
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Access:
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 * Support for the sftp protocol
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 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
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 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
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 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
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Decoders:
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 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
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 * Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP usage
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 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
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 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
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 * Invmem module improvements
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 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
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 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
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 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles .SRT and .SSA
 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
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 * Support for Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec natively on all platforms
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 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
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 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
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 * Direct rendering is always used with H.264 in avcodec module
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 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
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Demuxers:
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 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
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 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
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 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
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 * Various EGP improvements
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 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
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Playlist:
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 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
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 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
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 * Podcast images are now displayed
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Video Output:
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 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
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 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
   desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
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 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
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 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
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 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
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 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
     Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
     Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
     MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
     Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
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Extensions:
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 * New content extensions lua framework
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 * IMDb extension
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Audio filters:
 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
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 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited 
   resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF 
   and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
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 * NEON assembly audio converter module
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 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
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Visualization:
 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
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Service discovery:
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 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
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 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
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 * Service discovery based on libudev
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 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
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Encoders:
 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
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 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
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    #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
   uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required

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Stream output:
 * New smem module, streaming to memory
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 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
   --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
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Interfaces:
 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
   and oldhttp.
 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.

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Mac OS X Port:
 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
   by Andy Matuschak et al.
 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
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 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
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 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
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Windows port:
 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
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 * Experimental playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
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Maemo port:
 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
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 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
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 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
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Misc:
 * new sqlite module
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 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
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 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
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Bindings:
 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
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 * phonon bindings are now usable
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Removed modules:
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 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
 * transrate: broken since too long
 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
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 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
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 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
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 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
 * cddax: use cdda instead.
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 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
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 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
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 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
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 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
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Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
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Decoders:
 * SubRip extra styles improvements
 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders

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Mac OS X Interface:
 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote

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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:
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 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
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   Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
   Russian, Slovak translation updates
 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations

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Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
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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
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  * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
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Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
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Video outputs:
 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
   regressions in most popular drivers
 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms

Decoders:
 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
   didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks

Encoders:
 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
    #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}

Input:
 * Update for appletrailers lua script
 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer

Service discovery:
 * New udev module for linux

Qt4 interface:
 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels

Translations:
 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates


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Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
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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

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Translations:
 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
   Arabic and French translation updates

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Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
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Demuxers:
 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
 * Fix Dailymotion access script
 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version

Access:
 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria

Decoders:
 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version

Muxers:
 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio

Qt Interface:
 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening

Mac OS X Interface:
 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
 * Fix various crashes

Windows port:
 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support

Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian


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Important notes:
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 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
   See 'Access:' for more info.
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 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
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Playback:
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 * Instantaneous pausing
 * Frame-by-Frame playback
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 * Finer speed control
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 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
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 * Timeshift for most medias
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 * RTSP trickplay support
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 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
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Decoders:
 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
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 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
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 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
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Demuxers:
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 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
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 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
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 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
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 * Metadata for mod files are supported
 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
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 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
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 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
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Encoders:
 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
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 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
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Access:
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 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
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 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
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 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
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 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
   OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
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 * DVB scanning on linux
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 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
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 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
   zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
   zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
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 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
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 * MTP device access on Unix
 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
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 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
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 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
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 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
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Playlist:
 * Export the playlist in HTML
 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
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 * Better metadata handling and reading
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Linux/Windows interface:
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 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
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 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
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 * Recently played items list
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 * Interface toolbar customizations
 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
    - More menus actions
    - Finer speed slider
    - Improvements on many dialogs
    - New dialog for plugins listing
    - Fixed-size mode for videos
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    - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
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 * Better integration in GTK environments
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Mac OS X Interface:
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 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
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 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
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 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
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 * Additional usability improvements
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Stream output:
 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
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 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
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Maemo Port:
 * New Maemo port with:
   - an interface based on Hildon framework.
   - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.

