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+MPlayer (1.0)
+
+  rc2
+
+    DOCS:
+    * console messages and XML documentation converted to UTF-8
+    * Russian documentation translation finished
+    * Russian man page translation finished
+    * Chinese man page updated
+    * Chinese documentation translation started
+
+    Decoders:
+    * Intel Music Coder audio decoding via lavc
+    * Fraps v2/v4 video decoding via lavc
+    * fringe codecs: 4XM audio, Electronic Arts ADPCM audio, Delphine CIN audio
+      and video, Interplay DPCM audio, Sierra VMD video, Tiertex SEQ video,
+      Westwood IMA ADPCM audio, XAN wc3 video, Id CIN video, Interplay video,
+      XAN ADPCM audio, Westwood SND1 audio via lavc
+    * libmpeg2 updated to 0.4.1
+    * fixed resolution switching with libmpeg2
+    * handle resolution switching for Real codecs
+    * ffmpeg video decoder handles aspect ratio changes
+
+    Demuxers:
+    * implemented switch_video and switch_program consistently with switch_audio
+      (default keys are "_" and TAB, respectively). For the time being program
+      switching is only available in TS streams handled by demux_ts.c (not
+      lavf), while video switching is also handled by demux_lavf.c and
+      demux_avi.c.
+    * audio and video switching for AVI demuxer (video switching untested)
+    * GIF demuxer improvements, should work with all GIFs now
+    * support for VC1 in MPEG-TS and MPEG-PS files (bd,hd)-dvd
+    * support for EVO demuxing
+
+    Streaming:
+    * authentication for Real RTSP streams
+    * near-precise seeking in dvd://
+    * speed selection when playing dvd:// streams, to make drive quieter
+    * SVQ3 and H.264 RTSP fixes, now RTSP Apple keynotes are playable
+    * smil playlist over Real RTSP
+
+    FFmpeg/libavcodec:
+    * Intel Music coder audio decoder
+    * Fraps v2/v4 video decoder
+    * H.264 decoding speedup
+    * Native NUT demuxer updated to spec
+    * NUT muxing and demuxing support via libnut
+    * WMA encoder
+    * fix MJPEGB on big-endian systems
+
+    Filters:
+    * obsolete fame filter removed
+    * vf_geq speed-ups
+    * vf_yadif green frame fixed
+
+    MEncoder:
+    * write to output streams (currently only file:// and smb://)
+    * support -ffourcc with -of lavf
+
+    Ports:
+    * further Intel Mac fixes
+
+    Drivers:
+    * ALSA audio output now sets the non-audio bit for AC3 passthrough even
+      if the user-specified default device name tries to clear it
+
+    Others:
+    * libdvdcss updated to Subversion HEAD, now same as upstream version
+    * libmpdvdkit split into libdvdread and libdvdcss
+    * obsolete Xvid 3 support removed
+    * long-deprecated -vop option removed
+    * video stream switching
+    * dvdnav:// honour -alang and -slang
+    * support for doubleclick as input event
+    * -really-quiet works fully now
+    * select libavformat demuxer (-lavfdopts format=)
+    * internal minilzo removed in favor of FFmpeg implementation,
+      use liblzo2 for encoding
+
+
+  rc1: "Codename intentionally left blank" October 22, 2006
+  (SVN revisions: MPlayer r20372, FFmpeg r6767)
+
+    DOCS:
+    * German documentation translation finished
+    * Russian documentation translation synced and almost finished
+
+    Drivers:
+    * IVTV hardware MPEG audio/video decoder output
+    * ALSA audio output: AC3 passthrough now works even when the device name
+      of the digital output port has been set by the user
+    * bicubic OpenGL scaling works with ATI cards
+    * md5sum switched to the libavutil MD5 implementation
+    * support for libcaca 1.0 via compatibility layer
+
+    Decoders:
+    * liba52 updated to 0.7.4 (slightly faster)
+    * SSE optimizations for mp3lib
+    * removed support for obsolete and non-free divx4 libraries
+
+    Demuxers:
+    * audio stream switching in MPEG-TS/PS, Matroska and
+      streams supported by libavformat
+    * audio stream switching between streams with different codecs
+    * libavformat demuxer now honors -alang
+    * chapter seeking in Matroska files
+    * fixed seeking to absolute and percent position for libavformat demuxer
+    * NUT demuxer using libnut
+    * Matroska SimpleBlock support
+
+    Inputs:
+    * split of stream layer from libmpdemux to new stream library
+    * PVR input for hardware MPEG encoder based cards, such as Hauppauge
+      WinTV PVR-150/250/350/500 AKA IVTV but also pvrusb2 and cx88
+      (requires Linux >= 2.6.18 kernel, featuring native V4L2 MPEG API)
+    * native RTSP input (handles MPEG-TS over RTP) for generic RTSP servers
+    * support for seeking to chapters in dvd:// and dvdnav:// streams
