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    * native ALSA 1.x support (not through 0.9 emulation)
    * better multibuffer support in VIDIX nVidia driver
    * pan & scan support in VIDIX nVidia driver

    FFmpeg/libavcodec:
    * H.263 AIC and MQ encoding support
    * fixed low delay decoding
    * fixed H.263+ encoding without UMV
    * lots of CBR improvements
    * MB type and QP visualization
    * lots of code cleanup
    * intra & inter dequantization split -> speedup
    * fixed stereo IMA ADPCM encoding

    * initial interlaced MPEG4 encoding
    * improved visual quality in SVQ3 decoder
    * fixed never-before-tested embedded string decoder in SVQ1
    * optimized quantization (including the trellis way)
    * Sierra VMD video decoder
    * MMX and SSE2 optimized H.263 denoiser
    * better SVCD compliance (encoder side)
    * MMX and MMX2 optimized interlaced DCT decision
    * various cleanup, memleak and segfault fixes
    * slightly optimized (2x faster) the MPEG layer 3 decoder
    * grayscale coded MJPEG decoding support
    * avimszh and avizlib decoders
    * "packed" XVID decoding
    * fixed some bugs in RV20 B-frames decoding
    * closed GOP encoding

    Others:
    * -codecs-file option for specifying alternative codecs.conf file
    * fixed some minor bugs in the GUI
    * prevent sig11 when $HOME is not set
    * fix some command line handling corruptions
    * Swedish and Polish yes/no options in config files
    * support binding F11 and F12 keys

  pre3try2: security fix release Mar 3, 2004

    Security:
    * HTTP parser remote heap overflow vulnerability fixed

    * support for MMS streams with UTF urls
    * big DVB demuxer update
    * fixed MOV demuxer to always read ImageDesc (fixes ffsvq3 bugs)
    * fixed an old bug in AVI/Waveformatex size calculation
    * XviD API-4 (1.0 beta2) support
    * improved FLAC-in-Ogg support
    * Matroska: better AC3 detection
    * Matroska: VobSubs, MP2, FLAC, AAC and HE-AAC support
    * improved detection of Real RTSP through URL analysis
    * fixed stereo 16 bit TWOS
    * fixed MPNG when using BGR24 images

    * optimized eq2 filter
    * weighted gamma support in the eq2 filter
    * new filters: hue, spp, fil, yuvcsp
    * alternative postprocessing filter (spp)
    * big scale filter updates
    * zrmjpeg filter, a kick-ass mjpeg encoder using FFmpeg/libavcodec
    * filmdint: new inverse telecine filter, heavily MMX and 3DNow! optimized

    FFmpeg/libavcodec:
    * Lagrange multipliers instead of qscale, encoding quality much improved
    * fixed an old bug in MPlayer's support code

    * direct rendering support in MJPEG
    * massive MLib optimizations
    * more VQA files supported
    * Theora support
    * Sunplus JPEG (SP5X) support
    * H.263 GOB fixes
    * massive cleanups
    * reduced memory footprint (!)
    * fixed decoding if aspect ratio changes
    * MMX2 optimizations in HuffYUV
    * lots of bugs squashed in HuffYUV

    * "av_log" logging API
    * support for buffer hints from codecs
    * BGR24, RGB555 and PAL8 image formats
    * 8BPS, MS RLE, MS Video1, QT RPZA, QT SMC, FLIC and TrueMotion1 decoders
    * 16x8 MV visualisation support
    * H.263 overlapped block motion compensation (OBMC), 4MV support
    * H.263 alternative inter vlc support
    * H.263 deblocking filter (MMX optimized)
    * H.263 modified quantization support
    * H.263 slice structured mode support
    * Real RV20 decoder (with B-frame support)

    Drivers:
    * VIDIX equalizer support in fbdev, svga and vesa
    * VIDIX colorkeying support in fbdev, svga and vesa

  pre2: Oct 5, 2003

    Security:
    * remotely exploitable buffer overflow in the asf streaming code fixed

    DOCS:
    * Spanish and Russian translations almost finished
    * French, Hungarian, Polish translations updated
    * New Romanian translation started

    * presets support in swscaler filter
    * new audio filter export, for supporting visual effect applications
    * correct select handling in bmovl filter

    FFmpeg/libavcodec:
    * better divx/xvid bug detection code
    * Id RoQ decoder
    * Interplay MVE decoder
    * WC3/Xan video decoder
    * Xan DPCM, DK3 & DK4 ADPCM audio decoders
    * detect old xvid with fourcc=DIVX
    * vp3 decoder fixes
    * improved the Alpha optimizations
    * x86 optimizations are threadsafe now
    * settable scene change threshold
    * better MPEG1/MPEG2 conformance encoder

    * various realmedia a-v sync fixes
    * realaudio v4 demuxer
    * realaudio 14_4 and 28_8 codecs support (both binary DLLs and native code)
    * realmedia rtsp:// support (independent from the live.com rtsp stuff!)
    * Matroska demuxer
    * demuxer: enabling mpeg4-es autodetection, h264-es support
    * .wav extradata parsing (for truespeech, atrac3 etc)
    * MPEG-TS (Transport Stream) and TIVO demuxers
    * DVB (Digital Video Broadcasting) input driver
    * hwac3: DTS passthru support
    * new filters: down3dright, detc, telecine, tfields, ilpack, ivtc, dsize,

    * SGI image files decoding (-mf)
    * Theora video (using libtheora/libogg) support
    * DivX.com 5.0.5 libs support
    * support for latest XviD en/decoder features
    * decoder for Hauppauge PVR 250/350 MB-YUV format (fourcc HM12)
    * support for Vanguard's win32 h264 etc codecs
    * Video for Linux 1: various bugfixes, video eq support
    * Video for Linux 2 support
    * TV support: kick-ass image format handling
    * mp3lib: moved the assembly sources into gcc inline assembly (c)
    * mp3lib: sync with mpg123 0.59s-pre
    * mp3lib: final layer-1 support
    * mp3lib: skip trashed first mp3 frame, fixes many buggy/misdetected files
    * imported a working FAAD version
    * 8BPS (Planar RGB) support
    * working DVD (libmpdvdkit) support for Cygwin/MinGW

    FFmpeg/libavcodec:

    * MPEG1 slice encoding support
    * MSMPEG4 2-pass support
    * H264 video decoding
    * Indeo 3 video decoding
    * VP3 video decoder (buggy somtimes)
    * Sorenson 3 (SVQ3) video decoder (it's actually a h264 variant)
    * 3IV1 (3ivx v1) decoding
    * ASV1 (ASUS Video v1) and ASV2 (ASUS Video v2) en/decoding
    * Improved SVQ1 decoding (using FFmpeg VLC functions)
    * truncated unary binarization, unary k-th order exp golomb binarization :)
    * FFV1: lossless YUV codec, compresses a lot better than huffyuv, but slower

    * ao_oss: limited channels handling fixed
    * fixed OGM subtitles and iconv
    * fixed -subcp option with unicode truetype fonts
    * -mf: type detection (based on extension), better defaults
    * vo_xv: -fixed-vo support fixed (fullscreen switching)
    * ogg-in-avi (audio format 0xFFFE) demuxing fixed
    * vorbis decoding fixed (outer loop cleanup)
    * swscaler: 4bpp depth 1 pixel/byte format support for -vo svga
    * missing error message in command line parser for missing parameters
    * swscaler: YVU9->YV12 fixes
    * -ao mpegpes + -ac hwac3 fixed
    * -ao pcm bogus wav header fixed
    * -vo x11 + -wid fixed
    * auto-insert the 'palette' filter if needed, support fixed in filters
    * the sig11 when playing second audio-only file fixed
    * configure: detection of cdda, nas, i18n, svgalib, faad2, lame fixed
    * -af/-af-adv support in mencoder fixed
    * libmpdvdkit2: upgraded to use libdvdcss 1.2.5

    Features:
    * raw video support (-rawvideo, similar to -rawaudio)
    * experimental mpeg4-ES support (enable with -demuxer 27 -fps xxx)
    * new video filter: field (cheap deinterlacer)
    * dvd/vobsub improvements: positioning, optional gaussian blur scaler
    * vf_bmovl: 400% speedup :)
    * libavcodec: native DV audio decoder
    * GIF demuxer (for animated GIFs)
    * new noise removal filter: -vop denoise3d
    * per-channel gamma and MMX-opt'ed bri/cont/saturation support in -vop eq2
    * live.com lib support cleanup, support for more stream types
    * importing the playtree into the Gui instead of gui's own playlist hack
    * support for the XviD and divx4/5linux libraries at the same time
    * -fstype option: override priority/layer of the fullscreen switch methods
    * libavcodec: some B-frames related encoding failures/crashes fixed

  rc3:  "BugfixCounter" Jan 19, 2003

    Important fixes:
    * X11 fullscreen switching (yes, again...) rewritten, some x11 code cleanup
    * Voxware and QuickTime DLLs finally work (was broken in some contexts)
    * VIDIX Radeon support cleanup, should really solve the pink screen bugs
    * Cygwin: -vo directx crashes and garbled picture with some files fixed
    * OGM/Ogg seeking (broken frames) fixed, subtitle fixes, XCD support
    * libaf: big (audio filter layer) updates, floating point support, speedup
    * ffwma2 fixed (better error resilience)
    * SPU queueing - fixes missing or early disappearing DVD subtitles
    * the mysterious DVD audio delay (150-300ms) fixed
    * extension-based fileformat detection fixed the .mp3 vs. mpeg-ps conflict
    * cache2 keeps buffer for non-seekable media, fixes quicktime streaming

    Fixes:
    * mp3lib CPU detection part cleanup, 'decwin' linker problem fixed
    * various cddb:// fixes, support of netbsd-1.6
    * libmpdvdkit2: Fix DVD authentication on Solaris 9
    * libmpdvdkit2: libdvdcss upgraded to 1.2.4 (keeping the key cache patch)
    * libmpdvdkit2: fixed decryption from multiple VOB files (hdd or darwin)
    * -ao arts, -ao oss: Fix 8-bit sound support
    * -vop expand + ffmpeg codecs conflicts solved, some other -vop bugs fixed
    * -ac ffmp2 with MPEG files (sig11) fixed
    * QT Qclp audio codec initialization fixed
    * mplayer exit codes cleanup (0 for quit/eof, 1 for error)
    * -ao win32 sync problems solved, -autosync 100 is still recommended
    * -vo gif89a uninit sig11 fixed

