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* Autodelete items played by the SDP demuxer
* Added playlist_CopyParents facility, for modules that use ItemToNode

* src/input/input.c:
   + introduced input_item_t that is shared between the playlist/vlm and the input thread (contains input name, options, infos, etc...).
   + changed prototype of input_CreateThread() to input_thread_t *input_CreateThread( vlc_object_t *, input_item_t * ).
* ALL: use input_item_t and INPUT_ADD_INFO when necessary.

much memory, and was inconsistent, especially with input_CreateThread
taking an array of options

* Revert to using array of options

* To add an item with options:
    - either use playlist_ItemNew, ItemAddOption, and then AddItem
      (useful if you don't have all your options in an array)
    - either use playlist_AddExt (use this if all your options are
      already in an array)

* To add an item without options: use playlist_Add

You can still add options after an item has been added by using either
playlist_AddOption or playlist_ItemAddOption

* Attempt to improve API and solve thread safety issues.
  - playlist_Item* functions allow to touch items only.
    p_item->lock must be used when needed
    (playlist_ItemNew, playlist_ItemDelete, playlist_Item*Info,
     playlist_ItemSet* )

  - playlist_ItemGetById and ItemGetByPos give you playlist_items
    for GetByPos, you should have the playlist lock

At the moment, the playlist_Set* and playlist_*Info functions are kept (they work with position) but should be avoided.

* Removed trailing spaces

* Add missing locks
* Duration sort

* New playlist import/export system:
   -export plugin in misc/playlist (contains one module for each file type)
   -open plugin = special demuxer2, that can be opened from the command
    line or the graphical interface.
  NB: the demuxer "playlist" is forced to earn speed, but this does not
  work yet, as we have a demux2

* modules/gui/wxwindows: use the new import/export.

* src/playlist/group.c : fixed boundary check

* src/playlist/item-ext.c: correctly reset stuff when clearing the playlist

* Added SORT_ID
* remember last sorting and ordering in playlist struct

  Changed playlist_SetDuration.
* changed SORT_NORMAL SORT_REVERSE into ORDER_NORMAL ORDER_REVERSE

check that command line parsing still works for items and options? )

- src/libvlc.c
  include/vlc/vlc.h : New libvlc functions to get playlist status and
                      clear the playlist
     Patch by Tong Ka Man

- src/playlist/* : Update copyrights

- src/playlist/playlist.c:
  -When a user explicitely asks for an item, do play it, even if random mode
  -Do not stop playlist upon deletion of an autodelete item
  -playlist_Clear (Patch by Tong Ka Man)

an interface to allow setting the duration on adding a playlist item.

* src/playlist/item.c
  src/playlist/info.c
  src/playlist/item-ext.c
  src/playlist/group.c
  src/playlist/sort.c
  src/playlist/loadsave.c
  include/vlc_playlist.h
      - New playlist_info structures and accessors
        It works pretty like the old input_info (with categories)
        It provides modularity to the playlist
      - Removed ppsz_options and i_options from playlist_item
        (we use the special category Options)
      - Added a unique id to each playlist_item to be able to track the
        items accross playlist reorders
      - Simplified adding of items.
           - playlist_AddExt is removed
           - playlist_AddItem is still here and exported but should not be used
           - use playlist_Add( p_playlist, uri, name, duration, mode, pos )
             and use the accessors for all other things
      - Added setters for fields of the playlist_item structure
      - Introduced "item-change" and "playlist-current" playlist variables
        to give more flexibility than only intf-change

      At the moment, duration is still in the structure (easier to use, IMHO)

* src/input/input.c
  src/libvlc.c :
        playlist item options parsing changed

* include/vlc_common.h : added playlist_info structures

 * in vlc, times are stored in microseconds. playlist_item_t::i_duration
   shouldn't be an exception
modules/gui/wxwindows/playlist.cpp:
 * fixed indentation

* Added a randomize playlist function

Needs the latest miniSAPserver CVS

   - splitted the enormous playlist.c file
   - implemented a better item group system: groups have a name
     and must be created before use by
      playlist_CreateGroup( p_playlist, "newgroupname")