+    * radio support (radio://)
+
+    FFmpeg/libavcodec:
+    * VC-1/WMV3/WMV9 video decoder
+    * Vorbis decoding speedup, now default Vorbis decoder
+    * VMware Video decoder
+    * On2 VP50 and VP62 decoder
+    * lossless audio decoders: WavPack, TTA, Shorten
+    * CAVS decoder
+    * GXF muxer/demuxer
+    * MXF demuxer
+    * much improved FLAC encoder
+    * more H.264 decoding speed improvements, plus support for -lavdopts fast
+    * Theora decoder fixes
+    * preliminary Vorbis encoder
+    * MTV demuxer
+
+    GUI:
+    * Windows version added
+    * drag-and-drop ignored last file
+    * save and load cache setting correctly
+    * working audio stream selection for Ogg and Matroska files
+    * executable names like gmplayer_old etc. will now start GUI as well
+    * -gui/-nogui options
+    * xinerama fixes, now behaves similar to MPlayer without GUI
+
+    Filters:
+    * MMX-optimizations for -vf yadif
+    * MMX-optimizations for -vf zrmjpeg
+
+    MEncoder:
+    * support of x264 encoding via libavcodec
+    * rewrite -x264encopts option parser to use the 264 option parser;
+      likely breaks 3rd party tools as the syntax of some options has changed
+    * removed support for obsolete and non-free divx4 libraries
+
+    Ports:
+    * partial Intel Mac support, --disable-win32 --disable-mp3lib is needed
+    * OpenGL can now create windows > screen size under Windows
+    * allow filenames starting with \\ for remote paths on Windows
+
+    Others:
+    * SSA/ASS subtitle renderer
+    * -endpos option for MPlayer
+    * -correct-pts option
+    * UTF-8 used for OSD and subtitles, some bitmap fonts will no longer work
+      correctly and -subcp must be set for all non-UTF-8 subtitles
+    * more audio-truncation fixes
+    * libavutil mandatory for MPlayer compilation
+    * more intuitive -edlout behaviour
+    * -nortc is now default since -rtc has disadvantages with recent kernels
+
+
+  pre8: "NeuTeam strikes back" June 11, 2006
+  (SVN revisions: MPlayer r18681, FFmpeg r5466)
+
+    Security:
+    * support for compilation with non-executable stack
+    * fix the major issues caught by Coverity's static analysis runs
+
+    DOCS:
+    * environment variables documentation started
+    * interactive control fully documented
+    * improved encoding guide
+    * new technical encoding guide in DOCS/tech/encoding-guide.txt
+      which is to be merged into the existing guide
+    * encoding tips for x264 and XviD
+    * how to set up MEncoder for x264 support
+    * new advanced audio usage guide with surround sound instructions
+    * Hungarian XML documentation translation finished
+    * Czech documentation translation finished
+    * French MPlayer documentation synced
+    * German man page synced
+    * Hungarian man page synced
+    * Italian man page synced
+    * Chinese console messages synced
+    * misc improvements all over the place
+    * AIX port documentation added
+    * all XviD options documented
+    * CONFIGURATION FILES section added to the man page
+    * Doxygen comments added to configuration parser and OpenGL
+      video out driver
+
+    Drivers:
+    * JACK audio output rewritten without bio2jack
+    * OpenAL audio output - unfinished, can only do mono output
+    * OpenGL video output modules support -geometry and -wid options
+    * for -vo gl manyfmts is now default (since it is a lot faster), use
+      -vo gl:nomanyfmts if it does not work for you
+    * streaming textures for -vo gl, much faster if supported (use -dr)
+    * hardware YUV to RGB conversion for -vo gl and -vo gl2, see yuv suboption
+    * support for custom fragment programs for -vo gl (see TOOLS/*.fp)
+    * support for bicubic hardware scaling in -vo gl, see lscale suboption
+    * use libvbe from vesautils as VESA video driver
+    * several fixes for the GGI video output driver
+    * fall back on next video output driver if vo_3dfx failed to initialize
+    * improved XvMC library detection (disabled by default)
+    * DPI (Print-Resolution) and Pixel-Aspect support in vo_jpeg
+    * ALSA audio output: several small fixes and improvements
+    * removed experimental mmap suboption from the ALSA driver
+    * YUY2 and back end scaling for S3 Virge chips on fbdev (-vo s3fb)
+
+    Decoders:
+    * Indeo2 (RT21) support via lavc
+    * Fraps video decoder via binary DLL
+    * support for 8-bit PNGs with palette
+    * support for dmb1 MJPEG files with ffmjpeg
+    * support for musepack audio (WARNING: when seeking you might get
+      ear- and speaker-breaking noises). If you hear clipping, use -af volume.
