* HACKING: CVS -> SVN, added remark about developers.videolan.org site

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-Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.7.3:
+Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
+This version is in development and not yet released.
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 Core support:
- * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added funtionality
+ * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
  * Complete switch to the new access2 and demux2 systems
  * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
  * Fix crash with deinterlace switching
  * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
+ * Daemon mode
+ * Technical improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
 
-Demux:
+Input:
+ * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X 
+    (Stream your desktop)
+ * Improved DVD support:
+    - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
+    - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
+ * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
+ * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
+ * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access 
+    (selection of titles/chapters).
+
+Demuxers:
  * Support iTunes Music Store previews
  * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
  * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
+ * Windows Media Server RTSP support
+ * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
+ * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
+ * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skin2 is the current interface)
+ * Improved Ogg demuxer
 
 Codecs:
  * G.726 audio support
  * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
  * MPEG-4 text support
+ * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
+ * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
 
 Stream Output:
- * text track muxing for mp4
- * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
+ Encoders:
+  * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
+     everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
+  * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
+  * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
+  * DVB subtitles encoder
+  * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
+  * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
+ Muxers: 
+  * Text track muxing for mp4
+  * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
+  * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
+  * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
+  * Experimental WAV muxer
+  * Improved ASF muxer
+ Misc:
  * H.263 RTP streaming support
+ * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
+
+Audio Output:
+ * New audio equalizer filter
+ * Very trivial volume normalizer
 
 Interfaces:
- * added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
- * added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
  * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
  * OSD icons for Play and Pause
  * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces
+ * A few skins2 improvements
+ * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
+ * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
+ * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
+ * Improved CORBA control module
 
 Mac OS X port:
  * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
+ * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
+ * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
+
+Linux port:
+ * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
+ * Experimental SVG rendering module
+
+Windows port:
+ * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
+ * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
+ * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
+ * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
+ * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
 
 Mozilla plugin:
- * added a lot of javascript accessible funtionality
- * volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
+ * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
+ * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
 
 Misc:
  * Roku HD1000 Video output
- * Experimental network synchronization module
- * Experimental SVG rendering module
+ * Server/client network synchronization module
  * VBrick streams fully supported
  * Kasenna MediaBase streams largely supported
  * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
+ * Experimental OpenGL video output for X11 and win32
 
 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
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