version 4.1

[Opt] better buffering calculation for Flash Communication Server connections
[Bug] fixed the bitrate selection broken in version 4
[New] all new database playlist with install file, including log features on custom skins.
[Opt] fixed the full screen feature for situations where the player is loaded into another clip.
[New] Admin module can read/write the AVplayer database.
[Bug] several bugs fixed in the Admin module..
version 4.0
[New] stand alone (FLV, MP3, SWF, JPG) player that parses local folders and loads local tracks on demand (Mac OSX).
[New] template skin file (.fla) made available.
[New] cue all playlists mode.
[Chg] randome mode applies to any id of any playlist.
[New] original scale / fit screen switch feature for movies and images.
[Opt] all AS2 re-writen code.
[Bug] MP3 bad start in some situations.
[New] Admin module: more compatible php patch for saving playlists on a server.
[Bug] Admin module: fixed swap bugs in the administration module.
3.6
New] Flash Communication live stream support.
[New] php patch for un-caching and hiding swf and flv files.
3.5
[New] Flash Communication support.
[New] php patch for un-caching and hiding mp3 files.
[New] added a rating attribute to the playlist.
[Opt] rewrote Stream and XML manager classes.
[Opt] +/- 30% CPU optimization.
[New] Separate playlist that handles icon attachment and communicate with the player through localConnection (professional licenses only).
3.4
[New] multiline feature for long track/playlist names.
[New] possibility to include comments in the playlist scroller.
[New] dynamic textformat feature for the playlist display.
[New] multilanguage feature for all player's alerts and labels (french, english, german).
[Opt] search engine improvments.
[Opt] engine weight improvment.
[Bug] few playlist Generator bugs fixed.
3.25
[Opt] preloader improvments.
[Opt] overall playback optimization for FLVs.
[Bug] fixed a resizing issue for FLVs.
3.2
[New] Flash 7 ready (skins have to be updated).
[New] The player's functions can be accessed by other swf using localConnection.
[New] New preload algorythm that adapts buffering to any current connection rate.
[Opt] The player is fully resizable even while playing flv movies.
[Bug] Flvs now play to the very last second (which could be cut in previous version).
[New] All playmodes can be passed as variables to a skin.
[New] PUB option is now available with flv files.
[Chg] Once the expiring date has passed, players have to be registered
3.1
[New] Send to a friend Option. (on demand and only for video players).
[New] Add to cart/e-commerce Option. (on demand and only for video players).
[New] variables can be passed to a custom playlist.php.
[New] A singleTrack link can be used anywhere in a page to launch the player and play any single file.
[New] more friendly XML playlist generator.
[Bug] FLV files resize is now accurate.
[Opt] improved displays resources.
3.0
[New] Handles FLV files (Flash native video format).
[Chg] More accurate method for displaying and linking the playlists content.
[Opt] Added clean memory support for very long mp3 (beta).
[Opt] XML tags and attributes are now case insensitive.
[Bug] HTML tags such as font size, font color, bold, paragraph align, links are fully supported in track comments (<font color="..." size="..."/>, <b />, <p align="..." />, <a href="..." />).
2.8
[New] Plug and play! The player can now (by default) parse your media subfolder tree to XML (using a php script). You have to pass the "custom" variable and set it to 'true' to use custom XML playlists when embeding the player, otherwise it will just play your media subfolder as it is.
[Opt] Big optimisation in: 1/memory waste and 2/potential memory leaks with some browsers.
[Opt] More adjustments to reach the best CPU load on every web browsers.
[Updt] XML generator has been updated with the "read from directory" feature.
[Bug] Fixed a small bug where the hit area of the playlist could sometimes give a hard time to get a precise track click.
2.65
[New] Ability to read and control midi files along with javascript (tested on Netscape/Mozilla/Safari/IE/Opera MacPPC and Windows (javascript code is available on demand).
[Bug] Fixed a problem where mp3s would not start from the very beginning when buffering had completed.
[Opt] Gained on the memory used by the player (specialy with long playlists).
[Opt] Loop methods changed to getmore stable rates and fix CPU issues when the frame rate was going to high with no purpose.
[Bug] Fixed a Kbps selection bug where the player would not connect to the track if switching Kbps while playing.
2.6
[New] New PLAYLISTdb attributes to patch any (relevant) extension name to the ".swf", ".mp3", and ".jpg" extensions.
[Chg] Track time labels can now display hours in cases of very long tracks.
[Bug] Wrong time estimation of a mp3 duration (until the file is completly loaded) won't stop the mp3 playing until the end and will also update correctly when loading is completed.
[Chg] Flash plugin detection alert for any browser plugin < version 6.
[New] New sample skins.
[New] New XML generator features that create your virtual directory according to your playlist.
[Chg] XML generator can display unlimited number of tracks and playlists. [New] Introduced the mediaplayer skin type with all features on one screen.
2.5
[New] New set of extended shortcut keys (check the documentation).
[Bug] Fixed a MP3 issue in the preloading calculation (broken in 2.45).
[Bug] Fixed a MP3 loading issue when using the player in local.
[Bug] Fixed meters that did not turned off when a low streaming made the player stoped in middle of playing.
[Bug] Fixed a bug where the player did not include the "backgrounds" folder in the path of a background graphic (in cases where the "img" attribute only includes the name of that file).
[Chg] Skins optimisation and cleaning.
[Chg] Skins have been slightly redesigned.
[Updt] Updated the XML generator.
[Kiss] XML generator must be changed to display more than 20 tracks per playlist.
2.45
[New] Multiple frame rates is now supported for a better movie rendering (must be specified by the fps attribute of the TRACK tag). This mostly helps the time display to remain accurate.
[New] Comments can now use HTML formatting.
[New] TRACK tag can now use the subfolder attribute.
[Bug] Fixed an XML entity issue that enables to enter most of the HTML entities in attributes and text fields of the playlists.
[Bug] Fixed a bug in the search engine where the last track (and comments) of a playlist was not included in the search.
[Opt] Few playback optimisations (more processor friendly).
2.4
[New] Added a search engine looking for the playlist's name, track's name, and comments fields.
[New] Display of every playlists is now threaded in one window.
[New] One Playlist can now share mixed file extensions (when using the TRACK Url attribute).
[Chg] New preloader.
[Chg] The "defaultFolder" attibute is deprecated.
[Chg] The "Tr_folder" attribute is replaced by the "subfolder" attribute.
[Opt] All empty tags and attributes can be safely removed if not used by the playlist.
[Chg] XML KBPS tags are now multiple with label and folderpath attributes (meaning that Kbps choices can have different labels than their corresponding folders).
[Chg] XML URL tag format is now alike the classical html <A> tag.
2.3
[New] XML playlist format is now database ready (beetween others, this implies that PLAYLIST and TRACK tags support ID attributes).
[New] XML errors are reported by the player and the XML generator (for testing purpose).
[Opt] Gained flexibility in XML format (more error friendly).
[Bug] Fixed a restart bug (specialy when the HTML page was hosting the player from a different domain).
[New] The players can open in playlist mode if specified in their hosting HTML page (playlist=true).
[Opt] MP3 improvements.
[Opt] The offline variable for MP3 is no more required in playlists. The player can now tell by itself if it is working online / with online files or local files.
[Bug] Fixed a playlist display bug occuring with skins using embed fonts.
[Bug] Fixed a swap bug in the generator.
[Bug] Fixed a progress bar bug in the miniplayer skin.
[Bug] Fixed a cursor bar bug in the cdplayer skin.
2.2
[New] Added x and y offsets, a scale, and mask selection parameters to the BGproperties of skin backgrounds (apply only to certain skins).
[New] The player can now be called from a page out of its subdomain (implies upgrading of skins).
[Kiss] Cross domain policies implementation due to the new Flash security protocols (does not actually affect the player).
[New] The player can be launched (in a popup window via JS script) to auto-play any track from any playlist.
[Bug] Fixed (hopefully) a multiple connection bug that occured with some browsers (specialy IE on Mac) when unloading SWF tracks.
[Bug] Fixed an id bug (when launching the player auto-play) that pointed to.. no id at all!.
[Opt] Again, code optimisations.
2.1
[Opt] Various code optimisations : all skins must be upgraded!
[Bug] Fixed miss-loading of the first "pub" in Media players.
[Bug] Fixed apostrophe problem in track's comments.
[Bug] offline parameter in the XML generator was not generated correctly.
[Bug] Fixed the Kbps switch (broken from version 2).
[Opt] Skins loading is faster.
[Chg] Limited versions to the 1st and 15th of each month.
2.0c
[New] Easy Documentation.
[New] New method for loading tracks (! audio skins need to be upgraded).
[Opt] Fixed a few minor bugs induced by the new MP3 features of version 2.0.
[New] New method for calculating a more reliable preloading time.
[Chg] Preloading time updating with connection speed is more dynamic.
[Bug] Fixed a background and JPEG resizing bug.
[Opt] Code clean up.
[Bug] Fixed a nasty bug where XML Playlist Generator did not generate a code with all fields information.
[Opt] Better reaction to fast skips that could lead to multiple loads of tracks.
2.0
[New] MP3 audio files can be played as well with all features (over the internet and in local).
[New] Comments can be added and displayed for each track (for video Players).
[New] Tracks backgrounds can now be SWF as well as JPEG.
[Chg] jpeg folder has been renamed : "backgrounds".
[Opt] Optimized browsing through different playlists.
[Updt] XML Playlist Generator v 2.0 to edit/generate playlists and download the result.
1.6b
[Bug] Fixed a playmode bug where "play all" mode skiped one track at the end of each track and where "single track" mode did not stop correctly at the beginning of the next track.
[Kiss] Loading tracks from cache on Internet Explorer on Mac is not allways correctly handled, specialy when cache size is too small.
1.6a
[Bug] XML feature wasn't correctly enabled in version 1.6.
[Opt] Connection detector is now more accurate when loading a file from cache.
1.6
[Chg] Playlists are now in XML format. The player only loads one file with all the data.
[New] XML format has made it possible to browse across playlists.
[Updt] XML Playlist Generator to edit/generate playlists and download the result.
[New] The Media-Pub player and R.T.C.skins that crossfades movies with a commercial playlist (or anything else).
1.5
[Bug] Fixed playmode features. It was broken in version 1.4.
[New] Video and jpeg option are now available (for video skins only)
[New] Online/offline Playlist Generator to edit/generate playlists and download the result. (a cgi is required for downloads).
[New] Auto play when embeding the swf for a chosen track in a chosen playlist.
[New] Auto loop option.
[New] Connection detector (only displays with video).
[Bug] Rewrote user friendly and server friendly methods for loading and unloading tracks to fix some connection failures due to a "getBytesTotal" flash bug.
[Chg] Rewrote a more reliable buffering method that includes the speed of the user's connection..
[Bug] Fixed playmode features that was broken in version.
1.4
[New] Playlists can now refer to any absolute path of folder content.
[New] Media-Pub player to broadcast web TV contents.
[Chg] The label "CD player" has moove to "AV player" as next released versions load embeded movie files and jpeg files as well.
[Opt] Entire redesign of the player's code structure. The player now comes with 2 files : 1/the _pfs.swf file containing the scripts and 2/a skin file.
[Chg] As futur content of the player is extending to movies and jpeg files, the default folder name has change from "tracks" to "media".
[Chg] BGcolor variable when embeding the player has change to BGproperties adding alpha properties.
[New] A new file "titles.txt" now comes along with the playlist files. It helps keep a more friendly track and display of playlist names (for video players).
[Opt] Changed method when switching from a Kbps to another for a faster result.
[Bug] Fixed a major bug that could make unload movies when not needed and create floading.
[Bug] Fixed various bugs in the Kbps selection.
[Opt] underscores in playlist's track titles are no longer required.
1.3
[New] the player can now be loaded as a movie clip in any target.
[Bug] fixed multi Kbps selection which was broken in 1.2.
[New] added Flash5 plugin detection
1.2
[New] added volume fader.
[Opt] meters now react to the volume level.
[New] the HTML background color of the player can now be defined when embending the .swf.
[New] replaced minimize function by an edit playlist mode (read only).
[Bug] fixed a bug in random mode where the player could "randomly" stop playing.
[Bug] fixed a major bug where the sound buftime variable could mess with loading of the sound file itself.
[New] added URL, URLlabel, and URLtarget variables along with an URL field to display links.
1.1
[Bug] fixed loading of playlists while playing a track.
[New] added random play mode.
[New] added buffering status.
[New] added minimize function of the interface.
[New] added streaming speed multiple choice.
[New] added search alert when searching a track file that might be missing from its folder.
[New] status cursor can now be draged.
[New] added meters.