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Core:
 * Fix the video output for Android 4.3

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 * Fix crashes in SQLite management
 * Expand playlist subitems
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* Relicensed libVLC jni wrapper and Java counterpart to LGPL

Audio Service:
 * Keep the service alive only when playing
 * Fix crashes
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 * Manual selection of subtitles
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 * Fix crashes and warnings
 * Add an option to adjust the deblocking filter level, resulting in
   noticeable performance improvements.
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Translations:
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 * Initial Icelandic, Lithuanian and Vietnamese translations
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 * Updates to the Bosnian, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch,
   Galician, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Marathi,
   Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Scottish Gaelic,
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   Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, French,
   and Welsh translations
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Changes between 0.1.0 and 0.1.1:
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Core:
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* Fix numerous crashes and error paths
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Translations:
 * Updates to German, Italian and Galician Translations
 * New Welsh translation

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Changes between 0.0.11 and 0.1.0:
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Core:
 * Update to libVLC 2.1.0 new log API
 * Update libVLC
 * Allow to build with x86_64 and OSX SDKs
 * Reduce memory usage

Main Application:
 * Warn user if playback of a deleted item starts
 * New dialog for speed/sleep/jump
 * New control from Notifications
 * Fix multiple important crashes
 * Fix some subtitles selections
 * Fix some infinite thumbnail retries
 * Fix issues where a media would not start

libVLC:
 * split libVLC classes to their own package: org.videolan.libvlc

Translations:
 * Update of Basque, Croatian
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 * Numerous fixes for recurrent crashes
 * Better debugging log facility
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 * Show seek position when locked in fullscreen mode
 * Avoid running thumbnailer when playing audio only
 * Improve the overlay fading after a gesture
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 * Initial Burmese, Danish, and Serbian translations
 * Updates to the Bosnian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch,
   Estonian, German, Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish,
   Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu,
   Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese translations
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Changes between 0.0.9 and 0.0.10:
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 * Subs selection
 * Fixes for 2 frequent crashes
Changes between 0.0.8 and 0.0.9:
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Core:
 * Various crash/stability fixes
 * Improved video-audio synchronization
 * Improved automatic SD card detection
 * Experimental YV12-based androidsurface
 * Wakelock issue with stopping was fixed
 * Use of a faster DTS decoding library
 * Codec updates
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Main application:
 * SD cards mount point fixes
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 * Change of subtitle encoding is now possible
 * Subtitles and audio track selection is now preserved across calls
 * Many bugfixes in the interface
 * Fix selection of some audio tracks
 * A sleep timer was added for audio and video
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 * Added an option to add custom paths to the media library scanner
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 * content:// based URIs from Camera and file pickers now supported
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 * Fix video player resume of media outside the media library
 * Jump to Time feature
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 * Allow to open a video as audio-only
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Widget:
 * Display the timeline

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 * Initial Traditional Chinese, Catalan, and Urdu, Odia,
   Norwegian Bokmål and Portuguese (Portugal) translations
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 * Updates to the Bosnian, Japanese, Russian, French, Korean,
   Simplified Chinese, Turkish, Thai, Slovak, Polish, Dutch, Khmer,
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   Italian, Hebrew, Galician, Spanish, German, Czech, Estonian,
   Hindi, and Bosnian translations
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Changes between 0.0.7 and 0.0.8:
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Core:
 * Support MIPS compilation

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Main application:
 * SD cards mount points are auto-detected
 * Directory view starts from the SD cards and are live-detected
 * Improve the thumbnailing process
 * Improve the headset handling and remote control code, including bluetooth
 * Correctly support the lock screen controls
 * Fixes for Android 4.2 support
 * Fix for sound notification loudness
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 * Fixes miscellaneous crashes and issues

Interface:
 * Allow toggling between remaining and total time in fullscreen
 * Allow a menu option to start the media from the beginning
 * Add different options for rotation and screen orientation
 * Fix sorting of album tracks
 * Add a ticker in the status bar, when playing audio
 * Improve the Directories View
 * Translations
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Changes between 0.0.6 and 0.0.7:
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Core:
 * Fix audio output selection to fix the audio-sync