* modules/misc/sap.c
   - Create our own playlist group ("SAP") and use it

* modules/access/slp.c
   - Create our own playlist group ("SLP") and use it

* modules/demux/util/id3tag.c
   - Trigger playlist update when we have parsed our tag

* modules/gui/wxwindows/interface.cpp
   - Fixed the about box by using vlc_wraptext
   - Added the simple open and the streaming wizard icons
           *** Icons need to be changed ! ***
   - Added the visualization to the extended gui

* modules/gui/wxwindows/preferences.cpp && include/vlc_help.h
   - Enlarged the window to fit the wrapped text
   - Added help for audio encoders

* modules/gui/wxwindows/stream.cpp  & open.cpp & include/vlc_interface.h
   - Created a "streaming wizard" window (3-step streaming)

* modules/gui/wxwindows/iteminfo.cpp:
   - Group change is now based on the name

* modules/gui/wxwindows/playlist.cpp
   - Added author and group columns to the listview
   - Redesigned the window
   - Added the Sort menu with several criteria (title, author, group)
   - Added up/down buttons to move an item in the playlist
   - Added the group menu to enable/disable a group in an understandable way


TODO:
-----

* playlist core :
   - Implement advanced sort capabilities  (multi-criteria)
   - File format to save the new features
   - export playlist (to M3U, eg)
   - more robust group creation (duplicates check, ...)

* wxWindows playlist:
   The idea of a treeview seems impossible, because of wxWindow's treeview,
   that don't allow multi-selection, and, as far as I know, multi-columns.
   - Provide a frontend to advanced sort (when it's done :-) )
   - Allow moving items by drag & drop (well, if possible, haven't checked yet)
   - Allow moving several items at once
   - Customizable listview (ability to remove/move columns)
   - Find a solution to the focus problem
     (when you change track, the selected one scrolls at the
      bottom of the visible screen)

* wxWindows interface:
   - New icons, our icons begin to get old and not so pretty
   - Find a solution for the volume bar (nobody understands what it is)

  src/playlist/playlist.c:
     * Implemented a boolean b_enabled to disable a playlist item
     * Implemented the idea of group (p_item->i_group), that allows
       to enable/disable and to sort some series of items
     * Implemented an unused (at the moment), psz_author field
     * Started to implement a new playlist format to store all of these

* modules/gui/wxwindows/interface.cpp:
     Added a hiddeable panel to put some important options.
     (Menu Preferences->Extra GUI)
     At the moment, we put the adjust filter and aspect ratio, and must
     decide what options we want here

* modules/gui/wxwindows/playlist.cpp
  modules/gui/wxwindows/iteminfo.cpp:
     Added "Enable/disable group button", options to enable/disable selection
     Added an item info dialog box

* modules/misc/sap.c :
     Added a sap-group-id option: the SAP playlist items are in a separate group
     (defaults to 42)

* modules/visualization/visual/effects.c:
     Minor coding style fixes

Todo:
-----

* Advanced sort (alphabetical and/or by group)
* Ability to load 0_6 playlists
* Really use the libid3tag

       include/playlist.h: playlist sorting
 		(function playlist_Sort( playlist_t * , int type)

* modules/gui/wxwindows/playlist.cpp
  modules/gui/wxwindows/wxwindows.h :
	* Implement playlist sorting & reverse sorting
	* Playlist search

   * added a duration field to the playlist item struct
vlc_playlist.h, playlist.c:
   * turned playlist_AddName into playlist_AddExt and made it take an extra
   argument( the duration )
   * doxygenize comments
modules/demux/m3u.c, modules/gui/macosx/playlist.m:
   * use playlist_AddExt

* ALL: changes to the playlist_Add() and VLC_AddTarget() proto to include a list of options associated with the input.
* src/input/input.c: parses the input options list before spawning the input and create object variables for these options. Options are of the form "[no[-]]foo[=bar]" where foo is the option name and bar is its value.
* src/input/input.c, src/input/input_dec.c: use the object var api to get the value of the "sout", "sout-video" and "sout-audio" options.
* src/libvlc.c: extended the command line parser to parse input options. Input options must always follow the input they apply to and begin with a ':'.

