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  * Fixed build dependencies for architectures not supporting libasound2
    (Closes Debian bug #109722).

  * Split ChangeLog into ChangeLog and ChangeLog.libdvdcss.
  * Added --xvadaptor flag to select the XVideo adaptor to use.
  * Everything is ready for the 0.2.83 release.

  * Added BSD/OS libdvd by Steven M. Schultz <sms@TO.GD-ES.COM> in
    extras/BSDI_dvdioctl after he suggested it. License is GPL.
  * ./configure now checks for an installed libdvd under BSD/OS and
    falls back to ours if not found.
  * Fixed harmless typos in yesterday's Solaris libdvd patches.
  * Bumped libdvdcss version number up to 0.0.3 ; release will probably
    follow once the BSDI changes have been tested.

  * Fixed a bug in the gtk interface which caused vlc to go amok after
    having met a zero-sized area.
  * Found out how to type '�' in vim :-)
  * Added missing bloat to modules_export.h.
  * 'snapshot*' rules do not depend on 'clean', and don't use /tmp anymore.
  * Added vlc:loop playlist command to go back at the beginning.
    Usage: vlc file1.mpeg file2.mpeg ... fileN.mpeg vlc:loop
    This change isn't very elegant but there are already bugs in the
    playlist handling, I'll try to polish it once the playlist is fixed.

  * Got Makefile to launch ./configure almost properly. $(MAKECMDGOALS) rules !
  * Various debian scripts fixes.
  * Added -lmsvcrt40 to the win32 flags for proper execution under Wine.
  * Fixed broken soname setting under Solaris (and OS X, sort of).
  * Made the illegal instruction report more explicit.
  * BSD/OS 4.3beta1 fixes by Steven M. Schultz <sms@TO.GD-ES.COM>.

  * Added a dummy libdvdcss so that the DVD plugin can be used without
    libdvdcss. It will try to dlopen() libdvdcss at runtime, though,
    and will use the dummy functions only if it couldn't find a valid
    libdvdcss. This is probably only useful to package maintainers.

  * Tidied the snapshot-* Makefile rules.
  * Tidied the modules Makefiles.
  * Removed useless stuff in the debian/ directory.
  * Removed the "make all" kludge in the Makefile.opts rule. I hope this
    patch is harmless on all systems.

* Fixed a bug when compiling KDE plug-in without Qt plug-in ;
* Now taking into account $KDEDIR ;
* Made SDL configure error messages more explicit ;
* --disable-sdl is now correctly taken into account ;
* Changed the order of evaluation of sdl-config and sdl11-config ;
* Finally fixed SDL*/SDL.h check ;

  * Added a make uninstall rule.

  * Changed libdvdcss API to force binary incompatibility. Yeah, this is
    evil, but if we don't do it now we'll have to do it when more people
    are using it.
  * Fixed minor libdvdcss stuff such as the soname and compilation flags.
  * New --with-dvdcss flag.
    Explanation:
     o default: build libdvdcss, statically link vlc against it.
     o --with-dvdcss=no: build libdvdcss, dynamically link vlc against it.
     o --with-dvdcss=yes: don't build libdvdcss, use already installed one.
     o --with-dvdcss=/foo: don't build libdvdcss, use libdvdcss from /foo/*.
    (this looks a bit strange to me, I'll find better flag settings)

Removed the changes made ; vlc should compile when following the
instructions in INSTALL-win32.

Quick and ugly hack in the makefile to allow vlc_win32 to compile when
getting it directly from the CVS. As a result, the vlc_win32 program
doesn't have an icon any more. Too bad.

* Fixed a bug in the video decoder initialization :-p ;
* Added --smp option and several hooks in src/input/input_ext-intf.c ;
* Grayscale mode now turns off chroma IDCT.

* Updated ChangeLog and TODO.

  * libdvdcss enhancements by Billy Biggs <vektor@dumbterm.net>. This breaks
    vlc's DVD input (looks like decoders are expecting data too early and
    DVD input can't cope with it due to decryption). Needs to be investigated.
  * Plugins are now compiled in plugins/* and libraries in lib/*.
  * The KDE UI compiles again but does not work yet.
  * ALSA plugin message corrections.
  * Calculation modules can now be calledwith a shorter name
    (eg. '--downmix mmx' instead of '--downmix downmixmmx').
  * Fixed insane verbosity of the SDL plugin.

- Added command line option '--stdout <filename>' which redirects stdout
    and stderr to the specified file. This option should mainly be useful
    on Win32.
- On Win32, vlc now has an icon associated to the .exe file, and is a full
    GUI application (you don't have this annoying dos command box anymore)
- Added INSTALL-win32.txt for specific details to the Win32 port.

I've tested these changes on Win32 and Linux, let's hope I didn't break
  vlc for other platforms.

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Gildas

  * First libdvdcss version

  * DirectX enhancements by Gildas Bazin, such as software rendering.
  * Merged dvdcss_init and dvdcss_open into dvdcss_open, and dvdcss_close
    and dvdcss_end into dvdcss_close. libdvdcss API now has 7 functions.
  * Another failed attempt at profiling vlc under Linux: ported the
    threads API to GNU Pth. Activate with --enable-pth. It doesn't seem to
    spawn new threads for me, maybe someone will have better luck.
  * Makefile optimizations.
  * Automatic build of libdvdcss if not found.

  * Exported the CSS part of the dvd plugin into a library.

