1Version 21.1:
2
3(2020-11-28)
4 * Try to prevent a crash when using the actions play next/prev very fast.
5
6(2020-11-27)
7 * (Playlist) Fix position number after adding files.
8 * Hide the shuffle column by default.
9
10(2020-11-18)
11 * Pass the option gpu-context when using wayland.
12
13(2020-11-09)
14 * Add mpsub to the extension list.
15
16(2020-10-26)
17 * (Find subtitles) Add filters for Spanish and Portuguese languages.
18
19(2020-10-22)
20 * Add cache in seconds and cache speed to the OSD info.
21
22(2020-10-21)
23 * Add option to display the remaining time in the status bar.
24
25(2020-10-07)
26 * Add the packages youtube-dl and python-is-python3 to the "recommends"
27   section in the deb package.
28
29(2020-09-14)
30 * Try to prevent the video outside the GUI when using Wayland.
31 * The shuffle button in the playlist window can be turned on/off.
32
33
34Version 20.6:
35
36(2020-05-19)
37 * New option in the help menu to help install youtube-dl.
38
39(2020-05-18)
40 * The internal youtube code has been removed and now smplayer just
41   uses youtube-dl to get the video urls.
42
43(2020-04-18)
44 * The shuffle option in the playlist does shuffle the items.
45
46(2020-04-15)
47 * Set a white background in the qr code label.
48
49
50Version 20.4.2:
51
52(2020-04-12)
53 * Fix youtube titles.
54
55(2020-04-10)
56 * Fix youtube.
57 * Don't use Qt script.
58
59
60Version 20.4.0:
61
62(2020-04-05)
63 * Possibility to enter the opensubtitles credentials.
64
65(2020-03-31)
66 * Use IPC with mpv.
67
68(2020-02-07)
69 * Fix for mpv 0.32.
70
71(2019-12-15)
72 * Possibility to search for shortcuts in the shortcut editor.
73 * Bug fix: the "previous subtitle" action didn't have a name.
74
75
76Version 19.10.2:
77
78(2019-11-05)
79 * (Linux) Try to prevent the player window to be larger than the desktop
80   after a resize.
81
82(2019-11-04)
83 * Fix compiling the web server on 32 bit with gcc 9.2.0.
84
85
86Version 19.10:
87
88(2019-10-26)
89 * Fix the control problem with mpv 0.30.
90 * Set minimum icon size for toolbars to 8 pixels.
91
92(2019-09-19)
93 * Allow negative margins for subtitles (mplayer only).
94 * (Chromecast) Set overwrite_vtt to true and sub_position to 95.
95
96(2019-09-13)
97 * Fix youtube.
98
99(2019-07-08)
100 * New audio extensions: mp2, mpc, wv, shn.
101
102
103Version 19.5:
104
105(2019-05-10)
106 * Fix for YouTube.
107
108(2019-03-18)
109 * Try to prevent to play invalid YouTube streams.
110
111(2019-03-11)
112 * Fix YouTube live streams (it seems to work only with mpv).
113
114(2019-02-25)
115 * Add actions for previous subtitle track, previous audio track
116   and previous video track.
117
118(2019-02-23)
119 * Add command line option -start.
120
121
122Version 19.1:
123
124(2019-01-27)
125 * Fix pause in mpris2.
126
127(2019-01-26)
128 * Possibility to play YouTube videos at 60 fps.
129
130(2019-01-08)
131 * Don't load the external audio file if it doesn't exist.
132
133(2018-11-22)
134 * Possibility to search for subtitles by title name.
135
136
137Version 18.10:
138
139(2018-10-09)
140 * Fixed the YouTube age restricted videos.
141
142(2018-10-07)
143 * Experimental code which can decrypt the YouTube signatures without
144   running javascript code.
145
146(2018-10-01)
147 * Add the option "Use adaptive streams" in Preferences -> Network.
148
149(2018-09-30)
150 * The internal code for YouTube now supports DASH streams, which provide
151   videos with better resolutions.
152
153
154Version 18.9:
155
156(2018-09-08)
157  * Fix Youtube.
158
159(2018-09-05)
160 * Display an icon in the system tray when the SMPlayer web server is running.
161
162(2018-09-03)
163 * Add option Play -> Cast to -> Smartphone/tablet. It displays a QR code
164   that you can scan to play the video on your device.
165
166(2018-08-31)
167 * Add truehd to the audio-spdif option.
168
169(2018-08-29)
170 * (Chromecast) Change the default value for the position of the subtitles
171   to -1 (default position).
172
173
174Version 18.6:
175
176(2018-06-18)
177 * List all video tracks in the View Information dialog.
178
179(2018-06-13)
180 * Fix the "busy" cursor when using the functions play previous/next
181   on Windows 10.
182
183(2018-06-05)
184 * Add an option in the playlist preferences to select if the playlist is
185   dockable inside the main window (old behaviour) or just a normal
186   window (new).
187
188(2018-05-27)
189 * Update the mongoose code which is used by the web server for the chromecast
190   feature. The old one failed to compiled with newer versions of gcc and
191   it seems it had several vulnerabilities.
192 * Add option use_player_shortcuts_in_playlist for smplayer.ini.
193
194
195Version 18.5:
196
197(2018-05-20)
198 * Add "opus" to the list of audio extensions and "part" to the list of
199   video extensions.
200
201(2018-05-19)
202 * The cursor keys work now in the playlist (as long as the playlist
203   is in a window and not docked).
204
205(2018-05-17)
206 * Fix compiling with Qt 5.11.
207
208(2018-05-15)
209 * Now it's possible to select which multimedia keys should be used as
210   global shortcuts.
211
212(2018-05-01)
213 * (Windows) It seems on some systems the multimedia key events are sent
214   twice by Qt, making some keys (like volume mute or play/pause) unusable.
215   Added code to try to detect this and ignore the second event.
216
217(2018-04-30)
218 * (Windows) Use the Windows GetCommandLine function to get the command line
219   arguments because it seems the Qt arguments function is not reliable to
220   get unicode characters.
221
222
223Version 18.4:
224
225(2018-04-22)
226 * Report errors in the status bar if the option to display a dialog for
227   errors is disabled.
228 * Set the option report_player_crashes to false by default on Windows.
229
230(2018-04-21)
231 * Remove the default shortcut key for the subtitle visibility action,
232   since it usually causes problems when the user accidentally presses it.
233
234(2018-04-08)
235 * Add an option in Preferences -> Advanced to set the OSD bar position.
236
237(2018-04-03)
238 * Fix accuracy of the tooltip in the timeslider.
239
240(2018-03-30)
241 * Add the option 'Use the system native file dialog' in
242   Preferences -> Interface.
243
244
245Version 18.3:
246
247(2018-03-16)
248 * (mpv) Prevent to show subtitles in the images created by the thumbnail
249   generator.
250
251(2018-03-03)
252 * Possibility to search for subtitles using the hash and filename methods
253   at the same time.
254
255(2018-02-23)
256 * Fix a bug which prevented to play some YouTube URLs.
257
258
259Version 18.2.2:
260
261(2018-02-15)
262 * The option Open -> URL can now also load YouTube playlists.
263
264(2018-02-08)
265 * Prevent the skins to be added to the themes combobox if the user folder
266   and the config folder are the same (happens in the portable version).
267 * Disable the screenshot actions if the screenshot folder is set to an
268   empty string.
269
270(2018-02-05)
271 * Add an option in Preferences -> Subtitles to select the opacity of the
272   background of the subtitles.
273
274(2018-02-02)
275 * The options to select the preferred number of track for audio and subtitles
276   are back.
277
278(2018-02-01)
279 * (mpv) Use direct3d as default video output since some users are having
280   troubles with the gpu output.
281
282
283Version 18.2:
284
285(2018-01-21)
286 * Add option osd_show_filename_duration for smplayer.ini which specifies
287   the time (in milliseconds) that the filename would be displayed on screen.
288
289(2018-01-16)
290 * Add support for YouTube playlists. In the playlist window, click in the
291   Load/save icon, select "Load playlist from URL" and paste the URL of
292   the YouTube playlist.
293
294(2018-01-15)
295 * (mpv) Don't use --video-stereo-mode since it's deprecated.
296 * Add option emulate_mplayer_ab_section for smplayer.ini.
297
298(2018-01-03 - 2018-01-16)
299 * The initialization of the audio and subtitle tracks has been simplified
300   and now it's possible to use a priority list of languages (it uses the
301   mplayer/mpv alang and slang options).
302
303
304Version 18.1:
305
306(2018-01-09)
307 * Fix Youtube.
308
309(2017-12-27)
310 * Prevent to display the OSD in fullscreen during initialization of playback.
311
312(2017-12-26)
313 * Use video/x-ogm+ogg in smplayer.desktop.
314
315
316Version 17.12:
317
318(2017-12-18)
319 * New action which displays the filename in the OSD for 2 seconds. Assigned
320   by default to Shift+O.
321 * Disable the internal/own handling of stereo3d when using mpv.
322
323(2017-12-10)
324 * The option to record a stream has been temporary removed.
325   It's currently broken.
326
327(2017-12-07)
328 * New option osd_bar_pos for smplayer.ini. It specifies the position of
329   the OSD bar (0 = top, 100 = bottom).
330
331(2017-12-03)
332 * Two new actions to take screenshots with or without subtitles (they only
333   work with mpv). Assigned by default to Ctrl+Shift+S and Ctrl+Alt+S.
334
335(2017-11-30)
336 * The support for DVD menus has been removed. It never worked well and also
337   mpv already removed support for it a long time ago.
338
339(2017-11-23)
340 * The option to open an informative page after an upgrade has been removed.
341
342
343Version 17.11.2:
344
345(2017-11-15)
346 * Allow wordwrap in the title in the thumbnail generator.
347
348(2017-11-13)
349 * Fix seek in MPRIS2 (fix function SetPosition).
350
351(2017-11-12)
352 * Prevent SMPlayer to cancel logout in KDE. (Bug #843)
353
354(2017-11-11)
355 * Fix a crash that may happen on KDE when the global menus
356   are activated. (Bug #839)
357
358
359Version 17.11:
360
361(2017-10-30)
362 * Cosmetic changes in the thumbnail generator.
363
364(2017-10-27)
365 * Add more precision in the thumbnail generator.
366
367(2017-10-25)
368 * (mpv) Improve the firequalizer filter.
369
370(2017-10-22)
371 * (mpv) Fix the option "AC3/DTS passthrough".
372
373(2017-10-21)
374 * Fix the option "add black borders on fullscreen".
375
376(2017-10-20)
377 * (mpv) Fix the software video equalizer.
378
379
380Version 17.10.2:
381
382(2017-10-14)
383 * Bug fix: display the time in the thumbnail generator pictures when SMPlayer
384   is compiled with Qt 5.
385
386(2017-10-13)
387 * (Windows) Enable HDPI support in the portable version.
388
389(2017-10-12)
390 * Fix subtitles not disappearing when using the letterbox filter with mplayer.
391
392(2017-10-03)
393 * Add an option in Preferences -> Network to select the preferred quality
394   to be used with streaming sites handled by youtube-dl.
395
396(2017-10-02)
397 * Use mplayer on Windows Vista, since it seems mpv is not longer compatible
398   with that version.
399
400(2017-10-01)
401 * (Linux) Don't use the audio equalizer by default.
402 * (Windows) Fix letterbox with vertical videos.
403
404
405Version 17.10:
406
407(2017-09-22)
408 * (mpv) Use firequalizer.
409
410(2017-09-21)
411 * (mpv) Use lavfi for stereo3d.
412
413(2017-09-18)
414 * (mpv) Use lavfi for rotate, yadif and pan.
415 * (mpv) Don't restart the process when changing the stereo mode option.
416
417(2017-09-16)
418 * (mpv) Use lavfi for hqdn3d, kerndeint, phase, noise, blur, sharpen,
419   lb, l5, deblock, dering, postprocessing, extrastereo, earwax and volnorm.
420 * Enable the karaoke filter with mpv.
421
422(2017-09-15)
423 * (mpv) Use lavfi for flip and mirror.
424
425(2017-09-14)
426 * (mpv) Use the pad filter instead of expand.
427
428
429Version 17.9:
430
431(2017-08-23)
432 * Increase the time to kill the external player process to try to
433   avoid a crash message.
434
435(2017-08-21)
436 * Possibility to search for subtitles using the filename as query.
437
438(2017-08-12)
439 * Fix OSD when using mpv 0.26.
440
441
442Version 17.8:
443
444(2017-07-22)
445 * Add a "default" option for the audio channels menu.
446
447(2017-07-13)
448 * Add the earwax audio filter.
449
450
451Version 17.7:
452
453(2017-06-16)
454 * (Playlist) Fix a crash when trying to delete selected items but there's none
455   selected.
456
457(2017-06-09)
458 * Add subtitles configuration options in preferences -> network -> chromecast.
459
460
461Version 17.6:
462
463(2017-05-23)
464 * (Add bookmark) Set focus on the name field.
465 * Save bookmarks just after edit.
466
467(2017-05-16)
468 * Add an option in preferences -> network -> chromecast to convert automatically
469   SRT subtitles to VTT.
470
471(2017-05-11)
472 * Possibility to pass options to the acompressor filter (in smplayer.ini).
473
474
475Version 17.5:
476
477(2017-05-03)
478 * Fix when dragging a URL to the main window.
479
480(2017-05-03)
481 * Fix youtube.
482
483
484Version 17.4.2:
485
486(2017-04-22)
487 * Add play_next and play_prev to the list of actions for the mouse buttons.
488
489(2017-04-21)
490 * Bugfix: remember the position of the video when it's opened by
491   drag & drop.
492
493(2017-04-17)
494 * Fix the audio normalization filter when using mpv > 0.24.
495
496(2017-04-16)
497 * Fix for the thumbnail generator when using old versions of mpv.
498
499(2017-04-14)
500 * Disallow mpv installation on XP.
501 * Add option for ffhevcvdpau.
502
503(2017-04-09)
504 * Add option View -> OSD -> Show times with milliseconds (requires mpv >= 0.21).
505
506(2017-04-06)
507 * (mpv) Be sure the suboptions for vo and ao aren't used.
508
509
510Version 17.4:
511
512(2017-03-16)
513 * The H2O icon theme is now included in the smplayer binary and is the default
514   theme. The old theme is still available with the name "classic".
515
516(2017-03-11)
517 * The thumbnail generator works now with recent versions of mpv.
518
519
520Version 17.3:
521
522(2017-02-26)
523 * (mpv) Add more options for hardware decoding.
524
525(2017-02-20)
526 * (Playlist) Try to use numberofentries if NumberOfEntries returns 0 when
527   loading pls files.
528
529(2017-02-14)
530 * (Windows) Try to run youtube-dl when mpv fails to use it to check if
531   the Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable is needed.
532
533(2017-02-07)
534 * Fix some of the subtitles' options when using mpv.
535
536
537Version 17.2:
538
539(2017-01-31)
540 * Fix youtube.
541
542(2017-01-30)
543 * Use 'simple_web_server' on Linux as well instead of webfs.
544 * Move some of the options in Preferences -> Playlist to the 'Misc' tab.
545
546(2017-01-28)
547 * Add vtt to the list of extensions for subtitles.
548
549(2017-01-24)
550 * Add the option 'Enable the option to delete files from disk' in
551   Preferences -> Playlist.
552
553(2017-01-22)
554 * Add translation for Norwegian Bokmål.
555
556
557Version 17.1:
558
559(2017-01-05)
560 * (Playlist) Add an option in context menu to open the current item on chromecast.
561
562(2017-01-02)
563 * Remove the option to delete files from the playlist.
564
565(2016-12-30)
566 * (mpv) Add support for the wasapi devices.
567
568(2016-12-26)
569 * Add the option "Play on Chromecast" in the Play menu.
570
571(2016-12-20)
572 * Add an option to display the current time with milliseconds in the status bar.
573
574(2016-12-17)
575 * Add an option to display the bitrate info in the status bar.
576
577(2016-11-30)
578 * (Playlist) Add option to open the source folder of the video in the context menu.
579
580(2016-11-29)
581 * (Playlist) Add a "copy URL to clipboard" option in the context menu.
582
583(2016-11-28)
584 * Parse the option #EXTVLCOPT:http-referrer and #EXTVLCOPT:http-user-agent from m3u
585   playlists. This may allow you to play playlists intended for VLC.
586
587(2016-11-21)
588 * The option to add black borders in fullscreen is back.
589
590
591Version 16.11:
592
593(2016-10-20)
594 * Pass the alpha component of the subtitles' colors to mpv.
595
596(2016-10-11)
597 * New option 'Show info on OSD' in View -> OSD (key shortcut Shift + I).
598   It displays info about the current media (resolution, bitrate...) on the
599   OSD.
600 * (Playlist) If a playlist file is dropped to the playlist window, load it.
601
602(2016-10-01)
603 * Remove the option to add black borders on fullscreen.
604 * New option 'Add black borders for subtitles by default' in
605   Preferences -> General.
606
607(2016-09-29)
608 * Add option 'Case sensitive search' in Preferences -> Playlist.
609
610(2016-09-26)
611 * Add the option 'Auto sort' in Preferences -> Playlist.
612 * Fix when the additional options for mpv contain quotes.
613
614(2016-09-23)
615 * Add the option 'Start playback after loading a playlist' in
616   Preferences -> Playlist.
617
618(2016-09-22)
619 * Add an option in Preferences -> Interface to play the next file
620   automatically or not.
621
622(2016-09-18)
623 * (Playlist) Add a 'save as' button.
624
625(2016-09-16)
626 * Store the playlist filename and display "*" in the title when the
627   playlist is modified and not saved.
628
629(2016-09-15)
630 * (Playlist) Add a popup menu with the load/save options.
631
632
633Version 16.9:
634
635(2016-09-02)
636 * Get the list of the pulseaudio output devices using the
637   pulseaudio library (libpulse-dev is now a build dependency).
638
639(2016-09-01)
640 * Set the default font with the stylesheet.
641
642(2016-08-29)
643 * (Playlist) Scroll to current item after clearing the search field.
644
645(2016-08-28)
646 *  Build the deb package by default with Qt 4 since Qt 5 still
647    has many problems.
648
649(2016-08-26)
650 * Fix alsa:device with mpv.
651 * (Windows) Use the directx libraries to get info about the sound
652   and display devices instead of running dxlist.exe.
653
654(2016-08-25)
655 * Add a submenu in the audio menu to send the audio to a device.
656
657(2016-08-15)
658 * (Playlist) Add actions to hide the columns.
659 * (Playlist) Add a button to show/hide the search field.
660
661(2016-08-14)
662 * Don't disable the screenshot's actions and don't check if the
663   screenshot path is a directory.
664 * (Experimental) Don't use starting_time (affects seeking in ts files).
665 * (Playlist) Disable wordwrap.
666 * If maximized show normal before hiding the panel.
667
668(2016-08-11)
669 * Display 'Development version' in the about dialog when using a
670   development version.
671
672
673Version 16.8:
674
675(2016-07-23)
676 * Ignore the buffering state in checkStayOnTop.
677
678(2016-07-20)
679 * Don't try to resize the main window when it's maximized.
680
681(2016-07-19)
682 * (Playlist) Display an animation when loading.
683
684(2016-07-18)
685 * Possibility to download playlists from internet.
686
687(2016-07-16)
688 * The playlist settings are now saved to its own ini file (playlist.ini).
689
690(2016-07-14)
691 * Use the mpv ab-loop options.
692
693(2016-07-11)
694 * Don't use softvol and softvol-max with mpv 0.18.1.
695
696(2016-07-10)
697 * Possibility to search (filter) in  the playlist.
698
699(2016-07-08)
700 * Lots of internal changes in the playlist.
701
702
703Version 16.7:
704
705(2016-06-29)
706 * The find subtitles window has a close button in the title bar.
707
708(2016-06-23)
709 * Fix youtube.
710
711(2016-06-22)
712 * (mpv) Don't pass the URL to youtube-dl if it contains a multimedia extension.
713
714(2016-06-21)
715 * The names in the playlist are not replaced with the title from metadata.
716
717(2016-06-19)
718 * Save the hdpi config in the smplayer config dir.
719
720(2016-06-17)
721 * Selecting the 'default' style in preferences selects the system's
722   default style, instead of Fusion.
723
724(2016-06-15)
725 * Bugfix: (Qt 5) the playlist can be resized when docked to the main window.
726 * Don't change the style's palette on linux.
727
728(2016-06-14)
729 * (mpv) Update the current position in the seek bar on pause.
730 * In Qt 5 on linux accelerators in the numeric keypad don't work due
731   to a bug in Qt 5. Added a workaround.
732
733
734Version 16.6:
735
736(2016-06-05)
737 * Add option "remember settings for streams" in Preferences -> General.
738
739(2016-05-27)
740 * Use the mplayer/mpv default video and audio output.
741
742(2016-05-25)
743 * Disable the global shortcuts when opening the preferences dialog.
744
745(2016-05-23)
746 * Add an option to display the format info in the status bar.
747
748(2016-05-17)
749 * Add a quick access menu.
750
751(2016-05-15)
752 * Don't use a border in the style of the tooltip. For some reason the
753   text is cut off with it.
754
755(2016-05-13)
756 * Add options in Preferences -> Interface to configure the high DPI
757   support.
758
759(2016-05-12)
760 * Possibility to display the section area in the preferences dialog in
761   icon mode.
762
763(2016-05-10)
764 * Add an option to set the cache to auto in Preferences -> Performance.
765 * Don't change the playlist to floating state when entering fullscreen,
766   if using Qt5 on linux. Seems to fix a problem when using Compiz.
767
768(2016-05-09)
769 * Increase the height of the audio equalizer.
770 * Set the OSD to Seek as default.
771 * Set the drag function to MoveWindow as default.
772
773(2016-05-08)
774 * Change the default values for outline and shadow of the ASS style.
775 * Use mpv as default if available.
776 * Remove the border of the tooltips. Otherwise, for some reason, the
777   text is not shown complete.
778
779(2016-05-06)
780 * Use the style 'fusion' as default with Qt 5.
781
782(2016-05-05)
783 * Improve drag & drop on the main window. Now it allows to drop several
784   folders and files.
785
786(2016-05-02)
787 * (Windows) Use the 'normal' priority by default.
788 * Possibility to use the media keys as global shortcurts (option in
789   Prefences -> Keyboard).
790
791(2016-04-28)
792 * Don't use the language toolbar.
793 * Add the audio and subtitle track menus to the toolbar and increase the
794   default size of the toolbar icons.
795
796(2016-04-27)
797 * Add close buttons to the audio and video equalizers.
798
799(2016-04-26)
800 * Disable the secondary subtitles and frame step back when using mplayer,
801   and the karaoke filter when using mpv.
802
803(2016-04-24)
804 * Don't use a dockable playlist on linux with Qt 5 because the
805   dockable one causes trouble when compiz is enabled.
806
807(2016-04-23)
808 * Ask the user if SMPlayer should change the tablet mode if the
809   system (Windows 10) has changed to tablet mode.
810
811(2016-04-22)
812 * New option 'Send video to screen' in the video menu.
813   This option allows to display the video (in fullscreen) on a
814   second screen while controlling the player in the computer's
815   screen.
816 * Add an option to show information about the connected screens
817   (menu View).
818
819(2016-04-17)
820 * Hide some options from menus in tablet mode.
821 * Now it's possible to add the recents menu to a toolbar.
822
823(2016-04-16)
824 * Add a tablet mode (menu Options).
825   When enabled, it changes some elements of the GUI so that's easy
826   to use it on a touch screen.
827
828(2016-04-15)
829 * (Videopreview) Fix show duration with Qt 5.
830 * Move the OSD menu to the view menu.
831
832(2016-04-14)
833 * Add new menu 'view'.
834
835(2016-04-12)
836 * Fixes for Qt 5.
837
838(2016-04-10)
839 * Better support for touch screens.
840
841(2016-04-06)
842 * Support for high DPI (requires Qt 5.4 or greater).
843
844(2016-04-04)
845 * Settings for streams can also be remembered.
846
847(2016-04-01)
848 * The mpcgui works now with Qt 5 as well.
849
850
851Version 16.4:
852
853(2016-03-25)
854 * Add translations for Amharic and Persian (unfinished).
855
856(2016-03-25)
857 * A new layout is used to display the media information (Options -> View
858  info and properties).
859
860(2016-03-16)
861 * Update the system tray icon when changing themes.
862
863(2016-03-15)
864 * Possibility to compile without mplayer2 support.
865   (Support for mplayer2 will be removed soon).
866
867(2016-03-14)
868 * Add an animated icon for buffering.
869
870(2016-03-07)
871 * The option to support streaming sites in Preferences -> Network is
872   different now, and allows these values:
873     Disabled: support for video sites is turned off
874     Auto: enables internal support for YouTube and uses mpv + youtube-dl
875           for the rest of the sites
876     YouTube: only the internal support for YouTube will be used
877     mpv + youtube-dl: uses mpv + youtube-dl for all sites
878
879(2016-03-04)
880 * A fix for saving bookmarks.
881 * (Linux) Look for the smtube executable in the system path.
882
883(2016-02-26)
884 * New smplayer.spec (works for Fedora and openSUSE).
885
886(2016-02-20)
887 * The option "Move the window when the video area is dragged" in
888   Preferences -> Interface has been removed.
889 * New option in Preferences -> Keyboard and mouse to specify the
890   function to use when the mouse is dragged.
891
892(2016-02-19)
893 * Possibility to compile SMPlayer without the mini GUI and the default GUI.
894
895(2016-02-12)
896 * (Experimental) Mouse gestures. When the mouse is dragged up or down in the
897   video window it changes the volume. If dragged left or right it changes
898   the time position.
899
900(2016-02-09)
901 * Add vlc.keys.
902
903(2016-02-02)
904 * Allow to read the shortcut's file using spaces as separators.
905
906(2016-01-19)
907 * Add a combobox in preferences -> general to choose mplayer or mpv.
908
909(2016-01-17)
910 * Include mpv in the Windows installer.
911
912(2016-01-16)
913 * Add a function to save XSPF files.
914 * (mpv) Add the extrastereo filter.
915
916(2016-01-15)
917 * Remove the fast_audio_change option since it's obsolete.
918
919
920Version 16.1:
921
922(2016-01-07)
923 * (mpv) Allow screenshots to work with hardware acceleration enabled.
924
925(2016-01-06)
926 * Add a shortcut for the add_bookmark action.
927 * Add icons for the bookmarks actions.
928
929(2015-12-29)
930 * (Qt5) Try to fix a problem when exiting from fullscreen and the option
931   to stay on top is set to "while playing".
932
933(2015-12-23)
934 * (Experimental) Simplify changing style and stylesheet.
935
936(2015-12-22)
937 * (Screenshots) Keep compatibility with older versions of mplayer.
938
939(2015-12-18)
940 * Fix for Youtube.
941
942(2015-12-16)
943 * (mpv) If the option --screenshot-directory is not available change
944   the working directory so that screenshots work.
945
946(2015-12-14)
947 * Add option 'Prevent window to get outside of screen' in
948   Preferences -> Interface.
949
950(2015-12-12)
951 * Update stayontop after entering and exiting the fullscreen mode.
952
953(2015-12-04)
954 * Don't auto center the window if there's no video.
955 * (mpv) Fix playback with -v
956
957(2015-12-03)
958 * Add the option 'Pass the -playlist option to MPlayer' to
959   Preferences -> Advanced.
960
961(2015-11-29)
962 * Simplify the code for previous and next chapter.
963 * Enable bookmarks.
964Version 18.5:
965
966(2018-05-20)
967 * Add "opus" to the list of audio extensions and "part" to the list of
968   video extensions.
969
970(2018-05-19)
971 * The cursor keys work now in the playlist (as long as the playlist
972   is in a window and not docked).
973
974(2018-05-17)
975 * Fix compiling with Qt 5.11.
976
977(2018-05-15)
978 * Now it's possible to select which multimedia keys should be use as
979   global shortcuts.
980
981(2018-05-01)
982 * (Windows) It seems on some systems the multimedia key events are sent
983   twice by Qt, making some keys (like volume mute or play/pause) unusable.
984   Added code to try to detect this and ignore the second event.
985
986(2018-04-30)
987 * (Windows) Use the Windows GetCommandLine function to get the command line
988   arguments because it seems the Qt arguments function is not reliable to
989   get unicode characters.
990
991
992Version 18.4:
993
994(2018-04-22)
995 * Report errors in the status bar if the option to display a dialog for
996   errors is disabled.
997 * Set the option report_player_crashes to false by default on Windows.
998
999(2018-04-21)
1000 * Remove the default shortcut key for the subtitle visibility action,
1001   since it usually causes problems when the user accidentally presses it.
1002
1003(2018-04-08)
1004 * Add an option in Preferences -> Advanced to set the OSD bar position.
1005
1006(2018-04-03)
1007 * Fix accuracy of the tooltip in the timeslider.
1008
1009(2018-03-30)
1010 * Add the option 'Use the system native file dialog' in
1011   Preferences -> Interface.
1012
1013
1014Version 18.3:
1015
1016(2018-03-16)
1017 * (mpv) Prevent to show subtitles in the images created by the thumbnail
1018   generator.
1019
1020(2018-03-03)
1021 * Possibility to search for subtitles using the hash and filename methods
1022   at the same time.
1023
1024(2018-02-23)
1025 * Fix a bug which prevented to play some YouTube URLs.
1026
1027
1028Version 18.2.2:
1029
1030(2018-02-15)
1031 * The option Open -> URL can now also load YouTube playlists.
1032
1033(2018-02-08)
1034 * Prevent the skins to be added to the themes combobox if the user folder
1035   and the config folder are the same (happens in the portable version).
1036 * Disable the screenshot actions if the screenshot folder is set to an
1037   empty string.
1038
1039(2018-02-05)
1040 * Add an option in Preferences -> Subtitles to select the opacity of the
1041   background of the subtitles.
1042
1043(2018-02-02)
1044 * The options to select the preferred number of track for audio and subtitles
1045   are back.
1046
1047(2018-02-01)
1048 * (mpv) Use direct3d as default video output since some users are having
1049   troubles with the gpu output.
1050
1051
1052Version 18.2:
1053
1054(2018-01-21)
1055 * Add option osd_show_filename_duration for smplayer.ini which specifies
1056   the time (in milliseconds) that the filename would be displayed on screen.
1057
1058(2018-01-16)
1059 * Add support for YouTube playlists. In the playlist window, click in the
1060   Load/save icon, select "Load playlist from URL" and paste the URL of
1061   the YouTube playlist.
1062
1063(2018-01-15)
1064 * (mpv) Don't use --video-stereo-mode since it's deprecated.
1065 * Add option emulate_mplayer_ab_section for smplayer.ini.
1066
1067(2018-01-03 - 2018-01-16)
1068 * The initialization of the audio and subtitle tracks has been simplified
1069   and now it's possible to use a priority list of languages (it uses the
1070   mplayer/mpv alang and slang options).
1071
1072
1073Version 18.1:
1074
1075(2018-01-09)
1076 * Fix Youtube.
1077
1078(2017-12-27)
1079 * Prevent to display the OSD in fullscreen during initialization of playback.
1080
1081(2017-12-26)
1082 * Use video/x-ogm+ogg in smplayer.desktop.
1083
1084
1085Version 17.12:
1086
1087(2017-12-18)
1088 * New action which displays the filename in the OSD for 2 seconds. Assigned
1089   by default to Shift+O.
1090 * Disable the internal/own handling of stereo3d when using mpv.
1091
1092(2017-12-10)
1093 * The option to record a stream has been temporary removed.
1094   It's currently broken.
1095
1096(2017-12-07)
1097 * New option osd_bar_pos for smplayer.ini. It specifies the position of
1098   the OSD bar (0 = top, 100 = bottom).
1099
1100(2017-12-03)
1101 * Two new actions to take screenshots with or without subtitles (they only
1102   work with mpv). Assigned by default to Ctrl+Shift+S and Ctrl+Alt+S.
1103
1104(2017-11-30)
1105 * The support for DVD menus has been removed. It never worked well and also
1106   mpv already removed support for it a long time ago.
1107
1108(2017-11-23)
1109 * The option to open an informative page after an upgrade has been removed.
1110
1111
1112Version 17.11.2:
1113
1114(2017-11-15)
1115 * Allow wordwrap in the title in the thumbnail generator.
1116
1117(2017-11-13)
1118 * Fix seek in MPRIS2 (fix function SetPosition).
1119
1120(2017-11-12)
1121 * Prevent SMPlayer to cancel logout in KDE. (Bug #843)
1122
1123(2017-11-11)
1124 * Fix a crash that may happen on KDE when the global menus
1125   are activated. (Bug #839)
1126
1127
1128Version 17.11:
1129
1130(2017-10-30)
1131 * Cosmetic changes in the thumbnail generator.
1132
1133(2017-10-27)
1134 * Add more precision in the thumbnail generator.
1135
1136(2017-10-25)
1137 * (mpv) Improve the firequalizer filter.
1138
1139(2017-10-22)
1140 * (mpv) Fix the option "AC3/DTS passthrough".
1141
1142(2017-10-21)
1143 * Fix the option "add black borders on fullscreen".
1144
1145(2017-10-20)
1146 * (mpv) Fix the software video equalizer.
1147
1148
1149Version 17.10.2:
1150
1151(2017-10-14)
1152 * Bug fix: display the time in the thumbnail generator pictures when SMPlayer
1153   is compiled with Qt 5.
1154
1155(2017-10-13)
1156 * (Windows) Enable HDPI support in the portable version.
1157
1158(2017-10-12)
1159 * Fix subtitles not disappearing when using the letterbox filter with mplayer.
1160
1161(2017-10-03)
1162 * Add an option in Preferences -> Network to select the preferred quality
1163   to be used with streaming sites handled by youtube-dl.
1164
1165(2017-10-02)
1166 * Use mplayer on Windows Vista, since it seems mpv is not longer compatible
1167   with that version.
1168
1169(2017-10-01)
1170 * (Linux) Don't use the audio equalizer by default.
1171 * (Windows) Fix letterbox with vertical videos.
1172
1173
1174Version 17.10:
1175
1176(2017-09-22)
1177 * (mpv) Use firequalizer.
1178
1179(2017-09-21)
1180 * (mpv) Use lavfi for stereo3d.
1181
1182(2017-09-18)
1183 * (mpv) Use lavfi for rotate, yadif and pan.
1184 * (mpv) Don't restart the process when changing the stereo mode option.
1185
1186(2017-09-16)
1187 * (mpv) Use lavfi for hqdn3d, kerndeint, phase, noise, blur, sharpen,
1188   lb, l5, deblock, dering, postprocessing, extrastereo, earwax and volnorm.
1189 * Enable the karaoke filter with mpv.
1190
1191(2017-09-15)
1192 * (mpv) Use lavfi for flip and mirror.
1193
1194(2017-09-14)
1195 * (mpv) Use the pad filter instead of expand.
1196
1197
1198Version 17.9:
1199
1200(2017-08-23)
1201 * Increase the time to kill the external player process to try to
1202   avoid a crash message.
1203
1204(2017-08-21)
1205 * Possibility to search for subtitles using the filename as query.
1206
1207(2017-08-12)
1208 * Fix OSD when using mpv 0.26.
1209
1210
1211Version 17.8:
1212
1213(2017-07-22)
1214 * Add a "default" option for the audio channels menu.
1215
1216(2017-07-13)
1217 * Add the earwax audio filter.
1218
1219
1220Version 17.7:
1221
1222(2017-06-16)
1223 * (Playlist) Fix a crash when trying to delete selected items but there's none
1224   selected.
1225
1226(2017-06-09)
1227 * Add subtitles configuration options in preferences -> network -> chromecast.
1228
1229
1230Version 17.6:
1231
1232(2017-05-23)
1233 * (Add bookmark) Set focus on the name field.
1234 * Save bookmarks just after edit.
1235
1236(2017-05-16)
1237 * Add an option in preferences -> network -> chromecast to convert automatically
1238   SRT subtitles to VTT.
1239
1240(2017-05-11)
1241 * Possibility to pass options to the acompressor filter (in smplayer.ini).
1242
1243
1244Version 17.5:
1245
1246(2017-05-03)
1247 * Fix when dragging a URL to the main window.
1248
1249(2017-05-03)
1250 * Fix youtube.
1251
1252
1253Version 17.4.2:
1254
1255(2017-04-22)
1256 * Add play_next and play_prev to the list of actions for the mouse buttons.
1257
1258(2017-04-21)
1259 * Bugfix: remember the position of the video when it's opened by
1260   drag & drop.
1261
1262(2017-04-17)
1263 * Fix the audio normalization filter when using mpv > 0.24.
1264
1265(2017-04-16)
1266 * Fix for the thumbnail generator when using old versions of mpv.
1267
1268(2017-04-14)
1269 * Disallow mpv installation on XP.
1270 * Add option for ffhevcvdpau.
1271
1272(2017-04-09)
1273 * Add option View -> OSD -> Show times with milliseconds (requires mpv >= 0.21).
1274
1275(2017-04-06)
1276 * (mpv) Be sure the suboptions for vo and ao aren't used.
1277
1278
1279Version 17.4:
1280
1281(2017-03-16)
1282 * The H2O icon theme is now included in the smplayer binary and is the default
1283   theme. The old theme is still available with the name "classic".
1284
1285(2017-03-11)
1286 * The thumbnail generator works now with recent versions of mpv.
1287
1288
1289Version 17.3:
1290
1291(2017-02-26)
1292 * (mpv) Add more options for hardware decoding.
1293
1294(2017-02-20)
1295 * (Playlist) Try to use numberofentries if NumberOfEntries returns 0 when
1296   loading pls files.
1297
1298(2017-02-14)
1299 * (Windows) Try to run youtube-dl when mpv fails to use it to check if
1300   the Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable is needed.
1301
1302(2017-02-07)
1303 * Fix some of the subtitles' options when using mpv.
1304
1305
1306Version 17.2:
1307
1308(2017-01-31)
1309 * Fix youtube.
1310
1311(2017-01-30)
1312 * Use 'simple_web_server' on Linux as well instead of webfs.
1313 * Move some of the options in Preferences -> Playlist to the 'Misc' tab.
1314
1315(2017-01-28)
1316 * Add vtt to the list of extensions for subtitles.
1317
1318(2017-01-24)
1319 * Add the option 'Enable the option to delete files from disk' in
1320   Preferences -> Playlist.
1321
1322(2017-01-22)
1323 * Add translation for Norwegian Bokmål.
1324
1325
1326Version 17.1:
1327
1328(2017-01-05)
1329 * (Playlist) Add an option in context menu to open the current item on chromecast.
1330
1331(2017-01-02)
1332 * Remove the option to delete files from the playlist.
1333
1334(2016-12-30)
1335 * (mpv) Add support for the wasapi devices.
1336
1337(2016-12-26)
1338 * Add the option "Play on Chromecast" in the Play menu.
1339
1340(2016-12-20)
1341 * Add an option to display the current time with milliseconds in the status bar.
1342
1343(2016-12-17)
1344 * Add an option to display the bitrate info in the status bar.
1345
1346(2016-11-30)
1347 * (Playlist) Add option to open the source folder of the video in the context menu.
1348
1349(2016-11-29)
1350 * (Playlist) Add a "copy URL to clipboard" option in the context menu.
1351
1352(2016-11-28)
1353 * Parse the option #EXTVLCOPT:http-referrer and #EXTVLCOPT:http-user-agent from m3u
1354   playlists. This may allow you to play playlists intended for VLC.
1355
1356(2016-11-21)
1357 * The option to add black borders in fullscreen is back.
1358
1359
1360Version 16.11:
1361
1362(2016-10-20)
1363 * Pass the alpha component of the subtitles' colors to mpv.
1364
1365(2016-10-11)
1366 * New option 'Show info on OSD' in View -> OSD (key shortcut Shift + I).
1367   It displays info about the current media (resolution, bitrate...) on the
1368   OSD.
1369 * (Playlist) If a playlist file is dropped to the playlist window, load it.
1370
1371(2016-10-01)
1372 * Remove the option to add black borders on fullscreen.
1373 * New option 'Add black borders for subtitles by default' in
1374   Preferences -> General.
1375
1376(2016-09-29)
1377 * Add option 'Case sensitive search' in Preferences -> Playlist.
1378
1379(2016-09-26)
1380 * Add the option 'Auto sort' in Preferences -> Playlist.
1381 * Fix when the additional options for mpv contain quotes.
1382
1383(2016-09-23)
1384 * Add the option 'Start playback after loading a playlist' in
1385   Preferences -> Playlist.
1386
1387(2016-09-22)
1388 * Add an option in Preferences -> Interface to play the next file
1389   automatically or not.
1390
1391(2016-09-18)
1392 * (Playlist) Add a 'save as' button.
1393
1394(2016-09-16)
1395 * Store the playlist filename and display "*" in the title when the
1396   playlist is modified and not saved.
1397
1398(2016-09-15)
1399 * (Playlist) Add a popup menu with the load/save options.
1400
1401
1402Version 16.9:
1403
1404(2016-09-02)
1405 * Get the list of the pulseaudio output devices using the
1406   pulseaudio library (libpulse-dev is now a build dependency).
1407
1408(2016-09-01)
1409 * Set the default font with the stylesheet.
1410
1411(2016-08-29)
1412 * (Playlist) Scroll to current item after clearing the search field.
1413
1414(2016-08-28)
1415 *  Build the deb package by default with Qt 4 since Qt 5 still
1416    has many problems.
1417
1418(2016-08-26)
1419 * Fix alsa:device with mpv.
1420 * (Windows) Use the directx libraries to get info about the sound
1421   and display devices instead of running dxlist.exe.
1422
1423(2016-08-25)
1424 * Add a submenu in the audio menu to send the audio to a device.
1425
1426(2016-08-15)
1427 * (Playlist) Add actions to hide the columns.
1428 * (Playlist) Add a button to show/hide the search field.
1429
1430(2016-08-14)
1431 * Don't disable the screenshot's actions and don't check if the
1432   screenshot path is a directory.
1433 * (Experimental) Don't use starting_time (affects seeking in ts files).
1434 * (Playlist) Disable wordwrap.
1435 * If maximized show normal before hiding the panel.
1436
1437(2016-08-11)
1438 * Display 'Development version' in the about dialog when using a
1439   development version.
1440
1441
1442Version 16.8:
1443
1444(2016-07-23)
1445 * Ignore the buffering state in checkStayOnTop.
1446
1447(2016-07-20)
1448 * Don't try to resize the main window when it's maximized.
1449
1450(2016-07-19)
1451 * (Playlist) Display an animation when loading.
1452
1453(2016-07-18)
1454 * Possibility to download playlists from internet.
1455
1456(2016-07-16)
1457 * The playlist settings are now saved to its own ini file (playlist.ini).
1458
1459(2016-07-14)
1460 * Use the mpv ab-loop options.
1461
1462(2016-07-11)
1463 * Don't use softvol and softvol-max with mpv 0.18.1.
1464
1465(2016-07-10)
1466 * Possibility to search (filter) in  the playlist.
1467
1468(2016-07-08)
1469 * Lots of internal changes in the playlist.
1470
1471
1472Version 16.7:
1473
1474(2016-06-29)
1475 * The find subtitles window has a close button in the title bar.
1476
1477(2016-06-23)
1478 * Fix youtube.
1479
1480(2016-06-22)
1481 * (mpv) Don't pass the URL to youtube-dl if it contains a multimedia extension.
1482
1483(2016-06-21)
1484 * The names in the playlist are not replaced with the title from metadata.
1485
1486(2016-06-19)
1487 * Save the hdpi config in the smplayer config dir.
1488
1489(2016-06-17)
1490 * Selecting the 'default' style in preferences selects the system's
1491   default style, instead of Fusion.
1492
1493(2016-06-15)
1494 * Bugfix: (Qt 5) the playlist can be resized when docked to the main window.
1495 * Don't change the style's palette on linux.
1496
1497(2016-06-14)
1498 * (mpv) Update the current position in the seek bar on pause.
1499 * In Qt 5 on linux accelerators in the numeric keypad don't work due
1500   to a bug in Qt 5. Added a workaround.
1501
1502
1503Version 16.6:
1504
1505(2016-06-05)
1506 * Add option "remember settings for streams" in Preferences -> General.
1507
1508(2016-05-27)
1509 * Use the mplayer/mpv default video and audio output.
1510
1511(2016-05-25)
1512 * Disable the global shortcuts when opening the preferences dialog.
1513
1514(2016-05-23)
1515 * Add an option to display the format info in the status bar.
1516
1517(2016-05-17)
1518 * Add a quick access menu.
1519
1520(2016-05-15)
1521 * Don't use a border in the style of the tooltip. For some reason the
1522   text is cut off with it.
1523
1524(2016-05-13)
1525 * Add options in Preferences -> Interface to configure the high DPI
1526   support.
1527
1528(2016-05-12)
1529 * Possibility to display the section area in the preferences dialog in
1530   icon mode.
1531
1532(2016-05-10)
1533 * Add an option to set the cache to auto in Preferences -> Performance.
1534 * Don't change the playlist to floating state when entering fullscreen,
1535   if using Qt5 on linux. Seems to fix a problem when using Compiz.
1536
1537(2016-05-09)
1538 * Increase the height of the audio equalizer.
1539 * Set the OSD to Seek as default.
1540 * Set the drag function to MoveWindow as default.
1541
1542(2016-05-08)
1543 * Change the default values for outline and shadow of the ASS style.
1544 * Use mpv as default if available.
1545 * Remove the border of the tooltips. Otherwise, for some reason, the
1546   text is not shown complete.
1547
1548(2016-05-06)
1549 * Use the style 'fusion' as default with Qt 5.
1550
1551(2016-05-05)
1552 * Improve drag & drop on the main window. Now it allows to drop several
1553   folders and files.
1554
1555(2016-05-02)
1556 * (Windows) Use the 'normal' priority by default.
1557 * Possibility to use the media keys as global shortcurts (option in
1558   Prefences -> Keyboard).
1559
1560(2016-04-28)
1561 * Don't use the language toolbar.
1562 * Add the audio and subtitle track menus to the toolbar and increase the
1563   default size of the toolbar icons.
1564
1565(2016-04-27)
1566 * Add close buttons to the audio and video equalizers.
1567
1568(2016-04-26)
1569 * Disable the secondary subtitles and frame step back when using mplayer,
1570   and the karaoke filter when using mpv.
1571
1572(2016-04-24)
1573 * Don't use a dockable playlist on linux with Qt 5 because the
1574   dockable one causes trouble when compiz is enabled.
1575
1576(2016-04-23)
1577 * Ask the user if SMPlayer should change the tablet mode if the
1578   system (Windows 10) has changed to tablet mode.
1579
1580(2016-04-22)
1581 * New option 'Send video to screen' in the video menu.
1582   This option allows to display the video (in fullscreen) on a
1583   second screen while controlling the player in the computer's
1584   screen.
1585 * Add an option to show information about the connected screens
1586   (menu View).
1587
1588(2016-04-17)
1589 * Hide some options from menus in tablet mode.
1590 * Now it's possible to add the recents menu to a toolbar.
1591
1592(2016-04-16)
1593 * Add a tablet mode (menu Options).
1594   When enabled, it changes some elements of the GUI so that's easy
1595   to use it on a touch screen.
1596
1597(2016-04-15)
1598 * (Videopreview) Fix show duration with Qt 5.
1599 * Move the OSD menu to the view menu.
1600
1601(2016-04-14)
1602 * Add new menu 'view'.
1603
1604(2016-04-12)
1605 * Fixes for Qt 5.
1606
1607(2016-04-10)
1608 * Better support for touch screens.
1609
1610(2016-04-06)
1611 * Support for high DPI (requires Qt 5.4 or greater).
1612
1613(2016-04-04)
1614 * Settings for streams can also be remembered.
1615
1616(2016-04-01)
1617 * The mpcgui works now with Qt 5 as well.
1618
1619
1620Version 16.4:
1621
1622(2016-03-25)
1623 * Add translations for Amharic and Persian (unfinished).
1624
1625(2016-03-25)
1626 * A new layout is used to display the media information (Options -> View
1627  info and properties).
1628
1629(2016-03-16)
1630 * Update the system tray icon when changing themes.
1631
1632(2016-03-15)
1633 * Possibility to compile without mplayer2 support.
1634   (Support for mplayer2 will be removed soon).
1635
1636(2016-03-14)
1637 * Add an animated icon for buffering.
1638
1639(2016-03-07)
1640 * The option to support streaming sites in Preferences -> Network is
1641   different now, and allows these values:
1642     Disabled: support for video sites is turned off
1643     Auto: enables internal support for YouTube and uses mpv + youtube-dl
1644           for the rest of the sites
1645     YouTube: only the internal support for YouTube will be used
1646     mpv + youtube-dl: uses mpv + youtube-dl for all sites
1647
1648(2016-03-04)
1649 * A fix for saving bookmarks.
1650 * (Linux) Look for the smtube executable in the system path.
1651
1652(2016-02-26)
1653 * New smplayer.spec (works for Fedora and openSUSE).
1654
1655(2016-02-20)
1656 * The option "Move the window when the video area is dragged" in
1657   Preferences -> Interface has been removed.
1658 * New option in Preferences -> Keyboard and mouse to specify the
1659   function to use when the mouse is dragged.
1660
1661(2016-02-19)
1662 * Possibility to compile SMPlayer without the mini GUI and the default GUI.
1663
1664(2016-02-12)
1665 * (Experimental) Mouse gestures. When the mouse is dragged up or down in the
1666   video window it changes the volume. If dragged left or right it changes
1667   the time position.
1668
1669(2016-02-09)
1670 * Add vlc.keys.
1671
1672(2016-02-02)
1673 * Allow to read the shortcut's file using spaces as separators.
1674
1675(2016-01-19)
1676 * Add a combobox in preferences -> general to choose mplayer or mpv.
1677
1678(2016-01-17)
1679 * Include mpv in the Windows installer.
1680
1681(2016-01-16)
1682 * Add a function to save XSPF files.
1683 * (mpv) Add the extrastereo filter.
1684
1685(2016-01-15)
1686 * Remove the fast_audio_change option since it's obsolete.
1687
1688
1689Version 16.1:
1690
1691(2016-01-07)
1692 * (mpv) Allow screenshots to work with hardware acceleration enabled.
1693
1694(2016-01-06)
1695 * Add a shortcut for the add_bookmark action.
1696 * Add icons for the bookmarks actions.
1697
1698(2015-12-29)
1699 * (Qt5) Try to fix a problem when exiting from fullscreen and the option
1700   to stay on top is set to "while playing".
1701
1702(2015-12-23)
1703 * (Experimental) Simplify changing style and stylesheet.
1704
1705(2015-12-22)
1706 * (Screenshots) Keep compatibility with older versions of mplayer.
1707
1708(2015-12-18)
1709 * Fix for Youtube.
1710
1711(2015-12-16)
1712 * (mpv) If the option --screenshot-directory is not available change
1713   the working directory so that screenshots work.
1714
1715(2015-12-14)
1716 * Add option 'Prevent window to get outside of screen' in
1717   Preferences -> Interface.
1718
1719(2015-12-12)
1720 * Update stayontop after entering and exiting the fullscreen mode.
1721
1722(2015-12-04)
1723 * Don't auto center the window if there's no video.
1724 * (mpv) Fix playback with -v
1725
1726(2015-12-03)
1727 * Add the option 'Pass the -playlist option to MPlayer' to
1728   Preferences -> Advanced.
1729
1730(2015-11-29)
1731 * Simplify the code for previous and next chapter.
1732 * Enable bookmarks.
1733
1734
1735Version 15.11:
1736
1737(2015-11-22)
1738 * The thumbnail generator is faster now.
1739
1740(2015-11-15)
1741 * (Experimental) Add support for Youtube live streams.
1742
1743(2015-11-12)
1744 * When adding files to the playlist move the first item to its
1745   correct place in the list.
1746
1747(2015-11-10)
1748 * Fix for Youtube.
1749
1750(2015-11-07)
1751 * Identify MPlayer 1.2.
1752
1753(2015-11-04)
1754 * Add the possibility to set bookmarks in the videos.
1755
1756(2015-10-28)
1757 * Don't use -playlist with mplayer by default.
1758
1759(2015-10-26)
1760 * (mplayer) Don't add ffmpeg:// to the URL when playing https
1761   streams. It seems it's not necessary anymore.
1762
1763(2015-10-23)
1764 * New action to start/stop capturing the playback stream.
1765   The captured stream will be saved to the folder specified in
1766   the smplayer.ini option capture_directory with the name
1767   capture_NNNN.dump.
1768   It only works correctly with mpeg. With other formats the
1769   dumped stream won't play back.
1770
1771(2015-10-18)
1772 * Add a new option in Preferences -> General to select the
1773   image format for screenshots. It only works with mpv.
1774
1775(2015-10-17)
1776 * Fix a crash when changing the GUI.
1777 * Set the screenshot directory in mpv with the option
1778   --screenshot-directory= and in mplayer with the prefix option
1779   for the screenshot filter, instead of changing the player's
1780   working directory.
1781   This requires recent versions of mplayer and mpv. With
1782   older versions the screenshots will be saved in the
1783   player's working directory.
1784
1785(2015-10-15)
1786 * (Windows) Center the main window if it's partially outside of
1787   the desktop after an auto resize.
1788
1789(2015-10-12)
1790 * Add an option in the find subtitles configuration window to
1791   append or not the language code to the subtitle filename.
1792
1793(2015-10-07)
1794 * New options to seek to the previous or next subtitle (mpv only).
1795
1796(2015-10-06)
1797 * (mpv) Disable the extrastereo and karaoke filters.
1798
1799(2015-10-04)
1800 * Display in the time sliders a tooltip with the corresponding
1801   time of the mouse position.
1802
1803(2015-10-02)
1804 * Add an option in Preferences -> Interface to automatically
1805   center the window.
1806
1807(2015-09-30)
1808 * (mpv) Notify pause once
1809
1810
1811[b]Version 15.9[/b]:
1812
1813(2015-09-08)
1814 * (Qt 5) Fix YouTube (URL not found).
1815
1816(2015-09-05)
1817 * Fix the openfolder icon in the favorites list.
1818
1819(2015-09-01)
1820 * Use the DefaultGUI with the H2O theme as default.
1821
1822(2015-08-18)
1823 * Apply patch to show the language in the subtitle display name.
1824
1825(2015-08-03)
1826 * Possibility to compile without mplayer or mpv support.
1827
1828(2015-07-24)
1829 * Apply patch by Wilbert Hengs (wstudios at xs4all dot nl).
1830   It prevents the action for the left mouse button to run when
1831   dragging the video window.
1832
1833(2015-07-22)
1834 * Fix for video track in mpv.
1835
1836(2015-07-19)
1837 * Update the links to the SMPlayer website.
1838
1839(2015-07-09)
1840 * New YouTube code.
1841
1842(2015-06-24)
1843 * Possibility to disable MPRIS2 in smplayer.ini (option use_mpris2).
1844
1845(2015-06-22)
1846 * Fix volume when using softvol with newer versions of mpv.
1847
1848(2015-06-12)
1849 * (Windows) Disable MPRIS2 with Qt 5.
1850
1851(2015-06-10)
1852 * Reduce the time to activate the floating control from 500ms to 100ms.
1853
1854(2015-06-05)
1855 * Add option for command-line: -media-title
1856
1857(2015-06-02)
1858 * Fix thumbnail creation with newer versions of mpv.
1859
1860(2015-05-28)
1861 * (mpv) Use --input-file=/dev/stdin instead of --slave-broken.
1862
1863(2015-05-21)
1864 * Fix the audio and video bitrate info with newer versions of mpv.
1865
1866(2015-04-23)
1867 * Apply patch to handle PTS rollover at MPEG-TS.
1868
1869(2015-04-13)
1870 * Add a 3D stereo filter.
1871
1872(2015-04-10)
1873 * Add support for MPRIS D-Bus Interface (http://specifications.freedesktop.org/mpris-spec/latest/)
1874   Based on a patch for smplayer2 (https://github.com/lachs0r/SMPlayer2/commit/cea863e6b75f00c93da95d1a73d696cf717adf78.patch)
1875   and a patch by WiseLord (http://forum.smplayer.info/viewtopic.php?p=11548#p11548)
1876
1877(2015-03-22)
1878 * (mpv) Use the --sub-text-* options to set the style of the subtitles since
1879   the option --ass-styles doesn't work anymore for this.
1880
1881(2015-03-13)
1882 * Add the possibility to delete a file in the playlist from the filesystem.
1883   Based on a patch by capt.d.:
1884   http://forum.smplayer.info/viewtopic.php?p=11220#p11220
1885
1886(2015-03-04)
1887 * Add the possibility to use the mouse buttons for the actions
1888   "next chapter" and "previous chapter".
1889
1890(2015-03-02)
1891 * The kerndeint filter works with mpv.
1892 * Changing the deinterlace filter doesn't restart mpv.
1893
1894(2015-02-28)
1895 * Now the rotate filter doesn't restart mpv.
1896
1897(2015-02-26)
1898 * The flip and mirror options don't restart mpv.
1899 * The deblock, dering, denoise and phase filters don't restart mpv.
1900
1901(2015-02-25)
1902 * The blur and sharpen filters don't restart mpv.
1903
1904(2015-02-23)
1905 * Change the play/pause icon according to the player state in the default
1906   and mini GUIs.
1907
1908(2015-02-19)
1909 * Now the following filters don't restart mpv when they are turned on/off:
1910   add black borders, gradfun, add noise and software scaling.
1911
1912(2015-02-18)
1913 * New action show_time (assigned by default to key I). It shows the current
1914   playback time, total time and percentage, for 2 seconds on the OSD.
1915 * (Experimental) Now, if using mpv, the option to add black borders doesn't
1916   restart mpv.
1917
1918(2015-02-14)
1919 * Allow duplicate items in the playlist.
1920
1921(2015-02-06)
1922 * Add new option in the playlist section in preferences:
1923   "Play next file even if the previous file failed"
1924   If the option is enabled, when a file fails to play (mplayer crashes or
1925   exits with an error code), the playlist will play the next file in the
1926   list.
1927
1928(2015-02-01)
1929 * Add an option in the toolbar editor to set the size of the icons.
1930   (Currently it doesn't look good if you increase the size of the icons
1931   in the skin gui).
1932
1933(2015-01-31)
1934 * Add the options -ontop and -no-ontop for the command line.
1935   They just change the "Stay on top" options in the preferences.
1936
1937(2015-01-21)
1938 * Add a combobox in Preferences -> Performance to select the hardware
1939   decoding option (mpv only).
1940
1941(2015-01-18)
1942 * (mpv) Don't use the pp filter if it's not available
1943
1944(2015-01-16)
1945 * Fix for Youtube.
1946
1947(2014-12-31)
1948 * (Videopreview) Use -nofontconfig to prevent to create the font cache.
1949
1950(2014-12-16)
1951 * New version of the installer, which offers the user the possibility
1952   to install mpv (will be downloaded). By redxii.
1953
1954(2014-12-12)
1955 * Add an option to change the size of the OSD.
1956
1957(2014-11-29)
1958 * Add an option to enable or disable the internal Youtube support.
1959 * Add an option to enable streaming sites (requires mpv and youtube-dl).
1960
1961(2014-11-27)
1962 * (Windows) Replace / with \ in the screenshot folder name.
1963 * Move the Youtube options from the performance section to the network
1964   section.
1965
1966(2014-11-26)
1967 * Add the possibility to select a secondary subtitle track, which is
1968   displayed on top of the screen. (mpv only)
1969
1970(2014-11-25)
1971 * Add an option to disable the scroll of the title in the skingui.
1972
1973(2014-11-20)
1974 * Replace the option 'Use SSA/ASS library' in the subtitles menu with
1975   'Use custom style'.
1976
1977(2014-11-18)
1978 * Add an option to go back one frame (frame_back_step). Only works with mpv.
1979 * Add an option in Preferences -> General to set the template for screenshots
1980  (works only with mpv).
1981
1982(2014-11-16)
1983 * Add support for mpv.
1984   It took 25 days. 6983 lines were changed.
1985   It's not complete yet, some things may not work yet, but
1986   I think the most important things work.
1987   Notice: it requires mpv 0.6.2 or greater.
1988 * During the process of adding support for mpv, the options to customize
1989   the non ASS font were removed.
1990 * Add the Albanian translation.
1991 * Add Notes_about_mpv.txt.
1992
1993(2014-10-08)
1994 * (Bugfix) Prevent to pass the filename twice to mplayer when using
1995   use_short_pathnames.
1996
1997(2014-09-25)
1998 * Add options in Preferences -> Network to set a proxy.
1999
2000(2014-09-14)
2001 * (Qt 5) Fix the option pause when minimized.
2002
2003(2014-09-10)
2004 * Open https URLs with ffmpeg://
2005 * (Themes and skins) Now if the resource file (*.rcc) is not found
2006   the images will be loaded from PNGs files, as in previous versions.
2007   This will make easier for users to customize themes, since they
2008   won't need to create the rcc files.
2009
2010
2011[b]Version 14.9.0[/b]:
2012
2013(2014-08-20)
2014 * Now the themes and skin icons are loaded from resource files (*.rcc).
2015
2016(2014-08-12)
2017 * Set recents max to 100.
2018
2019(2014-08-07)
2020 * Fix Youtube.
2021
2022(2014-07-20)
2023 * Display the file's title in the recents' menu.
2024
2025(2014-07-16)
2026 * mpcgui: add a label to display the time in the floating control.
2027
2028(2014-05-21)
2029 * Videopreview: calculate better the size of the thumbnails so the
2030   width of picture is not greater than the maximum width.
2031
2032(2014-04-22)
2033 * Sort the files dragged to the playlist.
2034
2035(2014-04-12)
2036 * (Windows) Bring back the 'avoid screensaver' option.
2037
2038(2014-04-10)
2039 * Add an option to shut down the computer when playback has finished.
2040
2041(2014-04-07)
2042 * New workaround for opensubtitles that should return the best results.
2043
2044(2014-04-06)
2045 * Add wtv to the list of video extensions.
2046
2047(2014-04-03)
2048 * Fix: correctly check if a skin is in the combobox before adding it.
2049
2050
2051[b]Version 14.3.0[/b]:
2052
2053(2014-03-29)
2054 * (Windows) Try to catch multimedia keys sent by the appcommand
2055   message.
2056
2057(2014-03-17)
2058 * If no file is opened, the Play option will play a file from the
2059   playlist.
2060
2061(2014-03-15)
2062 * Possibility to automatically add other media files to the
2063   the playlist when playing a file.
2064
2065(2014-03-12)
2066 * New translation: British English.
2067
2068(2014-03-09)
2069 * Add audio/aac, audio/flac, audio/ogg to smplayer.desktop and
2070   smplayer_enqueue.desktop.
2071
2072(2014-03-07)
2073 * Another workaround for opensubtitles.
2074
2075(2014-02-20)
2076 * Add more media keys as shortcuts.
2077
2078(2014-02-09)
2079 * Add the option 'Global audio equalizer' in preferences -> general
2080   -> audio.
2081 * (Windows) Now it's possible to open Windows shortcuts (symlinks).
2082
2083(2014-02-06)
2084 * Add more presets to the audio equalizer.
2085 * (Windows) Add an option in preferences -> subtitles to enable or
2086   disable the use of the windows font directory.
2087   Disabling this option prevents the annoying font scanning.
2088
2089(2014-01-20)
2090 * Don't ignore the wheel event in the timeslider.
2091 * Don't display the resolution of the video in the statusbar if the
2092   width or height is 0.
2093
2094(2014-01-19)
2095 * New option min_step for smplayer.ini (section [General]).
2096   Sets the step value for the actions that increase or
2097   decrease the volume, contrast, brightness...
2098
2099(2014-01-07)
2100 * Add an option in preferences -> interface to set the time
2101   to hide the floating control.
2102
2103(2013-12-20)
2104 * Add the option "Show only when moving the mouse to the bottom of the screen"
2105   in preferences -> interface -> floating control.
2106
2107(2013-12-11)
2108 * Use -noflip-hebrew when using -ass. It seems to be necessary to
2109   display arabic subtitles correctly.
2110
2111(2013-12-09)
2112 * Add option for aspect ratio 11:8.
2113
2114(2013-11-19)
2115 * (Experimental) Add an option in preferences -> advanced to use the
2116   lavf demuxer by default.
2117
2118(2013-11-12)
2119 * Add an option in preferences to enable or disable the delay of
2120   the mouse left button.
2121
2122(2013-11-11)
2123 * Avoid that the action for left button of the mouse is activated with a
2124   double click.
2125 * (Skingui) Update the volume control when mute is changed.
2126
2127(2013-11-10)
2128 * Fix the option "Move the window when the video area is dragged".
2129
2130(2013-11-06 - 2013-11-08)
2131 * Add a basic support to play blurays.
2132
2133(2013-11-04)
2134 * Add support for the mp4/m4a files downloaded by youtube-dl.
2135   Now when opening a mp4 file, smplayer will check if there's a
2136   file with the same name but extension m4a. In that case the m4a file
2137   will be used as the audio.
2138
2139   This is intented to play the DASH format from Youtube, where the video and
2140   audio are in separated files. The application youtube-dl can download
2141   those files.
2142
2143   This feature can be turned off by setting autoload_m4a to false in
2144   smplayer.ini (no option in the GUI yet).
2145
2146   Notice: you need a recent version of mplayer or mplayer2. With older
2147   versions seeking don't work with these files.
2148
2149(2013-10-30 - 2013-11-05)
2150 * The control for fullscreen mode has been rewritten and improved.
2151   Now it shows over the video (not reducing the video) in all
2152   GUIs.
2153
2154(2013-10-16)
2155 * (Skingui) Don't use a fixed size for the font of the menubar.
2156   It can cause that the menu bar won't be visible with some fonts.
2157
2158(2013-10-04)
2159 * (Windows) Apply patch for better screensaver disabling, by Vavooon
2160   (http://forum.smplayer.info/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=6778)
2161
2162(2013-10-02)
2163 * Remove the "About Qt" option.
2164
2165(2013-09-22)
2166 * Start to implement presets for the audio equalizer.
2167
2168(2013-09-05 - 2013-10-03)
2169 * Improve support for the encrypted signatures of Youtube.
2170
2171(2013-08-29 - 2013-10-09)
2172 * Adapt the code for Qt 5.
2173   Note: the MpcGui is not available if compiled with Qt 5.
2174
2175
2176[b]Version 0.8.6[/b]:
2177
2178(2013-07-30)
2179 * Add option Help->Donate.
2180
2181(2013-07-26)
2182 * Add option to show or hide the resolution info in the skingui.
2183
2184(2013-07-25)
2185 * Don't report about new version if installed version is newer.
2186
2187(2013-07-23)
2188 * Set the layout of the control widgets to left to right even when
2189   using a right to left language.
2190
2191(2013-07-22)
2192 * Another fix for finding subtitles. Sometimes it doesn't return any
2193   result with 2 items in the search but it does with 1.
2194   Workaround: use 3 items... Seems to work in all cases.
2195
2196(2013-07-21)
2197 * Read the script from the file ytsig.script in the smplayer config
2198   directory.
2199 * Ask the user to update the youtube code when an unknown signature is
2200   found.
2201
2202(2013-07-20)
2203 * Youtube: now the signature decrypt function is written in script code
2204   instead of C++.
2205
2206(2013-07-16)
2207 * Add a workaround for a problem with opensubtitles.org. Sometimes it
2208   returns no subtitles when a query with only one search is performed.
2209
2210(2013-07-11)
2211 * Youtube fix.
2212 * Don't show the "youtube browser" entry in the menu and toolbar if
2213   smplayer has been compiled without support for youtube.
2214
2215(2013-07-10)
2216 * Youtube fix.
2217
2218(2013-07-05)
2219 * Be sure the main window is visible when another instance requests to
2220   open a file.
2221
2222(2013-06-28)
2223 * Youtube fix.
2224
2225(2013-06-26)
2226 * Add an "updates" section in preferences, where the user can configure
2227   the update checker.
2228
2229(2013-06-24)
2230 * Ignore -fontconfig and -nofontconfig in the additional options if using
2231   mplayer2.
2232
2233(2013-06-21)
2234 * Youtube fix.
2235 * Youtube improvements.
2236
2237(2013-06-18)
2238 * Check for infinite recursion in favorites.
2239
2240(2013-06-13)
2241 * Bugfix. The list of subtitles found at opensubtitles was not deleted, so
2242   the list of subtitles wrongly displayed subtitles for previous searches.
2243
2244(2013-06-07)
2245 * A new icon has been added for the mplayer error dialog.
2246
2247(2013-06-05)
2248 * Bugfix in the skingui. In fullscreen mode, the menubar would appear if the
2249   mouse was near of the top of the video area. Now it shows only if the mouse
2250   is near of the top of the main window.
2251 * Display a wait cursor during the creation of the preferences and properties
2252   dialogs.
2253
2254(2013-06-03)
2255 * Save/restore the window state.
2256
2257(2013-05-22)
2258 * Add an option for command line: -delete-config.
2259   This option deletes the smplayer configuration files.
2260   The files which are deleted are: smplayer.ini, smplayer_files.ini,
2261   styles.ass and all files in the subdirectory file_settings.
2262
2263(2013-05-16)
2264 * (Experimental) Download the subtitles from opensubtitles.org in gzip
2265   format instead of zip. The quazip library is not needed anymore.
2266
2267(2013-05-15)
2268 * Bugfix: check for the skin in the user dir before falling back to the
2269   default gui.
2270
2271(2013-05-13)
2272 * (Windows) Read and write text to mplayer as utf8.
2273   Hopefully this will fix loading of external subtitles if the
2274   filename contains non latin characters.
2275
2276(2013-05-12)
2277 * (Skingui) Add a label to display the resolution of the video.
2278
2279
2280[b]Version 0.8.5[/b]:
2281
2282(2013-05-05)
2283 * The volume slider in the skingui now updates the volume while the
2284   slider is been moved.
2285
2286(2013-05-03)
2287 * Add the Malay translation, by abuyop (transifex).
2288
2289(2013-05-02)
2290 * Compile without USE_FONTCONFIG_OPTIONS in linux to prevent the
2291   -fontconfig problem when using mplayer2.
2292
2293(2013-05-01)
2294 * Add an option to enter url(s) in the playlist.
2295
2296(2013-04-30)
2297 * The SkinGUI is now the default gui.
2298 * If the SkinGUI is selected, a check is done on startup to see if the
2299   skin theme is installed. If not found, the default gui will be used.
2300 * New command line option: -skingui
2301
2302(2013-04-28)
2303 * The option "Move the window when the video area is dragged" is
2304   now disabled by default because it has some issues that need to
2305   be fixed.
2306
2307(2013-04-24)
2308 * Connect to opensubtitles.org using xmlrpc instead of using the
2309   simplexml method, which it seems it's not working well and that causes
2310   that smplayer couldn't find subtitles. This fixes the problem.
2311
2312(2013-04-20)
2313 * Add two new options for Audio -> Stereo mode: Mono and Reverse.
2314
2315(2013-04-07)
2316 * The size actions work even the autoresize is set to never.
2317 * Set the resize method to never as default.
2318
2319
2320[b]Version 0.8.4[/b]:
2321
2322(2013-03-15)
2323 * Change the default value for file and stream cache to 2048.
2324
2325(2013-03-11)
2326 * Add the option "Pressing the stop button once resets the time position"
2327   in preferences -> interface -> seeking.
2328
2329(2013-03-07)
2330 * (Testing) Now smplayer checks for updates automatically.
2331   On startup it connects to the smplayer web to know if there's a new
2332   version available and in that case the user gets a notification.
2333   The check is only done once per week, and it can be totally disabled
2334   by setting "enabled=false" in the [update_checker] section in smplayer.ini.
2335
2336(2013-03-04)
2337 * Add the checkbox "Move the window when the video area is dragged"
2338   in preferences -> interface.
2339
2340(2013-03-03)
2341 * Add an option in the help menu to show a first steps guide.
2342
2343(2013-03-01)
2344 * (Windows) Fix: now all key shortcuts should work when using the
2345   floating control.
2346
2347(2013-02-28)
2348 * Hopefully fix bug 3605753 (stay-on-top-while-playing not
2349   working after fullscreen).
2350
2351(2013-02-27)
2352 * Add a submenu to the help menu, to share smplayer with your friends.
2353 * Add support for encoding ISO-8859-16 for subtitles.
2354
2355(2013-02-22)
2356 * Copy the content of the clipboard, if it looks like a url, to
2357   the open url input field.
2358
2359(2013-02-16)
2360 * Now it's possible to set the fps for external subtitles.
2361
2362(2013-02-11)
2363 * Change the default value of the OSD to "subtitles only".
2364 * Change the default value of "allow frame drop" to false.
2365
2366(2013-02-05)
2367 * Add the Thai translation, by มาโนชญ์ สมศักดิ์ <xyteton at hotmail dot com>
2368
2369(2013-01-31)
2370 * Add the Hebrew translaton, by Genghis Khan <genghiskhan at gmx dot ca>
2371
2372(2013-01-26)
2373 * Add an option to enable the video equalizer by software in the
2374   video equalizer window.
2375
2376(2013-01-25)
2377 * The video equalizer dialog has been rewritten.
2378
2379(2013-01-21)
2380 * Add a confirmation dialog to delete the list of recent files.
2381
2382(2013-01-13)
2383 * Add bik and smk to the list of video extensions.
2384 * Add aac and dts to the list of audio extensions.
2385
2386(2013-01-12)
2387 * Add mts to the list of video extensions.
2388
2389(2012-12-23)
2390 * Ignore other mouse events if the window is been moved by dragging
2391   the video area.
2392
2393
2394[b]Version 0.8.3[/b]:
2395
2396(2012-12-20)
2397 * Fix for youtube playback.
2398
2399(2012-11-28)
2400 * Show the mouse cursor immediately when the mouse is moved on the video
2401   area.
2402 * Help -> FAQ opens http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/faq.php
2403
2404
2405[b]Version 0.8.2[/b]:
2406
2407(2012-11-15)
2408 * New option Help -> Open configuration folder.
2409
2410(2012-11-12)
2411 * Don't use slices as default, as it seems to cause problems when using
2412   multiple threads.
2413
2414(2012-11-08)
2415 * (Windows) When a new version is run for the first time it tries to
2416   create a font cache before showing the GUI. Avoids that the font cache
2417   would be created when the user plays the first video.
2418
2419(2012-11-05)
2420 * (Windows) Don't change the priority of the smplayer process. Fixes a
2421   freeze that may happen on windows xp when you click on the video window.
2422
2423(2012-11-03)
2424 * Don't use -fontconfig with mplayer2.
2425
2426(2012-10-28)
2427 * Port the umplayer skins to smplayer.
2428
2429(2012-10-22)
2430 * Bug fix: stop playback when the user selects to play the next
2431   item in the playlist and there are no more items to play.
2432
2433(2012-10-17)
2434 * Move the main window by dragging in the video area.
2435   Code copied from umplayer.
2436
2437(2012-10-05)
2438 * Add support for 6.1 and 7.1 audio output. Patch by AdrianoML
2439   (http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=5655)
2440
2441(2012-09-30)
2442 * Add new section "Privacy" in Preferences -> Interface.
2443 * Move max. items for recent files to the privacy section.
2444 * Add an option to remember or not the last directories.
2445 * Add an option to select the maximum number of items in the
2446   Open->URL dialog.
2447
2448(2012-09-28)
2449 * (Linux) Install larger icons. smplayer.svg contributed by akovia
2450   (http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=5557)
2451
2452(2012-09-21)
2453 * Add the option "Report MPlayer crashes" in Preferences -> Advanced.
2454 * New option for smplayer.ini: time_to_kill_mplayer. Specifies the
2455   time (in milliseconds) that smplayer should wait before killing
2456   the mplayer process if the process doesn't teminate on its own
2457   when the stop button is pressed. Default value: 5000.
2458
2459
2460[b]Version 0.8.1[/b]:
2461
2462(2012-09-14)
2463 * Fix youtube playback.
2464
2465(2012-08-26)
2466 * Fix: mplayer2 was not recognized if the name was in lowercase in the
2467   identification string.
2468
2469(2012-08-24)
2470 * Show the background picture on stop.
2471
2472(2012-08-14)
2473 * Youtube: don't use a user agent by default. It's possible to set
2474   the user agent in smplayer.ini though.
2475
2476(2012-07-30)
2477 * Add mka and m4a to the list of extensions (for audio).
2478
2479(2012-07-04)
2480 * New option "save_dirs" in the [directories] section. If set to false
2481   the latest used directory won't be saved.
2482
2483(2012-07-23)
2484 * Add wtv to the list of extensions
2485
2486(2012-06-25)
2487 * Add oga and ogx to the list of extensions
2488
2489(2012-05-29)
2490 * Enable Audio CD on Windows (requires a libcdio enabled MPlayer)
2491
2492[b]Version 0.8.0[/b]:
2493
2494(2012-04-01)
2495 * Find subtitles window: display first the most used languages in the
2496   filter combobox. And add "pb" for Portuguese from Brasil.
2497
2498(2012-03-31)
2499 * Fix the line breaks on downloaded *.sub files from opensubtitles.
2500
2501(2012-03-29)
2502 * (Youtube) Recognize short urls.
2503
2504(2012-03-28)
2505 * Display chapter names in the chapter menu.
2506
2507(2012-03-19)
2508 * It's possible to change GUI without restarting.
2509 * Bug fix: remote m3u didn't open from the favorites menu or command line.
2510
2511(2012-03-17)
2512 * Move the blur and sharpen filters to a group, so only one can be activated.
2513   It doesn't make much sense to be able to enable the blur and sharpen
2514   at the same time.
2515 * Move the denoise and blur/sharpen options to submenus.
2516 * Youtube quality by default is now mp4/720p.
2517 * The default width of the floating control is now 70%.
2518 * Toolbar editor: give a name to the widget actions (time slider and so on).
2519
2520(2012-03-15)
2521 * Add gradfun to video -> filters.
2522 * Add blur and sharpen filters.
2523
2524(2012-03-14)
2525 * Support for drag and drop in the toolbar editor.
2526
2527(2012-03-13)
2528 * Toolbar editor. If you right click on any toolbar you'll get a menu
2529   with options to edit the toolbars (including the control bars).
2530   That will show a new dialog, with two list. On the left you'll see
2531   all available actions (mainly buttons, but also volume or seek sliders)
2532   and on the right the current actions.
2533   The left and right buttons allow to move actions from one list to the
2534   other. The up and down buttons move the selected action in the current
2535   actions' list.
2536   The "add separator" button allows to add more separators.
2537   The "defaults" button removes all your changes in the current actions'
2538   list and sets the default actions for the toolbar.
2539
2540(2012-03-08)
2541 * Use QtSingleApplication instead of the old client/server code to use a
2542   single instance and communication with other instances.
2543 * Possibility (smplayer.pro) to disable the build of some parts of the
2544   code (QtSingleApplication, Youtube support, Find subtitles and
2545   video preview).
2546 * Fix: the buttons to select the color of the subtiles in preferences ->
2547   subtitles may not change the background color with some styles. Now the
2548   color is changed using a stylesheet, so it should work with all styles.
2549
2550(2012-03-03)
2551 * Improve detection of youtube urls.
2552
2553
2554[b]Version 0.7.1[/b]:
2555
2556(2012-03-01)
2557 * Apply handle_local_urls.diff
2558   (https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3294481&group_id=185512&atid=913575)
2559
2560(2012-02-27)
2561 * Youtube: flv videos now have the lowest priority.
2562
2563(2012-02-25)
2564 * New option in the menu Options to run the smplayer youtube browser
2565   (if installed).
2566 * The single instance is enabled by default on windows.
2567
2568(2012-02-22)
2569 * Now it's possible to change the opensubtitles server.
2570 * Opensubtitles: fix download link.
2571 * Fix a crash in the favorite editor if the KDE open dialog is used
2572   (now it uses the Qt dialog).
2573
2574(2012-02-19)
2575 * Store by default the screenshots in a folder inside the user's pictures
2576   folder. (Requires Qt 4.4)
2577 * Bugfix: don't try to create the lock file if the config dir doesn't exist.
2578   This caused a 10sec delay when smplayer is run for the first time.
2579
2580
2581[b]Version 0.7.0[/b]:
2582
2583(2012-01-28)
2584 * Add Help -> Check for updates (replaces Help -> Tips)
2585
2586(2012-01-27)
2587 * Simplify the about dialog.
2588
2589(2012-01-25)
2590 * Detect mplayer2.
2591 * Use precise seeking is using mplayer2.
2592 * Add an option in preferences -> interface to enable or not precise seeking.
2593
2594(2012-01-24)
2595 * Move the open dvd, vcd and audio cd to a submenu.
2596
2597(2012-01-23)
2598 * New option for command-line: -disable-server. This option disables the
2599   server used to communicate with other instances. This, of course, disables
2600   too the possibility to use a single instance.
2601
2602(2012-01-23)
2603 * Move the favorite menu to the open menu, and add an icon to the toolbar.
2604
2605(2012-01-13 - 2012-01-21)
2606 * New favorite menu, where you can add your favorite videos, music, streams,
2607   youtube videos... It's also possible to add submenus.
2608
2609(2012-01-20)
2610 * Use QtLockedFile instead of QxtFileLock, so we can get rid of the libqxt
2611   dependency on windows.
2612   The QtLockedFile is under the BSD license.
2613
2614(2012-01-19)
2615 * The title of youtube videos is displayed correctly. And the stream url is
2616   replaced by the url of the youtube page.
2617
2618(2012-01-14)
2619 * Added the Croatian translation, by jk <marshsmello@gmail.com>
2620
2621(2012-01-12)
2622 * Detect asx, m3u, pls, and ram streams and pass -playlist to mplayer, so
2623   the user doesn't have to indicate if a url is a playlist.
2624
2625(2012-01-11)
2626 * Added an option in preferences -> performance to select the desired
2627   quality for youtube videos.
2628
2629(2012-01-11)
2630 * Added a very basic support for youtube. Now you can open urls like
2631   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dq4Oj5quskI in smplayer (Open -> URL).
2632   You can also drag and drop a link from a browser to the smplayer window.
2633
2634(2012-01-04)
2635 * New option "Hide video window when playing audio files" in
2636   preferences -> interface.
2637
2638
2639[b]Version 0.6.10[/b]:
2640
2641(2011-12-06)
2642 * Added a vdpau configuration dialog, now it's possible to select which
2643   vdpau codecs to use.
2644
2645(2011-12-05)
2646 * Patch by Silvan Scherrer <silvan.scherrer@aroa.ch> to add support for
2647   eCS, OS/2.
2648
2649(2011-12-03)
2650 * Removed the option "Visualize motion vectors". It caused problems to many
2651   people when activated by mistake.
2652
2653(2010-12-07)
2654 * Added a submenu to select the closed caption channel.
2655   Requires mplayer >= r32607.
2656
2657(2010-09-03)
2658 * Added webm and vp8 to the list of extensions (for video).
2659
2660(2010-07-30)
2661 * Added thd to the list of extensions (for audio).
2662
2663(2010-04-28)
2664 * Added hdmov to the list of extensions (for video).
2665
2666(2010-04-22)
2667 * Added f4v to the list of extensions (for video).
2668
2669(2010-04-14)
2670 * (Experimental) If using mplayer svn r31030, the audio filters (karaoke,
2671   extrastereo and volnorm) are changed without restarting mplayer, using the
2672   new slave commands af_add and af_del.
2673
2674(2010-03-22)
2675 * For consistency, the playlist preferences have been moved to the
2676   playlist section in the main preferences dialog (and the playlist own
2677   preferences dialog has been deleted).
2678 * Added the Danish translation, by Martin Schlander <mschlander@opensuse.org>
2679
2680(2010-03-01)
2681 * Added the possibility to select the seeking method (absolute or relative) in
2682   Preferences -> Interface.
2683
2684(2010-02-25)
2685 * Possibility to sort the items of the playlist. Implemented by
2686   Neo254 <manuel.ohrndorf@gmx.net>
2687   http://smplayer.berlios.de/forum/viewtopic.php?p=423#p423
2688
2689
2690[b]Version 0.6.9[/b]:
2691
2692(2010-02-18)
2693 * New option for smplayer.ini: relative_seeking (section [gui]). If true
2694   seeking (with the time slider) will be done by using a percentage. If false
2695   seeking will be done using an absolute time. The default value for this
2696   option is true.
2697
2698(2010-02-09)
2699 * Fix: using now -af channels to select the left or right audio channel, as
2700   it seems the -stereo option in mplayer doesn't work as expected.
2701   Should fix bug #1962349.
2702
2703(2010-02-02)
2704 * Added a new action to toggle deinterlacing (assigned to key D). It just
2705   runs the mplayer slave command "step_property deinterlace". It toggles
2706   deinterlacing on/off. Requires the yadif or kerndeint filters.
2707   Note: when using this action, the deinterlace menu is not updated.
2708
2709(2010-02-01)
2710 * Added an option (Options -> Statusbar) to display the video resolution and
2711   fps in the statusbar.
2712 * For consistency, moved the option to show the frame counter to the submenu
2713   Options -> Statusbar. (Which by the way required to remove the old and ugly
2714   implementation and create a new one)
2715
2716(2010-01-28)
2717 * (Experimental) Now the slider seeks again by percentage instead of time, but
2718   this time the percentage uses fractions so it should be as accurate as
2719   before, and makes seeking work better when the length reported by mplayer is
2720   wrong.
2721
2722(2010-01-20)
2723 * Now the command line options -close-at-end and -no-close-at-end don't
2724   modify the preference's option "close when finished playback".
2725 * Now the command line options -fullscreen and -no-fullscreen don't
2726   modify the preference's option "start videos in fullscreen".
2727
2728(2010-01-15)
2729 * (Linux) Use pulse as default audio output instead of alsa, as alsa is
2730   causing problems (at least) in Ubuntu 9.10 when seeking on a video (image
2731   freezes).
2732
2733(2010-01-10)
2734 * Fix: the "unicode" encoding for subtitles works now on Windows.
2735
2736(2009-12-13)
2737 * Added the possibility to mark an A-B section. When the A-B section has been
2738   selected only that section will be played. If the option Play->Repeat is
2739   enabled, the A-B section will be repeated.
2740   A new submenu "A-B section" has been added to the "Play" menu, with the
2741   following options:
2742     - set A marker
2743     - set B marker
2744     - clear A-B markers
2745     - repeat
2746   This is exactly how it works:
2747    - the "set A marker" option allows to mark the beginning of the section.
2748      If the B marker has previously been set, the file will be restarted so
2749      the change can take effect.
2750    - the "set B marker" option allows to mark the end of the section.
2751      If the A marker has previously been set, the file will be restarted so
2752      the change can take effect.
2753    - the "clear A-B markers" option deletes the A and B markers and restarts
2754      the playback so the change can take effect. If the A and B markers
2755      weren't set, this option does nothing.
2756    - if the "repeat" option is enabled, the A-B section will played back once
2757      and again (If no A-B section is set, the whole file will be repeated).
2758      If the "repeat" option is not enabled, when the playback gets to the B
2759      marker, the file will be stopped.
2760
2761   Notice: as a side effect, when an A-B section has been set, any action which
2762   requires to restart mplayer, will start the playback at the A marker and not
2763   at the point it was previously!
2764
2765(2009-11-26)
2766 * Added icons for the buttons in the find subtitles window.
2767
2768(2009-11-19)
2769 * Added the new option "Save SMPlayer log to file" in Preferences -> Advanced
2770   -> Logs. If the option is checked, the smplayer logs will be saved to
2771   to a file named smplayer_log.txt in the smplayer config file (in linux
2772   $HOME/.config/smplayer/).
2773
2774(2009-11-06)
2775 * Pass the text for the slave command osd_show_text in utf8. Should fix
2776   bug #2854097 (incorrect charset in OSD texts).
2777   Fix based on a patch by c0rnholio
2778   (https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=913575&aid=2893306&group_id=185512)
2779
2780(2009-10-26)
2781 * Added a new option for smplayer.ini: fast_load_sub
2782   If true (the default) loading an external subtitle will be fast
2783   because it will be done by using a slave command (which is nice but it
2784   has the problem that smplayer may restore the wrong subtitle after a
2785   restart of the video). If false, the subtitle will be loaded by
2786   restarting mplayer (which is a little bit slower but doesn't have the
2787   mentioned problem).
2788
2789(2009-10-20)
2790 * Bugfix: pad the hash for opensubtitles with zeroes. This bug caused that
2791   sometimes smplayer couldn't find any subtitles for a given file.
2792
2793(2009-10-03)
2794 * Applied patch smplayer-3270-mandriva-mplayer-version.patch by Anssi Hannula
2795   (http://sourceforge.net/users/anssih/). Makes SMPlayer detect the mplayer
2796   version strings in Mandriva.
2797
2798(2009-09-14)
2799 * New action "show_filename" (assigned to Shift+I). It displays the filename
2800   in the OSD.
2801
2802(2009-09-13)
2803 * Don't pass to mplayer any audio filter (-af ...) when using -afm hwac3.
2804
2805(2009-09-09)
2806 * (Streams) Added support to 'StreamTitle' without 'StreamUrl'
2807
2808(2009-09-04)
2809 * Applied patch mousewheel_seekalt_checkbox_r3257.patch by Steven Eastland
2810   (grassmonk at users.sourceforge.net). It adds the possibility to reverse
2811   the direction of seeking with the mouse wheel.
2812
2813(2009-08-31)
2814 * Added the checkbox "Disable video filters when using vdpau" in Preferences ->
2815   General -> Video.
2816
2817(2009-08-30)
2818 * (Linux) New option for smplayer.ini: disable_video_filters_with_vdpau. If
2819    set to true /the default) all video filters will be disabled when using
2820    the vdpau vo.
2821
2822(2009-08-16)
2823 * All video filters in the Video menu will be shown disabled if using vdpau.
2824
2825(2009-08-12)
2826 * Bugfix: some of the items in the the recents menu may be lost.
2827
2828(2009-07-31)
2829 * The default cache for local files is 0.
2830 * New option for smplayer.ini: osd_delay. It specifies the delay in
2831   milliseconds to show the OSD (default 2200).
2832
2833(2009-07-30)
2834 * If using vdpau, don't pass any video filter to mplayer (instead of passing
2835   them and then clear them with -vf-clr)
2836
2837
2838[b]Version 0.6.8[/b]:
2839
2840(2009-07-14)
2841 * Check for new channels first in ~/.mplayer/channels.conf.ter. Use
2842   channels.conf if channels.conf.ter is not found.
2843 * Removed the "Jump..." item from the tv and radio menus. The actions
2844   are still available.
2845 * (Playlist) Fix: don't try to a load pls file if the file doesn't exist.
2846   Prevents QSettings to create subdirectories pointing to that file.
2847 * Updated the texts of the OSD options.
2848
2849(2009-07-13)
2850 * Moved the option "Visualize motion vectors" from menu Options to menu
2851   Video.
2852
2853(2009-07-12)
2854 * Fixed error "302 - Moved temporarily" when connecting to opensubtitles.org.
2855
2856(2009-07-09)
2857 * Added the new option "Jump" to the TV and radio menus. It displays a dialog
2858   which allows the user to enter the number of the channel to open.
2859
2860(2009-07-07)
2861 * Applied patch numbered_recent_files.diff by greenest
2862   (greenest at users.sourceforge.net). It adds numbers in front of the recent
2863   files, and a key accelerator.
2864
2865(2009-07-06)
2866 * Save the last TV channel, which will be used when "dvb://" or "tv://" is
2867   opened.
2868
2869(2009-07-05)
2870 * (Linux) vdpau doesn't allow to use any video filter (mplayer would crash)
2871   so now smplayer will clear the filter list if vdpau is used.
2872 * New option for smplayer.ini (section [playlist]): automatically_play_next.
2873   If set to false the playlist won't play the next item when the current one
2874   finishes.
2875
2876(2009-07-04)
2877 * The settings of TV channels are saved on ~/.config/smplayer/smplayer_tv.ini.
2878
2879(2009-07-02)
2880 * Added a new section in the preferences dialog: TV and radio.
2881
2882(2009-06-30)
2883 * Apply patch play_action_disabled_while_playing.diff by Francesco Cosoleto.
2884   (cosoleto at users.sourceforge.net). It disables the play action while
2885   playing.
2886 * (Fix) Now the command line option -sub passes the subtitle file to another
2887   running instance.
2888
2889(2009-06-29)
2890 * Added actions to select the previous and next tv channels, and also for
2891   previous and next radio. Assigned by default to the keys L and H (for TV)
2892   and Shift+L and Shift+H for radio.
2893
2894(2009-06-28)
2895 * Changing chapters works again with mplayer > svn r29407 (0-based).
2896   For DVDs, it only works if cache = 0.
2897 * Added two options for smplayer.ini (section [tv]):
2898   check_channels_conf_on_startup and initial_tv_deinterlace.
2899
2900(2009-06-27)
2901 * The tv and radio submenus can be added to the toolbars (tv_menu and
2902   radio_menu).
2903
2904(2009-06-25)
2905 * New menus Open->TV and Open->Radio. The items for those menus are taken from
2906   ~/.mplayer/channels.conf. The services with video and audio pid are added
2907   to the TV menu, those with audio pid are added to the radio menu. The
2908   rest are discarded. The file channels.conf is rescanned on every startup
2909   and will add new channels to the menus.
2910   Note: the file channels.conf is not read at all on Windows (mplayer lacks
2911   dvb support on Windows).
2912 * The list of channels can be edited.
2913
2914(2009-06-23)
2915 * Initial support for TV (dvb:// and tv://):
2916    - You can open dvb channels through commandline (smplayer
2917      dvb://CHANNEL_NAME). It may also work with tv:// but it's untested.
2918    - There's an option under Preferences->Performance to set the cache for TV.
2919    - The view info and properties dialog recognizes dvb:// and tv:// and
2920      display a TV icon for them.
2921
2922(2009-06-21)
2923 * Added the new menu Program under the Browse menu. It allows to change
2924   the program track for ts files. Known issue: when a program changes, the
2925   video and audio track will probably change too but the video and audio menus
2926   doesn't show that change.
2927 * The OSD is not shown until 3 seconds after the video started to play. This
2928   avoid a lot of messages being printed on the OSD at startup.
2929
2930(2009-06-12)
2931 * Applied (with a few changes) the patch wheelfunctionpatch4.txt by
2932   Stivo (helifan at users.sourceforge.net).
2933   It adds the possibility to change the function of the mouse wheel with
2934   a mouse click.
2935
2936(2009-06-02)
2937 * (Windows) smplayer should recognize now Windows 7, if using Qt 4.5.1
2938   (untested).
2939 * (Windows, portable version) The default screenshot directory is
2940   ./screenshots, and the default additional option for mplayer is
2941   -nofontconfig. This way it's not necessary to supply a customized
2942   smplayer.ini in the portable package.
2943 * Recognize the multithreaded mplayer build from kovensky (checks for
2944   'MPlayer GIT*'). It assumes it's version 1.0rc3.
2945
2946(2009-05-24)
2947 * Bugfix: now the color tags from the mplayer output are really removed
2948   (linux only).
2949
2950(2009-05-21)
2951 * Two new options for the command line have been added: -pos and -size. Both
2952   options expect two arguments. -pos specifies the coordinates (x, y) where
2953   the main window will be displayed, -size specifies the size (width, height).
2954   If any of the values is invalid, the option will be silently ignored.
2955
2956(2009-05-18)
2957 * New option in the subtitle menu: "subtitle visibility". If the option
2958   is checked (default) subtitles are visible, otherwise the subtitles won't
2959   appear in the screen. This is a global option.
2960 * In the subtitle initialization function, try to find the external subtitle
2961   using its filename, and not assuming that it's always the last one.
2962   It should make the -sub command line option to work as expected.
2963
2964(2009-05-11)
2965 * Added the Estonian translation, by olav m�gi <olav.magi@hotmail.com>
2966 * The option "Audio/video auto synchronization" has been moved from
2967   Preferences -> Performance to Preferences -> General -> Audio.
2968 * Added the new option "A-V sync correction" in Preferences -> General ->
2969   Audio (for the mplayer option -mc).
2970
2971(2009-05-05)
2972 * New option for smplayer.ini: row_spacing (in the [playlist] section). It
2973   specifies the spacing between rows in the playlist. If the value is -1
2974   the row height is not changed.
2975
2976(2009-05-04)
2977 * Added an option in Preferences -> Advanced -> Logs to make the mplayer logs
2978   more verbose (passes -v to mplayer).
2979
2980(2009-05-01)
2981 * Applied patch coreavc.patch by Shurygin Egor <qdiesel@users.sourceforge.net>
2982   It adds a checkbox in performance settings to switch coreavc usage.
2983   When checked passes to mplayer "-vc coreavc," unless vdpau video driver is
2984   used and any other video codec has been set explicitly.
2985
2986(2009-04-30)
2987 * Bugfix: hide the mouse cursor when it's over the black borders.
2988
2989(2009-04-29)
2990 * (Windows) New options for smplayer.ini: turn_screensaver_off (false by
2991   default) and avoid_screensaver (true by default). The option
2992   disable_screensaver won't be used on windows anymore.
2993   turn_screensaver_off disables the screensaver from the control panel,
2994   while avoid_screensaver prevents the screensaver to appear when windows
2995   requests for it in an event.
2996 * Added checkboxes in preferences->general->video to allow to configure
2997   the avoid_screensaver and turn_screensaver_off options.
2998
2999(2009-04-24)
3000 * Deleted the option "Change volume just before playing" (Preferences ->
3001   General -> Audio). That option had sense when a patch was required for the
3002   -volume option, but not now.
3003   Now it will just use -volume if using mplayer >= SVN r27872.
3004 * Deleted the option "Change volume on every file" (Preferences ->
3005   General -> Audio). It did more or less the same now it does the "Global
3006   volume" option.
3007 * Deleted the "Default volume" slider in (Preferences -> General -> Audio).
3008   With time it lost its original meaning. It's still possible to configure
3009   the default volume in smplayer.ini.
3010
3011(2009-04-23)
3012 * Started to implement the possibility to customize the options for the
3013   audio/video filters passed to mplayer (in the section [filter_options]
3014   in smplayer.ini).
3015   Currently 3 filters can be customized: noise, volnorm and deblock.
3016   BTW, the volnorm filter has changed its default value from 2 to 1.
3017
3018(2009-04-20)
3019 * (Experimental) Added the new option "Global volume" (Preferences -> General
3020   -> Audio). If the option is checked, the volume and mute are global
3021   options. If not checked, the volume and mute options are independent for
3022   each file.
3023   Known issues: the default value is 50, it doesn't honor the "default volume"
3024   setting. On the other hand, the option "change volume before playing" is
3025   honored even if that option is shown disabled when the "global volume" is
3026   checked.
3027
3028(2009-04-18)
3029 * Added the Vietnamese translation, by Lê Xuân Thảo <thaolx@gmail.com>.
3030 * Display the current playback speed in the status bar when it changes.
3031 * Added support for the mplayer tags DVDNAV_TITLE_IS_MENU and
3032   DVDNAV_TITLE_IS_MOVIE added in mplayer svn r29156.
3033   It just simply stops sending the set_mouse_pos slave command if not in a
3034   dvd menu.
3035
3036(2009-04-16)
3037 * (Bugfix) Don't stop the file if already stopped when closing smplayer
3038   to prevent that the current position would reset to 0.
3039
3040(2009-04-15)
3041 * Added two aspect ratios: 3:2 and 14:10.
3042 * The next_aspect action changes the aspect ratio in the right order.
3043
3044(2009-04-07)
3045 * Added an option in preferences to turn on/off the screenshot feature.
3046   So no need now to clear the screenshot path to disable it.
3047
3048(2009-04-06)
3049 * Pass to mplayer "-vc ffh264vdpau,ffmpeg12vdpau,ffwmv3vdpau,ffvc1vdpau," if
3050   using vdpau as video driver and not other video codec has been set.
3051   (Untested)
3052
3053(2009-04-02)
3054 * Now the mouse cursor is hidden only when playing.
3055
3056(2009-04-01)
3057 * (Fix) The preferences dialog sets the default video driver to "direct3d,"
3058   if using Windows Vista.
3059
3060(2009-03-26)
3061 * Added ogv to the list of extensions (for video).
3062
3063(2009-03-25)
3064 * (Linux) Using -input nodefault-bindings:conf=/dev/null to disable the
3065   mplayer keys if using mplayer >= SVN r29058.
3066
3067(2009-03-23)
3068 * (Experimental) Now some of the submenus can be added to the toolbars
3069   (actions names: speed_menu, videotrack_menu, screen_menu, videosize_menu,
3070   panscan_menu, aspect_menu, deinterlace_menu, videofilter_menu, rotate_menu,
3071   ontop_menu, audiotrack_menu, audiofilter_menu, audiochannels_menu,
3072   stereomode_menu, subtitlestrack_menu, titles_menu, chapters_menu,
3073   angles_menu, osd_menu).
3074
3075(2009-03-22)
3076 * Added an icon for the next_aspect action. Contributed by TT
3077   (http://smplayer.berlios.de/forums/viewtopic.php?id=1104).
3078
3079(2009-03-20)
3080 * The subtitle and audio delay actions keep now the file paused. They also
3081   display the current value in the status bar.
3082
3083(2009-03-19)
3084 * Added some icons for: Help -> Tips, Video -> Preview, Video -> Start/stop
3085   taking screenshots, Subtitles -> Find subtitles on opensubtitles.org and
3086   updated the Qt logo (taken from the Qt sources).
3087
3088(2009-03-18)
3089 * (Videopreview) Ctrl+H toggles displaying the info about the video.
3090 * Don't use "set_property switch_video" when using the nsv demuxer. It makes
3091   mplayer stop displaying the video after a few seconds.
3092 * Added a new option: Video -> Start/stop taking screenshots (of each frame)
3093   assigned by default to "Shift+D" (the icon for this action: screenshots.png)
3094   When this option is selected, a screenshot will be taken (and saved in
3095   png format to the screenshot folder) for each frame. Select the option
3096   again to stop taking screenshots.
3097
3098(2009-03-16)
3099 * (Windows) Now by default the combos in Preferences -> Drives will show all
3100   drives, not only CD/DVD devices, as it has been reported that checking
3101   for those devices can be slow if there are network drives. Now there's
3102   a button "Scan for CD/DVD devices" to force the detection of CD/DVD devices.
3103
3104(2009-03-12)
3105 * Deleted the obsolete translations from smplayer_gl.ts (caused lrelease
3106   to fail with Qt 4.5.0).
3107
3108(2009-03-11)
3109 * Fixed some build problems that could make the installation fail, trying to
3110   recompile everything again with qt3 because QMAKE can be undefined during
3111   make install.
3112
3113
3114[b]Version 0.6.7[/b]:
3115
3116(2009-03-06)
3117 * The media type icons (type_audio.png, type_dvd.png, type_url.png,
3118   type_video.png, type_cdda.png, type_unknown.png and type_vcd.png) which
3119   appear in the info window can now be overridden by the icon themes.
3120
3121(2009-03-05)
3122 * (Playlist) Try to figure out if a file is local (when the file is added
3123   to the playlist) not using QFile::exists, as it seems it can be slow
3124   with remote files. It might fix bug #2586395, although I can't test.
3125
3126(2009-02-19)
3127 * Using software volume by default.
3128
3129(2009-02-17)
3130 * Using multiple ini files to store the file settings by default now.
3131
3132(2009-02-15)
3133 * Added preliminary support for the upcoming mplayer 1.0rc3.
3134
3135(2009-02-09)
3136 * (ASS subtitles) The outline and shadow options now accept values with
3137   decimals.
3138
3139(2009-02-04)
3140 * Now the default value for the "correct pts" option is auto.
3141
3142(2009-01-31)
3143 * (Videopreview) Added a new option to remember the last folder used for
3144   saving the preview image. If not checked, it will suggest the same
3145   folder of the video to save the image.
3146 * New action toggle_stay_on_top, which toggles between "stay on top always"
3147   and "stay on top never". If "stay on top while playing" is enabled, this
3148   action does nothing.
3149
3150(2009-01-29)
3151 * Added two options (in the audio and subtitle menus) to allow the user to
3152   enter the audio and subtitle delay (in milliseconds).
3153
3154(2009-01-28)
3155 * Added names for the rest of dvdnav actions.
3156 * The dvdnav_mouse action is assigned to the left mouse button by default.
3157 * Added all dvdnav actions to the list of actions that can be selected with
3158   the mouse buttons.
3159
3160(2009-01-27)
3161 * Fix: now spaces in arguments for mplayer (in Preferences->Advanced and
3162   Options->View info and properties) are respected if they are between
3163   quotes. Now for instance this will work as expected:
3164     -heartbeat-cmd "gnome-screensaver-command -p &"
3165 * Fix: the playlist is not allowed to be docked in fullscreen mode.
3166
3167(2009-01-26)
3168 * (Playlist) When a file is added to the playlist, if it was already in
3169   the list, it's moved to the end of the list.
3170
3171(2009-01-24)
3172 * (Videopreview) Add jpg to the "extract frame as" combobox only if the
3173   jpg format is available for reading.
3174 * The direct3d video output is now the default for Windows Vista (untested).
3175
3176(2009-01-18)
3177 * The dvdnav actions are now only enabled when playing a dvd (using dvdnav).
3178
3179(2009-01-17)
3180 * Now the mplayer process is not restarted when loading an external subtitle
3181   file (using the sub_load slave command), except for idx/sub subtitles.
3182
3183(2009-01-15)
3184 * (Windows) Now the screensaver is allowed to turn on if the file is
3185    paused or it's an audio file.
3186 * The "it's a playlist" option in the Open URL dialog is automatically
3187   checked if the url ends with ".ram", ".asx" or ".m3u" (and unchecked if
3188   it ends with another extension).
3189
3190(2009-01-14)
3191 * New option for the config file: user_forced_ass_style under the
3192   [subtitles] section. If the value is not an empty string, it will be
3193   passed to mplayer for the -ass-force-style option, overriding the string
3194   generated automatically by smplayer.
3195 * Added a "Customize" button in the SSA/ASS section in preferences to
3196   allow the user to customize the SSA/ASS style which will be passed to
3197   mplayer with the -ass-force-style option.
3198
3199(2009-01-12)
3200 * (Fix) When opening an iso file, start to play from the dvd menu instead
3201   of title 1.
3202 * Added a new option to select the shadow color for ass subtitles.
3203
3204(2009-01-11)
3205 * Now it's possible to play a dvd with menus from command line
3206   (smplayer dvdnav://) or by selecting "dvdnav://" from the recents menu.
3207   It'll even work if the option "Enable DVD menus" is not checked.
3208 * Now the highlighted option in the DVD menu changes when the mouse is
3209   moved.
3210
3211(2009-01-10)
3212 * Fixed the initialization of the Angles menu when using dvdnav.
3213 * Added to the Browse menu the options 'DVD menu' and 'DVD previous menu'.
3214
3215(2009-01-09)
3216 * Now the length of the title is updated when playing a dvd using dvdnav.
3217
3218(2009-01-08)
3219 * (Linux) Added the option "Enable DVD menus" in Preferences->Drives. If
3220   this option is checked, when you select "DVD from drive" or "DVD from
3221   folder" under the Open menu, the DVD will be played using dvdnav (including
3222   menus).
3223   Note: this is experimental, there are still a lot of things to be fixed.
3224   Use at own your own risk.
3225
3226(2009-01-05)
3227 * Added an option in Preferences->Subtitles to apply the ass style defined by
3228   the user to ass subtitles (overriding the style defined in the ass file).
3229
3230(2009-01-04)
3231 * Now the dvd names follow the same scheme as mplayer:
3232   dvd://title/device (where device can also be a folder or iso file).
3233   Internally it tries to avoid the use of the string "dvd:" so it could
3234   be easy to add support for dvdnav:
3235
3236(2008-12-31)
3237 * Now the correct pts option can have a value of "auto". In this case
3238   neither -correct-pts nor -nocorrect-pts are passed to mplayer, the demuxer
3239   will decide. Should fix bug #2479566.
3240 * The proxy settings have been moved to a config dialog inside the find
3241   subtitles window.
3242
3243
3244[b]Version 0.6.6[/b]:
3245
3246(2008-12-28)
3247 * (Linux) Now the options in the dvd menus can be selected with the mouse.
3248   To do so, select "Activate option in DVD menus" for the left mouse button
3249   in Preferences -> Keyboard and mouse.
3250 * Implemented a different way to select the initial audio track (or restore
3251   the old one after a restart).
3252 * (Experimental) New code to show/hide the mouse cursor in the video window.
3253
3254(2008-12-27)
3255 * (Linux) Added some actions to control the dvdnav buttons.
3256
3257(2008-12-26)
3258 * The language filter in the find subtitles dialog is now saved to the ini
3259   file.
3260 * New option for smplayer.ini: include_lang_on_filename (section
3261   [findsubtitles]). If set to true (the default) the language code is
3262   appended to the subtitle filename (e.g. video.avi => video_es.srt).
3263   Otherwise the language code is not appended (video.avi => video.srt).
3264
3265(2008-12-24)
3266 * Implemented a different way to select the initial subtitle track (or restore
3267   the old one after a restart). Still needs some testing.
3268
3269(2008-12-23)
3270 * Now smplayer tries to update the subtitle tracks if they change during
3271   playback. This makes subtitles work if using dvdnav, and seems to fix
3272   a problem when selecting the initial track
3273   (see http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2422574&group_id=185512&atid=913573)
3274   This is the kind of changes that can break something or produce an
3275   unexpected behaviour...
3276
3277(2008-12-20)
3278 * Applied with a few changes the patch customStyleAction.patch by
3279   matt <matt@endboss.org>. It adds a few more functions for the widgetactions,
3280   like to set a custom style.
3281 * Added a new gui (mpcgui, a media player classic clone) developed by
3282   Matthias Petri <matt@endboss.org>
3283
3284(2008-12-19)
3285 * Applied (with a few changes) a patch by matt <matt@endboss.org>.
3286   This patch adds 3 modes for the stay on top option: always, never and
3287   while playing.
3288
3289(2008-12-12)
3290 * Added a new option Video->Preview. This option creates a preview
3291   (thumbnails) of the selected video. There are options to choose the
3292   number of columns, rows, maximum width of the generated image...
3293   Finally the preview can be saved (as jpg or png).
3294   Note: the video preview is not finished yet.
3295
3296(2008-12-07)
3297 * (Experimental) Increased the resolution of the seekbar. Previously
3298   a step of the seekbar (in a 90 minute movie) was equal to 54 seconds.
3299   Now it's equal to 5.4 seconds. As there's usually an I-frame about 10
3300   seconds (and mplayer always jumps to an I-frame) I think that's enough.
3301
3302(2008-12-06)
3303 * Bug #2399200: the downloaded subtitle filename was wrong if the video
3304   filename contained a dot in the name (example: video.hdtv.avi created a
3305   video_es.srt file instead of video.hdtv_es.avi). This is now fixed.
3306
3307(2008-12-03)
3308 * Now the logs in the mplayer/smplayer log windows update in realtime.
3309 * The "MPlayer language" tab in the Advanced section in preferences has
3310   been removed. It's not necessary anymore, although if you've got a
3311   mplayer which prints the output texts in a non-english language you'll need
3312   at least MPlayer SVN r28066.
3313 * Added two new options: "Auto zoom for 16:9" and "Auto zoom for 2.35:1".
3314   Those options zoom the image assuming the aspect ratio of the video image
3315   is the one specified in the option, even if that's not the actual aspect
3316   ratio. Useful for videos which include black borders (letterbox) in the
3317   image, where the normal "Auto zoom" option will fail.
3318
3319(2008-11-30)
3320 * New option for smplayer.ini: actions_to_run ([advanced] section).
3321   Specifies a list of actions (separated by spaces) which will be run every
3322   time a file is loaded. For instance "actions_to_run=auto_zoom compact true"
3323   will run the auto_zoom action and set the gui to compact mode. If the
3324   commandline option -actions is used too, the actions from commandline
3325   will be added to the end of the list.
3326   There's a limitation: the actions will be run only when a file is opened
3327   and not when the mplayer process is restarted (e.g. you select an option in
3328   the menus which requires to restart mplayer, like a video or audio filter).
3329   Note that allowing to run the actions after a restart of mplayer could
3330   lead to infinite recursion if any of the actions in the list needs to
3331   restart mplayer.
3332 * Added a field in Preferences->Advanced to enter the list of actions to
3333   be run every time a file is opened.
3334
3335(2008-11-27)
3336 * Added an option in Preferences->General to change the method to store
3337   the file settings.
3338 * (Experimental) Added the new option Video->Pan&scan->Auto zoom. It
3339   calculates the zoom factor so you can't see any black borders.
3340
3341(2008-11-26)
3342 * Implemented a new (and optional) method to save the file settings.
3343   This method uses an ini file per each played file (instead of using only
3344   one big ini file for all of them).
3345
3346   The files are saved under the subdirectory "file_settings" in the config
3347   directory (usually $HOME/.config/smplayer/). As filename it uses a hash,
3348   and it's stored on a subdirectory starting with the first letter of the
3349   filename.
3350
3351   For example:
3352   $HOME/.config/smplayer/file_settings/d/dd017f9d6706a75f.ini
3353   $HOME/.config/smplayer/file_settings/9/95e963e59826699d.ini
3354
3355 * Added a new option for smplayer.ini: file_settings_method.
3356   This option allows to select the method to be used for the file settings.
3357   Possible values: normal and hash.
3358
3359   normal = uses one file (smplayer_files.ini) to store the file settings of
3360   all played files. This is cleaner as you only have one file for all files'
3361   settings but it could be slow if there are info for many many files in it.
3362
3363   hash = uses one ini file per each played file. This could be much faster if
3364   you have info for many files, but you'll end up with many ini files and
3365   subdirectories.
3366
3367(2008-11-24)
3368 * Added a new option in Preferences->Video: add black borders on fullscreen.
3369   If this option is enabled, black borders will be added to the image in
3370   fullscreen mode. This allows subtitles to be displayed on the black borders.
3371
3372(2008-11-23)
3373 * Added a history to the open URL dialog. Based on a patch by Francesco
3374   Cosoleto.
3375   Not finished yet. Missing options to clear the history or set the maximum
3376   number of items.
3377 * Added a new option for smplayer.ini: urls\max_items (section [history]).
3378   It specifies the maximum number of items for the open URL history.
3379   By default, 10. Set it to 0 to disable the history.
3380
3381(2008-11-20)
3382 * The "Recents" code has been reorganized. Also the list of recent files
3383   is now saved in a different place in smplayer.ini, in section [history].
3384
3385(2008-11-19)
3386 * When using SSA/ASS, use the same font for OSD. Otherwise the OSD
3387   might not be visible.
3388
3389(2008-11-18)
3390 * Added the possibility to select the type of proxy to be used: Http or
3391   Socks5. (More info: http://doc.trolltech.com/4.3/qnetworkproxy.html)
3392
3393(2008-11-17)
3394 * Added a new option in Preferences->Subtitle: Freetype support. Disabling
3395   that option could make smplayer work with a mplayer compiled without
3396   freetype support. But subtitles may not work at all!
3397
3398(2008-11-16)
3399 * The mini gui can now also remember the position and size of the window.
3400 * (Linux) Now all devices which match with dvd*, cdrom*, cdrw*, sr*
3401   and cdrecorder* are added to the comboboxes in Preferences->Drives.
3402
3403(2008-11-15)
3404 * Added a new action to select the next aspect ratio. Assigned by default to
3405   key "A". Unfortunately this change breaks compatibility and the aspect
3406   ratio setting for all your played videos will be lost.
3407 * Display the text for the statusbar in the OSD if in fullscreen mode (and
3408   not paused).
3409 * Added a new option for smplayer.ini: initial_stereo_mode. It sets the
3410   stereo mode which will be used as default.
3411   Possible values: 0 (stereo), 1 (left) and 2 (right).
3412
3413(2008-11-14)
3414 * Added the new section Advanced->Proxy in preferences to configure the
3415   proxy.
3416
3417(2008-11-13)
3418 * Added some options in smplayer.ini (section [proxy]) to configure a proxy
3419   for internet connections. Untested.
3420
3421
3422[b]Version 0.6.5.1[/b]:
3423
3424(2008-11-12)
3425 * Don't pass to mplayer the option -no-correct-pts or -nocorrect-pts if
3426   the mplayer version is still unknown. Prevents mplayer to fail on the first
3427   run, complaining about an unknown -no-correct-pts if using a recent version
3428   of mplayer (r26842 or above).
3429
3430
3431[b]Version 0.6.5[/b]:
3432
3433(2008-11-11)
3434 * (Linux) Now smplayer tries to follow the XDG Base Directory Specification
3435   (http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html)
3436   for the config files. So now smplayer will save its config files under
3437   the directory $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/smplayer or $HOME/.config/smplayer if
3438   $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is not defined.
3439   If you want to keep your preferences, copy the files in $HOME/.smplayer to
3440   $HOME/.config/smplayer
3441
3442(2008-11-07)
3443 * Added a new option "Floating control" in Preferences->Interface. It allows
3444   to configure the floating control (width, margin...).
3445
3446(2008-11-06)
3447 * (Experimental) Added the possibility to select the adaptor for xv. Requires
3448   at least MPlayer SVN r26762 (from 2008-05-13).
3449
3450(2008-11-05)
3451 * Added support for another patch:
3452   http://smplayer.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/smplayer/mplayer-builds/patches/id_exit.diff
3453   This patch allows the playlist to work properly even if the output messages
3454   of mplayer are not in English.
3455 * New option for smplayer.ini: bypass_window_manager (section
3456   [floating_control]). If set to true (the default), the floating control
3457   widget will bypass the window manager (seems necessary for some window
3458   managers). You can try to set it to false if you have problems with the
3459   floating control.
3460
3461(2008-11-04)
3462 * On startup the previous position of the main (default) window is checked
3463   if it's valid for the current screen. If it's not, then the window is
3464   moved to 0x0.
3465 * The same for the playlist (if it's not docked).
3466
3467(2008-11-01)
3468 * Cleanup and reorganization of the config path code.
3469   The commandline option -ini-path has been removed and replaced with
3470   -config-path, which specifies the directory where smplayer will store
3471   its data (not only smplayer.ini).
3472 * Now to know if a file has no video, instead of looking for the line
3473   "Video: no video" (it's not reliable as it's a string that can be translated),
3474   it will check the video codec, if it's empty, there's no video.
3475
3476(2008-10-30)
3477 * The reorganization of the subtitles section in preferences is finished.
3478 * The mplayer devs have added the -volume option in svn r27872, so now the
3479   hack to try to detect a patched mplayer have been removed. Now smplayer
3480   will simply use the -volume option if mplayer is r27872 or newer.
3481
3482(2008-10-28)
3483 * The subtitles for srt, sub... formats when using the SSA/ASS library,
3484   can now be more customized. It's possible to select the font, size,
3485   colors, bold, italic, outline, shadow...
3486   Not finished yet.
3487
3488(2008-10-27)
3489 * Added the new option "Correct pts" in Preferences->Advanced. Disabled by
3490   default because it causes some problems with mkv files.
3491 * The dialog to jump to a specified time allows now to enter the seconds
3492   too.
3493
3494
3495[b]Version 0.6.4[/b]:
3496
3497(2008-10-22)
3498 * (Linux) Now smplayer will pop up a warning if the mplayer version is old.
3499   This popup will appear only once, although there'll be a reminder in the
3500   status line.
3501   A mplayer is considered old if it's older than svn r25158 (that includes
3502   1.0rc2)
3503
3504(2008-10-21)
3505 * Now if the SSA/ASS lib is enabled and a file named styles.ass exists in the
3506   smplayer config directory ($HOME/.smplayer/ or the application directory if
3507   compiled with PORTABLE_APP) smplayer will load it (mplayer option
3508   -ass-styles). In this case the color for subtitles and styles configured
3509   in Preferences->Subtitles WON'T be used.
3510   In the future smplayer will create that file automatically and the
3511   preferences dialog will allow to configure all (or at least the most
3512   important) styles.
3513
3514(2008-10-20)
3515 * Bugfix: the show equalizer option didn't work when assigned to any of
3516   the mouse buttons. (Reason: the action name was changed some time ago
3517   from "equalizer" to "video_equalizer)
3518 * Added "Show audio equalizer" to the mouse buttons' combos too.
3519
3520(2008-10-19)
3521 * (Experimental) Added the possibility to change the video track.
3522   Only tested with this sample video: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=3GAGZCTP
3523
3524(2008-10-16)
3525 * Moved the comboboxes for the video & audio drivers to the Video and Audio
3526   tabs.
3527 * Added a new section in the preferences dialog: Playlist.
3528
3529(2008-10-15)
3530 * Added the possibility to add consecutive files (video_01.avi,
3531   video_02.avi..) to the playlist. This feature is controlled by the option
3532   add_to_playlist_consecutive_files (under the [gui] section).
3533 * Now the available tracks in DVDs, CDs and VCDs won't be automatically added
3534   to the playlist if the option gui/auto_add_to_playlist is false. Should fix
3535   bug #2049998.
3536
3537(2008-10-14)
3538 * Logout is not cancelled by smplayer. Fixes bug #2155555.
3539 * Now the options in preferences display a tooltip with a help message.
3540 * Revised and corrected some of the help messages in preferences.
3541 * Added 1:1 to the aspect ratio menu.
3542
3543(2008-10-10)
3544 * Added a work-around for Traditional Chinese. The names of the arrow keys
3545   were deleted from the shortcuts if using Qt 4.3.
3546
3547(2008-10-09)
3548 * Now the video keeps paused when changing brightness, contrast, hue,
3549   saturation and gamma.
3550 * Now the dialog to find subtitles can also download the subtitles (the
3551   zip file) and extract the subtitle file. This is exactly how it works:
3552   when you click on the download button, the zip file is downloaded to a
3553   temporary file. If the zip file contains only one subtitle, it's extracted,
3554   trying to use the same name of the video. So if the video is named movie.avi
3555   and you downloaded a French subtitle, the subtitle is saved as movie_fr.srt.
3556   If there are more than one subtitle in the zip file, a dialog will appear
3557   so the user can choose the subtitle(s) to extract. In that case, and in
3558   order not to make things more complicated, the subtitles are just saved
3559   with their original names.
3560
3561(2008-10-06)
3562 * (Windows) Added a tool (dxlist) which can list the dsound audio devices
3563   and the ddraw display devices. Read the README.txt inside the dxlist
3564   subdirectory for more info and how to compile it.
3565 * (Windows) Now it's possible to choose the audio device to be used with
3566   dsound. It requires dxlist.exe to be installed in the same folder as
3567   smplayer.exe. This is experimental.
3568
3569(2008-10-05)
3570 * Added a new option for smplayer.ini: display_in_compact_mode (under section
3571   [floating_control]). If true the floating control will appear too in
3572   compact mode. Note: it may not look very well in this mode...
3573
3574(2008-10-04)
3575 * (Linux) Now it's possible to choose the audio device to be used with alsa.
3576   It requires the application "aplay" to be installed.
3577
3578(2008-10-03)
3579 * Added an option in Preferences->General->Video to set the default zoom.
3580
3581(2008-10-02)
3582 * Applied (with some changes) the patch to add support for enca, by
3583   Stanislav Maslovski <s_i_m@users.sourceforge.net>.
3584   This adds a new option in Preferences->Subtitles, which can make mplayer
3585   to try to autodetect the encoding for subtitles. This requires a mplayer
3586   compiled with enca support.
3587
3588(2008-09-29)
3589 * Now the chapters on DVD should work again.
3590 * Reorganization in some data structures.
3591 * Added another experimental new code to resize the main window.
3592
3593(2008-09-28)
3594 * Added an (experimental) generic code to manage chapters, instead of two
3595   separate codes for mkv and DVDs. Seems to work well with mkv but it's
3596   still untested on DVDs.
3597
3598(2008-09-27)
3599 * Added basic support for the tag ID_CHAPTERS, added in mplayer svn r27667.
3600   This makes things easier to know the number of chapters in a video.
3601   Don't know if it could cause a conflict with DVD chapters. Some code
3602   has still to be revised and modified.
3603 * Bugfix: if using "directx," the -colorkey option wasn't passed to mplayer
3604   (thus the video was black). Now this should be fixed.
3605
3606(2008-09-26)
3607 * Added support for the new "pausing_keep_force" slave mode command prefix
3608   (added in mplayer r27665).
3609   This prefix really keeps the file paused after processing a slave command.
3610   So now if you, for example, mute the audio when the video is paused it
3611   won't advance one frame after it. It also keeps the video paused when you
3612   take a screenshot (although you won't see the confirmation message until
3613   playback resumes).
3614   There's also an option for smplayer.ini, use_pausing_keep_force. You can
3615   set to false if you find any trouble or prefer the old behaviour.
3616
3617(2008-09-25)
3618 * Added the Galician translation, by Miguel Branco <mgl.branco@gmail.com>.
3619
3620
3621[b]Version 0.6.3[/b]:
3622
3623(2008-09-24)
3624 * Added a new shortcut set (sda.keys) taken from
3625   http://speeddemosarchive.com/forum/index.php/topic,7774.0.html, which you
3626   can load in the shortcut editor in preferences.
3627
3628(2008-09-23)
3629 * Added two icons for the mirror and flip actions (mirror.png and flip.png)
3630   taken from the Gimp.
3631 * Added a new option for smplayer.ini: default_size (section [gui]). It
3632   specifies the default size of the main window. Previously it was hardcoded
3633   (580x440).
3634
3635(2008-09-22)
3636 * Now the subtitles can be mirrored, flipped or rotated along with the image.
3637   The way to enable it is not obvious though. You need to enable the option
3638   "Include subtitles on screenshots" (Preferences->Subtitles).
3639 * (Linux) Tries to set "/dev/dvd" and "/dev/cdrom" (if they exist) as default
3640   values for the dvd and cdrom devices.
3641
3642(2008-09-21)
3643 * Added the new option Video->Mirror image. This option mirrors the image
3644   on the Y axis.
3645
3646(2008-09-20)
3647 * The comboboxes to select the video and audio driver in Preferences->
3648   General have changed. Now they are not editable, and only show some
3649   of the available drivers (png, jpeg... and so on are not shown). There's
3650   also an "User defined" option. If selected, a line edit will appear where
3651   the user can type the driver to use (possibly with additional options).
3652 * The code in preferences.h/preferences.cpp has been reorganized, and
3653   now the preferences are saved in several sections in smplayer.ini.
3654   That means most of your settings will be lost and you'll have to reconfigure
3655   smplayer again (I even recommend to delete smplayer.ini, otherwise there'll
3656   be a mix of the old settings with the new ones).
3657
3658(2008-09-19)
3659 * It seems crashes still happen in the code to select subtitle tracks.
3660   The bug hasn't been located yet (the crash is difficult to reproduce)
3661   but I have added a new check in a lower level, in the function
3662   SubTracks::itemAt(). Now it checks if the requested item is in range. If
3663   it's not valid it will print a warning and return an empty subtitle.
3664
3665(2008-09-17)
3666 * Added an icon for the Play/Pause action. (This breaks all icon themes...)
3667 * Added a new option for smplayer.ini: gui_minimum_width. The width of the
3668   main window won't be smaller than the value of that option.
3669   If gui_minimum_width is set to 0 (the default) then the minimum width
3670   will be the size hint of the window.
3671
3672(2008-09-16)
3673 * (Windows) Added a new option in Preferences->General that allows the user
3674   to select which screen will display the video when using directx as video
3675   driver. This option is visible only when directx is selected.
3676 * (Windows) Added also a submenu Screen under the Video menu for an easier
3677   selection of the screen.
3678
3679(2008-09-14)
3680 * Check in Core::changeSubtitle() that the selected subtitle is in a valid
3681   range. This should avoid crashes.
3682
3683(2008-09-13)
3684 * Added the Kurdish translation, by Si_murg56 <simurg56@gmail.com>
3685
3686(2008-09-12)
3687 * Added a new option in Preferences->General->Video: "Draw video using slices"
3688   (-slices / -noslices in mplayer). Enabled by default.
3689 * Bugfix: the items in the combobox for the mouse right click action weren't
3690   retranslated properly.
3691
3692(2008-09-09)
3693 * For some unknown reason sometimes the playlist is not shown. I think this
3694   is because it's outside of the screen. Now smplayer checks if the playlist
3695   is actually outside of the screen, and in that case it's moved to pos 0x0.
3696
3697(2008-09-08)
3698 * Moved the option "Create index if needed" from the section Performance to
3699   Advanced.
3700 * Added an icon for the audio equalizer action.
3701
3702(2008-09-06)
3703 * Added a new option in Preferences->Performance: Threads for decoding.
3704   Sets the number of threads to use for decoding (for MPEG-1/2 and H.264 only).
3705   It could be useful for multicore processors.
3706 * Bugfix: the volume may be changed on startup even if the option "Change
3707   volume on every file" was off.
3708
3709(2008-09-04)
3710 * Don't change the window size if the panel is already the requested size.
3711   Seems to fix a problem when using Compiz.
3712
3713(2008-09-01)
3714 * The option "Repaint background of the video window" (in Preferences->
3715   Advanced) is now enabled by default in linux. It seems with newer versions
3716   of Qt it works well with it. If you have problems with the video window
3717   going blank, just disable the option.
3718 * The single instance option is now disabled by default on Windows, as some
3719   people reported smplayer didn't start with it.
3720 * 2nd try to make "gl:yuv=2:force-pbo:ati-hack" the default vo on Windows
3721   Vista.
3722
3723(2008-08-28)
3724 * Set the frame counter to 0 when starting to play a file. Fixes bug
3725   #2080802.
3726 * Added in Preferences->Advanced an option to select the preferred network
3727   connection, IPv4 or IPv6. (IPv4 is the default)
3728
3729(2008-08-26)
3730 * Added a new option for smplayer.ini: report_mplayer_crashes. If set to
3731   false, smplayer won't display the error dialog when mplayer crashes or
3732   fails to start.
3733
3734(2008-08-25)
3735 * Added the Arabic translation, by Muhammad Nour Hajj Omar
3736   <arabianheart@live.com>
3737 * Added some options in menu Play->Speed to increase/decrease the
3738   speed by 1% and 4%.
3739 * Bugfix: the gamma was not remembered. Fixes bug #2073257.
3740 * Moved the log's section in Preferences->Advanced to a new tab.
3741
3742(2008-08-24)
3743 * Fix: some of the actions passed to -actions may not work as expected
3744   because they might be executed when the video is not playing yet.
3745   This should now be fixed, as if a file is passed on command line, the
3746   actions are not run until the video has started to play. (If there's no
3747   file on command line the actions are run immediately)
3748
3749(2008-08-21)
3750 * Added a new option in Preferences->General->Audio: "Enable the audio
3751   equalizer". If this option is checked, the mplayer equalizer filter will
3752   be used and the menu option Audio->Equalizer will be enabled.
3753
3754(2008-08-20)
3755 * Moved the eq2 filter before the screenshot filter, otherwise the
3756   screenshots are not affected by the settings in the video equalizer.
3757   Obviously this requires the software equalizer (eq2) to be enabled.
3758   This should fix bug #2062425.
3759 * Added a new section in the config file: [floating_control] with 3
3760   options: animated, width and margin. The options "animated" and "width"
3761   were previously available as floating_control_animated and
3762   floating_control_width in the [default_gui] and [mini_gui] sections.
3763   The option "margin" is new, and sets the number of pixels that the
3764   floating control will be away from the border of the screen (by default, 0).
3765
3766(2008-08-19)
3767 * Added two new functions for the mouse buttons: increase volume and
3768   decrease volume. Closes feature request #2055061.
3769
3770(2008-08-18)
3771 * Renamed Video->Aspect ratio->None to Video->Aspect ratio->Disabled and
3772   Video->Aspect ratio->Autodetect to Video->Aspect ratio->Auto.
3773
3774(2008-08-17)
3775 * Added a new (experimental) option: Video->Aspect ratio->None. When this
3776   option is selected the video will be stretched to fill all the available
3777   space, not keeping the aspect ratio.
3778   Note: this option does NOT work properly if using x11 as video driver.
3779
3780(2008-08-16)
3781 * Added m2ts to the list of extensions for video.
3782
3783
3784[b]Version 0.6.2[/b]:
3785
3786(2008-08-13)
3787 * (Linux) The SSA/ASS library is enabled by default.
3788
3789(2008-08-12)
3790 * Added the document Configuring_the_toolbars.txt.
3791 * Added the new option Tips in the Help menu. It just opens a web browser
3792   to http://smplayer.wiki.sourceforge.net/Tips.
3793
3794(2008-08-11)
3795 * Bugfix: the volume slider appeared in the mini gui even if it had been
3796   removed from the config file.
3797
3798(2008-08-09)
3799 * As it seems many people don't understand (and even send bug reports without
3800   reading the online help) the new meaning of the font scale options in
3801   Preferences->Subtitles, those two options have been hidden.
3802   (They can be made visible again changing the value of the new config
3803   option show_font_scale_options_in_preferences).
3804
3805(2008-08-07)
3806 * Added a time display to the floating control in the minigui.
3807 * The playlist and the volume slider don't send mouse events to their
3808   parents. Should fix bugs #1993291 and #2020003.
3809 * Avoid to resize the main window to the default size (400x300) when
3810   playing an audio file.
3811
3812(2008-08-06)
3813 * The find subtitles dialog is now a top level window, instead of a dialog.
3814 * Play the last item in the playlist if the "play previous" button is
3815   pressed and the current item is the first one. Fixes bug #2040473.
3816 * Added "play next" and "play previous" to the Play menu.
3817
3818(2008-08-03)
3819 * A little reorganization in the General section in preferences and other
3820   minor changes in other sections.
3821
3822(2008-07-28)
3823 * Now the default cache for local files is 2000 KB, and for audio CDs and VCDs
3824   is 1000 KB.
3825
3826(2008-07-26)
3827 * Added an option in Preferences->Performance to set the cache for VCDs.
3828
3829(2008-07-25)
3830 * Added an option in Preferences->Performance to set the cache for
3831   audio CDs.
3832
3833(2008-07-22)
3834 * (Windows) Added to the file associations section the playlist
3835   extensions.
3836
3837(2008-07-17)
3838 * Try to use alsa as default audio driver in linux.
3839
3840(2008-07-16)
3841 * Fix: remember the last directory used when adding files to the
3842   playlist. Fixes bug #2019139.
3843
3844(2008-07-13)
3845 * Another fix for Qt 4.4. Dragging files to the playlist didn't work.
3846 * Added the Slovenian translation, by Janez Troha <janez.troha@gmail.com>.
3847 * Fix: mplayer crashed when trying to play audio files if the option to
3848   run mplayer in its own window was enabled. Now I hope this is fixed.
3849
3850(2008-07-12)
3851 * Added a new option for command line: -sub. It specifies a subtitle file
3852   to be loaded for the first video. It requires at least a file to play
3853   in the command line, otherwise the option will be ignored.
3854 * Added a new option "Play files from start" in the playlist preferences.
3855   If enabled (the default) files in the playlist will begin to play from
3856   the beginning, otherwise they'll play from the position they were last
3857   time you played them.
3858
3859(2008-07-09)
3860 * Now the initialization of the audio track should work ok again, even if
3861   the option "Fast audio track switching" is set to "No".
3862
3863(2008-07-08)
3864 * Added a context menu in the find subtitles dialog, with two options:
3865   "download" and "copy link to clipboard".
3866
3867(2008-07-05)
3868 * Some changes in the single instance options. Now the single instance is
3869   enabled by default. There's also the possibility to let the application
3870   to choose automatically the port to be used, which is also the default
3871   option.
3872
3873(2008-07-03)
3874 * Temporary fix for the problem created yesterday: now when a file starts to
3875   play, the audio track will be changed using the mplayer slave command even
3876   if the option "Fast audio track switching" is set to "No". This makes that
3877   the selection of the initial audio track works ok with avi and mkv files
3878   for example, but it won't work yet with ogm for instance.
3879 * The floating control in the default gui saves/restores its actions to
3880   the config file, so now it can be customized by the user.
3881 * The seeking mini buttons come back. Now by default, the default gui
3882   will show only two seeking buttons. Keeping them pressed for a moment
3883   will pop up the rest of the buttons. You may need to delete the
3884   [default_gui] section in the config file (or at least the options which
3885   start with "actions\...") to see them. If you don't like these buttons
3886   you can delete them from the config file and add the old ones.
3887
3888(2008-07-02)
3889 * The SSA/ASS library is NOT enabled by default. It seems there are memory
3890   leaks in libass...
3891 * Fixed a crash which may happen if the option "Fast audio track switching"
3892   was set to "No". As a side effect, now if that option is set to "No" the
3893   preferred audio language (set in the preferences), won't be selected on
3894   startup, the file will just start to play with the default audio track.
3895
3896(2008-07-01)
3897 * The minimum size of the video window is now 1x1 instead of 0x0. Fixes a
3898   crash that may happen under certain circumstances.
3899
3900(2008-06-26)
3901 * Now everything in the audio equalizer should work. The "apply" button
3902   restarts the file and passes the equalizer settings using the "equalizer"
3903   filter in mplayer, so it allows to use the dialog with non-patched mplayer.
3904   The "set as default values" just saves the current settings in the config
3905   file and they will be used when playing new files.
3906
3907(2008-06-25)
3908 * Added an audio equalizer. Not finished yet!
3909   In order to work you need to patch mplayer with this patch:
3910   http://smplayer.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/*checkout*/smplayer/mplayer-builds/patches/patcheq.diff
3911   Otherwise it won't do anything (lie, if you restart the file the values in
3912   the equalizer will take effect)
3913   Missing or not working things: the "set as default values" button doesn't
3914   work, an "apply" button is missing (this button will set the values
3915   restarting mplayer, so it will work with a normal non-patched mplayer).
3916
3917(2008-06-24)
3918 * Removed the action dock_playlist. It was causing a lot of troubles, even
3919   crashes.
3920 * New option for the config file: hide_video_window_on_audio_files. If
3921   true (the default) the video window will be hidden when playing audio
3922   files. Otherwise the video window won't be hidden and it will show the
3923   smplayer logo instead.
3924   It's not recommended to set this option to false in linux.
3925
3926(2008-06-21)
3927 * Created a huge list of languages (with the ISO 639-1 codes) and make
3928   the "find subtitles" dialog to use it.
3929 * The Qt version is saved along with the toolbars state. This should avoid
3930   problems when upgrading Qt, as the toolbars info won't be used if the
3931   Qt version doesn't match.
3932 * Added new action: dock_playlist.
3933
3934(2008-06-19)
3935 * Some fixes in the find subtitles dialog:
3936    - the dialog is retranslated
3937    - the table is sorted (sometimes, still doesn't work well, at least with
3938      Qt 4.2)
3939    - it won't download the subtitle info again if the filenane didn't changed
3940 * The floating control will be hidden if the mouse is not over the widget
3941   within 5 seconds.
3942
3943(2008-06-18)
3944 * The option "Subtitles->Find subtitles on the web" now displays a dialog
3945   which retrieves the info about the available subtitles from
3946   opensubtitles.org. To download a subtitle just double click on it or
3947   click the "Download" button.
3948   Known issues: the table is not sorted after adding new data.
3949   To filter a language you have to type the ISO 639-1 code in the language
3950   box. So to display only the Spanish subtitles you have to type "es", for
3951   German "de" and so on. In the future there'll be a combobox to select
3952   the language.
3953
3954(2008-06-13)
3955 * Now the SSA/ASS library is enabled by default.
3956 * gl:yuv=2:force-pbo:ati-hack will be the default under Windows Vista
3957   (untested).
3958
3959(2008-06-12)
3960 * Updated the Hungarian translation, by CyberDragon <cyberdragon777@gmail.com>
3961
3962(2008-06-11)
3963 * Now the default value for option change_equalizer_on_startup is true
3964   (users which run the previous svn revision will have to make the change
3965   manually) but the brightness, contrast... won't be changed on startup
3966   if the value is 0.
3967 * Also be sure that the equalizer dialog is updated just after a file begins
3968   to play.
3969 * Check that the values for brightness, contrast, saturation. hue and gamma
3970   have actually changed before updating them.
3971 * Renamed change_equalizer_on_startup to change_video_equalizer_on_startup.
3972
3973(2008-06-10)
3974 * Renamed the config option "dont_use_eq_options" to
3975   "change_equalizer_on_startup" and set it to false as default because
3976   it seems some people are having problems with high brightness and contrast.
3977
3978(2008-06-09)
3979 * Added the opensubtitles patch by Kamil Dziobek <turbos11@gmail.com> (with
3980   some modifications). This adds an option in the subtitles menu which
3981   allows you to download subtitles for the file you're playing, and another
3982   one to upload subtitles.
3983
3984(2008-06-07)
3985 * Manually removed "<pixmapfunction>qPixmapFromMimeSource</pixmapfunction>"
3986   from several *.ui files because otherwise the files generated by uic
3987   would depend on Q3Support.
3988
3989(2008-06-05)
3990 * Now if we've got info about the size and aspect ratio (the file has been
3991   played before) the main window will be resized before starting to play
3992   the file.
3993
3994(2008-06-04)
3995 * When entering in fullscreen, the playlist is hidden only if it's in the
3996   same screen as the main window. (Untested!)
3997
3998(2008-06-03)
3999 * Added the possibility to compile smplayer in Windows without the
4000   file associations code, so it doesn't write anything in the
4001   registry (important for a portable app). Just comment the line
4002   DEFINES += USE_ASSOCIATIONS in smplayer.pro.
4003 * Another fix for Qt 4.4. The language toolbar wasn't restored
4004   properly.
4005 * More work to make smplayer a better portable application (although most of
4006   the following work on linux, it's intended for windows). If PORTABLE_APP
4007   is defined (it can be done with 'qmake DEFINES+=PORTABLE_APP') then:
4008    - it will use by default the application directory for the ini files
4009    - it won't try to create the smplayer home directory or the screenshot
4010      directory ($HOME/.smplayer and $HOME/.smplayer/screenshots)
4011    - by default the path for the screenshots is empty
4012    - under windows the associations code won't be compiled, so smplayer won't
4013      write anything in the windows registry.
4014
4015(2008-06-02)
4016 * Now the controlbar and floating control in the minigui can be
4017   configured too.
4018 * Some minor (and internal) changes:
4019    - the playlist doesn't save its size as that is already done by
4020      QMainWindow::saveState()
4021    - sizes and positions are saved to the config file as QSize's and
4022      QPoint's
4023
4024(2008-06-01)
4025 * (Bugfix) The "modify shortcut" dialog was under the other windows if
4026   the option Video -> Stay on top was enabled.
4027 * Started to write the code to make the toolbars configurable:
4028    - the list of actions in a widget can be saved to the config file
4029    - a widget can be populated with the actions read from the config file
4030    - as a test the toolbar1, controlwidget and controlwidget_mini in
4031      defaultgui are saved to the config and loaded on startup
4032
4033(2008-05-30)
4034 * The maximum port for the single instance is 65535, instead of 99999.
4035 * Added a new option in guiconfig.h, USE_MINIMUMSIZE. If set to 1
4036   the main window will not be smaller than the control widget size hint.
4037
4038
4039[b]Version 0.6.1[/b]:
4040
4041(2008-05-26)
4042 * The command line option -mini has been renamed to -minigui (-mini still
4043   works)
4044 * Added a new command line option -defaultgui, which selects the default
4045   gui.
4046 * Added an option in Preferences->Interface to select the preferred GUI.
4047   This option is not applied immediately, you need to close smplayer and
4048   open it again.
4049   Note: the command line options -minigui and -defaultgui have preference
4050   over this option.
4051
4052(2008-05-25)
4053 * Some internal changes: baseguiplus saves some variables to the config
4054   file so it can exit from compact mode properly even if made between
4055   different sessions. Also the code to resize the main window when
4056   entering/exiting compact mode has been moved from defaultgui to
4057   baseguiplus. BTW, compact mode is broken if the playlist is embedded
4058   in the main window.
4059 * Maybe the compact mode with the playlist embedded in the main window
4060   is fixed now.
4061
4062(2008-05-24)
4063 * Added "gl:yuv=2:force-pbo:ati-hack" to the list of video drivers. This
4064   seems to be very fast. Requires mplayer svn r26853 (from 2008-05-22).
4065 * Now the video driver by default on Windows Vista is gl, instead of
4066   directx. (Untested)
4067
4068(2008-05-22)
4069 * Fix: changing the demuxer should not lose the audio or subtitles (but
4070   the selected tracks after restart may be different).
4071
4072(2008-05-19)
4073 * Fix: zoom didn't work well with directx.
4074 * Added the Catalan translation, by Roger Calvó <rcalvoi@yahoo.com>.
4075
4076(2008-05-17)
4077 * Now the maximum port for the single instance is 99999 instead of 10000.
4078
4079(2008-05-15)
4080 * Now the "latest_dir" is updated too when opening a file from command line.
4081   Also the "latest_dir" now defaults to the home directory instead of the
4082   smplayer working directory.
4083 * Now when switching to compact mode, the main window is resized instead of
4084   leaving black borders where the widgets were placed. This resize will only
4085   be done if the autoresize option is set to "whenever it's needed".
4086
4087
4088[b]Version 0.6.0[/b]:
4089
4090(2008-05-12)
4091 * Improved the file smplayer.spec and added the script create_rpm.sh, both
4092   contributed by iSage.
4093
4094(2008-05-08)
4095 * Added m2t to the list of extensions for video.
4096
4097(2008-05-05)
4098 * The option Play->Repeat is now always enabled, so it can be activated
4099   before playing anything.
4100
4101(2008-05-03)
4102 * Now, when browsing the recents menu, the statusbar shows the full path of
4103   the selected item.
4104
4105(2008-04-30)
4106 * Now the video equalizer displays the values of each control.
4107
4108(2008-04-28)
4109 * Hopefully fixed the problem of the ghost playlist, visible for a moment
4110   on startup.
4111 * Updated the Portuguese (pt_PT) translation, made by Sérgio Marques
4112   <contatica@netcabo.pt>
4113 * (Linux) Added the file smplayer_enqueue.desktop which allows to add
4114   the selected files in the file browser to the playlist.
4115
4116(2008-04-27)
4117 * Now the time (and volume) sliders should work better.
4118
4119(2008-04-26)
4120 * Now the default filter for Open->File is "multimedia", it shows video,
4121   audio and playlist files.
4122 * Added an option in the playlist's preferences to save a copy of the
4123   contents of the playlist to the config file.
4124 * (Bugfix) Don't allow to enter in compact mode when in fullscreen.
4125   Fixes bug #1951297.
4126
4127(2008-04-25)
4128 * Added a new widget (a line edit + a button) which allows the user to
4129   select a file or directory. The preferences dialog now uses this widget.
4130
4131(2008-04-23)
4132 * Fix loading idx/sub subtitles. The filename was incorrectly passed to
4133   mplayer if it contained several dots.
4134
4135(2008-04-22)
4136 * Now smplayer can detect if mplayer has been patched with the
4137   startupvol patch. Autodetection will only succeed if mplayer has been
4138   patched with this 2nd version of the patch:
4139   http://smplayer.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/*checkout*/smplayer/mplayer-builds/patches/startupvol-2.diff
4140 * Now the option "Change volume just before playing" in
4141   Preferences->General->Audio can be set to "Auto".
4142
4143(2008-04-20)
4144 * Added a preferences dialog for the playlist.
4145
4146(2008-04-19)
4147 * Don't get info about the files added automatically by the GUI to the
4148   playlist (usually it's the file to play, so it's a waste of time).
4149 * Added possibility to add directories recursively to the playlist. Right
4150   now it's necessary to edit smplayer.ini and set recursive_add_directory to
4151   true (inside [playlist] section). Soon there'll be an option for this
4152   in the GUI.
4153
4154(2008-04-18)
4155 * (Windows) Applied a patch by "hackykid" to fix a link error when compiling with
4156   Visual Studio.
4157   http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1924296&group_id=185512&atid=913575
4158
4159(2008-04-17)
4160 * Updated the Italian and Polish translations.
4161 * (Bugfix) If the option to start videos in fullscreen is activated, now
4162   fullscreen mode will be entered only when the video is opened, and not for
4163   instance when you unpause the video.
4164 * (Windows) Added the exit fullscreen and close actions to the floating
4165   control widget, so their key shortcuts can work in the floating control.
4166
4167(2008-04-16)
4168 * Now the mouse right button can be configured. By default it will
4169   show the context menu. The context menu can also be assigned to another
4170   button (or key).
4171 * Added the open directory action to the systray menu. Fixes bug #1943895.
4172
4173
4174[b]Version 0.6.0rc4[/b]:
4175
4176(2008-04-13)
4177 * Added the action next_osd to the list of actions available for mouse
4178   buttons.
4179
4180(2008-04-12)
4181 * Now the possibility to get info (length, name) about the files added to
4182   the playlist can be disabled. It's not in the preferences dialog as usual
4183   but in the playlist itself, as an option in the "add" menu.
4184 * Added the rewind and forward actions to the list of actions available for
4185   mouse buttons.
4186
4187(2008-04-11)
4188 * Added support for the mouse XButton1 and XButton2. This is untested as
4189   my mouse doesn't have those buttons.
4190
4191(2008-04-10)
4192 * Added in Preferences->General->Video an option to select the default
4193   deinterlacer. It will be used for new videos opened.
4194
4195(2008-04-07)
4196 * Now when a file is added to the playlist, it will get some info about it.
4197   This allows to display the length and name (if available) in the list.
4198   Very useful for mp3 and similar.
4199
4200(2008-04-06)
4201 * If a file with the same name of the file to play but with extension
4202   .edl (or .EDL) exists then smplayer will load it automatically (this can
4203   be disabled by setting use_edl_files in smplayer.ini to false).
4204   An edl file allows to skip or mute parts of the video.
4205   Info about edl files: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/edl.html
4206
4207(2008-04-02)
4208 * (Bugfix) When using the command line options -send-action or -actions, some
4209   actions like aspect_4:3 didn't work.
4210
4211(2008-04-01)
4212 * Don't check if the items in the recent's menu are local files, as it can
4213   take a long time if they are not.
4214 * Compiled with MINI_ARROW_BUTTONS = 0 by default (so reverting changes in
4215   r1038-r1039).
4216
4217(2008-03-29)
4218 * Fix: DVDs started to play at chapter #2 if using mplayer 1.0rc2 or older.
4219 * Now the default gui will only show two arrow buttons for seeking
4220   (rewind 10 secs and forward 10 secs) but if you keep those buttons
4221   pressed for a moment a popup menu will show with the rest of the buttons.
4222
4223
4224[b]Version 0.6.0rc3[/b]:
4225
4226(2008-03-21)
4227 * Try to use xv (or directx in windows) if the video driver is not set.
4228 * Added Play->Jump to, which will show a dialog where you can enter the
4229   position (time) to jump.
4230
4231(2008-03-20)
4232 * Fix: selection of chapters should work again with newer versions of mplayer.
4233 * Removed the option "Fast seek to chapters in dvds" in
4234   Preferences->Performance. Now it will use the fast method if not using
4235   a cache, and the slow one otherwise (the latter won't even work in newer
4236   versions of mplayer, so it's recommended not to use a cache for dvds).
4237 * Added rm and swf to the list of extensions.
4238
4239(2008-03-17)
4240 * Added new menu Video->Rotate, with options to rotate the image.
4241 * Show the language -if available- along with the name in the audio menu
4242   (it may work too in the title menu).
4243
4244(2008-03-14)
4245 * Now a dialog appears too if mplayer fails to start or crashes.
4246 * Add the scale filter if using the soft equalizer and gl/gl2, to avoid
4247   mplayer to complain.
4248 * The subtitle actions are enabled now if the close caption option is checked.
4249
4250(2008-03-13)
4251 * Added a new dialog to report the mplayer errors.
4252
4253(2008-03-11)
4254 * Displays a warning dialog if mplayer exits with an exit code
4255   different to 0.
4256
4257(2008-03-10)
4258 * (Internal change) Use -monitorpixelaspect instead of -monitoraspect.
4259
4260(2008-03-08)
4261 * Use -colorkey for directx only.
4262
4263(2008-03-06)
4264 * Added more help for the subtitle, interface and advanced sections in
4265   preferences.
4266
4267(2008-03-05)
4268 * Ignore action restore/hide if system tray icon is not visible. Fixes
4269   bug #1908229.
4270 * Added option in config.h to disable the use of the colorkey.
4271
4272(2008-03-03)
4273 * Now the shortcut editor should recognize some of the multimedia keys.
4274 * (By user request) Added an action to reset the video equalizer.
4275 * Remove starting and ending whitespaces in mp3 tags. Patch by
4276   Tanguy Krotoff <tkrotoff@gmail.com>
4277
4278(2008-03-02)
4279 * Bugfix: the keys PgDown and PgUp were incorrectly identified as PageDown
4280   and PageUp by shortcutgetter.
4281
4282(2008-03-01)
4283 * Try to keep fullscreen mode if running mplayer in its own window when
4284   opening a new file.
4285 * Added flac to the list of audio extensions. Patch by
4286   Tanguy Krotoff <tkrotoff@gmail.com>
4287 * Now changing the application stylesheet can be disabled setting
4288   ALLOW_CHANGE_STYLESHEET to 0 in config.h
4289
4290(2008-02-29)
4291 * Added the Macedonian translation by Marko Doda <mark0d0da@gmail.com>
4292 * Added the Basque translation by Piarres Beobide <pi@beobide.net>
4293
4294(2008-02-26)
4295 * Add the hue filter if the software equalizer is enabled. This allows to
4296   change the hue in the video equalizer.
4297 * Allow the software equalizer to be used with gl/gl2. Note: it won't work
4298   with gl or gl2 but it will work with gl:yuv=3 and gl2:yuv=3.
4299
4300(2008-02-25)
4301 * Bugfix: mark the right current item in the playlist if deleted an item
4302   above it. Patch by corentin1234.
4303
4304(2008-02-23)
4305 * Added two new options in the Subtitles menu: "Enable closed caption" and
4306   "Forced subtitles only". These two options are global because they are
4307   intended for DVDs. None of these two options have been tested!
4308
4309(2008-02-17)
4310 * On startup smplayer will create a lock file (smplayer_init.lock in the
4311   config directory) which will be removed once smplayer has been initialized.
4312   If another instance finds that file it will wait until the file is deleted
4313   (or 10 seconds have passed).
4314   The reason for this is to give the first instance some time to proper
4315   initialize in case several instances were launched at the same time (Windows
4316   does it if you select to "Enqueue in smplayer" multiple files).
4317
4318(2008-02-16)
4319 * New experimental code. New class "SMPlayer" which initializes the global
4320   objects and can parse the arguments. There's also a new main (main2.cpp).
4321   It's possible this could have broken something!
4322
4323
4324[b]Version 0.6.0rc2[/b]:
4325
4326(2008-02-11)
4327 * Added gl:yuv=3 and gl2:yuv=3 to the list of video drivers.
4328
4329(2008-02-09)
4330 * (Windows) Screensaver: set the timeout for lowpower, poweroff and
4331   screensaver before playing, and restore on stop.
4332
4333(2008-02-08)
4334 * (Windows) Bugfix: don't try to convert to 8.3 short names files that
4335   don't exist.
4336
4337(2008-02-07)
4338 * The script create_deb should compile and create the package much faster.
4339 * Bugfix: if the mplayer binary configured in preferences is just "mplayer"
4340   and there's a directory or file named mplayer in the smplayer working
4341   directory, smplayer would try to call that file. Now it won't call it
4342   if it's a regular file or directory, but WARNING if it's a binary it
4343   still will call it (this is because it tries to convert the path in an
4344   absolute path).
4345 * Some fixes so smplayer can work ok with a relative mplayer path.
4346
4347(2008-02-06)
4348 * Now selection of chapters in mkv files should work properly again if
4349   using mplayer >= r25391.
4350
4351(2008-02-05)
4352 * (Windows) Bugfix: the buttons to select the font color in
4353   Preferences->Subtitles->SSA/ASS didn't show the color.
4354 * Removed Yurkovsky Andrey from the list of translators, as requested
4355   by himself.
4356
4357(2008-02-04)
4358 * The option Play->Repeat should work better now. Also if using mplayer
4359   >= r23747 toggling the option won't require to restart mplayer (uses
4360   the loop slave command instead).
4361
4362(2008-02-03)
4363 * Try to remember if the window was maximized after exiting from fullscreen.
4364 * Added workaround for the problem of subtitles which don't disappear when
4365   using the "Add black borders" filter.
4366
4367
4368[b]Version 0.6.0rc1[/b]:
4369
4370(2008-01-30)
4371 * Added the Korean translation, by Heesu Yoon <imsu30@gmail.com>
4372
4373(2008-01-29)
4374 * If a version is not recognized, assume it's an old version instead of new.
4375   This way at least the file will play.
4376 * Now smplayer should recognize the mplayer version from ubuntu packages
4377   (MPlayer 2:1.0~rc1-0ubuntu13.1 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team).
4378 * Changed some defaults in preferences: framedrop will be enabled, and
4379   subtitles on screenshots disabled.
4380
4381(2008-01-28)
4382 * Now the user can tell smplayer what version of mplayer is using, with the
4383   config option mplayer_forced_version. Anyway in the future there'll be
4384   a dialog to configure this.
4385 * Renamed mplayer_forced_version to mplayer_user_supplied_version. That
4386   version will be used only if smplayer can't parse the mplayer version from
4387   the mplayer output.
4388 * Now if the mplayer version can't be parsed a dialog will pop up asking the
4389   user for the mplayer version.
4390
4391(2008-01-26)
4392 * Now it's possible to zoom out on the video image.
4393 * Cosmetic change: now the mouse icon in Preferences->Interface->Seeking
4394   has the same size as the icons above.
4395 * Moved to old-txt some outdated txt files.
4396 * Updated Release_notes.txt, with the changes since version 0.5.62.
4397 * Now under Windows, the main window will never start hidden even if the
4398   system tray icon is shown. This should fix bug #1851817.
4399   On linux the behavior didn't change, as this is the way other applications
4400   work.
4401
4402(2008-01-25)
4403 * Updated the FAQ.
4404 * If changing the size of the normal (no -ass) subtitles requires to
4405   restart mplayer (because using an old version or configured this way)
4406   the size will increase or decrease in steps of 1, instead of 0.2, to
4407   make the resize faster.
4408 * Added an option in Preferences->Subtitles to set the default font scale
4409   for SSA/ASS subtitles. This has required to redesigned the section.
4410
4411(2008-01-24)
4412 * Using now the sub_scale slave command for -ass subtitles. This allows to
4413   change the font size on runtime. Requires MPlayer r25843.
4414 * Now the font scale is stored in two independent variables, one if not
4415   using libass and another if using it. This is because the same value
4416   produces very different font sizes. A value of 7 can display subtitles
4417   with a normal size if not using libass, but if libass is enabled the
4418   font will be  huge.
4419   Important: the Scale option in Preferences->Subtitles, which sets the
4420   initial font scale for new videos, will now be only used if libass is
4421   disabled.
4422   It has been added a similar option for libass, but currently it can only
4423   be changed by editing smplayer.ini (initial_sub_scale_ass, default value 1).
4424
4425(2008-01-22)
4426 * Now the delay to update the video while dragging the time slider can
4427   be configured in smplayer.ini, option time_slider_drag_delay. The
4428   value by default is 100 (milliseconds).
4429 * The scale field in Preferences->Subtitles now accepts doubles.
4430   Fixes bug #1876114.
4431
4432(2008-01-21)
4433 * Added some new icons to the default theme taken from nuvoX
4434   (http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/nuvoX?content=38467)
4435
4436(2008-01-18)
4437 * "Help->Command line options" now shows an html text, so it looks better.
4438
4439(2008-01-17)
4440 * Added "Help->Command line options", which shows a text with help about
4441   the available command line options. It displays the same as smplayer -h
4442   but it will useful for Windows users, as smplayer -h doesn't work for
4443   them.
4444
4445(2008-01-16)
4446 * Now "Stay on top" is made properly, not cleaning the other flags.
4447 * The Makefile installs the files in docs/ru
4448 * Fixed a bug: Help->FAQ displayed the FAQ in the locale language and not
4449   in the language set in smplayer.
4450 * Now all the gpl.html in docs/ should be in UTF-8.
4451 * Converted docs/es/gpl.html and docs/de/gpl.html to UTF-8.
4452 * Added docs/ru/gpl.html.
4453
4454(2008-01-15)
4455 * Now the colorkey is passed properly to mplayer.
4456 * Added a new option: Options->Visualize motion vectors (-lavdopts vismv=7).
4457
4458(2008-01-14)
4459 * Added gl:yuv=3:lscale=1 in the video output combo in preferences.
4460
4461(2008-01-10)
4462 * Added an icon in the Instances tab so it doesn't look so empty
4463   (instance1.png and instance2.png).
4464 * Moved the seeking options in the Interface section to another tab.
4465
4466(2008-01-09)
4467 * Added the possibility to update the position of video while
4468   dragging the time slider (instead of updating it only when the
4469   slider has been released). Currently it's only possible to
4470   enable this option by changing the option update_while_seeking in
4471   smplayer.ini. There'll be an option in preferences soon.
4472 * Added an option in Preferences->Interface to configure that option.
4473
4474(2008-01-08)
4475 * Added an icon for Help->FAQ (faq.png).
4476 * Added an icon for Help->About Qt. The icon has been taken from the Qt
4477   sources (qmessagebox.cpp). This icon can't be changed by any icon theme
4478   (I don't think Trolltech would like it).
4479
4480(2008-01-06)
4481 * The subtitles size will increase or decrease in steps of 1 instead of
4482   0.2 if using SSA/ASS lib (it requires restart mplayer, which is slower).
4483
4484(2008-01-04)
4485 * Fixed a crash which may happen if trying to select a subtitle but
4486   the subtitle list was empty.
4487
4488(2008-01-03)
4489 * Now the GPL in English is in html too. From now on, all documents
4490   that smplayer have to load should be in html. This is because the
4491   debian packager compress all txt files, and so smplayer won't able
4492   to find them.
4493 * The file FAQ.txt has been moved to docs/en and converted to html.
4494 * New option Help->FAQ, which will display the FAQ in your web browser.
4495
4496(2008-01-02)
4497 * Added a function to get the path of a translatable document. The
4498   translatable documents should be (in the sources) in the docs subdir.
4499 * Now the GPL file is loaded from that path.
4500 * Added the Spanish and German translation of the GPL v2.
4501
4502(2007-12-31)
4503 * Now the QTextBrowsers really should have the same background color as the
4504   near widgets.
4505 * Now the about dialog can show the version number of mplayer.
4506 * The about dialog displays the GPL in the license tab. Temporary the file
4507   with the GPL text is embedded in the smplayer executable. In the future it
4508   will be read from documentation directory.
4509
4510(2007-12-30)
4511 * Replaced the QLabels and QTextEdits in the about dialog with QTextBrowsers,
4512   and changed the background colors.
4513
4514(2007-12-29)
4515 * Split the section "Video and audio" in Preferences->General into 2 sections.
4516 * Added 3 icons in the about dialog (contributors.png, translators.png and
4517   license.png), taken from Crystal Clear.
4518 * (By user request) Added "normal speed" to the list of actions available for
4519   mouse buttons.
4520
4521(2007-12-27)
4522 * Added a new option in Preferences->General->Video and audio: change volume
4523   just before playing. This should fix the problem of the loud volume on
4524   startup. It sets the volume using the commandline option -volume, but
4525   WARNING: mplayer doesn't have such option, you need a patched mplayer!
4526
4527(2007-12-26)
4528 * New about dialog, with some tabs.
4529
4530(2007-12-24)
4531 * (Windows) Preferences->Drives shows only cdrom devices.
4532
4533(2007-12-22)
4534 * (Windows) Now idx/sub subtitles should work also when using short names.
4535   So I think this stuff is finished.
4536 * Added the Finnish translation, sent by peeaivo <peeaivo@gmail.com>
4537 * For the option to skip the loop filter on HD videos: now a video is
4538   considered HD if its height (not width!) is equal or greater than
4539   the value specified in the HD_height option in smplayer.ini (720 by default).
4540 * Updated the help for the loop filter option in Preferences->Performance.
4541
4542(2007-12-21)
4543 * (Windows) Now the short names are used too for subtitle files (except
4544   idx/sub) and external audio files.
4545 * Added a manpage for smplayer, created by Matvey Kozhev <sikon@lucidfox.org>
4546 * (By user request) The skip loop filter in Preferences->Performance has
4547   changed. Now it's called "loop filter" and the possible values are:
4548   "Enabled", "Skip (always)" and "Skip only on HD videos". If the last option
4549   is selected, the loop filter will be skipped if the codec for the video is
4550   "ffh264" and the width of the video is 1024 or greater (this value is
4551   subject to change, possibly in the future it could be configured by the
4552   user).
4553 * Support for colored console output is disabled under Windows. I don't
4554   know any build compiled with that option.
4555
4556(2007-12-20)
4557 * (Windows) Added a new option for the config file: use_short_pathnames.
4558   If set to true, smplayer will pass to mplayer the short filename(8+3)
4559   to mplayer. This allows to play files which contains characters outside
4560   the local codepage (mplayer bug). Currently this only works with the file
4561   to play, not with subtitles filenames or other filenames that smplayer
4562   might pass to mplayer.
4563   To test: I don't know if this would break compatibility with Win98.
4564 * (Windows) Added an option in Preferences->Advanced to enable easily the
4565   option mentioned above.
4566 * Added patch by profoX to add support for the mplayer output when compiled
4567   with -enable-color-console.
4568
4569(2007-12-18)
4570 * Moved the letterbox option to the filters submenu and renamed to
4571   "Add black borders".
4572 * Added the new option Video->Filters->Software scaling. Makes mplayer to
4573   scale the video up to the width of your screen. This is slow, you'll need
4574   a really fast computer.
4575
4576(2007-12-17)
4577 * Updated the Russian translation, and added regular expressions
4578   (Advanced->MPlayer language) for Russian, sent by wiselord1983@gmail.com
4579 * Added patch by Florin Braghis <florin@libertv.ro> to support Win 98.
4580   Modified a little bit by me to allow it to compile under linux (for testing).
4581 * Added a new option: Video->Letterbox. It adds a black border around the
4582   video, according to the aspect ratio of the monitor.
4583 * Simplified the aspect ratio menu. The options "4:3 Letterbox",
4584   "16:9 Letterbox", "4:3 Panscan", "4:3 to 16:9" have been deleted. The first
4585   two are not necessary anymore because of the new Video->Letterbox option,
4586   and the last two I think they are not necessary because smplayer can
4587   simulate pan&scan since some time ago. Anyway they could be added again
4588   if someone really needs them.
4589
4590(2007-12-14)
4591 * Now smplayer stores the version number of mplayer in the config file and
4592   can use it to know if that version provides some feature (like the
4593   scaletempo filter) before running it. This makes possible to add
4594   "autodetection" too for options that should be passed on command line.
4595 * Now the option "High speed playback without altering pitch" (scaletempo) on
4596   Preferences->General has 3 possible values: auto, yes and no. Auto
4597   (the default) will use the scaletempo filter only if the mplayer you're
4598   using has that filter. "Yes" or "no" will force to use it or not, no matter
4599   of the mplayer version number.
4600
4601(2007-12-13)
4602 * (Windows) Added patch by Florin Braghis <florin@libertv.ro> to improve the
4603   file associations code.
4604   See http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=470#p470
4605 * (By user request) Added the possibility to configure any of the mouse
4606   buttons to show the equalizer.
4607 * (Windows) Some clean up in the file associations code. Also made some
4608   changes to allow to compile in linux (for testing, file associations
4609   of course won't work, but I can see the dialog, translations and so on).
4610
4611(2007-12-10)
4612 * (Internal change) Added mplayerversion.h and mplayerversion.cpp which
4613   parses the mplayer version from the output of mplayer. Inforeader can also
4614   get the mplayer version.
4615 * Now the size of OSD/subtitle text increases/decreases in steps of 0.20.
4616
4617(2007-12-08)
4618 * Added a new option for the config file: use_volume_option. If set to
4619   true, smplayer will set the initial volume using the command line option
4620   -volume in mplayer, so that should avoid that the volume is too loud on
4621   startup. But... mplayer doesn't have a -volume option yet, you have to
4622   patch it:
4623   http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-users/2007-December/070500.html
4624
4625(2007-12-05)
4626 * (By user request) Added a new option for the config file:
4627   auto_add_to_playlist. If true, new opened files are added automatically to
4628   the playlist (this is the default). Otherwise the playlist won't be
4629   modified unless it's strictly necessary (play a dvd, vcd, audiocd, or
4630   several files are opened at the same time).
4631
4632(2007-12-04)
4633 * When a file has stopped, the screensaver won't be allowed to run until
4634   an additional minute has passed, so it there are more files in the
4635   playlist they have time to start. A minute should be enough even for
4636   internet streams.
4637
4638(2007-11-29)
4639 * Now the cache setting is independent for each type of media. That means
4640   that you can disable cache for local files (faster startup) while keeping
4641   a cache for internet streams.
4642   The following options for the config file have been added: cache_for_files,
4643   cache_for_streams, cache_for_dvds, cache_for_audiocds and cache_for_vcds
4644   (the last two untested).
4645   The section Performance in the preferences dialog has been changed too,
4646   adding options for cache for files, cache for streams and cache for dvds.
4647   Note: it's not recommended to set a cache for DVDs, seeking might not work
4648   properly.
4649
4650(2007-11-28)
4651 * Added a new experimental code to disable the screensaver (and monitor
4652   turning off) on Windows.
4653 * Deleted the old (ancient) code for subtitle management.
4654
4655(2007-11-27)
4656 * If mplayer is compiled with gui support, it seems pause may not work
4657   properly. I think this is fixed now, by changing the PAUSE command in
4658   input.conf. Should fix bug #1839110.
4659 * Now the option Open->VCD is enabled under Windows.
4660
4661(2007-11-25)
4662 * A very important changed has been added in this revision. SMPlayer is
4663   the first mplayer frontend in the world (I guess) which uses the new
4664   slave commands sub_vob, sub_demux and sub_file (added a few hours ago in the
4665   mplayer svn). These commands, at last, allow to accurately select the
4666   subtitle track. Now you can mix without problems subtitles from different
4667   sources: embedded subtitles (like in mkv or mp4 or dvds) and external
4668   subtitles (srt, sub, idx/sub...), and now subtitle selection in mp4 files
4669   should work again (fixes bug #1806153).
4670   This possibility requires mplayer svn r25158 or above.
4671   The following option for the config file has been added:
4672   use_new_sub_commands. The possible values are: 0 (false), 1 (true),
4673   -1 (autodetect). The default value is -1. Autodetection will use the new
4674   commands or the old command according to the mplayer version.
4675
4676(2007-11-24)
4677 * Added Polish texts for the comboboxes in Preferences->Advanced->MPlayer
4678   language, sent by jarek.
4679
4680(2007-11-21)
4681 * Added support for playlists in format pls. Now smplayer can open and
4682   save pls files (only local files).
4683   Not much sure if QSettings produce a file readable by other applications
4684   (tested with xmms and it seems it works ok).
4685
4686(2007-11-20)
4687 * (Internal change) Added a new list in extensions: multimedia, which
4688   includes both video and audio extensions.
4689 * Now "Add directory" in playlist only adds video and audio files (not
4690   subtitles files, images or any other stuff you may have there).
4691
4692(2007-11-19)
4693 * Added patch by redxii, which provide a new icon for file associations
4694   under Windows.
4695
4696
4697[b]Version 0.5.62[/b]:
4698
4699(2007-11-16)
4700 * Added a new option in Preferences->General->Audio that allows to change
4701   the playback speed without altering the pitch (requires at least
4702   MPlayer dev-SVN-r24924).
4703 * Released version 0.5.62. Why not?
4704
4705(2007-11-15)
4706 * Fixed a bug in the new code in defaultgui: if you close the program in
4707   compact mode, then later when quiting compact mode the toolbars don't
4708   appear.
4709 * (Internal change) Now lists for video, audio, subtitles and playlists
4710   extensions are defined in extensions.h/extensions.cpp.
4711 * Added the audio types to the associations section in preferences.
4712
4713(2007-11-13)
4714 * Simplified the code of defaultgui, using the actions provided by
4715   the toolbars instead of creating new ones, and removing some old
4716   code.
4717
4718(2007-11-12)
4719 * (Fix) Now changing the volume when the file is paused really keeps
4720   pause. This is done by not changing the volume immediately but
4721   scheduling the volume change just after the file plays again.
4722 * The position and size calculations of the floating widget is now made
4723   in the floatingwidget code instead of the gui code.
4724 * Now the floating control shows with an animation! (It can be disabled in
4725   the config file).
4726 * (By user request) Added a new function for the mouse wheel: change playback
4727   speed.
4728
4729(2007-11-10)
4730 * (Experimental) New floating control (it looks like the old one) by using the
4731   new floatingwidget. This time it has an embedded toolbar, so actions are
4732   added to it (can't actions be added directly to widgets?). Previously every
4733   button and widget had to be created individually (making connections and
4734   so on), duplicating code. Now it's a lot easier.
4735 * Started to write the "mini gui". This is an optional gui, with very few
4736   buttons: it doesn't have a toolbar, and the control bar only have a
4737   play/pause, stop and mute buttons, and the time slider. It also provides
4738   a floating control with less buttons.
4739   To enable it: smplayer -mini
4740   This gui is in fact intended to be an example on how to create alternative
4741   gui's for smplayer.
4742
4743(2007-11-09)
4744 * Added options in Preferences->Advanced to save automatically the mplayer
4745   log every time a new file is played. Intended for external applications.
4746   Most of the code developed by iSage.
4747
4748(2007-11-07)
4749 * More work on the new code for time and volume sliders.
4750
4751(2007-11-06)
4752 * (Experimental internal change) Created a wrapper for the time and volume
4753   slider using QWidgetAction. Until now whenever a time or volume slider were
4754   needed (there are 3 time sliders and 3 volume sliders) each widget had to
4755   be created, set its properties, make connections...  individually = a lot
4756   of duplicated code. Now only one object has to be created (one for the time
4757   slider, another one for the volume slider) and then it can be inserted in
4758   any widget that accepts QAction's, as many times as necessary.
4759   Less code and easier.
4760
4761(2007-11-05)
4762 * Removed option H.264->Skip frames, as it affects non H.264 videos too.
4763   The option in the config file is still available.
4764 * Added again the "Fast audio track switching" in Preferences->Performance,
4765   with a combo to select the 3 possible values: Auto, Yes and No.
4766   There's included help for this option, so I won't explain here.
4767 * (By user request) Added a new option for the mouse wheel combo in
4768   Preferences->Keyboard & mouse: "No function". If selected the mouse
4769   wheel will do nothing.
4770
4771(2007-11-03)
4772 * Adapted the code for patch select_sub_by_source_property2.diff.
4773
4774(2007-11-02)
4775 * Added the Greek translation sent by my80s <wamy80s@gmail.com>.
4776
4777(2007-11-01)
4778 * Fixed a bug which prevented to select the first (or preferred) subtitle
4779   when playing a new video.
4780 * Now mplayerprocess can identify the mplayer version (or svn revision).
4781 * Added autodetection possibility for changing the font size of subtitles.
4782   Now the values for the config option "change_sub_scale_requires_restart"
4783   are different: -1 means autodetect, 0 = false, 1 = true (by default -1).
4784   Autodetect will check the mplayer version to know if it's recent enough
4785   to have the slave command "sub_scale". But autodetect can fail with very
4786   old versions of mplayer (< 1.0rc1).
4787 * Renamed "change_sub_scale_requires_restart" to
4788   "change_sub_scale_should_restart" to force everyone to use the new default
4789   value.
4790 * Added autodetection possibility for changing audio track.
4791 * The config option "audio_change_requires_restart" has been renamed to
4792   "audio_change_should_restart". It also accepts three values (-1, 0 and 1)
4793   being -1 autodetection. The default option is -1, which means that
4794   the mplayer version will be checked to know if changing audio track
4795   needs to restart the mplayer process or not.
4796 * The option "Fast audio track switching" in Preferences->Advanced has been
4797   disabled until a new one (a combobox) which supports the 3 values is added.
4798
4799(2007-10-31)
4800 * Added code to test the slave command "select_sub" (see
4801   http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-dev-eng/2007-October/054651.html)
4802   The code is disabled by default. To activate it set USE_SELECT_SUB to 1 in
4803   config.h.
4804
4805(2007-10-30)
4806 * Changed the layout of some sections in preferences to make them smaller.
4807
4808(2007-10-29)
4809 * (Experimental) Enable or disable some actions according to the current state.
4810   For example, the audio actions should be disabled if the file has no audio
4811   track.
4812 * (Fix) The time slider goes to 0 if the user press stop twice.
4813
4814(2007-10-26)
4815 * (Internal change) Renamed font_textscale in preferences to initial_sub_scale.
4816 * Assigned the new actions to change font size to the keys Shift+R (Size-) and
4817   Shift+T (Size+).
4818 * (Experimental) Now it's possible to dock the playlist on the left and right
4819   sides of the main window.
4820
4821(2007-10-25)
4822 * Now the -nostop-xscreensaver option is passed to mplayer if the screensaver
4823   is not to be disabled.
4824 * Added two new options for the subtitle menu: Size+ and Size-. They change
4825   the subtitle size. This also changes the meaning of the Scale setting in
4826   Preferences->Subtitles, it specifies now the default subtitle size for
4827   new videos.
4828   These new options use the new mplayer slave command sub_scale, so changing
4829   the size won't require to restart mplayer. Unfortunately this doesn't work
4830   with the SSA/ASS lib, in this case mplayer will be restarted.
4831   If you use an old version of mplayer which doesn't have the sub_scale
4832   slave command, you need to set to "true" the following option in the
4833   config file: change_sub_scale_requires_restart
4834
4835(2007-10-22)
4836 * Reorganized the layout of Preferences->Subtitles.
4837 * Preferences->Keyboard and mouse: the list of available actions for mouse
4838   buttons has been reduced. Only the most useful for mouse buttons are there.
4839 * Now the middle click button is also configurable. The default action is
4840   mute.
4841 * Now the default icon theme is Nuvola.
4842 * Added two new options in Preferences->Performance for H.264 videos:
4843   Skip loop filter (the famous "-lavdopts skiploopfilter=all") and
4844   Skip frames.
4845   This may allow "slow" computers (like mine) to play H.264 HD videos,
4846   although these options may produce a high quality loss. I prefer to scale
4847   down a little bit the image (1024x576 or 768x432).
4848
4849(2007-10-21)
4850 * Now the aspect ratio settings should work when using the mplayer own window.
4851   Note: the option "Autodetect" may not work correctly in this case.
4852
4853(2007-10-19)
4854 * Updated the Polish translation.
4855 * Improved layout of section "Preferred audio & subtitles" in
4856   Preferences->General.
4857
4858(2007-10-18)
4859 * (Internal change) Don't use the pref object in mplayerwindow.
4860 * Now the first track number for initial_subtitle_track and
4861   initial_audio_track (in config) is 1, instead of 0, to make it more natural.
4862 * Added in Preferences->General options to choose the initial audio &
4863   subtitle tracks.
4864
4865(2007-10-17)
4866 * Added a 2nd patch by LoRd_MuldeR for winfileassoc.cpp.
4867 * Added a work-around for a problem which prevents to use the arrow keys
4868   for shortcuts when using Simplified-Chinese.
4869
4870(2007-10-15)
4871 * Added clean_windows.bat, which deletes the compilation files.
4872 * Now the settings for played files will be saved in an independent file:
4873   ~/.smplayer/smplayer_files.ini (or under the directory set in -ini-path).
4874
4875(2007-10-14)
4876 * Added patch by LoRd_MuldeR for prefassociations.cpp and winfileassoc.cpp to
4877   make the file associations code compatible with SetFileAssoc.exe. It also
4878   adds an "Enqueue in SMPlayer" for the context menu. Not tested yet.
4879 * Disable compact mode when the video window is hidden (playing an audio
4880   file or using the mplayer window). I think this fixes bug #1812952.
4881 * New option for the config file: allow_video_movement. If true the video
4882   can be moved (Alt+cursors) even if not using zoom.
4883
4884(2007-10-13)
4885 * Updated the Ukrainian translation.
4886
4887(2007-10-10)
4888 * Updated the Slovak translation.
4889
4890
4891[b]Version 0.5.61[/b]:
4892
4893(2007-10-08)
4894 * Updated the Polish translation.
4895 * Added new icon (pref_associations.png).
4896 * Not compiling prefassociations and winfileassoc in linux, as they won't be
4897   used, to save some bytes and some secs of compilation.
4898 * Added *.ape to the list of audio files.
4899
4900(2007-10-07)
4901 * (Windows) Added a new section in Preferences to associate file types with
4902   SMPlayer. Patch by Florin Braghis (florin@libertv.ro).
4903
4904(2007-10-06)
4905 * Updated the Polish translation.
4906 * Added two new options for the configuration file, in section [defaults]:
4907   initial_audio_track and initial_subtitle_track. When a new file is played
4908   the values of these options will be used to select the audio and subtitle
4909   tracks. The first track is 0 (not 1). If the value is wrong, the first
4910   track will be used. The default value for both options is 0.
4911   Note: the "Preferred audio and subtitles" in Preferences->General will have
4912   preference over these options.
4913 * Added "Arabic (CP1256)" to the list of encodings for subtitles.
4914
4915(2007-10-05)
4916 * Now the icon for Windows (smplayer.ico) is bigger (48x48).
4917 * Updated the Chinese (zh_CN) translation.
4918 * Commented code to use an intermediate program for mplayer, 'cos it doesn't
4919   work at all.
4920 * Added new option for command line: -no-close-at-end, which is the opposite
4921   of -close-at-end.
4922 * Added two new options for command line: -fullscreen and -no-fullscreen.
4923   -fullscreen will play the video in fullscreen mode, while -no-fullscreen
4924   will play it in window mode. For simplification these options just modify
4925   the option "Start videos in fullscreen" in Preferences->General->Video and
4926   audio.
4927
4928(2007-10-04)
4929 * Added some code to use an intermediate program for mplayer, when using
4930   Windows 98 and ME. Not tested yet. (Written in linux)
4931
4932(2007-10-02)
4933 * Ported to Qt 4 the old code to handle subtitles. It seems we may need it.
4934
4935(2007-10-01)
4936 * Added a work-around to try to fix a problem in windows. When using gl/gl2,
4937   minimize the window, when restored the video is black. The only fix I
4938   found until now is to restart mplayer.
4939 * Try to keep the video paused when changing volume. It doesn't work well
4940   because of limitations of mplayer.
4941 * Small fix: don't use the screenshot filter if the screenshot directory
4942   entered by the user is not a real directory.
4943
4944(2007-09-30)
4945 * Updated the German translation.
4946 * Added USE_MULTIPLE_SHORTCUTS in config.h to enable or disable the new
4947   code for multiple shortcuts (enabled by default).
4948 * Deleted the actions inc_volume2 and dec_volume2 as now they are not
4949   necessary. Their shortcuts are now in increase_volume and decrease_volume.
4950 * Activated again the new resize code.
4951
4952(2007-09-28)
4953 * Now actions can have multiple shortcuts. That means that you can assign
4954   several keys for the same action. To do this, in the "modify shortcut"
4955   dialog in the actions editor, disable the "Capture" button and then
4956   enter the keys names separated by commas. For example: "Space, A" (will
4957   activate the action when pressed Space or A), "F, Ctrl+F, W" (will
4958   activate the action when pressed F or Ctrl+F or W).
4959   Note 1: the menus (and tooltips) will only show the first shortcut.
4960   Note 2: the actions editor won't be able to detect conflicts when entered
4961   shortcuts this way. In case of a conflict (the same key assigned to
4962   several actions) the key won't work.
4963
4964(2007-09-27)
4965 * Updated the Polish translation.
4966
4967(2007-09-26)
4968 * Updated the Polish translation.
4969 * Now if a smplayer.ini is found on the application directory, it will be
4970   used to read and save the configuration (unless -ini-path is used).
4971 * Now -ini-path requires a directory. -ini-path alone will fail and report
4972   an error.
4973
4974(2007-09-25)
4975 * Updated the Hungarian translation.
4976 * Bugfix: Drag&drop didn't work with *.part files, as the extension
4977   matched with a subtitle extension (*.rt), so it was tried to be loaded
4978   as a subtitle.
4979 * Added help messages for all options in Preferences->General.
4980 * Updated the Dutch and Polish translations.
4981 * Added help messages for all options in Preferences->Performance.
4982 * Added help messages for all options in Preferences->Keyboard and mouse.
4983 * Updated the Spanish translation.
4984
4985(2007-09-23)
4986 * Updated the Romanian translation.
4987 * Added *.ra to the list of audio files. This fixes bug #1799930.
4988 * Translated into Spanish the help texts I took from the mplayer manpage
4989   (in fact I've just took the translations from the Spanish translation of
4990   the manpage)
4991
4992(2007-09-20)
4993 * Updated the Ukrainian translation.
4994 * Added new option for command line: -add-to-playlist. If another instance
4995   of smplayer is found, the specified files will be added to that instance's
4996   playlist (nothing more will be done). If no other instance is found,
4997   this option won't do anything, the specified files will be opened as usual
4998   in a new instance.
4999 * Removed the option Audio->Channels->Default, as the mplayer default
5000   is stereo.
5001
5002(2007-09-19)
5003 * Fix: Don't try to connect in main.cpp to another running instance if
5004   the single instance is disabled! That also means that the command line
5005   option -send-action won't work in that case.
5006
5007
5008[b]Version 0.5.60[/b]:
5009 * Updated the Japanese and French translations.
5010
5011(2007-09-19)
5012 * Updated the German translation.
5013 * (Windows) Maybe a fix to avoid the video to pause when entering in
5014   fullscreen and the option "Pause when minimized" is enabled. Not tested
5015   yet.
5016
5017(2007-09-18)
5018 * The playlist will be floating as default.
5019 * (By user request) Added the option "Pause when minimized" in Preferences->
5020   General. If checked, the current file will be paused when the main window
5021   is hidden. When the main window is visible again play will resume.
5022   Currently it has two problems: if the file was already paused before
5023   hiding, smplayer won't remember it so when the main window is made visible
5024   the file will be played. And this setting also affects audio files, which
5025   maybe is not appropriate.
5026 * Updated the Polish translation.
5027
5028(2007-09-16)
5029 * Replaced the QAction's activated() signal with triggered(). Now smplayer
5030   runs without warnings in kubuntu with Qt 4.3. And I think now the port to
5031   Qt 4 has really finished.
5032   Anyway this is a delicated change, a small mistake and something could stop
5033   working.
5034 * Updated the Hungarian translation.
5035
5036(2007-09-15)
5037 * The script create_deb.sh changes the debian changelog so the SVN revision
5038   number is added to the generated *.deb file.
5039 * Added new option "Channels by default" in Preferences->General->Audio.
5040 * BTW, now the initial_* options in preferences are stored in its own
5041   section "[default]" in the config file.
5042
5043(2007-09-14)
5044 * Added a small program (getrev) to extract the SVN revision number. Intended
5045   for Windows, where the script get_svn_revision.sh doesn't work.
5046 * Compiling as default the old code to resize the main window, as it has been
5047   reported that the new one doesn't work on some systems.
5048
5049(2007-09-13)
5050 * Updated the Ukrainian, German and Japanese translations.
5051 * Now version.cpp returns the svn revision number.
5052
5053[b]Version 0.5.59[/b]
5054 * Updated the Ukrainian translation.
5055 * Bugfix: when passing only one file through command line, the file wasn't
5056   added to the playlist.
5057 * Added support for right to left languages. The arrow icons are reversed.
5058   Has the play icon to be reversed too? I've done, but I'm not sure.
5059   Unfortunately the jump-where-clicked feature in time (and volume) slider
5060   doesn't work well with RTL layout, so it's disabled in that case.
5061   If you want to take a look, run "smplayer -reverse".
5062 * By user request, added the total time in the floating control.
5063
5064[b]Version 0.5.58[/b]
5065 * Updated the Polish, Ukrainian and German translations.
5066 * I hope the problems in Windows with the new code to resize the main
5067   window are fixed now.
5068 * If the user selects the option to never resize the main window, the
5069   main window won't be resized when the playlist is docked/undocked.
5070 * The playlist is enabled again in fullscreen mode, although it will only
5071   appear floating.
5072 * Added dvr-ms to the list of extensions that the open dialog will show
5073   for videos.
5074 * Added an option in Preferences->Interface to change the default font of
5075   the application.
5076
5077[b]Version 0.5.57[/b]
5078 * Fixes in the window resize code. Now resizes should be much smoother.
5079   Only if you do something that alter the size of the window, like moving
5080   a toolbar or docking the playlist, could produce some flickering if
5081   you later change the video size using any of the options in the menu
5082   Video->Size. It also has to fix the problem that the window gets a very
5083   small that happens in Windows (although I couldn't test it).
5084   Of course this is in linux using Qt 4.2.3. Will it work on Windows with
5085   Qt 4.3.1?
5086 * Added the action "Toggle double size" in Video->Size.
5087
5088[b]Version 0.5.56[/b]
5089 * Updated the French translation.
5090 * Fixed regular expression in core.cpp to identify the DVD drive letter.
5091 * Rewrite the code to automatically resize the main window.
5092 * More fixes in the code to embed the playlist in the main window.
5093   Now exiting fullscreen works ok, the playlist is restored where it was
5094   before. There are still some minor issues.
5095   In my computer (linux, Qt 4.2.3) it works quite well, so I enable again
5096   the code by default. But... will it work on Windows and Qt 4.3.1?
5097
5098[b]Version 0.5.55[/b]
5099 * Updated the Japanese, Polish, Ukrainian, German, Romanian and Dutch
5100   translations.
5101 * The trailing "/" in dvd device paths will be removed again, but not
5102   if used with drive letters (E:/ for instance). It seems that sometimes
5103   it's necessary to enter the drive that way in order to play a DVD.
5104 * Fixed all deprecated warnings. Now smplayer can be compiled without
5105   QT3_SUPPORT defined. Still using deprecated signals (for instance
5106   for QActions) but I've got no warnings about them so it'll be
5107   difficult to fix unless I compile Qt with no Qt3 support at all
5108   (I guess).
5109
5110[b]Version 0.5.54[/b]
5111 * Updated the German, Ukrainian and Romanian translations.
5112 * Disabled again the playlist in main window as it has serious problems with
5113   Qt 4.3.1 (at least in Windows).
5114 * The trailing "/" in dvd device paths won't be removed. It seems that
5115   sometimes it's necessary. But be carefully, Windows users, when playing a
5116   dvd from a folder in the hard disc the path shouldn't end in "/", that
5117   would make mplayer to fail.
5118 * (By user request) Added "Video->Flip image" which flips the image
5119   upside-down. This option will affect the current video only, it's not
5120   a global option.
5121 * Now you can move the toolbars wherever you want.
5122 * Added the option "Create index if needed" in Preferences->Performance.
5123   The option will pass -idx to mplayer. From mplayer manpage:
5124   "Rebuilds index of files if no index was found, allowing seeking.
5125   Useful with broken/incomplete downloads, or badly created files."
5126
5127[b]Version 0.5.53[/b]
5128 * Some fixes in the code to add the file to play in the playlist.
5129 * Some more improvements on the playlist embedded in the main window:
5130   now the main window resizes when the playlist is docked/undocked.
5131   It also remembers its state on startup.
5132   For first time this code will be compiled as default so other people could
5133   test it. Anyway there's two known issues: the main window doesn't resize
5134   properly when playing an audio file (no video window) and the playlist
5135   is undocked (maybe another Qt 4.2.3 bug?). And to avoid some problems when
5136   exiting from fullscreen, the playlist is made floatable when entering in
5137   fullscreen mode.
5138   How to use it? The playlist will appear by default docked in the bottom area.
5139   You can move it to the top area if you want, or make it floatable
5140   by dragging it outside the window. You can dock it again by dragging the
5141   playlist to the bottom or top areas of the main window (there's also
5142   a button in the title bar for this).
5143 * Added a help message about the option "It's a playlist" in Open->URL.
5144
5145[b]Version 0.5.52[/b]
5146 * Updated the Russian translation.
5147 * Fix in the open URL dialog: the text should be selected now.
5148 * Fix for Qt 4.3.1 under Windows: after playing an audio file the video window
5149   didn't show when playing a video.
5150 * Experimental: add file to be opened in the playlist (deleting the whole
5151   playlist first). This prevents that when a file finishes, an item from an
5152   old playlist starts to play.
5153 * Added a context menu for when clicking on a toolbar.
5154
5155[b]Version 0.5.51[/b]
5156 * Updated the Chinese (zh_CN), French, Romanian, German, Ukrainian and
5157   Polish translations.
5158 * By mistake, the new option "close when finish" was enabled by default.
5159   Now that option will be disabled by default.
5160 * (Windows) When using Qt 4.3, inforeader fails, it can't read the output
5161   of mplayer. That means there won't be info about the codecs, demuxers,
5162   output drivers... I don't know why that happens, but disabling redirection
5163   of the mplayer output to a temporary file makes it to work again.
5164   I also realized that QProcess in Qt 4.3 works much better, so it's not
5165   necessary to send the mplayer output to a temporary file. So now if
5166   compiled with Qt 4.3 it won't use temporary files, fixing the problem with
5167   inforeader. Still there's a problem, if compiled with Qt 4.2.3 but using
5168   the Qt 4.3 dll's, the problem will still be present. Unless...
5169 * Now inforeader uses QProcess (not myprocess), so now it shouldn't be
5170   affected by the problem metioned before.
5171 * It doesn't try to create the app home directory ($HOME/.smplayer) if
5172   -ini-path is used.
5173
5174[b]Version 0.5.50[/b]
5175 * Updated the German, Ukrainian and Japanese translations.
5176 * I hope, fixed a problem with the playlist actions not showing (or
5177   appearing duplicated) in the actions editor. Now it works ok with Qt 4.2.3
5178   but I won't be sure the problem is really fixed until I test it with Qt 4.3.
5179 * Added the option Subtitles->Use SSA/ASS library, to make easy to enable
5180   or disable the use of the ass lib without having to open the
5181   preferences dialog.
5182 * Added new option in Preferences->General: Close when finished. If checked,
5183   the main window will be closed when the current file/playlist finishes.
5184   Now the command line option -close-at-end just will enable that option.
5185 * Added shortcuts in the Preferences->Subtitles dialog.
5186
5187[b]Version 0.5.49[/b]
5188 * Updated the Polish and Ukrainian translations.
5189 * Fixed warnings about using deprecated setBackgroundColor.
5190 * Renamed command line option -action to -send-action. This option will
5191   try to send the specified action to another running instance of smplayer,
5192   after that it will quit.
5193 * Added a new option for command line: -actions. As opposite to -send-action,
5194   this option will run the actions in the same instance. There could be
5195   several actions, separated by spaces (and enclosed in quotes). Examples:
5196   [i]smplayer video.avi -actions fullscreen[/i] (the file video.avi will be
5197   loaded, and just after that fullscreen mode will be toggled).
5198   [i]smplayer video.avi -actions "extrastereo_filter on_top"[/i] (will load
5199   the video, and then the extrastereo filter and the stay on top options
5200   will be toggled.
5201   "Toggled" means: if the option was previosly enabled now it will disabled
5202   and vice versa. If you want to be sure that an option will be on or off
5203   you can pass "true" or "false" as parameter:
5204   [i]smplayer video.avi -actions "on_top true"[/i] (the option Video->Stay on
5205   top will be checked, no matter the previous state).
5206   [i]smplayer -actions "show_language_toolbar false"[/i] (will hide the
5207   language toolbar)
5208   Some actions are not checkable, like open_vcd, double_speed... In that case
5209   you shouldn't use "true" or "false". But if you do it will be ignored.
5210   If you make a mistake and enter an action that doesn't exists, you'll get
5211   a warning (in the logs or in console) and it'll be ignored.
5212
5213[b]Version 0.5.48[/b]
5214 * Updated the Russian and Japanese translations.
5215 * Now smplayer will also look for icon themes in $HOME/.smplayer/themes.
5216   In the case a theme is both in the user directory and the system directory
5217   (usually /usr/share/smplayer/themes) it will look first in the user
5218   directory. If the icon is not there then it will look in the system
5219   directory.
5220 * Under linux the buttons for color selection (Preferences->Subtitles) now
5221   look better.
5222
5223[b]Version 0.5.47[/b]
5224 * Updated the Russian, German, French and Romanian translations.
5225 * Now the helping messages (for -help) are formated automatically by a
5226   function, making easy to translate these messages. I apologize for
5227   yesterday's madness. As compensation I have adapted myself the translations
5228   I received today.
5229   There's nothing more new in this version, but I release it so other
5230   translators don't go crazy.
5231
5232[b]Version 0.5.46[/b]
5233 * Added the option -playlist for command line. This option should be
5234   prepended in front of a filename (URL or whatever). This option will make
5235   mplayer to treat the file as a playlist. This option has nothing to do
5236   with smplayer's playlist! In fact smplayer won't have any control over
5237   the playlist at all. For smplayer it will just be like a single file.
5238 * Added the option -help for command line. It will show a helping message.
5239   BTW, the translators will have a challenge, as keeping the formating
5240   is not easy. (Take a look at the Spanish translation).
5241 * Added the option -close-at-end command line. The main window will be
5242   closed when the file/playlist finishes.
5243
5244[b]Version 0.5.45[/b]
5245 * Updated the Ukrainian and German translations.
5246 * The playlist check in the open URL dialog works. If checked the option
5247   -playlist will be added to the mplayer command line. (Internally some text
5248    will be appended to the URL, so smplayer can recognize it. This may seem
5249    ugly (and it is) but allows to add the URL to a playlist or to the recent
5250    files menu, and it will still work).
5251 * Added an icon to the open URL dialog (url_big.png).
5252 * Added two options for the config file: [i]enable_audiocd_on_windows[/i] and
5253   [i]enable_vcd_on_windows[/i]. It seems that mplayer on Windows doesn't have
5254   support for VCDs and Audio CDs (at least not the build supplied with
5255   smplayer). Setting these options to "true" will enable the entries in the
5256   open menu.
5257
5258[b]Version 0.5.44[/b]
5259 * Updated the Polish, German and French translations.
5260 * When trying to stop a video, the mplayer process will be killed if it
5261   doesn't finish within 3 seconds.
5262 * New dialog to enter a URL (the playlist check doesn't work yet).
5263 * Don't load actions from playlist to the actions' editor as it seems
5264   they are already there from the main window (in Qt 4.3 they appear twice).
5265
5266[b]Version 0.5.43[/b]
5267 * Updated the Italian translation.
5268 * Small fix for Windows in the fullscreen code.
5269 * Removed the "&" characters in the description of the actions in the
5270   actions' editor.
5271 * Using less deprecated functions.
5272
5273[b]Version 0.5.42[/b]
5274 * Serious bug: a lot of actions were missing in the actions' editor. Fixed.
5275 * More improvements with the playlist embedded in the main window: now it
5276   should be properly hidden/shown when toggling compact and fullscreen mode,
5277   and when clicking on the systray icon. Also the playlist button in toolbar
5278   (and menu) should be updated when the playlist is closed by clicking
5279   on its close button. But you'll see that now the main window is not
5280   resized when the playlist is shown or hidden. I left this problem for the
5281   end (it's not trivial). Anyway you can press CTRL-1 to force a resize.
5282   This code is not compiled by default yet. If you want to see it,
5283   change the value of DOCK_PLAYLIST to 1 in config.h before compiling.
5284
5285[b]Version 0.5.41[/b]
5286 * Updated the Ukrainian and Russian translations.
5287 * Fixed the problem with the Video->Size menu. All options will work now
5288   no matter of the previous selection.
5289 * Some changes in Install.txt, just to mark some obsolete sections and
5290   make clear that it can only be compiled with Qt >= 4.2.
5291
5292[b]Version 0.5.40[/b]
5293 * Ported to Qt 4. Easy to say but it took almost 2 months, and it's not
5294   completely finished yet (still using some deprecated functions).
5295
5296 Some other changes since version 0.5.21 (for details read the Porting_log):
5297
5298 * Now the option "Don't repaint the video background" is checked by default
5299   in linux.
5300 * Created the file create_deb.sh, specially for Ubunty users. If you run it,
5301   it would create a deb package.
5302 * Added a bat file (compile_windows.bat) to make easier the compilation in
5303   windows.
5304 * New button in the preferences dialog: Help. It will display some help
5305   about the options in the current section.
5306 * Now the configuration file will be in $HOME/.smplayer/smplayer.ini and
5307   $HOME/.smplayer/screenshots will be used as the default directory to
5308   save the screenshots.
5309 * Bug fix: now the info about the demuxer, audio and video codec are updated
5310   after a restart of the mplayer process.
5311 * Fix: now reading the info about video, audio drivers, codecs and demuxers
5312   is done in a language independent way (it looks for tags like
5313   "ID_VIDEO_OUTPUTS" instead of English text).
5314 * Now changing a key shortcut in the actions' editor is much easier. Now you
5315   double click or press enter on a shortcut (you can do it in any column)
5316   and a dialog will appear to ask you for the new shortcut. In this dialog
5317   you press the key or combination of keys that you want to assign to the
5318   shortcut. If you want to delete, just click on the Clear button.
5319   Note: this has been done by using some code from Edyuk
5320   (http://www.edyuk.org)
5321 * By user request: added a new option in Preferences->Interface:
5322   Change volume on every file. If checked SMPlayer will remember the
5323   volume of every file, and will be restored when played again. For new
5324   files the default volume will be used. That was the normal behavior until
5325   now. The new thing is if you uncheck it. In this case SMPlayer will never
5326   change the volume when a file is loaded. Problem: on startup SMPlayer
5327   won't know the current volume value, the volume slider will be wrong.
5328 * New option for command line that I think it could be very useful: -action
5329   This option passes the specified action to an already running instance.
5330   For instance, you're watching a video in smplayer, then you type:
5331   [i]smplayer -action pause[/i] and the video will be paused.
5332   [i]smplayer -action fullscreen[/i] will toggle the video to fullscreen.
5333   This will allow to control smplayer with a remote control.
5334   You can see a list of all available actions in "Preferences->Keyboard and
5335   mouse". Under the "Name" column in the shortcut editor you've got all
5336   action's names.
5337   When using -action all other parameters (except ini-path) are ignored.
5338   So it you want to open a movie and enter in fullscreen, this is NOT valid:
5339   [i]smplayer movie.avi -action fullscreen[/i]
5340   But you can do it in two steps:
5341   [i]smplayer movie.avi[/i]
5342   [i]smplayer -action fullscreen[/i]
5343   The exit code will be 0 if the -action option is successful and -1
5344   if there's an error.
5345 * In Windows, along with the screensaver, the monitor power off will be
5346   disabled too.
5347 * (By user request) Added a new option in Preferences->Interface:
5348   "Remember position and size" (of the main window). Checked by default.
5349 * (By user request) Added two new optins in Preferences->General->Video & audio:
5350   "Direct rendering" and "Double buffering".
5351 * Changed the behavior of "Use postprocessing" and "Volume normalization"
5352   in Preferences->General. Previously if you check "Use postprocessing" for
5353   instance, then all videos will use postprocessing, no matter of the
5354   setting in Video->Filter->Postprocessing. Now this specifies the
5355   default setting for new videos. If checked, all new videos you open
5356   will have the option Video->Filter->Postprocessing enabled but you
5357   [b]can[/b] disable it if you want. Previously this wasn't possible.
5358   I think this behavior is more consistent.
5359 * Almost all options in menus can have a shortcut.
5360 * Now the maximum value for volume is 100 instead of 99.
5361 * Recent files menu: now if the list is empty the submenu won't appear.
5362   You can also set the max. number of items in the list to 0 in
5363   Preferences->Interface.
5364 * Compilation time has been reduced.
5365
5366[b]Version 0.5.21[/b]
5367 * Updated the Brazilian Portuguese translation.
5368 * Moved the video and audio sections in Preferences->General to a new
5369   tab, and moved also the font section in Subtitles to another tab, to
5370   try to make the preferences dialog smaller.
5371
5372[b]Version 0.5.20[/b]
5373 * Updated the German, Ukrainian, Portuguese and Romanian translations.
5374 * Now it will exit from compact mode before playing an audio file. Otherwise
5375   the GUI would not have any menus or buttons at all.
5376 * Temporary fix: in playlist, the latest_dir won't be changed when adding
5377   multiple files, to avoid that wrong paths with dvd:, vcd:... could be
5378   used.
5379
5380[b]Version 0.5.19[/b]
5381 * Updated the German and Polish translations.
5382 * (Windows) The priority of the SMPlayer process is changed accordingly
5383   to the priority of MPlayer (SMPlayer will try to run with higher priority).
5384   Note: not much tested.
5385 * As a lot of people have complained, I changed "Brazilian Portuguese" and
5386   "Portuguese from Portugal" to "Portuguese - Brazil" and
5387   "Portuguese - Portugal".
5388
5389[b]Version 0.5.18[/b]
5390 * Updated the Russian translation.
5391 * Added support for audio CDs (only tested with one disc) so please
5392   test yourself and report problems. Test also if VCD and DVD still work
5393   properly.
5394   Note: I don't know if this option will work on Windows, I never
5395   could play an audio CD with the Windows version of MPlayer.
5396
5397[b]Version 0.5.17[/b]
5398 * Updated the Brazilian Portuguese, Slovak, Ukrainian, German and
5399   Portuguese from Portugal translations.
5400 * Now QCoreApplication::arguments () will be used to read the arguments from
5401   command line if Qt > 4.1. On NT-based Windows this should allow the program
5402   to get the right characters if the filename contains characters from other
5403   alphabets.
5404
5405[b]Version 0.5.16[/b]
5406 * Updated the Ukrainian and Polish translations.
5407 * Added two new translations: Romanian and Portuguese from Portugal.
5408
5409[b]Version 0.5.15[/b]
5410 * Updated the Russian, Italian, Swedish, German, Ukrainian, Polish and
5411   Simplified-Chinese translations.
5412 * (By user request) Added an option in Preferences->General to enable the
5413   postprocessing filter for all videos.
5414
5415[b]Version 0.5.14[/b]
5416 * Updated the Swedish, Ukrainian and Polish translations.
5417 * I think for volume normalization it's best to have a global option, so
5418   I added a volume normalization option in Preferences->General. If checked
5419   the volnorm filter will be used for all files.
5420 * Added an option in Preferences->General to set the maximum amplification
5421   level for softvol. By default 110. Valid range 10-10000.
5422
5423[b]Version 0.5.13[/b]
5424 * Updated the Ukrainian, German and Polish translations.
5425 * (By user request) Now the mouse wheel can be configured to zoom the video
5426   (Preferences->Keyboard and mouse->Mouse).
5427   Note: compatibility couldn't be kept, if you have previosly changed the
5428   behavior of the mouse wheel you'll need to change it again.
5429 * Now the options in the menu Video->Size will always be executed even if the
5430   option is already selected. Useful if you resized the window. Also added
5431   shortcuts for Size->100% and Size->200% (Ctrl+1 and Ctrl+2) and I'm very
5432   sorry but these shortcuts can't be changed (and these shortcuts will only
5433   work if the menu is visible).
5434 * (By user request) Added the option Audio->Filters->Volume normalization.
5435   Note: this option only affects the current file, if you want the filter
5436   to be used for all files add "volnorm" to the audio filters field in
5437   Preferences->Advanced.
5438 * (By user request) Clicking in the system tray icon with the mouse middle
5439   button pauses/unpauses the file.
5440 * Now tooltips for QActions are explicitly created, to try to work around
5441   a bug in Qt 4.3.
5442
5443[b]Version 0.5.12[/b]
5444 * Updated the Swedish, German and Ukrainian translations (although changes
5445   I've just made could have broken them...)
5446 * Reorganized a little bit the preferences dialog, by using several tab
5447   widgets. This prevents that sections grow to much.
5448 * Better explained the "MPlayer language" section (I hope) and added
5449   regular expressions for Spanish, Italian, German and French in the
5450   comboboxes, taken from the MPlayer translation files (completely
5451   untested!).
5452
5453[b]Version 0.5.11[/b]
5454 * Updated the Ukrainian and German translations.
5455 * Shortcuts for previous and next items in playlist didn't work in main
5456   window. Fixed.
5457 * Added an option in Preferences->Subtitles to use the new -subfont option
5458   in MPlayer. In the future SMPlayer will try to autodetect when this option
5459   is needed.
5460 * Added in Preferences a new section: MPlayer language, where the user can
5461   change some of the texts that SMPlayer looks for. Intended in case that
5462   MPlayer displays its messages in another language. (Unfortunately MPlayer
5463   can't change language at runtime).
5464
5465[b]Version 0.5.10[/b]
5466 * Moved the denoise submenu inside the video filter menu.
5467 * (By user request) Added the option "AC3/DTS pass-through S/PDIF" in
5468   Preferences->General. It will simply add "-afm hwac3" to the command line.
5469 * Renamed "Yadif (mode 0)" to "Yadif (normal)", and "Yadif (mode 1)" to
5470   "Yadif (double framerate)".
5471
5472[b]Version 0.5.9[/b]
5473 * Updated the Swedish, German, Ukrainian and Polish translations.
5474 * The application was probably getting the wrong screen resolution if
5475   a virtual desktop was enabled. I hope this is fixed now.
5476
5477[b]Version 0.5.8[/b]
5478 * Updated the Italian, Simplified-Chinese and Swedish translations.
5479 * Added two new options in the Video->Deinterlace menu: kerndeint and
5480   yadif (mode 1). The latter option should give a much more fluid motion than
5481   the normal yadif option, but you need a really fast computer, as this
5482   option uses a lot of CPU.
5483   Some videos require to change the field dominance to work properly, so an
5484   option for this will be added in the future. Meanwhile you can pass the
5485   option -field-dominance to mplayer if you need it.
5486
5487[b]Version 0.5.7[/b]
5488 * Added *.ac3 to the list of audio filters in the open dialogs.
5489 * On startup, if the previous height of the window is less than 200, then
5490   the window is resized to the default size.
5491 * Updated the Polish and German translations.
5492 * Updated the instructions to make a deb package in Install.txt.
5493
5494[b]Version 0.5.6[/b]
5495 * Updated the German and Ukrainian translations.
5496 * Changed the buttons in the floating control from QPushButtons to
5497   QToolButtons.
5498 * Added an option in Preferences to enable or disable the cache.
5499   (Cache could be disabled by setting it to 0, but this is clearer).
5500   The cache is [b]disabled[/b] by default, as it seems this option
5501   causes some trouble with some video formats. As a side effect now
5502   videos start to play faster.
5503
5504[b]Version 0.5.5[/b]
5505 * Added in the audio menu an option to load an external audio file (and
5506   another one to unload it). This allows to watch movies on which the
5507   audio track is in an external file (mp3, wav...).
5508   Note: if you play the movie again later, you'll see two audio tracks
5509   in the menus (the original one, and the external one), but changing
5510   tracks doesn't work. Strange things may happen if you do it.
5511 * Added the option "dont_use_eq_options" in the config file, ([preferences]
5512   section). If set to true, smplayer won't pass the options -brightness,
5513   -contrast, -hue, and -saturation to mplayer. It seems that some graphic
5514   cards don't support them or have some kind of problem with them.
5515 * Updated the German translation.
5516 * Added an empty icon for gamma (to prevent this slider to be higher than the
5517   rest).
5518
5519[b]Version 0.5.4[/b]
5520 * The size of the floating control can be changed, editing the config file.
5521   Option floating_control_width under the [default_gui] section. The value
5522   is a percentage (100 = all screen width, 50 = half of the screen width).
5523   By default, 100.
5524 * The size and position of the main window will be remembered.
5525 * (Qt 4) The balloon that remembers you that the program is already running
5526   in the system tray will be shown only 5 times.
5527
5528[b]Version 0.5.3[/b]
5529 * Updated the Polish and Russian translations.
5530 * New fullscreen control widget, smaller than the previous one. If using Qt 4
5531   it's better not to use the CleanLooks style, its buttons are huge and look
5532   awful in this widget.
5533 * Fixed bug #1729705 (I hope). This has required a lot of changes, so other
5534   bugs may appear.
5535
5536[b]Version 0.5.2[/b]
5537 * Updated the German and Ukrainian translations.
5538 * (Qt 4) Option Open->Close, now it exits from fullscreen mode before closing
5539   the window.
5540 * Now most options in the subtitle menu are disabled if there's none subtitle
5541   selected.
5542 * If the option Play->Repeat is enabled, files will start to play from
5543   the beginning.
5544 * (By user request) Now it's possible to choose the path of the ini file.
5545   This is done by the -ini-path command line option. Example:
5546   smplayer -ini-path /tmp
5547   will try to read the configuration from /tmp/smplayer.ini.
5548   The path is optional, if none is passed then it will use the application
5549   path, so "smplayer -ini-path" will read the configuration from smplayer.ini
5550   in the application path.
5551   This feature requires Qt 4. The option -ini-path (and the optional argument)
5552   will be ignored if compiled with Qt 3. This option won't work either with
5553   KDE support (and in this case you'll get an error if you try to use the
5554   -ini-path option).
5555 * Assigned the keys F5 and F6 for show_main_toolbar and show_language_toolbar,
5556   and updated shortcuts/default.keys with the new keys.
5557
5558[b]Version 0.5.1[/b]
5559 * Updated the Traditional Chinese and Bulgarian translations.
5560 * Now the title bar shows "file name - SMPlayer", instead of
5561   "SMPlayer - file name".
5562 * MPlayer can be compiled to display its texts in another language, but
5563   SMPlayer requires the texts to be in English. Unfortunately it's not
5564   possible to change the MPlayer language without recompiling. This is a
5565   problem. As a work-around I've made some of the internal regular expressions
5566   configurable (by editing the config file).
5567   rx_endoffile should specify the text that MPlayer outputs when a file has
5568   arrived to the end (by default "^Exiting... \\(End of file\\)"). If SMPlayer
5569   fails to catch this text, the playlist won't work properly.
5570   rx_novideo should specify the text that MPlayer outputs when a file has
5571   no video, by default "^Video: no video". If SMPlayer fails to catch this
5572   text, the video window won't be hidden when playing sound files.
5573   There are other English texts which SMPlayer looks for, but they are far
5574   less important (most of them are just simply displayed on the status bar).
5575 * (By user request) Created an action to change the window from normal size
5576   to double size and vice versa (this new action doesn't appear in any of the
5577   menus, it's handled by a key shortcut, by default CTRL+D).
5578   The best way would be to add key shortcuts to all Video->Size suboptions,
5579   but it's not possible for the moment (I actually can add shortcuts but
5580   they won't be configurable).
5581 * It seems that it's not a good idea to have the debian subdirectory in the
5582   sources, as it can conflict with the one made by package maintainers.
5583   As a quick solution, for now I've just renamed it to debian-rvm. If you want
5584   to create a deb package with dpkg-buildpackage, just rename it back to
5585   debian.
5586
5587[b]Version 0.5.0[/b]
5588 * Updated the Italian, German and Ukrainian translations.
5589
5590[b]Version 0.4.30[/b]
5591 * Updated the Japanese and Serbian translations.
5592 * Added the Traditional Chinese translation.
5593 * debian/control: now depends on mplayer | mplayer-nogui
5594 * Install.txt: explained how to create a deb package.
5595
5596[b]Version 0.4.29[/b]
5597 * Fixed bug #1725272 (the LCD in the floating control didn't show the hours).
5598 * Added the debian subdirectory (created in a kubuntu 7.04). This way it's
5599   possible to create a deb package.
5600 * Updated the German and Ukrainian translations.
5601
5602[b]Version 0.4.28[/b]
5603 * Written the documents Install.txt and Release_notes.txt, and updated
5604   Readme.txt.
5605 * Updated the Polish translation.
5606 * Added the Serbian translation.
5607
5608[b]Version 0.4.27[/b]
5609 * Applied patch to fix bug #1703280.
5610 * Now the tooltip in the system tray icon should display the same as the window
5611   title.
5612
5613[b]Version 0.4.26[/b]
5614 * Updated the Ukrainian, German, Polish, Dutch, Chinese and Turkish
5615   translations.
5616
5617[b]Version 0.4.25[/b]
5618 * Not providing a default for SSA/ASS style override, as this setting may
5619   affect real SSA/ASS subtitles. Added a "whatsthis" help for this field.
5620 * Now DESTDIR is used in the Makefile to select the installation directory,
5621   and changed the smplayer.spec to use it.
5622 * Updated the Ukrainian and German translations.
5623
5624[b]Version 0.4.24[/b]
5625 * Updated the Italian and Polish translations.
5626 * Added support for SSA/ASS style override (-ass-force-style option in
5627   mplayer). As there are a lot of options for styles, I just simply added a
5628   line edit so you can enter the styles you want. This option may be very
5629   useful with srt/sub files when using the SSA/ASS library, as subtitles may
5630   look much nicer.
5631   By default, it will use "Bold=1,Outline=2,Shadow=2" which provides a
5632   nice black shadow.
5633   Info about these styles can be found at:
5634   http://www.perlfu.co.uk/projects/asa/ass-specs.doc (look at chapter 5)
5635
5636[b]Version 0.4.23[/b]
5637 * Updated the Turkish, German, Ukrainian, Swedish and Polish translations.
5638 * Moved all translations to a subdir: src/translations.
5639   And if TRANSLATION_PATH is not defined on compilation, smplayer will look
5640   for translations in application_path/translations/ (this is intended for
5641   Windows).
5642 * Changed the default colorkey to 0x020202 (this really was the old colorkey).
5643 * Made the colorkey field in preferences editable, so there's two ways to
5644   set the colorkey: typing it yourself or selecting a color in the color
5645   dialog. Warning: currently no check is performed on the typed value. If
5646   the value is invalid it would return 0 (black).
5647   The value must be in hexadecimal, this way: #RRGGBB, where RR, GG
5648   and BB are the red, green and blue components of the color.
5649
5650[b]Version 0.4.22[/b]
5651 * Updated the German translation.
5652 * (Playlist) After removing the selected items, it tries to keep the cursor
5653    on the same row it was before (previosly the cursor was always moved to
5654    the 1st row).
5655 * Made the rest of actions translatable.
5656 * Added an option in the preferences dialog (subtitles tab) to select the
5657   default position of the subtitles. 100 means the bottom of the video window
5658   while 0 mean the top.
5659 * The colorkey is configurable now. Preferences->Advanced.
5660
5661[b]Version 0.4.21[/b]
5662 * Updated the Turkish translation.
5663 * Parses the StreamTitle line from Shoutcast streams, and displays it in the
5664   info window and title bar.
5665
5666[b]Version 0.4.20[/b]
5667 * Updated the Japanese, Czech, Polish, Italian and Chinese translations.
5668 * Floating control: don't assume that in fullscreen mode the screen starts
5669   at 0x0 (it might be on a 2nd monitor). This may fix the problem on which the
5670   floating control may show on the wrong monitor.
5671 * Playlist: the playlist is now only marked as "modified" only when changed
5672   by the user (and not when smplayer adds items to it, for instance, the
5673   files loaded from command line).
5674 * (By user request) New option in preferences (config file only):
5675   initial_panscan_factor. It specifies the default zoom value all new videos
5676   will have (by default 1.0).
5677
5678[b]Version 0.4.19[/b]
5679 * Updated the German and Russian translations.
5680 * Changed the colorkey. The one in 0.4.18 didn't work on Windows with
5681   directx.
5682 * Added a system tray icon if compiled with Qt 3 and KDE support.
5683
5684[b]Version 0.4.18[/b]
5685 * Updated the Swedish, German and Ukrainian translations.
5686 * Qt 4: now the time and volume sliders should work better. Previously
5687   it wasn't easy to drag the slider's handle if it was bigger than usual.
5688   Now the actual size of the handle is taken into account so dragging should
5689   work as expected.
5690
5691[b]Version 0.4.17[/b]
5692 * Updated the Ukrainian, German, Russian, Polish and Bulgarian translations.
5693 * Added the Swedish translation.
5694 * Now you can open several files through command line:
5695   smplayer video1.avi video2.avi music.mp3
5696   or
5697   smplayer *.mp3
5698   The first file will be opened by a function which is able to handle *.m3u
5699   files and directories. The rest will simply be added to the playlist.
5700   As this feature has required important changes, it might have introduced bugs.
5701   Report if you notice something strange.
5702 * Fixed a bug in the playlist. The first item played wasn't marked sometimes
5703   as played.
5704
5705[b]Version 0.4.16[/b]
5706 * Updated the Chinese and Russian translations.
5707 * Added support for the sub_step command (in the Subtitles menu). This allow
5708   you to move to the previous or next subtitle line in the subtitle files.
5709   It can help you to synchronize the subtitles.
5710   Note: this setting is not saved, reasons: 1) if you need to use these
5711   options maybe it's because the subtitle file has a serious sinchronization
5712   problem and you'll probably have to adjust the subtitles several times,
5713   2) it's not easy to do it.
5714 * At last the "+10 seconds", "+1 minute"... options in the menus show the
5715   actual time to jump (if you modified the default values in preferences).
5716
5717[b]Version 0.4.15[/b]
5718 * Updated the Italian translation.
5719 * Server commands: the playlist functions now work with Qt 4.
5720 * The function of the mouse buttons are configurable again. With this smplayer
5721   retrieves all functionality from 0.4.7.
5722
5723[b]Version 0.4.14[/b]
5724 * Updated the Polish, Ukrainian and German translations.
5725 * The function command in server should work again. If you don't know
5726   what I'm talking about, do "telnet localhost 8000" (or the port configured
5727   in preferences) and type "list functions". This feature allows to control
5728   smplayer remotely. Note: I've just realized that the playlist functions
5729   currently don't work if using Qt 4.
5730
5731[b]Version 0.4.13[/b]
5732 * Updated the German, Russian and Chinese translations.
5733 * Added the Turkish translation.
5734 * Actions editor: checking for conflicts, now it will only beep due to
5735   conflicts after editing a shortcut. This prevents beeps when entering
5736   in the preferences dialog, which can be confuse for the user.
5737 * Actions editor: now it will display error message if the key shortcut
5738   file can't be saved or loaded.
5739 * Actions editor: Shortcuts are shown left aligned.
5740 * I spent some time writing a widget which would allow to enter a shortcut
5741   just pressing the key (or combination of keys), instead of typing it.
5742   I took some code from qt-3 designer, and yes, it works pretty well.
5743   But at the end I'm not using it... it doesn't work well with qt 4 (some
5744   keys can't be entered, like Tab or the cursors). And moreover with qt 3
5745   it isn't really possible to enter all keys. For instance with a Spanish
5746   keyboard it seems impossible to enter the key ">".
5747   But in case you want to try it yourself, edit the file actionseditor.cpp and
5748   change the line
5749   #define USE_KEYCHOOSER 0
5750   to
5751   #define USE_KEYCHOOSER 1
5752
5753[b]Version 0.4.12[/b]
5754 * The actions editor is now in the preferences dialog.
5755 * Now smplayer will look for icons in a directory named "themes" instead
5756   of "icons" (defined with THEMES_PATH in Makefile). This is because in the
5757   future there might be more things besides icons.
5758 * smplayer will look for key shortcuts files in a directory named "shortcuts"
5759   (SHORTCUTS_PATH in Makefile).
5760 * Updated the German, Russian and Ukrainian translations.
5761
5762[b]Version 0.4.11[/b]
5763 * Fixed a bug in actions editor: default shortcuts were lost on first run.
5764   If you used 0.4.10 edit the config file and delete the [actions] section.
5765 * More improvements in actions editor. Now it's possible to save the actions
5766   to a external file, and load it. It also checks for conflicts (the same
5767   shortcut assigned to other actions).
5768 * Removed the src/icons directory. Icons will be in another package
5769   (and current Makefile is broken, don't try "make install").
5770
5771[b]Version 0.4.10[/b]
5772 * Actions editor: now the actions are saved and loaded to the config file.
5773
5774[b]Version 0.4.9[/b]
5775 * Fixed a segfault when selected Open->Quit (Qt 4).
5776 * Using UTF-8 for all QTextStreams in server.cpp and client.cpp.
5777 * Updated the Russian, Ukrainian, Chinese, Polish, Dutch and Italian
5778   translations.
5779 * More improvements on the actions editor. Better code for Qt 4, and
5780   now it shows the icon and name of the action, along with the description.
5781   The actions editor is far to be finished so it's hidden. If you want to see
5782   it, press G. You can change the shortcuts by double clicking in the
5783   shortcuts cell. The new shortcuts you define will work for the current
5784   session, but they won't be saved.
5785
5786[b]Version 0.4.8[/b]
5787 * Updated the German translation.
5788 * Using now QActions for all key shortcuts.
5789 * Started to write the actions editor.
5790
5791[b]Version 0.4.7[/b]
5792 * Updated the Polish, German, Ukrainian and Italian translations.
5793 * As the panscan feature seems to work well, even in Windows, I added
5794   a new submenu "Panscan" in the Video menu. The videos should also remember
5795   the zoom value.
5796
5797[b]Version 0.4.6[/b]
5798 * Experimental pan&scan feature. It's possible to move the video window
5799   (left, right, up and down) and also zoom it. You increase zoom with key
5800   "E" and decrease with "W". You can move the window with ALT + cursor keys.
5801   This is experimental, just to test if this can be done. The settings
5802   are not saved anywhere, in fact resizing the window resets all values
5803   to the defaults.
5804   Note: the zoom affects the OSD too, including subtitles.
5805
5806[b]Version 0.4.5[/b]
5807 * The fix in 0.4.4 actually brokes smplayer on Windows. The video disappears
5808   when the video is resized. So now this is an option that can be enabled
5809   or disabled (Preferences->Advanced, Don't repaint the background of the
5810   video window). This option is Off by default, as it works well in linux
5811   with Qt 3 and on Windows with Qt 4. If you use Qt 4 on linux and have the
5812   problem mentioned in the 0.4.4 changelog, you may check this option and see
5813   if it helps.
5814
5815[b]Version 0.4.4[/b]
5816 * Updated the Slovak, German, Ukrainian and Polish translations.
5817 * A very important fix (at least for me). Now when the main window is
5818   resized the video should not flicker at all (I made this specially for
5819   Qt 4, where the flicker was very annoying, but at the end the result is
5820   much better with Qt 3). The most important is that this fixes a repaint
5821   problem with Qt 4. Sometimes the video window got black (totally or
5822   partially) when closing another window (or menu) that was over it (I could
5823   reproduce it by entering in the preferences dialog, and changing the
5824   language).
5825   I don't know if someone else had this problem (I didn't get any report
5826   about it), but it happened to me and it was really annoying. Now this
5827   is FIXED!!!
5828
5829[b]Version 0.4.3[/b]
5830 * On startup the toolbars always appeared even if they were hidden in the
5831   previous session. Fixed (I hope).
5832 * Changes in playlist: now if the playlist has been changed, it will ask you
5833   to save it before loading a another playlist. It will also ask you if
5834   you try to open a dvd or vcd, because that clears the playlist.
5835   It won't ask you when you close the application, because the current
5836   playlist is saved to the config file and so it will retrieved on startup.
5837 * Merged the info window and advanced file settings in one thing:
5838   "View info & properties".
5839 * Updated the German translation.
5840
5841[b]Version 0.4.2[/b]
5842 * If in compact mode, on startup the toolbars were visible. Fixed.
5843 * Some improvements on the playlist docked in the main window, but there
5844   are still some issues. I'm afraid this can't be completely fixed until the
5845   application is ported to Qt 4.
5846
5847[b]Version 0.4.1[/b]
5848 * Updated the Chinese, Russian, Italian, German, Ukrainian and Polish
5849   translations.
5850 * Some options in menus didn't update the name after a language change. Fixed.
5851 * Some improvements in the tray icon:
5852    - If the main window is hidden, it will became visible just before playing
5853      a video. Now this works too with the (playlist) next and previous options.
5854    - The tray icon shows a tooltip with the name of the current file.
5855    - Added two options to the context menu: playlist and preferences.
5856 * The playlist saves to the config file the current playlist just before
5857   quiting and loads again on startup.
5858 * Renamed the Exit option to Close. If the system tray icon is not activated
5859   then the Close option finishes the application. But if the system tray icon
5860   is activated then it just hides it. The Quit option always finishes the
5861   application, no matter if the tray icon is activated or not (the Quit
5862   option doesn't show if Qt < 4.2).
5863
5864[b]Version 0.4.0[/b]
5865 Initially version 0.4.0 was to be released once the key shortcuts were
5866 configurable. But as it seems it still takes some time for that, and
5867 considering that I've implemented some things actually planned for future
5868 versions (VCD, system tray icon) I change to 0.4.0 now (even though I've just
5869 implemented the system tray icon and it may have bugs).
5870 Main objective for 0.5.0 is still configurable shortcuts, and I expect it to
5871 be soon, very soon.
5872
5873 * More improvements in tray icon. Just test it. Remember that you need to
5874   compile at least with Qt 4.2. I think this feature is now quite usable.
5875   There's a known problem, though, the next and previous options in the
5876   context menu don't force a show() in the main window. This is ok for music.
5877   But if it's a video then the main window won't appear until you make
5878   visible yourself.
5879 * The main window only shows once on startup, that prevents that the main
5880   window can be seen for a little moment without toolbars.
5881 * The width of the floating control can be configured (for now just by
5882   editing the configuration file, look for floating_control_width, the value is
5883   the desired width in %, by default 75%).
5884 * Now if you select Open->VCD and the cdrom device is not configured, a
5885   warning will show and then the preferences dialog will open so you can
5886   configure it.
5887 * Disabled style switching again, because it crashes with Qt 4 (I find
5888   Qt 4 more unstable than Qt 3...)
5889 * Updated the Ukrainian and Bulgarian translations.
5890
5891[b]Version 0.3.45[/b]
5892 * Updated the Ukrainian, German and Russian translations.
5893 * Some improvements in the tray icon. Now it has a new context menu,
5894   and it saves its state (mainly if the main window is visible or not)
5895   to recover it on startup. Unfortunately it doesn't work well if the
5896   single instance option is activated.
5897   And if you click on the close button the application will hide but it
5898   will still running in the tray.
5899
5900[b]Version 0.3.44[/b]
5901 * Added the Bulgarian translation.
5902 * Updated the Polish translation.
5903 * Qt 4: Made the repaint of the mplayer window more or less like Qt 3.
5904   At least this seems to fix some small cuts in the audio when resizing.
5905   But still the window is getting black after changing the language in
5906   preferences. I don't know why.
5907   Report if you find problems with this (more flickering than before or
5908   something).
5909 * Started to implement the system tray icon. You need Qt 4.2 to see it.
5910
5911[b]Version 0.3.43[/b]
5912 * Updated the Dutch translation.
5913 * When DOCK_PLAYLIST is set 1, the playlist was always shown when exiting from
5914   fullscreen, even if it was hidden previously. Fixed.
5915 * Qt 4: now the time (and volume) slider go to the point you click on the bar.
5916 * Windows: the playlist was always above the main window. This should be
5917   fixed now. The VCD option in the Open menu is disabled, as mplayer in
5918   Windows doesn't support VCDs yet. Anyway you can watch VCDs by opening the
5919   *.dat files you'll see in the drive.
5920 * STYLE_SWITCHING option in config.h activated by default now. This will
5921   allow you to switch the Qt style at runtime (Preferences->Interface).
5922   This option wasn't enabled by default because it seems it had some issues
5923   (some colors might not be correct). Anyway I let you to test it.
5924
5925[b]Version 0.3.42[/b]
5926 * VCD support has triggered a problem. If title #1 of a VCD (or DVD) can't
5927   be played, the GUI doesn't get the info of the rest of titles (which
5928   probably could be played). Now the application detects that case and
5929   passes that info.
5930 * Now when a VCD or DVD start to play, all titles are added to the playlist
5931   (clearing all previous contents), so when a title finishes the next one
5932   will be played.
5933 * I think those 2 previous things can improve DVD support. Because it seems
5934   that a lot of people got confused when the first title of a DVD didn't
5935   play, even thinking that smplayer can't play DVDs at all. Now if the
5936   first title fails the 2nd will be played. Anyway I couldn't test this,
5937   because I don't have any DVD which first title doesn't play.
5938 * Added the option vcd_initial_title for preferences (this is a config
5939   option, it's not in the preferences dialog yet). It specifies the
5940   title number which should be played when you select Open->VCD. By
5941   default 2.
5942 * And added support for VCDs in other parts of the code. For instance
5943   the info window recognizes VCDs and displays a different icon for them.
5944   Or you can play a VCD through command line: [i]smplayer vcd://3[/i] (will
5945   play title #3), or just simply [i]smplayer vcd:[/i] (which is the same
5946   as selecting Open->VCD).
5947 * Now the option Video->Aspect ratio->Autodetect will use the aspect
5948   ratio of the mplayer window, instead of the file aspect rato. That makes
5949   that some filters could work better. (Anyway I don't know if this could have
5950   any secondary effect...)
5951 * Renamed the icon them Test as Oxygen.
5952
5953[b]Version 0.3.41[/b]
5954 * Updated the Hungarian translation.
5955 * Started the VCD stuff. Now you can play VCD's. But... to implement this
5956   feature I used a VCD created by k3b with 2 videoclips. mplayer reports
5957   that there are 3 titles in the disc. The first one can't be played
5958   (maybe it has control info or something), but that makes that smplayer
5959   doesn't get the info about available titles. To "fix" it smplayer will
5960   start to play all VCDs from title 2 (instead of 1) but of course I'm not
5961   sure if it is safe to assume that all discs (in mplayer) start at title 2.
5962   So if you have a lot of VCDs, please test.
5963   BTW, I think mplayer on Windows doesn't support VCDs...
5964
5965[b]Version 0.3.40[/b]
5966 * Added a new icon theme "Silk" created by ilGaspa
5967   (http://www.phpbbplanet.com/smplayer/viewtopic.php?t=116)
5968 * Added another icon theme "MacLike", by Charles Barcza.
5969 * Updated the Ukrainian and German translations.
5970 * Qt 4: The video equalizer lost its icons everytime an icon theme change was
5971   made. Fixed.
5972 * It seems that drag&drop didn't work with filenames with non-latin1
5973   characters if the drag was made from Konqueror. It seems the problem that
5974   kde encodes the filenames using the current locale but Qt expects
5975   to be in UTF-8. Now drag&drop from Konqueror should work but it's required
5976   to compile smplayer with kde support.
5977   Of course, if your system's encoding is UTF-8 then there's not problem at all.
5978 * Tried to avoid the use of double slashes (/usr//share...) in paths.
5979
5980[b]Version 0.3.39[/b]
5981 * Updated the Czech, Polish, French, German and Spanish translations.
5982 * KDE support fixes: now the embedded icons should show again. Now you
5983   can pass a filename to open from command line.
5984 * Changes in Makefile. if "make KDE_SUPPORT=1" doesn't work for you,
5985   edit the Makefile and change the kde paths.
5986   You also can pass the paths through command line, example:
5987   make KDE_SUPPORT=1 KDE_INCLUDE_PATH=/usr/include/kde
5988
5989[b]Version 0.3.38[/b]
5990 * Moved most of the single instance stuff to another class (CSManager). That
5991   simplifies the BaseGui code.
5992 * Fixed an old bug. If the server which smplayer tries to connect to
5993   on startup doesn't respond anything, smplayer will wait and wait...
5994   forever. Now it waits 4 seconds, after that smplayer starts and reports
5995   to the user about the problem, and disables the single instance option.
5996 * KDE dialogs: now the Qt filters are converted to the KDE format. Now
5997   the KDE dialogs should work.
5998 * Now you can compile smplayer with KDE support just by typing:
5999   make KDE_SUPPORT=1
6000 * Updated the Japanese, Russian and Czech translations.
6001
6002[b]Version 0.3.37[/b]
6003 * Set the focus to video window after the user has selected an audio or
6004   subtitle from the toolbar.
6005 * Now the video should keep paused the when switching to fullscreen mode.
6006 * Finally I could compile smplayer with kde support. Now smplayer can
6007   show the kde open dialogs. But it seems that the filter parameter is not
6008   fully compatible with the Qt dialogs, so some of the dialogs could be
6009   useless. I'll try to fix it anyway. There are also other problems:
6010   the embedded icons don't show, you'll have to use any other icon set.
6011   And for some reason the application path is changed to /usr/bin so
6012   smplayer could have problems finding its files.
6013   If you want to test it, edit the smplayer.pro and look for "KDE_SUPPORT"
6014   and uncomment the 3 lines (and change the kde paths...). I'll try to
6015   make it easier in future releases. Ah, don't forget to compile with Qt 3.
6016 * Updated the Polish translation.
6017
6018[b]Version 0.3.36[/b]
6019 * Improved a little bit the new subtitles' code. If you're watching a
6020   video with subtitles and you load a new subtitle file, smplayer will
6021   try to keep using the same subtitle if it is still present (you may
6022   think that it would better to select the subtitle from the file that
6023   user has loaded, but it's impossible to know which one it is).
6024   The same would happen if you unload the subtitle file, smplayer will
6025   try to keep the previous selected subtitle, if it's one of the available
6026   subtitles. If it's not, the none subtitle will be selected.
6027   On the other hand, if you load a subtitle file to a video which didn't
6028   have any subtitle, then smplayer may select one subtitle, according to
6029   the preferences settings (if subtitle autoload is activated, it will
6030   select the first one or the user's preferred language if found).
6031 * Now you can drag directories to the playlist. It will add all files
6032   in it (it's not recursive, it won't add files in subdirectories).
6033 * Now you can open DVD iso files. Just simply select the *.iso file
6034   in the Open->File dialog. You can also drag it to the main window or
6035   playlist. The file must have the extension iso to be identified. If the
6036   image has another extension there's another way to open it, select
6037   Open->DVD from folder. This dialog will only allow you to choose a
6038   directory but you can type after it the filename.
6039 * Updated the German and Georgian translations.
6040
6041[b]Version 0.3.35[/b]
6042 * Almost all subtitle code has been rewritten. I think that now it's much
6043   better. For instance, now you can load a idx/sub file and you'll be able
6044   to select among all languages that the file provides. You can have a
6045   mkv file with embedded subtitles, load an idx/sub file (or srt, sub...)
6046   and all subtitles will be available.
6047   There's also a new option in the subtitles menu to unload the previous
6048   subtitle file you might have loaded.
6049   This new code is still under testing, and it could have bugs. If you
6050   see something strange, please report.
6051 * Updated the Ukrainian, Czech, Georgian, Polish, Russian and Chinese
6052   translations.
6053
6054[b]Version 0.3.34[/b]
6055 * Updated the Dutch, Ukrainian, German, Polish and Italian translations.
6056 * Added the Czech translation by Martin Dvořák.
6057 * Some cosmetic changes: new about dialog, and now the language combo
6058   in preferences displays the language name, along with the ISO code.
6059
6060[b]Version 0.3.33[/b]
6061 * Changes in playlist: converted the buttons and menus to QAction's. This
6062   has required to make the playlist a QMainWindow (it was a QWidget before).
6063 * And added again the previous and next buttons to main window.
6064 * Updated the German translation.
6065
6066[b]Version 0.3.32[/b]
6067 * Updated the Russian and Polish translations.
6068 * Added options to hide the toolbars (in the Options menu).
6069
6070[b]Version 0.3.31[/b]
6071 * Created a new floating control widget. This time it's not a toolbar so
6072   I hope that this finally fixes the problems with the floating control.
6073
6074[b]Version 0.3.30[/b]
6075 * Updated the Polish, Hungarian and Chinese translations.
6076 * Some people report that the control widget doesn't appear where it
6077   should but a little bit above the bottom. I tried to fix it by reparenting
6078   the widget and changing the flags. It seems to work well with Qt 3, but
6079   with Qt 4 it does really strange things: the widget is huge. Resize doesn't
6080   work or crashed the program. So finally the code is disabled (even for
6081   Qt 3). If you wanna to test it: edit the config.h and set
6082   REPARENT_CONTROLWIDGET to 1 (and recompile).
6083
6084[b]Version 0.3.29[/b]
6085 * Updated the German translation.
6086 * Fixed a crash when using Qt 4 with the new control widget.
6087 * Now the control widget displays over the video, not moving it.
6088 * You can now drag a subtitle file to the main window.
6089 * Tried to use the kde open dialog, unsuccessfully.
6090
6091[b]Version 0.3.28[/b]
6092 * Updated the German, Polish and Ukrainian translations.
6093 * Updated the French translation by David <goondy@free.fr>
6094 * Now the control widget is only one toolbar, but if it gets too small
6095   it will replaced by another widget with less buttons.
6096
6097[b]Version 0.3.21 - 0.3.27[/b]
6098 * A lot of internal changes: now QAction's are used for most of the menus,
6099   constants have been changed to enums. Due to the amount of changes it's
6100   possible that something could have broken. Please test it, specially
6101   audio and subtitle selection, aspect ratio options, and well... everything
6102   in the menus...
6103 * The Gui class has been divided into BaseGui and DefaultGui. The intention
6104   of this it to allow to create alternative GUI's easily (when I say GUI in
6105   fact I mean the main window). The DefaultGui is less than 300 lines of code.
6106 * The new GUI has been written from scratch and it has some toolbars. This
6107   GUI has been written today in a few hours and it's not finished yet.
6108   Unfortunately the "controlwidget over the video" from previous releases
6109   has not been implemented yet in this GUI.
6110 * Updated the Italian, German, Hungarian and Russian translations.
6111 * Added the Georgian translation.
6112
6113[b]Version 0.3.20[/b]
6114 * Added new icon themes by Charles Barcza.
6115 * Updated the German and Polish translations.
6116 * The controlwidget over the video now it seems that works too with Qt 3,
6117   so now it's activated by default. Please test it.
6118 * The priority options in preferences are hidden too in Qt 4 (priority is
6119   for Windows only).
6120 * Removed the old fullscreen code.
6121
6122[b]Version 0.3.19[/b]
6123 * Updated the Chinese, Ukrainian, Russian, German and Polish translations.
6124 * It seems that some videos don't start at sec. 0 so now smplayer will
6125   try to get the starting time and subtract that time from the current time.
6126   That's need for the -ss option to work properly with those videos.
6127 * Set some "buddies" in filepreferencesdialog so it can be used with the
6128   keyboard.
6129 * Some internal changes and small fixes.
6130 * New compilation option in config.h: CONTROLWIDGET_OVER_VIDEO
6131   If set to 1, the controlwidget will be shown in fullscreen
6132   *over* the video (not moving the video) when the user move the mouse
6133   to the bottom area of the screen.
6134   Now if someone knows how to get rid of the KDE taskbar that appears at
6135   the same time...
6136
6137[b]Version 0.3.18[/b]
6138 * Icon sets: The logo didn't change in the title bar of some windows. Fixed.
6139 * (Qt 3 only) Time slider: now the slider goes to the point the user has
6140   clicked on. The volume slider has the same behavior.
6141 * Now it's possible to choose a preferred language for subtitles.
6142   (Only tested with two mkv files).
6143 * Added more "whatsthis" help in Preferences (Performance tab). Texts copied
6144   from mplayer manpage.
6145 * Now the info window shows some icons, according to the media type
6146   (video, audio, dvd, url). I'm afraid these icons are not customizable.
6147
6148[b]Version 0.3.17[/b]
6149 * Updated the Polish, German and Ukrainian translations.
6150 * Added support for Qt 4 stylesheets. Now the icons sets, along with the
6151   *.png files, can contain a file named "style.qss". If that file exists
6152   smplayer will load it (the Test/ subdirectory includes one, based on a Qt
6153   example). This allows to change color, size, style... of all Qt widgets
6154   (see screenshots). This feature requires Qt 4.2.
6155   The qss file is quite similar to a HTML css file. Detailed info:
6156   http://doc.trolltech.com/4.2/stylesheet.html
6157
6158[b]Version 0.3.16[/b]
6159 * Updated the Hungarian, German and Italian translations.
6160 * Added the Brazilian portuguese translation.
6161 * Added new icon theme blackPanther-Light by Charles Barcza.
6162 * Added a new option: Video->Size. This is a global option. If you set it
6163   for instance to 150%, all videos will be played at 150% of their original
6164   size.
6165   (This option won't work if checked "Advanced->Run mplayer in its
6166   own window").
6167
6168[b]Version 0.3.15b[/b]
6169 * Updated the Hungarian translation.
6170 * Added icon theme blackPanther-VistaLike by Charles Barcza.
6171
6172[b]Version 0.3.15[/b]
6173 * Updated the German, Ukrainian and Polish translations.
6174 * Fixed a bug. Now you can pass a folder through command line. If it doesn't
6175   contain the video_ts folder, the contents of the directory will be added
6176   to the playlist.
6177 * Options->View info now shows more info about audio tracks and subtitles.
6178 * Created a new icon set: "Play" which changes some icons and adds some
6179   more. Just an example that shows that's possible to add new icons not
6180   present in the default set.
6181
6182[b]Version 0.3.14[/b]
6183 * Updated the Ukrainian, Russian, Polish, Chinese, Italian and Japanese
6184   translations.
6185 * Fixed a problem with the new icon set feature in Windows (the icon path
6186   wasn't right).
6187 * Fixed some bugs with the "initial volume" widgets in preferences.
6188 * Process communication: the 2nd instance will send to the 1st instance
6189   the filename to be open encoded in UTF-8.
6190 * New option in preferences (General) to select a preferred audio language
6191   for videos with multiple audio tracks. See the "whatsthis" help to know
6192   more about this new option.
6193
6194[b]Version 0.3.13[/b]
6195 * Updated the Ukrainian, German and Russian translations.
6196 * Made the apply preferences a little bit smarter. Now the mplayer process
6197   will be restarted only if needed. For example, changing the video output
6198   or the cache settings require mplayer to be restarted, but changing the
6199   language or the mouse button function does not.
6200   There are a lot of options in the preferences dialog and I'm not tested
6201   all of them. Report if some setting is ignored or something.
6202 * Now you can change the language of the application at runtime. This has
6203   required a lot of changes. Report if some string has been left untranslated.
6204 * Configurable icons. Now smplayer can load icon sets. In
6205   Preferences->Interface you'll find an option to select an iconset.
6206   Currently there are two: Default (the default embeded iconset) and Test
6207   (for testing, I've used the oxygen icons gathered by adrian5632)
6208
6209[b]Version 0.3.12[/b]
6210 * Added the Ukrainian translation.
6211 * Updated the German and Polish translations.
6212 * Added the option Video->Stay on top. This is a global option.
6213 * Added Preferences->Interface->Language.
6214 * Moved the logs stuff from Advanced to a new tab.
6215
6216[b]Version 0.3.11[/b]
6217 * Updated the Hungarian and Russian translations.
6218 * Sometimes when a video is played, smplayer doesn't get any info about it
6219   (you can notice because the aspect ratio may be wrong, length is 0,
6220   resolution is 0x0, no info about subtitles...). I think this happens
6221   when a video is restarting but you open a new one before restarting
6222   is finished (usually happens with internet streams, where a video can
6223   take some time to start to play). I think that now this problem is
6224   fixed, although I'm not completely sure as this bug is quite difficult to
6225   reproduce.
6226 * Now you can force the usage of a different language (translation).
6227   smplayer currently tries to use the translation file according to your
6228   locale. Now you can change the language by editing the configuration file
6229   and change the value of the option "language" (under the [Preferences]
6230   section). Example: [i]language=es[/i] will display the messages in Spanish,
6231   [i]language=fr[/i] will display them in French, [i]language=zh_CN[/i] will
6232   display them in Chinese and so on.
6233
6234[b]Version 0.3.10[/b]
6235 * Updated the German, Polish, Dutch, Italian, Russian and Chinese translations.
6236 * Bug fixed: if "fast seek to chapters in dvds" was checked, the -cache
6237   option wasn't used for internet streams.
6238 * Some options for logs added (Preferences->Advanced). Now you can disable
6239   the mplayer or smplayer logs. There's also an option to filter the
6240   smplayer output. Added too "what's this" help for these new options.
6241
6242[b]Version 0.3.9[/b]
6243 * Updated the German, Hungarian, Russian and Spanish translations.
6244 * Internal change: made pref (Preferences) a global object (I hope not,
6245   but this change could have broken something...) This is needed
6246   for the following:
6247 * A long awaited feature: you can save defaults for the video equalizer.
6248   Two buttons have been added to the video equalizer: "reset", will reset
6249   all controls to 0. "Set as default value" will store the current values
6250   and they will be used for new videos.
6251 * Fixed bug #1694644.
6252
6253[b]Version 0.3.8[/b]
6254 * Added the Japanese and Dutch translations.
6255 * Updated the German, Italian, Polish and Slovak translations.
6256 * Added the option EXTERNAL_SLEEP in config.h (this is a compilation option,
6257   if you change it, you'll have to recompile). If set to 1, smplayer
6258   will use the function usleep from unistd.h instead of QThread::msleep()
6259   It can be useful if your Qt doesn't have QThread support.
6260 * I started to add some (what's this) help in the preferences dialog.
6261   Drag the question mark in the title bar to a field and a text
6262   will appear explaining what's that option for. Currently only works
6263   in the General tab.
6264
6265[b]Version 0.3.7[/b]
6266 * Updated the German translation.
6267 * Made changes to try to fix a compilation error in Windows (qmake bug)
6268 * Added a "Clear" option in the recent files menu, to clear the list.
6269 * Added an option in Play menu, to repeat (loop) the current file. This
6270   is a global option. If activated, when the video ends, it will start to
6271   play again.
6272   As an unintended feature, if the video didn't start from the beginning, when
6273   repetition starts it won't start from the beginning but from the point
6274   it previously started. An example will explain it better: you have a 2
6275   minute video, you play it with the repeat option off. When it gets to
6276   1 minute you stop it and set the repeat option on. The video will resume
6277   play from minute 1. When the video gets to minute 2 (end of video) it
6278   will start to play again from minute 1.
6279   As I said, this is unintended, but I leave this way because maybe someone
6280   could find it useful.
6281
6282[b]Version 0.3.6[/b]
6283 * Updated Polish, Italian, Chinese and Russian translations.
6284 * All icons are now png files.
6285 * Using the option -nofs for the mplayer command line.
6286
6287[b]Version 0.3.5[/b]
6288 * Fixed a serious bug if using Qt 3. The key shortcuts were saved to a
6289   different file and not loaded.
6290 * Started to move from xpm icons to png. Right now a mix of both types
6291   is used. All icons in the preferences dialog are now png. Some of
6292   the icons in playlist are png too. But most of the icons in the main
6293   window are still xpm. As a test I changed the smplayer logo (which in
6294   fact is a Vista-Inspirate icon) with a new one designed by
6295   Charles Barcza.
6296
6297[b]Version 0.3.4[/b]
6298 * Updated the German translation.
6299 * Now you can choose the function of the mouse wheel: media seeking or
6300   volume control.
6301
6302[b]Version 0.3.3[/b]
6303 * Updated the Italian, German, Polish and Chinese translations.
6304 * 10s, 1m and 10m seek can be configured: Preferences->GUI.
6305   Note: the previous fixed values (10s, 1m, 10m) still appear in the menus
6306   and tooltips. I'll fix it soon.
6307 * Mouse left click and double click functions can be configured
6308   in Preferences->GUI.
6309   Note: the left click function is executed too when double clicking. I'll
6310   try to fix it, for now I recommend to use one of the two mouse functions,
6311   not both.
6312 * The initial volume can be configured in Preferences->GUI.
6313
6314[b]Version 0.3.2[/b]
6315 * Added the Polish translation.
6316 * Removed obsolete texts from all translations.
6317 * Added in preferences an option to select the maximum number of
6318   items that the "recent files" menu should have. And added too a
6319   button to clear the list.
6320 * Renamed the Misc section in preferences to GUI. And moved non GUI items that
6321   were in this section to others.
6322 * Added some icons in the preferences dialog.
6323 * Changed some icons.
6324
6325[b]Version 0.3.1[/b]
6326 * Updated the German, Italian, Russian and Hungarian translations.
6327 * Added some contributed files to the contrib subdirectory.
6328 * Added the uninstall section in the Makefile.
6329 * Added a smplayer_en_US.ts. Currently it's empty. Can be used to
6330   correct the english text, and also can be used to start a translation
6331   to other language.
6332
6333[b]Version 0.3.0[/b]
6334 This release has only one small fix, but I change the version number to
6335 0.3.0. I think it's time.
6336 * The code in mplayerprocess for Windows wasn't used. Now it should be fixed.
6337 * Updated the German translation.
6338 * Updated the instructions to compile smplayer in README.txt.
6339
6340[b]Version 0.2.44[/b]
6341 * Added the Hungarian translation.
6342 * Some changes in mplayerprocess.cpp, to make it a little faster.
6343 * A new interesting feature has been added: remember, smplayer install
6344   a server to listen a port (8000 by default) initially to communicate to
6345   other instances. But now that server will understand some more commands.
6346   You can connect with it with "telnet localhost 8000" and type "help".
6347   For now you can pass any of the key functions. For instance the
6348   command "function pause", will pause the movie that smplayer is playing.
6349   "function fullscreen" will toggle fullscreen mode. You can get a list
6350   of all available functions with "list functions".
6351   This feature will allow other people to write small programs or scripts
6352   to control smplayer remotely (from another computer) or from a remote control.
6353
6354[b]Version 0.2.43[/b]
6355 * Not converting to local 8 bit encoding. It seems that Qt already does, so
6356   doing twice only cause trouble.
6357 * Using QString::fromLocal8Bit() instead of
6358   QTextCodec::codecForLocale()->toUnicode(). I think it's the same...
6359 * Updated the Russian translation.
6360 * If unchecked the option for remembering media settings, now the settings
6361   are not really saved to config file (previously they were saved but not
6362   loaded).
6363 * Activated by default for Windows, an alternative code in mplayerprocess
6364   which seems to be faster, and can fix some slow down problems.
6365
6366[b]Version 0.2.42[/b]
6367 * Updated the Chinese and Russian translations.
6368 * Convert filename, subtitle filename, and dvd device name to local 8 bit
6369   encoding before pass them to mplayer. I don't know if this will fix
6370   something or break something.
6371 * Some changes in mplayerprocess, trying to fix a problem in Windows, but
6372   unfortunately it's not fixed yet.
6373
6374[b]Version 0.2.41[/b]
6375 * Mouse left click and double click will work now only in the video window.
6376 * Modified the Makefile to make possible to compile with Qt 4 from the
6377   source root. ("make prep" will adapt the code for Qt 4 and "make"
6378   will compile it). You may need to change the QMAKE variable.
6379 * Write some experimental code intented to fix a problem in Windows.
6380   Not compiled by default.
6381
6382[b]Version 0.2.40[/b]
6383 * Updated the Slovak and German translations.
6384 * On Windows smplayer saves position and size of the main window to
6385   be restored after exiting from fullscreen mode.
6386 * Mouse left click and double click, configurable. For now only by editing
6387   the configuration file (look for left_click_function and
6388   double_click_function). Valid values are any of the key functions (the
6389   list of key functions appears at the beginning of the smplayer log).
6390   Example: left_click_function=PAUSE
6391   Currently there's a problem: double click executes also the left click
6392   function.
6393 * Changed the DVD and CD icons in preferences.
6394
6395[b]Version 0.2.39[/b]
6396 * Added the Russian translation.
6397 * Now the dvd and cdrom devices have no default. If the user tries to
6398   play a dvd before configure it, a message box will show requesting
6399   him to configure it. After that the preferences dialog will be
6400   shown, with the drive's tab selected.
6401 * By the way, I've added some icons to the drive's configuration.
6402
6403[b]Version 0.2.38[/b]
6404 * Added the Simplified-Chinese translation.
6405 * Removed some extra trailing spaces in some phrases.
6406 * Added copyright text to the new files.
6407
6408[b]Version 0.2.37[/b]
6409 * Updated Italian & German translations.
6410 * Added setActiveWindow() too besides raise();
6411 * Raised the time that smplayer waits to mplayer process to finished.
6412   Sometimes it's needed to call mplayer to get some info (available
6413   output drivers, codecs and so on). There's a problem about terminating
6414   that process: if we just wait until the process is finished there's
6415   the possibility that smplayer freezes if the mplayer process does.
6416   For that reason smplayer waits, but only some time. After that smplayer
6417   kills the mplayer process. That time was about 1 second, but sometimes
6418   (specially for the first run) mplayer takes more time. Now smplayer
6419   will wait as much 10 seconds.
6420
6421[b]Version 0.2.36[/b]
6422 * Improved the single instance stuff. Now it seems it works with Qt 4, too.
6423   Added a few commands to the server. So now you can talk to it using
6424   telnet.
6425 * Added some options in the preferences dialog. You can activate or disable
6426   the single instance feature, and set the port that the server will use.
6427   IMPORTANT: the single instance is disabled by default!
6428   Changes in any of these options require smplayer to be restarted.
6429 * Added the French translation. It's not complete yet.
6430
6431[b]Version 0.2.35[/b]
6432 * Started to write the single instance stuff. Now when smplayer starts
6433   it sets a server to listen to a port (by default 8000). When a new
6434   instance is run it tries to connect to that port. If it has success it
6435   tries to verify that it's really smplayer behind that port. After that it
6436   sends to the first instance the file that the user wants to open (if any)
6437   and closes. The first instance opens the video.
6438   You can change the default port in the configuration file (look for
6439   connection_port). Sorry I didn't have time to add an option in the
6440   preferences dialog.
6441   This works in Qt 3 but fails in Qt 4. I don't know why, by an unknown
6442   reason the server in the first instance doesn't receive the open
6443   command that the client in the 2nd instance sends.
6444   It's too late, I'lltry to fix it tomorrow. By the way, this is the first
6445   time I write code relative to sockets, ports, servers, clients... so someone
6446   more experienced is welcome to take a look to the code and to try to fix it.
6447
6448[b]Version 0.2.34[/b]
6449 * Internal changes: moved Images and Keys to global.
6450 * Key shortcuts are loaded from config file. That means the now it's possible
6451   to change key shortcuts.
6452 * Preferences are saved when user press Ok or Apply in the preferences dialog.
6453 * Moved the "Include subtitles on screenshots" from General to Subtitles tab.
6454 * Fixed a bug with -cache and fast dvd chapter switch. The cache was disabled
6455   even if not playing a dvd.
6456
6457[b]Version 0.2.33[/b]
6458 * Made settings a global object. A lot of internal changes, something
6459   could have broken.
6460
6461[b]Version 0.2.32[/b]
6462 * Fixed a little bug in playlist.
6463 * No flickering at all in the video when opening menus in Windows.
6464 * Rewritten keys.h, keys.cpp. Key shortcuts are saved.
6465
6466[b]Version 0.2.31[/b]
6467 * Added the Italian translation made by Giancarlo Scola.
6468 * Now drag&drop urls works with Firefox, if compiled with Qt 3.
6469   It already worked with Qt 4!
6470   As a secondary effect now plain text can be dropped into smplayer (Qt 3 only).
6471 * New option: Options->Show frame counter. If checked the current frame
6472   will be displayed in the status bar. Don't work properly with some formats.
6473
6474[b]Version 0.2.30[/b]
6475 * Ok, I've just found out how to disable double buffering in a widget.
6476   So the blinking problem with Qt is definitely fixed now (I hope).
6477
6478[b]Version 0.2.29[/b]
6479 * In linux, using Qt 4, the video window has an annoying blink every time a
6480   menu is open. As a quick fix I'm disabling double buffering. That fixes
6481   that problem, but now some widgets may be displayed not completely drawn.
6482 * Updated the German translation.
6483
6484[b]Version 0.2.28[/b]
6485 * Now you can drag&drop urls from a web browser. You can test it dragging
6486   the urls on this page: http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/streams.html
6487 * Added the option "include subtitles on screenshots" in Preferences. If
6488   checked subtitles will appear on screenshots taken with the option
6489   Video->Screenshot. Otherwise subtitles won't appear on screenshots.
6490
6491[b]Version 0.2.27[/b]
6492 * Fixed a problem with the "frame step" option. Sometimes instead of one
6493   frame it could advance 2 (or more?) frames.
6494 * Added the option Open->Playlist (it was already possible to open a playlist
6495   from the Open->File, but well, this way will be easier). A dialog will
6496   allow you to open a m3u or m3u8 playlist. The playlist will be loaded and
6497   will start to play, but the playlist window won't be opened (not because
6498   I wanted that way, just because it was easier...)
6499 * In fullscreen mode, when you drag the time slider, the "jump to..." message
6500   will be displayed in the OSD.
6501
6502[b]Version 0.2.26[/b]
6503 * Fixed some problems with the new fullscreen mode, so now it's the default.
6504   Please test it!
6505 * Added an option who people with wide screens can find useful:
6506   16:9 letterbox. If you play for instance a 2.35:1 movie, this option
6507   will add black borders to fit 16:9. The interesting thing is that subtitles
6508   will appear in the bottom border.
6509
6510[b]Version 0.2.25[/b]
6511 * Made the "experimental fullscreen mode" the default one and delete the
6512   the old code.
6513 * Written a new experimental fullscreen mode ;)
6514   To test it you have to edit the file config.h and change the
6515   FULLSCREEN_WITH_MAINWINDOW 0
6516   to
6517   FULLSCREEN_WITH_MAINWINDOW 1
6518   and recompile.
6519   With this option, the fullscreen mode will be made through the main window
6520   (hiding the menu bar, control widget and status bar)
6521   In this mode if you move the mouse near the bottom of the screen
6522   the control widget will be shown, and if you move it near the top
6523   the menu bar will appear.
6524   Problem: I couldn't hide everything, two grey lines appear, one on
6525   the top, the other on the bottom... that's why this option is set
6526   to 0 by default.
6527   I hope I can fix it in the future...
6528
6529[b]Version 0.2.24[/b]
6530 * Added the Slovak translation by Peter Mendel.
6531 * Hopefully fixed a compilation error in Qt 4 under linux.
6532 * The playlist broke in one of the recent changes: items didn't
6533   start to play from the beginning. Fixed.
6534 * Now if the shuffle button is ON in the playlist, playing will always
6535   start from a random item (not the first).
6536 * Parse the ID_SUBTITLE_ID tag.
6537 * Try to call initializeMenus() and updateWidgets() only when needed.
6538   initializeMenus() seems to be causing problems (crashes) in Qt 4 if
6539   it modifies the same menu we've just used. Now initializeMenus() is called
6540   only once the video has started to play, not before.
6541   I hope not, but this change may have broken something. Testing needed.
6542   initializeMenus() is responsible of creating the audio, subtitle, dvd title
6543   and chapter switching menus. updateWidgets() is responsible of updating
6544   the widgets (like setting the mute button on/off), but also of keeping
6545   the menus updated (setting the check mark on activated options).
6546
6547[b]Version 0.2.23[/b]
6548 * I've realized that the latest mplayer builds for Windows don't play a dvd
6549   if the dvd-device ends with "/" (-dvd-device E:/ will fail). The same
6550   happens with folders (C:/Videos/My DVD/ will fail, C:/Videos/My DVD
6551   will work). So now smplayer removes those trailing "/".
6552
6553[b]Version 0.2.22[/b]
6554 * Improved support for playing dvds from folders. In order to properly
6555   identify these dvd folders, I invented a protocol. In mplayer you
6556   should use something like this: mplayer dvd://1. That would play
6557   the first title of the dvd. You can use that too with smplayer:
6558   smplayer dvd://1. But now you can add after it a folder, this way:
6559   smplayer dvd://1:/tmp/movies/dvd5 (where dvd5 is a directory
6560   which contains at least video_ts).
6561   smplayer dvd://2:/tmp/movies/dvd5 will play title 2.
6562   You can pass the directory only (forgeting the dvd://number)
6563   smplayer /tmp/movies/dvd5
6564 * Open->Directory will autodetect if the selected directory contains
6565   a ripped dvd (currently it only checks if it contains a video_ts) and
6566   in that case will play the dvd instead of adding the individual files
6567   to the playlist.
6568 * Drag&drop also works. You can drag a folder to the main window.
6569   If it contains a dvd it will play it, otherwise the files
6570   of the directory will be added to the playlist.
6571 * Accidentally you can also drag a folder containing a dvd to the
6572   playlist and it will work.
6573
6574[b]Version 0.2.21[/b]
6575 * Playing a DVD from a folder: make things even clearer. Removed
6576   the stuff in preferences and added "Open->DVD from folder". It'll ask
6577   you for a directory where video_ts and audio_ts should be (it seems that
6578   it also work if you select the directory with the *.vob and *.ifo files).
6579   So now "Open->DVD" will only play real DVDs in your dvd drive.
6580 * Added a Open->Directory option. It will add the files in the chosen
6581   directory (not recursively) to the playlist (after clearing it) and start
6582   playing the first item. To fix: it will start playing always the first item
6583   even if the shuffle button in the playlist is on.
6584
6585[b]Version 0.2.20[/b]
6586 * Fixes a silly bug with -brightness 0. I changed -contrast 0 instead of
6587   brightness...
6588 * Now subtitles appear on screenshots.
6589 * It has always been possible to play ripped dvds from hard disc,
6590   but for making things clearer, I've added in the preferences dialog
6591   some options to select a directory from hard disc which should
6592   contain the video_ts (and audio_ts).
6593
6594[b]Version 0.2.19[/b]
6595 * The brightness issue in mplayer (windows) is giving me a headache.
6596   Remember: the image is brighter than it should in windows (directx)
6597   with -brightness 0. As a work-around I set the soft video equalizer
6598   as default, but that conflicts with others video output drivers as
6599   gl or directx:noaccel.
6600   So going back. The soft video equalizer is not the default, and to
6601   prevent the bright image -brightness 0 will not be used in Windows.
6602 * Added a new option in preferences: fast audio track switching. This is
6603   the default. If unchecked, audio track switching will restart mplayer,
6604   which is a little bit slow, but that should make possible to switch audio
6605   tracks in containers apart from avi, mpeg and mkv.
6606
6607[b]Version 0.2.18[/b]
6608 * Reordered the recent files stuff. I hope this fixed the crash problem
6609   with Qt 4.
6610 * Now the default encoding for subtitles is ISO-8859-1 instead of latin1
6611   (it's the same encoding, just a name change, so it can be found in
6612   the new encoding list).
6613 * Renamed the videoequalizer2 to videoequalizer.
6614 * The inforeader won't wait the mplayer process to finish for ever. It'll
6615   wait for some seconds and if the mplayer process is not finished then
6616   it will kill it. This way if the mplayer process for some reason hangs,
6617   smplayer won't do the same.
6618 * Disable software video equalizer (-vf eq2) when using gl or gl2 as
6619   video output driver, as they seem to be incompatible.
6620 * The file passed through the command line is now send to the new open
6621   function with autodetection of media type. That means that you can
6622   pass a local file, a dvd (in the form of dvd://1, dvd://2...), a
6623   playlist (*.m3u or *.m3u8), or stream.
6624
6625[b]Version 0.2.17[/b]
6626 * Added a stereo mode menu, where you can select: stereo, left channel or
6627   right channel. According to mplayer manpage this seems to be only for
6628   MP2/MP3.
6629 * At last added a "recent files" menu. Currently it shows the 10 recent
6630   files opened.
6631
6632[b]Version 0.2.16[/b]
6633 * It seems that the new way of changing dvd chapters doesn't work well
6634   in Windows, so now it's disabled by default but you can activate it
6635   in the preferences dialog.
6636 * The shift key is now ignored, and can't be used as modifier for key
6637   shortcuts.
6638 * Added in the preferences dialog a combobox to select the encoding
6639   of the subtitles.
6640
6641[b]Version 0.2.15[/b]
6642 * Added in the preferences dialog an option to autosync audio/video.
6643   This is what the manpage of mplayer says about it:
6644       -autosync <factor>
6645              Gradually adjusts the A/V sync based  on  audio  delay  measure-
6646              ments.   Specifying  -autosync  0, the default, will cause frame
6647              timing to be based entirely on audio delay measurements.  Speci-
6648              fying  -autosync  1 will do the same, but will subtly change the
6649              A/V correction algorithm.  An uneven video framerate in a  movie
6650              which  plays  fine  with -nosound can often be helped by setting
6651              this to an integer value greater than 1.  The higher the  value,
6652              the  closer the timing will be to -nosound.  Try -autosync 30 to
6653              smooth out problems with sound drivers which do not implement  a
6654              perfect  audio delay measurement.  With this value, if large A/V
6655              sync offsets occur, they will only take about 1 or 2 seconds  to
6656              settle  out.   This delay in reaction time to sudden A/V offsets
6657              should be the only side-effect of turning this  option  on,  for
6658              all sound drivers.
6659 * Now the info window updates in realtime. And the filename will be
6660   displayed in smplayer window title.
6661 * New functions: prev and next chapter (keys ! and @) It should work with
6662   dvd chapters and matroshka chapters.
6663 * Now selecting a dvd chapter is much much faster (now mplayer is not
6664   restarted).
6665   Note: this new method doesn't work at least with the version of mplayer
6666   I'm using (dev-SVN-r21937) if -cache is used in the command line.
6667   If it happens to you too, the work-around is to set the cache to 0
6668   in the preferences dialog.
6669
6670[b]Version 0.2.14[/b]
6671 * On Windows the option to use the software video equalizer will be
6672   check by default (when running for first time), as a work-around
6673   for the bright image problem.
6674 * As suggested by Amnon82 in the forum, added a menu for selecting
6675   the number of audio channels (mplayer will try to used the specified
6676   number of channels, but it will depend on the media). Options are:
6677     default (the -channels options will not be passed to mplayer)
6678     stereo (2 channels)
6679     4.0 Surround (4 channels)
6680     5.1 Surround (6 channels)
6681 * Added a debugging message identifying the OS on which it's running
6682   (currently only linux and windows), the version of smplayer and
6683   the version of Qt.
6684
6685[b]Version 0.2.13[/b]
6686 * Fixed a crash when trying to open a file being created by mencoder.
6687 * Catch the "Generating Index" message from mplayer and display it in
6688   status bar.
6689 * The key shortcuts work in compact mode.
6690 * Disabled fullscreen mode when another window (playlist, preferences...) is
6691   open.
6692 * Added the Options submenu to the popup menu (right click menu).
6693 * Added key shortcuts for cycling through audio and subtitle tracks:
6694   audio assigned to key j. subtitle assigned temporary to h.
6695
6696[b]Version 0.2.12[/b]
6697 * Using showFullScreen() instead of a normal show() for fullscreen.
6698 * Compact mode hides the menu bar too. And moved the option from
6699   the Options menu to the Video menu. Added a key shortcut: Ctrl-C.
6700   TODO: now it seems that other key shortcuts (like Ctrl-F to open a file)
6701   don't work in this mode, at least with Qt 3.
6702
6703[b]Version 0.2.11[/b]
6704 * Some fixes in the new code for fullscreen. Now (at least in Windows)
6705   changing to fullscreen mode should be very smooth (no blinks).
6706 * New info window (Options->View info).
6707
6708[b]Version 0.2.10[/b]
6709 * New fullscreen mode. Using now a widget which has a parent instead of
6710   of a widget with no parent.
6711 * Added a "compact mode". In this mode, the status bar and the control
6712   widget are hidden.
6713 * Added a config.h where you can change some defines which modifies the
6714   behavior of some things. For instance, "DOCK_PLAYLIST 1" makes the
6715   playlist to be embedded in the main window.
6716
6717[b]Version 0.2.9[/b]
6718 * Just a very small change: when going to fullscreen mode, the function
6719   Gui::toggleFullscreen was called twice (I think it's because button->setOn
6720   emits a signal). Now it's still called twice but now the function checks
6721   if there's really something to do.
6722
6723[b]Version 0.2.8[/b]
6724 * Hopefully fixed two ancient bugs in Windows: the mplayer log with
6725   blank lines and in some menus the accel letter didn't show underlined.
6726 * Added accels for all options in the menus. Unfortunately this change
6727   breaks the translations of the menus.
6728
6729[b]Version 0.2.7[/b]
6730 * Fixed a bug in Windows. In the playlist, the symbol "/" was
6731   replaced with "\" in internet streams (mms:\\.... instead of
6732   (mms://...), avoiding them to play.
6733
6734[b]Version 0.2.6[/b]
6735 * Added the postprocessing filter (-vf pp) with autoq. The autoq value
6736   can be changed in Preferences->Performance. By default: 6 (the highest).
6737   The postprocessing filter can be selected in Video->Filters->Postprocessing.
6738   This filter may "improve" the video quality.
6739
6740[b]Version 0.2.5[/b]
6741 * The new equalizer was broken in Qt 4. I hope I fixed it.
6742 * Now when saving a playlist, if you typed a name without extension
6743   smplayer will add it for you (.m3u).
6744 * Updated the German translation.
6745
6746[b]Version 0.2.4[/b]
6747 * Replaced the video equalizer with a better looking one.
6748
6749[b]Version 0.2.3[/b]
6750 * Load m3u8 files from Open->File (and from command line).
6751 * Convert strings from mplayer output to unicode from system locale.
6752   That should allow smplayer to read properly non latin1 text in
6753   mplayer output.
6754 * Replaced in code all qDebug(...latin1()) with qDebug(...utf8().data()).
6755   This way non latin1 characters shouldn't be lost in logs.
6756 * Now playlist tries to use relative paths when saving the playlist.
6757
6758[b]Version 0.2.2[/b]
6759 * When loading a playlist, comments (lines starting with #) are ignored.
6760 * Now smplayer can load and save m3u8 files (same as m3u but in UTF-8).
6761 * Rewritten the "remove selected items" code in playlist.
6762 * Replaced all float's with double's. I hope this hasn't broken anything...
6763
6764[b]Version 0.2.1[/b]
6765 * Convert strings from system locale to unicode, in arguments passed
6766   from command line and when reading (and saving) m3u files.
6767
6768[b]Version 0.2.0[/b]
6769 * Now when you add a file or files to the playlist, only the
6770   filename appears, not the whole path.
6771 * Added a shortcut for playlist: Ctrl-L
6772 * Added shortcuts for previous and next in playlist: < and >
6773 * Updated the German translation.
6774
6775[b]Version 0.1.20[/b]
6776 * Now if the directory for screenshots is empty, the option
6777   -vf-add screenshot will not be passed to mplayer. This lets smplayer
6778   to work with old versions of mplayer which don't have that filter.
6779 * More improvements in the playlist: added a play button (will play
6780   the selected item). Added a popup menu (right click), with 3 options:
6781   play, remove selected and edit. The last option lets you edit the
6782   name that will be shown in the playlist for the selected file.
6783   With this, I think the playlist is almost finished.
6784
6785[b]Version 0.1.19[/b]
6786 * In playlist, the Add->Files and Add->Directory update the last directory
6787   used for playlist.
6788 * Added some icons in Preferences dialog.
6789 * Added icons for playlist's repeat & shuffle buttons (they are ugly:
6790   I did them myself...)
6791 * Added two new buttons in playlist: up and down. You can use them
6792   to move items up and down in the list.
6793
6794[b]Version 0.1.18[/b]
6795 * Now the shuffle option in playlist should work.
6796 * The playlist saves the state of the repeat & shuffle buttons and
6797   also the size of the window.
6798
6799[b]Version 0.1.17[/b]
6800 * Some fixes in the video equalizer.
6801 * Now Open->URL remembers the last url.
6802 * Playlist remembers the last directory used.
6803 * Some fixes in the spec file.
6804
6805[b]Version 0.1.16[/b]
6806 * Added a video equalizer.
6807
6808[b]Version 0.1.15[/b]
6809 * If "main window resize method" was "never" and you played an audio file
6810   and the a video file, the video window didn't show. Fixed.
6811 * Some other small fixes.
6812
6813[b]Version 0.1.14[/b]
6814 * Now the minimum step in sub delay and audio delay is 100 ms (not 200).
6815 * Now streams can be passed through the command line.
6816 * Fixed a crash when duration of a file was less than 0.
6817
6818[b]Version 0.1.13[/b]
6819 * Playlist accepts drops. Dropped files will be added to the playlist.
6820 * Added two button to the playlist: repeat and shuffle. Repeat works,
6821   shuffle not yet.
6822 * Now the subtitle menu (for *.srt, *.sub...) shows the name of the files
6823   (was in 0.1.12 but I forgot to mention).
6824 * Small changes and fixes.
6825 * Updated the German translation.
6826
6827[b]Version 0.1.12[/b]
6828 * Added a reset button in demuxer / video & audio codec selection. Clicking
6829   that button will select the original option. Useful if you don't
6830   remember which one was it.
6831 * Changes in fullscreen mode. Now fullscreen is a global setting.
6832   This allows to view all videos in the playlist in fullscreen mode,
6833   without switching to window mode everytime a video finished.
6834 * Also added in the preferences a new option: "Start videos in fullscreen".
6835   If checked all videos you open will be played in fullscreen.
6836
6837[b]Version 0.1.11[/b]
6838 * Added a new dialog for configuring advanced settings for the current
6839   file. You may type additional options to be passed to mplayer (and
6840   also video and audio filters). This options are only for the current
6841   file, and they will be saved among the rest of the file settings.
6842   That way you could for example, add a crop filter and that filter
6843   will be used everytime you load that file.
6844   There's also the possibility of choosing the demuxer, video codec and
6845   audio codec. Most of the time you won't need them, but in the case
6846   one file gives you some trouble with the video or audio maybe you can
6847   fix it by selecting another codec.
6848
6849[b]Version 0.1.9[/b]
6850 * Now you can load idx/sub subtitles. Select the *.idx in the open
6851   subtitle dialog.
6852 * Updated the German translation.
6853
6854[b]Version 0.1.8[/b]
6855 * Now the main window accepts drags. So you can drag a video and it will
6856   be played. If dragged more than a file, all of them will be added to
6857   the playlist (the playlist is cleared first).
6858
6859[b]Version 0.1.7[/b]
6860 * Well, it was hard to know why the mplayer process had finished
6861   (end of file, stopped by user, stopped by the program). Fool of me,
6862   mplayer says in its output. So now I catch the "Exiting... (end of file)"
6863   message, so I really hope that the problems that this was giving me
6864   have fixed for ever.
6865 * Added support for matroska chapters. In order to work the file MUST
6866   have the extension *.mkv.
6867 * Not allow to add repeated files in playlist.
6868 * Changes in Makefile: now "make install" works.
6869 * Created a spec file.
6870
6871[b]Version 0.1.6[/b]
6872 * Fixed a bug that produced a segmentation fault on startup.
6873 * Windows/Qt 4: when I file finished playing, playlist wasn't noticed,so
6874   next file didn't start to play. Fixed (I hope...)
6875 * Added support for monitor aspect correction.
6876
6877[b]Version 0.1.5[/b]
6878 * More improvements in the playlist. Added some icons among other things.
6879 * Added 3 new buttons in the main window: playlist, previous and next.
6880 * Updated the German translation.
6881 * Updated the Spanish translation.
6882
6883[b]Version 0.1.4[/b]
6884 * Now you can pass a m3u file from the command line.
6885 * Playlist: Added options to add files or a whole directory (it will add
6886   everything that's there, even non playable files!
6887   Added options to remove the selected items or to clear the whole list.
6888
6889[b]Version 0.1.3[/b]
6890 * Added the German translation (by Henrikx)
6891 * Some fixes in the playlist
6892
6893[b]Version 0.1.2[/b]
6894 * Open->File, if you open a m3u it will passed to the playlist.
6895 * Now smplayer gets more info about the files (title, artist, album...).
6896   This is displayed in Options->View info but it's also used for the
6897   playlist.
6898 * Now it's possible to add and remove items in the playlist. The add
6899   button adds the current file loaded by smplayer. The remove button
6900   removes the selected items.
6901 * Added an indicator for the file which is playing (currently the
6902   indicator is very simple "->", in the future will be an icon).
6903
6904[b]Version 0.1.1[/b]
6905 * Changed the version scheme.
6906 * At last I have learnt how to pass defines to the Makefile created by qmake.
6907 * Changed the way of getting icons (images.h / images.cpp)
6908
6909[b]Version 0.1-070208.13[/b]
6910 * Added to the config file the option initial_volume, which will be
6911the initial volume when smplayer starts.
6912
6913[b]Version 0.1-070208.12[/b]
6914 * Now when a new file is loaded the volume is not changed.
6915 * Save in playlist works (although it's a little bit useless, there
6916   are not options to add files to the playlist)
6917
6918[b]Version 0.1-20070208-2[/b]
6919 * Rewrite the playlist using a QTable instead of a QListView.
6920 * For proper installation in linux, the following defines will be
6921   taken into account:
6922   DATA_PATH must be set to the directory where the data files (currently
6923   only input.conf) are installed.
6924   TRANSLATION_PATH must be set to the directory where translations (*.qm) are
6925   installed.
6926   DOC_PATH must be set to the directory where the documentation is installed
6927   (currently there are no documentation)
6928   What I don't know yet is how to pass those defines to the Makefile.
6929
6930[b]Version 070207-12[/b]
6931 * Started the playlist. Currently is very limited. You can load
6932a m3u file and it will be played (it must cointain absolute paths).
6933Double click on a item plays that file. Streams are also supported.
6934
6935[b]Version 070206-2[/b]
6936 * Reduced a little bit the size of button's icons.
6937 * New action "PLAY_PAUSE" set to MediaPlay key.
6938
6939[b]Version 070204-12[/b]
6940 * Fixed a funny bug. Sometimes when a video is about to finish, it started
6941   to play again from the beginning.
6942 * Put the basis for configurable key shortcuts.
6943 * Added some key shortcuts: Alt+1 & Alt+2 change gamma.
6944   Ctrl+F = Open->File, Ctrl+U = Open->URL, Ctrl+X = Open->Exit.
6945   Ctrl+I = Options->View Info, Ctrl+P = Options->Preferences.
6946 * Added support for multimedia keys:
6947   MediaPlay = Pause (and resume Play)
6948   MediaStop = Stop
6949   MediaNext = +10 secs
6950   MediaPrev = -10 secs
6951   But I don't have a multimedia keyboard, so this is untested...
6952
6953[b]Version 070202-2[/b]
6954 * Some changes in the preferences dialog.
6955 * Added an option to select the Qt style to use.
6956
6957[b]Version 070201-2[/b]
6958 * Added an option to select your CDROM drive. This setting is currently
6959not used for anything, but in the future it will used for playing VCDs.
6960 * One of the main feature of smplayer is the ability to remember the
6961settings (audio track, subtitles, filters selected...) of every file
6962smplayer has opened. Now I have added two options to disable it. One of them
6963will disable it completely, smplayer will remember nothing. The other
6964just will make smplayer to not remember the time pos, so every file
6965will start playing always from the beginning.
6966
6967[b]Version 070131-11[/b]
6968 * Added a new page in the preferences dialog: Performance, with the
6969following options:
6970  - Priority (only for windows)
6971  - Allow frame drop (-framedrop)
6972  - Allow hard frame drop (-hardframedrop)
6973
6974[b]Version 070131-2[/b]
6975As expected the ASS color buttons didn't change color in Windows (or Qt 4).
6976I think now this is fixed.
6977
6978[b]Version 070130-2[/b]
6979 * Now you can change the color of the SSA/ASS subtitles.
6980
6981[b]Version 070129-3[/b]
6982Arrggg, I've just realized that the volume wasn't remembered. Fixed, I hope.
6983
6984[b]Version 070129-2[/b]
6985 * Volume and mute: changing the volume unmutes.
6986 * Now the time slider should work much better. It should work either
6987   dragging it or clicking in any part of the bar. Furthermore now
6988   while dragging it, it displays the time you would go.
6989
6990[b]Version 070128-11[/b]
6991 * Added two new options to the preferences dialog:
6992   - Use software video equalizer (-vf-add eq2)
6993   - Use software volume control (-softvol)
6994 * Now the status bar shows the total time too.
6995 * More or less fixed a conflict with mute and setting the volume.
6996
6997[b]Version 070128-2[/b]
6998 * Fixed a bug with the screenshot feature.
6999 * Now the video window hides if there's no video (audio only file or
7000   using the mplayer window).
7001
7002[b]Version 070127-11[/b]
7003 * Double click on the video window toggles fullscreen.
7004 * Added an option to take screenshots. You must set first a directory
7005 for saving these screenshots, in the preferences dialog.
7006
7007[b]Version 070127-2[/b]
7008 * Added two new options to the "Aspect ratio" sub-menu:
7009    - 5:4
7010    - 16:10
7011 * New log window, with buttons to save the log to a file or copy the
7012 text to the clipboard.
7013 * Some fixes in the time slider.
7014
7015[b]Version 070125-11[/b]
7016
7017 * Added two new video filters:
7018 - Dering
7019 - Add noise (which adds a little bit of noise to the image)
7020
7021[b]Version 070125-2[/b]
7022* Added some video filters:
7023 - denoise (normal) = hqdn3d
7024 - denoise (soft) = hqdn3d=2:1:2 (I find the default hqdn3d too strong)
7025- deblock = pp=vb/hb
7026
7027[b]Version 070124-11[/b]
7028* Now you can scroll through the video by using the mouse wheel. By
7029default every wheel event will advance +30 or -30 seconds. This value
7030can be change in the preferences dialog. Setting to 0 disables this
7031feature.
7032
7033[b]Version 070124-2[/b]
7034* Added 3 new options to the preferences dialog:
7035
7036- disable screensaver
7037- resize method
7038- mplayer cache
7039
7040Now I think all options in the config file can be set through the
7041preferences dialog.
7042
7043[b]Version 070123[/b]
7044* Some changes in the preferences dialog:
7045
7046- Now a combobox allows you to select your CD/DVD device. In linux some
7047usual names are used (/dev/dvd, /dvd/cdrom, etc.). In windows it should
7048display the drive's letters (C: D: etc) but I haven't tested yet.
7049
7050- Now the user can choose the video and audio drivers from a list (shows
7051all available drivers in your mplayer).
7052
7053[img]http://www.uploadfile.info/uploads/64e14ba167.jpg[/img]
7054
7055[b]Version 070122-11[/b]
7056* Found an easier way to change the background color in Qt 4. The
7057visible change is that now the background in statusbar will be black as
7058in Qt 3.
7059* When clicked with the mouse right button to pop up the context menu,
7060the main window stopped receiving keyboard events. I hope this is fix
7061now.
7062* Changed some icons.
7063
7064[b]Version 070122-2[/b]
7065* Now the screensaver in windows is disabled during playback (the
7066screensaver is disabled in x11 too since some versions ago).
7067* Now the mouse cursor disappears over the video window if it's not
7068moved for some seconds, and appears again when it's moved.
7069
7070[b]Version 070121-11[/b]
7071* The option autoload_sub=false didn't work. Fixed (I hope).
7072* Added more options to the preferences dialog. It's a little bit ugly
7073but all options should work.
7074
7075[b]Version 070121-2[/b]
7076* Started to write the preferences dialog. There's a lot of work to do,
7077but the options that appears in it should work.
7078
7079The subtitles' page is almost complete!
7080
7081[img]http://www.uploadfile.info/uploads/f57fc459d3.jpg[/img]
7082
7083[b]Version 070119-2[/b]
7084* Well, I removed that horrible logo I made the other day and now I used
7085some icons from
7086[url=http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=31585]Vista-Inspirate[/url].
7087* Some new options for the [preferences] section in config file:
7088
7089[b]resize_method=(int)[/b]
7090
7091This options controls the way the main window should resize. The possible values are:
7092
70930 : the main window never resizes. The user is the only one allowed to
7094resize the window.
70951 : the main window resizes every time it's needed (this is the
7096default).
70972 : the main window resizes only after loading a new video, but not
7098after restarting mplayer. That means that if the user resizes the
7099window, the new size will be respected (until a new video is loaded).
7100
7101
7102[b]mplayer_additional_options=(string)[/b]
7103
7104Here you can pass other options to mplayer. The options should be
7105separated by spaces. If a option requires a filename, this should NOT
7106contain spaces.
7107
7108Example:
7109mplayer_additional_options=-flip -softvol
7110
7111Be carefully, some options could interfere with the ones smplayer uses.
7112
7113[b]mplayer_additional_video_filters=(string][/b]
7114
7115Here you can add additional video filters. They should be separated by
7116",". Don't use spaces!
7117
7118Example:
7119mplayer_additional_video_filters=hqdn3d,pp=vb/hb
7120
7121
7122[b]mplayer_additional_audio_filters=(string][/b]
7123
7124The same but for audio.
7125Example:
7126
7127mplayer_additional_audio_filters=volnorm,equalizer=11:11:10:5:0:-12:0:5:12:12
7128
7129* I also made a (incompatible) change in the way the file preferences
7130are stored in the config file. That means that this version won't
7131remember your previous file settings.
7132
7133[b]Version 070117-12[/b]
7134
7135* Well, I think the only visible change is the option Options->View
7136info, which shows some info about the current video.
7137* There are some changes in the configuration file (~/.qt/smplayerrc):
7138
7139vo=(string)
7140
7141vo is the video output driver. It already existed before. But now I
7142change the default value. Previously the default value was "directx" for
7143windows, "xv" for the rest.
7144
7145Now there is no default. If vo is empty, smplayer would get the info
7146from mplayer, and will save it in the config file.
7147That (theorically) would allow smplayer to run in other OS where maybe
7148"xv" doesn't even exist.
7149
7150Added the option
7151ao=(string)
7152
7153audio output driver, with the same behavior of vo.
7154
7155And finally, added the option subcp, which allows to select the font
7156encoding for subtitles.
7157
7158[b]Version 070117-2[/b]
7159* Fixed a bug when parsing the A: V: line. Big big numbers weren't read
7160correctly.
7161* Added some options for the configuration file:
7162
7163font_autoscale= (int)
7164font_textscale= (int)
7165
7166use_fontconfig= (bool)
7167font_name= (string)
7168font_file= (string)
7169
7170font_autoscale and font_textscale are the equivalents to
7171-subfont-autoscale and -subfont-text-scale in mplayer.
7172
7173If use_fontconfig is true then the font used for subtitles will be
7174font_name. Example:
7175
7176use_fontconfig=true
7177font_name=Utopia
7178
7179In the case use_fontconfig is false, then it will try to use font_file
7180(which has to be a full path to a ttf font). Example:
7181
7182use_fontconfig=false
7183font_file=/home/ricardo/.fonts/comicbd.ttf
7184
7185So now you can get something like this:
7186[img]http://www.uploadfile.info/uploads/c2e06dd51a.jpg[/img]
7187
7188Of course, all of this will be easier when I write the preferences
7189dialog.
7190
7191[b]Version 070116-2[/b]
7192* Added options for changing playback speed.
7193
7194[b]Version 070115-1[/b]
7195* Just a very small fix with the mute option. It wasn't been remebered
7196between mplayer resets and audio track switches.
7197
7198[b]Version 070114-2[/b]
7199* Fixed (I hope) a bug relative to subtitles. smplayer didn't remember
7200that you had selected the "none" subtitle and always loaded the first
7201available subtitle. Now, when you load a video for first time it will
7202load the first available subtitle but if you change to "none" it should
7203remember the next time you open the same video.
7204
7205* Added and option to select angle in DVDs. Unfortunately I don't have a
7206multiangle dvd, so this option is untested. Can anyone tell me if it
7207really works?
7208
7209* For audio, chapter, title and angle menus: added an <empty> item if
7210the menu is empty.
7211
7212* Added a button to mute. And two nice icons borrowed from kplayer...
7213
7214[img]http://www.uploadfile.info/uploads/ac23679650.jpg[/img]
7215