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+Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5-svn (not yet released):
+--------------------------------------------------------
+
+Core support:
+ * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
+
+Input:
+ * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
+ * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
+ * Improvements to the Audio CD input
+ * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
+ * Improved subtitles encoding support
+
+Decoders:
+ * Cook (Real audio) support
+
+Playlist / Services discovery :
+ * Podcast support
+
+Video output 
+ * New video filters : magnify, gradient, edge detection and bluescreen
+ * Logo video filter : can now loop through multiple images
+
+Interfaces:
+ * System to inform the user and request information 
+    - HTTP authentication
+    - Fatal errors
+    - ...
+ * wxWidgets
+    - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
+ * Skins2 
+    - Support for Winamp 2 skins
+    - Improved playlist handling
+    - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
+ * OS X
+    - new Update-Checker
+    - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
+    - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
+ * HTTP
+    - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM
+    - A bunch of new RPN functions
+
+Windows Port:
+ * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
+
+OS X Port:
+ * 
+
+*Nix port:
+ * Ability to log to syslog
+ * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
+
+Developers:
+ * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
+ * Java bindings
+
+Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
+---------------------------------
+
+Audio output:
+ * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
+ * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
+
+Decoder:
+ * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
+ * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
+
+Demux:
+ * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
+
+Services Discovery:
+ * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
+ * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
+ * UPnP fixes
+ * Avahi 0.6 support
+ 
+Interfaces:
+ * Mac OS X
+    - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard 
+
+Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
+--------------------------------
+
+Core support:
+ * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
+ * New OSD system
+
+Video output:
+ * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
+ * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
+ * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
+
+Input:
+ * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
+ * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
+ * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
+ * GnomeVFS input module
+ * Support for RTP packet reordering
+ * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
+
+Decoders:
+ * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
+ * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
+ * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
+
+Services discovery:
+ * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
+ * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
+
+Video filters:
+ * RSS feed overlay
+
+Audio filters:
+* Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
+  Mixer and Dolby Surround
+
+Stream output:
+ * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
+ * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
+ * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
+ 
+Interfaces:
+- new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
+ * Mac OS X
+    - New streaming and transcoding wizard
+    - New extended controls panel
+    - New bookmarks window
+    - Fixed playlist sorting
+    - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
+ * wxWidgets
+    - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
+    - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
+    - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
+    - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
+ * Skins2
+    - Tree playlist
+ * HTTP
+    - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
+    - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
+      the names of files
+    - Include macro to include other files
+    - CGI 1.0 support
+
+ActiveX plugin:
+* Should now work outside IE as well
+
+Mac OS X port:
+* New script to delete the preferences automatically
+
+Windows port:
+* Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
+* Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
+
+Translations:
+ The following languages were added:
+ * Galician
+ * Korean
+ * Romanian
+ * Simplified Chinese
+ The following languages were re-added:
+ * Swedish
+
+Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
+--------------------------------
+
+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
+ * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
+ * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
+ * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
+ * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
+ * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
+ * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
+   now separated by ':' instead of ','
+ * Access filter architecture
+ * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
+ * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
+ * Many bugfixes...
+
+Input/Demuxers:
+ * Support for SOCKS proxy
+ * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
+ * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
+ * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
+ * Better support for Kasenna streams
+ * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
+ * Massive Matroska improvements
+ * Support for XA and VOC audio files
+ * TiVo demuxer
+ * Samba (Windows shares) access module
+ * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
+ * Fixes to Linux DVB support
+ * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
+ * Support for FTP over IPv6
+
+Decoders / Encoders:
+ * Dirac decoder and encoder
+ * PNG decoder/encoder
+ * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
+ * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
+
+Access filters:
+ * New Record and Timeshift filters
+
+Services discovery:
+ * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
+ * Brand new SAP module
+     * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in 
+       the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
+     ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
+     * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
+ * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
+ * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
+ * Shoutcast
+
+Audio output:
+ * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
+
+Video output:
+ * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
+ * Image file video output (png)
+ * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
+ * Improvements to wall video filter
+ * Support for font color and opacity
+
+Stream output:
+ * Muxers
+    - ASF improvements
+ * VLM / VoD
+    - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
+    - Seeking support in VoD streams
+ * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
+
+Interfaces:
+ * wxWidgets
+    - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
+    - Improved preferences
+    - Improvements to the wizard
+    - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
+ * MacOS X
+    - Redesigned playlist
+    - Improved preferences
+ * Skins
+    - Support for multiple actions
+    - Fixes
+ * HTTP
+    - Support for the new playlist system
+ * Lirc
+    - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
+
+Windows port:
+ * Screensaver disabling fix
+ * DirectShow tuner configuration
+ * Support for no-decoration windows
+
+MacOS X port:
+ * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
+ * The OpenGL video output is back
+ * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
+   - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
+   - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
+     is not yet available in the new module
+   - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
+
+BeOS port:
+ * Support for single-buffered overlay
+
+Pocket PC port:
+ * Many fixes
+ * New interface
+ * New video output
+
+Mozilla Plugin:
+ * Javascript fixes
+ * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
+
+IE Plugin:
+ * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
+
+Translations:
+ The following languages were added:
+ * Catalan
+ * Danish
+ * Turkish
+
+
+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
+ * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
+
+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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