* NEWS: AACplus webcasts are supported

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 $Id$
 
-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
@@ -14,14 +14,17 @@ Core support:
  * Technical improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
 
 Input:
- * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X (Stream your desktop)
+ * 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 --input-slave option to start playing with multi-input
+ * 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).
 
-Demux:
+Demuxers:
  * Support iTunes Music Store previews
  * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
  * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
@@ -29,6 +32,8 @@ Demux:
  * 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
+ * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
 
 Codecs:
  * G.726 audio support
@@ -36,15 +41,28 @@ Codecs:
  * MPEG-4 text support
  * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
  * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
+ * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
 
 Stream Output:
- * 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
- * H.263 RTP streaming support
- * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
- * Experimental WAV muxer
- * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
+ 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
+  * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
 
 Audio Output:
  * New audio equalizer filter
@@ -71,6 +89,7 @@ Linux port:
 
 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)
@@ -83,9 +102,9 @@ Misc:
  * Roku HD1000 Video output
  * 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
+ * a Time filter that displays the current time over the video
 
 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
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