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Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.1.0-git:
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3rd party libraries (contrib):
 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a better system in /contrib

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Audio output:
 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support

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Encoders:
 * high10,high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
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Audio Filters:
 * new remapping channel filter

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Video Filters:
 * new anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
   anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images.

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Interfaces:
 * fixed lua command line interface console mode under Windows.

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Removed modules:
 * portaudio audio output
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Changes between 1.1.12 and 2.0.0:
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Important notes:
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 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
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 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
   conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
   from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
   title:  vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
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 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
   - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
   - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
   - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
   - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
   All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
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 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
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   - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
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     By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
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   - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
     By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
   - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
     --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
     --http-crl (optional CRL).
 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
   Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
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 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
   output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
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 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
   Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
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 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
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Important changes for packagers:
 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
   its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
   not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
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   Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
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 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
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   variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
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 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
   configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
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 * The webplugins has moved to git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
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Core:
 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
   Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside video outputs
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   x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
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 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
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 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64
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Access:
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 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
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 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA module
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 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
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 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
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 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
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 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
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 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
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 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
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 * PulseAudio audio input support
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 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
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   in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
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 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
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 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
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 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
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 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
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 * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
   on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
   are notably concerned.
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 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
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 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
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 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
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 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
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 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
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 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
   The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
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 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
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 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
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 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
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 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
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 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
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 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
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 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
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Demuxers:
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 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
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 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
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 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
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 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
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 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
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 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
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 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
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 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
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 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
 * Improved support of tracker files
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Interfaces:
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 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
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 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
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 * Qt: minor look improvements, notably on the seek bar
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 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
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 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
   and important cleanups and optimisations
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 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
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   It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
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 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
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 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
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 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
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 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
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 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
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 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
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 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
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 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
   -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
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 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
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 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
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 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
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 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
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 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
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 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
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 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
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Video Output:
 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
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 * New video output for iOS platform
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 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
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 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
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 * Various vmem improvements
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 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
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   chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
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 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
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 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
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 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
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 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
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Audio Output and Filters:
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 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
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 * New audio output in memory (amem)
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 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
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 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
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 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
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 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
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 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
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 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
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 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
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Video Filter:
 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht up to 254 channels
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 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
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 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
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 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
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 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
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 * New anti-flickering filter
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 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
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 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
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 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
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   blackbox and customizable shadow.
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   NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
   the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
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   The Win32 font selection was improved too.
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Stream output:
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 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
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   example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
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    access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
    index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
    dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
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 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
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 * Major rework of VoD support
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 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
       #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
       #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
   a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
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 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
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   #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
   #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
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Services Discovery:
 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
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 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
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libVLC:
 * New capabilities for libVLC:
  ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
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  ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
     list of available audio and video filters
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  ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
     libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
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     allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
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Removed modules:
 * asademux: use libass only
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 * subsass: use libass
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 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
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 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
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 * id3tag: use taglib
 * upnp: use upnp_intel
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 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
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 * removal of the noise filter
 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
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 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
              removed in Growl's next release, too.
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 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
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Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
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Security:
 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.

Audio outputs:
 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.

Video outputs:
 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.

Decoders:
 * Camtasia decoding fix.

Qt interface:
 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.

Translations:
 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.


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Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
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Audio outputs:
 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
                     including support for OS X Lion
 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0

Unix port:
 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1

Misc:
 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)

Translations:
 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque


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Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
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Security:
 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
   and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).

