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Core support:

  • Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
  • New OSD system

Video output:

  • Fixed problems with OpenGL output
  • New –monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
  • Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format

Input:

  • Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
  • IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
  • IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
  • GnomeVFS input module
  • Support for RTP packet reordering
  • Fixed syntax for FTP URLs

Decoders:

  • Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
  • Musepack decoder using libmpdec
  • QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)

Services discovery:

  • UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
  • Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)

Video filters:

  • RSS feed overlay

Audio filters:

  • Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel Mixer and Dolby Surround

Stream output:

  • New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
  • Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
  • Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments

Interfaces:

  • new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
  • Mac OS X
    * New streaming and transcoding wizard
    * New extended controls panel
    * New bookmarks window
    * Fixed playlist sorting
    * Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
  • wxWidgets
    * Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
    * All the –wxwin-* options are now –wx-*
    * VLC update checker
    * Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
    * Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
  • Skins2
    * Tree playlist
  • HTTP
    * New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
    * Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in the names of files
    * Include macro to include other files
    * CGI 1.0 support

ActiveX plugin:

  • Should now work outside IE as well

Mac OS X port:

  • New script to delete the preferences automatically

Windows port:

  • Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming

Translations: (The following languages were added)

  • Korean
  • Romanian
  • Simplified Chinese

(The following languages were re-added: )

  • Swedish