All these changes allow you to specify input specific options.
eg: ./vlc --no-sout-audio yourvideo.mpeg :sout=udp/http::8080 :sout-audio yourvideo2.mpeg
Here the ":sout" option will only apply to yourvideo.mpeg.
"--no-sout-audio" will be a global option so will apply to yourvideo2.mpeg but the global behaviour is overriden by ":sout-audio" for yourvideo.mpeg.

TODO: - the interfaces need to be modified to benefit from the new playlist_Add() api.
      - only "sout", "sout-video", "sout-audio" implemented for now. To make it work with other options, we need to get rid of all the config_GetFoo() and replace them with var_Create()/var_Change()/var_Get().

* modules/demux/m3u.c :
    Added name support. Only implemented for M3U and B4S playlists at the moment

* src/playlist/playlist.c
  include/vlc_playlist.h   : Added the playlist_AddName function to add an item with its name without filling an item structure.

  - added playlist_Move to move an item in our playlist before the position
    of a previous item (or end) of our playlist. Keeps index at it's current
    item.
* modules/gui/macosx/playlist.?:
  - Now a reorderable playlist. Thanks to Andrew Stone for example code.
    This fixes #349 (Finally ;)
  - True alternating colors in the playlistview. Thanks to Apple Computer
    for the example code.

 * modules/gui/macosx: started getting rid of p_intf->p_sys->p_input
                       and using p_playlist->p_input instead.

  and restore it from a file chosen by the user.

- win32/*:

  - implementation of the previous feature in the win32 interface
>   -> what the other interfaces need to do to support it is simply to
>      call the two following functions:
>       int playlist_LoadFile(playlist_t *p_playlist,const char *psz_filename);
>       int playlist_SaveFile(playlist_t *p_playlist,const char *psz_filename);
>      where psz_filename is the name of the destination/source file.

  - ability to open several files at a time

playlist_item_t instead of psz_target ). Now playlist_Add uses
playlist_AddItem to enqueue.
* include/vlc_playlist.h : Added a psz_uri field in the playlist_item_t
structure.
* src/input/input.c : takes item->psz_uri  argument to start playing an
item.

* include/vlc_playlist.h, src/playlist/playlist.c: added a b_autodeletion
   flag to the playlist item structure. If this flag is set then the playlist
   item will be deleted automatically after it has been played.

    about 2000 lines of code.

    I could not test everything on every architecture, so please report
    any module breakage (especially on BeOS, OSX and QNX).

  * ./src/libvlc.c, ./include/vlc/vlc.h: created reentrant versions of the
    libvlc API.
  * ./src/vlc.c: vlc uses the non-reentrant libvlc functions.
  * ./mozilla/vlcplugin.c: the mozilla plugin uses the reentrant functions.
  * ./debian/*: created packages for libvlc0-dev.

    module names. Try for instance: "vlc --intf gnome,gtk,dummy".

    to be still crashing.

  * ./src/playlist/playlist.c: fixed an off-by-one loop error.

  * ./src/misc/objects.c: we do not hang on attempt to destroy an object with
    a non-zero reference count, but we still complain.
  * ./plugins/gtk/gtk_control.c, plugins/gtk/gtk_playlist.c: most controls such
    as play, pause, stop, next, fast etc. work again.
  * ./plugins/gtk/gnome_*: got rid of lots of useless wrappers which were a
    workaround for a bug in Glade. Instead, bootstrap.sh does the Glade fixes.
  * ./plugins/ffmpeg/ffmpeg.c: if there is already a video output with the
    appropriate properties, we use it.

  * ./src/interface/interface.c: interfaces are no longer attached only to
    p_vlc.
  * ./src/libvlc.c, ./src/misc/modules.c, ./src/playlist/playlist.c,
    ./src/input/input.c: improvements in the playlist handling (not quite that
    yet though).
(ported from v0_4_1_branch)
  * ./configure.in, ./plugins/mpeg_system/mpeg_ts.c: fixed libdvbpsi handling.
  * ./src/misc/configuration.c: fixed the --nofoo option handling.
  * ./src/interface/main.c: fixed two compilation warnings under Solaris.

   As for video output 4, this breaks almost everything, but I'll slowly
  do what remains to be fixed during the weekend.

