[MPlayer-cvslog] CVS: main ChangeLog,1.88,1.89

Roberto Togni CVS syncmail at mplayerhq.hu
Fri Aug 5 22:23:40 CEST 2005


CVS change done by Roberto Togni CVS

Update of /cvsroot/mplayer/main
In directory mail:/var2/tmp/cvs-serv30924

Modified Files:
	ChangeLog 
Log Message:
Restore latest version of ChangeLog after CVS breakage
This version was originally 1.236


Index: ChangeLog
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RCS file: /cvsroot/mplayer/main/ChangeLog,v
retrieving revision 1.88
retrieving revision 1.89
diff -u -r1.88 -r1.89
--- ChangeLog	25 Jan 2004 18:50:46 -0000	1.88
+++ ChangeLog	5 Aug 2005 20:23:37 -0000	1.89
@@ -1,103 +1,746 @@
-mplayer (1.0)
+MPlayer (1.0)
+
+  pre8:
+
+    DOCS:
+    * improved encoding guide
+    * new technical encoding guide in DOCS/tech/encoding-guide.txt
+      which is to be merged into the existing guide
+    * encoding tips for x264 and XviD
+    * how to set up MEncoder for x264 support
+    * Hungarian XML documentation translation finished
+    * misc improvements all over the place
+
+    Driver:
+    * JACK audio output rewritten without bio2jack
+    * OpenGL video output modules support -geometry and -wid options
+    * for -vo gl manyfmts is now default (since it is a lot faster), use
+      -vo gl:nomanyfmts if it does not work for you
+    * streaming textures for -vo gl, much faster if supported (use -dr)
+
+    Decoders:
+    * Indeo2 (RT21) support via lavc
+    * Fraps video decoder via binary DLL
+    * support for 8-bit PNGs with palette
+    * support for dmb1 MJPEG files with ffmjpeg
+    * support for musepack audio (WARNING: when muxing into e.g. AVI you will
+      be able to seek, but you might get ear- and speaker-breaking noises)
+
+    Demuxers:
+    * simultaneous audio capture/playback (-tv immediatemode=0) fixed in v4l2
+    * PVR support
+    * AAC ADTS demuxer
+    * libdvdread updated to v0.9.4
+    * Support for some more MythTV nuv files
+
+    Streaming:
+    * fix streaming of RealAudio files over HTTP
+    * show SHOUT/Icecast metadata while playing
+    * ultravox (unsv://) streaming support
+
+    FFmpeg/libavcodec:
+    * Snow bug fixes and speedup
+    * MPEG-1/2 decoder speedup
+    * Indeo2 video decoder
+    * Fraps video decoder (v0 & v1)
+    * Vorbis audio decoder
+    * RV20 fixes
+    * VP3 decoder fixes and speedup
+    * countless bug fixes all over the place
+    * vstrict=-1 is default, Snow, ffv1 etc. need vstrict=-2
+    * skiploopfilter decoder option for very fast H.264 decoding
+
+    Filters:
+    * much faster version of spp filter (-vf fspp), and pp7 ("fast spp=6")
+    * remove_logo filter
+    * lavcresample now used by default (-af-adv force=0 gives old behavior)
+    * vf_expand and vf_dsize now support aspect and round paramameters
+
+    MEncoder:
+    * audio encoding modularized
+    * AAC (FAAC) audio encoding
+    * border processing adaptive quantization in libavcodec
+    * encoding zones and luminance masking for XviD
+    * raw audio muxer
+    * fixed various bugs in the EDL code
+    * x264 "turbo mode" to speed up first pass of multi-pass encoding
+    * -delay allows real audio delay instead of just a delay in the header
+
+    Ports:
+    * improved timer function on Mac OS X
+    * New Mac OS X "macosx" video output driver. Supported on OS X 10.4
+      and 10.3 with QuickTime 7 (requires QuickTime 7 SDK to build on 10.3)
+    * Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) fixes
+    * macosx audio output driver fixes
+    * support for playing DVDs copied to harddisk on Cygwin
+    * DragonFly BSD support
+
+    Others:
+    * enabled hinting for TrueType fonts
+    * support for file:// syntax
+    * -fb option removed, use the device suboption of -vo fbdev/fbdev2 instead
+    * massive stream layer cleanup, all streams ported to the new API
+    * full gcc 4 support for IA-32 and AMD-64 ports
+    * TOOLS/vobshift.py: vobsub time-adjust tool
+    * fixed auto-insertion of lavc encoder (for DXR2/3 and DVB)
+
+
+  pre7: "PatentCounter" April 16, 2005
+
+    Security:
+    * heap overflow in Real RTSP streaming code fixed
+    * buffer overflow in MMST streaming code fixed
+
+
+    DOCS:
+    * Czech documentation translation in progress
+    * German man page almost synced
+    * slave mode command documentation finished
+    * TOOLS documented in TOOLS/README
+    * audio filter documentation moved to the man page and updated
+    * all audio filters documented
+    * improved encoding guide
+    * preliminary documentation for Snow codec in DOCS/tech/snow.txt
+    * misc updates and fixes all over the place
+
+    Ports:
+    * DirectX video output fixed on Windows95
+    * DirectX video output now supports 256 color mode
+    * audio device selection support for dsound audio output driver
+    * --enable-macosx-bundle, use config directory in the appwrapper on OS X
+    * Sun audio output cleanup
+    * x86_64 support fixes
+    * OpenBSD support in libdha
+    * VIDIX support for more Radeon 9200 models
+
+    Drivers:
+    * fixed ontop event for some window managers
+    * audio output layer cleanup
+    * unified colorkey handling code
+    * vo_xvmc panscan fix
+    * fixed some X11 crashes
+    * OSD fixes in various video output drivers
+
+    Decoders:
+    * TWinVQ decoder via binary DLL
+    * integrated Tremor decoder for Ogg/Vorbis
+    * fixed decoding of stereo alaw files
+    * preload QT DLLs to work around problems with their hardcoded paths
+    * support for Real 10 RV30/40 Linux binary codec (fixes some RV40 files)
+    * expose support for 422P and 444P raw formats
+    * 32 bit RGB support in binary TSCC decoder
+    * dropped support of old FAAD2 versions (<= 1.1)
+    * support for Real 10 cook Linux binary codec (decodes cook5.1)
+    * improved NV12/NV21 support
+    * support for 32 bit float and extended WAV files
+    * prefer native RealAudio 1.0 / 2.0 decoder over binary decoders
+    * support for multichannel WAV files
+    * ALAC (QuickTime lossless audio) support via lavc
+    * WNV1 support via lavc
+    * AASC (Autoderk RLE video) support via lavc
+    * LOCO video support via lavc
+    * fixed Layer 1 stereo playback via mp3lib
+    * VMnc (VMware video) decoder via binary DLL
+    * AMR NB/WB support via libavcodec and external reference decoders
+    * ADTS AAC support
+
+    Demuxers:
+    * vqf demuxer
+    * seeking in MPEG-ES fixed
+    * support for Real multirate files
+    * framerate autodetection for MPEG-4 and H.264 video in ES and TS streams
+    * MP3 in Real files
+    * more user-friendly info about audio and subtitle tracks in Ogg files
+    * avisynth demuxer
+    * Multichannel MP3 in MP4 files support (MP3on4)
+    * some classes of nonworking 14.4/28.8 RealAudio files fixed
+    * added code to autodetect and demux MPEG audio layers 1 and 2
+    * demux AC3 audio files using libavformat by default
+    * online audio stream switching in the MPEG and Matroska demuxers
+    * 3GP demuxing support
+    * DVB updates and ATSC tuner support
+    * AVC in Matroska support
+    * SWF and FLV support via libavformat
+    * use proper Vorbis fourcc
+
+    Streaming:
+    * stream selection and bandwidth support for MMS over HTTP
+    * fallback to HTTP if connection refused on pnm://
+    * support for UDP streaming (udp://)
+    * support for vstream TiVo streams (tivo://)
+    * EOF detect and bugfixes in pnm:// streams
+
+    FFmpeg/libavcodec:
+    * RV20 fixes
+    * many H.264 fixes
+    * B-frames in H.264, H.264 weighted prediction support
+    * a lot of integer overflow and pointer fixes
+    * 32 bit RGB support in TSCC
+    * multichannel MP3 decoder (MP3on4)
+    * 3g2 support
+    * ALAC audio decoder
+    * LOCO video decoder
+    * WNV1 video decoder
+    * shorten audio decoder and demuxer
+    * AASC video decoder
+    * AMR NB/WB support via external reference decoders
+    * significantly faster Snow decoding
+    * experimental ratecontrol for Snow
+    * countless bug fixes all over the place
+
+    GUI:
+    * half size event implemented and added to the menu
+    * ESD configuration dialog and software volume control option
+    * memleaks fixed
+
+    Filters:
+    * big cleanup of audio filter layer
+    * faster af_format for most common cases
+    * float handling in the audio filter layer finally fixed
+    * obsolete audio plugins finally removed
+    * updated HRTF filter
+    * center channel adding filter
+    * soft-telecined input support in pullup improved
+
+    MEncoder:
+    * new experimental MPEG muxer, compatible with DVD and (S)VCD
+    * multiple file support
+    * -speed support (framerate conversion with speedup/slowdown)
+    * EDL support
+    * low bitrate mp3lame encoding fix
+    * MJPEG encoding fix
+    * NUV endianness fix (makes old NUV files unplayable)
+    * experimental libavformat muxer
+    * mp3lame CBR encoding fix
+    * 35% faster turbo mode for 1st pass
+
+    Others:
+    * -z option replaced by -vo png suboption
+    * icc fix in the Win32 loader
+    * crash with Turkish locale fixed
+    * several memleak fixes
+    * -aa* options are replaced by -vo aa suboptions
+    * excessive verbosity reduced
+    * RTC support for *BSD
+    * non-UTF-8 external subtitles with Matroska fixed
+    * gcc 4 fixes
+    * partial NX (noexec bit) support
+    * support libsmbclient with SSL
+    * put changed notices into all imported files for GPL 2a compliance
+
+
+  pre6: "X-mas present" December 23, 2004
+
+    DOCS:
+    * finally all options are documented
+    * man page completely reviewed for spelling, wording and clarity
+    * all audio output driver suboptions documented
+    * all video output driver suboptions documented
+    * audio filters section added to the man page
+    * XviD documentation completed
+    * French man page in sync again
+    * German man page updated
+    * new Czech (complete) and Swedish man page translations
+    * fixes and updates in various places
+
+    Ports:
+    * full x86_64 support
+    * -rootwin, -panscan support in the quartz video output driver
+    * key repetition and aspect fixed in the quartz video output driver
+    * "Movie" menu for quartz video output driver with zoom options & preset
+    * fs_res quartz video output driver suboption chooses fullscreen resolution
+    * VCD support for Darwin (Mac OS X)
+    * Mac OS X Finder startup argument support
+    * support for Real (Helix) codecs on Mac OS X (working this time)
+    * fix for stdin input and slave mode on MinGW
+    * support for -rootwin, -colorkey, -wid in the DirectX video output driver
+    * improved monitor selection in the DirectX video output driver
+    * new DirectSound audio output driver
+    * mouse support in Windows
+    * support for ZetaOS (mostly working)
+
+    Drivers:
+    * fixes in the VESA and GGI video output drivers
+    * -jpeg removed in favor of -vo jpeg suboptions
+    * jpeg video output driver now supports output to multiple directories
+    * improvements for the Blinkenlights video output driver ;-)
+    * OpenGL video output driver colorformat fixes (with manyfmts suboption)
+    * aspect, panscan, hardware OSD support in the OpenGL video output driver
+    * new pnm and md5sum video output drivers, replacing pgm and md5
+    * yuv4mpeg video output now has a file= suboption, can be used with
+      -fixed-vo to concatenate files having same width, height and fps
+    * JACK audio output driver updated to bio2jack API changes
+    * alsa9 and alsa1x replaced by alsa audio output driver
+    * ALSA audio output driver always uses specified device, even for hwac3
+    * support for mixer channel selection in the ALSA audio output driver
+    * audio output driver for the polypaudio sound server
+    * VIDIX Cyberblade TV-out fixed
+    * VIDIX I420 support for Cyberblade and mga
+    * VIDIX Radeon support on big-endian systems, other Radeon fixes
+    * VIDIX Radeon R200 QM (Radeon 9100) support
+    * CLE266 VIDIX driver
+    * experimental SAVAGE VIDIX driver
+
+    Decoders:
+    * "experimental" support for 20 and 24 bit LPCM (DVD-Audio)
+    * libmpeg2 updated to 0.4.0b
+    * libfaad2 updated to 2.1beta CVS snapshot
+    * DTS decoding via libavcodec
+    * Windows Media Audio 9 Voice support via binary DLL
+    * Windows Media Video 9 Advanced support via binary DLL
+    * Windows Media Screen Codec 2 support via binary DLL
+    * Windows Media Image Codec support via binary DLL
+    * Windows Media Image 2 Codec support via binary DLL
+    * VDOWave video support via binary DLL
+    * Miro VideoXL video support via libavcodec
+    * Creative ADPCM audio support via libavcodec or binary DLL
+    * IBM Ultimotion video support via libavcodec
+    * Micronas Speech codec support via binary DLL
+    * H.261 video codec support via libavcodec
+    * TechSmith Camtasia video codec support via libavcodec
+    * sonic audio codec support via libavcodec
+    * Snow video codec support via libavcodec
+    * QuickDraw video support via libavcodec
+    * Cinepak, CYUV and RoQ audio/video moved to FFmpeg
+    * Vianet Lsvx video support via binary DLL
+
+    Demuxers:
+    * fix -nosound and -novideo for NSV
+    * subtitle switching and language code displaying for Matroska
+    * support for the .vp5 file format (AVI variant)
+    * seeking in audio-only ASF files fixed
+    * improved MP3 detection
+    * support for AVC in .mp4 files
+    * support for raw H.261 files via libavformat
+    * improved seeking precision in MPEG files
+    * better subtitle language code handling for MKV files
+    * support DVHS files and H.264 over MPEG-TS
+    * display length and position (in the seekbar) for MOV files
+    * raw video in MOV files playback improved
+
+    Streaming:
+    * -cache-min and -cache-prefill options added
+    * compilation fix for newer LIVE.COM versions
+    * make ASF without ECC work
+    * support for MMS on non-standard port
+    * EOF detected in Real RTSP streams
+
+    FFmpeg/libavcodec:
+    * reduced resolution decoding with the lowres option
+    * new experimental wavelet-based Snow video codec
+    * new sonic audio codec
+    * TechSmith Camtasia video decoder
+    * IBM Ultimotion video decoder
+    * QuickDraw video decoder
+    * Creative ADPCM decoder
+    * Miro VideoXL decoder
+    * Sierra online audio files demuxer and decoder
+    * QPEG video decoder
+    * Electronic Arts Game Multimedia format demuxer
+    * H.261 fixes, H.261 encoder
+    * fix VIS accelerated code
+    * DTS support via libdts
+    * many DV fixes, seek in raw DV files
+    * support AAC in MOV files
+    * RV10, RV20 fixes
+    * RV20 encoding
+    * AVI demuxer cleanup, palette change support
+    * iTunes metadata support
+    * HuffYUV fixes (endianness, RGB32 predictor, median encoding, interlacing)
+    * ffvhuff (enhanced HuffYUV codec)
+    * SSE optimizations for 4x4 compare function
+    * epzs motion search enhancements
+    * quad tree based motion compensation
+    * MPEG-4 qpel MMX2/3DNow! optimizations
+    * H.264: lot of fixes and MMX2/3DNow! optimizations
+    * AVC1 (H.264 without sync word in .mp4 files) support
+    * H.264 qpel motion compensation
+    * Indeo3 grayscale decoding
+    * preliminary Truemotion 24 bit decoder
+    * avizlib encoder fixed
+    * trellis quantization support in H.263
+    * DCT optimizations
+    * AltiVec support on AmigaOS4
+    * adapt MMX/MMX2/SSE/3DNow! optimizations to work on x86_64
+    * seeking fixes
+    * better and faster audio resampler
+    * New dc1394 grabbing interface
+    * preliminary decoding support for H.264 with CABAC and B-frames
+    * dvr-ms support in ASF demuxer
+    * NSV demuxer
+    * DVD compatible MPEG muxer
+    * MJPEG-B fixes
+    * range coder (arithmetic entropy coder) used by Snow and ffv1
+    * ffv1 enhancements: signed golomb, range codes
+    * multi slice support for main profile H.264 streams
+    * as usual, lots of bug fixes and optimizations
+
+    Filters:
+    * software volume control when no hardware support available, can be
+      controlled with the -softvol and -softvol-max parameters
+    * high-quality audio resampling with -af lavcresample
+    * cropdetect rounding parameter
+    * MPlayer -af help
+    * missing audio plugins (extrastereo, volnorm) converted to audio filters
+    * sine sweep generator audio filter
+    * hrtf audio filter to convert multichannel audio to 2 channel output
+      for headphones, preserving the spatiality of the sound
+    * big-endian fixes in rgb2rgb converter
+    * yuv2rgb Altivec optimization fixes
+    * support for LADSPA plugins
+
+    GUI:
+    * unified audio options dialog, also for ALSA
+    * redrawing limited, decreases CPU usage in audio-only case
+    * icons for the context menu
+    * doublesize bug fixed
+    * slowdown after opening the preferences panel bug fixed
+    * remaining messages moved to help file for translation
+    * slowdown after using the preferences panel fixed
+
+    Encoding:
+    * x264 encoder support
+    * support for MP2 encoding with libtoolame
+    * libavcodec "turbo mode" to speed up 2-pass encoding
+    * support for 3-pass encode for libavcodec and x264
+    * XviD encoder and decoder modules updated to API-4.1 (XviD-1.1.x)
+    * flush remaining frames at end of encoding process
+
+    Others:
+    * -loop and -shuffle now work together
+    * better EDL support
+    * some --disable configure options finally work (mp3lib, liba52, libmpeg2)
+    * framestepping
+    * change playback speed during playback
+    * some crashes with binary codecs fixed
+    * subtitle alignment support for SAMI files
+    * also support Windows path separator '\'
+    * FriBiDi fixes for comma handling in Hebrew subtitles
+    * -crash-debug option to attach gdb automatically after crashes
+    * gcc 4 compilation fixes
+    * compilation fixes for many files in the TOOLS directory
+    * infamous "stuck mouse button" bug fixed, new -key-fifo-size option
+    * reduced verbosity of MPlayer's output somewhat
+    * -identify now prints some information about available languages
+    * double buffering (-double) is now default
+    * many memleaks fixed
+
+
+  pre5try2: December 15, 2004
+
+    Security:
+    * buffer overflow in mp3lib fixed
+    * heap overflow in Real RTSP streaming code fixed
+    * stack overflow in MMST streaming code fixed
+    * unnecessary BMP demuxer removed because of buffer overflows
+    * heap overflow in pnm streaming code fixed
+
+
+  pre5: "LinuxTag release" July 15, 2004
+
+    Name:
+    * It's "MPlayer - The Movie Player" instead of
+      "MPlayer - The Movie Player for Linux" now.
+
+    Security:
+    * complete review of string operations, buffer overflows fixed
 
-  pre4: "New Year Release"
-  
     DOCS:
-    * new Copyright file covering the licenses involved
+    * small additions, corrections, updates all over the place
+    * audio output driver section added to the man page
+    * several bug fixes and improvements in the MEncoder documentation
+    * DVD ripping guide extended and improved
+    * AUTHORS file massively extended
+    * German man page partially updated
+    * Hungarian XML documentation translation started
+
+    Ports:
+    * encrypted DVD playback on Windows fixed (again)
+    * Cygwin and MinGW now accept the same -dvd-device syntax
+    * LIVE.COM now works under MinGW
+    * foundations for MinGW crosscompilation
+    * disabled SSE on MinGW as it caused crashes
+    * AC3 passthrough for ao_win32
+    * improved vo_quartz (YUV, multiple screens support)
+    * vo_quartz made default on Mac OS X
+    * ao_macosx fixed and made default again on Mac OS X
+    * RealVideo binary codecs support on Mac OS X (still buggy)
+    * big-endian fixes in vf.c, vo_tga
+    * OpenBSD portability fixes
+    * OpenBSD/VAX support
+    * AMD64 support
+
+    Drivers:
+    * support for more Radeons (9800 XT among them) in VIDIX
+    * Radeon related bug fixes in VIDIX
+    * vo_gl2 now supports GUI, fix for flickering borders in fullscreen
+    * support 24 and 32 bit PCM files, big-endian fixes
+    * ao_sdl now converts unsupported formats instead of quitting
+    * ENCA support
+    * merged ao_alsa9 and ao_alsa1x drivers into ao_alsa
+    * NeoMagic TV-out support through VESA
+    * JACK audio output driver
+    * vo_sdl fixes (wrong flags and screensaver disabling)
+    * vo_directx fixes
+
+    Decoders:
+    * MSZH/ZLIB, FLI, QTRLE, RoQ video and RoQ audio support moved to FFmpeg
+    * FFmpeg Cinepak and CYUV decoders preferred
+    * audio format 0xff support (is AAC)
+    * "raw" audio in MOV supported
+    * Indeo audio (iac25) support via binary codec
+    * upgrade libfaad2 to the FAAD 2.0 release
+    * MPEG-2 chroma422/444 support
+    * Winnov WINX and WNV1 support via binary codec
+
+    Demuxers:
+    * Ogg subtitle handling and other bug fixes
+    * Matroska improvements
+    * support seeking in Real files without -idx
+    * support seeking in Real files without index with -forceidx
+
+    Streaming:
+    * ASF, MMST streaming fixes
+    * URL escaping fixed
+    * NSA (Nullsoft audio) streaming support
+    * embedded RAM playlist support
+    * multibyte URL support
+    * rtp:// now supported even with LIVE.COM compiled in
+    * miscellaneous bug fixes
+
+    Filters:
+    * vf_softskip: frame skipping filter for MEncoder
+    * vf_harddup: frame duplication filter for MEncoder
+    * vf_pullup minor fixes and improvements
+    * AltiVec-optimized YUV to RGB converter
+    * vf_spp memory corruption fix on reallocation
+
+    FFmpeg/libavcodec:
+    * MPEG-2 encoding with 8, 9, 10, 11 bit intra DC precision
+    * DC clipping fix, intra_dc_precision > 0 support
+    * Cinepak fixes and palette support
+    * support skipping of MB rows during decoding
+    * Vorbis in NUT fixed
+    * NUT updated to latest specification
+    * segfault and artifact fixes in SVQ3 decoder
+    * motion estimation code: overflow and chroma fixes
+    * change qscale -> lambda for the motion estimation
+    * noise preserving sum of squares comparison function in ME code
+    * fixed memory overwrite in truemotion decoder
+    * clip input motion vectors, better error tolerance on bad vectors
+    * FLAC decoder cleanup (partial demuxer/decoder separation)
+    * memalign hack for SSE/SSE2 on that alternative OS :)
+    * lots of AltiVec optimizations
+    * qscale + qprd fix
+    * QTrle4 support
+    * H.261 decoder
+    * coefficient saturation fix in H.263
+    * H.263 MCBPC fix
+    * per line lowpass filter in MMX and faster C lowpass filter
+    * SVQ1 encoder
+    * as usual, lots of bug fixes and optimizations
+
+    Others:
+    * fullscreen fixes for many window managers
+    * fix crash on original Pentiums and older
+    * dvd://start-end support
+    * netstream (mpst://) support fixed
+    * support comments in plaintext playlists
+    * loader/ dependency removed
+    * keepaspect option extended to all video output drivers
+    * WMA to Ogg conversion and simple subtitle editing script added to TOOLS
+    * support for more lame options
+    * new set of GUI icons
+    * memory conserving implementation of GUI potmeters
+    * X11 code reindented
+    * further gcc 3.4 support fixes
+    * mixer API written for changing volume through libaf
+    * -rtc-device option for specifying the RTC device
+    * desktop/menu icon added
+    * miscellaneous bug fixes and cleanups
+    * multi-threaded encoding with libavcodec
+    * fixed a bug with Real files introduced in pre4
+    * -use-stdin renamed to -noconsolecontrols
+
+
+  pre4: "YAML Counter" Apr 28, 2004
+
+    Security:
+    * HTTP parser remote heap overflow vulnerability fixed (from 1.0pre3try2)
+    * Real RTSP remote buffer overflow vulnerability fixed
+    * buffer overflow in the Matroska demuxer
+    * potentially exploitable buffer overflow in CDDB TOC code
+
+    DOCS:
+    * new Copyright file covers files from other projects and their licenses
+    * new DOCS/tech/translations.txt explains how to properly translate MPlayer
     * new Japanese console message translation
-    * Polish translation almost finished
+    * Polish translation finished
+    * Italian man page translation
     * DVD ripping guide
-    * video out driver section added to the man page
-    * Miscellaneous updates all over the place
+    * telecine/interlacing guide
+    * video output driver section added to the man page
+    * XML build system rewritten - now supports building individual languages
+    * miscellaneous updates all over the place
 
     Ports:
     * better PA-RISC detection
     * support for VAX (tested on VAXstation 4000/VLC) -- really, believe me!
     * optimizing for specific MIPS CPUs under IRIX
     * AMD64 detection under BSDs
-    * working fbdev and matrox drivers under Linux 2.6 series
+    * fbdev driver updated for Linux 2.6
     * support for ELF only OpenBSD
     * optimizing for PPC 970 (aka G5)
+    * SDL support fixed on MinGW
+    * VIDIX working under Windows XP/2000 (native dhahelper)
+    * builds out of the box under GNU Hurd
+    * SSE optimizations enabled under MinGW
+    * SSE support under OpenBSD
+    * AltiVec support under NetBSD
+    * GCC 3.4 support (due to changed behaviour in ASM code snippets)
 
     Demuxers:
     * Matroska containing RealVideo works better
     * fixed random segfaults in VIVO
-    * endianess fixes in CDDA
+    * endianness fixes in CDDA
     * UYVY support in tvi/v4l2
     * tvi/bsdbt848 now working under FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT
     * tvi/bsdbt848 audio part working under NetBSD
     * LIVE.COM demuxer updated to conform with latest libraries
-    * New, independent, C implementation of the Matroska demuxer
+    * new, independent, C implementation of the Matroska demuxer
     * fix for rare Real files
+    * more robust Real demuxer (can resync after errors)
+    * support for AAC inside Real
     * MPEG Aspect code 4 fixed
+    * wrapper demuxer for FFMpeg's libavformat (Nut is playable this way)
+    * support for selecting subtitle streams with -slang inside Ogg
+    * much improved seeking in Ogg
+    * -sid/-aid/-vid start from zero in Ogg demuxer just like other demuxers
+    * Nullsoft streaming video (NSV) demuxer
+    * AVI OpenDML read and write support
+
+    Streaming:
+    * SMIL playlist parser
+    * support for URL redirection
+    * support for seeking in HTTP streams
+    * updated LIVE.COM streaming code
+    * fallback to live.com RTSP after Real RTSP
+    * suggests -playlist if normal streaming fails
+    * many improvements and bug fixes in the streaming code
 
     Decoders:
-    * removed zlib dependency in vd/lcl
+    * compilation failure without zlib in vd/lcl fixed
     * removed obsoleted decoders (which were moved to libavcodec), affected:
       vd/8bps, vd/msrle, vd/msvideo1, vd/rpza, vd/smc
     * workaround for buggy codecs in ad/acm (support for Sharp G.726)
-    * synced to original FLAC sources
-    * fixed chrom-swapping in Hauppauge Macroblock decoder
-    * Altivec optimized resampler in liba52
+    * fixed chroma-swapping in Hauppauge Macroblock decoder
+    * AltiVec-optimized resampler in liba52
+    * support for VP5 and VP6 DLL decoders
+    * support for Alparysoft lossless video codec (through DLLs)
+    * support for Lead MCMW wavelet video codec (through DLLs)
+    * HE-AAC working through libfaad
+    * removed libmpflac in favor of FFmpeg's FLAC implementation
+    * liba52 dynamic range compression support
 
     Filters:
-    * vf/bmovl bugfixes
-    * vf/filmdint now handles 15fps NTSC input
-    * huge updates and speedup on vf/pullup
-    * big updates to vf/ilpack (proper interpolation and MMX optimizations)
-    * new filter: vf/zrmjpeg (fast MJPEG encoder using libavcodec for Zoran)
-    * interlaced scaling support in vf/scale
+    * vf_bmovl bugfixes
+    * vf_filmdint now handles 15fps NTSC input
+    * huge updates and speedup on vf_pullup
+    * big updates to vf_ilpack (proper interpolation and MMX optimizations)
+    * vf_zrmjpeg: fast MJPEG encoder using libavcodec for Zoran
+    * interlaced scaling support in vf_scale
+    * vf_kerndeint: adaptive deinterlacer
+    * vf_rgbtest: rgb test pattern generator for developers
+    * vf_qp: qp change filter
+    * vf_noformat: the same as vf_format but with reversed meaning
+    * AltiVec-optimized SWScaler
+    * vf_phase: phase shift fields
+    * vf_divtc: duplicate frame removal from deinterlaced telecined video
 
     Drivers:
     * ao/esd behaves better over network now
-    * support for Radeon 9600 Pro in VIDIX
+    * support for Radeon 9200/9600/9600 Pro/9700 in VIDIX
     * -mixer support for alsa9
     * fixed OSS audio grabber module with hardware not supporting 44khz
     * native ALSA 1.x support (not through 0.9 emulation)
-    * better multibuffer support in VIDIX NVidia driver
-    * pan & scan support in VIDIX NVidia driver
+    * better multibuffer support in VIDIX nVidia driver
+    * pan & scan support in VIDIX nVidia driver
+    * support for more cards in VIDIX nVidia driver
+    * vo_libcaca: color ASCII art output driver
+    * vo_quartz: native MacOS X/Quartz video output
+    * support for VIDIX when ATI FireGLX drivers are used
 
     FFmpeg/libavcodec:
     * H.263 AIC and MQ encoding support
     * fixed low delay decoding
     * fixed H.263+ encoding without UMV
-    * lot of CBR improvements
+    * lots of CBR improvements
     * MB type and QP visualization
-    * lot of code cleanup
+    * lots of code cleanup
     * intra & inter dequantization split -> speedup
     * fixed stereo IMA ADPCM encoding
-    * VBV delay setting support (MPEG2 CBR)
+    * VBV delay setting support (MPEG-2 CBR)
     * improved RV20 decoder (most known errors eliminated)
     * interlaced DCT
     * interlaced motion estimation
-    * interlaced MPEG2 encoding
+    * interlaced MPEG-2 encoding
     * 4MV encoding fixes
-    * initial interlaced MPEG4 encoding
+    * initial interlaced MPEG-4 encoding
     * improved visual quality in SVQ3 decoder
     * fixed never-before-tested embedded string decoder in SVQ1
     * optimized quantization (including the trellis way)
     * Sierra VMD video decoder
-    * MMX and SSE2 optimized H.263 denoiser
-    * better SVCD compilance (encoder side)
-    * MMX and MMX2 optimized interlaced DCT decision
+    * MMX- and SSE2-optimized H.263 denoiser
+    * better SVCD compliance (encoder side)
+    * MMX- and MMX2-optimized interlaced DCT decision
     * various cleanup, memleak and segfault fixes
-    * slightly optimized (2x faster) the MPEG layer 3 decoder
+    * optimized (2x faster) the MPEG layer 3 decoder
     * grayscale coded MJPEG decoding support
     * avimszh and avizlib decoders
-    * "packed" XVID decoding
+    * "packed" XviD decoding
     * fixed some bugs in RV20 B-frames decoding
     * closed GOP encoding
-    
+    * SSE2-optimized FDCT
+    * support for quantizer noise shaping
+    * support for EA ADPCM and SMJPEG IMA ADPCM
+    * QT RLE decoder
+    * OBMC fixes
+    * FLAC decoder
+    * better support for DivX5
+    * MMX- and SSE2-optimized VP3/Theora decoding
+    * support for Theora alpha3
+    * many H.264 improvements
+    * more robust MJPEG startcode search mechanism
+    * better WMV8 decoding
+    * native SPARC VIS optimizations
+    * native G.726 codec
+
     Others:
-    * -codecs-file option for specifying alternative codecs.conf files
+    * -codecs-file option for specifying alternative codecs.conf file
     * fixed some minor bugs in the GUI
     * prevent sig11 when $HOME is not set
-    * fix some commandline handling corruptions
-    * swedish and polish yes/no options in config files
+    * fix some command line handling corruptions
+    * Swedish and Polish yes/no options in config files
     * support binding F11 and F12 keys
+    * TOOLS/divx2svcd updated
+    * stricter thread code in Win32 loader (works under NetBSD)
+    * PJS subtitle support (was: dunnowhat)
+    * TOOLS/avifix: simple tool to fix chunk sizes in AVI files
+    * proper extraheader handling when libavcodec is used in MEncoder
+    * AVI OpenDML read and write support
+    * AVI VPRP (video property) read and write support
+    * fixed long standing lame quality option off-by-one bug in MEncoder
+    * MPL2 subtitle support
+    * less verbosity in Win32 loader and other places
 
 
-  pre3: "The Real Counter"
+  pre3try2: security fix release Mar 3, 2004
+
+    Security:
+    * HTTP parser remote heap overflow vulnerability fixed
+
+
+  pre3: "The Real Counter" Dec 9, 2003
 
     DOCS:
     * all MPlayer and MEncoder options documented
@@ -111,16 +754,15 @@
     * small improvements and bug fixes all over the place
 
     Ports:
-    * fixed compilation of Matroska on MinGW32/Cygwin
+    * fixed compilation of Matroska on MinGW/Cygwin
     * support for detecting non-Intel CPUs under Cygwin
     * sub autoloading under Windows
-    * removed pthread dependency (compiles out of the box on a default NetBSD
-      install)
+    * removed pthread dependency (out of the box compilation on NetBSD)
     * more 64 bit fixes
     * a lot of Mac OS X fixes
     * prefer TOOLS/cpuinfo over linuxemu's /proc/cpuinfo under FreeBSD/x86
     * Darwin XMMS libs supported
-    * support newer Darwin versions in Altivec detection code
+    * support newer Darwin versions in AltiVec detection code
     * support for newer Apple GCCs
 
     Codecs and demuxers:
@@ -129,8 +771,7 @@
     * fixed the MPEG muxer
     * fixed tons of bugs in MMS streaming
     * user settable HTTP user-agent field
-    * improved (now working) seeking with support for growing files in
-      Realmedia format
+    * improved (now working) seeking with support for growing RealMedia files
     * saveable and loadable index files (workaround for formats not
       supporting files over 2GB)
     * Ultimotion VfW decoder
@@ -141,14 +782,14 @@
     * XviD API-4 (1.0 beta2) support
     * improved FLAC-in-Ogg support
     * Matroska: better AC3 detection
-    * Matroska: VobSubs, MP2, FLAC, AAC and HE-AAC support
+    * Matroska: VOBsubs, MP2, FLAC, AAC and HE-AAC support
     * improved detection of Real RTSP through URL analysis
     * fixed stereo 16 bit TWOS
     * fixed MPNG when using BGR24 images
-    * control functions in OGG demuxer
+    * control functions in Ogg demuxer
     * HTTP cookies support
-    * LML-M4 MPEG4 capture card raw stream format support
-    
+    * LML-M4 MPEG-4 capture card raw stream format support
+
     Filters:
     * some fixes in the delogo filter
     * optimized eq2 filter
@@ -156,13 +797,13 @@
     * new filters: hue, spp, fil, yuvcsp
     * alternative postprocessing filter (spp)
     * big scale filter updates
-    * zrmjpeg filter, a kick-ass mjpeg encoder using FFmpeg/libavcodec
-    * filmdint: new inverse telecine filter, heavily MMX and 3DNow! optimized
-    
+    * zrmjpeg filter, a kick-ass MJPEG encoder using FFmpeg/libavcodec
+    * filmdint: new inverse telecine filter, heavily MMX- and 3DNow!-optimized
+
     FFmpeg/libavcodec:
     * Lagrange multipliers instead of qscale, encoding quality much improved
     * fixed an old bug in MPlayer's support code
-    * support wider range of VOLs in H263
+    * support wider range of VOLs in H.263
     * direct rendering support in MJPEG
     * massive MLib optimizations
     * more VQA files supported
@@ -178,7 +819,7 @@
     * CRI ADX support
     * XA ADPCM support
     * fixed files with odd dimensions on PPC
-    * optimized MPEG2 bitstream parsing
+    * optimized MPEG-2 bitstream parsing
     * better interlacing framework
     * support for IBM's XLC compiler
     * support for SAR (sample aspect ratio)
@@ -186,11 +827,11 @@
     * dynamically alloc big data fields (lower memory usage in most cases!)
     * fixed stereo IMA-ADPCM encoding
     * inline vs always_inline - some speedups
-    * MMX2 optimized FDCT
+    * MMX2-optimized FDCT
     * accurate 2-4-8 DCT
-    * much faster DV encoding (it beats libdv)
+    * much faster DV encoding (beats libdv)
     * support Cinepak files with funky (not divisible by 4) resolutions
-    * Altivec optimized FDCT
+    * AltiVec-optimized FDCT
     * XvMC speedups
     * initial ZyGoVideo decoding
     * RGB support in FFV1
@@ -203,11 +844,11 @@
     * 16x8 MV visualisation support
     * H.263 overlapped block motion compensation (OBMC), 4MV support
     * H.263 alternative inter vlc support
-    * H.263 deblocking filter (MMX optimized)
+    * H.263 deblocking filter (MMX-optimized)
     * H.263 modified quantization support
     * H.263 slice structured mode support
     * Real RV20 decoder (with B-frame support)
-    
+
     Drivers:
     * VIDIX equalizer support in fbdev, svga and vesa
     * VIDIX colorkeying support in fbdev, svga and vesa
@@ -223,14 +864,14 @@
     * Radeon 9800 (R350) support in VIDIX
     * proper fix for buffer size workarounds in vo_zr
     * new vo_zr2 driver, which uses the advantages of the filter layer
-    * fixed vesa when used together with pthread
+    * fixed vo_vesa when used together with pthread
     * runtime stay-on-top functionality (in almost all output drivers)
     * ALSA 1.x support
-    
+
     SWScaler:
     * updated MLib (Sun VIS) support
     * more accurate filters (rounding fixes)
-    * MMX optimized UYVY output
+    * MMX-optimized UYVY output
     * eliminated chroma scaling bugs
 
     Others:
@@ -241,8 +882,9 @@
     * improved FLAC configure detection
     * GUI file selector updated for newer formats
     * Fontconfig support
-    * proper VobSub seeking support
-    * removed oldskool libcss support (nobody uses it and it has drawbacks)
+    * proper VOBsub seeking support
+    * removed oldskool libcss support (nobody uses it, it has drawbacks and
+      possible security implications)
 
     MEncoder:
     * FFmpeg/libavcodec audio encoding support
@@ -251,10 +893,10 @@
     * rawyuv (i420) 'encoder'
 
 
-  pre2:
+  pre2: Oct 5, 2003
 
     Security:
-    * remotely exploitable buffer overflow in the asf streaming code fixed
+    * remotely exploitable buffer overflow in the ASF streaming code fixed
 
     DOCS:
     * Spanish and Russian translations almost finished
@@ -264,12 +906,15 @@
 
     Ports:
     * initial Amiga/MorphOS (through GeekGadgets) support
-    * FreeBSD 5.x (libkse/libthr) support in win32 DLL loader
-    * finally fixed the compilation on non-mvi capable alpha CPUs
-    * better altivec detection in configure
+    * FreeBSD 5.x (libkse/libthr) support in Win32 DLL loader
+    * finally fixed the compilation on non-MVI capable Alpha CPUs
+    * better AltiVec detection in configure
     * OSD menu now works on MinGW
-    * slave mode, vobsub and MEncoder support on Windows
+    * slave mode, VOBsub and MEncoder support on Windows
     * MinGW 3.1.0 supports MPlayer out of the box!
+    * VIDIX and libdha ported to Windows
+    * SDL on IRIX support
+    * vo_gl2 video output ported to Windows
 
     Codecs and demuxers:
     * support for QuickTime version 6.3 DLLs
@@ -282,7 +927,7 @@
     * improved seeking inside Matroska
     * some bugs with DMO codecs have been fixed
     * fix for MOV files with bogus user data length
-    * fixed some demuxers which read after the EOF
+    * fixed some demuxers which read after EOF
     * better RTP synchronisation
     * FLAC support through imported libmpflac
 
@@ -291,24 +936,24 @@
     * presets support in swscaler filter
     * new audio filter export, for supporting visual effect applications
     * correct select handling in bmovl filter
-    
+
     FFmpeg/libavcodec:
-    * better divx/xvid bug detection code
+    * better DivX/XviD bug detection code
     * Id RoQ decoder
     * Interplay MVE decoder
     * WC3/Xan video decoder
     * Xan DPCM, DK3 & DK4 ADPCM audio decoders
-    * detect old xvid with fourcc=DIVX
+    * detect old XviD with fourcc=DIVX
     * vp3 decoder fixes
     * improved the Alpha optimizations
     * x86 optimizations are threadsafe now
     * settable scene change threshold
-    * better MPEG1/MPEG2 conformance encoder
+    * better MPEG-1/MPEG-2 conformance encoder
     * quality improvement for high bitrate videos with trellis quantization
     * indeo3 decoder fixed
     * new options: mv0, cbp
     * DV video encoder
-    * MPEG1 now works with Trellis quantization
+    * MPEG-1 now works with Trellis quantization
 
     Faad2:
     * synced to latest CVS
@@ -321,13 +966,10 @@
 
     Drivers:
     * VIDIX driver for nVidia cards
-    * VIDIX and libdha ported to Windows
-    * SDL on IRIX support
     * directfb2 fixed for latest directfb
-    * opengl video output for Windows
     * smoother audio playback with alsa9
     * fullscreen and geometry support in directx
-    * fullscreen support with opengl drivers
+    * fullscreen support with OpenGL drivers
     * OSD fixed with svga
     * new cvidix and winvidix drivers
     * user settable colorkey
@@ -338,11 +980,11 @@
     * CPU detection code now measures speed on x86
     * unrarlib cleaned up a bit
     * updated the list of known x86 CPUs (including Opteron!)
-    * alignment and smart line splitting option on subtitles
+    * subtitle alignment and smart line splitting options
 
 
-  pre1:  "Development" on the beach
-    NOTE: the mplayer 'main' branch was forked at the time of 0.90-rc4, so
+  pre1:  "Development" on the beach Sept 1, 2003
+    NOTE: the MPlayer 'main' branch was forked at the time of 0.90-rc4, so
     0.90-rc5 (and later 0.90 releases) changes are independent!
     (it also means that there are main-only and 0_90-only changes)
 
@@ -364,39 +1006,39 @@
     * postproc/postproc* files moved to libavcodec
     * old libmpeg2 replaced with patched version of the 0.3.1 release
     * docs priority & installation (--language=ab,cd,ef,all and so on)
-    * yuv2rgb conversion removed from most vo drivers (like fbdev, gif89 etc)
-    * -vop option obsoleted by reverse-order -vf, big config layer changes
+    * yuv2rgb conversion removed from most vo drivers (like fbdev, gif89, etc)
+    * reverse-order -vop option obsoleted by -vf, big config layer changes
     * stream layer "cleanup", -dvd -> dvd:// etc
     * autosub fuzziness, it tries to load all subs with similar filenames
     * removed the whole old config reader, leaving only the newer one
       (no backward compatibilty!)
-    
+
     Ports:
     * HP-UX fixes
     * Ported to Darwin / Mac OS X (with extra accurate Darwin timers)
-    * Ported to Win32/MinGW (including network, timers, getch etc)
-    * win32 codecs DLL support on Win32/Cygwin (and MinGW, too!)
+    * Ported to Win32/MinGW (including network, timers, getch, etc)
+    * Win32 codecs DLL support on Win32 (Cygwin and MinGW)
     * fixed mpdvdkit on Cygwin and MinGW
-    * Lots of PPC (including Altivec) optimizations
+    * Lots of PPC (including AltiVec) optimizations
     * Some ARM fixes
     * Alpha fixes (especially non-gcc3 support)
     * Initial Hitachi SuperH support (SH3/SH4)
-    
+
     Codecs/demuxers support:
-    * realaudio win32 DLLs support
-    * various realaudio/realvideo fixes, including WxH bugs, Sipr etc
-    * various realmedia a-v sync fixes
-    * realaudio v4 demuxer
-    * realaudio 14_4 and 28_8 codecs support (both binary DLLs and native code)
-    * realmedia rtsp:// support (independent from the live.com rtsp stuff!)
-    * Matroska demuxer
-    * demuxer: enabling mpeg4-es autodetection, h264-es support
-    * .wav extradata parsing (for truespeech, atrac3 etc)
+    * RealAudio Win32 DLLs support
+    * various RealAudio/RealVideo fixes, including WxH bugs, Sipr, etc
+    * various RealMedia a-v sync fixes
+    * RealAudio V4 demuxer
+    * RealAudio 14_4 and 28_8 codecs support (both binary DLLs and native code)
+    * RealMedia rtsp:// support (independent from the live.com RTSP stuff!)
+    * Matroska demuxer (C++ version)
+    * demuxer: enabling MPEG-4-ES autodetection, H.264-ES support
+    * WAV extradata parsing (for truespeech, atrac3, etc)
     * MPEG-TS (Transport Stream) and TIVO demuxers
     * DVB (Digital Video Broadcasting) input driver
     * hwac3: DTS passthru support
     * new filters: down3dright, detc, telecine, tfields, ilpack, ivtc, dsize,
-      tinterlace, pullup (MMX optimized!), framestep, tile
+      tinterlace, pullup (MMX-optimized!), framestep, tile
     * vf layer: slices support (crop, expand, swscale only)
     * vf scale aspect fixes
     * swscaler: cleanup & API change, yv12 -> yuy2 in alpha asm,
@@ -408,14 +1050,14 @@
     * DivX.com 5.0.5 libs support
     * support for latest XviD en/decoder features
     * decoder for Hauppauge PVR 250/350 MB-YUV format (fourcc HM12)
-    * support for Vanguard's win32 h264 etc codecs
+    * support for Vanguard's Win32 H.264 etc codecs
     * Video for Linux 1: various bugfixes, video eq support
     * Video for Linux 2 support
     * TV support: kick-ass image format handling
     * mp3lib: moved the assembly sources into gcc inline assembly (c)
     * mp3lib: sync with mpg123 0.59s-pre
     * mp3lib: final layer-1 support
-    * mp3lib: skip trashed first mp3 frame, fixes many buggy/misdetected files
+    * mp3lib: skip trashed first MP3 frame, fixes many buggy/misdetected files
     * imported a working FAAD version
     * 8BPS (Planar RGB) support
     * working DVD (libmpdvdkit) support for Cygwin/MinGW
@@ -427,12 +1069,12 @@
     * fixing padding bug autodetection for some rare files
     * DspContext.(i)dct_* bitexact cleanup
     * user settable quantizer bias
-    * MPEG1 slice encoding support
+    * MPEG-1 slice encoding support
     * MSMPEG4 2-pass support
-    * H264 video decoding
+    * H.264 video decoding
     * Indeo 3 video decoding
     * VP3 video decoder (buggy somtimes)
-    * Sorenson 3 (SVQ3) video decoder (it's actually a h264 variant)
+    * Sorenson 3 (SVQ3) video decoder (it's actually a H.264 variant)
     * 3IV1 (3ivx v1) decoding
     * ASV1 (ASUS Video v1) and ASV2 (ASUS Video v2) en/decoding
     * Improved SVQ1 decoding (using FFmpeg VLC functions)
@@ -441,18 +1083,18 @@
     * lossless MJPEG en/decoding, pegasus "pseudo yuv" (=RCT) decoding
     * ATI VCR1 and VCR2 decoding
     * full featured SH4 optimizations
-    * ARM optimized simple_idct
-    * MPEG2 encoding
+    * ARM-optimized simple_idct
+    * MPEG-2 encoding
     * PSX MDEC decoder
     * user settable quantization matrices
-        
+
     Drivers:
     * x11_common: fix detection of metacity
     * x11_common: 10l fix in original layer detection code
     * x11_common: extended fstype config options
     * x11_common: smooth window moving
     * tdfx_vid driver (3dfx cards overlay with AGP support)
-    * vo_xover: general x11 overlay driver, currently only tdfx_vid uses it
+    * vo_xover: general X11 overlay driver, currently only tdfx_vid uses it
     * mga_vid: various fixes, 16MB G400 detection, support for multiple cards
     * new svgalib vo driver
     * vo_directfb2: triple buffering support, configuration sys changed, fixes
@@ -464,42 +1106,42 @@
 
     Others:
     * gcc can now detect badly called mp_msg()s
-    * a lot of config/cmdline parsing fixes (some of them were at least 100000l bugs)
+    * many config/cmdline parsing fixes (some of them were at least 100000l bugs)
     * configure: enable VIDIX for PPC
-    * configure: full featured PPC optimizations and rewritten architecture handling
+    * configure: full featured PPC optimizations, rewritten architecture handling
     * spudec.c: Fix "invalid fragment" handling, Improved subtitle queueing
     * network streaming layer: IPv6 support
     * FTP support
     * playtree parsing speedup :)
     * various URL parsing fixes
-    * crashing on broken config files finally fixed!
+    * Crash on broken config files finally fixed!
     * GUI: PPC (reverse byteorder) fixes
     * GUI: revert to 'default' skin if configured skin failed
-    * TOOLS/plotpsnr.pl: PSNR plotting tool using gnuplot 
+    * TOOLS/plotpsnr.pl: PSNR plotting tool using gnuplot
     * DOCS/tech/mpcf.txt: MPCF/NUT draft/specification
     * TVout/matroxtv: various improvements
     * spelling/grammar fixes in numerous files
 
 
-mplayer (0.90)
+MPlayer (0.90)
 
-  rc4:  "FlameCounter"
+  rc4:  "FlameCounter" Feb 9, 2003
 
     DOCS:
-    * some clarification and updates in the English DOCS
+    * some clarifications and updates in the English DOCS
     * massive translation and help-file updates
 
-    Fixes:    
+    Fixes:
     * -ac hwac3 fixed (was broken in rc3)
     * vo_svga: 4bp & 8bpp fixes
     * various GUI fixes, including some critical bugs
     * rage128 VIDIX PPC fixes
     * libmenu: one crash fixed, some cleanup
     * fixed ./configure --cc="ccache gcc"
-    * -loop fixes, now -loop 2 plays it twice :)
-    * the volume symbol of OSD fixed (|\ -> /|)
+    * -loop fixes, now -loop 2 plays a file twice :)
+    * (mirrored) OSD volume symbol fixed (|\ -> /|)
     * 32bpp QT-RLE support
-    * Altivec on non-Darwin systems support
+    * AltiVec on non-Darwin systems support
     * QuickTime reference file support fixes
     * mp3lib: layer-2 decoding fixes
     * updates to extension->demuxer mapping table
@@ -509,46 +1151,47 @@
     * fixed -subcp option with unicode truetype fonts
     * -mf: type detection (based on extension), better defaults
     * vo_xv: -fixed-vo support fixed (fullscreen switching)
-    * ogg-in-avi (audio format 0xFFFE) demuxing fixed
+    * Ogg-in-AVI (audio format 0xFFFE) demuxing fixed
     * vorbis decoding fixed (outer loop cleanup)
     * swscaler: 4bpp depth 1 pixel/byte format support for -vo svga
     * missing error message in command line parser for missing parameters
     * swscaler: YVU9->YV12 fixes
     * -ao mpegpes + -ac hwac3 fixed
-    * -ao pcm bogus wav header fixed
+    * -ao pcm bogus WAV header fixed
     * -vo x11 + -wid fixed
     * auto-insert the 'palette' filter if needed, support fixed in filters
-    * the sig11 when playing second audio-only file fixed
-    * configure: detection of cdda, nas, i18n, svgalib, faad2, lame fixed
-    * -af/-af-adv support in mencoder fixed
+    * sig11 when playing second audio-only file fixed
+    * configure: detection of CDDA, nas, i18n, svgalib, FAAD2, lame fixed
+    * -af/-af-adv support in MEncoder fixed
     * libmpdvdkit2: upgraded to use libdvdcss 1.2.5
-    
+
     Features:
     * raw video support (-rawvideo, similar to -rawaudio)
-    * experimental mpeg4-ES support (enable with -demuxer 27 -fps xxx)
+    * experimental MPEG-4-ES support (enable with -demuxer 27 -fps xxx)
     * new video filter: field (cheap deinterlacer)
-    * dvd/vobsub improvements: positioning, optional gaussian blur scaler
+    * DVD/VOBsub improvements: positioning, optional gaussian blur scaler
     * vf_bmovl: 400% speedup :)
     * libavcodec: native DV audio decoder
     * GIF demuxer (for animated GIFs)
     * new noise removal filter: -vop denoise3d
     * per-channel gamma and MMX-opt'ed bri/cont/saturation support in -vop eq2
     * live.com lib support cleanup, support for more stream types
-    * importing the playtree into the Gui instead of gui's own playlist hack
-    * support for the XviD and divx4/5linux libraries at the same time
+    * playtree imported into the GUI instead of the GUI's own playlist hack
+    * support for the XviD and DivX4/5Linux libraries at the same time
     * -fstype option: override priority/layer of the fullscreen switch methods
-    * libavcodec: some B-frames related encoding failures/crashes fixed
+    * libavcodec: some B-frame related encoding failures/crashes fixed
+
+
+  rc3:  "BugfixCounter" Jan 19, 2003
 
-  rc3:  "BugfixCounter"
-  
     DOCS:
     * English man page & HTML docs updates
     * audio filter documentation
-    * help_diff.sh doesn't depend on BASH any more
+    * help_diff.sh doesn't depend on bash any more
     * Hungarian, French, Italian, German, Polish(?) docs synced
-    
+
     Important fixes:
-    * X11 fullscreen switching (yes, again...) rewritten, some x11 code cleanup
+    * X11 fullscreen switching (yes, again...) rewritten, some X11 code cleanup
     * Voxware and QuickTime DLLs finally work (was broken in some contexts)
     * VIDIX Radeon support cleanup, should really solve the pink screen bugs
     * Cygwin: -vo directx crashes and garbled picture with some files fixed
@@ -557,194 +1200,197 @@
     * ffwma2 fixed (better error resilience)
     * SPU queueing - fixes missing or early disappearing DVD subtitles
     * the mysterious DVD audio delay (150-300ms) fixed
-    * extension-based fileformat detection fixed the .mp3 vs. mpeg-ps conflict
-    * cache2 keeps buffer for non-seekable media, fixes quicktime streaming
+    * extension-based file format detection fixed the MP3 vs. MPEG-PS conflict
+    * cache2 keeps buffer for non-seekable media, fixes QuickTime streaming
 
     Fixes:
     * mp3lib CPU detection part cleanup, 'decwin' linker problem fixed
-    * various cddb:// fixes, support of netbsd-1.6
+    * various cddb:// fixes, support of NetBSD 1.6
     * libmpdvdkit2: Fix DVD authentication on Solaris 9
     * libmpdvdkit2: libdvdcss upgraded to 1.2.4 (keeping the key cache patch)
-    * libmpdvdkit2: fixed decryption from multiple VOB files (hdd or darwin)
+    * libmpdvdkit2: fixed decryption from multiple VOB files (hdd or Darwin)
     * -ao arts, -ao oss: Fix 8-bit sound support
-    * -vop expand + ffmpeg codecs conflicts solved, some other -vop bugs fixed
+    * -vop expand + FFmpeg codecs conflicts solved, some other -vop bugs fixed
     * -ac ffmp2 with MPEG files (sig11) fixed
     * QT Qclp audio codec initialization fixed
-    * mplayer exit codes cleanup (0 for quit/eof, 1 for error)
+    * exit codes cleanup (0 for quit/eof, 1 for error)
     * -ao win32 sync problems solved, -autosync 100 is still recommended
     * -vo gif89a uninit sig11 fixed
     * the usual compiler warning fixes :)
     * use -pphelp instead of -vop pp=help
-    * various bigendian fixes
-    * 16bpp packed yuv fixes in crop, mirror, rotate filters
-    * some -fixed-vo and vo_preinit fixes, -vo sdl,xmga,mga should work...
+    * various big-endian fixes
+    * 16bpp packed YUV fixes in crop, mirror, rotate filters
+    * some -fixed-vo and vo_preinit fixes, -vo sdl, xmga, mga should work...
     * various Solaris compatibility fixes (should work out of the box)
     * mms:// port fixes, tries 1755 if 80 failed
-    * libavcodec: various ME fixes, B frames fixes, WMV2 slice decoding fixes
-    * -ao alsa9 audio-file playback high cpu usage fixed
+    * libavcodec: various ME fixes, B-frames fixes, WMV2 slice decoding fixes
+    * -ao alsa9 audio-file playback high CPU usage fixed
     * libaf updates, 2-pass initialization to get better filter path
     * better detection of playlists, support for [Reference]-style format
-    * handle quicktime reference media files as playlist
-    * cddb:// & cdda:// cdrom device name fixes on linux and *BSD
-    
+    * handle QuickTime reference media files as playlist
+    * cddb:// & cdda:// CD-ROM device name fixes on Linux and *BSD
+
     Features:
     * -ao esd: new EsounD audio driver
     * -vo dxr3: new NORM option
-    * Xanim & RealPlayer binary Codecs working on PPC
+    * XAnim & RealPlayer binary Codecs working on PPC
     * Radeon 9000 support in VIDIX, colorkey restoring for all Radeons
-    * Initial PPC (Big-Endian) support in VIDIX Rage128 driver
-    * PNM:// streaming support (ported from xine)
-    * Muxer layer: mencoder can now write MPEG-PS format, too (EXPERIMENTAL!)
-    * libavcodec: wmv2 decoder (buggy/untested)
+    * initial PPC (big-endian) support in VIDIX Rage128 driver
+    * pnm:// streaming support (ported from xine)
+    * muxer layer: MEncoder can now write MPEG-PS format, too (EXPERIMENTAL!)
+    * libavcodec: WMV2 decoder (buggy/untested)
     * DVB "HEAD" (aka. NEWSTRUCT) drivers support
-    * Subtitles background bounding-box support (optional grey-level & opacity)
+    * subtitle background bounding-box support (optional grey-level & opacity)
     * libaf: 3 new filters: panning, compressor/limiter and a noise gate
     * per-mediafile config file support (for file-specific options)
     * iconv (codepage conversion) support for OGM (Ogg) subtitles
     * v4l: user friendly channel tuning
-    * Freetype & old-style RAW font support usable (compilable) at the same time
+    * freetype & old-style RAW font support usable (compilable) at the same time
     * vo_directfb2, vo_dfbmga: DirectFB 0.9.16 support
     * libavcodec: motion estimation pre pass, qpel encoding, trellis quantization
-    * libavcodec, liba52, mp3lib: Altivec optimizations
-    * keep window's aspect ratio at resizing (x11, xv), requires WM support
+    * libavcodec, liba52, mp3lib: AltiVec optimizations
+    * keep window aspect ratio at resizing (x11, xv), requires WM support
     * -geometry option, also accepts X11 syntax
     * real .bin+.cue (S)VCD images support (-vcd 2 -cuefile xxx.cue)
     * postprocess: YUV 411/422/444 support, stride fixes
-    * jumping of overlapping subs fixed, sorting is automatical, iconv fixes
-    * mpeg2 telecine detection and automatic inverse telecine (mplayer only)
+    * jumping of overlapping subs fixed, sorting is automatic, iconv fixes
+    * MPEG-2 telecine detection and automatic inverse telecine (MPlayer only)
 
-    Gui:
+    GUI:
     * correct GTK widget destroy event handler
     * fullscreen switching fixed (sync with x11_common)
-    * fix gtk submenu
+    * fix GTK submenu
     * new font render engine
     * added persistant history patch
     * SDL Audio configure window
     * add overlapping to preferences
-    * add play bar for subwindow
+    * add playbar for subwindow
     * add vertical potmeter for skin
     * fixed 'single pixel bug'
     * fixed some possible crashes
 
-  rc2:
+
+  rc2: Dec 24, 2002
     General:
     * DOCS/tech/encoding-tips.txt and tech/directfb.txt
-    * Some DOCS corrections/updates/sync/html fixes
+    * some DOCS corrections/updates/sync/HTML fixes
     * GUI: fixed three submenu bugs and several other problems
     * more compiler warning fixes
-    * NetBSD: cpu sse/sse2 detection & VCD reading fixes
+    * NetBSD: CPU SSE/SSE2 detection & VCD reading fixes
     * fixed possible v4l capturing crash
-    * Merged the EDL 0.5 patch - using & creating Edit-Lists (runtime cut&skip)
-    * Subtitle lines alignment changeable: top/bottom/middle (key 'i')
-    * -slang support for VobSub files
-    
+    * merged the EDL 0.5 patch - using & creating edit-lists (runtime cut&skip)
+    * subtitle alignment changeable: top/bottom/middle (key 'i')
+    * -slang support for VOBsub files
+
     VO:
-    * X11 fullscreen switching code changed again (esp. for gnome2/kde3.1)
+    * X11 fullscreen switching code changed again (esp. for GNOME2/KDE 3.1)
     * VIDIX: svgalib kernelhelper support (as libdha alternative)
     * VIDIX driver for trident cyberblade card
     * VIDIX: 8 pixel shift & pink window bugs fixed in the RADEON driver
-    * New, rewritten version of vo_svga (vidix support etc) and vo_gif89
+    * new, rewritten version of vo_svga (VIDIX support etc) and vo_gif89
     * yuv4mpeg vs. framedrop/frameskip fixed
-    
+
     Codecs:
     * libavcodec: fixed possible 20% speedloss bug
-    * support for the experimental (and buggy) dev-api-3 XViD CVS branch
+    * support for the experimental (and buggy) dev-api-3 XviD CVS branch
     * fallback to built-in codecs.conf if no compatible external file found
-    * experimental Sorenson 1/3 encoding (using quicktime DLLs)
-    * More accurate video bitrate calculation for AVI files
-    * Presets support for libmp3lame encoding
+    * experimental Sorenson 1/3 encoding (using QuickTime DLLs)
+    * more accurate video bitrate calculation for AVI files
+    * presets support for libmp3lame encoding
     * CDDA seeking fixed
     * Win32/RealPlayer codecs DLL & 64bit Alpha Linux RealPlayer codecs support
     * XMMS Input plugins (demuxer & codec) support
-    * Fixed a bug in MMX optimized mp3lib (triggered by OpenBSD)
+    * Fixed a bug in MMX-optimized mp3lib (triggered by OpenBSD).
 
-  rc1:  "CodecCounter"
+
+  rc1:  "CodecCounter" Dec 7, 2002
     Docs:
     * new French translation
-    * Irix section
-    * varous updates (both English & Hungarian)
+    * IRIX section
+    * various updates (both English & Hungarian)
 
     Codecs:
-    * New codec pack download page (there are several packs for various IFs)
-    * Win32/Quicktime codec plugin DLL support -> SVQ3 + QDMC/QDM2/Qclp !!!
+    * new codec pack download page (there are several packs for various IFs)
+    * Win32/QuickTime codec plugin DLL support -> SVQ3 + QDMC/QDM2/Qclp !!!
     * Win32/DMO codec DLL interface support -> Windows Media Audio/Video 9 !!!
     * MJPEG 2000 support (using Morgan & Imagepower VfW DLLs)
     * libavcodec: optimized HuffYUV en/decoder, with experimental YV12 support
-    * libavcodec: mjpeg-b support (need more samples)
+    * libavcodec: MJPEG-B support (need more samples)
     * more xvidencopts
     * VorbisGain tag support, tremor (fast vorbis decoder lib) support
     * BIG libavcodec messups & codmetics & cleanups & API changes & fixes
     * dynamic plugin support for libmpcodecs (for future binary codec releases)
 
-    Gui:
-    * general code cleanup, more robust gtk code
-    * preferences: Screensaver, Autosync settings
+    GUI:
+    * general code cleanup, more robust GTK code
+    * preferences: screensaver, Autosync settings
     * cache=4 fixed (caused jerky/lagging/slow playback with gmplayer)
 
     Others:
     * new config/cmdline parser code (optional)
-    * OSD menu system (preferences, shell, file selector etc)
+    * OSD menu system (preferences, shell, file selector, etc)
     * libaf: runtime cpudetection, volume, equalizer, better format conversion
     * subtitle overlapping can be disabled, added subtitle sorting
     * subtitle dump to JACOsub and SAMI formats
-    * displays URLs from 'Reference Media' type .mov files, dump generic data
-    * find best (longest) streams in .mov files (twotowers...)
-    * get position/length function in demuxers - for slavemode & -indentify
+    * displays URLs from 'Reference Media' type MOV files, dump generic data
+    * find best (longest) streams in MOV files (twotowers...)
+    * get position/length function in demuxers - for slavemode & -identify
     * -ao alsa9 surround fixes, 8-bit PCM fixed
     * -vo dfbmga: -dr support, fixed OSD flickering
-    * -stop-xscreensaver fixed, support for KDE screensaver too
+    * -stop-xscreensaver fixed, support for KDE screensaver, too
     * More compiler warning fixes
-    * Altivec (G4) support
+    * AltiVec (G4) support
+
 
