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mplayer (0.90)

  final:  "CounterCounter"

  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 files, dump generic data
    * find best (longest) streams in .mov files (twotowers...)
    * get position/length function in demuxers - for slavemode & -indentify
    * -ao alsa9 surround fixes, 8-bit PCM fixed
    * -vo dfbmga: -dr support, fixed OSD flickering
    * -stop-xscreensaver fixed, support for KDE screensaver too
    * More compiler warning fixes
    * Altivec (G4) support

  pre10:  "BirthdayCounter"
    Docs:
    * dvd auth, vcd sections extended (DOCS/cd-dvd.html)
    * unified *BSD sections, extended cygwin
    
    Fixes:
    * LIRC error message (Error while reading cmd fd X : Success) fixed
    * playback of some (streamed?) divx files fixed, starting with non-I frames.
    * -vo png fixed (removed builtin YV12 support, removed OSD)
    * some .mp3 playback/seek segfaults fixed
    * vidix mach64 colorkey on PPC fixed
    * -ao sdl now handles "featureless" soundcards
    * -vo zr fixes
    * fixed sig11 if vo init failed
    * various dxr2 and dxr3 fixes
    * v4l buffering fixed
    * fixed multiple reads caused by byteswapping macro (mjpeg.c, mach64_vid.c)
    * cleanup of postprocessing code - now it's threadsafe and can be shared
    * ported to GNU/Hurd
    * cleanup of AVI pts (timestamp) handling - no more BPS hack in mplayer.c
    * small cleanup of A-V sync code - using relative timers instead of absolute
    * GUI code cleanup, obsolete files/dirs removed
    * various small bugfixes, endianess fixes
    * mencoder: -pass option removed, use -divx4opts pass=N / -lavcopts vpass=N
    * mencoder: "ff_rate_estimate_qscale: Assertion `q>0.0' failed" fixed!
    * mencoder: -ovc xvid fixes, cleanup, enhancements
    * screensaver/dpms re-enabling fixed
    * realvideo demuxer fixes - asf-style stream detection method
    
    Features:
    * -ao win32 (for windows port)
    * libavcodec: native WMA v1/v2 (aka. DivX audio) decoder
    * hw-accelerated video eq for -vo x11 and gl2, using DirectColor colormap
    * overlapping subtitles support, jacosub (*.js) format support
    * -vo dxr3 got a new syncengine, ':sync', also added native overlay support,
      activate with ':overlay', read the manual for more info on how to set up
    * QDMC/QDM2/MACE audio codec support, using quicktime 5 win32 DLLs (libwine!)
    * libavcodec: various MJPEG decoding fixes - now it decodes all sample files!
    * mencvcd updates, sox/toolame support etc
    * -vo dfbmga - play video on Matrox G400's second head using directfb 0.9.14
    * RealAudio ATRC (sony atrac3) audio support (using binary plugin)
    
    Filters:
    * -af/-af-adv options cleanup
    * now auto-inserting -vop lavc for mpeg-only vo's
    * video filter API documented :)
    * better deblocking filter (-vop pp), pp/npp syntax changed!
    * -vop 2xsai - 2x scaler for drawn images (low color cartoon anims)
    * -vop unsharp - an sharp/blur filter, nice, but very slow
    * -vop il - (de)interleave fields
    * -vop swapuv - guess what :)
    * -vop boxblur - box blur...
    * -vop perpective
    * -vop sab
    * -vop smartblur

  pre9:
    Docs:
    * man page rewritten again :)))
    * man page updated to latest options, including lavc options
    * Chinese docs translation added
    * Hungarian translation is (was? :)) up-to-date again
    
    Cleanup:
    * divx4_vbr.c is now really GPL - with the permission of the DivX.com guys!
    * cyuv decoder restructuring, now supports planar YUV formats, too
    * removed obsolete variables, like has_audio, has_video, allow_dshow, fifo
    * help_mp-XX.h files moved to help/ subdirectory, removed obsolete entries
    * the obsolete 0x1ff eof hack removed from mpeg-es demuxer and decoders
    * stheaders.h cleanup, removed unneeded wine includes from mplayer core
    * tons of compiler warning fixes, including some 10l ones
    * mga/xmga vo shared code, vesa and svga drivers cleanup
    * major vo drivers are now -fixed-vo compliant: x11, xv, xvidix, xmga, gl2
    * cleanup of libmpdemux option handling - now it's mplayer-independent again
    * removed fork() from LIRC input module
    * libfame removed from main tree/release - libavcodec is faster, better etc.
    