    * libavcodec: wmv2 decoder (buggy/untested)
    * DVB "HEAD" (aka. NEWSTRUCT) drivers support
    * Subtitles background bounding-box support (optional grey-level & opacity)
    * libaf: 3 new filters: panning, compressor/limiter and a noise gate
    * per-mediafile config file support (for file-specific options)
    * iconv (codepage conversion) support for OGM (Ogg) subtitles
    * v4l: user friendly channel tuning
    * Freetype & old-style RAW font support usable (compilable) at the same time
    * vo_directfb2, vo_dfbmga: DirectFB 0.9.16 support
    * libavcodec: motion estimation pre pass, qpel encoding, trellis quantization
    * libavcodec, liba52, mp3lib: Altivec optimizations
    * keep window's aspect ratio at resizing (x11, xv), requires WM support
    * -geometry option, also accepts X11 syntax
    * real .bin+.cue (S)VCD images support (-vcd 2 -cuefile xxx.cue)
    * postprocess: YUV 411/422/444 support, stride fixes
    * jumping of overlapping subs fixed, sorting is automatical, iconv fixes
    * mpeg2 telecine detection and automatic inverse telecine (mplayer only)

    Gui:
    * correct GTK widget destroy event handler
    * fullscreen switching fixed (sync with x11_common)
    * fix gtk submenu

    * New, rewritten version of vo_svga (vidix support etc) and vo_gif89
    * yuv4mpeg vs. framedrop/frameskip fixed

    Codecs:
    * libavcodec: fixed possible 20% speedloss bug
    * support for the experimental (and buggy) dev-api-3 XViD CVS branch
    * fallback to built-in codecs.conf if no compatible external file found
    * experimental Sorenson 1/3 encoding (using quicktime DLLs)
    * More accurate video bitrate calculation for AVI files
    * Presets support for libmp3lame encoding
    * CDDA seeking fixed

    * new config/cmdline parser code (optional)
    * OSD menu system (preferences, shell, file selector etc)
    * libaf: runtime cpudetection, volume, equalizer, better format conversion
    * subtitle overlapping can be disabled, added subtitle sorting
    * subtitle dump to JACOsub and SAMI formats
    * displays URLs from 'Reference Media' type .mov files, dump generic data
    * find best (longest) streams in .mov files (twotowers...)
    * get position/length function in demuxers - for slavemode & -indentify
    * -ao alsa9 surround fixes, 8-bit PCM fixed
    * -vo dfbmga: -dr support, fixed OSD flickering
    * -stop-xscreensaver fixed, support for KDE screensaver too
    * More compiler warning fixes
    * Altivec (G4) support

  pre10:  "BirthdayCounter" Nov 11, 2002
    Docs:
    * dvd auth, vcd sections extended (DOCS/cd-dvd.html)
    * unified *BSD sections, extended cygwin

    Fixes:
    * LIRC error message (Error while reading cmd fd X : Success) fixed
    * playback of some (streamed?) divx files fixed, starting with non-I frames.
    * -vo png fixed (removed builtin YV12 support, removed OSD)
    * some .mp3 playback/seek segfaults fixed
    * vidix mach64 colorkey on PPC fixed
    * -ao sdl now handles "featureless" soundcards
    * -vo zr fixes

    * various small bugfixes, endianess fixes
    * mencoder: -pass option removed, use -divx4opts pass=N / -lavcopts vpass=N
    * mencoder: "ff_rate_estimate_qscale: Assertion `q>0.0' failed" fixed!
    * mencoder: -ovc xvid fixes, cleanup, enhancements
    * screensaver/dpms re-enabling fixed
    * realvideo demuxer fixes - asf-style stream detection method

    Features:
    * -ao win32 (for windows port)
    * libavcodec: native WMA v1/v2 (aka. DivX audio) decoder
    * hw-accelerated video eq for -vo x11 and gl2, using DirectColor colormap

    * -vo dfbmga - play video on Matrox G400's second head using directfb 0.9.14
    * RealAudio ATRC (sony atrac3) audio support (using binary plugin)

    Filters:
    * -af/-af-adv options cleanup
    * now auto-inserting -vop lavc for mpeg-only vo's
    * video filter API documented :)
    * better deblocking filter (-vop pp), pp/npp syntax changed!
    * -vop 2xsai - 2x scaler for drawn images (low color cartoon anims)
    * -vop unsharp - an sharp/blur filter, nice, but very slow
    * -vop il - (de)interleave fields

    Cleanup:
    * divx4_vbr.c is now really GPL - with the permission of the DivX.com guys!
    * cyuv decoder restructuring, now supports planar YUV formats, too
    * removed obsolete variables, like has_audio, has_video, allow_dshow, fifo
    * help_mp-XX.h files moved to help/ subdirectory, removed obsolete entries
    * the obsolete 0x1ff eof hack removed from mpeg-es demuxer and decoders
    * stheaders.h cleanup, removed unneeded wine includes from mplayer core
    * tons of compiler warning fixes, including some 10l ones
    * mga/xmga vo shared code, vesa and svga drivers cleanup
    * major vo drivers are now -fixed-vo compliant: x11, xv, xvidix, xmga, gl2
    * cleanup of libmpdemux option handling - now it's mplayer-independent again

    * runtime selectable IDCT algo
    * faster MPEG1/2 decoder
    * DV decoding (both PAL and NTSC)
    * MPEG1 2-pass encoding support
    * better/cleaner error resilience (done in a 2nd pass after decoding)
    * h263/MPEG4 out of order slice decoding
    * -lavdopts bug= reworked, now uses flags, autodetects most of them
    * complete MPEG4 GMC decoding support


  pre8: Sep 18, 2002

    * MOV files edit-list handling fixed - solved 'short read' issue

    Features:
    * new demuxer for .PVA files (fileformat of TV/DVB apps on win32)
    * -mf now supports TGA (24/32bpp uncomp/rle) images
    * libavcodec: support for interlaced mpeg-4 _de_coding
    * libavcodec: aspect ratio encoding support (mpeg4, mjpeg, h263?)
    * win32 DLL loader merged/synced with avifile CVS

  pre7: Sep 5, 2002
    Cleanup:
    * libvo2, old input code & sis_vid removed, other code cleanups

    Code:
    * vfw/vfwex cleanup, support for runtime csp queries, 8bpp support
    * new native mszh/zlib codec
    * libavcodec: 2-pass control code rewritten, now everything customizable
    * libavcodec: mpeg4/xvid en/decoding support improved, rv10 decoding fixes
    * various realvideo demuxer and video codec fixes, sipr audio support
    * new video filters: soft eq (brightness), halfpack (deinterlacer), film noise
    * .ogm subtitles support
    * optional freetype 2.1+ support for runtime-scalable .ttf font rendering
    * various networking and mms:// fixes, live.com support improved

    * mmst:// streaming support
    * .ogm (OGG) audio/video stream selection
    * native Micro$oft MPEG4v1 (MPG4) codec, error concealement for all MPEG4s
    * various libavcodec encoding improvements
    * MPEG1 && -vo x11 crash fixed when movie's height%16!=0
    * raw (uncompressed) video fixed (avi & mov)
    * flickering/blocking fixed for old vfw codecs (indeo3, cinepak etc)
    * introduced codecs.conf versioning to avoid problems caused by too old conf

    Display:
    * some more X11 cleanup, icewm fullscreen fixes, -vo gl/gl2 fixed

    * libmpdvdkit + gcc 3.x issue solved (our CFLAGS triggered a gcc3 bug...)
    * GUI aspect ratio and fullscreen switch fixes, cleanups
    * low FPS .wmv playback fixed
    * Mac OS X (Darwin) port?
    * buggy v4l audio grabbing disabled, we cannot fix, but patches are welcomed!
    * various mjpeg improvements in libavcodec

  pre2: Apr 30, 2002
    * hwac3 fixes (try AFMT_AC3 first), bigendian fixes for PCM audio
    * 2-pass encoding with libavcodec (-lavcopts vpass=x), B frames support
    * faster .ogg seeking (use -forceidx for slow but accurate one)
    * audio-only with gui fixed
    * -rootwin fixed for x11,xv,xmga,xvidix
    * aspect ratio fix for ffmpeg12
    * mpeg-es detection fixed
    * runtime cpudetect disabled by default
    * support for many new win32 codecs, including mss1, tm20, ucod, truespeech
    * divx audio dll sig11 with glibc 2.1.(2|3) fixed
    * includes libmpdvdkit - patched kit of dvd libraries (enabled for linux+freebsd)
    * manpages updated
    * 'f' (fullscreen switch) fixed for some WMs, still has problems
    * various freebsd and openbsd portability patches
    * options -xy,-zoom,-flip usable with mencoder too, -xy keeps aspect
    * -vop lavc, using new fast best libavcodec for realtime mpeg1 transcoding
    * fixed gtk gui crash with --disable-mencoder
    * no more black vobsub subtitles :)

  pre1: Apr 21, 2002
    * 100% GPL - yeah, so what?

