Important notes:

• Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses. See 'Access:' for more info.
• Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations

Playback:

• Instantaneous pausing
• Frame-by-Frame playback
• Finer speed control
• On-the-fly recording for all medias
• Timeshift for most medias
• RTSP trickplay support
• Subtitles core improvements and fixes

Decoders:

• New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
• New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
• New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
• New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
• New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
• Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
• New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
• Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
• Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
• Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering

Demuxers:

• Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
• Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
• Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
• Metadata for mod files are supported
• GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
• New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
• New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams

Encoders:

• Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
• Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder

Access:

• RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
• On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
• Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
• DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
• New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
• OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
• DVB scanning on linux
• EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
• On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
• Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
• MTP device access on Unix
• CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
• :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values

Inputs:

• Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
• Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
• Windows and Mac OS X.

Playlist:

• Export the playlist in HTML
• Lua script for BBC radio playback
• Better metadata handling and reading

Linux/Windows interface:

• Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
• Various fixes for skins2 interface
• Recently played items list
• Interface toolbar customizations
• Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
• More menus actions
• Finer speed slider
• Improvements on many dialogs
• New dialog for plugins listing
• Fixed-size mode for videos
• Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
• Better integration in GTK environments

Stream output:

• Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
• Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
• bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
• Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
• Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.

Maemo Port:

• New Maemo port with:
• an interface based on Hildon framework.
• scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.

Windows CE Port:

• EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.

Audio output:

• Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
• Surround support for PulseAudio

Video output:

• Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
• Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
• (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
• Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
• The old image video output has been removed.
• Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.

Miscellaneous:

• Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications