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DivX Shiny New Features
> We here at DivX like to spend our time making things work faster, better, and with some serious style. With that in mind we’ve just finished a whole bunch of work on the DivX decoder, including many performance quality enhancements that we know you’re going to love!

Got to say the sharpening looks pretty sweet. I just wonder how it’ll look on moving pictures instead of stills like they show on the webpage. And if my poor little PVR can mange.

:: Reviews : Switching to Windows: Not as easy as you think

> I thought to myself, “Why not use this opportunity to try a fresh install of this ‘Windows XP’ I keep hearing so much about.” So I grabbed an all-in-one Intel board, and a spare 200GB IDE hard-drive we had kicking around, then rooted through the cookie jar for some RAM chips that I jammed into slots until I heard clicks. Then I rooted through the trash pile until I found a Windows XP OEM CD, and we were all set for this grand electronic experiment!

Pretty funny article about installing Windows XP, written from a Unix point of view and handling all the normal points a linux review does.

Security Fix - Brian Krebs on Computer and Internet Security - (washingtonpost.com)

> Finally, it’s worth a follow-up mention that — as promised — the IE patch bundle also removes a component left behind by a patch designed to remove some of the more dangerous features of anti-piracy software installed by Sony BMG music CDs.

Heh. Sony messed up and now Microsoft is cleaning up after them.

Microsoft Touts Vista’s Restart Manager Feature

> Microsoft Corp. is working on a significant new feature for Windows Vista, known as Restart Manager, which is designed to update parts of the operating system or applications without having to reboot the entire machine.

About time, Unixen have had this since way back when. Rebooting is a horrible solution, and it’s not all that hard to do correctly. Let’s just hope this thing works more often than not, as Windows has a tendancy to refuse letting go of file-locks it has aquired even though the program using the file is long gone.

Changelog, Download

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