    * prelimenary dvdnav support (experimental)
    * Direct Rendering - can't be used with libavcodec yet, sorry
    * ability to display subtitles under the image, on black bands
    * FFmpeg (included) now supports decoding MPEG4v2 (MP42) and DivX 5.0 files too
    * greatly enhanced MPEG4 encoder (libavcodec)
    * audio-only (wav/mp3/wma/ogg) file playback (console only)
    * playing/encoding audio from separate wav/mp3 file
    * support for more fileformats, including the new and very popular .ogg
    * multiple files playback from console, including various playlist formats
    * and of course, faster than ever... :)

    * docs updates
    * help file translation updates

  pre2:
    * build fixes (install codecs.conf)
    * dvd subtitles improved (stability and pts fixes)
    * new options: -alang, -vlang, -rootwin, -npp ... (rtfm)
    * dxr3 fixes
    * ac3 passthrough fix
    * docs updates
    * make install

  pre1:
    * new file formats (MOV, FLI/FLC, VIVO, RealMedia, NuppelVideo, yuv4mpeg, yuv4mpeg2)
    * more native codecs (CRAM, CVID, FLI, generic ADPCM (and IMA) decoder, g723, XAnim)
    * MEncoder (a tool for encoding video to divx4+mp3)
    * rewritten configure script (better autodetect, cleaner messages)
    * MMX/SSE optimizations
    * faster postprocessing filter, syntax change (deinterlacing support)
    * directshow code in C
    * software YV12 scaling

  - small fixes

mplayer v0.11-pre25-CVS:  yeah, we moved to SourceForge CVS!
  - DOCS updated (email address changed from arpi@* -> maillist)
  - LIRC fix, mplayer_lirc changed back to mplayer [Andreas Ackermann]
  - stream.c: unsigned int fixes, required for some strange .asf files
  - asfheader.c: using w=h=b=1 for audio_concealment_none
  - VCD-related stuff moved from stream.c to vcd_read.c
  - added DGA driver by Andreas Ackermann
  - added debian/ subdir for the debian package makers... see DOCS/DEBIAN
  - new Makefile/dependency system

    TODO: ./configure should detect LIRC installed and better Makefile handling
  - added AVI_NINI parser for broken (no index) non-interleaved files

mplayer v0.11-pre22: Feb 16, 2001
  last fixes, release is coming soon!
  - non-interleaved avi EOF bug fixed  [thanks to DC-1 for help]
  - "You" strings in Makefile after make dep bug fixed...  [thx to DC-1]
  - SDL disabled by default. You have to ./configure --enable-sdl to enable.
  - homepage updated by Gabucino
  - homepage updated by A'rpi
  - FAQ updated by A'rpi

fork()  -> 0.12pre1

mplayer v0.11-pre21: Feb 12, 2001
  mpeg1 pp, stereo fix
  - "Skip chunk xxxx" messages moved from -v to -v -v -v debug level...
    [thanks to Christoph H. Lampert]
  - divx postprocess filter works for mpeg1 files too! (-divxq 1/3/7/31)
  - mpeg layer-2 audio fixed - it's stereo again!!!
  - audio select() detection: if detected audio buffer size == 0, then
    exit with message "recompile mplayer with #undef HAVE_AUDIO_SELECT"...
  - syncfb driver added to the source tree, under drivers/
    (it's very similar to mga_vid, but has syncronization to screen and
     de-interlace features)
  - draw_slice in syncfb finished for G400 cards (plays mpeg 1/2, opendivx)
    (de-interlacing has been disabled, because it's buggy now)

mplayer v0.11-pre20: Feb 11, 2001
  NI-AVI support, small fixes & patches...
  - asf parser: flag 0x40 (explicit packet size) implemented [Marvin]
  - new option to select DSP device:  -dsp   (default: /dev/dsp) [Pontscho]
  - option -o changed to -vo
  - ./configure: applied patches  [LGB,Ian Kumlien,Magnus Pfeffer]
  - avi chunk_id->ds mapper moved to demux_avi_select_stream()
  - added non-interleaved .AVI parser
  - added non-interleaved .AVI detection (if a_pos-v_pos distance > 1MB)

mplayer v0.11-pre19: Feb 9, 2001
  small fixes...
  - vo_xmga.c: G200 draw_slice fixed
    xmga + mga: common part (draw_frame & draw_slice) moved to mga_common.c
  - some independent code (asfinfo.c and GL-test) moved to the new TOOLS subdir
  - movinfo.c added to TOOLS (small util to dump .mov file structure)
  - AVI & ASF stream id detection changed: now using IDs from the header
    (but still can be overriden by -aid or -vid)     [Christoph H. Lampert]
  - native MS-GSM audio codec ported from avifile source  (-afm 6)
    [thanks for the testfile to Christoph H. Lampert]
  - README updated (input & codec lists)
  - implemented .asf audio descrambling  [Dirk Vornheder & Einon]
    -> that weird_al_yankovic asf is not so weird now :)
  - AUTHORS file changed

mplayer v0.11-pre18: Feb 7, 2001
  patch release :)
  - skip broken .asf fragments (for better seeking)
  - seeking code cleanup in sources (now it's in a switch(){})
  - opendivx encoding bitrate option changed from -divxq to -br
    (for the divx -> divx re-encoding)
  - TO DO section moved to file TODO
  - applied ./configure and Makefile changes patch from LGB
  - libvo function changes by Pontscho: x11 (with -fs), xmga (bugfixed!)
  - libvo: driver sources renamed from video_out_*.c -> vo_*.c
  - libvo: added uninit() function to drivers

  - libvo: sdl driver now closes SDL at QUIT...
  - small english fixes (docs & messages)   [Balazs Tibor]

mplayer v0.11-pre17: Feb 4, 2001
  fixes
  - asf "missing video stream" fixed (stream id & 0x7F)  [Christoph H. Lampert]
  - added GL-test directory, it contains source and compiler script of a
    very simple open-gl texture updating (glTexSubImage) test program.
    if it runs well, then mplayer -o gl should work too.
    it works on G400+Utah-GLX, but segfaults in the G400 driver of X 4.0.2/DRI.
    try it with different cards/drivers, and please report me the results.
  - benchmarking in gltest.c: calculate fps and process times
  - .asf seeking v0.01-pre0.1 :)

mplayer v0.11-pre16: Feb 4, 2001
  ACM fixed
  - Win32/ACM audio codec fixed (most important for asf with divx audio):
    There was an output buffer size problem with the Win32/ACM audio codec
    at low bitrates (usually used for .asf files with divx audio)
    Input and output buffer sizes are now queryed, problem solved :)
  - SDL support compiling hint by Michael Durller added to the FAQ
  - opendivx support in .asf files   [Gérard Lantau]
  - ./configure & Makefiles patch by Aaron Hope applied.
    (adds --with-win32libdir and fixes --with-x11libdir)
  - ./configure fixed, now it defaults to /usr/lib/win32 if detection failed

mplayer v0.11-pre15: Feb 2, 2001
  asf sync fixed
  - asf parser: now supports other than 0x5D segments  [Dirk Vornheder]
  - new asf PTS reading: sync works now, including fps...
    (-fps no longer required!)  [thanks again to Eugene Kuznetsov for docs!]

mplayer v0.11-pre14: Feb 1, 2001
  small fixes, asf sync v0.1 :)
  - version number incremented :)))
  - libvo / Xv driver swapped Red-Blue fixed
  - asf timestamps implemented - now asf A-V should be in sync if you
    specify the correct fps at commandline (-fps), +-1 fps allowed...
    [i haven't yet found method to get fps out from asf headers :(((]
  - some error and consistency checking into demux_asf
    if you see many warning! messages playing an .asf file, then contact
    me and upload the file (first 1MB is enough if it represents the problem)
    Don't forget: there is no public doc about the .asf file format, so
    everything we know is suspected and can be wrong... without your help
    we never will have working .asf player...
  - asf fragment offset checks disabled for grouping...

mplayer v0.11-pre13: Jan 31, 2001
  libvo changes, mpeg bitrate, vcd fix, asf grouping
  - libvo: draw_slice() interface changed, now it has src stride[3] and
    destination rect dimension (w,h,x,y)
    It's able to blit whole frames, not only 16-pixel slices...
  - libmpeg2 and opendivx codec changed to use new draw_slice()
    -> opendivx extra 64-pixel width band at right disappeared!
  - mpeg bitrate fix: if picture->bitrate==0x3FFFF (means "unspecified" ?)
    then using standard VCD bitrate (75*2324 bytes/sec)
    -> fixed seeking for those mpegs with "16MBit/s" bitrate...
  - drivers/sis_vid: video4linux interface disabled
  - broken VCD playing fixed: stream_reset shouldn't seek to 0x0...
    [bugreport: Kang Sun]
  - asf_parser: grouping implemented!  [test file provided by Gabucino :))]

    if fails (useful for people with old gcc and new cpu :))
  - removed -fomit-frame-pointer from OPTFLAGS at config.mak
  - version number incremented [Gabucino]
  - odivx encoder fix: allow long (longer than xxxx.avi) destination filenames
    (sizeof() changed to strlen()...)  [Gabucino]
  - avi writer - overwrite disabled (exits with error message if destination
    file already exists...)  [Gabucino]
  - use -divxq to set encoding bitrate (in bits (no kbits!) default: 780000)
  - no audio decoding if -encode option is used
  - audio streaming disabled if -nosound specified (setting audio_id to -2)
  - fast Mpeg-ES detection (doesn't read the whole Mpeg-PS file)
  - compile-time option to disable using soundcard driver's select()
    (requires for some people with buggy/pre-alpha/etc sound driver...)

mplayer v0.11-pre11: Jan 29, 2001
  streaming fixes, asf support pre, indeo5 fix
  - asf/asfinfo.c improved: now it dumps streams to files - need testing!
    (it's ready to be converted to asf demuxer and intergated into MPlayer)
  - stream.c / stream_reset() fix: now it really seek back to 0 position!
  - .asf file format detection added (no .asf reading yet!!!)
  - .asf demultiplexer added, changes in demuxer.c to handle fragmented packets
  > it plays .asf video well, but still has problems with divx/wma audio. :(((
  - indeo 5 playing fixed (removed ICDECOMPRESS_UPDATE from flags)
  - xmga resizing problems with some window managers, so default order is
    changed xmga,xma... to mga,xmga,...
  - found gcc bug: compiling MPlayer with flags
    OPTFLAGS=-O -g -march=i686 -mcpu=i686 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math

  - runaway.bride.sample.avi seeking segfault discovered: AC3 resync fails :(
  - improved signal handling: module name is now printed. audio_resync added.
  - RGB opendivx encoding implemented, now AVI->opendivx is possible.

mplayer v0.11-pre10: Jan 22, 2001
  OpenDivX encoding, streaming fixes, avi seek fixes
  - new libvo driver: odivx  (OpenDivX File Writer)
  - AVI file writting support, new option:  -encode filename
    to encode an mpeg/vob/vcd to opendivx:
      mplayer file1.mpg -encode file2.avi -o odivx -nosound
    (sound encoding/copy is not yet supported)
  - libvo: default driver priority changed to: xmga,mga,syncfb,3dfx,xv,x11,gl
  - avi writer: index support
  - small fixes in avi writer to be compliant (adjusted chunk/list lengths)
  - demuxer.c: stream buffering fixes:
    - missing {} in mplayer.c occuring audio reads when has_audio=0
    - reordered packet reader and pack count checks -> no more unwanted EOF
    - added 4MB buffer memory usage limit to demuxed streams
  - CPU flags in ./configure changed:

  - depth calculation in vo_init() changed (Pontscho's version couldn't
    make difference between 15 and 16bpp)
  - x11 driver now uses vo_init() instead of get_depth()
  - yuv2mmx: 15bpp not really supported -> removed from list, now
    conversion is done (well) by the C code -> MPEG play in 15bpp works!
  - avi playing support added in 15bpp (memcpy)
  - avi playing support added in 16bpp (C 15->16 converter by me)
  - avi playing support added in 16bpp (MMX 15->16 converter by Strepto)
  - libvo/x11: yuv2rgb used MMX code on non-MMX CPUs too!!! fixed...
  - all x11 modes tested (and mpeg/24bpp byteorder fixed):
                  MPEG:            AVI/VfW:
        15bpp    C convert        memcpy
        16bpp    MMX/C convert    MMX/C convert
        24bpp    C convert        memcpy
        32bpp    MMX/C convert    memcpy / C conv.
    => now all the movie types are viewable using the -o x11 driver!

mplayer v0.11-pre3: Jan 5, 2001
  mpeg fixes, fullscreen support
  - vertical.mpg serious libvo (x11,gl) segfaults fixed:
    yuv2rgb_mmx requires one more lines that vertical image size...
    fixed (allocating memory for width*(height+1)).   [bugreport: Gabucino]
  - Pontscho's fullscreen patch applied!
    Using option -fs will maximize window size (for all resizeable drivers
    including mga!) and disable window decorations (x11,Xv,gl only)
  - simple inttypes.h included for libc5 (and glibc2.0 too?) users
  - homepage updates (links changed ftp->http)

mplayer v0.11-pre2: Jan 4, 2001
  better user messages, mp3 codec selection, demuxer changes
  - w32codec.zip restored at the FTP site (somehow it damaged...)
  - added version.h, and used its content everywhere
  - 'premature end-of-file' problem fixed: freeing audio buffers and
    setting d_audio->id=-2 if has_audio==0  [bugreport by Dmitri Pogosyan]
  - some more messages added if verbose>=1

  - automatic fallback to mp3lib/mpg123 if l3codeca.acm can't be loaded/inited

mplayer v0.11-pre1:
  AVI sync fixes
  - AVI audio seeking improvements: now using nBlockAlign value to seek
    inside the chunk, so divx audio works without big delays!!!
  - AVI PTS calculation modified: counting video PTS when skip_video_frames>0
    so new audio PTS values will be correct. Solved many sync probs!
  - A-V sync with AVI files fixed!
    Now only the Desperado-trailer has 1.0 sec delay after seeking.
  - fixed AVI sync in -bps mode too! :)  (perfect except that Desperado avi)

mplayer v0.10: Jan 1, 2001  "The new year" release!
  - testing
  - docs changed
  - it's time to release and remove the old buggy 0.09 version...

    - removed unused OMS and mpeg2dec stuff
    - decode_data rewritten, now works like parse_es.c
      => doesn't copy any data -> faster and less memory usage
  - mplayer.c sends code 0x1FF after every frame, so libmpeg2 knows
    when has to display it
  - mplayer.c: in_frame flag fixes, didn't work well with mpeg2 streams
    (because there is a 0x1B2 chunk between 0x100 and 0x101)
  - 'picture' changed from static to shmem-allocated
    -> better picture after codec restart (tested with JapAd.mpg)
    -> keep information of the header changes (after init)
  - mpeg image size changed, now only the real part of frame is displayed
    (no more green strip at the bottom)
    - picture struct: new fields: display_picture_width/height
    - image buffer allocation (shmem) is done by decode.c instead of libvo
  - new option:  -xy <value>  (resize both x/y direction)
    if value<=8  ->  x_scale = y_scale = value
    else         ->  x_size=value  y_size=aspectratio*x_size
  - mplayer.c: video output moved out from avi/mpg init sections and
    now it's common code (added movie_size_x/y variables and out_fmt global)
  - new keys:
    ESC       => quit
    + and -   => adjust audio delay +- 0.1 second
    k         => kill/restart the mpeg codec process (for testing)
  - codec control interface changed: wait for syncword after (re)start
    to avoid receiving old frames => it's stable again!
  - removed (now unused) allocate/free image buffer code from libvo
  - mplayer: new internal variable for video format: has_video
       0 = none (unused yet)
       1 = mpeg 1/2 video
       2 = win32/VfW video codec
  - config.h has defaults for bps-based AVI sync and ALSA timer code options:
     #undef AVI_SYNC_BPS  => now it's disabled by default!!! use -bps to enable
     #define ALSA_TIMER   => now it's enabled by default!!! use -noalsa to dis.
  - help updated
  - prints max compressed framesize at exit (both avi & mpeg)
  - AVI audio seeking fixed: some ACM codecs (divx audio and ms-adpcm)
    can't seek inside a chunk, they are only able to play whole chunks.
    Current audio seeking has changed to seek inside the chunk only if the
    codec supports it (only internal codecs and ACM/mp3 allows it).
  - AVI: audio delay correction if can't seek inside the chunk

mplayer v0.10-pre6: Dec 24, 2000 "Xmas edition"
  mpeg signal & EOF fixes
  - ./configure: k6_mtrr (2.4.test11+) added [Pontscho]
  - `term destroys if mplayer (mpg) called from mc.ext` bug fixed:
    added sighandler to the 3rd process (mpeg codec) to avoid sig. recursion
  - better output at exit (handled now by exit_player())
  - mpeg EOF problem (codec restart) fixed: added EOF detection to parse_es.c
  - internal flag 'current_module' added to get more info at segfaults
    (contains module number where the segfault occurred)
  - audio detection changed: using afm=4 (Win32/ACM) for MP3 audio (AVI files)
    (you MUST have l3codeca.acm at /usr/lib/win32, or you have to use '-afm 1')

mplayer v0.10-pre3: Dec 10, 2000
  test release, verbose mode, new docs
  - new option:  -v  =  increment verbose level
    (debug printf's changed to verbose level-dependent)
    - default level: 0, only some informal output
    - init debug:    1, some basic debug infos, avi header, function values
    - player debug:  2, print avi indexes, chunk inputs, more debug infos
    - parser debug:  3, prints everything related to input parsers
    to increment verbose level, use multiple -v options (-v -v -v for level-3)
  - bitrate calculation for AVI files
  - README rewritten, added Troubleshooting and Bugreports sections
  - TVout directory added (only the scripts)

mplayer v0.10-pre2: Dec 8, 2000
  bugfix test release, bps-sync enabled
  - avi: supporting both 0-based and movi-based index types (autodetect)
  - avi: tested with VBR audio: plays well with -mc 0 option, seek doesn't
    work yet   [thanks to Alan Chen for testfile]
  - avi: A-V sync to avg. byte/sec implemented (again) and enabled by default
    (disable with -nobps if you want)
  - ./configire: 3rd name ('kni') of the P3 added. Where is the compatibility?
  - useless '\' removed from libac3/Makefile  [Otvos Ferenc]

mplayer v0.10-pre1: Dec 5, 2000

    I need a very fast 15->16bpp converter for 16bpp support... anyone helps?

mplayer v0.09-pre2:
  bugfix test-release
  - removed unnecessary code from libmpeg2/header.c
    Walken told me that standard mpg/vob streams must NOT use framerate
    and bitrate extension... and the ext. id check is done by the caller.
  - CRC support to mp3lib's mpeg audio layer-2 decoder
    thanks for bugreport & testfile to Samson

mplayer v0.09-pre1: Dec 1, 2000
  bugfix test-release
  - imported new libmpeg2 files (under testing...)
  - GL renderer flickering bug fixed (MMX missing emms() between yuv2rgb and
    glTexSubImage(), bug triggered by new Utah-GLX code)
    [thanks for Christian Birchinger]

mplayer v0.08: Nov 27, 2000
  Index support, avi seeking, DLL loader fix, compilation fixes
  - Added support for chunk index usage (disable with -noidx option)
  - Removed code optimization flags from loader/Makefile because
    it segfaults if compile optimized code (it does some hacks with
    pointers, maybe the reordered code confuses it)
  - added new tool called aviparse  (read and check avi file structure)
  - indexed and raw chunk info comparing, bad chunks dropped
  - termcap usage is optional (for those debian users without termcap)
  - #if HAVE_* fixed (to #ifdef HAVE_*)
  - ./configure supports new /proc/cpuinfo (2.4.0-test11)
      - sse is called 'sse' again
      - 'flags' field renamed to 'features'
  - Xv benchmark results added to DOCS/SPEED
  - avi seeking (and other goodies, pause etc) implemented
    no PTS resync after seek yet.
  - default video_out driver changed from 'mga' to the first available driver
    new driver priority:  mga_vid, opengl, x11

mplayer v0.07: Nov 21, 2000

  - Updated makefiles, and tested a lot :)
  - Updated DOCS/INSTALL

mplayer v0.06: Nov 20, 2000
  Better codec selection
  - avi audio&video codec selection moved to new codecs.c file,
    loader/driver.c and loader/afl.c modified for this
  - yuv support fixed, codecs.c setup flags to handle yuv properly
    yuv works fine with divx, mpeg4, cvid, and upside-down iv50
  - DOCS/INSTALL updated
  - DOCS/SPEED updated, DivX benchmarks added

mplayer v0.05: Nov 18, 2000
  Merged with MPEGplayer 0.90pre6, first public release of AVI player
  - code merged with mpegplayer, new Makefile, some small modifications
  - docs updated and moved to DOCS

mplayer v0.04: Nov 17, 2000
  YUV (yuy2) support with divx 3.11 dll, some code cleanup, preview-release

mplayer v0.03: Nov 14, 2000

mplayer v0.01: Nov 11, 2000
  first preview version based on new MPEGplayer's codebase.
  it contains the win32 loader from avifile, and can decode divx 3.11 video.

mpg12play v0.9-v0.95pre5: Oct 21-Nov 2, 2000
       Mpeg codec was libmpeg2 (mpeg2dec) by Aaron Holtzman & Michel
       Lespinasse. It's great, optimized very fast C code with perfect
       image quality and 100% MPEG standard conformance.

mpg12play v0.5-v0.87: Sep 28-Oct 20, 2000
       Mpeg codec replaced with DVDview by Dirk Farin, it was a great
       stuff, but it was slow and was written in C++ (I hate C++!!!)

mpg12play v0.1-v0.3: Sep 22-25, 2000
       The first try, hacked together in a half hour! I've used libmpeg3
       from www.heroinewarrior.com up to the version 0.3, but there were

