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Major changes in 3.8.2:

- Work-around problem with initial window size

- Fix errors in gallery name print when filename contains "&"

- Fix translations not being applied in nautilus' properties

- Fix Python Console not working

- Fix screenshot keyboard shortcut

Major changes in 3.8.0:

- Updated translations

Major changes in 3.7.93:

- Fix incorrect Vala generated files getting in the release

Major changes in 3.7.92 from 3.6.3:

- Use yelp-tools instead of gnome-doc-utils

- Add YouTube format configuration for grilo

- Fix possible Unicode errors with MPRIS plugin

- Use libgd's icon view for search results

- Fix warnings for some files in the browse sidebar

- Fix possible crashes in the chapters plugin

- Fix playing audio CD tracks launched from Nautilus

- Fix running when clutter-gst is in a different prefix

Plugins:

- Remove use of deprecated widgets in subtitles downloader

Major changes in 3.5.90:

- Plenty of build fixes to make it possible to build with Wayland support

- Increase thumbnail size to 256 px

Movie player:

- Rename to "Videos"

- Hide titlebar when maximised

- Move some menu items to the app menu

- Command-line parsing bug fixes

- Use Grilo to list DVDs and other optical media

- Remove connection speed preferences

- Stop DVD playback when disc is ejected

- Fix ordering of the playlist after drag'n'drop

Backend:

- Port to GStreamer 1.0

- Add HTTP proxy support

- Much improved error messages

- Add variable rate playback

- Use Clutter for the OSD

- Disable visualisations by default

- Animate rotations

- Add av-offset support

- Prepare the ground for chapter support in non-DVDs

Plugins:

- Make screenshot UI-less, like in gnome-shell

- Simplify the screensaver and browser plugin code

- Remove publish and iPlayer plugins

- Use Grilo 0.2

- Better search sidebar

- Add hook for site-specific user-agents

- Add hook for custom subtitle selection through plugins

- Move recent-files handling to a plugin

3.4.0:

* Mark some strings as translatable

* Handle Clutter failing to initialise

* Don't handle Ctrl+Space (which is used for IM switching)

3.3.92:

* Check plugins for introspection in configure

3.3.90:

* Show Vorbis DESCRIPTION field in Comments

* Use GTK+ code to detect the workspace's work area

* Do use direct seeking for files in the wastebasket

* Thumbnail FLAC files too

* Fix crash when using MPRIS plugin

* Fix compilation of the rotation plugin with newer Vala

3.3.4:

* Re-enable and fix compilation of zeitgeist-dp plugin

* Use new GLib threading API if compiling with GLib ≥ 2.31.0

* Fix some problems with `make check` on the Python plugins

3.3.3:

* Add plugin to replace the Flash plugin for online videos

* Add support for RTMP URLs

* Fix vala plugins compilation

* Fix --time option in thumbnailer

* Fix possible crashes with the browser plugin

  on OpenBSD

* Remove obsolete youtube and bemused plugins

* Port browser plugin to GDBus

* Fix getting the cover art in the movie player

* Fix crasher when Totem is passed arguments

3.2.1:

* Fix crash when framerate isn't available

* Quieten the thumbnailer when thumbnailing non-videos

* Loads of translations

3.2.0:

* Fix Python console settings conversion bug

* Loads of updated translations

3.1.92:

* Mention our support of a few more mime-types

* Handle HTTP Live Streaming (in the main player,

  and the browser plugin)

* Loads of translations

3.1.91:

* Port D-Bus service to MPRIS 2.1

* Store and restore the rotation status of videos

* Fix the "save" button not work in the playlist

* Screensaver fixes for non-GNOME sessions

* Port to pygobject 3.0

3.1.4:

* Add Grilo plugin

* Remove Coherence UPNP, Tracker and Jamendo plugins

* Add plugin to rotate videos

* Fix audio tracks not appearing with their language names

* Add keyboard shortcut for "Save"

* Remove sidebar drop-down item, and use menu items instead

* Fix translations of the nautilus properties window

* Subtitles plugin bug fixes

3.1.0:

