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New features and significant updates in version...
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* Still startup properly if there's no soundcards on the machine
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* Make the "Eject" menu item default to unsensitive
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- Report an "end of file" when seeking past the end of a stream
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- Report whether a stream is seekable properly, instead of guessing
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- Handle "progress" messages from the QuickTime demuxer in newer GStreamer
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- Don't crash when an XSPF playlist doesn't have URLs
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- Avoid using realpath(), to avoid crashes on NetBSD
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* Make Totem remember the width of the sidebar when Totem was maximised on exit
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* Better accessibility support in the volume button
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- Restart accepting streams that aren't from the supported mime-type
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there are too many broken sites for now
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- Don't crash when printing a page with the plugin
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- Don't destroy a stream if we don't have one
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- Fix some cases where the server gives a playlist, and we never start the
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- Catch errors after playback has started
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- Avoid D-Bus warnings with newer D-Bus versions
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- Avoid trying to allocate loads of memory when gnome-vfs fails
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- Avoid crashes when files contain non-UTF-8 metadata
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- Avoid deadlocks when getting redirect streams
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- Make the "automatically resize window" and resize menu items work again
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- Handle playlists linked inside playlists as used on kinkfm.com
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- Handle "BASE HREF" in ASX files
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- When adding ISO images, or on-disk DVDs, set a title
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- Don't accept streams that aren't from the supported mime-type
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- Restore the statusbar text when we've been buffering
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- Fix buffering when streaming
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* Browser enhancement:
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- Fix the "Open with..." menu item not showing for some supported types
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- Hide the preferences menu item
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- Fix playback for http://www.viftv.no
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- Fix videos on http://www.apple.com/getamac/ stopping playing
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- Support the "showcontrols=false" parameter, for http://www.k9media.se
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- Fix playback of videos on http://news.sky.com
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- Add a new plugin to support videos on http://stage6.divx.com/
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* When opening the "Skip to" dialogue, set the default to the current time
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* Fix a possible crasher when checking for an ASF reference file
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* Use the top-level title from the SMIL playlist, when there isn't an
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* Add keyboard support for the DVD keys: Up, Down, Left, Right
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* Add support for audio/AMR, audio/AMR-WB and Musepack
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* Remove old GStreamer 0.8 hacks
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* Avoid repeat being turned on when it shouldn't in the web browser plugin
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* Fix a crash when HAL isn't available
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* Fix compilation with older versions of HAL, without HAL, and with the
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Browser plugin disabled
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* Save and restore the sidebar width
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* Set and use the connection speed preference (GStreamer)
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* Numerous Browser Plugin enhancements:
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- Split the plugin in 4 different plugins, to allow
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name-based detection to work, and different Javascript interfaces
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to be used (Real Player/Helix, Windows Media Player and Quicktime
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compatible, and basic Totem)
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- Handle repeat and autostart parameters
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- Make sure the plugin is available for all Mozilla-based browsers
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- Make scrolling on the volume widget work as it should
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* Use HAL to determine the disc type
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* Save and restore which sidebar was showing, and whether Totem was
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* Fix the window title not changing when playing files with broken names
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* Fix Ctrl+Q not working in fullscreen
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* More logo mode fixes (xine-lib)
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* Fix aspect ratio of visuals (xine-lib)
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* Add a default filename to the save playlist dialogue
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* Add supprot for more DVD related remote buttons
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* Move the properties dialogue to the sidebar
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* Fix build with newer versions of D-Bus
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* Avoid linking directly against the Mozilla libraries, should allow
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build-time and run-time engines to be different (build against Mozilla,
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* Make the "Seek To" dialogue work correctly when using the keyboard
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* Fix logo related redraws (xine-lib)
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* Try harder to extract audio/subtitles languages from files (GStreamer)
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* update xine-lib requirement to avoid startup crashes
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* Text subtitle encoding is now selectable
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* Numerous Browser Plugin enhancements:
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- Try to cache files while playing them
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- Add support for cache=true hint
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- Fix getting the true path for relative paths
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- Add support for audio-only playback
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- Add a way to copy the URL from the right-click menu
