Playback:

• Instantaneous pausing
• Frame-by-Frame playback
• Timeshift for all medias
• On-the-fly recording for all medias
• RTSP trickplay support

New Decoders:

• AES3 (SMPTE 302M)
• Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b)
• True HD/MLP
• Blu-Ray Linear PCM
• QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice)
• Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
• WMA v1/2 fixed point integer
• Close Caption under SCTE-20 standard

Demuxers:

• Support for Dirac and RealVideo in Matroska files
• Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
• Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files

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 Folder support
• On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form zip://file.zip|file.avi to specify the file)

Inputs:

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

Playlist:

• Export the playlist in HTML
• Lua script for BBC radio playback

Linux/Windows interface:

• Recently played items list
• Interface customizations
• Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux

Mac OS X Interface:

• Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.

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.

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

Miscellanous:

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