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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.

  * Put ErrorThread() in input_ext-dec.h because it was the same function
    in all decoders. Called it DecoderError() instead.
  * All decoders enter DecoderError() in case of error, even if they
    haven't allocated all their data. This prevents the input from getting
    stuck if a decoder has failed its initialization.
  * Namespace fixes through the decoder files.

* Minor optimizations in the Next Generation Buffer Manager.

  * Initialize SDL before opening the SDL audio output.
  * Prevent two SDL video outputs or audio outputs to be spawned at the
    same time to avoid ugly crashes.
  * The SDL plugin now says whether we are using software or hardware YUV
    in its window title.
  * We now stop at the first ':' when looking for a module name, to easily
    pass information to the modules. Possible example: --vout sdl:software,
    implementation of such an option is left as an exercise.
  * Merged filter_bob and filter_bob422 into filter_bob. Use --filter bob
    to deinterlace 422 into 420 as well.
  * Factorized code common to most filters and the video output, optimized
    a few filters by aligning data and reading 64 bits at a time.
  * Two new absolutely useless, CPU-eating, resource-wasting, but fun
    filters: enjoy `transform', which performs flips and 90� rotations, and
    `distort', which performs animated image effects (currently only a naive
    sine wave is implemented). Usage examples:
       --filter transform:hflip
       --filter transform:vflip
       --filter transform:90
       --filter transform:180
       --filter transform:270
       --filter distort:wave

  * Support for REPORT_TITLE_KEY and RPC commands by H�kan Hjort
    <d95hjort@dtek.chalmers.se>.

vlc changes:
  * Minor coding style fixes (please avoid tabs).

  * Filter plugins. Not very polished (please don't look at how the dates are
    calculated!), but worth a try. Use the following flags:
     "--filter invert" for inverse video
     "--filter bob" for BOB deinterlacing
  * Fixed a potential segfault if the subtitle stream was encountered
    before the video stream.
  * Misc vout4 fixes.

  * Buffer choice optimizations - vout4 should eat even less CPU now.
  * Minor warning fix for Hurd.

  * Fixed aspect ratio handling.
  * Fixed potential compilation issues under eg. BSD/OS.

  * Additional fixes for OSes with no gettext (thanks to ej0).
  * Fixed a potential BeOS linking issue.
  * Fixed a minor bug in input.c.

  * Don't try to use gettext if we don't have GNU gettext. This may change
    in the future though (most GNU software seems to include a local copy of
    gettext in case the operating system doesn't provide it).

  * Fixed an issue in Makefile.dep causing to rebuild unnecessary files
    in the gtk/gnome and x11/xvideo plugins.
  * Fixed CFLAGS_XVIDEO.

  * HP-UX port of the DVD ioctls courtesy of David Sieb�rger.

  * Updated config.guess and config.sub from GNU's latest versions (bozo,
    you may want to update them in vls as well).
  * Added vlc.pot skeleton for translators.

  * Removed unused code (intf_channels.c, keystrokes.h).
  * Put common_win32.h back into common.h -- it wasn't that big and we
    should not multiply header files.
  * Added gettext support by Thomas Graf <reeler@reeler.org>, may be
    broken on other platforms but we'll only see it when I'm finished
    with vout 4 :-)
  * Fixed a segfault on exit when no fast_memcpy module was found.

  * COMPLETE CVS BREAKAGE !! The MAIN branch is going to be a playground
    for my nevrotic and destructive pulsions during the next few hours!

  * If you want to test vlc, please use the v0_2_92_branch branch.

  * Stuff currently working:
     - direct to YUV buffer decoding
     - non-ugly subtitle blending
     - XVideo and SDL video output

  * Stuff currently utterly broken:
     - aspect ratio
     - software rendering (ie, all other video output plugins)

  * Additional misc changes:
     - Renamed spu_dec to spudec and mad_adec to mad to stay coherent with
       other plugins. Also, renamed mpeg to mpeg_system.
     - Added jobi to the AUTHORS file.
     - Factored code common to vout_x11.c and vout_xvideo.c.

  * Fixed a total breakage of decoder plugins introduced by fast_memcpy.
  * Got rid of #include "main.h", included it in common.h instead ; got
    rid of #include "config.h" in most files as well.

  them do nothing)

All inputs should now have a pf_setprogram function. A default one is
provided in input_programs.c.

* Updated documentation ;
* New --desync option, to delay the video (in case of lip desynchronization) ;
this is bad, but we have no other option for the moment ;
* Clicking in vout now pauses the stream, patch courtesy of Peter Surda.

  input_thread_t structure, so that we may support multi programs
  streams.
* Modified inputs to take account of this change.
* Modified input_clock.c so that it doesn't refer to pp_programs[0]
  any more.

Now we should not refer to the first program, but to the selected
program. Functions to change the current program are coming.

  * Borrowed MPlayer's fast memcpy() routines. Best is autodetected, choose
    "--memcpy <whatever>" to choose one from c, mmx, mmxext or 3dn.
    Please test! Especially Athlon users.
  * Added versioned build-dep to libasound2-dev (Closes Debian bug #121057).
  * Updated Gtk/GNOME interfaces to use "udpstream" instead of "ts".
  * Unrolled ChangeLog.

other plug-ins.

     It' wouldn't compile on OSX without this.

  *) Removed the mutex the vout and intf thread (were supposed to use)
     for syncronizing acces to the p_vout->p_sys structure.
     The p_vout->change_lock mutex is used for syncronization now. (and
     should make synronization work)

now be included *before* threads.h ;
* Changed all files to include intf_msg.h before threads.h ; while I was
at it, I update the copyright notices ;
* Removed the obsolete darwin plug-in.

 * Big clean-up to allow compiling every module as plugins.
 * Added bytes_swap.h to provide ntoh() and htol() on Win32. With this
     change we don't have to link winsock2 with every plugin anymore. This
     should also give us a slight speed increase.
 * Added #define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN in threads.h to speed-up compilation
     on Win32.
 * Modified ac_downmix_3dn and sse so they compile with the latest gcc for
     Win32.

(PS: the dvdread plugin doesn't compile yet on Win32)

SUPPORTED :
ts:toto:1234/meuh
--server toto --broadcast meuh --port 1234

The only supported syntax is :
udp[stream]:[//][serveraddr:[serverport]][@[bindaddr][:bindport]]
example : udpstream:toto@meuh:toto

In most cases, simply passing "udpstream:" should work, since it enables
unicast and broadcast reception on port 1234 from any server. Other
options are only used for fine tuning and multicast.

TODO :
* The GTK interface is broken (glade knowledge wanted !)
* Test this on all supported platforms (and fix them :)
[this won't work with current channel servers - fix needed]

  * Fixed a few crashes due to race conditions in the decoder spawning.
  * Removed unused code here and there.

In other words, file playback in 0.2.91 does not work. For de-
scheduling threads use a 0ms sleep instead of 1ms, as it was
causing problems under WinXP. I hope this does not introduce
problems under previous windows versions. I noticed it was
originally 0ms, but later changed to 1ms...

  * Fixed heap corruption issues in ac3dec (thanks reno).

  * configure should no longer assume AltiVec is supported when it actually
    isn't with buggy compilers and/or pre-set $CFLAGS.

All decoders (audio, video, subtitles) are now modules.

- mpeg_vdec, mpeg_adec and ac3_adec are builtins by default
- ac3_spdif, spu_dec and lpcm_dec are plugins by default

  * Fixed the vlcs communication issue by initializing WinSock at
    startup (thanks Meuuh for the tip).