+    * experimental speex support via libspeex
+    * On2 VP7 video decoder via binary DLL
+    * Duck/On2 TrueMotion2 (TM20) support via lavc
+    * support FLX and DTA extensions for flic files
+    * QDM2 audio decoding via lavc
+    * cook audio decoding via lavc
+    * TrueSpeech audio decoding via lavc
+    * CamStudio video decoder via lavc
+    * hwmpa pass-through MPEG audio codec
+    * tremor updated to libogg 1.1.2
+    * PNG decoding via libavcodec
+    * removed native RealAudio codecs (ported to lavc)
+    * Zip Motion-Block Video (ZMBV) decoder via lavc and binary DLL
+    * support for QuickTime in24/in32/fl32 PCM audio
+    * internal libfaad updated to CVS 20040915+MPlayer patches
+    * RTJpeg decoder from lavc is preferred
+    * bug fix for lavc WMA v2 decoder, now all files should be playable
+    * -vc mpeg12 resizes the window when aspect ratio changes
+    * Smacker audio and video decoding via lavc
+    * Windows Media VC1 video decoder via binary DLL
+    * Flash Screen video decoder via lavc
+
+    Demuxers:
+    * simultaneous audio capture/playback (-tv immediatemode=0) fixed in v4l2
+    * PVR support
+    * AAC ADTS demuxer
+    * libdvdread updated to v0.9.4
+    * support for some more MythTV NUV files
+    * modularization of demuxer code
+    * MPEG in GXF container support with extension-based detection
+    * faster MPEG and much faster GXF demuxing
+    * more user-friendly demuxer forcing
+    * MPEG Layer 1 and 2 demuxing fixed
+    * properly pass Vorbis extradata from Matroska container
+    * DVR format support
+    * H.264 ES high profile support
+    * TV channel cycling
+    * DVD subtitle and audio stream mappings fixed
+    * fixed RealAudio demuxing, now all files should have correct A/V sync
+    * partial support for QuickTime sound atom version 2
+    * improved handling of text subs in Matroska files
+    * DVD subtitles disabled by default
+    * support sipr codec in old RealAudio files
+    * fixed framerate detection of interlaced H.264 in raw/PS/TS streams
+    * support for variable framerate Ogg/OGM files
+    * made demux_ogg.c work with ffvorbis decoder
+    * fixed playback of RealVideo in Matroska files on ppc
+    * added support for Vorbis in MOV/MP4
+
+    Streaming:
+    * fix streaming of RealAudio files over HTTP
+    * show SHOUT/Icecast metadata while playing
+    * ultravox (unsv://) streaming support
+    * stream code ported to new modular API, massive code cleanup
+    * bandwidth selection for Real RTSP streams (for faster stream dumps)
+
+    FFmpeg/libavcodec:
+    * Snow bug fixes and speedup on x86, x86-64 and AltiVec
+    * MPEG-1/2/4 and H.264 decoder speedup
+    * Indeo2 (RT21) video decoder
+    * Fraps video decoder (v0 & v1, v2 not yet supported)
+    * Vorbis audio decoder
+    * RV20 fixes
+    * VP3 decoder fixes and speedup
+    * countless bug fixes all over the place
+    * vstrict=-1 is default, Snow, ffv1 etc. need vstrict=-2
+    * skiploopfilter/skipidct/skipframe decoder options for very fast H.264
+      decoding
+    * D-Cinema audio demuxer and decoder support
+    * Duck/On2 TrueMotion2 (TM20) decoder
+    * FLX and DTA extensions for flic
+    * QDM2 audio decoder
+    * cook audio decoder
+    * TrueSpeech audio decoder
+    * WMA2 audio decoder fixed, now all files should play correctly
+    * JPEG-LS decoder (unfinished)
+    * CamStudio video decoder
+    * Theora decoder
+    * improved MOV and QuickTime demuxer
+    * improved AVI muxer
+    * multithreaded decoding
+    * bitexact decoding
+    * DV50 encoder, decoder, muxer and demuxer
+    * true audio (TTA) decoder
+    * AIFF/AIFF-C audio format, encoding and decoding
+    * Creative VOC demuxing
+    * Zip Motion-Block Video (ZMBV) decoder
+    * KMVC decoder
+    * NuppelVideo/MythTV demuxer and RTJpeg decoder
+    * MP4 and MOV demuxer greatly improved to support all varieties of
+      currently available files
+    * AVS demuxer and video decoder
+    * American Laser Games multimedia (*.mm) playback system
+    * Smacker demuxer and decoder
+    * Flash screen Video decoder
+    * Trellis-optimized ADPCM audio encoder
+    * Major improvements to Snow quality and encoding
+
+    GUI:
+    * skins now reside in a directory named 'skins', not 'Skin'
+    * ported to GTK2
+    * long standing upside down vpotmeter bug fixed
+    * don't hang on unreadable skin files
+    * random fixes and improvements
+
+    Filters:
+    * much faster version of spp filter (-vf fspp), and pp7 ("fast spp=6")
+    * remove_logo filter
+    * lavcresample now used by default (-af-adv force=0 gives old behavior)
+    * vf_expand and vf_dsize now support aspect and round parameters
+    * screenshot filter
+    * -af pan command line fix, now outputs the right number of channels
+      and accepts values < 0 or > 1. Channel order had to be changed.
+    * -af sinesuppress to remove a sine at a certain frequency
+    * negative stride support in swscale
+    * big-endian and AltiVec fixes and performance improvements for swscaler,
+      color conversions and post-processing
+    * -srate fixed
+    * hqdn3d: 2.5x faster temporal-only, 1.6x faster spatial-only
+    * new proof-of-concept karaoke (voice removal) filter
+    * motion compensating deinterlacer (-vf mcdeint)
+    * Yet Another DeInterlacing Filter (-vf yadif)
+
+    MEncoder:
+    * audio encoding modularized
+    * AAC (FAAC) audio encoding
+    * border processing adaptive quantization in libavcodec
+    * encoding zones, DivX profiles support, luminance masking,
+      multi-threaded encoding for XviD
+    * raw audio muxer
+    * fixed various bugs in the EDL code
+    * x264 "turbo mode" to speed up first pass of multi-pass encoding
+    * x264 custom quantization matrices
+    * -delay allows real audio delay instead of just a delay in the header
+    * search for (deprecated!) frameno.avi is now disabled by default (use
+      -frameno-file frameno.avi to enable)
+    * -o is now mandatory. You can add 'o=test.avi' in ~/.mplayer/mencoder
+      to get the old behavior back.
+    * In multiple file encoding, either all or no files must have audio. Use
+      -nosound to force.
+    * support for VBR MP2 encoding in toolame
+    * twolame support
+    * libavformat muxers support
+    * VBR audio in MPEG support
+    * muxer_mpeg: added an experimental film2pal teleciner and fixed previous
+      bugs that could lead to desync and to wrong TFF/RFF flags being set
+    * rewritten muxer_mpeg.c: buffering and timing constraints will always
+      be respected, provided that the muxrate is big enough
+
+    Ports:
+    * improved timer function on Mac OS X
+    * New Mac OS X "macosx" video output driver. Supported on OS X 10.4
+      and 10.3 with QuickTime 7 (requires QuickTime 7 SDK to build on 10.3)
+    * Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) fixes
+    * macosx audio output driver fixes
+    * preliminary support for Intel Macs
+    * support for playing DVDs copied to harddisk on Cygwin
+    * DragonFly BSD support
+    * liba52 ASM optimizations ported to AMD64
+    * configure check and compiler optimizations for VIA C3, C3-2 and Pentium-M
+    * configure check and compiler optimizations for AMD-64 extended
+    * configure can now run with cross compiling, new configure option
+      --enable-cross-compile
+    * -(no)border option to get a bordered/borderless window on Windows
+    * Experimental AIX support
+    * AltiVec support fixes
+    * POWER5 support
+    * OpenGL output ported to Windows
+    * FreeBSD default DVD device added
+    * MIPS64 support
+    * Darwin portability fixes
+    * improved Debian packaging
+    * improved Win32 multi-monitor support
+    * Sun's mediaLib disabled by default on Solaris (broken and non-optimal)
+    * VP6 and WMVA binary codecs should now work also under FreeBSD 6
+
+    Others:
+    * Audio/Video synchronisation fixes
+    * enabled hinting for TrueType fonts
+    * support for file:// syntax
+    * -fb option removed, use the device suboption of -vo fbdev/fbdev2 instead
+    * full gcc 4 support
+    * TOOLS/vobshift.py: vobsub time-adjust tool
+    * TOOLS/psnr-video.sh: computes PSNR between two existing video files
+    * fixed auto-insertion of lavc encoder (for DXR2/3 and DVB)
+    * new option: -idle, to make MPlayer wait for input commands when
+      done playing all files
+    * lots of new slave commands (check DOCS/tech/slave.txt)
+    * lots of new information provided by the -identify option
+    * fixed ugly looking OSD with -vo gl2 and MMX
+    * support for OSD localization
+    * -rawaudio/-rawvideo requires -demuxer rawaudio/-demuxer rawvideo
+    * libdvdcss updated to 1.2.9
+    * ~/.dvdcss is used instead of ~/.mplayer/DVDKeys for cached CSS keys
+    * libcdio support for CD playback
+    * new option -msglevel to directly control the verbosity of MPlayer modules
+    * -verbose option removed, use -v or "-msglevel all" instead
+    * -edl is now per-file in MPlayer
+    * new input command prefixes, "pausing_keep" and "pausing_toggle" which
+      alter pausing state immediately after command
+    * environment variable MPLAYER_VERBOSE controls verbosity before the
+      command line is parsed
+    * environment variable MPLAYER_HOME controls location where
+      configuration files are searched for
+    * memleak fixes all over the code
+    * TOOLS/aconvert: allows MEncoder to encode from an audio-only file
