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@@ -1,5 +1,72 @@ New features and significant updates in version... +2.17.5 +* Make GStreamer the default media backend +* Implement icy:// playback +* Browser plugin: + - New D-Bus-based architecture + - Test suite (unpackaged) + - Support audio/x-mpegurl and audio/mpeg in the GMP plugin + - Support image/gif, image/jpeg and application/x-quicktime-media-link + in the QuickTime plugin + - Use Gecko API to determine whether a protocol is support + - Fix "hidden" parameter used without a value + - Support Mozilla 1.7.x + - Launch the external movie player with startup notification + - Use QuickTime's real name in the NarrowSpace plugin + - Fix crashes and memory eating when the reserved space is smaller + than the minimum possible size of the plugin + - Add support for "audio only" outputs + - Show an error image when a file isn't readable/available + - Don't allow remote web pages to reference local files + - Use visualisation if there's a video canvas, and playing an audio only file + - Only use accelerated video for the main movie when loading small "QuickTime" + redirect movies from apple.com + - Only show errors after having parsed a playlist if the parsing failed, show + the totem logo if the playlist was empty +* Playlist parser: + - Use less memory when checking whether a file can be parsed as a playlist + - Support "Google Video Pointer" playlists + - Add support for the BASE element in ASX playlists + - Don't crash when there's no URL in an XSPF entry + - Don't crash trying to playback CD/DVDs on non-glibc systems + - Handle ":" and "," as field separators in m3u files + - Support .pls files without a "NumberOfEntries" line + - Handle .img files that really are ISO images +* Movie player: + - Support optional automatic/easy codec installation + - Make the sidebar's Close button work as expected + - Disable the drive's menu entry if there's no medium inside it + - Fix restoring the session + - Don't poll for volume when not playing anything + - Add video/flv as a supported video type + - Show .cue and .iso files in the "Open" dialogue + - Remember where the "Open" dialogues were opened + - Make gnome-screensaver support work again + - Make double-click on the video canvas toggle fullscreen, and middle- + click play/pause + - Disable the zoom menu entries when the logo mode is on + - Only disable the screensaver if we manage to play the movie + - Make keyboard work on the Image Settings sliders + - Remember the URLs opened in the "Open Location" dialogue + - Automatically add the clipboard content to the "Open Location" + dialogue if there was a URL + - Add a "Clear Playlist" menu item +* Volume button: + - Don't stop working when "Esc" is pressed to dismiss the popup + - Add a tooltip with the volume percentage +* GStreamer: + - Use the soundcard set in the GNOME sound preferences to playback sound + - Respect widescreen output for visualisations + - Don't show errors if we can't create an audio output, simply disable sound + - Don't change the global speaker setup values when running in metadata + or capture mode + - Report a more accurate "seeking" capability + - Show better error messages when a demuxer or decoder is missing +* xine-lib: + - Fallback to Goom if we can't load another visualisation plugin + - Avoid the thumbnailer exiting before we captured a frame for short movies + 2.17.3 * Trap errors when calling XRandR to avoid possible crashes when switching to fullscreen |