Added LPCM support. It should work with stereo LPCM.
Untested with 5-ways LPCM streams.

  * Put most builtins in plugins again due to performances issues (more
    about this in a forthcoming post here).
  * Fixed the painfully slow build process (at last!).
  * Moved the null plugin together with the dummy one.
  * Added new dummy input plugin.

   More on the dummy input plugin: we'll use it to insert commands in
  the playlist. Currently implemented are the "quit" and "pause" functions,
  here are examples on how they are used:

    vlc file.mpeg vlc:quit                # exit after file.mpeg has been read.

    vlc file1.mpeg vlc:pause:3 file2.mpeg # pause 3 seconds before playing
                                          # the next file.

   From now we can more efficiently benchmark vlc. For instance, to test
  the video output changes I am doing, I use such a command:

    time vlc -I dummy --noaudio file.mpeg vlc:quit

   Future extentions might include more interesting stuff like "switch
  to full screen", "repeat next file 3 times", "switch to SDL video
  output"...

  * Updated things and stuff for 0.2.80 release.

  * Various little fixes
   - BeOS interface compilation fix by Rene Gollent.
   - DirectX plugin compilation fix by Gildas Bazin.
   - removed %ebx spill in the iMDCT plugins.

  * DirectX plugin by Gildas Bazin <gbazin@netcourrier.com>.

    Notes: o I called it 'directx' instead of 'windx' because it
             made a lot more sense to me.
           o Completely untested. I didn't manage to compile it yet.
           o Code in vout_directx.c will go through a big rewrite when
             vout 4 is finished. Xav is already working on this.

  * 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.

  OS X fixes:

  * Applied Eugenio's fix to the DVDioctl driver. I didn't test it, but
    it should not hang the kernel anymore.

  * Ported most dvd_ioctl.c functions to the DVDioctl driver: ReportAgid,
    ReportChallenge, ReportKey1, ReportASF, InvalidateAgid, SendChallenge,
    SendKey2. They should comply with the "Mt. Fuji Commands for Multimedia
    Devices" paper.

    Last remaining problem: ReadCopyright and ReadKey. The version of
 Darwin I have here only has reportKey() and sendKey() functions in
 the IODVDBlockStorageDevice class (pages 413 and 449 of the Mt. Fuji
 paper), but we also need the READ_STRUCTURE (page 357) which I couldn't
 find anywhere in the kernel headers. Either I missed it, or we'll have
 to wait for Apple to implement it (or maybe we can emulate this command
 with some other IOKit commands).

Specific files are glade generated files and intf_* files. All the
remainders are common to gtk and gnome and contain all the callbacks for
both interfaces.

* Remove kmudge for ac3 on MacOS X

  * AC3 IMDCT and downmix functions are now in plugins, --imdct and
    --downmix options added.

If you have a PIII or a Athlon and you want to try this, just comment #if 0
in ac3_downmix.c and ac3_imdct.c and add in AC3_DECODER section of Makefile :
	src/ac3_decoder/ac3_imdct_sse.o \
	src/ac3_decoder/ac3_srfft_sse.o \
	src/ac3_decoder/ac3_downmix_sse.o \
	src/ac3_decoder/ac3_downmix_3dn.o \

  * Mandatory step for video output IV and the audio output quality
    fix: the output threads are now spawned when a decoder needs one,
    so it can decide the audio frequency or the video window size. Still
    under heavy construction, so don't get too excited at finding bugs
    in it yet.

    Note: this change broke the XVideo module, so I made its score much
    lower than before. I suspect xvideo.so had a bug before which only
    appears now. Other video output plugins may be broken as well, but
    again this might be due to old existing bugs showing their ugly head.

  * Fixed a few buffer overflows in the Gnome interface.
  * The module bank is now a global variable. The video output bank and
    the audio output bank might follow (when they exist).
  * Coding style and organization fixes to the spdif decoder.
  * autoconf and Makefile changes by Arnaud Gomes-do-Vale
    <arnaud@carrosse.frmug.org>.

  - New ac3_imdct
  - New ac3_downmix

cards: it sends raw ac3 frames to an external ac3 decoder. It is very
experimental yet, hasn't any synchro ... but it works well with my
sblive and my dtt3500 speakers (note that you need a patched emu10k1
driver for this to work).

-bug fix in gnome intf thanks to Shane Harper.

-bug fix in input_dvd for chapter change.

  * Coding style fixes here and there.
  * Miscellaneous QNX compile fixes.
  * Beginning of the mingw32 port by Gildas Bazin <gbazin@netcourrier.com>.
  * Added Marcari and Gildas to the AUTHORS file.

  (I commited the mingw32 port because it doesn't add any new code outside
   the #ifdefs, but we won't tell a word about it for the moment. We don't
   really need windows users whining about bugs, do we ?)

  * Fixed the continuous 'seeking position' bug in network mode.
  * rc interface plugin for vlc control through /dev/stdin courtesy
    of Peter Surda <shurdeek@panorama.sth.ac.at>.
  * Support for `ts://foo:42' style input source:
     vlc ts://vls.via.ecp.fr:1234
     vlc ts://vls.via.ecp.fr
     vlc ts:vls
     vlc ts:vls:4321
    As a side effect, the Gnome and Gtk "network input" buttons work.

  * Added prototypes for the Elementary Stream input module for Alexis.
     it's compiled by default, to activate it: "vlc --input es <file.mpeg>"