-$Id: NEWS,v 1.22 2003/02/17 14:43:37 massiot Exp $
+$Id$
+
+Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1-svn:
+-----------------------------------------------------
+
+Core support:
+ * Include TLS/SSL API
+ * SSL support in the HTTP daemon
+
+Demuxers:
+ * Fixed a VLC crash with OpenDML avi files
+
+Windows port:
+ * Fixed multichannel audio support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
+ * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
+ * Spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen fixed
+
+Stream Output:
+ Encoders:
+ * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
+
+Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
+-----------------------------------------------------
+
+Core support:
+ * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
+ * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
+ * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
+ * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
+ * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
+ * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
+
+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 for 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 skins2 is the current interface)
+ * Improved Ogg demuxer
+ * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
+ * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
+
+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
+ * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
+
+Stream Output:
+ 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
+ * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
+ * 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)
+ * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
+ * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
+ * 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
+ * Very trivial volume normalizer
+ * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
+ * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
+ * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
+
+Video Output:
+ * Roku HD1000 Video output
+ * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
+ with support for effects.
+ * Improved filter and subpictures support :
+ - New filters can be streamed.
+ - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
+ - Centralized scaling and blending
+ * New filters :
+ - "time", to display current time
+ - "marq", to display a marquee
+
+Interfaces:
+ * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
+ * OSD icons for Play and Pause
+ * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
+ * 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
+ * Support for DVB CAM modules.
+
+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)
+
+WinCE port:
+ * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
+
+Mozilla plugin:
+ * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
+ * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
+
+Misc:
+ * Server/client network synchronization module
+ * VBrick streams fully supported
+ * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
+ * VLM enhancements
+
+Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
+--------------------------------
+
+Core support:
+ * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
+ * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
+ * Improved HTTP daemon.
+ * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
+
+Codecs:
+ * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
+ (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
+ * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
+ * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
+ * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
+ (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
+ * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
+
+Input:
+ * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
+ file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
+ fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
+ * Improved directory access module.
+ * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
+ * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
+ * New options to pass meta info to the input.
+ * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
+ (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
+
+Demux:
+ * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
+ * mmsh streaming fixes.
+ * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
+
+Subtitles:
+ * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
+ * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
+ * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
+
+Stream output:
+ * Improved session announcement system.
+ * Minimize threads usage by default.
+ * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
+ * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
+ * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
+ * Improved transrater.
+ * Meta info options used by the muxers.
+ * New configuration system.
+ * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
+
+VideoLAN manager:
+ * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
+ and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
+ * Supports live streams and VoD.
+ * Supports scheduling.
+ * Telnet interface for vlm.
+ * HTTP interface for vlm.
+
+Interfaces:
+ * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
+ - Ability to embed video output.
+ - Support for bitmap fonts.
+ - Lots of improvements.
+ * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
+ - New design and set of icons.
+ - Ability to embed video output.
+ - Support for hotkeys.
+ - Support for bookmarks.
+ * Mac OS X
+ - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
+ - Better hotkeys handling.
+
+Mac OS X port:
+ * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
+ * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
+ * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
+ * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
+
+Win32 port:
+ * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
+ * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
+ * Improved Windows installer.
+
+Linux port:
+ * PowerPC fixes.
+
+Misc:
+ * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
+ * Roku HD1000 audio output.
+
+Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
+---------------------------------
+
+Mac OS X:
+ * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
+ * Playing MOD files is working now.
+
+
+Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
+---------------------------------
+
+Core support:
+ * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
+ * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
+
+Codecs:
+ * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
+ (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
+ * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
+ * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
+
+Playlist:
+ * Internal improvments
+ * 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.
+ * New PVA demux.
+ * New MOD audio demux.
+ * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
+ * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
+ * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
+ * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
+
+Stream output:
+ * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
+ * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
+ * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
+
+Service discovery:
+ * Fixed sdp in SAP.
+
+Mac OS X port:
+ * New opengl video output plugin.
+
+Win32 port:
+ * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
+ * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
+
+Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
+---------------------------------
+
+Core support:
+ * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
+ Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
+ * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
+ * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
+ This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
+ * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
+ * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
+ subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
+
+Playlist:
+ * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
+ * Playlist sorting
+
+Input:
+ * RTP/RTSP support.
+ * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
+ * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
+ * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
+ * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
+ * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
+ * Reworked DVB tuning.
+ * Better Icecast support.
+ * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
+ * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
+
+Codecs:
+ * Support for Theora video encoding.
+ * 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).
+ * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
+ * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
+ * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
+
+Stream output:
+ * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
+ * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
+ * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
+ * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
+ * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
+ * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
+ * 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.
+
+Interface:
+ * Skins:
+ - Bugfixes
+ - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
+ * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
+ * wxWindows
+ - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
+ - Improvements and help in preferences
+ - New streaming wizard
+ - Revised Disc Open menu
+ * HTTP
+ - Improvements of the standard pages
+ - Support for new commands
+ * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
+
+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.
+
+Mac OS X port:
+ * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
+ * Save playlist.
+ * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
+ * Support for Panther.
+ * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
+ * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
+
+Win32 port:
+ * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
+ * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
+ * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
+ * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
+ * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
+ * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
+ * Multimonitor support (untested).
+ * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
+
+Linux port:
+ * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
+ * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
+ * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
+
+iPaq port:
+ * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
+
+Miscellaneous:
+ * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
+ * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
+ * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
+ * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
+
+Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
+---------------------------------
+
+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.
+
+Access input:
+ * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
+ * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
+
+Interfaces:
+ * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
+
+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
+ mpeg1/2 videos.
+
+Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
+---------------------------------
+
+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
+ mpeg1/2 videos.
+
+Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
+---------------------------------
+
+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).
+ * 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.
+
+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.
+ * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
+
+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.
+
+iPaq port:
+ * 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).
+
+Interfaces:
+ * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
+ * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
+ * A new CORBA control plugin.
+
+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.
+ * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
+ Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
+
+
+Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
+---------------------------------
+
+Core Support:
+ * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
+
+Input access:
+ * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
+ * Fixed large file support on Windows
+ * Video 4 Linux support
+ * CD Digital Audio support
+ * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
+
+Input demux:
+ * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
+ * Support for OpenDML avi files
+ * More complete .mp4/.mov support
+ * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
+
+Codecs:
+ * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
+ * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
+ * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
+ * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
+ * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
+ * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
+ * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
+
+Interfaces:
+ * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
+ * New HTTP remote control interface
+
+Stream output:
+ * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
+ * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
+ * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
+ * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
+
+Miscellaneous:
+ * New reset option for the preferences
+ * You can set your language in the prefences
+ * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
+ * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
+ * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
+ * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
+
+UNIX ports:
+ * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
+ * New skinable interface ported to X11.
+ * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
+
+Mac OS X port:
+ * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
+ * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
+ * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
+ * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
+ * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
+ * New icons by Davor Orel.
+ * 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
+ * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
+
+Win32 port:
+ * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
+ * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
+ * 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)
+ * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
+ * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
+
+BeOS port:
+ * Interface localization
+ * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
+ * A few new keyboard shortcuts
+ * New full-featured Preferences window
+
+Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
+---------------------------------
+
+Core Support:
+ * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
+ * support for skins at the interface level
+ * new OSD module using Freetype2
+ * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
+ * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
+ input level before dropping out of date frames.
+ * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
+
+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
+
+Codecs:
+ * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
+ * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
+ * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
+ * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
+ * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
+ * new codec for raw I420 video
+ * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
+
+Interfaces:
+ * improvements to wxWindows based interface
+ (although it still misses some important features)
+ * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
+
+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:
+ * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
+
+Mac OS X port:
+ * reorderable playlist
+ * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
+ * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
+ * support for mono audio output devices
+ * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
+ * fixed several cosmetic issues
+ * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
+ * the messages window remembers more lines
+ * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
+ * http and ogg stream output options
+ * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
+
+Win32 port:
+ * new skinnable interface
+ * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
+
+iPAQ familiar Linux port:
+ * support for FLAC audio format
+ * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
+ * playlist
+ * network tab in the interface
+ * "apply" handling in preferences
+
+
+Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
+---------------------------------
+
+Core support:
+ * advanced config options are now hidden by default
+ * 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
+ Mac OS X
+ * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
+ * DTS S/PDIF support
+
+Codecs:
+ * 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
+
+DVD support:
+ * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
+
+UNIX ports:
+ * fixed the GNU-pth support
+
+Win32 port:
+ * 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
+
+Mac OS X port:
+ * 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
+
+Linupy port:
+ * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
+ YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
+
+Miscellaneous:
+ * improved ID3 tag detection
+ * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
+ not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
+ * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
+ gestures
+ * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
+
+
+Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
+---------------------------------
+
+Mac OS X port:
+ * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
+ English was set as the preferred language
+
Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
--------------------------------
* Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
format that VLC can play
* new swedish translation
- * updated french, german, dutch and italian translations
-
-GNU/Linux, *BSD & misc. UNIX ports:
- * OSS and ALSA audio output modules support A/52 over S/PDIF output
- * OSS support for multi-channel (up to 6) analog sound cards
-
-Mac OS X port:
- * localization support via GNU gettext software
- * completely revamped Cocoa interface
- * new preferences panel
- * new open panel with full features
- * video output screen can be chosen in the Video menu
- * audio device and channels configuration can be chosen in the Audio menu
- * new playlist drawer and messages windows
-
-Win32 port:
- * preferences dialog box redesigned
- * waveout module supports multi-channel audio output and A52 over S/PDIF
- * support for VCDs
- * new dialog box to select avi subtitles
- * some new shortcuts (in particular to play/pause or stay on top)
- * new menu entry to spawn another interface
- * rc interface is partly fixed and useable
-
-BeOS port:
- * new settings window for adjusting post-processing, brightness,
- contrast, etc
* enhancements of the playlist window
* new messages window to see debug info
* fixed a few crashes
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