Mac OS X:
 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling

Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32

Demuxers/Meta Readers:
 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma

Muxers/Output:
 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players

Extensions:
 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues

Qt Interface:
 * Fix quitting on Linux
 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
 * Miscellaneous

Win32 port:
 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash

Translations:
 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian


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Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
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Windows and Mac OS X:
 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues

Mac OS X Interface:
 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
 * Fix for various crashes and small issues

Demuxer:
 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser

Audio output:
 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one

Win32 port:
 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module

Miscellaneous fixes in:
 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
 * Qt interface
 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
 * RTP output and XML export
 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
 * v4l2 access

Translations:
 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
   Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
   Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations


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Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
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Windows and Mac OS X:
 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue

Demuxers:
 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)

Mac OS X Interface:
 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
 * Improve Apple Remote handling
 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)

Mac OS X Port:
 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
 * Fixes for eyeTV

Translations:
 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
   German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
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Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
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Mac OS X Interface:
 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert

Interfaces:
 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins

Encoder:
 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one

Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
 * mp4 demuxer improvements
 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
 * fix a crash in malformed ape files

Miscellaneous fixes in:
 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
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 * Configure and build system improvements
 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated

Translations:
 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
   Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
 * New icelandic translation


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Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
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Linux port:
 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
   #234484 and #260719.

Mac OS X port:
 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
   and stability reasons

Demuxers:
 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
   VideoLAN-SA-1102

Translations:
 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations


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Source:
 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux


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Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
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Audio output:
 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
   PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
   Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
   and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.

Access:
 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows

Decoders:
 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
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 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
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Demuxers:
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 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)

Subtitles and renderer:
 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
 * Mark more freetype options as safe
 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
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Visualization:
 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X

Interfaces:
 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements

Miscellaneous fixes:
 * KDE device solid actions
 * XDG screensaver
 * Transcode integer overflow
 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers

Translations:
 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
   Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
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Access:
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Services Discovery:
 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com

Demuxers:
 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
 * Taglib thread-safety fix

Decoders:
 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
   "Puget Systems"

Skins:
 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux

Video Output:
 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB

Interfaces:
 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc

Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
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libLVC:
 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
 * Miscellaneous fixes

Translations:
 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
   Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
   French and Ukrainian
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Mac OS X:
 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
   by 16
 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider

Demuxer:
 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams

Qt interface:
 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
 * Various fixes for Windows

Translations:
 * New Armenian translation
 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
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 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
   See VideoLAN-SA-1005
 * Fix folders opening from the interface

Translations:
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Access and demuxers:
 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
 * fix for podcasts parsing
 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks

Taglib:
 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
   CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004

Playlist:
 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
 * fix m3u playlists exports

Skins2:
 * fix video autoresize behaviour

Translations:
 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali

Windows and Mac:
 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed

Mac:
 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates

BSD:
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Windows:
 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
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libVLC:
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     libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
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     libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
   * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
     protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
     the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
   * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
     video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
     ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
     See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
   * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
     between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
   called early

Decoders/Demuxers:
 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
   You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds

Stream output:
 * Fix h264 streaming in ts

Interfaces:
 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle

Linux:
 * Fix pulse closing
 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection

MacOS:
 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes

Windows:
 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video

Translations:
 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
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   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
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   - 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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 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
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 * Metadata and cover art improvements
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 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
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   desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
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 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
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     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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Audio filters:
 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
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   resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
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 * 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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 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
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 * 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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 * 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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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:
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Decoders:
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 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
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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
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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:
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Decoders:
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 * 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:
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 * 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)


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Unix builds:
 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD

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 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
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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
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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

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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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 * Frame-by-Frame playback
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 * 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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 * 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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 * Metadata for mod files are supported
 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
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Encoders:
 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
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 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
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   OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
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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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 * MTP device access on Unix
 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
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 * Export the playlist in HTML
 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
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 * Better metadata handling and reading
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 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
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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 integration in GTK environments
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 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
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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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Maemo Port:
 * New Maemo port with:
   - an interface based on Hildon framework.
   - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.

Windows CE Port:
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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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 * 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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 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications

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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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Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
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Mac OS X:
 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
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Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
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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 RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)

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Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
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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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Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
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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

Windows port:
 * Stability fix for the video output.

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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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 * 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
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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 interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
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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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   with some file names. Use access://url instead.
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   avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
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   following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
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   filter. For example:
   transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
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   For example:
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    * Shoutcast TV listings
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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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   (available as a separate download).
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   Authentication.
 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
   frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)

Demuxers:
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 * 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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 * DosBox Capture support
 * Karl Morton's Video support
 * limited atrac3 support
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 * Fraps support
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 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
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 * NellyMoser ASAO support
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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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 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
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 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
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 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)

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 * 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
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 * New Serbian translation
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 * 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
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 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
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 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
 * Close MMS access on network timeout
 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
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Various bugfixes:
 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
 * 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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Audio filter:
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Audio output:
 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA

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

Stream output:
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 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing

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Other changes:
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 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
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 * RSS filter string overflow
 * Few memory leaks
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Playlist:
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Input:
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 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
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 * Improved subtitles encoding support
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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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 * Core image manipulation support
 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
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 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
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 * Better support for Kasenna streams
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 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
 * Massive Matroska improvements
 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
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 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
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 * New interface
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Audio Output:
 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements

Video Output:
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Demuxers:
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 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
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 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
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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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 * Supports scheduling.
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    - Ability to embed video output.
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    - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
    - Better hotkeys handling.
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 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
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 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
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Mac OS X:
 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
 * Playing MOD files is working now.


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 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
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Codecs:
 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
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 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles

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 * Improved import/export

Input:
 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
   container formars.
 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
   small and strange formats.
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 * New PVA demux.
 * New MOD audio demux.
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 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
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 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
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 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
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 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
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 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
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 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
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 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
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 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
   subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
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Playlist:
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 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
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 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
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 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
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 * Reworked DVB tuning.
 * Better Icecast support.
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 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
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 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
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 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
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 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
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 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
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 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
 * Preliminary RTP support.
 * Fixes to SAP announces.

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 * Skins:
    - Bugfixes
    - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
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 * wxWindows
    - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
    - Improvements and help in preferences
    - New streaming wizard
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    - Improvements of the standard pages
    - Support for new commands
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Service discovery:
 * Many fixes to the SAP module
 * SAP now supports HTTP streams

Subtitles:
 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
 * 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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 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
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 * Support for Panther.
 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
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 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
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 * Multimonitor support (untested).
 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
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 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
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 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
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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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Access input:
 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
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 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.

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 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.

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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.
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iPaq port:
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 * 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
   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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 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
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 * 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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 * 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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 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
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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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Codecs:
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 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
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 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
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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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 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
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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 output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
 * 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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 * 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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 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
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 * 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
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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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Codecs:
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 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
 * 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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Mac OS X port:
 * 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:
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 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
 * playlist
 * network tab in the interface
 * "apply" handling in preferences
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 * 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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DVD support:
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 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
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UNIX ports:
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 * fixed the GNU-pth support
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Win32 port:
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 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
   plugins
 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
 * rc interface is now fully useable
 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
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Mac OS X port:
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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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Linupy port:
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 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
   YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
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Miscellaneous:
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 * improved ID3 tag detection
 * 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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 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
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Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
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Mac OS X port:
 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
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Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
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Core support:
 * new mouse gesture interface
 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
   playing

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

Input demux:
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 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
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   continuity counter

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

UNIX ports:
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 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
   popup menu
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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:
 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
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 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
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 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
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 * playlist enhancements
 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
 * new step forward/step backward commands
 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
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 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
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 * vlc.app is now VLC.app

Win32 port:
 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
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 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
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BeOS port:
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 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
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 * native video output is working again
 * only commandline interface support
 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package

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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
    S/PDIF and multi-channel support
  * localization support via gettext on most architectures
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    multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
    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 entry points support
  * 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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  * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
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Codecs:
  * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
    (only available with the .avi demux)
  * support for ADPCM audio codec
  * support for raw PCM data
  * support for Cinepak video codec
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  * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
  * support for Xvid codec
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  * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
  * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
  * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
    from sources)
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  * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
    H263i, MJPEG A/B
  * 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
    device and the channels configuration
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  * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
    format that VLC can play
  * new swedish translation
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  * enhancements of the playlist window
  * new messages window to see debug info
  * fixed a few crashes
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iPaq port:
  * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
  * 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