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SMPlayer 0.5.0 release notes.
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This document is intented for people updating from version 0.3.0.
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I'll try to enumerate the most important changes:
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* New GUI. Now there are toolbars, the control at the bottom is different
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(and it changes if the window is made smaller), the icons can be changed
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(several icon themes are available). In fullscreen mode the floating
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control that appears when you move the mouse to the bottom of the screen is
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new too and this time the video doesn't resize when it shows.
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* Configurable key shortcuts. A shortcut editor has been added, it's
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located at "Preferences->Mouse & keyboard". Please read
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Configurable_shortcuts.txt.
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* Support for VCD. Now you can also play VCD discs. (This feature doesn't
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work on Windows, as currently MPlayer on Windows has no support for VCD yet)
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* System tray icon. Now it's possible to leave SMPlayer running in the
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system tray. This feature requires Qt 4.2. It works in Linux
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(all window managers that implement the freedesktop.org system tray
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specification, including recent versions of KDE and GNOME) and Windows.
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It's also possible to have this feature with Qt 3, if SMPlayer is compiled
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with KDE support. By the way...
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* Added support for KDE 3. Optionally SMPlayer can be compiled with KDE
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support. It will use the KDE open dialogs, and there will be an option to
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dock the application in the system tray.
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* Added some new functions, like pan&scan, stay on top, set the size of
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* Improved support for subtitles. For instance, now you can load a idx/sub
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file and you'll be able to select among all languages that the file
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provides. You can have a mkv file with embedded subtitles, load an idx/sub
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file (or srt, sub...) and all subtitles will be available.
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* New translations. SMPlayer 0.5.0 is translated (totally or partially) to
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the following languages:
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Bulgarian, Czech, German, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese,
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Georgian, Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Serbian,
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Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Simplified-Chinese and Traditional Chinese.
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By the way, now it's possible to change the language at run-time.
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For a detailed list of changes you can read the Changelog file.
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Most important changes since 0.5.62:
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* Added support for pls playlist files.
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* Better accuracy on subtitle selection. Fixes problems with mp4 embedded
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subtitles. Requires mplayer svn r25158 or above.
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* Now the screensaver and powersave on Windows is really turned off, even on
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* The cache setting is independent for each type of media.
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* Added an option which allows to fix the problem of loud volume on startup
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(requires a patched mplayer).
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* (Windows) The file associations code has been improved. Now it should work
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better in Windows Vista as well as other versions of Windows.
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* New option Video->Add black borders, which replaces the letterbox options
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in Video->Aspect ratio.
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* (Windows) Work-around for a mplayer bug: now filenames with characters
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outside the local codepage can be opened, by passing to mplayer the short
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version of the filename. This can be enabled in Preferences->Advanced.
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* Now the H.264 loop filter can be disabled for High Definition videos only
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* Possibility to update the video while dragging the time slider.
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* New icons for the default theme.
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* SSA/ASS subtitles can also be resized during playback. Requires at least
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* Now it's possible to zoom out the video image.
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* New Help->About dialog.
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* New option Help->FAQ which will show the FAQ.
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* Bugfix: the colorkey is passed properly to mplayer.
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* Added the Finnish and the Korean translations.
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