CVS:

• Fix check for smpeg, SDL, and avifile to check for a more current version.
• Enhanced flexibility of MPG/VCD fullscreen, allowing to choose scaling rather than a vidmode change.
• Fixed bug with smpeg plugin being run on X drivers with XVideo extension.
• Added support for XVideo extension for all player plugins, will automatically take advantage of XVideo overlays when available for scaling, revert to software scaler if unavailable
• made GL support with Mpeg compile if available, it is not recommended unless you have no other choice, however.
• Updated AVI/ASF plugin to use avifile-0.6 CVS rather than stable version.
• Enhanced plugin framework somewhat.
• Made it so that MPEG media could be closed by closing the playback window.
• Fixed bug where openeing too many files sequentially would cause player to crash (contributed by John Thacker)

0.9.2:

• Fixed Seekbar to not update while being dragged.
• Designed for latest official stable avifile release (0.53.x)
• DPMS disabled for older XFree versions.
• Fixed drag and drop with nautilus file manager.
• Memory leak fixes by John Thacker

0.9.1:

• Fixed a bug that caused fullscreen to not properly release and grab keyboard and mouse.
• Designed for use with 0.51 of libaviplay
• Improved ./configure and build behavior
• Less annoying output with avi, asf, and vcd playback.
• Fix bug where changing the mpeg playback surface in anyway could cause media to be stopped and rewound.

0.9.0.1:

• Compilation fix for non-linux
• Fix for 'CPU HOG' bug.

0.9.0:

• VCD seeking
• More intelligent error messages
• Moved to $PREFIX/Xtheater from $PREFIX/lib/Xtheater
• UI options dialogs for UI and plugins.
• Now use ~/.Xtheater.rc for user-specific changes.
• Resizable MPEG playback window (software scaling or GL)
• GL based windowed and fullscreen playback for MPEGs
• Software bilinear filter for mpeg playback.
• Can now play video when audio device unavailable.
• Major API changes
• Improved AVI/ASF seeking
• Loop works for all media now.
• UI stops updating when video stops.
• Handleboxes removed except for menu.
• Disable DPMS screensaver on playback.

0.5.4:

• Updated to libaviplay 0.50
• Fixed drag and drop bug w/ KDE2.
• Build improvements.
• Stop in avi/asf plugin fixed.

0.5.3:

• Updated to libaviplay 0.49
• Configure script fixed.
• VCD support without seek.
• URL support(mpeg ftp/http/raw)
• Double buffering.
• Config file cleaned.

0.5.2:

• Fixed drag and drop for AVI/ASF files
• Fixed AVI/ASF bug where playback window was left open after media closed.
• Fixed build issues related to conflicts with pre-existing wine installs
• Fixed libaviplay check to give correct answer.
• Removed VCD option from menu (will put it back when implemented)
• Entries for .mpeg files added to default config file.
• Double Buffering disabled

0.5.1:

• Added AVI/ASF plugin
  • Uses avifile library (donwloadable from here or, in it's original form, from here)
  • Videos are decoded using Windows DLLs (x86 only, windows nor wine required, however).
• Minor tweaks to smpeg plugin
• Restructured Source Tree
• Fiancee contributed icon :)

0.5.0:

• Complete rewrite:
  • Plugin Architecture for UI and playback
  • Config file parsing
  • Cleaner design/less bug-prone
• smpeg-based player plugin:
  • Like 0.1.4, but better, adds better sync and seek, among other things.
• GTK UI:
  • Better drag and drop (KDE2, Gnome, EFM, Netscape tested)
  • Reconfig on the fly based on context of playback.
  • New buttons/button pixmaps
  • More robust error handling, including dialogs.

0.2.5:

• New autoconf/automake based install
• Integrated backend from official kmpg 0.5.4 release meaning:
  • All bugfixes from kmpg are included
  • More MMX assembler routines for x86 processors (16 bpp and 32 bpp playback)
• Change executable name from Xtheater to xtheater
• Removed SMPEG support (still maintained in 0.1.x tree)
• Restructured internals of Mixer a bit, add mute back and made it more intelligent.

0.1.4:

• Added 0.2.x tear-away capability to 0.1.3.
• Added 0.2.x drag and drop capability
• Made audio files play
• Added configure Script

0.2.4:

• Backend improvements in speed and sync quality
• Seekbar no longer continuously tries to update as dragged, now user must leave slider in one spot for a short delay before seek will occur.
• parts of smpeg interface that were not tear-away now are.

0.2.3:

• Made most of interface "tear-away" capable.
• Fixed seekbar for Video CDs (fix not tested)
• Made Seekbar progress correctly as video plays
• Fixed " Creating pixmap from xpm with NULL window and colormap" bug
• Made the go to end button work under newer backend.
• Updated Docs to 2000, Changed archived directory to Xtheater-0.2.3

0.2.2:

• Added gtk drag and drop support (Accept drops from gtk, i.e. gmc)
• Added option for playing VCDS (not tested, and not enabled with smpeg)
• Added option for playing http streams (not enabled with smpeg)
• Fixed compilation to work in more build enviornments

0.2.1:

• Added some speedups and improved sync to kmpg engine build.
• Added Volume control to the kmpg engine build.
• Made seekbar a bit more sane, stops and rewinds more appropriately.
• Fixed many segfaults concerning opening files, seeking.
• Fixed windows staying open even after media has been closed.
• Made some kmpg output only occur when compiled with DEBUG defined.

0.2.0:

• Added backend provided by Martin Vogt and made it default backend
• smpeg and SDL now OPTIONAL for compilation
• Added seek functionality with new backend
• kmpg backend version lacks:
  • fullscreen
  • doublesize
  • loop playback
  • mouse hiding
  • volume control (at the moment)
  • mute
• If you desire this functionality and are willing to sacrifice the better sync and seek for them, the smpeg version still is here, see INSTALL
• Updated CREDITS, INSTALL, Makefiles
• Many new and interesting bugs, see BUGS file

0.1.3:

• Updated to SDL 1.0.2, probably requires it now.
• No longer a need for root permissions to fullscreen.
• Playback window now gets the filename as a titlebar entry
• Mouse now hidden while over play window.
• Volume Slider added
• Updated Status of fullscreen bug in BUGS
• Added make install/uninstall to makefile
• Updated INSTALL file

0.1.2:

• Reworked most of gtkui.c to depend more heavily upon backend.c, backend.c got much more meat to it, more modularized, playback of media now abstracted further from UI routines
• Made all top-row buttons into Pixmaps.
• Fixed bugs that involved loading of multple media files.
• Fixed many segmentation faults.
• Updated About box, Changed File/Close to be more sane
• Added File/Exit to serve purpose that File/Close used to
• Added FPS and Current Frame displays.
• Changed Filename display to conserve more space and update better.
• Ditched Old, stupid Changelog information in public releases.
• Added sane dependencies for object files, renamed some files

0.1.1:

• Re-attached ctrl-c to work properly.
• Now compiles independent of location of source tree.
• Requires smpeg-0.3.1.
• Fixed mute to not knock audio WAY out of sync.

0.1.0 - Initial Publicly announced release