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    * native ALSA 1.x support (not through 0.9 emulation)
    * better multibuffer support in VIDIX nVidia driver
    * pan & scan support in VIDIX nVidia driver

    FFmpeg/libavcodec:
    * H263 AIC and MQ encoding support
    * fixed low delay decoding
    * fixed H263+ encoding without UMV
    * lots of CBR improvements
    * MB type and QP visualization
    * lots of code cleanup
    * intra & inter dequantization split -> speedup
    * fixed stereo IMA ADPCM encoding

    * initial interlaced MPEG4 encoding
    * improved visual quality in SVQ3 decoder
    * fixed never-before-tested embedded string decoder in SVQ1
    * optimized quantization (including the trellis way)
    * Sierra VMD video decoder
    * MMX and SSE2 optimized H263 denoiser
    * better SVCD compliance (encoder side)
    * MMX and MMX2 optimized interlaced DCT decision
    * various cleanup, memleak and segfault fixes
    * slightly optimized (2x faster) the MPEG layer 3 decoder
    * grayscale coded MJPEG decoding support
    * avimszh and avizlib decoders
    * "packed" XviD decoding
    * fixed some bugs in RV20 B-frames decoding
    * closed GOP encoding

    Others:
    * -codecs-file option for specifying alternative codecs.conf file
    * fixed some minor bugs in the GUI
    * prevent sig11 when $HOME is not set
    * fix some command line handling corruptions
    * Swedish and Polish yes/no options in config files
    * support binding F11 and F12 keys
    * TOOLS/divx2svcd updated


  pre3try2: security fix release Mar 3, 2004

    Security:
    * HTTP parser remote heap overflow vulnerability fixed

    * support for MMS streams with UTF urls
    * big DVB demuxer update
    * fixed MOV demuxer to always read ImageDesc (fixes ffsvq3 bugs)
    * fixed an old bug in AVI/Waveformatex size calculation
    * XviD API-4 (1.0 beta2) support
    * improved FLAC-in-OGG support
    * Matroska: better AC3 detection
    * Matroska: VobSubs, MP2, FLAC, AAC and HE-AAC support
    * improved detection of Real RTSP through URL analysis
    * fixed stereo 16 bit TWOS
    * fixed MPNG when using BGR24 images

    * optimized eq2 filter
    * weighted gamma support in the eq2 filter
    * new filters: hue, spp, fil, yuvcsp
    * alternative postprocessing filter (spp)
    * big scale filter updates
    * zrmjpeg filter, a kick-ass MJPEG encoder using FFmpeg/libavcodec
    * filmdint: new inverse telecine filter, heavily MMX and 3DNow! optimized

    FFmpeg/libavcodec:
    * Lagrange multipliers instead of qscale, encoding quality much improved
    * fixed an old bug in MPlayer's support code

    * direct rendering support in MJPEG
    * massive MLib optimizations
    * more VQA files supported
    * Theora support
    * Sunplus JPEG (SP5X) support
    * H263 GOB fixes
    * massive cleanups
    * reduced memory footprint (!)
    * fixed decoding if aspect ratio changes
    * MMX2 optimizations in HuffYUV
    * lots of bugs squashed in HuffYUV

    * "av_log" logging API
    * support for buffer hints from codecs
    * BGR24, RGB555 and PAL8 image formats
    * 8BPS, MS RLE, MS Video1, QT RPZA, QT SMC, FLIC and TrueMotion1 decoders
    * 16x8 MV visualisation support
    * H263 overlapped block motion compensation (OBMC), 4MV support
    * H263 alternative inter vlc support
    * H263 deblocking filter (MMX optimized)
    * H263 modified quantization support
    * H263 slice structured mode support
    * Real RV20 decoder (with B-frame support)

    Drivers:
    * VIDIX equalizer support in fbdev, svga and vesa
    * VIDIX colorkeying support in fbdev, svga and vesa

  pre2: Oct 5, 2003

    Security:
    * remotely exploitable buffer overflow in the ASF streaming code fixed

    DOCS:
    * Spanish and Russian translations almost finished
    * French, Hungarian, Polish translations updated
    * New Romanian translation started

    * presets support in swscaler filter
    * new audio filter export, for supporting visual effect applications
    * correct select handling in bmovl filter

    FFmpeg/libavcodec:
    * better DivX/XviD bug detection code
    * Id RoQ decoder
    * Interplay MVE decoder
    * WC3/Xan video decoder
    * Xan DPCM, DK3 & DK4 ADPCM audio decoders
    * detect old XviD with fourcc=DIVX
    * vp3 decoder fixes
    * improved the Alpha optimizations
    * x86 optimizations are threadsafe now
    * settable scene change threshold
    * better MPEG1/MPEG2 conformance encoder

    * various realmedia a-v sync fixes
    * realaudio v4 demuxer
    * realaudio 14_4 and 28_8 codecs support (both binary DLLs and native code)
    * realmedia rtsp:// support (independent from the live.com rtsp stuff!)
    * Matroska demuxer
    * demuxer: enabling MPEG4-ES autodetection, H264-ES support
    * .wav extradata parsing (for truespeech, atrac3 etc)
    * MPEG-TS (Transport Stream) and TIVO demuxers
    * DVB (Digital Video Broadcasting) input driver
    * hwac3: DTS passthru support
    * new filters: down3dright, detc, telecine, tfields, ilpack, ivtc, dsize,

    * SGI image files decoding (-mf)
    * Theora video (using libtheora/libogg) support
    * DivX.com 5.0.5 libs support
    * support for latest XviD en/decoder features
    * decoder for Hauppauge PVR 250/350 MB-YUV format (fourcc HM12)
    * support for Vanguard's win32 H264 etc codecs
    * Video for Linux 1: various bugfixes, video eq support
    * Video for Linux 2 support
    * TV support: kick-ass image format handling
    * mp3lib: moved the assembly sources into gcc inline assembly (c)
    * mp3lib: sync with mpg123 0.59s-pre
    * mp3lib: final layer-1 support
    * mp3lib: skip trashed first MP3 frame, fixes many buggy/misdetected files
    * imported a working FAAD version
    * 8BPS (Planar RGB) support
    * working DVD (libmpdvdkit) support for Cygwin/MinGW

    FFmpeg/libavcodec:

    * MPEG1 slice encoding support
    * MSMPEG4 2-pass support
    * H264 video decoding
    * Indeo 3 video decoding
    * VP3 video decoder (buggy somtimes)
    * Sorenson 3 (SVQ3) video decoder (it's actually a H264 variant)
    * 3IV1 (3ivx v1) decoding
    * ASV1 (ASUS Video v1) and ASV2 (ASUS Video v2) en/decoding
    * Improved SVQ1 decoding (using FFmpeg VLC functions)
    * truncated unary binarization, unary k-th order exp golomb binarization :)
    * FFV1: lossless YUV codec, compresses a lot better than huffyuv, but slower

    * ao_oss: limited channels handling fixed
    * fixed OGM subtitles and iconv
    * fixed -subcp option with unicode truetype fonts
    * -mf: type detection (based on extension), better defaults
    * vo_xv: -fixed-vo support fixed (fullscreen switching)
    * OGG-in-AVI (audio format 0xFFFE) demuxing fixed
    * vorbis decoding fixed (outer loop cleanup)
    * swscaler: 4bpp depth 1 pixel/byte format support for -vo svga
    * missing error message in command line parser for missing parameters
    * swscaler: YVU9->YV12 fixes
    * -ao mpegpes + -ac hwac3 fixed
    * -ao pcm bogus WAV header fixed
    * -vo x11 + -wid fixed
    * auto-insert the 'palette' filter if needed, support fixed in filters
    * the sig11 when playing second audio-only file fixed
    * configure: detection of cdda, nas, i18n, svgalib, faad2, lame fixed
    * -af/-af-adv support in mencoder fixed
    * libmpdvdkit2: upgraded to use libdvdcss 1.2.5

    Features:
    * raw video support (-rawvideo, similar to -rawaudio)
    * experimental MPEG4-ES support (enable with -demuxer 27 -fps xxx)
    * new video filter: field (cheap deinterlacer)
    * DVD/vobsub improvements: positioning, optional gaussian blur scaler
    * vf_bmovl: 400% speedup :)
    * libavcodec: native DV audio decoder
    * GIF demuxer (for animated GIFs)
    * new noise removal filter: -vop denoise3d
    * per-channel gamma and MMX-opt'ed bri/cont/saturation support in -vop eq2
    * live.com lib support cleanup, support for more stream types
    * importing the playtree into the Gui instead of gui's own playlist hack
    * support for the XviD and DivX4/5linux libraries at the same time
    * -fstype option: override priority/layer of the fullscreen switch methods
    * libavcodec: some B-frames related encoding failures/crashes fixed

  rc3:  "BugfixCounter" Jan 19, 2003

    Important fixes:
    * X11 fullscreen switching (yes, again...) rewritten, some x11 code cleanup
    * Voxware and QuickTime DLLs finally work (was broken in some contexts)
    * VIDIX Radeon support cleanup, should really solve the pink screen bugs
    * Cygwin: -vo directx crashes and garbled picture with some files fixed
    * OGM/OGG seeking (broken frames) fixed, subtitle fixes, XCD support
    * libaf: big (audio filter layer) updates, floating point support, speedup
    * ffwma2 fixed (better error resilience)
    * SPU queueing - fixes missing or early disappearing DVD subtitles
    * the mysterious DVD audio delay (150-300ms) fixed
    * extension-based fileformat detection fixed the .mp3 vs. MPEG-PS conflict
    * cache2 keeps buffer for non-seekable media, fixes quicktime streaming

    Fixes:
    * mp3lib CPU detection part cleanup, 'decwin' linker problem fixed
    * various cddb:// fixes, support of netbsd-1.6
    * libmpdvdkit2: Fix DVD authentication on Solaris 9
    * libmpdvdkit2: libdvdcss upgraded to 1.2.4 (keeping the key cache patch)
    * libmpdvdkit2: fixed decryption from multiple VOB files (hdd or darwin)
    * -ao arts, -ao oss: Fix 8-bit sound support
    * -vop expand + FFmpeg codecs conflicts solved, some other -vop bugs fixed
    * -ac ffmp2 with MPEG files (sig11) fixed
    * QT Qclp audio codec initialization fixed
    * mplayer exit codes cleanup (0 for quit/eof, 1 for error)
    * -ao win32 sync problems solved, -autosync 100 is still recommended
    * -vo gif89a uninit sig11 fixed

    * libavcodec: wmv2 decoder (buggy/untested)
    * DVB "HEAD" (aka. NEWSTRUCT) drivers support
    * Subtitles background bounding-box support (optional grey-level & opacity)
    * libaf: 3 new filters: panning, compressor/limiter and a noise gate
    * per-mediafile config file support (for file-specific options)
    * iconv (codepage conversion) support for OGM (OGG) subtitles
    * v4l: user friendly channel tuning
    * Freetype & old-style RAW font support usable (compilable) at the same time
    * vo_directfb2, vo_dfbmga: DirectFB 0.9.16 support
    * libavcodec: motion estimation pre pass, qpel encoding, trellis quantization
    * libavcodec, liba52, mp3lib: Altivec optimizations
    * keep window's aspect ratio at resizing (x11, xv), requires WM support
    * -geometry option, also accepts X11 syntax
    * real .bin+.cue (S)VCD images support (-vcd 2 -cuefile xxx.cue)
    * postprocess: YUV 411/422/444 support, stride fixes
    * jumping of overlapping subs fixed, sorting is automatical, iconv fixes
    * MPEG2 telecine detection and automatic inverse telecine (mplayer only)

    Gui:
    * correct GTK widget destroy event handler
    * fullscreen switching fixed (sync with x11_common)
    * fix gtk submenu

    * New, rewritten version of vo_svga (vidix support etc) and vo_gif89
    * yuv4mpeg vs. framedrop/frameskip fixed

    Codecs:
    * libavcodec: fixed possible 20% speedloss bug
    * support for the experimental (and buggy) dev-api-3 XviD CVS branch
    * fallback to built-in codecs.conf if no compatible external file found
    * experimental Sorenson 1/3 encoding (using quicktime DLLs)
    * More accurate video bitrate calculation for AVI files
    * Presets support for libmp3lame encoding
    * CDDA seeking fixed

    * new config/cmdline parser code (optional)
    * OSD menu system (preferences, shell, file selector etc)
    * libaf: runtime cpudetection, volume, equalizer, better format conversion
    * subtitle overlapping can be disabled, added subtitle sorting
    * subtitle dump to JACOsub and SAMI formats
    * displays URLs from 'Reference Media' type MOV files, dump generic data
    * find best (longest) streams in MOV files (twotowers...)
    * get position/length function in demuxers - for slavemode & -indentify
    * -ao alsa9 surround fixes, 8-bit PCM fixed
    * -vo dfbmga: -dr support, fixed OSD flickering
    * -stop-xscreensaver fixed, support for KDE screensaver too
    * More compiler warning fixes
    * Altivec (G4) support

  pre10:  "BirthdayCounter" Nov 11, 2002
    Docs:
    * DVD auth, VCD# sections extended (DOCS/cd-dvd.html)
    * unified *BSD sections, extended cygwin

    Fixes:
    * LIRC error message (Error while reading cmd fd X : Success) fixed
    * playback of some (streamed?) DivX files fixed, starting with non-I frames.
    * -vo png fixed (removed builtin YV12 support, removed OSD)
    * some .mp3 playback/seek segfaults fixed
    * vidix mach64 colorkey on PPC fixed
    * -ao sdl now handles "featureless" soundcards
    * -vo zr fixes

    * various small bugfixes, endianess fixes
    * mencoder: -pass option removed, use -divx4opts pass=N / -lavcopts vpass=N
    * mencoder: "ff_rate_estimate_qscale: Assertion `q>0.0' failed" fixed!
    * mencoder: -ovc xvid fixes, cleanup, enhancements
    * screensaver/dpms re-enabling fixed
    * realvideo demuxer fixes - ASF-style stream detection method

    Features:
    * -ao win32 (for windows port)
    * libavcodec: native WMA v1/v2 (aka. DivX audio) decoder
    * hw-accelerated video eq for -vo x11 and gl2, using DirectColor colormap

    * -vo dfbmga - play video on Matrox G400's second head using directfb 0.9.14
    * RealAudio ATRC (sony atrac3) audio support (using binary plugin)

    Filters:
    * -af/-af-adv options cleanup
    * now auto-inserting -vop lavc for MPEG-only vo's
    * video filter API documented :)
    * better deblocking filter (-vop pp), pp/npp syntax changed!
    * -vop 2xsai - 2x scaler for drawn images (low color cartoon anims)
    * -vop unsharp - an sharp/blur filter, nice, but very slow
    * -vop il - (de)interleave fields

    Cleanup:
    * divx4_vbr.c is now really GPL - with the permission of the DivX.com guys!
    * cyuv decoder restructuring, now supports planar YUV formats, too
    * removed obsolete variables, like has_audio, has_video, allow_dshow, fifo
    * help_mp-XX.h files moved to help/ subdirectory, removed obsolete entries
    * the obsolete 0x1ff eof hack removed from MPEG-ES demuxer and decoders
    * stheaders.h cleanup, removed unneeded wine includes from mplayer core
    * tons of compiler warning fixes, including some 10l ones
    * mga/xmga vo shared code, vesa and svga drivers cleanup
    * major vo drivers are now -fixed-vo compliant: x11, xv, xvidix, xmga, gl2
    * cleanup of libmpdemux option handling - now it's mplayer-independent again

    * runtime selectable IDCT algo
    * faster MPEG1/2 decoder
    * DV decoding (both PAL and NTSC)
    * MPEG1 2-pass encoding support
    * better/cleaner error resilience (done in a 2nd pass after decoding)
    * H263/MPEG4 out of order slice decoding
    * -lavdopts bug= reworked, now uses flags, autodetects most of them
    * complete MPEG4 GMC decoding support


  pre8: Sep 18, 2002

    * MOV files edit-list handling fixed - solved 'short read' issue

    Features:
    * new demuxer for .PVA files (fileformat of TV/DVB apps on win32)
    * -mf now supports TGA (24/32bpp uncomp/rle) images
    * libavcodec: support for interlaced MPEG4 _de_coding
    * libavcodec: aspect ratio encoding support (MPEG4, MJPEG, H263?)
    * win32 DLL loader merged/synced with avifile CVS

  pre7: Sep 5, 2002
    Cleanup:
    * libvo2, old input code & sis_vid removed, other code cleanups

    Code:
    * vfw/vfwex cleanup, support for runtime csp queries, 8bpp support
    * new native mszh/zlib codec
    * libavcodec: 2-pass control code rewritten, now everything customizable
    * libavcodec: MPEG4/XviD en/decoding support improved, rv10 decoding fixes
    * various realvideo demuxer and video codec fixes, sipr audio support
    * new video filters: soft eq (brightness), halfpack (deinterlacer), film noise
    * .ogm subtitles support
    * optional freetype 2.1+ support for runtime-scalable .ttf font rendering
    * various networking and mms:// fixes, live.com support improved

    * mmst:// streaming support
    * .ogm (OGG) audio/video stream selection
    * native Micro$oft MPEG4v1 (MPG4) codec, error concealement for all MPEG4s
    * various libavcodec encoding improvements
    * MPEG1 && -vo x11 crash fixed when movie's height%16!=0
    * raw (uncompressed) video fixed (AVI & MOV)
    * flickering/blocking fixed for old vfw codecs (indeo3, cinepak etc)
    * introduced codecs.conf versioning to avoid problems caused by too old conf

    Display:
    * some more X11 cleanup, icewm fullscreen fixes, -vo gl/gl2 fixed

    * libmpdvdkit + gcc 3.x issue solved (our CFLAGS triggered a gcc3 bug...)
    * GUI aspect ratio and fullscreen switch fixes, cleanups
    * low FPS .wmv playback fixed
    * Mac OS X (Darwin) port?
    * buggy v4l audio grabbing disabled, we cannot fix, but patches are welcomed!
    * various MJPEG improvements in libavcodec

  pre2: Apr 30, 2002
    * hwac3 fixes (try AFMT_AC3 first), bigendian fixes for PCM audio
    * 2-pass encoding with libavcodec (-lavcopts vpass=x), B frames support
    * faster .ogg seeking (use -forceidx for slow but accurate one)
    * audio-only with gui fixed
    * -rootwin fixed for x11, xv, xmga, xvidix
    * aspect ratio fix for ffmpeg12
    * MPEG-ES detection fixed
    * runtime cpudetect disabled by default
    * support for many new win32 codecs, including mss1, tm20, ucod, truespeech
    * DivX audio dll sig11 with glibc 2.1.(2|3) fixed
    * includes libmpdvdkit - patched kit of DVD libraries (enabled for linux+freebsd)
    * manpages updated
    * 'f' (fullscreen switch) fixed for some WMs, still has problems
    * various freebsd and openbsd portability patches
    * options -xy,-zoom,-flip usable with mencoder too, -xy keeps aspect
    * -vop lavc, using new fast best libavcodec for realtime MPEG1 transcoding
    * fixed gtk gui crash with --disable-mencoder
    * no more black vobsub subtitles :)

  pre1: Apr 21, 2002
    * 100% GPL - yeah, so what?

