[vlc-commits] Tag 3.0.4 : VLC media player 3.0.4 'Vetinari'

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Tagger: Hugo Beauzée-Luyssen <hugo at beauzee.fr>
Date:   Thu Aug  9 16:48:29 2018 +0200

VLC media player 3.0.4 'Vetinari'

This is the fifth release of VLC 3.0 branch, named "Vetinari",
in reference to the Lord Patrician from Discworld.

This update fixes many issues, including but not limited to:
 - Various crashes when using hardware decoding on Windows
 - Low FPS playback
 - DVD subtitle display
 - Improves macOS fonts rendering
 - Restores extension display on Windows
 - Miscellaneous crash fixes

It also:
 - Fixes numerous security issues.
 - Adds AV1 support

Check our NEWS file for more details!

Vetinari is a major release changing a lot in the media engine of VLC.
It is one of the largest release we've ever done.

Notably, it:
 - activates hardware decoding on all platforms, of H.264 & H.265, 8 & 10bits,
   allowing 4K60 or even 8K decoding with little CPU consumption,
 - merges all the code from the mobile ports into the same codebase with
   common numbering and releases,
 - supports 360 video and 3D audio, and prepares for VR content,
 - supports direct HDR and HDR tone-mapping,
 - updates the audio passthrough for HD Audio codecs,
 - allows browsing of local network drives like SMB, FTP, SFTP, NFS...
 - stores the passwords securely,
 - brings a new subtitle rendering engine, supporting ComplexTextLayout
   and font fallback to support multiple languages and fonts,
 - supports ChromeCast with the new renderer framework,
 - adds support for numerous new formats and codecs, including WebVTT,
   AV1, TTML, HQX, 708, Cineform, and many more,
 - improves Bluray support with Java menus, aka BD-J,
 - updates the macOS interface with major cleaning and improvements,
 - support HiDPI UI on Windows, with the switch to Qt5,
 - prepares the experimental support for Wayland on Linux, and
   switches to OpenGL by default on Linux.

And so many other things...