   Changes in vlc:
   ===============

  * vlc is now a very small program (20 lines) which uses the libvlc API;
   it is quite simple for the moment but can be extended in the future.

  * interfaces, decoders, video outputs, etc. are now almost the same
   objects (yes, I know, this is C++ redone in C) and are structured in
   a tree. More about this later, but basically it allows the following
   nice features:
    - several interfaces
    - several playlists with several outputs
    - input plugins spawning helper interfaces (will be used for DVD menus)
    - anything spawning anything; I swear there are useful uses for this!

  * libvlc can be used in other programs; I'm currently writing a Mozilla
   plugin for my employer.

   Things currently broken:
   ========================

  * most interfaces, most ports
  * the playlist handling (almost finished rewriting this though). This means
   no file can be played from the GUI, you need to use the commandline. This
   also means it segfaults at EOF, when exiting the program, and it sometimes
   refuses to open a file when asked to.

  * ALL: renamed PLUGINS to __PLUGINS__ to avoid conflicts with libraries
    defining it. Grmbl.
  * ./src/input/input_ext-plugins.c: cosmetic change.

Some heavy changes today:
  * Removed duplicate function checks from configure.in.
  * Added extra magic to Makefile.modules so that the module Makefiles
    are now ridiculously simple. And I mean *simple*. Check it! This will
    make a possible switch to full autoconf/automake a lot easier.
  * Added the vlc version name to the plugin symbols, to be sure we only load
    plugins with the same version number. A nasty consequence is that you
    need to rebuild your tree after midnight if you are using a CVS tree :-)
  * Got rid of modules_export.h by #defining exported functions in the same
    header as their prototype.
  * Added modules_inner.h and other commonly used .h files to common.h so
    there are less and less files to include, and renamed common.h to
    <videolan/vlc.h>.
  * First modifications to the module handling system towards my ultimate
    goal to get rid of the *_Probe functions. Got rid of TestMethod and
    TestCPU, as well as src/misc/tests.c.
  * Wrote the chroma plugin handling functions. No YUV functions have been
    ported yet because it'ls a lot of work, but the core system works, I
    tried it with a naive yv12->rgb16 plugin (which will disappear when the
    real functions are ready).
  * Made a lot of functions in dvd_summary.c one-liners to avoid wasting
    too many output lines.
  * Fixed a segfault in input_dvd.c:DVDInit.
  * Added a fixfiles.sh script in plugins/gtk to be run after Glade has
    generated its C files.
  * Did some work on the KDE interface to make it suck a bit less. It still
    segfaults, but at least it runs and it looks less ugly.
  * RGB SDL rendering works again, though in 16bpp only.
  * Made plugins/vcd/linux_cdrom_tools.c independent of any vlc structure
    so that it'll be easily put in a library. Maybe libdvdcss?
  * Fixed VCD date display.
  * Merged vout_xvideo.c, vout_x11.c and vout_common.c into xcommon.c.
  * Wrote non-Shm XVideo output.
  * Made X11 output work again. Still pretty unstable, only works for 16bpp.
  * Additional french translation in po/fr.po. Any taker for the rest?
  * Fixed a segfault in video_output.c when the allocated pictures were
    not direct buffers.
  * If $DISPLAY isn't set, don't try to run the Gtk+ interface.
  * Replaced 48x48 .xpm images with 32x32 ones to conform to Debian policy
    (Closes Debian bug #126939).
  * Removed the automatic ./configure launch when running `make all' for
    the first time.

Stuff currently more broken than it ought to be:
  * The wall filter. Being fixed.
  * x11 and sdl plugins for depth != 16bpp.
  * Software YUV.
  * gvlc, gnome-vlc, kvlc shortcuts. Use --intf instead for the moment.

  * Fixed the BeOS compile typo.
  * The ALSA plugin is back.
  * A gift for Gildas: plugins don't rely on backlinking any more. The
    drawback is the dirty magic in include/modules_export.h which has to
    be included whenever a module needs one of the functions in it. But
     a) we should less and less rely on those functions
     b) no plugin code modification was needed

   The BeOS and MacOS X modules may be broken when compiled as plugins,
   I'll check this later when I can reboot under BeOS.