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Changes between 1.8.4 and 1.8.5
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Release: 21 October 2015

Bugfixes:
 * Several cursors bugs when playing a video
 * Some crashes at launch are fixed

Application:
 * VLC Protocol enabled for both WP and W8.1/10 projects

Core:
 * Updated libav
 * Correct map/unmap of textures in the Direct3D Vout

Changes between 1.8.3 and 1.8.4
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Release: 14 October 2015

Application:
 * Tap to hide the Controls grid in the video player
 * Hide cursor after 4 seconds, not 3

Bugfixes:
 * The cursor wasn't visible in some cases when playing a video
 * Lock/Unlock of video player let the app be in wrong orientation
 * Several green screens are fixed

Changes between 1.8.2 and 1.8.3
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Release: 13 October 2015

Application:
 * Add "Stretch" zoom in the Video Player
 * Zoom is the first video settings in the Settings
 * Reduce the Height of the Video Player controls grid
 * Improve responsive design : display volume slider on bigger screens
 * Add Zoom button toggle on phones
 * Some buttons were too easy to press on tiny screens, should be better

Changes between 1.8.1 and 1.8.2
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Release: 12 October 2015

Application:
 * Add "Force landscape orientation" setting
 * The feedback system now gets the firmware of the device

Bugfixes:
 * Prevent wrong animation on video player swapchainr after playing music

Changes between 1.8.0 and 1.8.1
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Release: 08 October 2015

Bugfixes:
 * Prevent crash when indexing music library on some WP8.1 devices
 * Fix ProgressRing style
 * Fix text in TextBox not visible on some tiny WP8.1 devices
 * Fix Invalid Cast exception causing the app to crash in rare situations

Changes between 1.7.0 and 1.8.0
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Release: 08 October 2015

Application:
 * New translation system : French language added
 * Artist biographies are now saved in the SQL database
 * New feedback system
 * Context menu in the Video Player
 * More personalisation options : accent colors, background colors, titlebar
 * Buttons and texts are bigger on tiny screens
 * Slideshow updated, new animations
 * Added Video Player zoom options : Vertical Zoom, Horizontal Zoom
 * Added Video Player animations
 * Some settings are synced between devices
 * Windows 10 Mobile uses W10 APIs to get songs from the Music Library
 * Minor UI fixes
 * New vlc:// protocol

Bugfixes:
 * Fixed duplicate Current Track in the Playlist
 * Fixed crashed at launch when another app was sending a stream that was considered as File
 * Trying to work around the broken LastFM APIs
 * Slideshow is now paused when the app is in background
 * Crashes at first launch when indexing and getting video thumbnails

Changes between 1.6.2 and 1.7.0
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Release: 15 September 2015

Core:
 * Rewrite of the thumbnailer process
 * Speed up of the video decoding and output, and removing deadlocks
 * Support of acceleration activation per-file
 * Faster input support

Application:
 * Support of m4a files
 * New gestures and keyboard controls
 * Control of audio/video/subtitle delay and synchronization
 * Better hardware acceleration
 * Support for chapters control
 * Support of a light and black theme
 * Important interface update to prepare for Windows 10
 * Fix support for SRT and SSA
 * New mini player design and widget
 * Fix support for Windows RT


Changes between 1.6.1 and 1.6.2
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Release: 21 August 2015

Core:
 * Added libgnutls -> should read videos from OneDrive link now

Bugfixes
 * Playing a video outside the sandbox (in Desktop, for example) crashed the app
 * Music player was not visible when playing all albums from an artist (flyout not hiding)
 * Hardware acceleration is now enabled by default
 * Fix crashes when calling Background audio agent
 * Improved responsive design of the Music page : when window is wide enough, use an horizontal list for "artist, albums, songs, playlist", and a combobox if the window is in snap mode
 * Improved design of Playlist page


Changes between 1.6.0 and 1.6.1
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Release: 20 August 2015

Bugfixes
 * Repeat mode (music player) now works on Windows Phone (was not implemented)
 * Track, album and artist names in the Slideshow were not updated when a new track is playing
 * Prevent crash on Windows RT (music player)
 * Several UI fixes


Changes between 1.5.0 and 1.6.0
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Release: 20 August 2015

Core:
 * Subtitles should be display at the right position and size
 * External SRT (using file picker) feature working again
 * Subtitles with multiples lines may cause the app to crash
 * Improved hardware decoding
 * Some videos may cause the app to crash
 * Volume control now working

WinRT:
User Interface
 * Reworked Home page design
 * Reworked File Explorer page design (sidebar showing different folders to explore)
 * Prevent duplicated videos in ViewedVideos collection
 * Minimize/Expand/Close buttons background color were'nt the same as the main part of the TitleBar => TitleBar is now fully transparent
 * Add animations in the Music Now Playing view
 * Bottom MiniPlayer Buttons width increased for touch devices
 * Easier to access to Hardware Decoding settings

Bugfixes
 * Remove duplicate artist background picture in the MiniPlayer
 * Accurately refreshing the list of audio tracks and subtitles
 * Default speed rate value was wrong (0.5 instead of 1)
 * Fix Background picture squaling issue in the Win2D Slideshow component
 * Restore the previous window size when exiting MiniPlayer mode
 * Don't resume a video when it was paused when leaving the app
 * Fixed VideoPlayer controls appearing randomly
 * Open Stream is no longer expanded off screen when a long link is pasted
 * Prevent playing audio music file while a video is playing (WP only)
 * Fix navigation bug between home pages
 * Usual bug squashing