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- Add "Open in Movie Player" in the right-click menu
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* Make showing/hiding the sidebar not resize the video or the window
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* Pop down language and subtitle menus to avoid hangs when the language or
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subtitle changes while the menu is open
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* Add AC3 and Monkey's audio to the known filetypes
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* Draw the logo ourselves, so we don't crash on startup if the logo is too
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big for the X video buffer (xine-lib)
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* Show the logo when playing audio without visualisations
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* Fix a crash with non-default buffering values (GStreamer)
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* Fix a leak each time the logo was set (GStreamer)
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* Fix the "Skip to" dialogue not working when paused (GStreamer)
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* Make Space Play/Pause when the video widget has the focus
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* Fix DVD playback when started from gnome-volume-manager
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* Allow localisation for time labels
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* Fix possible crash when using the Nautilus properties tab
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* Use HAL to detect presence of discs in the drives
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* Fix problems using the Mozilla plugin on PPC systems
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* Add Impulse Tracker and MOD files to the list of supported types
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* Add audio/vnd.rn-realaudio as a supported playlist format
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* Use theme friendly window icons
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* Fix a new installation of Totem not using visualisation (GStreamer)
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* Add XSPF playlists read and write support
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* Allow users to choose the type of playlist to write when saving
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* Remove unused DXR3 support
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* Remove GStreamer 0.8 support
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* Fix the GTK+-only version not displaying some menu items
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* Update the "Skip to" time label when entering time manually, fix sensitivity
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of the OK button in that dialogue
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* Fix crash on exit if the interface couldn't be loaded
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* Add basic support for the Quicktime Metalink playlists
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* Avoid deadlocks when forcing opening with a subtitle when there's none
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* Fix crash when setting the connection speed setting to the maximum
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* Make the previous/next icons in the popup the same as in the rest
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* Make menu shortcuts unaccessible in fullscreen
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* Make Ctrl+S show the "Skip to" dialogue as it should
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* Fix a small memory leak in the Nautilus properties plugin
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* Add debugging to the playlist parser
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* Make the preferences window appear on top of the main window at all times,
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and hide it straight away when exiting
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* Fix playback of non-Mozilla streams (such as mms) in the Mozilla plugin
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* Fix saving non-relative m3u playlists
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* Handle space as Play/pause in windowed mode if the video widget has
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* Work-around broken .pls files from Virgin radio
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* Fix problems with sound not coming out when audio output selected
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isn't Stereo (xine-lib)
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* Fix pixel aspect ratio settings (GStreamer)
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* Added Bulgarian user guide
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* Show the "Seeking to" label in fullscreen as well
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* Make the standard zoom keyboard shortcuts work
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* Allow to save thumbnails in JPEG rather than PNG
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* Playlist parser fixes for Rhythmbox' initial import
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* Make nautilus startup faster by only initialising the backend when
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we require it (GStreamer)
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* Get the list of subtitles and languages (GStreamer 0.10)
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* Fix the window title not getting set properly when loading a new file
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* Avoid hang when skipping to the next file (GStreamer 0.10)
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* Require glib 2.8 to avoid crashers (GStreamer 0.10)
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* Compilation fix with glib > 2.8.0 and < 2.9.1
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* Fix a critical warning on startup when a particular file is in the recent
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* Fix a warning on open (GStreamer 0.8)
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* Show the waiting cursor when opening files, parsing playlists and starting up
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* Add popup menu support with the keyboard to the playlist
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* Don't reverse items when moving them down the playlist
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* Remove the scrollbars in the playlist when it's been emptied
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* Don't look for subtitles on HTTP servers
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* Don't show playlists as ignored after having parsed them successfully
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* Bigger and better logo
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* Fix a possible crash with the ASF playlist parser
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* Add support for the target property, opening the movie in a stand-alone
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Totem (Mozilla plugin)
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* Add support for background music (Mozilla plugin)
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* Take the aspect ratio of the screen when setting the size of the
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visualisations (xine-lib, GStreamer 0.10)
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* Fix compilation with glib < 2.8
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* Add ability to disable text subtitles when Totem loads them automatically
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* Better logo mode handling (GStreamer 0.8)
