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[vlc] / NEWS

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-Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.2.0-git:
+Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.2.0-git:
 ------------------------------------
 
 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.
+ * The default tarballs are now .tar.xz
 
 Access
  * Multiple files are supported from RAR files
  * BDA: experimental support for ClearQam devices
+ * DVB-S scanning support
+ * DShow: support for freq and video standard selection
+ * Support for VDR recordings
+ * Blu-Ray integration with libbluray
+ * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI card input support (Linux only currently)
 
 Codecs
  * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc
+ * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback
+ * Encode support for DVD LPCM
 
 Demuxers:
  * id3tag plugin is removed (superseded by taglib).
+ * Ogg seeking improvements
 
 Interfaces
  * The telnet interface has been removed in the favour of the lua one
+ * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
+ * Qt: effects dialogs reordering
+ * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
 
 Video Output:
  * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
 
+Audio Output:
+ * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
+
+Audio Filter:
+ * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
+
 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
 
 Stream output:
  * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streamin (iphone-stuff),
@@ -33,16 +53,86 @@ Stream output:
     index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
     dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
 
+libVLC:
+ * New capabilities for libVLC:
+  ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
+
+
+Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
+----------------------------------
+
+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,
+   Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
+
+
+Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
+--------------------------------
+
+Win32:
+ * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
+   See VideoLAN-SA-1005
+ * Fix folders opening from the interface
 
-Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2
--------------------------------
+Translations:
+ * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
+   Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
+
+
+Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
+--------------------------------
+
+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:
+ * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
+
+
+Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
+--------------------------------
 
 Demuxers:
  * Avformat fps displaying fix
  * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
 
 Audio filters:
- * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoqued issues when playback
+ * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
    of mono streams, especially on Windows
 
 Windows: