[vlc-commits] Tag 2.2.0-rc2 : VLC media player 2.2.0 'WeatherWax' - Release Canditate 2

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Tag:    50b580d96f9b147dc8adcc7d9d9a1276355b1786
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Tagger: Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb at videolan.org>
Date:   Fri Nov 21 16:58:28 2014 +0100

VLC media player 2.2.0 'WeatherWax' - Release Canditate 2

2.2.0 is a major version of VLC media player, introducing many new features
fixing numerous bugs (~500 since 2.1.5, ~800 since 2.1.0).

Notable features of this release are:
- Hardware decoding and zero-copy rendering for Linux (VDPAU),
  Android (MediaCodec), Linux rPI (MMAL)
- Automatic rotation to fight Vertical Video Syndrome, GPU accelerated
- New formats supported, like MKV/Opus/VP9, H.265, Ogg/VP8, CAF, raw H.265
- Support for Digital Cinema Packages, Blu-Ray BD-J, FTPS
- Restart where you left off feature on Qt and OS X interfaces
- VLC Extensions and Addons downloader
- HLSL shaders on Windows and CoreAnimation output on OS X
- Port of the core on iOS, Android and WinRT

Numerous bugs have been fixed:
- Important refactor of the AVI, WMV, OGG and MP4 demuxers
- Audio loops on Windows using DirectSound
- OpenMax IL decoder, Speex, SRT support
- AVI, Ogg and MP4 muxer

Updates of the translations are, of course, present too.