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   discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522

Visualization:
 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X

Interfaces:
 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements

Miscellaneous fixes:
 * KDE device solid actions
 * XDG screensaver
 * Transcode integer overflow
 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers

Translations:
 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
   Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
   Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish


Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
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Security:
 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
   VideoLAN-SA-1006

Access:
 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL

Services Discovery:
 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com

Demuxers:
 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
 * Taglib thread-safety fix

Decoders:
 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
   "Puget Systems"

Skins:
 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux

Video Output:
 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB

Interfaces:
 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc

Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
 TS-mux, Qt)

libLVC:
 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
 * Miscellaneous fixes

Translations:
 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
   Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
   French and Ukrainian
 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
 * New Asturian translation


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Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
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Mac OS X:
 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
   by 16
 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider

Demuxer:
 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams

Qt interface:
 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
 * Various fixes for Windows

Translations:
 * New Armenian translation
 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
   Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon


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Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
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Win32:
 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
   See VideoLAN-SA-1005
 * Fix folders opening from the interface

Translations:
 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
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   Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician


Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
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Access and demuxers:
 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
 * fix for podcasts parsing
 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks

Taglib:
 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
   CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004

Playlist:
 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
 * fix m3u playlists exports

Skins2:
 * fix video autoresize behaviour

Translations:
 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali

Windows and Mac:
 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed

Mac:
 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates

BSD:
 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc


Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
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Demuxers:
 * Avformat fps displaying fix
 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)

Audio filters:
 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
   of mono streams, especially on Windows

Windows:
 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
   playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
 * fix console output encoding

Interface and extensions:
 * Youtube and other scripts updates
 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface


Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
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libVLC:
 * New capabilities for libVLC:
   * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
     libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
     libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
   * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
     libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
   * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
     protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
     the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
   * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
     video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
     ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
     See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
   * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
     between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
   called early

Decoders/Demuxers:
 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
   You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds

Stream output:
 * Fix h264 streaming in ts

Interfaces:
 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle

Linux:
 * Fix pulse closing
 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection

MacOS:
 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes

Windows:
 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video

Translations:
 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
   Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician


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Important changes for users:
 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
   Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.

Important changes for packagers:
 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
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   generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
   later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
   by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
   can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
   launch each time.
 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
   - xproto,
   - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
   - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
   - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
   required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
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 * Support for the sftp protocol
 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
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Decoders:
 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP

 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
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 * Invmem module improvements
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 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
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 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
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 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
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 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
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 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
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 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
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 * Support for VP8 codec
 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
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Demuxers:
 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
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 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
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 * Various EGP improvements
 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
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 * Metadata and cover art improvements
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Playlist:
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 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
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 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
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 * Podcast images are now displayed
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Video Output:
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 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
   desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
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 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
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 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
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 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
     Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
     Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
     MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
     Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
 * New content extensions lua framework

Audio filters:
 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
   resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
   and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
 * NEON assembly audio converter module
 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
Service discovery:
 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
 * Service discovery based on libudev
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 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
Encoders:
 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
    #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
   uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
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Stream output:
 * New smem module, streaming to memory
 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
   --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
Interfaces:
 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
   and oldhttp.
 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
Visualization:
 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries

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Mac OS X Port:
 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
   by Andy Matuschak et al.
 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
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Windows port:
 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
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 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
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Maemo port:
 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
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 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
Misc:
 * new sqlite module
 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
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 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
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 * Improved Solaris port
Bindings:
 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
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 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
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 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
 * transrate: broken since too long
 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
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 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
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 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
 * cddax: use cdda instead.
 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
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 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
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 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
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Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
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Access:
 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path

Decoders/Packetizers:
 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support

Demuxers:
 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist

X11 port:
 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
   More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!

Interfaces:
 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist

Translations:
 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
   and Walloon translations updated
 * Sinhala translation started

Removed modules:
 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
   to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.


Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
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Decoders:
 * SubRip extra styles improvements
 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders

Mac OS X Interface:
 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote

Windows port:
 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
   increase performance and fix x264 issues

Translations:
 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
   Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
   Russian, Slovak translation updates
 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations


Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
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Audio outputs:
 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available

Video outputs:
 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing

Input:
 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)

Playlist:
 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)

Unix:
 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD

Qt4 interface:
 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard

Translations:
  * New Walloon translation
  * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
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Video outputs:
 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
   regressions in most popular drivers
 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms

Decoders:
 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
   didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks

Encoders:
 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
    #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}

Input:
 * Update for appletrailers lua script
 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer

Service discovery:
 * New udev module for linux

Qt4 interface:
 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels

Translations:
 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates


Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
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Decoders:
 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
 * Various fixes on theora and ogg

Demuxers:
 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers

Access:
 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning

Qt Interface:
 * Fix some playlist sorting issues

Mac OS X Interface:
 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature

Mac OS X Port:
 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
   with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
   - no support for Goom and SDL
   - limited text rendering support
   - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.

