What is cool in 0.9.0

This page is a drafted intended to explain what are the cool features of 0.9.0. Think about it in a "Cool features from kernelnewbies"-like page

Short summary

The 0.9.0 version of VLC media player adds a new interface for Linux, Unix and Windows, a media library and an improved playlist, many new input and codec support and many new audio and video filters.

Decoding

A lot of new decoders, demuxers, and protocols have been added.

There are new codecs (Flash video variants, Camescope codecs, Atrac3, H.264 PAFF, APE, VC-3 and others), improvements in the demuxers and new features (subtitles format rework with many new formats, Tivo2 and MIDI support), better tag supports (fix of APE, AAC, OGG tags)

Filters

Many new audio and video filters have been added:

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