    Fixes:
    * Some fullscreen switching fixes, including Metacity vs KDE 3.1
    * Many GUI bug fixes
    * -vo DGA fixes, cleanup
    * -dvdkey sig11 fixed
    * k6-3's 3dnowex vs mmxext sigill fixed in mp3lib
    * -vo gif89, jpeg U-V swapping fixed
    * RTC setup fixes, more verbose messages, hints
    * mencoder: demuxer/codec uninit order fixed (solves some sig11)
    * various v4l and ALSA capturing fixes
    * demux_mov: fixed crash with MPEG4 on SPARC, decoding on big endian
    * various NAS ao fixes
    * libvo: optional stride support for packed YUV / RGB formats
    * mencoder: set keyframe flag on audio packets, fixes Windows seeking problems
    * loader: fixed 2 10l bugs, ATI VCR2 DLL now working. using new style CS code.
    * demux_avi: always use block counter, even if dwSampleSize!=0, fixes some files
    * SPU decoder (DVD/VOB subs): fixed 2 major bugs causing lost subtitles
    * various memory leak fixes (valgrind rulez :)
    * fixed RealAudio SIPR(O) codec (the wrapper didn't find the dspr.so.6)
    * mms:// audio (radio) streaming fixed
    * DVB: -vop lavc=bitrate is working again
    * various big endian fixes

    Features:
    * new audio filter layer (libaf) - automatic samplerate conversion
    * experimental -vo directx driver for cygwin build
    * unrarlib included for rar'ed vobsubs
    * native xvid encoding (-ovc xvid) interface for mencoder
    * new softeq filter with gamma support: -vop eq2
    * -ao/-vo accepts list of drivers and can fall back to one, just like -ac/-vc
    * audio/video codec selection (-ac/-afm) rewritten, now uses codec/fm list
    * get_delay() smoothing (-autosync) - should help buggy sound drivers
    * smb:// URL support (disabled by default, ./configure part not yet done!)
    * support for 1/4/8bpp raw video (requires -vop palette / -vop 1bpp)
    * support for quicktime alaw/agsm audio codecs, 3IV2, 3VID video codecs
    * swscale can now output to YUY2 format, upscaled (default) or unscaled (-sws 0)
    * Vidix with LinuxPPC support (mach64 is confirmed to work)
    * GUI: cache, autoq settings, start in fullscreen, toggle button in menu
    * New video filter to overlay images over video: -vop bmovl
    
    Libavcodec:
    * RV10 codec cleanup (2nd level demuxer moved to demuxer layer)
    * MPEG4 interlaced DCT _en_coding support
    * luma masking support (encoding)
    * runtime selectable IDCT algo
    * faster MPEG1/2 decoder
    * DV decoding (both PAL and NTSC)
    * MPEG1 2-pass encoding support
    * better/cleaner error resilience (done in a 2nd pass after decoding)
    * h263/MPEG4 out of order slice decoding
    * -lavdopts bug= reworked, now uses flags, autodetects most of them
    * complete MPEG4 GMC decoding support
    

  pre8:
    Docs:
    * manpage has been rewritten, now has better indenting, and convertable to html
    * AUTHORS, MAINTAINERS converted back to separate text files, and updated.
    * ChangeLog file is included again (was removed after 0.18)
    * some new tech docs on libmpcodecs, updates/fixes in others, manpage-howto
    * more updates in translation files (help_mp-XX.h)
    * removed obsolete/unused entries from help_mp-en.h

