[EDragon]

VLC (VideoLan) 0.7.2 Beta 1

Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
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Core support:
* Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
* Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
* Improved HTTP daemon.
* Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.

Codecs:
* New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
(http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
* New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
* H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
* Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
(allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).

Input:
* --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
* Improved directory access module.
* New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
* Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
* New options to pass meta info to the input.

Demux:
* Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
* mmsh streaming fixes.

Subtitles:
* Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
* Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
* Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.

Stream output:
* Improved session announcement system.
* Minimize threads usage by default.
* Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
* Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
* Improved MPEG TS muxer.
* Improved transrater.
* Meta info options used by the muxers.
* New configuration system.
* Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.

VideoLAN manager:
* New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
* Supports live streams and VoD.
* Supports scheduling.
* Telnet interface for vlm.
* HTTP interface for vlm.

Interfaces:
* Skins II
- Ability to embed video output.
- Support for bitmap fonts.
- Lots of improvements.
* wxWindows
- New design and set of icons.
- Ability to embed video output.
* Mac OS X
- Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
- Better hotkeys handling.

Mac OS X port:
* OpenGL video output is now the default when available.

Win32 port:
* DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
* Disable monitor power down when watching movies.

Linux port:
* PowerPC fixes.

Misc:
* Improvements to the GOOM visualisation plugin.
* Roku HD1000 audio output.

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