Encoders:
 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
   - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
   - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
   - otherwise ABR-mode is used
 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
   - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
   - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)


Playlist:
 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback

Unix builds:
 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD

Translations:
 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
   Arabic and French translation updates

Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
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Demuxers:
 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
 * Fix Dailymotion access script
 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version

Access:
 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
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 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
   DZCORE Labs, Algeria

Decoders:
 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version

Muxers:
 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio

Qt Interface:
 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening

Mac OS X Interface:
 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
 * Fix various crashes

Windows port:
 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support

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Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
Lithuanian
Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
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 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
   See 'Access:' for more info.
 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
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Playback:
 * Instantaneous pausing
 * Frame-by-Frame playback
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 * Finer speed control
 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
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 * Timeshift for most medias
 * RTSP trickplay support
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 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
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Decoders:
 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
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 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
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 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
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 * Metadata for mod files are supported
 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams

Encoders:
 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
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 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
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Access:
 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
   OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
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 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
   zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
   zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
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 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
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 * MTP device access on Unix
 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
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 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
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 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
   Windows and Mac OS X.
Playlist:
 * Export the playlist in HTML
 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
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 * Better metadata handling and reading
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Linux/Windows interface:
 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
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 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
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 * Recently played items list
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 * Interface toolbar customizations
 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
    - More menus actions
    - Finer speed slider
    - Improvements on many dialogs
    - New dialog for plugins listing
    - Fixed-size mode for videos
    - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
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 * Better integration in GTK environments
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 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
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 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
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 * Additional usability improvements
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Stream output:
 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
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Maemo Port:
 * New Maemo port with:
   - an interface based on Hildon framework.
   - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.

Windows CE Port:
 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
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Mac OS X Port:
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 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
 * Support for latest iSight models
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Audio output:
 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
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 * Surround support for PulseAudio
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Video output:
 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
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 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
   (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
   The old image video output has been removed.
 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
   withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
Miscellaneous:
 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications

New Localization:
 * Mongolian
 * Sorani


Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
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HTTP Interface:
 * Fixed default ACL

Mac OS X:
 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi

Various fixes to the following modules:
 * access:
   - HTTP, SMB
   - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
   - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
     DZCORE Labs, Algeria
 * stream out:
   - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
 * decoder:
   - TSCC

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Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
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Mac OS X:
 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs


Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
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Decoders:
 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0

Demuxers:
 * Various fixes related to real demuxer

Mac OS X Interface:
 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
   - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
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     instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
     main controller window.
 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard

Mac OS X Port:
 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs

New Localizations:
 * Indonesian
 * Bengali
 * Updates of other localizations

Various bugfixes:
 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
 * Lots of small bugfixes.
 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
 * Telnet fixes on Windows
 * Resampling fixes when transcoding

Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
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Security update:
 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)

Bunch of small bugfixes.


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Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
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New Localizations:
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Security updates:
 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)

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Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
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Security updates:
 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds

Features:
 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2

Various bugfixes:
 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)

Windows port:
 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access

Qt Interface:
 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
 * Various fixed in playlist

Access:
 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default

Translations:
 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation

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Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
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Various bugfixes:
 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
 * Fixes several memory leaks.

Mac OS X port:
 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates

Windows port:
 * Stability fix for the video output.

Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
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Various bugfixes:
 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
 * Fixed update system bugs
 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)

Mac OS X port:
 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
   modern Mac OS X versions

Windows port:
 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
   before installation
 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.

Qt4 interface:
 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)


Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
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 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
 * Multiple bugfixes.
Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
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 * Multiple bug fixes.
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Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
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Important notes:
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 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
   recent to work correctly
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 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
   If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
   edit the ".hosts" file.
   - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
     If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
     /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
   - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
     C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
   - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
     and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
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 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
   This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
   This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
   0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
   now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
   vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
   You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
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   If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
   plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
   These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
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 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
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   Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
     Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
     New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
   EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
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   of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
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 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
   with some file names. Use access://url instead.
    E.g.:  vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
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           udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
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 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
   avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
   and postproc modules.
 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
   following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
   STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
   BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
   functional atm.
 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
   filter. For example:
   transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
   For example:
   transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
 * Glide video output module has been removed.
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Changes:
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 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
   CVE-2008-1807)
 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
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Playlist:
 * Vastly improved playlist support:
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    * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
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    * "Live search"
    * Shoutcast TV listings
    * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
 * Album art support
 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
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   (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
   lots of other URLs)
 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
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