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Changes between 2.1.x and 2.2.0-git:
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Important changes:
 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+

Core:
 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
 * Add extensions download from external repositories

Access:
 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access.
   New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes.
 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection and navigation
 * Digital Cinema Package support

Decoder:
 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
 * Support MSN Audio, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1, Bink
 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
 * OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
 * New jpeg image decoder
 * Add tx3g subtitles decoder

Encoder:
 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
 * New png image encoder using libpng

Demuxer:
 * New CAF format module
 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably for seeking
 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking
 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
 * Support Opus in MKV
 * Support VP8 in OGG
 * Basic support for WebVTT
 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 Audio stream type in TS
 * Support HDPR TS files
 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
 * Fix encoding issues in some XML playlist formats
 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
 * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer

Muxers:
 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
 * Fixes for the AVI muxer for specification respect
 * Support VP8 in OGG
 * Add HEVC muxing in MP4

Video Output:
 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
 * New Android native window provider module
 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output

Video Filter:
 * New Oldmovie effect filter
 * New VHS effect filter
 * New Freeze effect filter
 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420

Audio Output:
 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
 * Audio device notifications for WASAPI

Streaming:
 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
    vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout  '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
    :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
 * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
 * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
 * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
    with --no-sout-all
 * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump 
    --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234

libVLC:
 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function

Visualizations:
 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
 * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum

Interfaces:
 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
 * Add record button in Qt menus
 * Fixes for advanced preferences on OS X
 * New module for core dialogs on iOS

Misc:
 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
 * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing

Removed modules:
 * ios video output: use ios2
 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger


Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3:
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Core:
 * Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
 * Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir

Access:
 * Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
 * Fix encrypted DVD playback
 * Fix v4l2 frequency conversion

Decoders:
 * Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
   by updating codec libraries
 * Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
 * Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
 * Fix teletext crash on Windows

Demuxers:
 * Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
 * Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
 * Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
 * Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing

Audio output:
 * Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
 * Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X

Video Output:
 * Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
 * Fix transform off-by-one issue
 * Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
 * Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
 * Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC

Stream output:
 * Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
 * Fix record file names

Qt interface:
 * Fix minimal size possible on start
 * Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
 * Fix a crash in the audio menu building
 * Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
 * Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows

HTTP interface:
 * Fix album art display on Windows

Translations:
 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek,
   Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew,
   Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Nepali,
   Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
   Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
   and Simplified Chinese translations
 * Fix encoding for Windows installer translations


Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2:
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Audio output:
 * Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
 * Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
 * Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external
   audio devices on OS X
 * Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
 * Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS

Demuxers:
 * Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
 * Various WMV playback improvements and fixes

Decoders:
 * Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
 * Fix playback of some HEVC samples

Video filters:
 * Fix crash on deinterlace selection

Qt interface:
 * Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
 * Improve A-B loop control
 * Fix album art update when changing media

Mac OS X interface:
 * Add a language option in the interface
 * Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
 * Improved UI resetting when requested in the preferences
 * Fix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
 * Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
 * Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
 * Fix crash when closing window without decorations
 * Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled

Win32 installer:
 * Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update

Translations:
 * Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian,
   French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer,
   Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala,
   Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations


Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
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Core:
 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
 * Fix recording
 * Fix some subtitles track selection

Decoders:
 * VP9 support in WebM
 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes

Demuxers:
 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
 * Support Speex in ogg files
 * Fix some .mov playlists support
 * Support Alac in mkv
 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files

Access:
 * Fix DVB options parsing
 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain

Audio output:
 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD

Interfaces:
 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
 * Fix D-Bus volume setting

Qt:
 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
 * Fix play after drag'n drop
 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter

Stream out:
 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues

Win32 installer:
 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism

Mac OS X interface:
 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
 * Improves interface resizings

Translations:
 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
   Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
   Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
   Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
   Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
   translations


Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
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Important changes:
 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
   Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
   compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually

3rd party libraries (contrib):
 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib

Core:
 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
   better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
 * Port to Android
 * Port to iOS
 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
 * Remove SQL support

Decoders:
 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
 * Support for Ulead DV audio
 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
   Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)

Encoders:
 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)

Access:
 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
           remove support for previous OS X releases
 * Major improvements in DASH support
 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
   vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm

Demuxers:
 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
 * Support for more MJPEG streams
 * Add support for liveleak streams
 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml

Audio output:
 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
   This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
   distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS

Audio Filters:
 * New remapping channel filter
 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
 * New VSXu visualization plugin
 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
 * New gain audio filter

Video Outputs:
 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards

Video Filters:
 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
   anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
   and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters

Stream Output:
 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
 * Options support for AVIO output module
 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
 * Livehttp stream encryption support
 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting

Fingerprinters:
 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter

Interfaces:
 * configurable password for the HTTP server
 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
   rotate mode into the rotate video filter

Services discovery:
 * UPnP A/V subtitles
 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item

OS X Interface:
 * Add support for multiple video outputs
 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
   controller
 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
   - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
   VLC's internal volume level
 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
   playback
 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
   selection and to manage the list of presets
 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
   multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
   date and language
 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
   when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
   3rd party applications
 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
   handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
   (system-wide settings)
 * Add support for the Video Title option
 * Add support for the Boss Key
 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
   deprecated now and will be removed in a future release