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* Free the video output after showing images (GStreamer 0.8)
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* Show the logo when playing an audio file without visualisations
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* Better key seek handling (GStreamer 0.10)
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* Fix problems with setting the speaker arrangement (GStreamer 0.10)
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* Fix playback of files with non-16-bit audio (GStreamer 0.10)
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* Don't block when getting metadata (GStreamer 0.10)
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* Better error message when the decoder/demuxer doesn't support streaming
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* Use Ctrl+S as "Take Screenshot..." shortcut
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* Fix a possible crash on start with multiple totem processes
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* Support application/smil and application/x-smil mime-types
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* Better parsing of SMIL playlists
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* Better parsing of ASX playlists with multiple REF entries per ENTRY
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* Make the about box parented on the Mozilla window (Mozilla plugin)
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* Fix data being dropped when streaming from fast servers (Mozilla plugin)
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* Fix the state of the volume button on startup (Mozilla plugin)
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* Fix the Subtitles and Audio tracks not being available (xine-lib)
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* Support on-the-fly visualisation plugins change (GStreamer)
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* Fallback if the configured output plugins aren't available (GStreamer)
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* Don't shrink the toplevel window when setting the logo (GStreamer)
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* Fix video thumbnailing for movies with a non-1/1 aspect ratio
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* Add a "capabilities" mechanism to the playlist parser library
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* Fix crash when calling the "add to playlist dialogue twice"
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* Fix parsing of sub-directories
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* Fix crasher in the Mozilla plugin when bringing up a second instance
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by making the plugin resident
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* Call the authentication manager, so thumbnails with keyring-stored passwords
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* Support newer versions of gnome-screensaver
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* Don't make the properties page assert if we can't initialise the backend
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* Don't overwrite the title when there's already a custom title in the playlist
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* Write EXTM3U m3u files
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* Add a test program for the properties page
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* Fix warning on exit when in fullscreen
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* Support Flash Video files, and OGM files
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* Set the preferences dialogue as a child of the main window
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* Update libegg from CVS
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* Fix double error dialogues on open sometimes (xine-lib)
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* Clean up unused plugins after opening a file (xine-lib)
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* Check for plugins in configure (GStreamer)
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* Fix compilation with the Forte compiler (GStreamer 0.10)
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* Fix multiple problems with the properties dialogue (GStreamer 0.10)
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* Fix the seek slider being disabled on startup (GStreamer 0.10)
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* Make seeking in AVI files snappier (GStreamer 0.10)
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* Ignore errors beyond the first one when opening files (GStreamer 0.10)
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* New Ukrainian (uk) help files
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* Use filters in the Open file dialogues
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* Support turning off the screensaver when gnome-screensaver is used
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* Scroll to the current file in the playlist when starting to play it
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* Add ability to play back DVDs and VCDs from .iso and .bin/.cue files
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* Add a menu item for switching angles on DVDs
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* Don't add backup files to the playlist
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* Remove audio CD playback from the UI, as to avoid duplication with sound-
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* Play file from the beginning when double-clicking on it in the playlist
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* Make CD drives with blank CDs in them unsensitive in the Play Disc menu
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* Avoid weird startes when using the "Toggle fullscreen mode" shortcut
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* Fix drag'n'drop on the playlist itself not working
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* Parse Shoucast playlists in .m3u files properly
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* Stop the currently playing song when loading a media, and playing this
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* Set the play/pause buttons' tooltips according to the image
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* Fix possible crashes on startup when the widget creation functions cannot
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* Use N/A instead of '0' when the bitrate or the number of frames per second
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isn't available in the property window
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* Fix a possible crash on startup in the Mozilla plugin
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* Fix possible i18n problems with the Nautilus properties window and the
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* Fix compilation of the Mozilla plugin with newer versions of D-Bus
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* Fix a memory leak in the Mozilla plugin
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* Fix a crasher when running the Mozilla plugin in a debug build
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* Allow compiling the Mozilla plugin against xulrunner
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* Fix duplicate access key in the display preferences
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* Fix wrong accesskeys for the saturation and hue sliders
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* Show the video properties again when a stream has video
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* Move Totem's remote socket to TMPDIR
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* Remove libmusicbrainz dependency
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* Detect DVDs and VCDs properly on a pmount setup
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* Don't save Totem's thumbnail with an alpha component, for recent