Windows CE Port:
 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
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Mac OS X Port:
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 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
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 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
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 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
 * Support for latest iSight models
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Audio output:
 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
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 * Surround support for PulseAudio
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Video output:
 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
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 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
   (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
   The old image video output has been removed.
 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
   withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
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Miscellaneous:
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 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications

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New Localization:
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 * Khmer
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 * Mongolian
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 * Sorani


Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
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HTTP Interface:
 * Fixed default ACL

Mac OS X:
 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi

Various fixes to the following modules:
 * access:
   - HTTP, SMB
   - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
   - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
     DZCORE Labs, Algeria
 * stream out:
   - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
 * decoder:
   - TSCC

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Mac OS X:
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Decoders:
 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0

Demuxers:
 * Various fixes related to real demuxer

Mac OS X Interface:
 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
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     main controller window.
 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard

Mac OS X Port:
 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs

New Localizations:
 * Indonesian
 * Bengali
 * Updates of other localizations

Various bugfixes:
 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
 * Lots of small bugfixes.
 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
 * Telnet fixes on Windows
 * Resampling fixes when transcoding

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Security update:
 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)

Bunch of small bugfixes.


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New Localizations:
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 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)

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Security updates:
 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds

Features:
 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2

Various bugfixes:
 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)

Windows port:
 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access

Qt Interface:
 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
 * Various fixed in playlist

Access:
 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default

Translations:
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Various bugfixes:
 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
 * Fixes several memory leaks.

Mac OS X port:
 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates

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Various bugfixes:
 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
 * Fixed update system bugs
 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)

Mac OS X port:
 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
   modern Mac OS X versions

Windows port:
 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
   before installation
 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.

Qt4 interface:
 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)


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 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
 * Multiple bugfixes.
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 * Multiple bug fixes.
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 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
   recent to work correctly
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   If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
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   - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
     If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
     /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
   - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
     C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
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 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
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   This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
   This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
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   0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
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 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
   now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
   vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
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 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
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   of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
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 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
   with some file names. Use access://url instead.
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    E.g.:  vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
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 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
   avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
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 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
   following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
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 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
   filter. For example:
   transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
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 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
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 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
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 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
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 * Vastly improved playlist support:
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    * Shoutcast TV listings
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   (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
   lots of other URLs)
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 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
 * JACK audio input support
 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
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 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
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   (available as a separate download).
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 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
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 * RTMP input support
 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
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 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
   Authentication.
 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
   frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)

Demuxers:
 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
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 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
 * AAC tags support
 * APEv1/2 tags support
 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
 * Raw video support
 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
 * TiVo Series 2 support
 * CD+G karaoke Files support
 * MXF files support
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 * Flash Screen Video support
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 * CamStudio Screen Video support
 * DosBox Capture support
 * Karl Morton's Video support
 * limited atrac3 support
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 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
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 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
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 * APE (Monkey audio) support
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 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
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 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
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 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
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 * AQTitle subtitles support
 * MKV USF subtitles support
 * HTML-based subtitles support
 * MPSub subtitles support
 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
 * MPL2 subtitles support
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 * Realtext subtitle support
 * DKS subtitle support
 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
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 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
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Encoders:
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 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
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 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
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 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
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 * New RTP payload formats:
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 * DCCP transport for RTP
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Security updates:
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 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD 
 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
   (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input, 
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Security updates:
 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948, 
   CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)

Goodies:
 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
   (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface, 
    playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
   to an unexpected application termination
 * New Serbian translation
 * Updated Romanian translation


Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
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Security updates:
 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX 
   (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory 
   (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)

Various bugfixes:
 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
 * Fixed AAC resampling
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Security updates:
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 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
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Various bugfixes:
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 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11

Security updates:
 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
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 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130, 
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Audio filter:
 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter

Audio output:
 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA

Access:
 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs

Stream output:
 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer

Encoders:
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 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264 
   encoding on multi-cpu systems
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 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
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 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
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Stream output:
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    - Fatal errors
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*Nix port:
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Audio output:
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Demux:
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Services Discovery:
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 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
 * UPnP fixes
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Services discovery:
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 * DirectShow tuner configuration
 * Support for no-decoration windows
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   - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
   - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
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 * New interface
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 * New video output
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Translations:
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WinCE port:
 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).