* Use clutter-gst to draw the video, the

  only major related change is simpler zoom modes

* Use GStreamer API directly for audio preview

  utility (used in nautilus), thumbnailer and

  nautilus properties window

* Show container format in the properties

* Add ability to switch video tracks

* Add ability to "thumbnail" DVD ISOs

* Advertise support for audio/x-stm and audio/x-s3m

* Fix possible dropped chapters in chapter plugin

* Code:

  - Port media-player-keys plugin to GDBus

  - Add pylint support for all Python plugins, and fix

    errors from it, and port all of the plugins to

    GObject Introspection

  - Simplify screenshot code

* Removed:

  - Remove XVidMode support in backend

  - Remove video indexer, it wasn't used

  - Remove thumbnail plugin which doesn't serve a purpose

    under GNOME 3

3.0.0:

* Fix packing and spacing in the properties

* Fix subtitle downloader and jamendo plugins

* Loads more translations

2.91.93:

* Fix activation of all Python plugins

* Make Python console work again

* Loads of translations

2.91.92:

* Plenty of screensaver related bug fixes

* Make "Open Location" dialogue modal

* Never use an empty User-Agent in the backend

* Don't poke at web server when we already have

  information to set up "recent files"

2.91.91:

* New icon!

and also:

* Fix screensaver for latest gnome-screensaver

* Fix possible assertion in save-file plugin

* Use gnome-session instead of Galago for status notifications

* Fix thumbnailer with both --size and --raw options

* Require GTK+ 3.x in pkg-config file, and fix compilation for

  out-of-tree plugins

* Make sure all the builtin plugins get activated on startup

* Fix screenshot for interlaced videos

2.91.7:

* Allow finer-grained control on the volume using Shift as a modifier

* Add Zeitgeist provider plugin

* Don't crash if plugins weren't loaded

* Update work area code

* Update for latest libpeas changes

* Make default plugins dialogue bigger

* Fix saving localised strings in the chapters CMML files

* Fix vanishing entries when loading mixed media types from slow links

* Fix screensaver not disabling when switching to fullscreen straight away

2.91.6:

* YouTube plugin:

  - Show actual stream title instead of "videoplayback" in the

    recent items menu

- Fix build with latest GTK+ version

- Various build fixes

2.91.5:

* Build:

  - Fix build with newer versions of GTK+ 3.x

* Thumbnailer:

  - Register thumbnailer with new scheme

  - Always use the better looking resize method, even for

    large thumbnails

* Movie Player:

  - Use new-style toolbar for playlist

  - Fix look of plugins preferences

  - Notice panels when automatically resizing the window

* Plugins:

  - Fix subtitles plugin not closing after download

  - Downgrade YouTube plugin's abilities, see:

  http://www.hadess.net/2011/01/youtube-playback-will-suck-again.html

  - Offer to launch YouTube in browser if video is not

    available in the requested format.

  - Re-add support for Vala plugins and sample vala plugin

  - Add support for additional multimedia keys

  - Port tracker plugin to newest API

* Browser plugin:

  - Fix possible crasher in the glow button

2.91.4:

* Build:

  - Port to GtkStyleContext

  - Other GTK+ 3.x fixes

* Movie Player:

  - Remove the MythTV plugin (upstream is dead and UPnP works just as well)

  - Change the data paths in GSettings schemas

  - Lots of Python plugin fixes

  - Add a save file plugin

  - Fix a race condition when parsing multiple playlist entries

  - More GSettings fixes and cleanup

  - Use symbolic icons for the volume level

  - Fix plugin shutdown

* GStreamer backend:

  - Various drawing fixes

* Updated translations

2.91.0:

* List audio/mp2 as supported

* Build:

  - Use upstream gettext instead of GLib's

  - Plenty of bug fixes for building against GTK+ 3.x

2.90.6:

* Movie Player:

  - Re-enable Python plugins

  - Update for libpeas and GTK+ 3.x changes

  - Add chapters plugin

  - Use icon for the sidebar

  - Don't try to load subtitles, or chapters data for streams

  - Only popup controls when the mouse moves a certain distance

  - Port to GSettings

* YouTube plugins:

  - Fix playback again

  - Support Web-M videos

  - Hide URLs from the tooltips, they're not useful

* GStreamer backend:

  - Don't block main thread when seeking

* Thumbnailer:

  - Use msecs instead of seconds for seeking, which should fix black frames

  - Make --raw work along with --size, so you can avoid adding borders

2.90.5:

* Movie Player:

  - Port from libunique to GApplication

  - Rework cancellation in the YouTube plugin to remove races

  - Reorganise the core code into an installed library, libtotem.so

  - Add gobject-introspection support to this library

  - Make it possible to build plugins out of tree by installing a few header files

  - Remove the old Python and Vala bindings in favour of introspection

  - Port the Python plugins to libpeas and the new bindings (note that they aren't re-enabled yet due to being too unstable)

  - Tidy up the "Open Location" dialogue

  - Port to the updated PeasUIConfigurable interface in libpeas 0.5.2

* Browser plugin:

  - Add support for the VLC input.length property

2.90.0:

* Movie Player:

  - Fix some strings in the BBC iPlayer plugin

  - Support async loading of playlists

  - Fix window resizing when showing/hiding the controls and sidebar

  - Add deinterlacing to the preferences

  - Add support for accurate seeking

  - Add WebM support

  - Port to GDBus

  - Port to libpeas for plugin handling (porting the C plugins, but disabling the Python and Vala ones)

* Browser plugin:

  - Fix URL parameter usage in the GMP plugin

  - Fix the position when the QT plugin gets to the EOS

  - Add support for the input.time and togglePause VLC JavaScript API

  - Add support for the VLC toolbar argument

  - Initialise GType support when called into

* GStreamer backend:

  - Implement deinterlacing support and turn on automatic deinterlacing by default

  - Fix constant buffering when playing live streams

  - Ensure the widget uses the system colourmap

2.30.1:

* Movie Player:

  - Fix artifacts and flashing or black screen when paused

  - Better download buffering handling

  - Fix crasher when PyGTK is badly installed

  - Avoid problems with seeking when pausing the video too early

  - Fix link to Totem website in error messages

  - Disable seeking in DVD menus

  - Make Eject menu item work for DVDs

  - Fix playback from FTP sites

* Plugins:

  - Port Tracker plugin to Tracker 0.8

  - Make YouTube plugin work again for latest site changes

* Browser Plugin:

  - Add download buffering support even when streaming from

    the browser itself

  - Fix playback on the Apple trailers site, and add seeking support

2.30.0:

* Updated translations

2.29.92:

* Fix some possible hangs when switching files

2.29.91:

* Fix compilation with newer versions of Tracker

* Update time in the status bar when frame-stepping

* Fix a lot of build problems with newer GTK+, or using pedantic linkers

* Update Vala bindings for external plugins

* Fix problems with the popup menu in the browser plugin

2.29.4:

* Fix documentation build

2.29.3:

* Movie Player:

  - Add GConf key to disable all the keyboard shortcuts

  - Implement type-ahead search

  - Display embedded cover images in audio streams

  - Add "fullscreen" button in the main video UI

  - Fix for new TotemPlParser API

  - Fix the time elapsed not showing up in the status bar

    with newer GTK+

  - Fix translation of skip menu items in RTL languages

  - Make "Esc" passing the keyboard focus to the video canvas

  - Close RTSP streams, and clean up temporary buffer files on exit

* Web browser plugin:

  - Fix a number of Javascript functions not working in the QuickTime plugin

  - Implement SetURL for QuickTime

* Plugins:

  - Remove built-in DVB support, and rely on gnome-dvb-daemon instead

  - Convert D-Bus plugin to MPRIS plugin

* GStreamer backend:

  - Fix playback of files from archives

  - Make track switching faster

2.29.2 (changes since latest stable 2.28.4 release):

* General:

  - Add disk buffering for QuickTime and Flash video files,

    and only start playing the file when it can be played

    uninterrupted until the end

  - Add support for authentication for HTTP and RTSP streams

  - Make track switching faster

  - Don't save the volume anymore, the sound system should

  - Use cairo to draw the logo

* Movie Player:

  - Add OSD when keyboard or remote keys are pressed

  - Add support for reverse frame-stepping

  - Add support for playing back DVDs and VCDs from mounted

    ISO images

  - Include the movie name when taking screenshots

  - Use gallery instead of screenshot in suggested gallery file names

* Browser plugin:

  - Use referrer information

  - Add support for subtitles in the VideLAN API

  - Remove "Complex" (RealMedia compatible) plugin

2.28.0:

* Use name from the playlist for the recent item

* Set the stream volume using PulseAudio

* Fix a crash in the web browser plugin with WebKit

* Fix playback of YouTube videos

* Fix possible hangs after playing a remote file

2.27.92:

* Movie Player:

  - Remember the current file position when Pause is clicked

  - Show menu item description in status bar

  - Make Home and End keys seek to the start and the end of streams

  - Use Totem's icon as the main window logo

  - Make screenshot dialogue more like GNOME's

  - Bug fixes:

    - Fix crash when a storage volume is encrypted

    - Make shuffle playlists faster with a large number of items

    - Fix the artist not showing up in the window title

    - Detect non-xine DVB channel configurations

    - Select the directory in which the movie is by default,

      when looking for a subtitle

* Web browser plugin:

  - Use the user-agents for the plugins we're mimicking

  - Show controls for the Cone plugin when VLC compatibility

    isn't explicitely asked

* Thumbnailer:

  - Make it possible to output thumbnails without the film borders

* Plugins:

  - Add plugin authoring tutorial

2.27.2:

* Movie Player:

  - Add frame-by-frame stepping

  - Better fallback names for audio and languages tracks

  - Make the arrow keys navigate DVD menus when one is loaded

  - Move subtitles-related menu items to View → Subtitles.

  - Bug fixes:

    - Fix loading subtitles from the cache

    - Fix loading videos when Totem is already running

    - Fix drag'n'dropping a video onto itself reloading the video

    - Only add a file to the recent files when it has been played,

      makes startup with loads of files much quicker

* GStreamer backend:

  - Prevent tags from other tracks to show up when

    they're not used

  - Try to mount the location where the file is when it's

    not already mounted

* YouTube plugin:

  - Fix a possible crasher when loading thumbnails

  - Fix problems in non-English locales

  - Fix video list rendering problems

- Fix UI differences between the YouTube, Jamendo and local seach plugins

2.27.1 (since 2.26.2):

Major changes:

* Port GStreamer backend to playbin2

* Remove xine-lib backend

* New BBC iPlayer plugin

* Port YouTube plugin to C, much faster

* Use libunique instead of our home-cooked version

New features:

* Add a D-Bus service plugin, to allow getting playback information

  from a running Totem

* Add support for DVD navigation to the GStreamer backend

Misc bug fixes:

* Remove relief from the playlist buttons

* Set the default drag action to be copy, and only make

  the video widget a drag source when a video is loaded

2.25.92:

* Set PulseAudio application properties

* Fix possible crasher in eggdesktopfile

* Add support for MXF videos

* Fix repeat not working in the browser plugin

2.25.91:

* Document internal API for plugin writers

* Fix a few focus problems

* Accept human-friendly inputs in the "Skip To" dialogue

* Add a huge number of languages to the subtitle downloader plugin

* Make looping smoother when only one file is being played in repeat

* Make the gallery creation progress window work as expected

* Fix a possible crasher when getting metadata in the xine-lib backend

* Many build fixes

* Make Totem more robust when Python fails to initialise

2.25.90:

* Add a UPNP/DLNA plugin

* Add a plugin to allow creating galleries of screenshots

  for video files

* Add a plugin to allow copying DVDs and VCDs through Brasero,

  as well as creating new DVDs from the playing video

* Add support for Repeat and Shuffle through LIRC

* Add support for a number of playlist types

* Update audio and video files types supported by the properties

  window to not include playlists

* Fix recent files not working when the playlist was empty

* Avoid resetting colour balance sliders when set at the maximum

  or the minimum

* Fix the screensaver not being disabled in some cases

* Add number of build and UI fixes

2.25.3 (changes since 2.24.3):

* Interface changes:

  - Make the left-click seek directly to the destination

  - Hide colour balance sliders that aren't available

  - Make modifiers work as expected when drag'n'dropping files

  - Use "Movie Player" everywhere in the interface

  - Add an arrow to the sidebar button

  - Convert British English messages to American English

  - Show the fullscreen popups when seeking with the keyboard

  - Better behaviour when changing the type of playlist to be saved

  - Fix playlist problems when removing an file that was deleted

    from the filesystem

* Subtitle handling:

  - Add plugin to download text subtitles from OpenSubtitles.org

  - Allow selecting a text subtitle from the View menu, or by dropping

    the file onto the video widget

  - Add the subtitle and languages menus to the fullscreen popup

* Browser plugin:

  - Remove the "basic" web browser plugin, we now use the same

    API as VideoLAN for our default plugin

  - Fix relative paths not resolving in some cases

  - Fix repeat=true only playing files twice

* Plugins:

  - Add Jamendo plugin

  - Add support for streaming TV from MythTV

  - Fix YouTube movie playback following website changes

  - Make the local search and YouTube search sidebars look more alike

  - Add proper mute support for remote controls

  - Fix the metadata-updated signal to be useful

* Build:

  - Remove libgnome dependency

  - Remove NVTV support

  - Use g_timeout_add_seconds() when possible

* GStreamer backend:

  - Require the rsndvdbin plugin for DVD playback

  - Add zoom support

  - Fix some files not giving us metadata with the video indexer

  - Fix the video window getting bigger than the screen

  - When streaming, the pause button stops

* Other:

  - Add ability to create a gallery image using the video thumbnailer

2.23.91:

* Numerous UI and bug fixes

* DVB playback:

  - Add support for a helper to setup DVB channels

  - Support multiple DVB adapters

  - Better DVB error messages

* New features:

  - Allow '+' and '-' to go to the previous/next tracks

  - Make the LIRC plugin work out-of-the-box on a majority of remotes, and add

    support for the Stop key

  - Add a Python console plugin

* Movie player:

  - Require a newer gmyth to support newer MythTV instances

  - UI fixes for the playlist and play buttons showing the wrong status on error

  - Fix restoring previous sessions

  - Don't resize the window in the middle of a stream, for example, when watching TV

  - Build fixes for Python and Vala plugin backends

* Youtube plugin:

  - Fix webpage URLs getting added to the playlist, rather than movies themselves

  - Don't eat the CPU when searching for videos

  - Blacklist the ffmpeg FLV demuxer, and popup the plugin installation helper

    if no other demuxers are available

* GStreamer backend:

  - Fix possible drifts in the colour balance

  - Fix the UI not updating for internet radio titles when streaming

  - Add support for ATSC (North-American DVB)

  - Update visualisations aspect ratio when the screen size changes

2.23.4:

* Remove gnome-vfs requirements, all over

* Better help output when wrong arguments are passed

* Automatically remove files from the playlist when they've been

  removed from the filesystem

* Bug fixes for build on MacOS X with native GTK+

* Always use files on fuse when available

* Plenty of small bug fixes

* Thumbnailer:

  - When a file contains cover art, use the art as the thumbnail

* Web browser plugin:

  - Remove mozilla specific requirements

  - Show stream titles in fullscreen

  - Add double-click -> fullscreen

  - Hide controls by default in the Cone (VLC) plugin

  - Implement Playlist::isplaying for Cone

* Plugins:

  - Remove need to configure the MythTV plugin, use UPNP instead

  - Add a progress bar to the YouTube plugin

  - Add support for high-res YouTube videos

  - Use ~/.local/share/totem/plugins/ for user-plugins

2.23.3:

* Update FSF address in the sources

* Use GIO when a GIO source isn't available (xine-lib, GStreamer)

* Reset player state when we get an error whilst syncing

* Add Totem specific application/x-totem-plugin type to the browser plugin

* Fix building against latest totem-pl-parser

* Fix browser plugin not showing on http://www.la1.be site

2.23.2:

* YouTube plugin bug fixes

* Add ability to launch YouTube videos in a web browser from the YouTube plugin

2.23.1:

* Port large portions of the code to GIO

* Add audio/x-speex as a supported mime-type

* Update Vala sample plugin and bindings to use new features

* Movie Player: