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 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
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 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
 * Numerous fixes
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Skins2:
 * Port to OS/2
 * Extend sliders, offsets options
 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
 * Numerous fixes and improvements
 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller

libVLC:
 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
   to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
   and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
   media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
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 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
   libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
Removed modules:
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 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
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 * Broken crop video filter
 * Switcher module
 * OSD parser and menu
 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
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 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
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 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
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 * htcpcp :)
Translations:
 * Update of all translations


Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
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Demux:
 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer

Contribs:
 * Fix modplug security issues


Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
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Access:
 * Fix ISDB-S tuning
 * Fix crash in QTsound
 * Fix screen mouse file location
 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access

Demux:
 * Fix use after free in sgimb
 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files

Decoders:
 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module

Mac OS X:
 * Fix interface crashes
 * Fix autostart playback option
 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option

Translations:
 * update Welsh translation
 * New Kannada translation

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Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
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Input:
 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
   playlist files

Decoders:
 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback

Encoders:
 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac

Muxers:
 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files

Video output:
 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)

Mac OS X Interface
 * Minor improvements
 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding

HTTP Interface
 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)

Translations:
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 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
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   Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations


Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
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Access:
 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected

Audio Output:
 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)

Demuxers:
 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser

Decoders:
 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
 * 3rd party codecs updates

Mac OS X:
 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
   in the advanced preferences panel
 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
 * Fix crash within the video output code
 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
   folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
   lua extensions, ...)
 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages

Qt:
 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit

GNU/Linux:
 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio

Windows:
 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\

Translations:
 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
   Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
   Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
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   Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
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   Dutch, Danish, translations
 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations


Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
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Access:
 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection

Audio Output:
 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
   (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems

Demuxers:
 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
 * Fix koreus lua parser
 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.

Video filters:
 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases

Encoders:
 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization

Mac OS X:
 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
 * Fix Time counter UI look
 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5

Win32:
 * Fix https streaming

libVLC:
 * Fix audio and video track selection:
   The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
   incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.

Translations:
 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
   Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
   Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
   Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua


Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
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Audio Output:
 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
   during playback on Mac OS X

Access:
 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake

Codecs:
 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding

Demuxers:
 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
 * Support Youtube live streams

Windows:
 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8

Qt:
 * Fix media info dialog update
 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
 * Fix album art display at start

Mac OS X:
 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
 * Fix menus display and behavior
 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
   streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
   allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter

Miscellaneous:
 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates

Translations:
 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
   Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
   Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
   Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
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Access:
 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels

Demuxers:
 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags

Mac OS X:
 * Add GateKeeper support
 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
 * Minor bugfixes and improvements

Qt:
 * Fix Windows 8 interface style

Translations:
 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
   Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
   Thai, Turkish and Walloon
 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations


Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
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Video Output:
 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
   There were too many errors with broken drivers.
 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
   an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
   with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
   Retina Displays.

Access:
 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support

Codec:
 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
 * Fix G726 support
 * Fix MP3 free format support

Demuxers:
 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
 * Fix for DVB channels file support
 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4

Encoders:
 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots

Audio filters and output:
 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
 * Fix DirectSound device selection
 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
 * Do not apply volume in file output
 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers

Mac OS X:
 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
   the persistant media library
 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
   to the media library or the temporary playlist
 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
   This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
   manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
   press on the Play/Pause button
 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
   This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
 * Many Fullscreen fixes
 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
   Synchronization panel
 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
 * Fix crashes on exit
 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
   VLC is running
 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
   Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
   automatically reset on the first launch.
   - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements

Lua Scripts:
 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
 * Fixes for icecast SD

Qt:
 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
 * Fix tags and file names display
 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues

Skins2:
 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
 * Fix for key events and focus loss

Web interface:
 * Fix display of some buttons
 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog

Security:
 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries

Translation:
 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
   Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
   Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
   Thai translations update
 * New Scottish Gaelic translation


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Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
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Access:
 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
 * fix the samba module compilation
 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives

Codecs:
 * Support for MXPEG files
 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams

Demuxers:
 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support

Muxers:
 * Fix ogm header creation

Audio filters:
 * limit spatializer filter distortions
 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module

Audio output:
 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
   The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X

Video filters:
 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform

Mac OS X interface:
 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
 * allow to hide the sidebar
 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
   - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
 * noticebly faster launch time
 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
 * improve track synchronization panel
 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu

Qt interface:
 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
   the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts

Skins interface:
 * fix for menus display
 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
 * documentation update

Web interface:
 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions

Service discovery:
 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
 * Update Jamendo selections

Miscellaneous:
 * fix DBus crash
 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
 * fix a crash on VLM close

Security:
 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
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Translations:
 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations


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Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
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Important notes:
 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
   conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
   from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
   title:  vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
   - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
   - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
   - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
   - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
   All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
   - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
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     By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
   - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
     By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
   - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
     --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
     --http-crl (optional CRL).
 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
   Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
   output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
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 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
   Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
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 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
Important changes for packagers:
 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
   its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
   not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
   Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
   variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
   configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
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 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
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Core:
 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
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   Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
   x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
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 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
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 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
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Access:
 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
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 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
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 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
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 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
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 * PulseAudio audio input support
 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
   in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
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Codecs:
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 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
   on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
   are notably concerned.
 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
   The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
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 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
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Demuxers:
 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
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 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
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 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
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 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
 * Improved support of tracker files
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 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
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Interfaces:
 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
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 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
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 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
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 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
   and important cleanups and optimisations
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 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
   It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
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 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
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 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
   -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
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 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
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 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
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 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
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Video Output:
 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
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 * New video output for iOS platform
 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
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 * Various vmem improvements
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 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
   chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
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 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
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Audio Output and Filters:
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 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
 * New audio output in memory (amem)
 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
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 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
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 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
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 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
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Video Filter:
 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
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 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
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 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
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 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
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 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
 * New anti-flickering filter
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 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
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   blackbox and customizable shadow.
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   NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
   the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
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   The Win32 font selection was improved too.
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 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
   example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
    venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
    access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
    index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
    dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
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 * Major rework of VoD support
 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
       #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
       #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
   a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
   #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
   #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
Services Discovery:
 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
libVLC:
 * New capabilities for libVLC:
  ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
  ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
     list of available audio and video filters
  ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
     libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
     allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
Removed modules:
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 * asademux, subsass: use libass
 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
 * id3tag: use taglib
 * upnp: use upnp_intel
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 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
 * removal of the noise filter
 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
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 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
              removed in Growl's next release, too.
 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
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Translations:
 * Update of translations for most languages.
 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.

Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
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Security:
 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.

Audio outputs:
 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.

Video outputs:
 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.

Decoders:
 * Camtasia decoding fix.

Qt interface:
 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.

Translations:
 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.


Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
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Audio outputs:
 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
                     including support for OS X Lion
 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0

Unix port:
 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1

Misc:
 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)

Translations:
 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque


Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
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Security:
 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
   and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).

Mac OS X:
 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling

Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32

Demuxers/Meta Readers:
 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma

Muxers/Output:
 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players

Extensions:
 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues

Qt Interface:
 * Fix quitting on Linux
 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
 * Miscellaneous

Win32 port:
 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash

Translations:
 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian


Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
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Windows and Mac OS X:
 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues

Mac OS X Interface:
 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
 * Fix for various crashes and small issues

Demuxer:
 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser

Audio output:
 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one

Win32 port:
 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module

Miscellaneous fixes in:
 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
 * Qt interface
 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
 * RTP output and XML export
 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
 * v4l2 access

Translations:
 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
   Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
   Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations


Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
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Windows and Mac OS X:
 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue

Demuxers:
 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)

Mac OS X Interface:
 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
 * Improve Apple Remote handling
 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)

Mac OS X Port:
 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
 * Fixes for eyeTV

Translations:
 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
   German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
 * New Luganda Translation


Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
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Mac OS X Interface:
 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert

Interfaces:
 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins

Encoder:
 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one

Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
 * mp4 demuxer improvements
 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
 * fix a crash in malformed ape files

Miscellaneous fixes in:
 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
   See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
 * Configure and build system improvements
 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated

Translations:
 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
   Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
 * New icelandic translation


Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
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Linux port:
 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
   #234484 and #260719.

Mac OS X port:
 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
   and stability reasons

Demuxers:
 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
   VideoLAN-SA-1102

Translations:
 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations


Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
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Source:
 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux


Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
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Audio output:
 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
   PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
   Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
   and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.

Access:
 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows

Decoders:
 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)

Subtitles and renderer:
 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
 * Mark more freetype options as safe
 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,