[vlc-commits] Tag 2.1.0-rc2 : VLC media player 2.1.0-rc1 'Rincewind'

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Tag:    4166689ed659eb1f585fc4fdd8e935cb1b4c7c6e
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Tagger: Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb at videolan.org>
Date:   Sun Sep  8 23:22:41 2013 +0200

VLC media player 2.1.0-rc1 'Rincewind'

This is the second release candidate of VLC 2.1.0, named 'Rincewind'

There have been 6999 commits since the split of 2.0.0 and 2.1.0-git tag and
more than 300 commits since.

 This release will bring:
 - Ports to Mobile OS, including Android, iOS (again), WinRT
 - A new audio core, including rewrite of most audio output modules
 - An introduction of many hardware decoders and encoders, for performance
 - A preparation for Ultra-HD, notably for future codecs
 - Numerous new codecs, formats and protocols supported
 - New video and audio outputs, filters and converters
 - Important polishing on most interfaces
 - Important polishing on many format support
 - A change of most of the libVLC library code license to LGPL
 - Some important improvements on the webplugins and the bindings

This release candidate adds numerous fixes, notably for Ogg and DirectSound modules