Fix a little bug in recents media menu.

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-Changes between 0.9.8a and 1.0.0-git:
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+Changes between 0.9.8a and 1.0.0-pre1:
+--------------------------------------
+
+Important notes:
+----------------
+ * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
+   See 'Access:' for more info.
 
 Playback:
- * Instant pausing
- * Frame-By-Frame Support
- * Timeshift support
+ * Instantaneous pausing
+ * Frame-by-Frame playback
+ * Finer speed control
+ * Timeshift for most medias
+ * On-the-fly recording for all medias
  * RTSP trickplay support
- * On-the-fly record
+
+New Decoders:
+ * AES3 (SMPTE 302M)
+ * Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b)
+ * True HD/MLP
+ * Blu-Ray Linear PCM
+ * QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice)
+ * Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
+ * WMA v1/2 fixed point integer
+ * Close Caption under SCTE-20 standard
+
+Demuxers:
+ * Support for Dirac and RealVideo in Matroska files
+ * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
+ * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
+
+Encoders:
+ * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
+ * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
 
 Access:
  * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
  * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
- * Playback for video in Rar archives
- * DVB-S and ATSC support on Windows
+ * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
+ * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
  * 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.
+ * DVB scanning on linux
+ * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
+ * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form zip://file.zip|file.avi to specify the file)
+ * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
+ * MTP device access on Unix
+ * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
 
 Inputs:
  * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
- * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on
+ * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
    Windows.
 
-Decoders:
- * AES3 (SMPTE 302M) support
- * Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b)  support
- * True HD/MLP support
- * Blu-Ray Linear PCM support
- * QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) support
- * Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 support
+Playlist:
+ * Export the playlist in HTML
+ * Lua script for BBC radio playback
+ * Better metadata handling and reading
 
-Demuxers:
- * Support for Dirac and RealVideo in Matroska files
- * Major improvements in RealMedia files (.rm and .rmvb)
+Linux/Windows interface:
+ * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
+ * Various fixes for skins2 interface
+ * Recently played items list
+ * 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
+    - Better teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
+ * Better integration in GTK environments
 
-Encoders:
- * Dirac encoding support using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
+Mac OS X Interface:
+ * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
+ * Easy addition of Subtitles through the Video menu
+ * Additional usability improvements
 
 Stream output:
  * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
@@ -42,12 +82,6 @@ Stream output:
  * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
  * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
 
-Linux/Windows interface:
- * Recently played items list
-
-Mac OS X Interface:
- * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
-
 Maemo Port:
  * New Maemo port with:
    - an interface based on Hildon framework.
@@ -56,9 +90,9 @@ Maemo Port:
 Windows CE Port:
  EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
 
-Playlist:
- * support to Export the playlist in HTML
- * Lua script for BBC radio playback
+Mac OS X Port:
+ * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
+ * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
 
 Audio output:
  * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
@@ -66,11 +100,12 @@ Audio output:
 
 Video output:
  * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
+ * 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.
 
 Miscellanous:
  * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
 
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 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
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