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+Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2-svn:
+-----------------------------------------------------
+
+Core support:
+ * Rewrite of the playlist
+ - Tree structure
+ - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
+ - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
+ * Preferences improvements :
+ - New organization, designed to improve usability
+ - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
+ * XML parsers
+ * Core image manipulation support
+ * Client-side SSL/TLS support
+
+Input:
+ * Support for SOCKS proxy
+ * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
+ * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
+ * Better support for Kasenna streams
+ * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
+ * Fixes to Linux DVB support
+
+Decoders / Encoders:
+ * AMR decoding via ffmpeg
+ * Dirac decoder and encoder
+ * PNG decoder
+
+Services discovery
+ * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
+ * Brand new SAP module
+ * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
+ * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
+
+Video output:
+ * Snapshot support
+ * Image file video output
+ * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
+
+Stream output:
+ * Muxers
+ - ASF improvements
+ * VLM / VoD
+ - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
+ - Seeking support in VoD streams
+
+Interfaces:
+ * wxWidgets
+ - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
+ - Improved preferences
+ - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
+ * MacOS X
+ - Redesigned playlist
+ * Skins
+ - Fixes
+ * HTTP
+ - Support for the new playlist system
+
+Windows port:
+ * Screensaver disabling fix
+ * DirectShow tuner configuration
+ * Support for no-decoration windows
+
+BeOS port:
+ * Support for single-buffered overlay
+
+Pocket PC port :
+ * Many fixes
+ * New interface
+
+Mozilla Plugin:
+ * Javascript fixes
+
+IE Plugin:
+ Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
+
+Translations:
+ * Danish
+ * Greek
+
+Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
+-----------------------------------------------------
+
+Core support:
+ * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
+ * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
+
+Windows port:
+ * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
+ * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
+ * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
+
+WinCE port:
+ * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
+
+Audio Output:
+ * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
+
+Video Output:
+ * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
+
+Demuxers:
+ * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
+ * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
+
+Stream Output:
+ * Encoders:
+ * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
+ * Stream output:
+ * Support of playlist group announcement
+
+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:
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