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1Version 0.7.1.
2
3This version include some bug fixes, some of them important. It's highly
4recommended to update.
5
6Fixes:
7 * SMPlayer took more than 10 seconds to show when running for the very
8 first time.
9 * The links to download subtitles from Opensubtitles were wrong.
10 * SMPlayer crashed in the favorite editor when trying to select a file if
11 the KDE open dialog was used.
12 * Some translations were missing in the Windows package.
13
14New:
15 * By default the screenshots are saved in the user's pictures folder instead
16 of the SMPlayer's config folder.
17 * Now it's possible to change the opensubtitles server.
18 * Youtube: seeking is slow with flv videos, so now flv videos have the
19 lowest priority.
20 * Youtube: now it's possible to search and download videos from youtube.
21 This is provided by an external application (in linux you have to install
22 an independent package: smtube).
23
24
25Version 0.7.0.
26
27Most important changes since 0.6.10:
28
29* New favorite menu, where you can add your favorite videos, music, streams,
30 youtube videos... It's also possible to add submenus.
31* Support for youtube. Now you can open urls like
32 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=..... using the Open -> URL dialog or
33 dragging a link from a browser to the smplayer window.
34* Support for mplayer2 (http://www.mplayer2.org). It's a fork of mplayer with
35 interesting features like precise seeking, ordered chapters in mkv videos and
36 better pause handling (e.g. seek works while the video is paused).
37* New translation: croatian.
38
39
40Version 0.6.10.
41
42Most important changes since 0.6.9:
43
44* New vdpau configuration dialog, which allow to select the vdpau codecs to use.
45* Port for eCS, OS/2 (by Silvan Scherrer).
46* New menu to select the closed caption channel (requires mplayer >= r32607).
47* Possibility to select the seeking method (absolute or relative).
48* Possibility to sort the items of the playlist.
49
50
51Version 0.6.9.
52
53Most important changes since 0.6.8:
54
55* A serious bug has been fixed: sometimes smplayer failed to find subtitles
56 in opensubtitles.org.
57* Implemented the possibility to mark an A-B section, to play a part of the
58 file only.
59* (Linux) smplayer doesn't use alsa as default audio driver anymore. It should
60 fix freezing problems on Ubuntu.
61* Possibility to display the video resolution and frames per second in the
62 status bar.
63* Audio: selection of left or right channel does work now.
64* (Linux) Improved support for vdpau.
65
66
67Version 0.6.8.
68
69Most important changes since 0.6.7:
70
71* Added support for TV (more info in Watching_TV.txt).
72* New option to enable a global volume.
73* (Linux) Support for vdpau.
74* New option to take consecutive screenshots.
75* Possibility to add some of the submenus to the toolbars.
76* Better support for *.ts files (requires mplayer >= r29381).
77* Added the Vietnamese translation.
78* Added the Estonian translation.
79* (Windows) New options to try to disable the screensaver.
80
81
82Version 0.6.7.
83
84Most important changes since 0.6.6:
85
86* Added experimental (and uncomplete) support for dvd menus. Requires a mplayer
87 build compiled with dvdnav support. Please read dvdmenus.txt to know how
88 to enable it.
89* Now loading an external subtitle file doesn't require to restart the mplayer
90 process (except for idx/sub subtitles).
91* (Playlist) When a file is added to the playlist, if it was already in the
92 list, it's moved to the end of the list.
93* Options for mplayer: finally spaces in arguments between quotes are handled
94 properly.
95* Added two options (in the audio and subtitle menus) to allow the user to
96 enter the audio and subtitle delay (in milliseconds).
97* (ASS subtitles) The outline and shadow options now accept values with
98 decimals.
99* (ASS subtitles) Possibility to change the color of the border and shadow.
100* Now the default value for the "correct pts" option is auto.
101* (Windows) Now the screensaver is allowed to turn on if the file is paused
102 or it's an audio file.
103* (Windows) The direct3d video output is now the default for Windows Vista.
104
105
106Version 0.6.6.
107
108Most important changes since 0.6.5:
109
110* Added an option to generate a preview (thumbnails) of the video.
111* Added a new gui (mpcgui, a media player classic clone) developed by
112 Matthias Petri.
113* Added some auto zoom options, to display the video without black borders.
114* Implemented a new (and optional) method to save the file settings.
115 This method uses an ini file per each played file. It's faster than the old
116 one.
117* Added a new option in Preferences->Video: add black borders on
118 fullscreen. If this option is enabled, black borders will be added to
119 the image in fullscreen mode. This allows subtitles to be displayed on
120 the black borders.
121* Increased the resolution of the seekbar. Allows a more accurate seeking.
122* Added 3 modes for the stay on top option: always, never and while playing.
123* Added a history to the open URL dialog.
124* Added new action to cycle through all aspect ratios. Assigned by default to
125 key "A".
126* It's possible to run some specified actions every time a file is loaded.
127* Possibility to set up a proxy for internet connections (used for subtitle
128 downloading).
129
130
131Version 0.6.5.
132
133Most important changes since 0.6.4:
134
135* The subtitles when using the SSA/ASS library can now be further
136 customized. It's possible to select the font, size, colors, bold,
137 italic, outline, shadow...
138* (Linux) Now smplayer tries to follow the XDG Base Directory
139 Specification for the config files. That means the now the configuration
140 files will be saved under the directory $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/smplayer (or
141 $HOME/.config/smplayer if $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is not defined).
142 If you want to keep your preferences, copy or move the files from
143 $HOME/.smplayer to the new location.
144* Added some options in Preferences->Interface to configure the floating
145 control.
146* The commandline option -ini-path has been removed and replaced with
147 -config-path, which specifies the directory where smplayer will store
148 its data (not only smplayer.ini).
149
150
151Version 0.6.4.
152
153Most important changes since 0.6.3:
154
155 * Now the dialog to find subtitles can also download the subtitle file and
156 load it in smplayer automatically.
157 * (Linux) The black screen problem when using Compiz should really be fixed
158 now.
159 * Added support for encoding autodetection for subtitle files. Requires a
160 mplayer compiled with enca support.
161 * (Linux) Now it's possible to choose the audio device to be used with alsa
162 (needs the application "aplay").
163 * (Windows) Now it's possible to choose the audio device to be used with
164 dsound.
165 * (Windows) The menu Video->Screen displays now the actual available screens
166 with their names.
167 * Added the possibility to add consecutive files (video_01.avi, video_02.avi..)
168 automatically to the playlist.
169 * Bugfix: logout is not cancelled by smplayer.
170 * Now the options in preferences display a tooltip with a help message.
171 * Now it's possible to change the video track.
172 * Added the Galician translation.
173
174
175Version 0.6.3.1 (release for Windows only)