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mplayer (1.0)
  pre1:  "Development" on the beach
    NOTE: the mplayer 'main' branch was forked at the time of 0.90-rc4, so
    0.90-rc5 (and later 0.90 releases) changes are independent!
    (it also means that there are main-only and 0_90-only changes)

    DOCS:
    * DOCS/Language/ dirs renamed to DOCS/id, English files moved to DOCS/en
    * HTML --> XML format conversion (English, Russian and French for now)
    * new Spanish DOCS translation
    * man page restructured, options ordered
    * Finally merged libavc-option.txt into the man page.
    * slave mode commands moved from the man page to DOCS/tech/
    * traditional Chinese help file added
    * massive help file updates, most languages are up to date now
    * new and improved Windows port section with Cygwin and MinGW subsections
    * almost all options documented
    * fixes and small updates all over the place

    Big/Structural changes:
    * linux/ dir renamed to osdep/
    * postproc/postproc* files moved to libavcodec
    * old libmpeg2 replaced with patched version of the 0.3.1 release
    * docs priority & installation (--language=ab,cd,ef,all and so on)
    * yuv2rgb conversion removed from most vo drivers (like fbdev, gif89 etc)
    * -vop option obsoleted by reverse-order -vf, big config layer changes
    * stream layer "cleanup", -dvd -> dvd:// etc
    * autosub fuzziness, it tries to load all subs with similar filenames
    * removed the whole old config reader, leaving only the newer one
      (no backward compatibilty!)
    
    Ports:
    * HPUX fixes
    * Ported to Darwin / Mac OS X (with extra accurate Darwin timers)
    * Ported to Win32/MinGW (including network, timers, getch etc)
    * win32 codecs DLL support on Win32/Cygwin (and MinGW too!)
    * Lots of PPC (including Altivec) optimizations
    * Some ARM fixes
    * Alpha fixes (especially non-gcc3 support)
    * Initial Hitachi SuperH support (SH3/SH4)
    
    Codecs/demuxers support:
    * realaudio win32 dlls support
    * various realaudio/realvideo fixes, including WxH bugs, Sipr etc
    * various realmedia a-v sync fixes
    * realaudio v4 demuxer
    * realaudio 14_4 and 28_8 codecs support (both binary dlls and native code)
    * realmedia rtsp:// support (independent from the live.com rtsp stuff!)
    * Matroska demuxer
    * demuxer: enabling mpeg4-es autodetection, h264-es support
    * .wav extradata parsing (for truespeech, atrac3 etc)
    * MPEG-TS (Transport Stream) and TIVO demuxers
    * DVB (Digital Video Broadcasting) input driver
    * hwac3: DTS passthru support
    * new filters: down3dright, detc, telecine, tfields, ilpack, ivtc, dsize, tinterlace,
      pullup (mmx optimized!), framestep, tile
    * vf layer: slices support (crop, expand, swscale only)
    * vf scale aspect fixes
    * swscaler: cleanup & API change, yv12 -> yuy2 in alpha asm, -fPIC compileable
    * swscaler: brightness/cont/sat. and different YUV matrices support
    * NUV encoding
    * SGI image files decoding (-mf)
    * Theora video (using libtheora/libogg) support
    * DivX.com 5.0.5 libs support
    * support for latest XviD en/decoder features
    * decoder for Hauppauge PVR 250/350 MB-YUV format (fourcc HM12)
    * support for Vanguard's win32 h264 etc codecs
    * Video for Linux 1: various bugfixes, video eq support
    * Video for Linux 2 support
    * TV support: kick-ass image format handling
    * mp3lib: moved the assembly sources into gcc inline assembly (c)
    * mp3lib: sync with mpg123 0.59s-pre
    * mp3lib: final layer-1 support
    * mp3lib: skip trashed first mp3 frame, fixes lot of buggy/misdetected files
    * imported a working FAAD version
    * 8BPS (Planar RGB) support
    * working DVD (libmpdvdkit) support for Cygwin