+    * TOOLS/3*m_convert: D-Cinema audio and video conversion program
+    * TOOLS/qepdvcd.sh: anything supported to VCD/SVCD PAL/NTSC
+    * TOOLS/encode2mpeglight: MPEG format encoding tool using only MEncoder
+    * allow multiple -help clauses on the command line
+    * console "OSD" for audio-only files
+    * show total time when playing audio-only files
+    * support for .wpl playlists
+    * support for ncurses as termcap library provider
+    * parallel make fixed
+    * (improved) support for shared libav* libraries
+    * playback/encoding profiles support
+    * new property API
+    * new -monitorpixelaspect option to determine monitor aspect from
+      screen resolution
+
+
+  pre7try3: February 15, 2006 (unreleased)
+
+    Security:
+    * heap overflow in demuxer.h fixed
+
+
+  pre7try2: August 26, 2005
+
+    Security:
+    * heap overflow in PCM audio decoder fixed
+
+
+  pre7: "PatentCounter" April 16, 2005
+
+    Security:
+    * heap overflow in Real RTSP streaming code fixed
+    * buffer overflow in MMST streaming code fixed
+
+
+    DOCS:
+    * Czech documentation translation in progress
+    * German man page almost synced
+    * slave mode command documentation finished
+    * TOOLS documented in TOOLS/README
+    * audio filter documentation moved to the man page and updated
+    * all audio filters documented
+    * improved encoding guide
+    * preliminary documentation for Snow codec in DOCS/tech/snow.txt
+    * misc updates and fixes all over the place
+
+    Ports:
+    * DirectX video output fixed on Windows95
+    * DirectX video output now supports 256 color mode
+    * audio device selection support for dsound audio output driver
+    * --enable-macosx-bundle, use config directory in the appwrapper on OS X
+    * Sun audio output cleanup
+    * x86_64 support fixes
+    * OpenBSD support in libdha
+    * VIDIX support for more Radeon 9200 models
+
+    Drivers:
+    * fixed ontop event for some window managers
+    * audio output layer cleanup
+    * unified colorkey handling code
+    * vo_xvmc panscan fix
+    * fixed some X11 crashes
+    * OSD fixes in various video output drivers
+
+    Decoders:
+    * TWinVQ decoder via binary DLL
+    * integrated Tremor decoder for Ogg/Vorbis
+    * fixed decoding of stereo alaw files
+    * preload QT DLLs to work around problems with their hardcoded paths
+    * support for Real 10 RV30/40 Linux binary codec (fixes some RV40 files)
+    * expose support for 422P and 444P raw formats
+    * 32 bit RGB support in binary TSCC decoder
+    * dropped support of old FAAD2 versions (<= 1.1)
+    * support for Real 10 cook Linux binary codec (decodes cook5.1)
+    * improved NV12/NV21 support
+    * support for 32 bit float and extended WAV files
+    * prefer native RealAudio 1.0 / 2.0 decoder over binary decoders
+    * support for multichannel WAV files
+    * ALAC (QuickTime lossless audio) support via lavc
+    * WNV1 support via lavc
+    * AASC (Autoderk RLE video) support via lavc
+    * LOCO video support via lavc
+    * fixed Layer 1 stereo playback via mp3lib
+    * VMnc (VMware video) decoder via binary DLL
+    * AMR NB/WB support via libavcodec and external reference decoders
+    * ADTS AAC support
+
+    Demuxers:
+    * vqf demuxer
+    * seeking in MPEG-ES fixed
+    * support for Real multirate files
+    * framerate autodetection for MPEG-4 and H.264 video in ES and TS streams
+    * MP3 in Real files
+    * more user-friendly info about audio and subtitle tracks in Ogg files
+    * avisynth demuxer
+    * Multichannel MP3 in MP4 files support (MP3on4)
+    * some classes of nonworking 14.4/28.8 RealAudio files fixed
+    * added code to autodetect and demux MPEG audio layers 1 and 2
+    * demux AC3 audio files using libavformat by default
+    * online audio stream switching in the MPEG and Matroska demuxers
+    * 3GP demuxing support
+    * DVB updates and ATSC tuner support
+    * AVC in Matroska support
+    * SWF and FLV support via libavformat
+    * use proper Vorbis fourcc
+
+    Streaming:
+    * stream selection and bandwidth support for MMS over HTTP
+    * fall back on HTTP if connection refused on pnm://
+    * support for UDP streaming (udp://)
+    * support for vstream TiVo streams (tivo://)
+    * EOF detect and bugfixes in pnm:// streams
+
+    FFmpeg/libavcodec:
+    * RV20 fixes
+    * many H.264 fixes
+    * B-frames in H.264, H.264 weighted prediction support
+    * a lot of integer overflow and pointer fixes
+    * 32 bit RGB support in TSCC
+    * multichannel MP3 decoder (MP3on4)
+    * 3g2 support
+    * ALAC audio decoder
+    * LOCO video decoder
+    * WNV1 video decoder
+    * shorten audio decoder and demuxer
+    * AASC video decoder
+    * AMR NB/WB support via external reference decoders
+    * significantly faster Snow decoding
+    * experimental ratecontrol for Snow
+    * countless bug fixes all over the place
+
+    GUI:
+    * half size event implemented and added to the menu
+    * ESD configuration dialog and software volume control option
+    * memleaks fixed
+
+    Filters:
+    * big cleanup of audio filter layer
+    * faster af_format for most common cases
+    * float handling in the audio filter layer finally fixed
+    * obsolete audio plugins finally removed
+    * updated HRTF filter
+    * center channel adding filter
+    * soft-telecined input support in pullup improved
+
+    MEncoder:
+    * new experimental MPEG muxer, compatible with DVD and (S)VCD
+    * multiple file support
+    * -speed support (framerate conversion with speedup/slowdown)
+    * EDL support
+    * low bitrate mp3lame encoding fix
+    * MJPEG encoding fix
+    * NUV endianness fix (makes old NUV files unplayable)
+    * experimental libavformat muxer
+    * mp3lame CBR encoding fix
+    * 35% faster turbo mode for 1st pass
+
+    Others:
+    * -z option replaced by -vo png suboption
+    * icc fix in the Win32 loader
+    * crash with Turkish locale fixed
+    * several memleak fixes
+    * -aa* options are replaced by -vo aa suboptions
+    * excessive verbosity reduced
+    * RTC support for *BSD
+    * non-UTF-8 external subtitles with Matroska fixed
+    * gcc 4 fixes
+    * partial NX (noexec bit) support
+    * support libsmbclient with SSL
+    * put changed notices into all imported files for GPL 2a compliance
+
+
+  pre6: "X-mas present" December 23, 2004
+
+    DOCS:
+    * finally all options are documented
+    * man page completely reviewed for spelling, wording and clarity
+    * all audio output driver suboptions documented
+    * all video output driver suboptions documented
+    * audio filters section added to the man page
+    * XviD documentation completed
+    * French man page in sync again
+    * German man page updated
+    * new Czech (complete) and Swedish man page translations
+    * fixes and updates in various places
+
+    Ports:
+    * full x86_64 support
+    * -rootwin, -panscan support in the quartz video output driver
+    * key repetition and aspect fixed in the quartz video output driver
+    * "Movie" menu for quartz video output driver with zoom options & preset
+    * fs_res quartz video output driver suboption chooses fullscreen resolution
+    * VCD support for Darwin (Mac OS X)
+    * Mac OS X Finder startup argument support
+    * support for Real (Helix) codecs on Mac OS X (working this time)
+    * fix for stdin input and slave mode on MinGW
+    * support for -rootwin, -colorkey, -wid in the DirectX video output driver
+    * improved monitor selection in the DirectX video output driver
+    * new DirectSound audio output driver
+    * mouse support in Windows
+    * support for ZetaOS (mostly working)
+
+    Drivers:
+    * fixes in the VESA and GGI video output drivers
+    * -jpeg removed in favor of -vo jpeg suboptions
+    * jpeg video output driver now supports output to multiple directories
+    * improvements for the Blinkenlights video output driver ;-)
+    * OpenGL video output driver colorformat fixes (with manyfmts suboption)
+    * aspect, panscan, hardware OSD support in the OpenGL video output driver
+    * new pnm and md5sum video output drivers, replacing pgm and md5
+    * yuv4mpeg video output now has a file= suboption, can be used with
+      -fixed-vo to concatenate files having same width, height and fps
+    * JACK audio output driver updated to bio2jack API changes
+    * alsa9 and alsa1x replaced by alsa audio output driver
+    * ALSA audio output driver always uses specified device, even for hwac3
+    * support for mixer channel selection in the ALSA audio output driver
+    * audio output driver for the polypaudio sound server
+    * VIDIX Cyberblade TV-out fixed
+    * VIDIX I420 support for Cyberblade and mga
+    * VIDIX Radeon support on big-endian systems, other Radeon fixes
+    * VIDIX Radeon R200 QM (Radeon 9100) support
+    * CLE266 VIDIX driver
+    * experimental SAVAGE VIDIX driver
+
+    Decoders:
+    * "experimental" support for 20 and 24 bit LPCM (DVD-Audio)
+    * libmpeg2 updated to 0.4.0b
+    * libfaad2 updated to 2.1beta CVS snapshot
+    * DTS decoding via libavcodec
+    * Windows Media Audio 9 Voice support via binary DLL
+    * Windows Media Video 9 Advanced support via binary DLL
