Currently only supports 256 color output, and defaults to 320x200. You need     to be root to use it, it may leave your console in an unusable state, lock
    up your video card, it will segfault at exit if you compile it as a plugin
    because of SVGAlib's ludicrous use of atexit() and signal().
    Apart from these few glitches, it's rather OK, use "-I dummy -V svgalib"
    to activate. Q or Esc to quit (press for a long time if it doesn't work).

  * ./modules/audio_filter/converter/s16tofloat32.c: converter needed for
    a52old, includes the walken trick and b_in_place = true.

    gtk_main() in its own thread, and does nothing on subsequent calls. This
    ensures that gtk_main is only running once.
  * ./modules/gui/familiar/*, modules/gui/gtk/*: the familiar, gtk and gnome
    modules are now fully reentrant thanks to their use of the gtk_main module.
  * ./src/libvlc.c: implemented vlc_set(), a wrapper for config_Put* available
    to external programs.
  * ./src/libvlc.c: removed vlc_stop() and vlc_end(), everything is now done
    by vlc_destroy().
  * ./modules/control/rc/rc.c: implemented a few new functions. For instance,
    run "vlc -I rc" and then type "intf gtk" or "intf gnome". You can even
    launch several of them. "segfault" works, too.

* Major changes in the handling of dates in the audio output ; still buggy,
but differently.
* Fixed a major bug in the aout pre-filters, preventing to run any other
decoder than liba52.
* p_aout->output.pf_play now has only one argument.

  * ./configure.in: added check for libxosd version.

is available

Now everything should compile with every gcc with no problem (mp4, ffmpeg
and faad plugins, especially).

    configure.

  * ./src/audio_output/audio_output.c, ./src/audio_output/mixer.c: fixed a
    horrible sound issue by making sure internal buffers have a size multiple
    of 4 bytes. Waiting for a real fix made in Meuuh, of course.

    This first draft is made to read RTP streamed by the vls.

  <zedek@fxgsproject.org>.
* Fixed a bug in float32tos16, where gcc over-optimized a little and
  caused problems on some platforms (eg. solaris).

    instead of our own variable.
  * ./modules/audio_filter/converter/a52tospdif.c, ./modules/codec/a52.c: added
    <unistd.h>, required for bswap.
  * ./modules/demux/mp4/libmp4.c: removed an unneccessary semicolon in a
    macro definition.
  * ./modules/audio_output/esd.c: first attempt at getting esd to work.
  * ./modules/video_output/*: split sdl.so into a video and an audio plugin,
    and removed useless subdirectories.
  * ./modules/audio_output/sdl.c: compilation fix.

  Desperately need a fixed32 mixer for testing the conversions.
- Uncommented unused functions in libmad.

    only have one parent, because I don't want to deal with cycles, and each
    created object is indexed in a global array. This feature is unused yet,
    but it will speed up vlc_object_find(FIND_ANYWHERE).
  * ./debian/rules: activated the faad codec.
  * ./doc/fortunes.txt: new fortune cookies.
  * ./modules/codec/mpeg_video/headers.c: reduced the use of attach/detach.
  * ./modules/audio_output/oss.c: fixed two compilation warnings.

(faad2).
 * modules/demux/mp4/libmp4.c : could compile without zlib.
 * modules/codec/ffmpeg/* : set error resilience to -1 by default.(in
order to decode more files, but it could produce segfaults ... )
 * Makefile.*, configure.in : enable mp4 by default, add faad
module (disabled by default ).

* Begun writing some hooks for forthcoming S/PDIF support
* ./modules/access/vcd/cdrom.c: compile fix for Darwin

    name but with different directory names.
  * ./Makefile: plugins get installed in different directory names.
  * ALL: additional -ansi -pedantic fixes.

  * ALL: lots of -ansi -pedantic fixes.

    demux plugins (ps, ts, but also dvd*).
  * ./src/input/mpeg_system.c: removed MPEG-related stuff from the vlc core.
  * ./src/misc/modules.c: max recursion level is now 5.
  * ./modules/access/dvdplay/es.c: fixed a buffer overflow.

  * ./src/misc/modules.c: the directory browsing should be more portable now,
    we use stat(2) instead of file->d_type.

    waveout, directx, qnx, beos, win32, macosx, and the AltiVec modules.
  * ALL: removed mention of AC3 in favour of A52.
  * ./configure.in, ./Makefile*: modules can now be built deeper than 1
    directory. As a consequence, the build is even slower (but I'm fixing
    this) and make clean doesn't work anymore.

    about 2000 lines of code.

    I could not test everything on every architecture, so please report
    any module breakage (especially on BeOS, OSX and QNX).

* ./src/input/* : fixed a memory leak

(incomplete and untested).

  * ./mozilla/vlcplugin.h: added .mov and .mp4 files to the plugin.
  * ./Makefile: we no longer try to merge .a files into libvlc.a, but rather
    add them to the vlc-config output.

 libdvdplay installed (available from videolan CVS), and request plugins
compilation in the usual way:
	--enable-dvdplay.
Note that libdvdplay needs libdvdread and libdvdcss.

Currently it has only been tested under linux, with gnome interface (optional)
and xvideo output.

What works (more or less):
 -DVD reading in some rare cases :) (title and menus),
 -Menu pause,
 -Seeking,
 -Selecting directly a specific title/chapter/angle,
 -Changing audio, sub-picture, angle during playback,
 -Interactive menus with mouse only.

What is missing:
 -Menu buttons highlighting (needs spudec patch),
 -Keyboard interaction (needs a specific part in port specific plugins),
 -A specific interface to navigate through menus (needs that I move my ass),
 -Interactive menus won't work with other output plugins so long as they
  have not been patched to send mouse/keyboard events to vlc interface,
 -Whatever you need.

Known bugs (bugs in libdvdplay mostly):
 -Seeking in some menus or intro titles (bad vobu map),
 -Read/seek error with some DVDs,
 -the configure needs tweaking,
 -numerous segfaults,
 -decoder/output modules locking error,
 -fuzzy colors in menus when spudec is active (default in menus).

The plugin is not guaranteed to work anywhere outside my computer. If it break your, don't come and complain to me :).