    FFmpeg/libavcodec:
    * libavcodec: static,const,compiler warning cleanup, UINTX -> uintx_t
    * old HuffYUV v1 support
    * PAL 4:1:1 SMPTE 314M DV streams support, NTSC DV last MB column fix
    * fixing padding bug autodetection for some rare files
    * DspContext.(i)dct_* bitexact cleanup
    * user setable quantizer bias
    * mpeg1 slice encoding support
    * msmpeg4 2-pass support
    * H264 video decoding
    * Indeo 3 video decoding
    * VP3 video decoder (buggy somtimes)
    * Sorenson 3 (SVQ3) video decoder (it's actually a h264 variant)
    * 3IV1 (3ivx v1) decoding, ASV1 (ASUS Video v1) decoding
    * Improved SVQ1 decoding (using FFmpeg VLC functions)
    * truncated unary binerization, unary k-th order exp golomb binarization :)
    * FFV1: lossless YUV codec, compress a lot better than huffyuv, but slower
    * lossless MJPEG en/decoding, pegasus "pseudo yuv" (=RCT) decoding
    * ATI VCR1 and VCR2 decoding
    * full featured SH4 optimizations
    * ARM optimized simple_idct
    * MPEG2 encoding
    * PSX MDEC decoder
    
    Drivers:
    * x11_common: fix detection of metacity
    * x11_common: 10l fix in original layer detection code
    * tdfx_vid driver (3dfx cards overlay with AGP support)
    * vo_xover: general x11 ovelay driver, currently onl tdfx_vid uses it
    * mga_vid: various fixes, 16MB G400 detection, support for multiple cards
    * new svgalib vo driver
    * vo_directfb2: triple buffering support,configuration sys changed,fixes
    * OpenGL driver cleanups/fixes (both vo_gl and vo_gl2)
    * vo_fbdev cleanup/partial rewrite, now with real direct rendering
    * vo_xvmc: new driver featuring XvMC (HW MC/IDCT) acceleration
    * new TGA output driver

    Others:
    * gcc can now detect badly called mp_msg()s
    * lot of config/cmdline parsing fixes (some of them were at least 100000l bugs)
    * configure: enable vidix for PPC
    * configure: full featured PPC optimizations and rewritten architecture handling
    * spudec.c: Fix "invalid fragment" handling, Improved subtitle queueing
    * network streaming layer: IPv6 support
    * playtree parsing speedup :)
    * various URL parsing fixes
    * crashing on broken config files finally fixed!
    * GUI: PPC (reverse byteorder) fixes
    * GUI: revert to 'default' skin if configured skin failed
    * TOOLS/plotpsnr.pl: PSNR plotting tool using gnuplot 
    * DOCS/tech/mpcf.txt: MPCF/NUT draft/specification
    * TVout/matroxtv: various improvements


mplayer (0.90)

  rc4:  "FlameCounter"

    DOCS:
    * some clarification and updates in the English DOCS
    * massive translation and help-file updates

    Fixes:    
    * -ac hwac3 fixed (was broken in rc3)
    * vo_svga: 4bp & 8bpp fixes
    * various GUI fixes, including some critical bugs
    * rage128 VIDIX PPC fixes
    * libmenu: one crash fixed, some cleanup
    * fixed ./configure --cc="ccache gcc"
    * -loop fixes, now -loop 2 plays it twice :)
    * the volume symbol of OSD fixed (|\ -> /|)
    * 32bpp QT-RLE support
    * Altivec on non-Darwin systems support
    * QuickTime reference file support fixes
    * mp3lib: layer-2 decoding fixes
    * updates to extension->demuxer mapping table
    * libavcodec: DivX 5.03 decoding fix
    * ao_oss: limited channels handling fixed
    * fixed OGM subtitles and iconv
    * fixed -subcp option with unicode truetype fonts
    * -mf: type detection (based on extension), better defaults
    * vo_xv: -fixed-vo support fixed (fullscreen switching)
    * ogg-in-avi (audio format 0xFFFE) demuxing fixed
    * vorbis decoding fixed (outer loop cleanup)
    * swscaler: 4bpp depth 1 pixel/byte format support for -vo svga
    * missing error message in command line parser for missing parameters
    * swscaler: YVU9->YV12 fixes
    * -ao mpegpes + -ac hwac3 fixed
    * -ao pcm bogus wav header fixed
    * -vo x11 + -wid fixed
    * auto-insert the 'palette' filter if needed, support fixed in filters
    * the sig11 when playing second audio-only file fixed
    * configure: detection of cdda, nas, i18n, svgalib, faad2, lame fixed
    * -af/-af-adv support in mencoder fixed
    * libmpdvdkit2: upgraded to use libdvdcss 1.2.5
    
