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 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
   See ‘Access:’ for more info.
 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations

Playback:
 * Instantaneous pausing
 * Frame-by-Frame playback
 * Finer speed control
 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
 * Timeshift for most medias
 * RTSP trickplay support
 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes

Decoders:
 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
 * New Dolby Digital Plus – E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering

Demuxers:
 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
 * Metadata for mod files are supported
 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams

Encoders:
 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder

Access:
 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
   OSS or Alsa audio input. Use –input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
 * DVB scanning on linux
 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
   zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file – the development form of
   zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
 * Opening of any file descriptor using ‘fd://’
 * MTP device access on Unix
 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values

Inputs:
 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
   Windows and Mac OS X.

Playlist:
 * Export the playlist in HTML
 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
 * Better metadata handling and reading

Linux/Windows interface:
 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
 * Recently played items list
 * Interface toolbar customizations
 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
    – More menus actions
    – Finer speed slider
    – Improvements on many dialogs
    – New dialog for plugins listing
    – Fixed-size mode for videos
    – Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
 * Better integration in GTK environments

Mac OS X Interface:
 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
 * Additional usability improvements

Stream output:
 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.

Maemo Port:
 * New Maemo port with:
   – an interface based on Hildon framework.
   – scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.

Windows CE Port:
 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.

Mac OS X Port:
 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
 * Support for latest iSight models

Audio output:
 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
 * Surround support for PulseAudio

Video output:
 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
   (hotkey ‘o’) while keeping black borders
 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named ’scene’.
   The old image video output has been removed.
 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
   withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.

Miscellaneous:
 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications

New Localization:
 * Khmer
 * Mongolian
 * Sorani