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- Summary of changes from version 1.6 to version 1.6a:
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- - fixed a bug in the audio decoder which caused layer II
- joint stereo streams to hang the decoder
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- Summary of changes from version 1.5 to version 1.6:
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- - MCI driver added
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- - manual frame rate control added
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- - arbitrary scaling of window content supported (WinG only)
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- - 'seek to frame' feature added (for MCI)
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- - video format can now be reconfigured without having to
- restart playback
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- - minor video speed improvements
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- - audio decoder speed improved
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- - synchronization now really uses audio and video timestamps
- (PTS/DTS) instead of assuming nominal speed and identical
- start time for video and audio
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- - reduced memory requirements (by using much smaller IDCT tables)
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- - modified inverse quantizer for improved image quality
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- - program restructured as frontend + DLL (to simplify MCI support)
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- - structural changes for efficient DCI support
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- - fixed bug in decoding of very large IDCT coefficients which
- caused visible artifacts in some streams
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- - no longer diplays an error message when WinG (or DCI) is not installed
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- - no longer activates the program manager when quitting
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- - fixed bugs in end of file detection (which caused some sequences to
- loop)
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