    Cleanup:
    * xanim interface merged & fixed, now uses mpi and supports direct rendering
    * cleanup of libmpdemux stream layer, especially of TV and MF parts
    * some more unused files removed: vo_fsdga, vo_odivx, vd_rle, timer.c, ttf_load

    Fixes:
    * the http:// infinite memleak bug has been fixed, some WMS9 mms:// fixes
    * various sparc/sun, hpux and netbsd/openbsd portability fixes
    * -vop palette fixes, CRAM and QPEG colors are OK now
    * demuxer fixed for >2GB nuppelvideo files
    * mencoder: -ss fixed for 3-pass encoding
    * gui.conf locale bug fixed (again... hope this time it's ok)
    * X11 fullscreen switching fixed, when d_width == screenwidth
    * MOV files edit-list handling fixed - solved 'short read' issue
    
    Features:
    * new demuxer for .PVA files (fileformat of TV/DVB apps on win32)
    * -mf now supports TGA (24/32bpp uncomp/rle) images
    * libavcodec: support for interlaced mpeg-4 _de_coding
    * libavcodec: aspect ratio encoding support (mpeg4, mjpeg, h263?)
    * win32 DLL loader merged/synced with avifile CVS
  
  pre7:
    Cleanup:
    * libvo2, old input code & sis_vid removed, other code cleanups
    * tons of compiler warning fixes, some configure/makefile improvements
    * more messages are translated, many translations updated
    * docs review continued, html cleanups
    * option -vfm/-afm now uses names instead of numbers, driver IDs removed
    
    Code:
    * vfw/vfwex cleanup, support for runtime csp queries, 8bpp support
    * new native mszh/zlib codec
    * libavcodec: 2-pass control code rewritten, now everything customizable
    * libavcodec: mpeg4/xvid en/decoding support improved, rv10 decoding fixes
    * various realvideo demuxer and video codec fixes, sipr audio support
    * new video filters: soft eq (brightness), halfpack (deinterlacer), film noise  
    * .ogm subtitles support
    * optional freetype 2.1+ support for runtime-scalable .ttf font rendering
    * various networking and mms:// fixes, live.com support improved
    * various v4l video capturing and audio capturing fixes, audio input layer
    * libmpdvdkit2 - based on libdvdcss 1.2.2 + libdvdread 0.9.3 + key cache
    * alsa: iec958-init completly rewritten - better SP/DIF AC3 support
    
    Gui:
    * gui.conf locale bug fixed (hopefully)
    * gui preferences menu extended, runtime subtitle loading support
    * gui: drag'n'drop support
  
  pre6:
    * WMV1, Sorenson v1 (SVQ1) and RealPlayer 8.0 (RV20/30, Cook) codecs support
    * libavcodec M1 direct rendering
    * IPB support with Xv
    * libavcodec improvements, bugfixes (encoder and decoder side)
    * Raw DV demuxer
    * libdv-based DV audio/video decoder
    * Various MOV/MP4, RM and ASF/WMV demuxer bugfixes, improvements
    * Detection of AVI files which needs -ni
    * workaround for some Nandub bugs
    * Support for live.com RTP/RTSP streaming libraries
    * Support to rip DVD subs in VobSub format
    * bugfixes of mpsub/srt converter
    * Closed Captioning (ascii subs on RC1 DVDs) support
    * Massive directfb updates
    * Vidix fixes/updates, including fixes of all known radeon bugs
    * dithered 1/4/8 bpp support with -vo svga (EGA rulez:))
    * alsa9 fixes/improvements
    * native ARTS driver
    * various endianess and 64-bit fixes (including mencoder and -ao pcm)
    * tons of small compatibility/portability fixes (better cygwin, darwin support)
    * GUI fixes (playlist, audio/video equalizer, preferences)
    * Skins (fixed many small glitches, few new skins)
    * 'mencvcd' script (creating VCD/SVCD with mencoder)
    * html DOCS updates
    * manpage & README restructured (again :))

  pre5:
    Documentation:
    * lot of fixes, updates, cleanups
    * new README containing quick in