-  pre10:  "BirthdayCounter"
+  pre10:  "BirthdayCounter" Nov 11, 2002
     Docs:
-    * dvd auth, vcd sections extended (DOCS/cd-dvd.html)
-    * unified *BSD sections, extended cygwin
-    
+    * DVD auth, VCD sections extended (DOCS/cd-dvd.html)
+    * unified *BSD sections, extended Cygwin
+
     Fixes:
     * LIRC error message (Error while reading cmd fd X : Success) fixed
-    * playback of some (streamed?) divx files fixed, starting with non-I frames.
+    * playback of some (streamed?) DivX files starting with non-I-frames fixed
     * -vo png fixed (removed builtin YV12 support, removed OSD)
-    * some .mp3 playback/seek segfaults fixed
-    * vidix mach64 colorkey on PPC fixed
+    * some MP3 playback/seek segfaults fixed
+    * VIDIX Mach64 colorkey on PPC fixed
     * -ao sdl now handles "featureless" soundcards
     * -vo zr fixes
     * fixed sig11 if vo init failed
-    * various dxr2 and dxr3 fixes
+    * various DXR2 and DXR3 fixes
     * v4l buffering fixed
     * fixed multiple reads caused by byteswapping macro (mjpeg.c, mach64_vid.c)
     * cleanup of postprocessing code - now it's threadsafe and can be shared
     * ported to GNU/Hurd
     * cleanup of AVI pts (timestamp) handling - no more BPS hack in mplayer.c
-    * small cleanup of A-V sync code - using relative timers instead of absolute
+    * small cleanup of A-V sync code - using relative instead of absolute timers
     * GUI code cleanup, obsolete files/dirs removed
-    * various small bugfixes, endianess fixes
-    * mencoder: -pass option removed, use -divx4opts pass=N / -lavcopts vpass=N
-    * mencoder: "ff_rate_estimate_qscale: Assertion `q>0.0' failed" fixed!
-    * mencoder: -ovc xvid fixes, cleanup, enhancements
+    * various small bug fixes, endianness fixes
+    * MEncoder: -pass option removed, use -divx4opts pass=N / -lavcopts vpass=N
+    * MEncoder: "ff_rate_estimate_qscale: Assertion `q>0.0' failed" fixed!
+    * MEncoder: -ovc xvid fixes, cleanup, enhancements
     * screensaver/dpms re-enabling fixed
-    * realvideo demuxer fixes - asf-style stream detection method
-    
+    * RealVideo demuxer fixes - ASF-style stream detection method
+
     Features:
-    * -ao win32 (for windows port)
-    * libavcodec: native WMA v1/v2 (aka. DivX audio) decoder
+    * -ao win32 (for Windows port)
+    * libavcodec: native WMA v1/v2 (aka DivX audio) decoder
     * hw-accelerated video eq for -vo x11 and gl2, using DirectColor colormap
     * overlapping subtitles support, jacosub (*.js) format support
     * -vo dxr3 got a new syncengine, ':sync', also added native overlay support,
       activate with ':overlay', read the manual for more info on how to set up
-    * QDMC/QDM2/MACE audio codec support, using quicktime 5 win32 DLLs (libwine!)
+    * QDMC/QDM2/MACE audio codec support, using QuickTime 5 Win32 DLLs (libwine!)
     * libavcodec: various MJPEG decoding fixes - now it decodes all sample files!
-    * mencvcd updates, sox/toolame support etc
+    * mencvcd updates, sox/toolame support, etc
     * -vo dfbmga - play video on Matrox G400's second head using directfb 0.9.14
     * RealAudio ATRC (sony atrac3) audio support (using binary plugin)
-    
+
     Filters:
     * -af/-af-adv options cleanup
-    * now auto-inserting -vop lavc for mpeg-only vo's
+    * now auto-inserting -vop lavc for MPEG-only vo's
     * video filter API documented :)
     * better deblocking filter (-vop pp), pp/npp syntax changed!
-    * -vop 2xsai - 2x scaler for drawn images (low color cartoon anims)
-    * -vop unsharp - an sharp/blur filter, nice, but very slow
+    * -vop 2xsai - 2x scaler for drawn images (low-color cartoon animations)
+    * -vop unsharp - a sharp/blur filter, nice, but very slow
     * -vop il - (de)interleave fields
     * -vop swapuv - guess what :)
     * -vop boxblur - box blur...
@@ -752,140 +1398,143 @@
     * -vop sab
     * -vop smartblur
 
-  pre9:
+
+  pre9: Oct 24, 2002
     Docs:
     * man page rewritten again :)))
     * man page updated to latest options, including lavc options
     * Chinese docs translation added
     * Hungarian translation is (was? :)) up-to-date again
-    
+
     Cleanup:
     * divx4_vbr.c is now really GPL - with the permission of the DivX.com guys!
     * cyuv decoder restructuring, now supports planar YUV formats, too
     * removed obsolete variables, like has_audio, has_video, allow_dshow, fifo
     * help_mp-XX.h files moved to help/ subdirectory, removed obsolete entries
-    * the obsolete 0x1ff eof hack removed from mpeg-es demuxer and decoders
-    * stheaders.h cleanup, removed unneeded wine includes from mplayer core
+    * the obsolete 0x1ff eof hack removed from MPEG-ES demuxer and decoders
+    * stheaders.h cleanup, removed unneeded wine includes from MPlayer core
     * tons of compiler warning fixes, including some 10l ones
     * mga/xmga vo shared code, vesa and svga drivers cleanup
     * major vo drivers are now -fixed-vo compliant: x11, xv, xvidix, xmga, gl2
-    * cleanup of libmpdemux option handling - now it's mplayer-independent again
+    * libmpdemux option handling cleanup - now it's MPlayer-independent again
     * removed fork() from LIRC input module
     * libfame removed from main tree/release - libavcodec is faster, better etc.
-    
+
     Fixes:
     * Some fullscreen switching fixes, including Metacity vs KDE 3.1
     * Many GUI bug fixes
     * -vo DGA fixes, cleanup
     * -dvdkey sig11 fixed
-    * k6-3's 3dnowex vs mmxext sigill fixed in mp3lib
+    * K6-III's 3dnowex vs mmxext sigill fixed in mp3lib
     * -vo gif89, jpeg U-V swapping fixed
     * RTC setup fixes, more verbose messages, hints
-    * mencoder: demuxer/codec uninit order fixed (solves some sig11)
+    * MEncoder: demuxer/codec uninit order fixed (solves some sig11)
     * various v4l and ALSA capturing fixes
-    * demux_mov: fixed crash with MPEG4 on SPARC, decoding on big endian
+    * demux_mov: fixed crash with MPEG-4 on SPARC, decoding on big-endian
     * various NAS ao fixes
     * libvo: optional stride support for packed YUV / RGB formats
-    * mencoder: set keyframe flag on audio packets, fixes Windows seeking problems
-    * loader: fixed 2 10l bugs, ATI VCR2 DLL now working. using new style CS code.
-    * demux_avi: always use block counter, even if dwSampleSize!=0, fixes some files
-    * SPU decoder (DVD/VOB subs): fixed 2 major bugs causing lost subtitles
+    * MEncoder: set keyframe flag on audio packets, fixes Windows seeking
+    * loader: fixed 2 10l bugs, ATI VCR2 DLL now works. using new style CS code.
+    * demux_avi: always use block counter even if dwSampleSize!=0, fixes samples
+    * SPU decoder (DVD/VOBsubs): fixed 2 major bugs causing lost subtitles
     * various memory leak fixes (valgrind rulez :)
     * fixed RealAudio SIPR(O) codec (the wrapper didn't find the dspr.so.6)
     * mms:// audio (radio) streaming fixed
     * DVB: -vop lavc=bitrate is working again
-    * various big endian fixes
+    * various big-endian fixes
 
     Features:
     * new audio filter layer (libaf) - automatic samplerate conversion
-    * experimental -vo directx driver for cygwin build
-    * unrarlib included for rar'ed vobsubs
-    * native XviD encoding (-ovc xvid) interface for mencoder
+    * experimental -vo directx driver for Cygwin build
+    * unrarlib included for rar'ed VOBsubs
+    * native XviD encoding (-ovc xvid) interface for MEncoder
     * new softeq filter with gamma support: -vop eq2
-    * -ao/-vo accepts list of drivers and can fall back to one, just like -ac/-vc
+    * -ao/-vo accepts list of drivers and can fall back to one, like -ac/-vc
     * audio/video codec selection (-ac/-afm) rewritten, now uses codec/fm list
     * get_delay() smoothing (-autosync) - should help buggy sound drivers
     * smb:// URL support (disabled by default, ./configure part not yet done!)
     * support for 1/4/8bpp raw video (requires -vop palette / -vop 1bpp)
-    * support for quicktime alaw/agsm audio codecs, 3IV2, 3VID video codecs
-    * swscale can now output to YUY2 format, upscaled (default) or unscaled (-sws 0)
-    * Vidix with LinuxPPC support (mach64 is confirmed to work)
+    * support for QuickTime alaw/agsm audio codecs, 3IV2, 3VID video codecs
+    * swscale can now output YUY2 format, upscaled (default), unscaled (-sws 0)
+    * VIDIX with LinuxPPC support (Mach64 is confirmed to work)
     * GUI: cache, autoq settings, start in fullscreen, toggle button in menu
     * New video filter to overlay images over video: -vop bmovl
-    
+
     Libavcodec:
     * RV10 codec cleanup (2nd level demuxer moved to demuxer layer)
-    * MPEG4 interlaced DCT _en_coding support
+    * MPEG-4 interlaced DCT _en_coding support
     * luma masking support (encoding)
     * runtime selectable IDCT algo
-    * faster MPEG1/2 decoder
+    * faster MPEG-1/2 decoder
     * DV decoding (both PAL and NTSC)
-    * MPEG1 2-pass encoding support
+    * MPEG-1 2-pass encoding support
     * better/cleaner error resilience (done in a 2nd pass after decoding)
-    * h263/MPEG4 out of order slice decoding
+    * H.263/MPEG-4 out of order slice decoding
     * -lavdopts bug= reworked, now uses flags, autodetects most of them
-    * complete MPEG4 GMC decoding support
-    
+    * complete MPEG-4 GMC decoding support
 
-  pre8:
+
+  pre8: Sep 18, 2002
     Docs:
-    * manpage has been rewritten, now has better indenting, and convertable to html
+    * man page rewritten, now has better indenting, and can be converted to HTML
     * AUTHORS, MAINTAINERS converted back to separate text files, and updated.
     * ChangeLog file is included again (was removed after 0.18)
-    * some new tech docs on libmpcodecs, updates/fixes in others, manpage-howto
+    * some new tech docs on libmpcodecs, updates/fixes in others, manpage.txt
     * more updates in translation files (help_mp-XX.h)
     * removed obsolete/unused entries from help_mp-en.h
 
     Cleanup:
-    * xanim interface merged & fixed, now uses mpi and supports direct rendering
+    * XAnim interface merged & fixed, now uses mpi and supports direct rendering
     * cleanup of libmpdemux stream layer, especially of TV and MF parts
-    * some more unused files removed: vo_fsdga, vo_odivx, vd_rle, timer.c, ttf_load
+    * more unused files removed: vo_fsdga, vo_odivx, vd_rle, timer.c, ttf_load
 
     Fixes:
     * the http:// infinite memleak bug has been fixed, some WMS9 mms:// fixes
-    * various sparc/sun, hpux and netbsd/openbsd portability fixes
+    * various SPARC/Sun, HP-UX and NetBSD/OpenBSD portability fixes
     * -vop palette fixes, CRAM and QPEG colors are OK now
     * demuxer fixed for >2GB nuppelvideo files
-    * mencoder: -ss fixed for 3-pass encoding
-    * gui.conf locale bug fixed (again... hope this time it's ok)
+    * MEncoder: -ss fixed for 3-pass encoding
+    * gui.conf locale bug fixed (again... hope this time it's OK)
     * X11 fullscreen switching fixed, when d_width == screenwidth
     * MOV files edit-list handling fixed - solved 'short read' issue
-    
+
     Features:
-    * new demuxer for .PVA files (fileformat of TV/DVB apps on win32)
-    * -mf now supports TGA (24/32bpp uncomp/rle) images
-    * libavcodec: support for interlaced mpeg-4 _de_coding
-    * libavcodec: aspect ratio encoding support (mpeg4, mjpeg, h263?)
-    * win32 DLL loader merged/synced with avifile CVS
-  
-  pre7:
+    * new demuxer for .PVA files (file format of TV/DVB apps on Win32)
+    * -mf now supports TGA (24/32bpp uncompressed/rle) images
+    * libavcodec: support for interlaced MPEG-4 _de_coding
+    * libavcodec: aspect ratio encoding support (MPEG-4, MJPEG, H.263?)
+    * Win32 DLL loader merged/synced with avifile CVS
+
+
+  pre7: Sep 5, 2002
     Cleanup:
     * libvo2, old input code & sis_vid removed, other code cleanups
-    * tons of compiler warning fixes, some configure/makefile improvements
+    * tons of compiler warning fixes, some configure/Makefile improvements
     * more messages are translated, many translations updated
-    * docs review continued, html cleanups
+    * docs review continued, HTML cleanups
     * option -vfm/-afm now uses names instead of numbers, driver IDs removed
-    
+
     Code:
     * vfw/vfwex cleanup, support for runtime csp queries, 8bpp support
     * new native mszh/zlib codec
-    * libavcodec: 2-pass control code rewritten, now everything customizable
-    * libavcodec: mpeg4/xvid en/decoding support improved, rv10 decoding fixes
-    * various realvideo demuxer and video codec fixes, sipr audio support
-    * new video filters: soft eq (brightness), halfpack (deinterlacer), film noise  
-    * .ogm subtitles support
+    * libavcodec: 2-pass control code rewritten, now everything is customizable
+    * libavcodec: MPEG-4/XviD en/decoding support improved, rv10 decoding fixes
+    * various RealVideo demuxer and video codec fixes, sipr audio support
+    * new video filters: soft eq (brightness), halfpack (deinterlacer), film noise
+    * OGM subtitles support
     * optional freetype 2.1+ support for runtime-scalable .ttf font rendering
     * various networking and mms:// fixes, live.com support improved
     * various v4l video capturing and audio capturing fixes, audio input layer
     * libmpdvdkit2 - based on libdvdcss 1.2.2 + libdvdread 0.9.3 + key cache
-    * alsa: iec958-init completly rewritten - better SP/DIF AC3 support
-    
-    Gui:
+    * alsa: iec958-init completely rewritten - better SP/DIF AC3 support
+
+    GUI:
     * gui.conf locale bug fixed (hopefully)
-    * gui preferences menu extended, runtime subtitle loading support
-    * gui: drag'n'drop support
-  
-  pre6:
+    * preferences menu extended, runtime subtitle loading support
+    * drag'n'drop support
+
+
+  pre6: Aug 6, 2002
     * WMV1, Sorenson v1 (SVQ1) and RealPlayer 8.0 (RV20/30, Cook) codecs support
     * libavcodec M1 direct rendering
     * IPB support with Xv
@@ -896,25 +1545,26 @@
     * Detection of AVI files which needs -ni
     * workaround for some Nandub bugs
     * Support for live.com RTP/RTSP streaming libraries
-    * Support to rip DVD subs in VobSub format
-    * bugfixes of mpsub/srt converter
-    * Closed Captioning (ascii subs on RC1 DVDs) support
+    * Support to rip DVD subs in VOBsub format
+    * bug fixes of mpsub/srt converter
+    * Closed Captioning (ASCII subs on RC1 DVDs) support
     * Massive directfb updates
-    * Vidix fixes/updates, including fixes of all known radeon bugs
+    * VIDIX fixes/updates, including fixes of all known Radeon bugs
     * dithered 1/4/8 bpp support with -vo svga (EGA rulez:))
     * alsa9 fixes/improvements
     * native ARTS driver
-    * various endianess and 64-bit fixes (including mencoder and -ao pcm)
-    * tons of small compatibility/portability fixes (better cygwin, darwin support)
+    * various endianness and 64-bit fixes (including MEncoder and -ao pcm)
+    * many small compatibility/portability fixes (better Cygwin, Darwin support)
     * GUI fixes (playlist, audio/video equalizer, preferences)
-    * Skins (fixed many small glitches, few new skins)
-    * 'mencvcd' script (creating VCD/SVCD with mencoder)
-    * html DOCS updates
-    * manpage & README restructured (again :))
+    * Skins (fixed many small glitches, a few new skins)
+    * 'mencvcd' script (creating VCD/SVCD with MEncoder)
+    * HTML DOCS updates
+    * man page & README restructured (again :))
+
 
-  pre5:
+  pre5: Jun 8, 2002
     Documentation:
-    * lot of fixes, updates, cleanups
+    * a lot of fixes, updates, cleanups
     * new README containing quick install guide
     * tech level docs on libavcodec encoding options
     * HTML doc is now IE 6.0.2600 compatible! :)))
@@ -925,12 +1575,12 @@
     * new (faster, better) scaler
     * bbox support
     * mmst:// streaming support
-    * .ogm (OGG) audio/video stream selection
-    * native Micro$oft MPEG4v1 (MPG4) codec, error concealement for all MPEG4s
+    * OGM (Ogg) audio/video stream selection
+    * native Micro$oft MPEG4v1 (MPG4) codec, error concealement for all MPEG-4s
     * various libavcodec encoding improvements
-    * MPEG1 && -vo x11 crash fixed when movie's height%16!=0
-    * raw (uncompressed) video fixed (avi & mov)
-    * flickering/blocking fixed for old vfw codecs (indeo3, cinepak etc)
+    * MPEG-1 && -vo x11 crash fixed when movie's height%16!=0
+    * raw (uncompressed) video fixed (AVI & MOV)
+    * flickering/blocking fixed for old VfW codecs (indeo3, cinepak etc)
     * introduced codecs.conf versioning to avoid problems caused by too old conf
 
     Display:
@@ -938,7 +1588,7 @@
     * xscreensaver disabling support (optional, disabled by default)
     * pan&scan support in xv, xmga, xvidix
     * Xv YV12 stride problems fixed when width%8!=0
-    * vidix r128/radeon driver synced with mplayerxp, various xvidix fixes
+    * VIDIX Rage128/Radeon driver synced with MPlayerXP, various xvidix fixes
     * DVB A/V sync fixes, libfame updated to 0.9.0
     * native -ao arts driver
     * AC3 passthrough support for -ao alsa9
@@ -948,90 +1598,98 @@
     * GUI: VCD and URL support, some bugs fixed
     * some cleanup of messages (less debug stuff) printed by MPlayer
     * gcc 3.1 support
-    * various portability fixes (cygwin, darwin, 64bit sparc/alpha)
+    * various portability fixes (Cygwin, Darwin, 64bit SPARC/Alpha)
 
-  pre4:
-    * X11 fullscreen toggle fixes with various windowmanagers, multifile playback
+
+  pre4: May 13, 2002
+    * X11 fullscreen toggle fixes with many window managers, multifile playback
     * DXR2 support
     * Output into animated GIF
-    * "cropdetect" video filter to autodetect needed size to crop
+    * "cropdetect" video filter to autodetect necessary cropsize
     * libavcodec marked as default encoder for MEncoder
-    * manpage rewrite
-    * lot of other fixes
+    * man page rewrite
+    * a lot of other fixes
+
 
-  pre3:
-    * 3DNow! optimization of AC3 4ch downmix fixed, optims re-enabled
+  pre3: May 3, 2002
+    * 3DNow! optimization of AC3 4ch downmix fixed, optimizations re-enabled
     * DGA error/fail after 1 second of playing fixed
     * big A-V desync for some AVI files fixed
     * image distortions when seeking in some MPEG files fixed
     * libmpdvdkit + gcc 3.x issue solved (our CFLAGS triggered a gcc3 bug...)
     * GUI aspect ratio and fullscreen switch fixes, cleanups
-    * low FPS .wmv playback fixed
+    * low-PS WMV playback fixed
     * Mac OS X (Darwin) port?
     * buggy v4l audio grabbing disabled, we cannot fix, but patches are welcomed!
-    * various mjpeg improvements in libavcodec
+    * various MJPEG improvements in libavcodec
 
-  pre2:
-    * hwac3 fixes (try AFMT_AC3 first), bigendian fixes for PCM audio
-    * 2-pass encoding with libavcodec (-lavcopts vpass=x), B frames support
-    * faster .ogg seeking (use -forceidx for slow but accurate one)
-    * audio-only with gui fixed
-    * -rootwin fixed for x11,xv,xmga,xvidix
+
+  pre2: Apr 30, 2002
+    * hwac3 fixes (try AFMT_AC3 first), big-endian fixes for PCM audio
+    * 2-pass encoding with libavcodec (-lavcopts vpass=x), B-frames support
+    * faster Ogg seeking (use -forceidx for slow but accurate one)
+    * audio-only with GUI fixed
+    * -rootwin fixed for x11, xv, xmga, xvidix
     * aspect ratio fix for ffmpeg12
-    * mpeg-es detection fixed
+    * MPEG-ES detection fixed
     * runtime cpudetect disabled by default
-    * support for many new win32 codecs, including mss1, tm20, ucod, truespeech
-    * divx audio dll sig11 with glibc 2.1.(2|3) fixed
-    * includes libmpdvdkit - patched kit of dvd libraries (enabled for linux+freebsd)
-    * manpages updated
+    * support for many new Win32 codecs, including mss1, tm20, ucod, truespeech
+    * DivX audio dll sig11 with glibc 2.1.(2|3) fixed
+    * libmpdvdkit - patched kit of DVD libraries (enabled for Linux+FreeBSD)
+    * man pages updated
     * 'f' (fullscreen switch) fixed for some WMs, still has problems
-    * various freebsd and openbsd portability patches
-    * options -xy,-zoom,-flip usable with mencoder too, -xy keeps aspect
-    * -vop lavc, using new fast best libavcodec for realtime mpeg1 transcoding
-    * fixed gtk gui crash with --disable-mencoder
-    * no more black vobsub subtitles :)
+    * various FreeBSD and OpenBSD portability patches
+    * options -xy,-zoom,-flip usable with MEncoder, too, -xy keeps aspect
+    * -vop lavc, using new fast best libavcodec for realtime MPEG-1 transcoding
+    * fixed GTK GUI crash with --disable-mencoder
+    * no more black VOBsub subtitles :)
+
 
-  pre1:
+  pre1: Apr 21, 2002
     * 100% GPL - yeah, so what?
-    * runtime CPU detection code - any x86 MPlayer binary can run on "any" other x86 CPU
-    * video filter layer - with numerous plugins (crop, expand, etc, see the documentation)
-    * ability to view or encode DVD/vobsub and/or text subtitles into the output AVI
-    * prelimenary dvdnav support (experimental)
-    * Direct Rendering - can't be used with libavcodec yet, sorry
-    * ability to display subtitles under the image, on black bands
-    * FFmpeg (included) now supports decoding MPEG4v2 (MP42) and DivX 5.0 files too
-    * greatly enhanced MPEG4 encoder (libavcodec)
-    * audio-only (wav/mp3/wma/ogg) file playback (console only)
-    * playing/encoding audio from separate wav/mp3 file
-    * support for more fileformats, including the new and very popular .ogg
-    * multiple files playback from console, including various playlist formats
+    * runtime CPU detection - x86 MPlayer binary can run on "any" other x86 CPU
+    * video filter layer - with numerous plugins (crop, expand, etc)
+    * view or encode DVD/VOBsub and/or text subtitles into the output AVI
+    * preliminary dvdnav support (experimental)
+    * direct rendering - can't be used with libavcodec yet, sorry
+    * display subtitles under the image, on black bands
+    * FFmpeg (included) now supports decoding MPEG4v2 (MP42) and DivX 5.0 files
+    * greatly enhanced MPEG-4 encoder (libavcodec)
+    * audio-only (WAV/MP3/WMA/Ogg) file playback (console only)
+    * playing/encoding audio from separate WAV/MP3 file
+    * support for more file formats, including the new and very popular Ogg
+    * multiple file playback from console, including various playlist formats
     * and of course, faster than ever... :)
 
 
-mplayer (0.60) "The RTFMCounter"
+MPlayer (0.60) "The RTFMCounter": Jan 2, 2002
 
   release:
-    * minor bugfixes for realmedia/nuppelvideo demuxers
+    * minor bug fixes for RealMedia/nuppelvideo demuxers
     * docs updates
     * help file translation updates
 
-  pre2:
+
+  pre2: Dec 29, 2002
     * build fixes (install codecs.conf)
-    * dvd subtitles improved (stability and pts fixes)
+    * DVD subtitles improved (stability and pts fixes)
     * new options: -alang, -vlang, -rootwin, -npp ... (rtfm)
-    * dxr3 fixes
-    * ac3 passthrough fix
+    * DXR3 fixes
+    * AC3 passthrough fix
     * docs updates
     * make install
 
-  pre1:
-    * new file formats (MOV, FLI/FLC, VIVO, RealMedia, NuppelVideo, yuv4mpeg, yuv4mpeg2)
-    * more native codecs (CRAM, CVID, FLI, generic ADPCM (and IMA) decoder, g723, xanim)
-    * mencoder (a tool for encoding video to divx4+mp3)
-    * rewritten configure script (better autodetect, cleaner messages)
+
+  pre1: Dec 25, 2002
+    * new file formats (MOV, FLI/FLC, VIVO, RealMedia, NuppelVideo, yuv4mpeg,
+      yuv4mpeg2)
+    * more native codecs (CRAM, CVID, FLI, generic ADPCM (and IMA) decoder,
+      g723, XAnim)
+    * MEncoder (a tool for encoding video to DivX4+MP3)
+    * rewritten configure script (better autodetection, cleaner messages)
     * MMX/SSE optimizations
     * faster postprocessing filter, syntax change (deinterlacing support)
-    * directshow code in C
+    * DirectShow code in C
     * software YV12 scaling
     * aspect ratio fixes
     * input cache for smoother network/DVD playback
@@ -1045,44 +1703,51 @@
     * hardware MPEG decoder support (DXR3, Siemens DVB)
 
 
-mplayer (0.50) "The Faszom(C)ounter"
+
+MPlayer (0.50) "The Faszom(C)ounter": Oct 8, 2001
 
   release:
     * documentation updates
-    * non-linux build fixes
+    * non-Linux build fixes
+
 
-  prex?:
+  prex 1-3: Sep 28 2001 - Oct 5 2001
     * some pre-beta nationalization support
-    * HTMLized documentation, splitted to sections
-    * lot of bugfixing
+    * HTMLized documentation, split in sections
+    * a lot of bug fixing
     * new AAlib driver (independent of SDL, SUB/OSD support)
     * DivX DirectShow equalizer over keyboard
     * dynamic setting of DivX postprocessing quality (-autoq)
     * updated FAQ section on the homepage
 
-mplayer (0.18) "The BugCounter"
 
-  pre 1-5:
-    * mp3lib even more optimized to 3DNow!/MMX
+
+MPlayer (0.18) "The BugCounter": (0.18 only consisted of prereleases)
+
+  pre 1-5: Jun 26 2001 - Jul 9 2001
+    * mp3lib even more optimized for 3DNow!/MMX
     * GGI driver
     * ICCCM patch
 
     * skin support
     * GUI support
 
-    * Introduced libao2 (null, oss, alsa, sdl)
+    * libao2 (null, oss, alsa, sdl) introduced
     * ASF seeking fixed
     * option to force audio playback samplerate (-srate)
-    * Framedropping for MPEG files as well
+    * framedropping for MPEG files as well
     * X11 driver works on remote display (without SHM)
     * A-V sync for AVI files fixed (both -bps and -nobps)
 
 
-mplayer v0.17a "IdegCounter++" : Apr 27  2001
+
+MPlayer v0.17a "IdegCounter++": Apr 27  2001
   - first 0.17 release failed - buggy files outdated docs etc :(
     it's (hopefully) fixed now.
-    
-mplayer v0.17 "IdegCounter" : Apr 27  2001
+
+
+
+MPlayer v0.17 "IdegCounter": Apr 27, 2001
   * DVD playing (libcss)
   * OSD and subtitles with antialiased fonts
   * new Win32 codecs (WMV1,AP42,ASV2 etc)
@@ -1091,56 +1756,68 @@
 
 * jumped to 0.17 * (why 17? oh. chass just got a new 17" monitor :))
 
-  - faster memcpy() routine (MMX/3DNow!/SSE optimized)
+  - faster memcpy() routine (MMX/3DNow!/SSE-optimized)
   - new stream selection code (autodetected)
   - pre-devel-alpha DVD code (libcss)
   - subtitle code 100% (perfected timing code)
   - new output drivers (SVGAlib, FBdev)
 
-mplayer v0.11-pre27-CVS:
+
+
+MPlayer v0.11-pre27-CVS:
   - updated libmpeg2 source to libmpeg2-0.2.1-CVS version
   - updated OpenDivX encore/decore to 4.0 alpha48
   - cmdline/configfile handler by szabi
   - added DirectShow support (now DivX-only)
   - bugfix: stream.c/stream_new() uninitialized variables
 
-mplayer v0.11-pre26-CVS:
+
+
+MPlayer v0.11-pre26-CVS:
   - updated libmpeg2 source to libmpeg2-0.2.0 version
   - small fixes
 
-mplayer v0.11-pre25-CVS:  yeah, we moved to SourceForge CVS!
+
+
+MPlayer v0.11-pre25-CVS:  yeah, we moved to SourceForge CVS!
   - DOCS updated (email address changed from arpi@* -> maillist)
   - LIRC fix, mplayer_lirc changed back to mplayer [Andreas Ackermann]
-  - stream.c: unsigned int fixes, required for some strange .asf files
+  - stream.c: unsigned int fixes, required for some strange ASF files
   - asfheader.c: using w=h=b=1 for audio_concealment_none
   - VCD-related stuff moved from stream.c to vcd_read.c
   - added DGA driver by Andreas Ackermann
-  - added debian/ subdir for the debian package makers... see DOCS/DEBIAN
+  - added debian/ subdir for the Debian package makers... see DOCS/DEBIAN
   - new Makefile/dependency system
-  - added check_events() to libvo, x11 stuff moved to x11_common.c
+  - added check_events() to libvo, X11 stuff moved to x11_common.c
 
-mplayer v0.11-pre24: Feb 19  2001
+
+
+MPlayer v0.11-pre24: Feb 19, 2001
   small fixes again :(
   - DOCS/LIRC changed: users *must* enable lirc support manually, it is
     not autodetected yet.  (./configure --enable-lirc)
   - the {prefix} bug fixed by Gabucino
-  - added manpage by Gabucino
-  - manpage -vo fixes by A'rpi
+  - added man page by Gabucino
+  - man page -vo fixes by A'rpi
+
 
-mplayer v0.11-pre23: Feb 18  2001
+
+MPlayer v0.11-pre23: Feb 18, 2001
   lirc support, text updates, mailinglists
   - added "-ni" option to force usage of the non-interleaved AVI parser
   - DOCS/* updated by Gabucino
   - new homepage by Gabucino
-  - mplayer users & announce mailing lists by Dariusz Pietrzak (see README)
+  - MPlayer-users & announce mailing lists by Dariusz Pietrzak (see README)
   - LIRC support by Andreas Ackermann (see DOCS/LIRC)
     enable with ./configure --enable-lirc
     TODO: ./configure should detect LIRC installed and better Makefile handling
   - added AVI_NINI parser for broken (no index) non-interleaved files
 
-mplayer v0.11-pre22: Feb 16  2001
+
+
+MPlayer v0.11-pre22: Feb 16, 2001
   last fixes, release is coming soon!
-  - non-interleaved avi EOF bug fixed  [thanks to DC-1 for help]
+  - non-interleaved AVI EOF bug fixed  [thanks to DC-1 for help]
   - "You" strings in Makefile after make dep bug fixed...  [thx to DC-1]
   - SDL disabled by default. You have to ./configure --enable-sdl to enable.
   - homepage updated by Gabucino
@@ -1149,51 +1826,58 @@
 
 fork()  -> 0.12pre1
 
-mplayer v0.11-pre21: Feb 12  2001
-  mpeg1 pp, stereo fix
+
+
+MPlayer v0.11-pre21: Feb 12, 2001
+  MPEG-1 pp, stereo fix
   - "Skip chunk xxxx" messages moved from -v to -v -v -v debug level...
     [thanks to Christoph H. Lampert]
-  - divx postprocess filter works for mpeg1 files too! (-divxq 1/3/7/31)
-  - mpeg layer-2 audio fixed - it's stereo again!!!
+  - DivX postprocess filter works for MPEG-1 files, too! (-divxq 1/3/7/31)
+  - MPEG layer-2 audio fixed - it's stereo again!!!
   - audio select() detection: if detected audio buffer size == 0, then
-    exit with message "recompile mplayer with #undef HAVE_AUDIO_SELECT"...
+    exit with message "Recompile mplayer with #undef HAVE_AUDIO_SELECT !"...
   - syncfb driver added to the source tree, under drivers/
     (it's very similar to mga_vid, but has syncronization to screen and
      de-interlace features)
-  - draw_slice in syncfb finished for G400 cards (plays mpeg 1/2, opendivx)
+  - draw_slice in syncfb finished for G400 cards (plays MPEG-1/2, OpenDivX)
     (de-interlacing has been disabled, because it's buggy now)
 
-mplayer v0.11-pre20: Feb 11  2001
+
+MPlayer v0.11-pre20: Feb 11, 2001
   NI-AVI support, small fixes & patches...
-  - asf parser: flag 0x40 (explicit packet size) implemented [Marvin]
+  - ASF parser: flag 0x40 (explicit packet size) implemented [Marvin]
   - new option to select DSP device:  -dsp   (default: /dev/dsp) [Pontscho]
   - option -o changed to -vo
   - ./configure: applied patches  [LGB,Ian Kumlien,Magnus Pfeffer]
-  - avi chunk_id->ds mapper moved to demux_avi_select_stream()
-  - added non-interleaved .AVI parser
-  - added non-interleaved .AVI detection (if a_pos-v_pos distance > 1MB)
+  - AVI chunk_id->ds mapper moved to demux_avi_select_stream()
+  - added non-interleaved AVI parser
+  - added non-interleaved AVI detection (if a_pos-v_pos distance > 1MB)
+
+
 
-mplayer v0.11-pre19: Feb  9  2001
+MPlayer v0.11-pre19: Feb 9, 2001
   small fixes...
   - vo_xmga.c: G200 draw_slice fixed
     xmga + mga: common part (draw_frame & draw_slice) moved to mga_common.c
   - some independent code (asfinfo.c and GL-test) moved to the new TOOLS subdir
-  - movinfo.c added to TOOLS (small util to dump .mov file structure)
+  - movinfo.c added to TOOLS (small util to dump MOV file structure)
   - AVI & ASF stream id detection changed: now using IDs from the header
     (but still can be overriden by -aid or -vid)     [Christoph H. Lampert]
   - native MS-GSM audio codec ported from avifile source  (-afm 6)
     [thanks for the testfile to Christoph H. Lampert]
   - README updated (input & codec lists)
-  - implemented .asf audio descrambling  [Dirk Vornheder & Einon]
-    -> that weird_al_yankovic asf is not so weird now :)
+  - implemented ASF audio descrambling  [Dirk Vornheder & Einon]
+    -> that weird_al_yankovic ASF is not so weird now :)
   - AUTHORS file changed
 
-mplayer v0.11-pre18: Feb  7  2001
+
+
+MPlayer v0.11-pre18: Feb 7, 2001
   patch release :)
-  - skip broken .asf fragments (for better seeking)
+  - skip broken ASF fragments (for better seeking)
   - seeking code cleanup in sources (now it's in a switch(){})
   - opendivx encoding bitrate option changed from -divxq to -br
-    (for the divx -> divx re-encoding)
+    (for the DivX -> DivX re-encoding)
   - TO DO section moved to file TODO
   - applied ./configure and Makefile changes patch from LGB
   - libvo function changes by Pontscho: x11 (with -fs), xmga (bugfixed!)
@@ -1202,183 +1886,210 @@
   - libvo: fork()'ed X11 eventhandler for x11 and xmga drivers  [me & Pontscho]
      (gl and xv version is coming soon!)
   - libvo: sdl driver now closes SDL at QUIT...
-  - small english fixes (docs & messages)   [Balazs Tibor]
+  - small English fixes (docs & messages)   [Balazs Tibor]
+
+
 
-mplayer v0.11-pre17: Feb  4  2001
+MPlayer v0.11-pre17: Feb 4, 2001
   fixes
-  - asf "missing video stream" fixed (stream id & 0x7F)  [Christoph H. Lampert]
+  - ASF "missing video stream" fixed (stream id & 0x7F)  [Christoph H. Lampert]
   - added GL-test directory, it contains source and compiler script of a
     very simple open-gl texture updating (glTexSubImage) test program.
-    if it runs well, then mplayer -o gl should work too.
+    if it runs well, then mplayer -o gl should work, too.
     it works on G400+Utah-GLX, but segfaults in the G400 driver of X 4.0.2/DRI.
     try it with different cards/drivers, and please report me the results.
   - benchmarking in gltest.c: calculate fps and process times
-  - .asf seeking v0.01-pre0.1 :)
+  - ASF seeking v0.01-pre0.1 :)
 
-mplayer v0.11-pre16: Feb  4  2001
+
+
+MPlayer v0.11-pre16: Feb 4, 2001
   ACM fixed
-  - Win32/ACM audio codec fixed (most important for asf with divx audio):
+  - Win32/ACM audio codec fixed (most important for ASF with DivX audio):
     There was an output buffer size problem with the Win32/ACM audio codec
-    at low bitrates (usually used for .asf files with divx audio)
+    at low bitrates (usually used for ASF files with DivX audio)
     Input and output buffer sizes are now queryed, problem solved :)
   - SDL support compiling hint by Michael Durller added to the FAQ
-  - opendivx support in .asf files   [Gérard Lantau]
+  - opendivx support in ASF files   [Gérard Lantau]
   - ./configure & Makefiles patch by Aaron Hope applied.
     (adds --with-win32libdir and fixes --with-x11libdir)
   - ./configure fixed, now it defaults to /usr/lib/win32 if detection failed
 
-mplayer v0.11-pre15: Feb  2  2001
-  asf sync fixed
-  - asf parser: now supports other than 0x5D segments  [Dirk Vornheder]
-  - new asf PTS reading: sync works now, including fps...
+
+
+MPlayer v0.11-pre15: Feb 2, 2001
+  ASF sync fixed
+  - ASF parser: now supports other than 0x5D segments  [Dirk Vornheder]
+  - new ASF PTS reading: sync works now, including fps...
     (-fps no longer required!)  [thanks again to Eugene Kuznetsov for docs!]
 
-mplayer v0.11-pre14: Feb  1  2001
-  small fixes, asf sync v0.1 :)
+
+
+MPlayer v0.11-pre14: Feb 1, 2001
+  small fixes, ASF sync v0.1 :)
   - version number incremented :)))
-  - libvo / Xv driver swapped Red-Blue fixed
-  - asf timestamps implemented - now asf A-V should be in sync if you
+  - libvo / Xv driver swapped red-blue fixed
+  - ASF timestamps implemented - now ASF A-V should be in sync if you
     specify the correct fps at commandline (-fps), +-1 fps allowed...
-    [i haven't yet found method to get fps out from asf headers :(((]
+    [i haven't yet found method to get fps out from ASF headers :(((]
   - some error and consistency checking into demux_asf
-    if you see many warning! messages playing an .asf file, then contact
+    if you see many warning! messages playing an ASF file, then contact
     me and upload the file (first 1MB is enough if it represents the problem)
-    Don't forget: there is no public doc about the .asf file format, so 
+    Don't forget: there is no public doc about the ASF file format, so
     everything we know is suspected and can be wrong... without your help
-    we never will have working .asf player...
-  - asf fragment offset checks disabled for grouping...
+    we will never have a working ASF player...
+  - ASF fragment offset checks disabled for grouping...
+
+
 
-mplayer v0.11-pre13: Jan 31  2001
-  libvo changes, mpeg bitrate, vcd fix, asf grouping
+MPlayer v0.11-pre13: Jan 31, 2001
+  libvo changes, MPEG bitrate, VCD fix, ASF grouping
   - libvo: draw_slice() interface changed, now it has src stride[3] and
     destination rect dimension (w,h,x,y)
     It's able to blit whole frames, not only 16-pixel slices...
   - libmpeg2 and opendivx codec changed to use new draw_slice()
     -> opendivx extra 64-pixel width band at right disappeared!
-  - mpeg bitrate fix: if picture->bitrate==0x3FFFF (means "unspecified" ?)
+  - MPEG bitrate fix: if picture->bitrate==0x3FFFF (means "unspecified" ?)
     then using standard VCD bitrate (75*2324 bytes/sec)
-    -> fixed seeking for those mpegs with "16MBit/s" bitrate...
+    -> fixed seeking for those MPEGs with "16MBit/s" bitrate...
   - drivers/sis_vid: video4linux interface disabled
   - broken VCD playing fixed: stream_reset shouldn't seek to 0x0...
     [bugreport: Kang Sun]
   - asf_parser: grouping implemented!  [test file provided by Gabucino :))]
 
-mplayer v0.11-pre12: Jan 30  2001
+
+
+MPlayer v0.11-pre12: Jan 30, 2001
   ./configure fixes, improved odivx-encoding, streaming fixes
-  - ./configure: using /tmp/main$$.c instead /tmp.main.c, and
+  - ./configure: use /tmp/main$$.c instead of /tmp.main.c, and
     remove file after tests  [SaPe]
   - ./configure: trying the gcc optimize options and fallback to 'pentium'
-    if fails (useful for people with old gcc and new cpu :))
+    if it fails (useful for people with old gcc and new CPU :))
   - removed -fomit-frame-pointer from OPTFLAGS at config.mak
   - version number incremented [Gabucino]
   - odivx encoder fix: allow long (longer than xxxx.avi) destination filenames
     (sizeof() changed to strlen()...)  [Gabucino]
-  - avi writer - overwrite disabled (exits with error message if destination
+  - AVI writer - overwrite disabled (exits with error message if destination
     file already exists...)  [Gabucino]
-  - use -divxq to set encoding bitrate (in bits (no kbits!) default: 780000)
+  - use -divxq to set encoding bitrate (in bits (not kbits!) default: 780000)
   - no audio decoding if -encode option is used
   - audio streaming disabled if -nosound specified (setting audio_id to -2)
-  - fast Mpeg-ES detection (doesn't read the whole Mpeg-PS file)
+  - fast MPEG-ES detection (doesn't read the whole MPEG-PS file)
   - compile-time option to disable using soundcard driver's select()
-    (requires for some people with buggy/pre-alpha/etc sound driver...)
+    (required for some people with buggy/pre-alpha/etc sound driver...)
+
+
 
-mplayer v0.11-pre11: Jan 29  2001
-  streaming fixes, asf support pre, indeo5 fix
-  - asf/asfinfo.c improved: now it dumps streams to files - need testing!
-    (it's ready to be converted to asf demuxer and intergated into MPlayer)
-  - stream.c / stream_reset() fix: now it really seek back to 0 position!
-  - .asf file format detection added (no .asf reading yet!!!)
-  - .asf demultiplexer added, changes in demuxer.c to handle fragmented packets
-  > it plays .asf video well, but still has problems with divx/wma audio. :(((
+MPlayer v0.11-pre11: Jan 29, 2001
+  streaming fixes, ASF support pre, indeo5 fix
+  - asf/asfinfo.c improved: now dumps streams to files - needs testing!
+    (it's ready to be converted to ASF demuxer and integrated into MPlayer)
+  - stream.c / stream_reset() fix: now really seeks back to position 0!
+  - ASF file format detection added (no ASF reading yet!!!)
+  - ASF demultiplexer added, changes in demuxer.c to handle fragmented packets
+  > it plays ASF video well, but still has problems with DivX/WMA audio. :(((
   - indeo 5 playing fixed (removed ICDECOMPRESS_UPDATE from flags)
   - xmga resizing problems with some window managers, so default order is
     changed xmga,xma... to mga,xmga,...
-  - found gcc bug: compiling MPlayer with flags 
+  - found gcc bug: compiling MPlayer with flags
     OPTFLAGS=-O -g -march=i686 -mcpu=i686 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math
-    cause image sizes negating -> mga_vid kernel driver Oops... :(((
+    causes image sizes negating -> mga_vid kernel driver Oops... :(((
   - runaway.bride.sample.avi seeking segfault discovered: AC3 resync fails :(
   - improved signal handling: module name is now printed. audio_resync added.
   - RGB opendivx encoding implemented, now AVI->opendivx is possible.
 
-mplayer v0.11-pre10: Jan 22  2001
-  OpenDivX encoding, streaming fixes, avi seek fixes
+
+MPlayer v0.11-pre10: Jan 22, 2001
+  OpenDivX encoding, streaming fixes, AVI seek fixes
   - new libvo driver: odivx  (OpenDivX File Writer)
-  - AVI file writting support, new option:  -encode filename
-    to encode an mpeg/vob/vcd to opendivx:
+  - AVI file writing support, new option:  -encode filename
+    to encode an MPEG/VOB/VCD to opendivx:
       mplayer file1.mpg -encode file2.avi -o odivx -nosound
-    (sound encoding/copy is not yet supported)
+    (sound encoding/copying is not yet supported)
   - libvo: default driver priority changed to: xmga,mga,syncfb,3dfx,xv,x11,gl
-  - avi writer: index support
-  - small fixes in avi writer to be compliant (adjusted chunk/list lengths)
+  - AVI writer: index support
+  - small fixes in AVI writer to be compliant (adjusted chunk/list lengths)
   - demuxer.c: stream buffering fixes:
-    - missing {} in mplayer.c occuring audio reads when has_audio=0
+    - missing {} in mplayer.c occurring audio reads when has_audio=0
     - reordered packet reader and pack count checks -> no more unwanted EOF
     - added 4MB buffer memory usage limit to demuxed streams
   - CPU flags in ./configure changed:
-      k7 -> k6  (current stable gcc doesn't supports k7)
+      k7 -> k6  (current stable gcc doesn't support k7)
       386,486 -> i386,i486    [Balazs Tibor]
   - demux_avi: index check now accepts (raw.len+1)==idx.len  [Balazs Tibor]
   - FAQ added
 
-    **  Now we are ready with planned features & urgent fixes, **
-    **  it's time to final testing and then the 0.11 release!! **
+    **  Now we are done with planned features & urgent fixes,   **
+    **  it's time for final testing and then the 0.11 release!! **
+
 
-mplayer v0.11-pre9: Jan 18  2001
+
+MPlayer v0.11-pre9: Jan 18, 2001
   OpenDivX fixes,speedup
   - solved OpenDivX width problem (stride=width+(Quality?0:64))
     now -divxq 0 works, and 0 is the default
-  - libvo call moved out from my_convert_yuv() so it can be measured (cpu %)
+  - libvo call moved out from my_convert_yuv() so it can be measured (CPU %)
   - IDCT code ported from libmpeg2 -> much faster OpenDivX decoding
 
-mplayer v0.11-pre8: Jan 18  2001
+
+
+MPlayer v0.11-pre8: Jan 18, 2001
   SDL fixes, OpenDivX support
   - added -I/usr/X11R6/include to libvo CFLAGS
   - (removed later: applied libvo SDL driver fixes by Jeffrey Boser)
-  - OpenDivX support, initial hack, maybe not work for you...
-    (I need testfiles, I have just only one)
+  - OpenDivX support, initial hack, maybe not working for you...
+    (I need testfiles, I have only one)
     use -divxq option to adjust quality (1..29 works), 1=default
 
-mplayer v0.11-pre7: Jan 14  2001
+
+
+MPlayer v0.11-pre7: Jan 14, 2001
   SDL support
-  - ported SDL driver from mpeg2dec/libvo (currect CVS)
+  - ported SDL driver from mpeg2dec/libvo (current CVS)
     (it's slower than internal X11 driver, but supports software scaling!)
   - fixed SDL driver to support -fs and pass keyboard events
   - SDL driver changed to support YV12 and YUY2 formats instead of IYUV
-    (now works with DivX files too)
+    (now works with DivX files, too)
   - 'q' (Quit) disabled in SDL fullscreen mode (because it's impossible
-    to restore screen before exiting so it gets unusable state now)
+    to restore screen before exiting so it gets into an unusable state now)
 
-mplayer v0.11-pre6: Jan 14  2001
+
+
+MPlayer v0.11-pre6: Jan 14, 2001
   audio fix
-  - fixed video_out_xv.c compiling problems [bugreport: Kalle Mellerup]
+  - fixed video_out_xv.c compilation problems [bugreport: Kalle Mellerup]
   - modified audio playing: always keep buffer (both internal and card's)
     filled using select() -> -alsa audio delays should be fixed.
   - updated DOCS/AUTHORS and DOCS/README
 
-mplayer v0.11-pre5: Jan 12  2001
+
+
+MPlayer v0.11-pre5: Jan 12, 2001
   xmmp audio support, applied Pontscho's libvo patch
   - xmmp audio driver support by Arthur Kleer
   - new video_out driver by Pontscho: xmga  (Matrox G200/G400 only!)
     It does same under X 3.3.x what Xv extension does under X 4.0.x!
-    (you will have a moveable/resizeable window but see an YUV video
+    (you will have a moveable/resizeable window but see a YUV video
      overlay in it using color keying)
   - added keyboard event support in X11 windows    [Pontscho]
     (using mplayer_[put|get]_key() in codecctrl.c)
 
-mplayer v0.11-pre4: Jan  6  2001
+
+
+MPlayer v0.11-pre4: Jan 6, 2001
   x11 driver fixes, 15/16bpp support
   - version in version.h fixed :))) [Pontscho]
   - inttypes.h moved to DOCS/ (copy back to the root if you need it)
   - depth calculation in vo_init() changed (Pontscho's version couldn't
-    make difference between 15 and 16bpp)
+    differenciate between 15 and 16bpp)
   - x11 driver now uses vo_init() instead of get_depth()
   - yuv2mmx: 15bpp not really supported -> removed from list, now
     conversion is done (well) by the C code -> MPEG play in 15bpp works!
-  - avi playing support added in 15bpp (memcpy)
-  - avi playing support added in 16bpp (C 15->16 converter by me)
-  - avi playing support added in 16bpp (MMX 15->16 converter by Strepto)
-  - libvo/x11: yuv2rgb used MMX code on non-MMX CPUs too!!! fixed...
-  - all x11 modes tested (and mpeg/24bpp byteorder fixed):
+  - AVI playing support added in 15bpp (memcpy)
+  - AVI playing support added in 16bpp (C 15->16 converter by me)
+  - AVI playing support added in 16bpp (MMX 15->16 converter by Strepto)
+  - libvo/x11: yuv2rgb used MMX code on non-MMX CPUs, too!!! fixed...
+  - all x11 modes tested (and MPEG/24bpp byteorder fixed):
                   MPEG:            AVI/VfW:
         15bpp    C convert        memcpy
         16bpp    MMX/C convert    MMX/C convert
@@ -1386,20 +2097,24 @@
         32bpp    MMX/C convert    memcpy / C conv.
     => now all the movie types are viewable using the -o x11 driver!
 
