[ANN] vlc 0.1.99g

[Christophe Massiot]

   Version 0.1.99g of the VideoLAN Client (vlc) is out. This is quite
early a release, because a lot of important bugfixes and improvements
were done.


   New in 0.1.99g :

  * a 30 to 40% speed increase !! this was just done by fixing the
   Makefile which had a bug and didn't include all the required
   optimization flags for gcc (sam was sentenced to death for that).

  * the synchronization algorithm can now be bypassed, if you client
   wasn't displaying all images and still not taking 100% CPU you can
   force it to display all images, or only half of them, for instance
   (have a look at the --synchro option in the manpage).

  * arbitrary scaling is now enabled by default (use `s' to toggle)
   because a few people were reporting the vlc couldn't do it.

  * the 32bpp MMX display function was fixed.

  * the 8bpp display function was fixed as well: no more alpha blending,
   and no more blocks problems when scaling.

  * the Debian packages are now separated, with a core `vlc' package
   only depending on X11, and the other packages depending on `vlc',
   such as `vlc-gnome', `vlc-ggi', `vlc-esd'...

  * as usual, there are source packages in tar.gz and tar.bz2 formats,
   Debian GNU/Linux packages, and the SRPM and RPM for Linux i386.


   You can download the new version via HTTP or FTP :
                                                     
      http://www.videolan.org/download.html          
      ftp://ftp.videolan.org/pub/videolan/0.1.99g/


   People interested in development may have a look at the tasklist :

      http://www.videolan.org/developers.html

   Version 0.2 will be released when all "Critical" and "Important"
tasks have been done. There are still 11 of them to be done (4 have been
finished). A summary can be found at the bottom of the page.

   Have a nice day.

-- 
Christophe Massiot, for the VideoLAN project.