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* Remove keyboard shortcuts from the main video popup menu
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* Fix resizing of the sidebar
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* Fix problems parsing remote ASX files
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* GStreamer 0.10 support
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* Fix an access to invalid memory when getting metadata from a file
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* Avoid playback stopping when seeking forward in DVDs
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* Get the xine-lib version at run-time
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* New French (fr) translation of the help files
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* Fix problems with the nautilus property window not getting translated
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* Add missing strings for translation
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* Remove warnings when exiting early because audio or video outputs
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aren't available (GStreamer)
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* Fix the visualisations not running on startup (xine-lib)
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* Correctly change the visualisation plugin when it's not currently in use
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* Fix Totem not finding the type of a disc when it's not in /etc/fstab
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* Some (more) volume button fixes
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* Don't leak memory when getting the supported mime-types of the plugin
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* Fix generation of the playlist-end signal in the playlist parser
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* Allow reading DVD off the disk (GStreamer)
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* Fix sensitivity of the volume menu items
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* Avoid crashes with the screensaver disabling code
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* Use D-Bus for the communication between the mozilla plugin and the viewer
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(more reliable, and supports multiple plugins at the same time)
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* Make it impossible to have the sidebar smaller than the buttons it contains
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* Hide the sidebar when hiding the controls
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* Make the sidebar shortcut F9 like other GNOME applications
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* Add suport for ASF redirect files
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* Don't display the length in full-screen mode if it is unknown
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* Disable the "Save" button in the playlist if it is empty
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* More volume button fixes
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* Fix build with newer pkg-config versions
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* Fix double error messages when reading encrypted files (xine-lib)
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* Only create visual effects plugins when needed, not on startup (xine-lib)
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* Allow remote subtitle files (GStreamer)
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* Move the playlist dialog to a sidebar
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* Use a new volume widget in the main player window
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* Deprecate the use of vcd:, dvd: and cd: to play discs, and have the
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user pass a directory (for vcd: and dvd:) or a device path (for all) instead
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* Avoid resizing on startup before we really show the window
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* Fix a crash when 'Hide controls' is called while starting up
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* Move the Repeat and Shuffle menu items to the Edit menu
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* Disable the Zoom menu items correctly on boundaries
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* Don't crash when trying to set the Zoom level during startup
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* Hide the main window quicker on exit
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* Make the album name selectable in the property dialogues
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* Update the length in the property window as the stream is played
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* Add the ability to write/read a title when saving a playlist
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* Ignore images and text files when reading playlists or parsing directories
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* Say that we support Shorten and 3GPP files
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* Show the track number in the window title if available
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* Avoid triggering the mouse pointer highlighter when in fullscreen
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* More resilient "Play disc" feature when trying to play back Audio CDs
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* Sort files before inserting them in the playlist when dropping them
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* Better parsing of ASX playlists and ASF reference files
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* Better Mozilla plugin headers detection
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* Fix compilation of the Mozilla plugin with GCC4
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* Add a working volume button
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* Fix the Mozilla plugin's window showing up outside the browser (GStreamer)
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* Better iradio title support (GStreamer)
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* Add DVD subtitles support (GStreamer)
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* Better error messages on startup and during playback (GStreamer)
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* Fix some memory leaks (GStreamer)
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* Remove a few startup warnings (GStreamer)
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* Work-around problem in xine-lib that could mean files showing up as 0-length
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* Work-around errors when seeking near the end of an ASF/WMV file
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* Fix crashes when playing back some files with errors (xine-lib)
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* Add a proper warning when trying to play an empty file (xine-lib)
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* Fix hand icon not appearing on DVD menus in fullscreen (xine-lib)
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* Fix detection of still images with newer xine-lib
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* Fix screenshot aspect ratio for some MPEG files
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* Use MusicBrainz to get Title, Album, etc. for audio CDs
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* Also read 3 letters country-codes for subtitles and languages
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* Remove unexisting local files from the recent files list
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* Make subtitles and languages menus unsensitive rather than their submenus
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* Have the nautilus properties page set the tab label according to the file type
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* Add the "--print-playing" command-line option that does what it says
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* Desensitise zoom menu items when boundaries are reached
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* Allow building the Mozilla plugin with Firefox
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* Avoid deadlocks/CPU burn with the thumbnailer
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* Fix GTK+ only build, remove GNOME dependency on the thumbnailer
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* Make the Exit fullscreen appear on the right screen for Xinerama setups
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* Misc Mozilla and playlist fixes
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* Fix some playlist files from winamp.com not being parsed properly
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* Don't show the fullscreen popups when the video window isn't focused
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* Fix crash with some recent files
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* Allow to pass a device directly to the playlist, for DVD and VCD
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* Better error messages for some types of input (xine-lib)
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* Fix crashes when zooming out too far (xine-lib)
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* Prevent window flickering with some files (GStreamer)
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* Implement per-track CD playback (GStreamer)
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* Improve metadata loading in the nautilus properties page (GStreamer)
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* Implement aspect-ratio switching (GStreamer)
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* Add subtitles/languages labels for audio streams (GStreamer)
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* Major enhancements to the experimental mozilla plugin
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* Remove use of libnautilus-burn, and list all the CD drives in the main
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* Add a preference to select the subtitle font
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* Avoid the progress bar changing the status bar's height
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* Allow Totem to be passed multiple files by Nautilus
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* Translate the language names in Totem's menus
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* Make the "Skip to..." dialog appear again
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* Don't crash if the playlist contains non-UTF8 data
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* Fix parsing of some ASX playlists
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* Slight performance increase in adding entries to the playlist
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* Fix Drag'n'drop of files and directories with broken UTF-8, and from
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* Close the 'Open Location' dialogue when 'Esc' is pressed
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* Fix a crash when reaching the first element in a shuffled/repeat playlist
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* Fix parsing of directories with special characters and broken UTF-8
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* Use the new 'Leave fullscreen' icon and label
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* Add the Video bitrate in the properties
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* Prevent a click in the recent files really opening the first file twice
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* Add --play and --pause command-line options
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* Fix compilation with glibc 2.2 systems
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* Add a man page for totem-video-thumbnailer, and update the totem one
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* Fix possible crash in the BaconMessageConnection
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* Require glib 2.6.3 to fix the thumbnailer exiting too soon
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* Fix date shown from some OGG files (GStreamer)
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* Fix the cursor not disappearing (GStreamer)
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* Allow relative paths to be passed to the thumbnailer (GStreamer)
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* NVidia TV-Out support (GStreamer)
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* Better overall metadata information (xine-lib)
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* Fix volume bars not reaching 100% (all), or above 100% (GStreamer)
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* Fix history not getting saved when using the "Open Location..." dialog
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* Popup menu fixes (accelerators not appearing, wrong stock icons, wrong
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sensitivity on some items)
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* Fix hangs opening the "Open..." dialog when a bookmark required authentication
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* Lock-down mode support
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* Only disable the screensaver in fullscreen mode when something is playing
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* Handle unnamed sound channels (xine-lib)
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* Don't allow the AC3 Passthrough audio output to set the volume (xine-lib)
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* Fix colour balance settings not being remembered (GStreamer)
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* Allow the thumbnailer to work without a display
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* Make the fullscreen button go to the edge of the screen, and move it to
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the right hand-side as per the HIG
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* Fix "Play Disc" when devfs is used
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* GStreamer thumbnailer fixes
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* Rise the controls when in fullscreen and a remote's button is pressed
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* Speed up frequently called functions by checking the previous state before
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* Remove files from the playlist that are on a volume that's getting removed
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* Use GTK+ 2.6 widgets, features and icons
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* Port the Nautilus property pages to the GNOME 2.8 API from the Bonobo API
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* Avoid triggering the accessibility features of X when in fullscreen
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* Install the playlist parser as a library
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* Don't crash when a file fails to open (GStreamer)
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* Automatic subtitles support (GStreamer)
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* Mouse interactivity support (GStreamer)
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* Install Totem's .desktop file properly
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* Fix volume setting on startup
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* Fix the sound device not being released in some cases
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* Fix non-stereo audio playback (xine-lib)
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* Fix a bug parsing directories when filenames have '#' in their names
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* Implement session management support, remove automatic save/restore of the
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