MPlayer

This release contains dozen of fixes for various problems reported by
users, including ones related to DVD/VOB subtitles disappearing,
mms:// streaming, and fullscreen switching under Metacity and KDE
3.1. libaf, the new audio filter layer, has been introduced. It does
automatic formating, and samplerate and channel number conversion for
less featureful soundcards. The new option -autosync should help with
buggy soundcard drivers. Audio/video codec and output driver selection
has been reworked. The code cleanup has continued, and memleaks are
starting to be eliminated.

A fix for the http:// infinite memory leak bug, some WMS9 mms:// fixes, various SPARC, HP/UX, and NetBSD/OpenBSD portability fixes, demuxer fixes for >2GB nuppelvideo files, an mencoder -ss fix for 3-pass encoding, another fix for the gui.conf locale bug, an X11 fullscreen switching fix, and a MOV files edit-list handling fix were made. The manpage has been re-formatted, small DOCS updates were made, and the ChangeLog files came back. Code cleanup was continued (more obsolete files were removed or merged), and the Win32 DLL loader has been synced with AviFile CVS.

Obsolote code (such as libvo2 and old input methods) was removed. libmpcodecs
was cleaned up. The behavior the of -afm/-vfm options has changed. Various
demuxer and codec fixes were mad for realvideo support. The 'sipr' audio codec
was added. New 2-pass bitrate control was implemented, and various rv10 and
MPEG4 en/decoding fixes were made in libavcodec. New video filters include
soft-eq, halfpack, and film noise. Networking fixes were made. Live.com support
was improved. The v4l capturing code was nearly rewritten. A new audio input
layer is used. Libmpdvdkit was upgraded to use libdvdcss 1.2.2. Better ac3
passthrough was implemented with ALSA 9. Various GUI fixes were made. Subtitle
selection and drag & drop support was added.

Native support was introduced for 3 major video codecs: MS's WMV1, Sorenson v1, and RealMedia's RV20/RV30/Cook family. Bugs in AVI, ASF, and MOV/MP4 demuxers were fixed. Libavcodec now supports direct rendering, and several problems of divx 3/4/5 and xvid en/decoding have been fixed. Ripping of DVD subtitles to VobSub or Subrip format (using GoCR) is supported. Vidix drivers, Xv -dr, directfb, svgalib, and ALSA 9 support have been fixed. The GUI has been improved; besides bugfixes, the a/v equalizer, playlist, and preferences menus now work. A script for creating VCD/SVCD called 'mencvcd' was added. Massive updates were also made to the documentation and manpage.

This, hopefully the last pre-release before 0.90, includes hundreds of small warning and bugfixes for the whole code and documentation. There are also major bugfixes for non-16*n-height mpeg1 files and for non-8*n-width Xv windows. New features include mmst:// support, native Arts audio support, xscreensaver disabling, and a pan&scan feature for Xv, Xvidix, and Xmga. A step-by-step quick setup & install howto named README was also included.