Audio Output:
 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements

Video Output:
 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available

Demuxers:
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 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
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  * DVB subtitles encoder
  * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
  * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
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 * Very trivial volume normalizer
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 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
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 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
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 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
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 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
 * Improved CORBA control module
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 * Experimental SVG rendering module
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 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
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 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
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 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).

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 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
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 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
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 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
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 * Improved directory access module.
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 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
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 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
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 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
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    - Support for bitmap fonts.
    - Lots of improvements.
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    - Ability to embed video output.
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    - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
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 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
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 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
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Mac OS X:
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 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
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 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
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    - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
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    - Improvements and help in preferences
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Service discovery:
 * Many fixes to the SAP module
 * SAP now supports HTTP streams

Subtitles:
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 * Text subtitles autodetection.
 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
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 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
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 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
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Core support:
 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.

Stream output:
 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.

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 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
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UNIX ports:
 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.

Win32 port:
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Miscellaneous:
 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
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Core support:
 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
   after a pause.

Stream output:
 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
UNIX ports:
 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.

Win32 port:
 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.

iPaq port:
 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).

Miscellaneous:
 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
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Core support:
 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
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Stream output:
 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
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 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
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Win32 port:
 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
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UNIX ports:
 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
   use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
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 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).

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 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
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 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
 * A new CORBA control plugin.
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Input demux:
 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.

Miscellaneous:
 * Improved build system.
 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
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   Should also work with languages like russion for instance.

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 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
 * Fixed large file support on Windows
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 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
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 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
 * Support for OpenDML avi files
 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
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 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
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 * New HTTP remote control interface
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 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
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 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
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 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
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 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
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Mac OS X port:
 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
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 * New icons by Davor Orel.
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 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
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 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
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 * Interface localization
 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
 * New full-featured Preferences window

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 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
 * support for skins at the interface level
 * new OSD module using Freetype2
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 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
   input level before dropping out of date frames.
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Input access:
 * fixed HTTP redirects
 * support for opening an entire directory
 * EOF should be detected more reliably
 * new video4linux access plug-in
 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver

Input demux:
 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
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 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
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 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
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 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
 * new codec for raw I420 video
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 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
   (although it still misses some important features)
 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
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Stream output:
 * new HTTP output support
 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
 * fixed AV synchronization issues

Miscellaneous:
 * support for oldstyle id3 genres

UNIX ports:
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 * reorderable playlist
 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
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 * support for mono audio output devices
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 * fixed several cosmetic issues
 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
 * the messages window remembers more lines
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 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
 * http and ogg stream output options
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 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well

Win32 port:
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iPAQ familiar Linux port:
 * support for FLAC audio format
 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
 * playlist
 * network tab in the interface
 * "apply" handling in preferences
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 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
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 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
 * DTS S/PDIF support
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 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)

Stream output:
 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
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 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
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 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
 * rc interface is now fully useable
 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
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 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
   M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
   bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
   iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
 * VLC now uses the default audio device
 * new info panel
 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
 * support for mouse gestures
 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
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 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
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 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
   gestures
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Core support:
 * new mouse gesture interface
 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
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Input access:
 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing

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Codecs:
 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams

DVD support:
 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
   without the user consent

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 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
 * ALSA: fixed mono files output

Mac OS X port:
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 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
 * new step forward/step backward commands
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 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
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 * only commandline interface support
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Core structure:
  * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
  * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
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    and A/52 streams are supported)
  * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint

Input access:
  * mms:// support
  * ftp:// support
  * stability fixes in the HTTP access
  * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
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  * VCD image file support
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Input demux:
  * support for *.asf format
  * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
  * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
  * support for ogg encapsulation
  * support for raw DV format
  * support for *.wav format
  * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
  * raw AAC support

Stream discovery & playlists:
  * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
  * support for .m3u file format
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Codecs:
  * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
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  * support for ADPCM audio codec
  * support for raw PCM data
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  * support for Xvid codec
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  * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
  * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
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  * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec

DVD support:
  * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay

Miscellaneous:
  * new WxWindows interface
  * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
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  * new swedish translation
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  * new messages window to see debug info
  * fixed a few crashes
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  * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
  * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
  * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working