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Main application:
 * reduce the memory used for thumbnails decoding
 * better behaviour when we are low on memory
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 * fix the interaction between thumbnailing and sleeping
 * fix various crashes
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Interface:
 * better multi-column look on low resolution phones
 * fix audio song sorting
 * add a popup-menu in the video list
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 * Show Volume and Brightness values
 * fix navbar hiding on tablets
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Core:
 * Change threading code for Android
 * Fix MediaCodec decoding
 * Fix audio issues in cook and DTS

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Main application:
 * Reduce the memory and CPU used in the video list
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 * Use bitmap caching to improve smoothness
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 * Display the current playing position as a progress bar under every video

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Interface:
 * Add animations in the video list
 * Simplify the fullscreen interface

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Changes between 0.0.4 and 0.0.5:
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Core:
 * Autodetection of NEON at runtime: ARMv7-a builds should work everywhere
   including tegra2 and cortex-a8 without NEON
 * Better threading support
 * Support for MediaCodec Jelly Bean hardware decoding

Main application
 * Better extensions and intent integration
 * Better service start/stop to avoid using CPU when VLC is not running or
   when we are playing a video
 * Automatic rescan when needed
 * Fix headset detection during phone calls
 * Fix several crashes
 * Fix compatibility with Android 2.1 (android-7)

Interface:
 * New grid look for Video List on tablets and phone in landscape-mode
 * Cover arts are now shown in Audio List panels
 * Better notification and use of covers in notifications
 * Directory View back button does now a parent-up action
 * Fix several crashes and misbehaviour of fragments
 * Fix small issues in About dialog, Video List, menu and preferences
 * Back button correctly behaves in fullscreen
 * Fix several sliding menu bugs

Translations
 * many :)


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Changes between 0.0.3 and 0.0.4:
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Interface:
 * Many Sliding Menu fixes
 * Fix subtitles and audio tracks selection
 * Fix Sliding menu selection
 * Fix about dialog
 * Update the android compatibility library to avoid crashes (r10)
 * Miscellaneous fixes

Core:
 * fix mp4 playback
 * correctly restrain the background processing of thumbnails and medialibrary

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Device specific:
 * Add support for the Nexus7
 * Add support for Android x86

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Core:
 * Many, many bugfixes and stability improvements
 * Building for Android-x86 is now supported
 * IOMX hardware acceleration and AudioTrack improvements on Jellybean
 * Media library scanning is now faster and more efficient
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 * The aspect ratio is now correctly handled in software decoding
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Interface:
 * Sliding panel added in video player
 * Tabs replaced with a sliding sidebar
 * Added the feature to change the playback speed in audio and video
 * Improved seek gesture
 * Added optional brightness gesture
 * Added ability to set the system ringtone to a song from VLC
 * Added history support
 * On ICS and above, added lockscreen control for music
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 * Added Arabic, Bengali, Bosnian, Korean, Russian, Thai translations
 * Updates for the Simplified Chinese, Turkish, Polish, Hebrew,
   Galician, German, Czech, Bosnian, Estonian, Japanese, Italian, Dutch,
   Hindi and Slovak translations
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Changes between 0.0.1 and 0.0.2:
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Core:
 * the application can now go on the SDcard
 * Database speed improvements
 * .nomedia folders are correctly ignored now

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Interface:
 * Dynamically switch from audio to video player on ES change
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 * Reduce video player control size
 * ICS: better integration when dimming and fullscreen
 * Deletion is possible in folder mode
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Stability issues:
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 * Fix numerous crashes
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 * Fix some memory leaks
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 * Better separation of the audio widget and the service
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Translations:
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 * Added Hebrew, Polish, Hindi, Basque, Galician, Dutch, Ukrainian, Croatian,
   Czech, Scottish Gaelic, Telugu, Japanese, Chinese Simplified, Slovak,
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   Spanish, Walloon, Marathi, Khmer, Italian, Polish and Estonian translations