[videolan-announce] VLC 2.2.1 is out!

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Dear VLC community,

VideoLAN and the VLC development team are releasing today VLC 2.2.1,
named "Terry Pratchett", in honor of Sir Terry Pratchett, who inspires
VLC code names.

This first stable release of the "WeatherWax" version of VLC fixes most
of the important bugs (more than 100) reported of VLC 2.2.0.

It fixes numerous crashes (FLAC, SPC), codec issues (VP9, Atrac3, AAC),
regressions and several issues (Resume, MP4 chapters, MKV over network)
and security issues.

VLC 2.2.0 was a major release, who added important new features:
 - VLC auto-rotates the videos taken from phones, to fight Vertical
   Video Syndrome!
 - VLC now resumes where you left off in all versions
 - Improves support for new HD codecs, VP9, opus and H.265/HEVC, for
   decoding and for encoding.
 - Extensions are now downloadable from within the application.
 - VLSub extension can download subtitles from the application.
 - We release at the same time, new versions and betas for iOS, Android,
   Windows Phone, Android TV and Windows RT.

We hope you like it as much as us!


More detailed log
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Core

  Auto-rotation of phone movies, to fight Vertical Video Syndrome
  Resume playback where you left off
  Extensions API and repository to download extensions directly from the
  application
  GPU 0-copy support for decoding and displaying using hardware
  Improved support for UltraHD codecs, notably H.265 and VP9
  Subtitles download from the web, using OpenSubtitles
  Audio core upgrade, notably to support short samples

Formats

  Support for BD-Java menus and overlay in Blu-Ray
  Acceleration of VP9 and H.265/HEVC decoders
  Rewritten support for WMV, Ogg, MP4 and AVI, notably for seeking
  Support for encoding in H.265, Opus and VP9
  Support for WebVTT, Ogg/VP8, Opus/MKV, CAF
  Support for THP, Renderware and Escape Replay videogames files
  Support for SRT language detection

Acceleration

  GPU 0-copy decoding-rendering for Android using MediaCodec
  GPU accelerated auto-rotation, in OpenGL, Direct3D and Mediacodec
  GPU 0-copy decoding-rendering for Linux using VDPAU
  Support for HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
  Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder for Windows Vista/7
  GPU 0-copy decoding-rendering for RaspberryPi using MMAL
  OpenMAX IL improvements for Android, Linux and rPi
  Support GStreamer codecs on Linux

Codecs / Protocols

  Support for MMS split streams for audio selection (European Parliament)
  Support FTPS (FTP/TLS) protocol
  New decoder for VP8 and VP9 using libvpx for Linux distributions
  without avcodec
  Improvements on Teletext, Subrip, and Tx3g subtitles
  Support for MSN audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4
  Support for IMC, Vivo g723.1, Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless
  Support x264 and FFv1 codecs RGB modes
  Fixes for DVD, Audio-CD, M2TS LPCM audio, Speex 

Professional

  Support for Digital Cinema Packages and encrypted DCP with KDM
  HEVC encoding and muxing in MP4 and TS
  Support VP8 encoding inside Ogg
  Improvements of audio bar graph, for speed and resiliance
  Support MPEG-2 video encoding through x262
  Large improvements of teletext rendering, for speed and alignments

Platform integration

  Port of the interface to Yosemite
  Support drag'n drop in the skins2 interface
  New TLS module on OS X and iOS, using the central store
  Signature of the Windows binaries
  Improvement of audio device detections on OS X and Windows
  Support of audio ducking in various audio outputs

Mobile Versions

  VLC for iOS 2.5.0 release is out
  VLC for Windows Phone 1.2.0 public beta is out
  VLC for WinRT 1.2.0, x86 and ARM
  VLC for Android TV 1.2.6
  VLC for Android 1.2.6 (1.3.0 is in beta)

For developers

  Add equalizer API for libVLC
  Add functions for scrambling detection
  Experimental new C++11 libVLC library: libvlcpp
  New Android buildsystem and Java SDK
  New WinRT library component for libVLC: libVLCX
  Improvements for iOS/OSX VLCKit: Swift support and ARC

Android

  Complete switch to Material design, including black theme
  Support for Audio playlists and modtracker files
  Support for AC-3 Passthrough and 5.1/7.1 audio
  Support switch to background video playback
  Large improvements on the first Android TV release
  Support chapter selections

iOS

  Support for iCloud, box.com and OneDrive
  Support 10-band equalizer
  Support sharing media between devices
  Support Chapters and Title selections
  New player design
  Add media information dialog and timer for playback



-- 
Jean-Baptiste Kempf
http://www.jbkempf.com/ - +33 672 704 734
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