Qt:
 * Partial support for Qt5.0
 * Menus modifications and improvements
 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
 * EPG display fixes and improvements
 * Add SD pixmap sources
 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
 * Display playlist total duration
 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
 * Numerous fixes

Skins2:
 * Port to OS/2
 * Extend sliders, offsets options
 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
 * Numerous fixes and improvements
 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller

libVLC:
 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
   to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
   and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
   media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
   libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons

Removed modules:
 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
 * Hildon GUI
 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
 * Broken crop video filter
 * Switcher module
 * OSD parser and menu
 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
 * htcpcp :)

Translations:
 * Update of all translations


Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
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Demux:
 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer

Contribs:
 * Fix modplug security issues


Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
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Access:
 * Fix ISDB-S tuning
 * Fix crash in QTsound
 * Fix screen mouse file location
 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access

Demux:
 * Fix use after free in sgimb
 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files

Decoders:
 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module

Mac OS X:
 * Fix interface crashes
 * Fix autostart playback option
 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option

Translations:
 * update Welsh translation
 * New Kannada translation


Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
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Input:
 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
   playlist files

Decoders:
 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback

Encoders:
 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac

Muxers:
 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files

Video output:
 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)

Mac OS X Interface
 * Minor improvements
 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding

HTTP Interface
 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)

Translations:
 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
   Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations


Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
--------------------------------

Access:
 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected

Audio Output:
 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)

Demuxers:
 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser

Decoders:
 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
 * 3rd party codecs updates

Mac OS X:
 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
   in the advanced preferences panel
 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
 * Fix crash within the video output code
 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
   folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
   lua extensions, ...)
 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages

Qt:
 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit

GNU/Linux:
 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio

Windows:
 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\

Translations:
 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
   Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
   Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
   Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
   Dutch, Danish, translations
 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations


Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
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Access:
 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection

Audio Output:
 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
   (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems

Demuxers:
 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
 * Fix koreus lua parser
 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.

Video filters:
 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases

Encoders:
 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization

Mac OS X:
 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
 * Fix Time counter UI look
 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5

Win32:
 * Fix https streaming

libVLC:
 * Fix audio and video track selection:
   The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
   incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.

Translations:
 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
   Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
   Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
   Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua


Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
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Audio Output:
 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
   during playback on Mac OS X

Access:
 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake

Codecs:
 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding

Demuxers:
 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
 * Support Youtube live streams

Windows:
 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8

Qt:
 * Fix media info dialog update
 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
 * Fix album art display at start

Mac OS X:
 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
 * Fix menus display and behavior
 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
   streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
   allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter

Miscellaneous:
 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates

Translations:
 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
   Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
   Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
   Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian


Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
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Access:
 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels

Demuxers:
 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags

Mac OS X:
 * Add GateKeeper support
 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
 * Minor bugfixes and improvements

Qt:
 * Fix Windows 8 interface style

Translations:
 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
   Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
   Thai, Turkish and Walloon
 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations


Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
--------------------------------

Video Output:
 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
   There were too many errors with broken drivers.
 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
   an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
   with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
   Retina Displays.

Access:
 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support

Codec:
 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
 * Fix G726 support
 * Fix MP3 free format support

Demuxers:
 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
 * Fix for DVB channels file support
 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4

Encoders:
 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots

Audio filters and output:
 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
 * Fix DirectSound device selection
 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
 * Do not apply volume in file output
 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers

Mac OS X:
 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
   the persistant media library
 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
   to the media library or the temporary playlist
 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
   This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
   manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
   press on the Play/Pause button
 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
   This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
 * Many Fullscreen fixes
 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
   Synchronization panel
 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
 * Fix crashes on exit
 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
   VLC is running
 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
   Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
   automatically reset on the first launch.
   - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements

Lua Scripts:
 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
 * Fixes for icecast SD

Qt:
 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
 * Fix tags and file names display
 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues

Skins2:
 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
 * Fix for key events and focus loss

Web interface:
 * Fix display of some buttons
 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog

Security:
 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries

Translation:
 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
   Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
   Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
   Thai translations update
 * New Scottish Gaelic translation


Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
--------------------------------

Access:
 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
 * fix the samba module compilation
 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives

Codecs:
 * Support for MXPEG files
 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams

Demuxers:
 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support

Muxers:
 * Fix ogm header creation

Audio filters:
 * limit spatializer filter distortions
 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module

Audio output:
 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
   The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X

Video filters:
 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform

Mac OS X interface:
 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
 * allow to hide the sidebar
 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
   - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
 * noticebly faster launch time
 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
 * improve track synchronization panel
 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu

Qt interface:
 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
   the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts

Skins interface:
 * fix for menus display
 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
 * documentation update

Web interface:
 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions

Service discovery:
 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
 * Update Jamendo selections

Miscellaneous:
 * fix DBus crash
 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
 * fix a crash on VLM close