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xine is a free multimedia player. It plays back CDs, DVDs, and VCDs. It also decodes multimedia files like AVI, MOV, WMV, and MP3 from local disk drives, and displays multimedia streamed over the Internet. It interprets many of the most common multimedia formats available - and some of the most uncommon formats, too.
Besides a shiny new christmas splash screen, this release comes with
lots
of improvements: Compared to 0.9.22, you'll probably experience much
quicker startup times. If you're using OSD (or subtitles), you'll enjoy
xine-lib's new display resolution overlays, which give you perfectly
unscaled text, even when playing low-resolution video in fullscreen
mode.
This kind of overlay also allows you to move subtitles, even to the
"black
bars" below widescreen movies. Try the "spu_vertical_offset" setting in
xine's "misc" setup page!
There is also a new "Help..." dialog, which can conveniently be selected
from the video window's context menu.
In the unlikely event that you should have trouble with this release,
you
can run "xine --bug-report", which will dump some helpful debugging
information to a file named BUG-REPORT.TXT, that you can conveniently
mail to xine-user, along with your bug report.
The obligatory complete ChangeLog entry for this release:
xine-ui (0.9.23) unstable; urgency=low
* xinerama bug fixes (very fullscreen, window position when switching
from
fullscreen to normal mode),
* shiny new help dialog,
* some small usability improvements,
* fix some memleaks,
* main menu reorg, localized,
* new deinterlacing, it use post plugins now,
* add --bug-report and --list-plugins option to xine-ui,
* splash screen per skin is possible,
* all meta infos are retrieve at the same time, when playing audio CD,
* support new unscaled OSD (note: osd need a complete rework),
* new playlist management command in xine-remote,
* new "stop after this stream" feature,
* grab streams recusively (with enqueuing and file browser),
* fix reference mrl handling,
* add 'loop' and two new playlist options 'first' and 'last', in
session control,
* fix shortcut grabber,
* sound volume control can be sets with sound card mixer or
software amplification,
* add help in chain reaction window,
* double clicking in output window is a fullscreen toggle now,
* subtitle autoload feature added,
* new TVout feature, using libnvtvsimple for nVIDIA cards, and
atitvout for ATI,
* store spu offset in toxine's playlist,
* fix skin downloder,
* fix support of huge playlists,
* contextual menu popup in playlist window,
* fix control's window sliders,
* ton of fbxine improvments (post plugin, deinterlacing, spu,
stream infos...),
* bunch of other fix.
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