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@@ -1,34 +1,38 @@
 $Id$
 
-Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.7.3:
-This version is in development and not yet released.
---------------------------------
+Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
+-----------------------------------------------------
 
 Core support:
- * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added funtionality
- * Complete switch to the new access2 and demux2 systems
+ * 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
- * 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
+ * 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)
+ * 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:
- * Support iTunes Music Store previews
+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 skin2 is the current interface)
+ * 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
@@ -36,24 +40,52 @@ 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
+  * 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)
+  * 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
+
+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
+ * 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
@@ -71,6 +103,7 @@ 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)
@@ -80,12 +113,10 @@ Mozilla plugin:
  * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
 
 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
+ * VLM enhancements
 
 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
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