Features
 * (Temporary hack) Open subtitle file in the folder if it has the same name as the video
 * Users can also set "File explorer" page as their home page


Changes between 1.4.1 and 1.5.0
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Release: 7 August 2015

Core:
 * Video output : Now using D3D11 with hardware decoding (experimental, disabled by default)
 * TagLib enabled again and able to get embedded album covers
 * Added support for embedded SSA subtitles

Interface:
 * Updated UI to match Windows 10 style
 * Faster on low-end devices
 * Added animations (that save space on tiny screens)
 * New background slideshow using Win2D
 * MiniPlayer for Windows 10
 * More settings
 * Search code reworked, still WIP

Features:
 * "Add to current playlist" to add an album or a track


Changes between 1.4.0 and 1.4.1
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Release: 19 May 2015

Core:
 * Use TagLib for getting Album Covers
 * External SRT subtitles (from file picker) should work

Navigation:
 * "Application flyouts" are on the left and not centered anymore
 * Update several controls styles
 * Update Artists page design in Music Library

Changes between 1.3.3.7 and 1.4.0
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Release: 12 May 2015

Core:
 * Update libVLC, libVLCcore and codecs
 * Pass complete path to libVLC instead of WinRT tokens, if possible
 * Reactivate DLNA browsing
 * Fix subtitles displaying on Windows x86
 * Support taglib parsing when possible

Interface
 * Cleaning code and small UI changes


Changes between 1.3.2 and 1.3.3.7
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Release: April 29th 2015

Changelog
* Better UX when connecting to Last.FM
* Fix Subtitles and AudioTracks bugs (Windows only, still not working on Windows Phone)
* Clean StatusBar code
* Phones with virtual Navigation Bar are now supported by VLC. Users with Lumia like 735 won't have the UI under the virtual Navigation Bar
* App should not crash anymore if a track does not exist/file is not found. It removes the track from the VLC library.
* Hide Mouse cursor and let the screen ON only when playing videos, not music
* App should start way faster. Example : On a Lumia 1020 it starts in 2 seconds instead of 7.
* App commands : Open file, stream and Settings are now displayed in a "more" button on the top of the UI.
* Adding Database versioning: this is the last version on WP that will drop the database at each update. Now it will use migration tools when the database is modified.
* Decrease app weight by removing unused files, pictures, placeholders and libraries
* Usual bugfixing and refactoring


Changes between 1.3.1 and 1.3.2
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Release: April 27th 2015

Changelog:
 * Add back button in Search Pages
 * Fix responsive design and UX issues in Search Pages
 * Lumia 1020/920/925 get Responsive Design fix for issue « Music Player isn’t showing all controls in landscape mode »
 * InterProcess communication between the VLC process and the Background Audio Task was using to much CPU to get Position, Time, MediaPlayerState… Now using a cache for those values, CPU consumption went from up to 40% to less than 10%. Great news.
 * Fixed FileNotFoundException when Sharing the now playing album if it has no cover.
 * If a media fails to read, sometimes the app crashed when it wants to display the « can’t read media » dialog. It should be fixed.
 * A dozen of tiny bugs/crashes are also fixed.


Delayed for 1.3.3:
 * Access to Open File, Open Stream, Settings even while playing music
 * Weird cross mark in TextBox on Windows Phone



Changes between 1.3.0 and 1.3.1
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Release : April 24th 2015

Changelog:
 * Semantic Zoom in Artists view
 * Don't index Podcasts folder
 * Several bug fixes.



Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.3.0
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Release: April 23th 2015

Notes:
>> Worked a lot on cleaning the code (and there's much to do left), optimizations, fixing bugs, etc...
>> 99% of our code is now shared between Windows Phone and Windows, we're basically ready for the Windows 10 SDK migration.

Changelog:
 * Updated User Interface
 * Optimisations of XAML code, which is between 50% and 130% faster (parsing and layout rendering).
 * LastFM scrobbling working on Windows
 * Browse music and videos from folders. For example if your songs are not correctly tagged, you can browse in VLC and "play a folder" just like you would play an album.
 * XAML Responsive Design enhancements : we're trying to use your screen as best as possible. On tiny screens we removed the "now playing" title which is useless, and on a big screen we give more options with extra buttons, etc.
 * Use of Windows 10 APIs via Reflection for setting a custom, orange window background color.
 * New icons, margins and alignments are more polished (even if it's still work in progress)
 * Refresh button in the Video Library, just like the Music library
 * Search videos or albums easily.
 * Updated design for Video Player (still very work in progress though)
 * Adding Semantic Zoom in the Albums view, with custom selection of ordering (by artist, by date, by album).
 * We added a back button so devices like Lumia 730 or future tiny tablets will be able to go back easily.
 * Using the same colors as VLC for Android/iOS.
Along with lots of bug fixes, etc.


Please don't forget:
>> This version is still far from perfect and we would like to hear your feedback. What you like and dislike, what features you want us to add, etc.
>> Windows Phone got v1.3 today however we're not releasing this update on Windows.


Known bugs:
 * The video player still sucks
 * Unless you play an MKV file or an uncommon video, you won't be able to choose an embedded or external subtitle, nor specify an audio track.
 * The latest Windows 10 Mobile builds are really buggy and lots of apps are crashing, so don't expect much stability over there.