    * prelimenary dvdnav support (experimental)
    * Direct Rendering - can't be used with libavcodec yet, sorry
    * ability to display subtitles under the image, on black bands
    * FFmpeg (included) now supports decoding MPEG4v2 (MP42) and DivX 5.0 files too
    * greatly enhanced MPEG4 encoder (libavcodec)
    * audio-only (WAV/MP3/WMA/OGG) file playback (console only)
    * playing/encoding audio from separate WAV/MP3 file
    * support for more fileformats, including the new and very popular .ogg
    * multiple files playback from console, including various playlist formats
    * and of course, faster than ever... :)

    * docs updates
    * help file translation updates

  pre2:
    * build fixes (install codecs.conf)
    * DVD subtitles improved (stability and pts fixes)
    * new options: -alang, -vlang, -rootwin, -npp ... (rtfm)
    * dxr3 fixes
    * ac3 passthrough fix
    * docs updates
    * make install

  pre1:
    * new file formats (MOV, FLI/FLC, VIVO, RealMedia, NuppelVideo, yuv4mpeg, yuv4mpeg2)
    * more native codecs (CRAM, CVID, FLI, generic ADPCM (and IMA) decoder, g723, XAnim)
    * MEncoder (a tool for encoding video to DivX4+MP3)
    * rewritten configure script (better autodetect, cleaner messages)
    * MMX/SSE optimizations
    * faster postprocessing filter, syntax change (deinterlacing support)
    * directshow code in C
    * software YV12 scaling

  - small fixes

mplayer v0.11-pre25-CVS:  yeah, we moved to SourceForge CVS!
  - DOCS updated (email address changed from arpi@* -> maillist)
  - LIRC fix, mplayer_lirc changed back to mplayer [Andreas Ackermann]
  - stream.c: unsigned int fixes, required for some strange ASF files
  - asfheader.c: using w=h=b=1 for audio_concealment_none
  - VCD-related stuff moved from stream.c to vcd_read.c
  - added DGA driver by Andreas Ackermann
  - added debian/ subdir for the debian package makers... see DOCS/DEBIAN
  - new Makefile/dependency system

    TODO: ./configure should detect LIRC installed and better Makefile handling
  - added AVI_NINI parser for broken (no index) non-interleaved files

mplayer v0.11-pre22: Feb 16, 2001
  last fixes, release is coming soon!
  - non-interleaved AVI EOF bug fixed  [thanks to DC-1 for help]
  - "You" strings in Makefile after make dep bug fixed...  [thx to DC-1]
  - SDL disabled by default. You have to ./configure --enable-sdl to enable.
  - homepage updated by Gabucino
  - homepage updated by A'rpi
  - FAQ updated by A'rpi

fork()  -> 0.12pre1

mplayer v0.11-pre21: Feb 12, 2001
  MPEG1 pp, stereo fix
  - "Skip chunk xxxx" messages moved from -v to -v -v -v debug level...
    [thanks to Christoph H. Lampert]
  - DivX postprocess filter works for MPEG1 files too! (-divxq 1/3/7/31)
  - MPEG layer-2 audio fixed - it's stereo again!!!
  - audio select() detection: if detected audio buffer size == 0, then
    exit with message "recompile mplayer with #undef HAVE_AUDIO_SELECT"...
  - syncfb driver added to the source tree, under drivers/
    (it's very similar to mga_vid, but has syncronization to screen and
     de-interlace features)
  - draw_slice in syncfb finished for G400 cards (plays MPEG 1/2, opendivx)
    (de-interlacing has been disabled, because it's buggy now)

mplayer v0.11-pre20: Feb 11, 2001
  NI-AVI support, small fixes & patches...
  - ASF parser: flag 0x40 (explicit packet size) implemented [Marvin]
  - new option to select DSP device:  -dsp   (default: /dev/dsp) [Pontscho]
  - option -o changed to -vo
  - ./configure: applied patches  [LGB,Ian Kumlien,Magnus Pfeffer]
  - AVI chunk_id->ds mapper moved to demux_avi_select_stream()
  - added non-interleaved AVI parser
  - added non-interleaved AVI detection (if a_pos-v_pos distance > 1MB)

mplayer v0.11-pre19: Feb 9, 2001
  small fixes...
  - vo_xmga.c: G200 draw_slice fixed
    xmga + mga: common part (draw_frame & draw_slice) moved to mga_common.c
  - some independent code (asfinfo.c and GL-test) moved to the new TOOLS subdir
  - movinfo.c added to TOOLS (small util to dump MOV file structure)
  - AVI & ASF stream id detection changed: now using IDs from the header
    (but still can be overriden by -aid or -vid)     [Christoph H. Lampert]
  - native MS-GSM audio codec ported from avifile source  (-afm 6)
    [thanks for the testfile to Christoph H. Lampert]
  - README updated (input & codec lists)
  - implemented ASF audio descrambling  [Dirk Vornheder & Einon]
    -> that weird_al_yankovic ASF is not so weird now :)
  - AUTHORS file changed

mplayer v0.11-pre18: Feb 7, 2001
  patch release :)
  - skip broken ASF fragments (for better seeking)
  - seeking code cleanup in sources (now it's in a switch(){})
  - opendivx encoding bitrate option changed from -divxq to -br
    (for the DivX -> DivX re-encoding)
  - TO DO section moved to file TODO
  - applied ./configure and Makefile changes patch from LGB
  - libvo function changes by Pontscho: x11 (with -fs), xmga (bugfixed!)
  - libvo: driver sources renamed from video_out_*.c -> vo_*.c
  - libvo: added uninit() function to drivers

  - libvo: sdl driver now closes SDL at QUIT...
  - small english fixes (docs & messages)   [Balazs Tibor]

mplayer v0.11-pre17: Feb 4, 2001
  fixes
  - ASF "missing video stream" fixed (stream id & 0x7F)  [Christoph H. Lampert]
  - added GL-test directory, it contains source and compiler script of a
    very simple open-gl texture updating (glTexSubImage) test program.
    if it runs well, then mplayer -o gl should work too.
    it works on G400+Utah-GLX, but segfaults in the G400 driver of X 4.0.2/DRI.
    try it with different cards/drivers, and please report me the results.
  - benchmarking in gltest.c: calculate fps and process times
  - ASF seeking v0.01-pre0.1 :)

mplayer v0.11-pre16: Feb 4, 2001
  ACM fixed
  - Win32/ACM audio codec fixed (most important for ASF with DivX audio):
    There was an output buffer size problem with the Win32/ACM audio codec
    at low bitrates (usually used for ASF files with DivX audio)
    Input and output buffer sizes are now queryed, problem solved :)
  - SDL support compiling hint by Michael Durller added to the FAQ
  - opendivx support in ASF files   [Gérard Lantau]
  - ./configure & Makefiles patch by Aaron Hope applied.
    (adds --with-win32libdir and fixes --with-x11libdir)
  - ./configure fixed, now it defaults to /usr/lib/win32 if detection failed

mplayer v0.11-pre15: Feb 2, 2001
  ASF sync fixed
  - ASF parser: now supports other than 0x5D segments  [Dirk Vornheder]
  - new ASF PTS reading: sync works now, including fps...
    (-fps no longer required!)  [thanks again to Eugene Kuznetsov for docs!]

mplayer v0.11-pre14: Feb 1, 2001
  small fixes, ASF sync v0.1 :)
  - version number incremented :)))
  - libvo / Xv driver swapped Red-Blue fixed
  - ASF timestamps implemented - now ASF A-V should be in sync if you
    specify the correct fps at commandline (-fps), +-1 fps allowed...
    [i haven't yet found method to get fps out from ASF headers :(((]
  - some error and consistency checking into demux_asf
    if you see many warning! messages playing an ASF file, then contact
    me and upload the file (first 1MB is enough if it represents the problem)
    Don't forget: there is no public doc about the ASF file format, so
    everything we know is suspected and can be wrong... without your help
    we never will have working ASF player...
  - ASF fragment offset checks disabled for grouping...

mplayer v0.11-pre13: Jan 31, 2001
  libvo changes, MPEG bitrate, VCD fix, ASF grouping
  - libvo: draw_slice() interface changed, now it has src stride[3] and
    destination rect dimension (w,h,x,y)
    It's able to blit whole frames, not only 16-pixel slices...
  - libmpeg2 and opendivx codec changed to use new draw_slice()
    -> opendivx extra 64-pixel width band at right disappeared!
  - MPEG bitrate fix: if picture->bitrate==0x3FFFF (means "unspecified" ?)
    then using standard VCD bitrate (75*2324 bytes/sec)
    -> fixed seeking for those MPEGs with "16MBit/s" bitrate...
  - drivers/sis_vid: video4linux interface disabled
  - broken VCD playing fixed: stream_reset shouldn't seek to 0x0...
    [bugreport: Kang Sun]
  - asf_parser: grouping implemented!  [test file provided by Gabucino :))]

    if fails (useful for people with old gcc and new cpu :))
  - removed -fomit-frame-pointer from OPTFLAGS at config.mak
  - version number incremented [Gabucino]
  - odivx encoder fix: allow long (longer than xxxx.avi) destination filenames
    (sizeof() changed to strlen()...)  [Gabucino]
  - AVI writer - overwrite disabled (exits with error message if destination
    file already exists...)  [Gabucino]
  - use -divxq to set encoding bitrate (in bits (no kbits!) default: 780000)
  - no audio decoding if -encode option is used
  - audio streaming disabled if -nosound specified (setting audio_id to -2)
  - fast MPEG-ES detection (doesn't read the whole MPEG-PS file)
  - compile-time option to disable using soundcard driver's select()
    (requires for some people with buggy/pre-alpha/etc sound driver...)

mplayer v0.11-pre11: Jan 29, 2001
  streaming fixes, ASF support pre, indeo5 fix
  - asf/asfinfo.c improved: now it dumps streams to files - need testing!
    (it's ready to be converted to ASF demuxer and intergated into MPlayer)
  - stream.c / stream_reset() fix: now it really seek back to 0 position!
  - ASF file format detection added (no ASF reading yet!!!)
  - ASF demultiplexer added, changes in demuxer.c to handle fragmented packets
  > it plays ASF video well, but still has problems with DivX/WMA audio. :(((
  - indeo 5 playing fixed (removed ICDECOMPRESS_UPDATE from flags)
  - xmga resizing problems with some window managers, so default order is
    changed xmga,xma... to mga,xmga,...
  - found gcc bug: compiling MPlayer with flags
    OPTFLAGS=-O -g -march=i686 -mcpu=i686 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math

  - runaway.bride.sample.avi seeking segfault discovered: AC3 resync fails :(
  - improved signal handling: module name is now printed. audio_resync added.
  - RGB opendivx encoding implemented, now AVI->opendivx is possible.

mplayer v0.11-pre10: Jan 22, 2001
  OpenDivX encoding, streaming fixes, AVI seek fixes
  - new libvo driver: odivx  (OpenDivX File Writer)
  - AVI file writting support, new option:  -encode filename
    to encode an MPEG/VOB/VCD to opendivx:
      mplayer file1.mpg -encode file2.avi -o odivx -nosound
    (sound encoding/copy is not yet supported)
  - libvo: default driver priority changed to: xmga,mga,syncfb,3dfx,xv,x11,gl
  - AVI writer: index support
  - small fixes in AVI writer to be compliant (adjusted chunk/list lengths)
  - demuxer.c: stream buffering fixes:
    - missing {} in mplayer.c occuring audio reads when has_audio=0
    - reordered packet reader and pack count checks -> no more unwanted EOF
    - added 4MB buffer memory usage limit to demuxed streams
  - CPU flags in ./configure changed:

  - depth calculation in vo_init() changed (Pontscho's version couldn't
    make difference between 15 and 16bpp)
  - x11 driver now uses vo_init() instead of get_depth()
  - yuv2mmx: 15bpp not really supported -> removed from list, now
    conversion is done (well) by the C code -> MPEG play in 15bpp works!
  - AVI playing support added in 15bpp (memcpy)
  - AVI playing support added in 16bpp (C 15->16 converter by me)
  - AVI playing support added in 16bpp (MMX 15->16 converter by Strepto)
  - libvo/x11: yuv2rgb used MMX code on non-MMX CPUs too!!! fixed...
  - all x11 modes tested (and MPEG/24bpp byteorder fixed):
                  MPEG:            AVI/VfW:
        15bpp    C convert        memcpy
        16bpp    MMX/C convert    MMX/C convert
        24bpp    C convert        memcpy
        32bpp    MMX/C convert    memcpy / C conv.
    => now all the movie types are viewable using the -o x11 driver!

mplayer v0.11-pre3: Jan 5, 2001
  MPEG fixes, fullscreen support
  - vertical.mpg serious libvo (x11,gl) segfaults fixed:
    yuv2rgb_mmx requires one more lines that vertical image size...
    fixed (allocating memory for width*(height+1)).   [bugreport: Gabucino]
  - Pontscho's fullscreen patch applied!
    Using option -fs will maximize window size (for all resizeable drivers
    including mga!) and disable window decorations (x11,Xv,gl only)
  - simple inttypes.h included for libc5 (and glibc2.0 too?) users
  - homepage updates (links changed ftp->http)

mplayer v0.11-pre2: Jan 4, 2001
  better user messages, MP3 codec selection, demuxer changes
  - w32codec.zip restored at the FTP site (somehow it damaged...)
  - added version.h, and used its content everywhere
  - 'premature end-of-file' problem fixed: freeing audio buffers and
    setting d_audio->id=-2 if has_audio==0  [bugreport by Dmitri Pogosyan]
  - some more messages added if verbose>=1

  - automatic fallback to mp3lib/mpg123 if l3codeca.acm can't be loaded/inited

mplayer v0.11-pre1:
  AVI sync fixes
  - AVI audio seeking improvements: now using nBlockAlign value to seek
    inside the chunk, so DivX audio works without big delays!!!
  - AVI PTS calculation modified: counting video PTS when skip_video_frames>0
    so new audio PTS values will be correct. Solved many sync probs!
  - A-V sync with AVI files fixed!
    Now only the Desperado-trailer has 1.0 sec delay after seeking.
  - fixed AVI sync in -bps mode too! :)  (perfect except that Desperado AVI)

mplayer v0.10: Jan 1, 2001  "The new year" release!
  - testing
  - docs changed
  - it's time to release and remove the old buggy 0.09 version...

    - removed unused OMS and mpeg2dec stuff
    - decode_data rewritten, now works like parse_es.c
      => doesn't copy any data -> faster and less memory usage
  - mplayer.c sends code 0x1FF after every frame, so libmpeg2 knows
    when has to display it
  - mplayer.c: in_frame flag fixes, didn't work well with MPEG2 streams
    (because there is a 0x1B2 chunk between 0x100 and 0x101)
  - 'picture' changed from static to shmem-allocated
    -> better picture after codec restart (tested with JapAd.mpg)
    -> keep information of the header changes (after init)
  - MPEG image size changed, now only the real part of frame is displayed
    (no more green strip at the bottom)
    - picture struct: new fields: display_picture_width/height
    - image buffer allocation (shmem) is done by decode.c instead of libvo
  - new option:  -xy <value>  (resize both x/y direction)
    if value<=8  ->  x_scale = y_scale = value
    else         ->  x_size=value  y_size=aspectratio*x_size
  - mplayer.c: video output moved out from AVI/MPG init sections and
    now it's common code (added movie_size_x/y variables and out_fmt global)
  - new keys:
    ESC       => quit
    + and -   => adjust audio delay +- 0.1 second
    k         => kill/restart the MPEG codec process (for testing)
  - codec control interface changed: wait for syncword after (re)start
    to avoid receiving old frames => it's stable again!
  - removed (now unused) allocate/free image buffer code from libvo
  - mplayer: new internal variable for video format: has_video
       0 = none (unused yet)
       1 = MPEG 1/2 video
       2 = win32/VfW video codec
  - config.h has defaults for bps-based AVI sync and ALSA timer code options:
     #undef AVI_SYNC_BPS  => now it's disabled by default!!! use -bps to enable
     #define ALSA_TIMER   => now it's enabled by default!!! use -noalsa to dis.
  - help updated
  - prints max compressed framesize at exit (both AVI & MPEG)
  - AVI audio seeking fixed: some ACM codecs (DivX audio and ms-adpcm)
    can't seek inside a chunk, they are only able to play whole chunks.
    Current audio seeking has changed to seek inside the chunk only if the
    codec supports it (only internal codecs and ACM/MP3 allows it).
  - AVI: audio delay correction if can't seek inside the chunk

mplayer v0.10-pre6: Dec 24, 2000 "Xmas edition"
  MPEG signal & EOF fixes
  - ./configure: k6_mtrr (2.4.test11+) added [Pontscho]
  - `term destroys if mplayer (MPG) called from mc.ext` bug fixed:
    added sighandler to the 3rd process (MPEG codec) to avoid sig. recursion
  - better output at exit (handled now by exit_player())
  - MPEG EOF problem (codec restart) fixed: added EOF detection to parse_es.c
  - internal flag 'current_module' added to get more info at segfaults
    (contains module number where the segfault occurred)
  - audio detection changed: using afm=4 (Win32/ACM) for MP3 audio (AVI files)
    (you MUST have l3codeca.acm at /usr/lib/win32, or you have to use '-afm 1')

mplayer v0.10-pre3: Dec 10, 2000
  test release, verbose mode, new docs
  - new option:  -v  =  increment verbose level
    (debug printf's changed to verbose level-dependent)
    - default level: 0, only some informal output
    - init debug:    1, some basic debug infos, AVI header, function values
    - player debug:  2, print AVI indexes, chunk inputs, more debug infos
    - parser debug:  3, prints everything related to input parsers
    to increment verbose level, use multiple -v options (-v -v -v for level-3)
  - bitrate calculation for AVI files
  - README rewritten, added Troubleshooting and Bugreports sections
  - TVout directory added (only the scripts)

mplayer v0.10-pre2: Dec 8, 2000
  bugfix test release, bps-sync enabled
  - AVI: supporting both 0-based and movi-based index types (autodetect)
  - AVI: tested with VBR audio: plays well with -mc 0 option, seek doesn't
    work yet   [thanks to Alan Chen for testfile]
  - AVI: A-V sync to avg. byte/sec implemented (again) and enabled by default
    (disable with -nobps if you want)
  - ./configire: 3rd name ('kni') of the P3 added. Where is the compatibility?
  - useless '\' removed from libac3/Makefile  [Otvos Ferenc]

mplayer v0.10-pre1: Dec 5, 2000

    I need a very fast 15->16bpp converter for 16bpp support... anyone helps?

mplayer v0.09-pre2:
  bugfix test-release
  - removed unnecessary code from libmpeg2/header.c
    Walken told me that standard MPG/VOB streams must NOT use framerate
    and bitrate extension... and the ext. id check is done by the caller.
  - CRC support to mp3lib's MPEG audio layer-2 decoder
    thanks for bugreport & testfile to Samson

mplayer v0.09-pre1: Dec 1, 2000
  bugfix test-release
  - imported new libmpeg2 files (under testing...)
  - GL renderer flickering bug fixed (MMX missing emms() between yuv2rgb and
    glTexSubImage(), bug triggered by new Utah-GLX code)
    [thanks for Christian Birchinger]

mplayer v0.08: Nov 27, 2000
  Index support, AVI seeking, DLL loader fix, compilation fixes
  - Added support for chunk index usage (disable with -noidx option)
  - Removed code optimization flags from loader/Makefile because
    it segfaults if compile optimized code (it does some hacks with
    pointers, maybe the reordered code confuses it)
  - added new tool called aviparse  (read and check AVI file structure)
  - indexed and raw chunk info comparing, bad chunks dropped
  - termcap usage is optional (for those debian users without termcap)
  - #if HAVE_* fixed (to #ifdef HAVE_*)
  - ./configure supports new /proc/cpuinfo (2.4.0-test11)
      - sse is called 'sse' again
      - 'flags' field renamed to 'features'
  - Xv benchmark results added to DOCS/SPEED
  - AVI seeking (and other goodies, pause etc) implemented
    no PTS resync after seek yet.
  - default video_out driver changed from 'mga' to the first available driver
    new driver priority:  mga_vid, opengl, x11

mplayer v0.07: Nov 21, 2000

  - Updated makefiles, and tested a lot :)
  - Updated DOCS/INSTALL

mplayer v0.06: Nov 20, 2000
  Better codec selection
  - AVI audio&video codec selection moved to new codecs.c file,
    loader/driver.c and loader/afl.c modified for this
  - yuv support fixed, codecs.c setup flags to handle yuv properly
    yuv works fine with DivX, MPEG4, cvid, and upside-down iv50
  - DOCS/INSTALL updated
  - DOCS/SPEED updated, DivX benchmarks added

mplayer v0.05: Nov 18, 2000
  Merged with MPEGplayer 0.90pre6, first public release of AVI player
  - code merged with mpegplayer, new Makefile, some small modifications
  - docs updated and moved to DOCS

mplayer v0.04: Nov 17, 2000
  YUV (yuy2) support with DivX 3.11 DLL, some code cleanup, preview-release

mplayer v0.03: Nov 14, 2000

mplayer v0.01: Nov 11, 2000
  first preview version based on new MPEGplayer's codebase.
  it contains the win32 loader from avifile, and can decode DivX 3.11 video.

mpg12play v0.9-v0.95pre5: Oct 21-Nov 2, 2000
       MPEG codec was libmpeg2 (mpeg2dec) by Aaron Holtzman & Michel
       Lespinasse. It's great, optimized very fast C code with perfect
       image quality and 100% MPEG standard conformance.

mpg12play v0.5-v0.87: Sep 28-Oct 20, 2000
       MPEG codec replaced with DVDview by Dirk Farin, it was a great
       stuff, but it was slow and was written in C++ (I hate C++!!!)

mpg12play v0.1-v0.3: Sep 22-25, 2000
       The first try, hacked together in a half hour! I've used libmpeg3
       from www.heroinewarrior.com up to the version 0.3, but there were