    Features:
    * raw video support (-rawvideo, similar to -rawaudio)
    * experimental mpeg4-ES support (enable with -demuxer 27 -fps xxx)
    * new video filter: field (cheap deinterlacer)
    * dvd/vobsub improvements: positioning, optional gaussian blur scaler
    * vf_bmovl: 400% speedup :)
    * libavcodec: native DV audio decoder
    * GIF demuxer (for animated GIFs)
    * new noise removal filter: -vop denoise3d
    * per-channel gamma and MMX-opt'ed bri/cont/saturation support in -vop eq2
    * live.com lib support cleanup, support for more stream types
    * importing the playtree into the Gui instead of gui's own playlist hack
    * support for the XviD and divx4/5linux libraries at the same time
    * -fstype option: override priority/layer of the fullscreen switch methods
    * libavcodec: some B-frames related encoding failures/crashes fixed

  rc3:  "BugfixCounter"
  
    DOCS:
    * English man page & HTML docs updates
    * audio filter documentation
    * help_diff.sh doesn't depend on BASH any more
    * Hungarian, French, Italian, German, Polish(?) docs synced
    
    Important fixes:
    * X11 fullscreen switching (yes, again...) rewritten, some x11 code cleanup
    * Voxware and QuickTime DLLs finally work (was broken in some contexts)
    * VIDIX Radeon support cleanup, should really solve the pink screen bugs
    * Cygwin: -vo directx crashes and garbled picture with some files fixed
    * OGM/Ogg seeking (broken frames) fixed, subtitle fixes, XCD support
    * libaf: big (audio filter layer) updates, floating point support, speedup
    * ffwma2 fixed (better error resilience)
    * SPU queueing - fixes missing or early disappearing DVD subtitles
    * the mysterious DVD audio delay (150-300ms) fixed
    * extension-based fileformat detection fixed the .mp3 vs. mpeg-ps conflict
    * cache2 keeps buffer for non-seekable media, fixes quicktime streaming

    Fixes:
    * mp3lib CPU detection part cleanup, 'decwin' linker problem fixed
    * various cddb:// fixes, support of netbsd-1.6
    * libmpdvdkit2: Fix DVD authentication on Solaris 9
    * libmpdvdkit2: libdvdcss upgraded to 1.2.4 (keeping the key cache patch)
    * libmpdvdkit2: fixed decryption from multiple VOB files (hdd or darwin)
    * -ao arts, -ao oss: Fix 8-bit sound support
    * -vop expand + ffmpeg codecs conflicts solved, some other -vop bugs fixed
    * -ac ffmp2 with MPEG files (sig11) fixed
    * QT Qclp audio codec initialization fixed
    * mplayer exit codes cleanup (0 for quit/eof, 1 for error)
    * -ao win32 sync problems solved, -autosync 100 is still recommended
    * -vo gif89a uninit sig11 fixed
    * the usual compiler warning fixes :)
    * use -pphelp instead of -vop pp=help
    * various bigendian fixes
    * 16bpp packed yuv fixes in crop, mirror, rotate filters
    * some -fixed-vo and vo_preinit fixes, -vo sdl,xmga,mga should work...
    * various Solaris compatibility fixes (should work out of the box)
    * mms:// port fixes, tries 1755 if 80 failed
    * libavcodec: various ME fixes, B frames fixes, WMV2 slice decoding fixes
    * -ao alsa9 audio-file playback high cpu usage fixed
    * libaf updates, 2-pass initialization to get better filter path
    * better detection of playlists, support for [Reference]-style format
    * handle quicktime reference media files as playlist
    * cddb:// & cdda:// cdrom device name fixes on linux and *BSD
    
