[vlc-commits] Tag 2.2.0-pre4 : VLC media player 2.2.0-pre4 'Weatherwax'

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Tagger: Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb at videolan.org>
Date:   Mon Oct  6 17:13:37 2014 +0200

VLC media player 2.2.0-pre4 'Weatherwax'

This is the fourth pre-release of VLC media player 2.2.0

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
 - Heap overflows in demuxers

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