-mplayer v0.11-pre3: Jan  5  2001
-  mpeg fixes, fullscreen support
+
+
+MPlayer v0.11-pre3: Jan 5, 2001
+  MPEG fixes, fullscreen support
   - vertical.mpg serious libvo (x11,gl) segfaults fixed:
     yuv2rgb_mmx requires one more lines that vertical image size...
-    fixed (allocating memory for width*(height+1)).   [bugreport: Gabucino]
+    fixed (allocating memory for width*(height+1)).   [bug report: Gabucino]
   - Pontscho's fullscreen patch applied!
     Using option -fs will maximize window size (for all resizeable drivers
     including mga!) and disable window decorations (x11,Xv,gl only)
-  - simple inttypes.h included for libc5 (and glibc2.0 too?) users
+  - simple inttypes.h included for libc5 (and glibc2.0, too?) users
   - homepage updates (links changed ftp->http)
 
-mplayer v0.11-pre2: Jan  4  2001
-  better user messages, mp3 codec selection, demuxer changes
-  - w32codec.zip restored at the FTP site (somehow it damaged...)
+
+
+MPlayer v0.11-pre2: Jan 4, 2001
+  better user messages, MP3 codec selection, demuxer changes
+  - w32codec.zip restored at the FTP site (somehow it got damaged...)
   - added version.h, and used its content everywhere
   - 'premature end-of-file' problem fixed: freeing audio buffers and
     setting d_audio->id=-2 if has_audio==0  [bugreport by Dmitri Pogosyan]
@@ -1410,125 +2125,145 @@
     ./configure selects mp3lib only if you have 3DNow!   [idea: Gabucino]
   - automatic fallback to mp3lib/mpg123 if l3codeca.acm can't be loaded/inited
 
-mplayer v0.11-pre1:
+
+
+MPlayer v0.11-pre1:
   AVI sync fixes
   - AVI audio seeking improvements: now using nBlockAlign value to seek
-    inside the chunk, so divx audio works without big delays!!!
+    inside the chunk, so DivX audio works without big delays!!!
   - AVI PTS calculation modified: counting video PTS when skip_video_frames>0
     so new audio PTS values will be correct. Solved many sync probs!
   - A-V sync with AVI files fixed!
     Now only the Desperado-trailer has 1.0 sec delay after seeking.
-  - fixed AVI sync in -bps mode too! :)  (perfect except that Desperado avi)
+  - fixed AVI sync in -bps mode, too! :)  (perfect except that Desperado AVI)
 
-mplayer v0.10: Jan  1  2001  "The new year" release!
+
+
+MPlayer v0.10: Jan 1, 2001  "The new year" release!
   - testing
   - docs changed
   - it's time to release and remove the old buggy 0.09 version...
   - release!!!
-  
-mplayer v0.10-pre8:  libvo/x11 changes
-  - libvo: x11/xv driver separated to x11 and xv drivers
+
+
+
+MPlayer v0.10-pre8:  libvo/x11 changes
+  - libvo: x11/xv driver split into x11 and xv drivers
   - libvo: DUMMY_VO_FUNC removed from driver sources
   - libvo: default driver order changed, because some users with software-only
-           opengl though that this 'slow' player can only play at 1-3fps :)
+           OpenGL thought that this 'slow' player can only play at 1-3fps :)
+
 
-mplayer v0.10-pre7: Dec 31  2000
+
+MPlayer v0.10-pre7: Dec 31, 2000
   libmpeg2 interface changes, display size/area changes, AVI fixes
   - libmpeg2/decode.c modified:
     - removed unused OMS and mpeg2dec stuff
     - decode_data rewritten, now works like parse_es.c
       => doesn't copy any data -> faster and less memory usage
   - mplayer.c sends code 0x1FF after every frame, so libmpeg2 knows
-    when has to display it
-  - mplayer.c: in_frame flag fixes, didn't work well with mpeg2 streams
+    when to display it
+  - mplayer.c: in_frame flag fixes, didn't work well with MPEG-2 streams
     (because there is a 0x1B2 chunk between 0x100 and 0x101)
   - 'picture' changed from static to shmem-allocated
     -> better picture after codec restart (tested with JapAd.mpg)
     -> keep information of the header changes (after init)
-  - mpeg image size changed, now only the real part of frame is displayed
-    (no more green strip at the bottom)
+  - MPEG image size changed, now only the real part of frame is displayed
+    (no more green stripe at the bottom)
     - picture struct: new fields: display_picture_width/height
     - image buffer allocation (shmem) is done by decode.c instead of libvo
   - new option:  -xy <value>  (resize both x/y direction)
     if value<=8  ->  x_scale = y_scale = value
     else         ->  x_size=value  y_size=aspectratio*x_size
-  - mplayer.c: video output moved out from avi/mpg init sections and
+  - mplayer.c: video output moved out from AVI/MPG init sections and
     now it's common code (added movie_size_x/y variables and out_fmt global)
   - new keys:
     ESC       => quit
     + and -   => adjust audio delay +- 0.1 second
-    k         => kill/restart the mpeg codec process (for testing)
+    k         => kill/restart the MPEG codec process (for testing)
   - codec control interface changed: wait for syncword after (re)start
     to avoid receiving old frames => it's stable again!
   - removed (now unused) allocate/free image buffer code from libvo
   - mplayer: new internal variable for video format: has_video
        0 = none (unused yet)
-       1 = mpeg 1/2 video
-       2 = win32/VfW video codec
+       1 = MPEG-1/2 video
+       2 = Win32/VfW video codec
   - config.h has defaults for bps-based AVI sync and ALSA timer code options:
      #undef AVI_SYNC_BPS  => now it's disabled by default!!! use -bps to enable
      #define ALSA_TIMER   => now it's enabled by default!!! use -noalsa to dis.
   - help updated
-  - prints max compressed framesize at exit (both avi & mpeg)
-  - AVI audio seeking fixed: some ACM codecs (divx audio and ms-adpcm)
+  - prints max compressed framesize at exit (both AVI & MPEG)
+  - AVI audio seeking fixed: some ACM codecs (DivX audio and ms-adpcm)
     can't seek inside a chunk, they are only able to play whole chunks.
     Current audio seeking has changed to seek inside the chunk only if the
-    codec supports it (only internal codecs and ACM/mp3 allows it).
-  - AVI: audio delay correction if can't seek inside the chunk
+    codec supports it (only internal codecs and ACM/MP3 allows it).
+  - AVI: audio delay correction if seeking inside the chunk is not possible
+
 
-mplayer v0.10-pre6: Dec 24  2000 "Xmas edition"
-  mpeg signal & EOF fixes
+
+MPlayer v0.10-pre6: Dec 24, 2000 "Xmas edition"
+  MPEG signal & EOF fixes
   - ./configure: k6_mtrr (2.4.test11+) added [Pontscho]
-  - `term destroys if mplayer (mpg) called from mc.ext` bug fixed:
-    added sighandler to the 3rd process (mpeg codec) to avoid sig. recursion
+  - `term destroys if mplayer (MPG) called from mc.ext` bug fixed:
+    added sighandler to the 3rd process (MPEG codec) to avoid sig. recursion
   - better output at exit (handled now by exit_player())
-  - mpeg EOF problem (codec restart) fixed: added EOF detection to parse_es.c
+  - MPEG EOF problem (codec restart) fixed: added EOF detection to parse_es.c
   - internal flag 'current_module' added to get more info at segfaults
     (contains module number where the segfault occurred)
   - audio detection changed: using afm=4 (Win32/ACM) for MP3 audio (AVI files)
     (you MUST have l3codeca.acm at /usr/lib/win32, or you have to use '-afm 1')
 
-mplayer v0.10-pre5: Dec 22  2000
+
+
+MPlayer v0.10-pre5: Dec 22, 2000
   flipping fixed
   - AVI image flipping reworked:
     - new flag: avi_header.flipped, TRUE if upside-down
     - image flipping code removed/disabled from libvo modules
     - duplicate flip_page() calls removed (overload with x11 and mga)
-  - aLaw audio codec (AVI id 0x06) added (uses code from xanim source)
+  - aLaw audio codec (AVI id 0x06) added (uses code from XAnim source)
+
 
-mplayer v0.10-pre4: ???
+
+MPlayer v0.10-pre4:
   test release, small fixes
   - video_out driver <-> codec incompatibility message changed
   - fixed the config.format bug in drivers/mga_vid_test, so it works again!
     [thanks to David Whysong]
   - libmpeg2 upgraded
 
-mplayer v0.10-pre3: Dec 10  2000
+
+
+MPlayer v0.10-pre3: Dec 10, 2000
   test release, verbose mode, new docs
-  - new option:  -v  =  increment verbose level
+  - new option:  -v  =  increment verbosity level
     (debug printf's changed to verbose level-dependent)
     - default level: 0, only some informal output
-    - init debug:    1, some basic debug infos, avi header, function values
-    - player debug:  2, print avi indexes, chunk inputs, more debug infos
+    - init debug:    1, some basic debug infos, AVI header, function values
+    - player debug:  2, print AVI indexes, chunk inputs, more debug infos
     - parser debug:  3, prints everything related to input parsers
-    to increment verbose level, use multiple -v options (-v -v -v for level-3)
+    to increment verbose level, use multiple -v options (-v -v -v for level 3)
   - bitrate calculation for AVI files
   - README rewritten, added Troubleshooting and Bugreports sections
   - TVout directory added (only the scripts)
 
-mplayer v0.10-pre2: Dec  8  2000
+
+
+MPlayer v0.10-pre2: Dec 8, 2000
   bugfix test release, bps-sync enabled
-  - avi: supporting both 0-based and movi-based index types (autodetect)
-  - avi: tested with VBR audio: plays well with -mc 0 option, seek doesn't
+  - AVI: supporting both 0-based and movi-based index types (autodetect)
+  - AVI: tested with VBR audio: plays well with -mc 0 option, seek doesn't
     work yet   [thanks to Alan Chen for testfile]
-  - avi: A-V sync to avg. byte/sec implemented (again) and enabled by default
+  - AVI: A-V sync to avg. byte/sec implemented (again) and enabled by default
     (disable with -nobps if you want)
   - ./configire: 3rd name ('kni') of the P3 added. Where is the compatibility?
   - useless '\' removed from libac3/Makefile  [Otvos Ferenc]
 
-mplayer v0.10-pre1: Dec  5  2000
+
+
+MPlayer v0.10-pre1: Dec 5, 2000
   test release, players merged!!!
-  - avip and mpegp has been merged to a single binary called 'mplayer'
+  - avip and mpegp have been merged to a single binary called 'mplayer'
     - file type detection (AVI/MPEG-PS/MPEG-ES/Other)
     - no redundant code (common code for common jobs)
     - big format-dependent codes moved to functions (separated files)
@@ -1544,94 +2279,122 @@
     [default values are still configurable at compile-time, see config.h]
   - TV project (not finished) codebase added (see tvision.c, or: make tvision)
 
-mplayer v0.09: Dec  5  2000
+
+
+MPlayer v0.09: Dec 5, 2000
   Beta release [same as 0.09-pre3]
   - version changed in the files
-  - docs updated  
-  
-mplayer v0.09-pre3: Dec  3  2000
+  - docs updated
+
+
+
+MPlayer v0.09-pre3: Dec 3, 2000
   bugfix test-release, X11 support testing
   - fixed the  if [ -z $pparam ]  bug in ./configure  [Christian Birchinger]
-  - many changes in AVI seek code, resulting near-perfect seeking now!
-    current method calc absolute audio position, so with VBR audio it
+  - many changes in AVI seek code, resulting in near-perfect seeking now!
+    current method calculates absolute audio position, so with VBR audio it
     doesn't work yet...
   - avip: Xv support (YUY2 image format)
   - avip: X11 support (24 & 32 bpp only, BGR format)
     I need a very fast 15->16bpp converter for 16bpp support... anyone helps?
 
-mplayer v0.09-pre2:
-  bugfix test-release 
+
+
+MPlayer v0.09-pre2:
+  bugfix test-release
   - removed unnecessary code from libmpeg2/header.c
-    Walken told me that standard mpg/vob streams must NOT use framerate
+    Walken told me that standard MPG/VOB streams must NOT use framerate
     and bitrate extension... and the ext. id check is done by the caller.
-  - CRC support to mp3lib's mpeg audio layer-2 decoder
-    thanks for bugreport & testfile to Samson
+  - CRC support to mp3lib's MPEG audio layer-2 decoder
+    thanks for bug report & test file to Samson
 
-mplayer v0.09-pre1: Dec  1  2000
+
+
+MPlayer v0.09-pre1: Dec 1, 2000
   bugfix test-release
   - imported new libmpeg2 files (under testing...)
   - GL renderer flickering bug fixed (MMX missing emms() between yuv2rgb and
     glTexSubImage(), bug triggered by new Utah-GLX code)
-    [thanks for Christian Birchinger]
+    [thanks to Christian Birchinger]
+
+
 
-mplayer v0.08: Nov 27  2000
-  Index support, avi seeking, DLL loader fix, compilation fixes
+MPlayer v0.08: Nov 27, 2000
+  Index support, AVI seeking, DLL loader fix, compilation fixes
   - Added support for chunk index usage (disable with -noidx option)
   - Removed code optimization flags from loader/Makefile because
-    it segfaults if compile optimized code (it does some hacks with
+    it segfaults if compiled optimized (it does some hacks with
     pointers, maybe the reordered code confuses it)
-  - added new tool called aviparse  (read and check avi file structure)
+  - added new tool called aviparse  (read and check AVI file structure)
   - indexed and raw chunk info comparing, bad chunks dropped
-  - termcap usage is optional (for those debian users without termcap)
+  - termcap usage is optional (for those Debian users without termcap)
   - #if HAVE_* fixed (to #ifdef HAVE_*)
   - ./configure supports new /proc/cpuinfo (2.4.0-test11)
       - sse is called 'sse' again
       - 'flags' field renamed to 'features'
   - Xv benchmark results added to DOCS/SPEED
-  - avi seeking (and other goodies, pause etc) implemented
+  - AVI seeking (and other goodies, pause etc) implemented
     no PTS resync after seek yet.
   - default video_out driver changed from 'mga' to the first available driver
     new driver priority:  mga_vid, opengl, x11
 
-mplayer v0.07: Nov 21  2000
+
+
+MPlayer v0.07: Nov 21, 2000
   Easier compile
   - Added Pontscho's ./configure script (it's modified a lot)
   - Updated makefiles, and tested a lot :)
   - Updated DOCS/INSTALL
 
-mplayer v0.06: Nov 20  2000
+
+
+MPlayer v0.06: Nov 20, 2000
   Better codec selection
-  - avi audio&video codec selection moved to new codecs.c file,
+  - AVI audio&video codec selection moved to new codecs.c file,
     loader/driver.c and loader/afl.c modified for this
-  - yuv support fixed, codecs.c setup flags to handle yuv properly
-    yuv works fine with divx, mpeg4, cvid, and upside-down iv50
+  - YUV support fixed, codecs.c setup flags to handle YUV properly
+    YUV works fine with DivX, MPEG-4, cvid, and upside-down iv50
   - DOCS/INSTALL updated
   - DOCS/SPEED updated, DivX benchmarks added
 
-mplayer v0.05: Nov 18  2000
+
+
+MPlayer v0.05: Nov 18, 2000
   Merged with MPEGplayer 0.90pre6, first public release of AVI player
   - code merged with mpegplayer, new Makefile, some small modifications
   - docs updated and moved to DOCS
 
-mplayer v0.04: Nov 17  2000
-  YUV (yuy2) support with divx 3.11 dll, some code cleanup, preview-release
 
-mplayer v0.03: Nov 14  2000
 
-mplayer v0.01: Nov 11  2000
+MPlayer v0.04: Nov 17, 2000
+  YUV (YUY2) support with DivX 3.11 DLL, some code cleanup, preview-release
+
+
+
+MPlayer v0.03: Nov 14, 2000
+
+
+
+MPlayer v0.01: Nov 11, 2000
   first preview version based on new MPEGplayer's codebase.
-  it contains the win32 loader from avifile, and can decode divx 3.11 video.
+  it contains the Win32 loader from avifile, and can decode DivX 3.11 video.
+
+
 
 mpg12play v0.9-v0.95pre5: Oct 21-Nov 2, 2000
-       Mpeg codec was libmpeg2 (mpeg2dec) by Aaron Holtzman & Michel
+       MPEG codec was libmpeg2 (mpeg2dec) by Aaron Holtzman & Michel
        Lespinasse. It's great, optimized very fast C code with perfect
        image quality and 100% MPEG standard conformance.
 
+
+
 mpg12play v0.5-v0.87: Sep 28-Oct 20, 2000
-       Mpeg codec replaced with DVDview by Dirk Farin, it was a great
+       MPEG codec replaced with DVDview by Dirk Farin, it was great
        stuff, but it was slow and was written in C++ (I hate C++!!!)
 
+
+
 mpg12play v0.1-v0.3: Sep 22-25, 2000
-       The first try, hacked together in a half hour! I've used libmpeg3
+       The first try, hacked together in half an hour! I've used libmpeg3
        from www.heroinewarrior.com up to the version 0.3, but there were
        image quality and speed problems with it.




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