    Features:
    * -ao esd: new EsounD audio driver
    * -vo dxr3: new NORM option
    * Xanim & RealPlayer binary Codecs working on PPC
    * Radeon 9000 support in VIDIX, colorkey restoring for all Radeons
    * Initial PPC (Big-Endian) support in VIDIX Rage128 driver
    * PNM:// streaming support (ported from xine)
    * Muxer layer: mencoder can now write MPEG-PS format, too (EXPERIMENTAL!)
    * libavcodec: wmv2 decoder (buggy/untested)
    * DVB "HEAD" (aka. NEWSTRUCT) drivers support
    * Subtitles background bounding-box support (optional grey-level & opacity)
    * libaf: 3 new filters: panning, compressor/limiter and a noise gate
    * per-mediafile config file support (for file-specific options)
    * iconv (codepage conversion) support for OGM (Ogg) subtitles
    * v4l: user friendly channel tuning
    * Freetype & old-style RAW font support usable (compilable) at the same time
    * vo_directfb2, vo_dfbmga: DirectFB 0.9.16 support
    * libavcodec: motion estimation pre pass, qpel encoding, trellis quantization
    * libavcodec, liba52, mp3lib: Altivec optimizations
    * keep window's aspect ratio at resizing (x11, xv), requires WM support
    * -geometry option, also accepts X11 syntax
    * real .bin+.cue (S)VCD images support (-vcd 2 -cuefile xxx.cue)
    * postprocess: YUV 411/422/444 support, stride fixes
    * jumping of overlapping subs fixed, sorting is automatical, iconv fixes
    * mpeg2 telecine detection and automatic inverse telecine (mplayer only)

    Gui:
    * correct GTK widget destroy event handler
    * fullscreen switching fixed (sync with x11_common)
    * fix gtk submenu
    * new font render engine
    * added persistant history patch
    * SDL Audio configure window
    * add overlapping to preferences
    * add play bar for subwindow
    * add vertical potmeter for skin
    * fixed 'single pixel bug'
    * fixed some possible crashes

  rc2:
    General:
    * DOCS/tech/encoding-tips.txt and tech/directfb.txt
    * Some DOCS corrections/updates/sync/html fixes
    * GUI: fixed three submenu bugs and several other problems
    * more compiler warning fixes
    * NetBSD: cpu sse/sse2 detection & VCD reading fixes
    * fixed possible v4l capturing crash
    * Merged the EDL 0.5 patch - using & creating Edit-Lists (runtime cut&skip)
    * Subtitle lines alignment changeable: top/bottom/middle (key 'i')
    * -slang support for VobSub files
    
    VO:
    * X11 fullscreen switching code changed again (esp. for gnome2/kde3.1)
    * VIDIX: svgalib kernelhelper support (as libdha alternative)
    * VIDIX driver for trident cyberblade card
    * VIDIX: 8 pixel shift & pink window bugs fixed in the RADEON driver
    * New, rewritten version of vo_svga (vidix support etc) and vo_gif89
    * yuv4mpeg vs. framedrop/frameskip fixed
    
    Codecs:
    * libavcodec: fixed possible 20% speedloss bug
    * support for the experimental (and buggy) dev-api-3 XViD CVS branch
    * fallback to built-in codecs.conf if no compatible external file found
    * experimental Sorenson 1/3 encoding (using quicktime DLLs)
    * More accurate video bitrate calculation for AVI files
    * Presets support for libmp3lame encoding
    * CDDA seeking fixed
    * Win32/RealPlayer codecs DLL & 64bit Alpha Linux RealPlayer codecs support
    * XMMS Input plugins (demuxer & codec) support
    * Fixed a bug in MMX optimized mp3lib (triggered by OpenBSD)

  rc1:  "CodecCounter"
    Docs:
    * new French translation
    * Irix section
    * varous updates (both English & Hungarian)

    Codecs:
    * New codec pack download page (there are several packs for various IFs)
    * Win32/Quicktime codec plugin DLL support -> SVQ3 + QDMC/QDM2/Qclp !!!
    * Win32/DMO codec DLL interface support -> Windows Media Audio/Video 9 !!!
    * MJPEG 2000 support (using Morgan & Imagepower VfW DLLs)
    * libavcodec: optimized HuffYUV en/decoder, with experimental YV12 support
    * libavcodec: mjpeg-b support (need more samples)
    * more xvidencopts
    * VorbisGain tag support, tremor (fast vorbis decoder lib) support
    * BIG libavcodec messups & codmetics & cleanups & API changes & fixes
    * dynamic plugin support for libmpcodecs (for future binary codec releases)

    Gui:
    * general code cleanup, more robust gtk code
    * preferences: Screensaver, Autosync settings
    * cache=4 fixed (caused jerky/lagging/slow playback with gmplayer)

    Others:
    * new config/cmdline parser code (optional)
    * OSD menu system (preferences, shell, file selector etc)
    * libaf: runtime cpudetection, volume, equalizer, better format conversion
    * subtitle overlapping can be disabled, added subtitle sorting
    * subtitle dump to JACOsub and SAMI formats
    * displays URLs from 'Reference Media' type .mov fil