+    * Windows Media Screen Codec 2 support via binary DLL
+    * Windows Media Image Codec support via binary DLL
+    * Windows Media Image 2 Codec support via binary DLL
+    * VDOWave video support via binary DLL
+    * Miro VideoXL video support via libavcodec
+    * Creative ADPCM audio support via libavcodec or binary DLL
+    * IBM Ultimotion video support via libavcodec
+    * Micronas Speech codec support via binary DLL
+    * H.261 video codec support via libavcodec
+    * TechSmith Camtasia video codec support via libavcodec
+    * sonic audio codec support via libavcodec
+    * Snow video codec support via libavcodec
+    * QuickDraw video support via libavcodec
+    * Cinepak, CYUV and RoQ audio/video moved to FFmpeg
+    * Vianet Lsvx video support via binary DLL
+
+    Demuxers:
+    * fix -nosound and -novideo for NSV
+    * subtitle switching and language code displaying for Matroska
+    * support for the .vp5 file format (AVI variant)
+    * seeking in audio-only ASF files fixed
+    * improved MP3 detection
+    * support for AVC in .mp4 files
+    * support for raw H.261 files via libavformat
+    * improved seeking precision in MPEG files
+    * better subtitle language code handling for MKV files
+    * support DVHS files and H.264 over MPEG-TS
+    * display length and position (in the seekbar) for MOV files
+    * raw video in MOV files playback improved
+
+    Streaming:
+    * -cache-min and -cache-prefill options added
+    * compilation fix for newer LIVE.COM versions
+    * make ASF without ECC work
+    * support for MMS on non-standard port
+    * EOF detected in Real RTSP streams
+
+    FFmpeg/libavcodec:
+    * reduced resolution decoding with the lowres option
+    * new experimental wavelet-based Snow video codec
+    * new sonic audio codec
+    * TechSmith Camtasia video decoder
+    * IBM Ultimotion video decoder
+    * QuickDraw video decoder
+    * Creative ADPCM decoder
+    * Miro VideoXL decoder
+    * Sierra online audio files demuxer and decoder
+    * QPEG video decoder
+    * Electronic Arts Game Multimedia format demuxer
+    * H.261 fixes, H.261 encoder
+    * fix VIS accelerated code
+    * DTS support via libdts
+    * many DV fixes, seek in raw DV files
+    * support AAC in MOV files
+    * RV10, RV20 fixes
+    * RV20 encoding
+    * AVI demuxer cleanup, palette change support
+    * iTunes metadata support
+    * HuffYUV fixes (endianness, RGB32 predictor, median encoding, interlacing)
+    * ffvhuff (enhanced HuffYUV codec)
+    * SSE optimizations for 4x4 compare function
+    * epzs motion search enhancements
+    * quad tree based motion compensation
+    * MPEG-4 qpel MMX2/3DNow! optimizations
+    * H.264: lot of fixes and MMX2/3DNow! optimizations
+    * AVC1 (H.264 without sync word in .mp4 files) support
+    * H.264 qpel motion compensation
+    * Indeo3 grayscale decoding
+    * preliminary Truemotion 24 bit decoder
+    * avizlib encoder fixed
+    * trellis quantization support in H.263
+    * DCT optimizations
+    * AltiVec support on AmigaOS4
+    * adapt MMX/MMX2/SSE/3DNow! optimizations to work on x86_64
+    * seeking fixes
+    * better and faster audio resampler
+    * New dc1394 grabbing interface
+    * preliminary decoding support for H.264 with CABAC and B-frames
+    * dvr-ms support in ASF demuxer
+    * NSV demuxer
+    * DVD compatible MPEG muxer
+    * MJPEG-B fixes
+    * range coder (arithmetic entropy coder) used by Snow and ffv1
+    * ffv1 enhancements: signed golomb, range codes
+    * multi slice support for main profile H.264 streams
+    * as usual, lots of bug fixes and optimizations
+
+    Filters:
+    * software volume control when no hardware support available, can be
+      controlled with the -softvol and -softvol-max parameters
+    * high-quality audio resampling with -af lavcresample
+    * cropdetect rounding parameter
+    * MPlayer -af help
+    * missing audio plugins (extrastereo, volnorm) converted to audio filters
+    * sine sweep generator audio filter
+    * hrtf audio filter to convert multichannel audio to 2 channel output
+      for headphones, preserving the spatiality of the sound
+    * big-endian fixes in rgb2rgb converter
+    * yuv2rgb Altivec optimization fixes
+    * support for LADSPA plugins
+
+    GUI:
+    * unified audio options dialog, also for ALSA
+    * redrawing limited, decreases CPU usage in audio-only case
+    * icons for the context menu
+    * doublesize bug fixed
+    * slowdown after opening the preferences panel bug fixed
+    * remaining messages moved to help file for translation
+    * slowdown after using the preferences panel fixed
+
+    Encoding:
+    * x264 encoder support
+    * support for MP2 encoding with libtoolame
+    * libavcodec "turbo mode" to speed up 2-pass encoding
+    * support for 3-pass encode for libavcodec and x264
+    * XviD encoder and decoder modules updated to API-4.1 (XviD-1.1.x)
+    * flush remaining frames at end of encoding process
+
+    Others:
+    * -loop and -shuffle now work together
+    * better EDL support
+    * some --disable configure options finally work (mp3lib, liba52, libmpeg2)
+    * framestepping
+    * change playback speed during playback
+    * some crashes with binary codecs fixed
+    * subtitle alignment support for SAMI files
+    * also support Windows path separator '\'
+    * FriBiDi fixes for comma handling in Hebrew subtitles
+    * -crash-debug option to attach gdb automatically after crashes
+    * gcc 4 compilation fixes
+    * compilation fixes for many files in the TOOLS directory
+    * infamous "stuck mouse button" bug fixed, new -key-fifo-size option
+    * reduced verbosity of MPlayer's output somewhat
+    * -identify now prints some information about available languages
+    * double buffering (-double) is now default
+    * many memleaks fixed
+
+
+  pre5try2: December 15, 2004
+
+    Security:
+    * buffer overflow in mp3lib fixed
+    * heap overflow in Real RTSP streaming code fixed
+    * stack overflow in MMST streaming code fixed
+    * unnecessary BMP demuxer removed because of buffer overflows
+    * heap overflow in pnm streaming code fixed
+
+
+  pre5: "LinuxTag release" July 15, 2004
+
+    Name:
+    * It's "MPlayer - The Movie Player" instead of
+      "MPlayer - The Movie Player for Linux" now.
+
+    Security:
+    * complete review of string operations, buffer overflows fixed
+
+    DOCS:
+    * small additions, corrections, updates all over the place
+    * audio output driver section added to the man page
+    * several bug fixes and improvements in the MEncoder documentation
+    * DVD ripping guide extended and improved
+    * AUTHORS file massively extended
+    * German man page partially updated
+    * Hungarian XML documentation translation started
+
+    Ports:
+    * encrypted DVD playback on Windows fixed (again)
+    * Cygwin and MinGW now accept the same -dvd-device syntax
+    * LIVE.COM now works under MinGW
+    * foundations for MinGW crosscompilation
+    * disabled SSE on MinGW as it caused crashes
+    * AC3 passthrough for ao_win32
+    * improved vo_quartz (YUV, multiple screens support)
+    * vo_quartz made default on Mac OS X
+    * ao_macosx fixed and made default again on Mac OS X
+    * RealVideo binary codecs support on Mac OS X (still buggy)
+    * big-endian fixes in vf.c, vo_tga
+    * OpenBSD portability fixes
+    * OpenBSD/VAX support
+    * AMD64 support
+
+    Drivers:
+    * support for more Radeons (9800 XT among them) in VIDIX
+    * Radeon related bug fixes in VIDIX
+    * vo_gl2 now supports GUI, fix for flickering borders in fullscreen
+    * support 24 and 32 bit PCM files, big-endian fixes
+    * ao_sdl now converts unsupported formats instead of quitting
+    * ENCA support
+    * merged ao_alsa9 and ao_alsa1x drivers into ao_alsa
+    * NeoMagic TV-out support through VESA
+    * JACK audio output driver
+    * vo_sdl fixes (wrong flags and screensaver disabling)
+    * vo_directx fixes
+
+    Decoders:
+    * MSZH/ZLIB, FLI, QTRLE, RoQ video and RoQ audio support moved to FFmpeg
+    * FFmpeg Cinepak and CYUV decoders preferred
+    * audio format 0xff support (is AAC)
+    * "raw" audio in MOV supported
+    * Indeo audio (iac25) support via binary codec
+    * upgrade libfaad2 to the FAAD 2.0 release
+    * MPEG-2 chroma422/444 support
+    * Winnov WINX and WNV1 support via binary codec
+
+    Demuxers:
+    * Ogg subtitle handling and other bug fixes
+    * Matroska improvements
+    * support seeking in Real files without -idx
+    * support seeking in Real files without index with -forceidx
+
+    Streaming:
+    * ASF, MMST streaming fixes
+    * URL escaping fixed
+    * NSA (Nullsoft audio) streaming support
+    * embedded RAM playlist support
+    * multibyte URL support
+    * rtp:// now supported even with LIVE.COM compiled in
+    * miscellaneous bug fixes
+
+    Filters:
+    * vf_softskip: frame skipping filter for MEncoder
+    * vf_harddup: frame duplication filter for MEncoder
+    * vf_pullup minor fixes and improvements
+    * AltiVec-optimized YUV to RGB converter
+    * vf_spp memory corruption fix on reallocation
+
+    FFmpeg/libavcodec:
+    * MPEG-2 encoding with 8, 9, 10, 11 bit intra DC precision