$Id: NEWS 18348 2006-12-09 23:37:28Z hartman $

Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:

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Playlist:
* Shoutcast TV listings support

Input:
* Support for RTSP authentication
* Support for adding subtitles on the fly
* Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
* ATSC support for DVB input
* Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
* Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
* Improved support for Flash Video files

Decoders:
* Native WMV9/VC-1 support
* WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
* VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
* The True Audio Lossless codec support
* Matroska WavPack support
* Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
* Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
* Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles

Video output:
* Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
* Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
* Improved libcaca support

Interfaces:
* All
* New hotkeys for crop and zoom
* Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
* Windows
* Systray support in skins
* OS X
* Support for Apple Remote control
* Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
* New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
* right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
* Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
* Linux
* Notifications using notification-daemon

Windows port:
* Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
Windows 9x/ME users:
- Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
- Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
C:\Windows\System
* Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
* Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
Localization:
* Add Czech
* Add Slovak
* Add Malay
* Add Slovenian

Developers:
* Updates to the libvlc API
* Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins

Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5:

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Core support:
* Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
* Support for downloading updates
* Updated strings

Input:
* Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
* Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
* Improvements to the Audio CD input
- Separate playlist entries for the tracks
- Support for CDDB
* Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
* Improved subtitles encoding support
* Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web

Decoders:
* Cook (Real audio) support

Playlist / Services discovery:

* XSPF playlist support
* Podcast support
* Updated Shoutcast to use new listing

Audio output:
* New JACK audio output

Video output:
* New video filters:
- magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
- gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
- bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
* Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
* RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
* Improvements to the subtitles rendering

Stream output:
* Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams

Interfaces:
* System to inform the user and request information
- HTTP authentication
- Fatal errors
- ...
 * wxWidgets
- VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
- Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
- Drag & Drop support in the playlist
* Skins2
- New default skin
- Support for Winamp 2 skins
- Improved playlist handling
- Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
* OS X
- Embedded Video output
- new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
- Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
- Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
- 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 (including a mosaic wizard)
- A bunch of new RPN functions

Windows Port:
* MSN messenger "Now playing" support

OS X Port:
* Mac-Intel compatibility
* Enhanced support of various audio output devices
* Growl "Now playing" support

*Nix port:
* Ability to log to syslog
* Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root

Developers:
* New libvlc API (not finished yet)
* Java bindings
* A bit more automatic testing

Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:

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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:

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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:

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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:

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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:

--------------------------------

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:

--------------------------------

Core support:
* new mouse gesture interface
* audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
playing

Input access:
* various minor fixes on the network inputs
* fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry_AT_coin.mpg)
* VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing

Input demux:
* fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
* new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
continuity counter

Codecs:
* support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams

DVD support:
* fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
without the user consent
UNIX ports:
* GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
popup menu
* X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
* KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
* ALSA: fixed mono files output

Mac OS X port:
* fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
* lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
* VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
* playlist enhancements
* added half, normal and double video window menu items
* new step forward/step backward commands
* the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
* the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
* vlc.app is now VLC.app

Win32 port:
* fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
* VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
* fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font

BeOS port:
* smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
* few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)

Opie port:
* native video output is working again
* only commandline interface support
* support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package

Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:

--------------------------------

Core structure:
* object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
* new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
S/PDIF and multi-channel support
* localization support via gettext on most architectures
* new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
and A/52 streams are supported)
* build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint

Input access:
* mms:// support
* ftp:// support
* stability fixes in the HTTP access
* auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
* VCD entry points support
* VCD image file support

Input demux:
* support for *.asf format
* improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
* support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
 * support for ogg encapsulation
* support for raw DV format
* support for *.wav format
* new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
* raw AAC support

Stream discovery & playlists:

* support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
* support for .m3u file format
* support for .asx file format
* hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp

Codecs:
* support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
(only available with the .avi demux)
* support for ADPCM audio codec
* support for raw PCM data
* support for Cinepak video codec
* support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
* support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
* support for Xvid codec
* support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
* support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
* support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
from sources)
* new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
H263i, MJPEG A/B
* fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec

DVD support:
* experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay

Miscellaneous:
* new WxWindows interface
* all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
device and the channels configuration
* headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
* Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
format that VLC can play
* new swedish translation
* enhancements of the playlist window
* new messages window to see debug info
* fixed a few crashes

iPaq port:
* slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
* fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
* added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
* native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working