[vlc] VLC media player 2.1.0

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On 09/27/13 01:41, Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote:
> Dear VLC community,
>
> I am very glad to present, in the name of the whole development team,
> VLC 2.1.0, our new major version.
> This first release of the "RinceWind branch brings many new features and
> major improvements.
>
> With a new audio core, hardware decoding and encoding, port to mobile
> platforms, preparation for Ultra-HD video and a special care to support
> more formats, it is a major upgrade for VLC.
> Rincewind fixes around a thousand bugs, in more than 7000 commits from
> 140 volunteers.
>
> You can download it now from:
> Win32: http://get.videolan.org/vlc/2.1.0/win32/vlc-2.1.0-win32.exe
> MacOS: http://get.videolan.org/vlc/2.1.0/macosx/vlc-2.1.0.dmg
> Source: http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/2.1.0/vlc-2.1.0.tar.xz
>
> Please enjoy this release!
>
>
> Important features:
> -------------------
>
> Audio
>   - Rewritten audio core, allowing better volume and device management.
>   - Rewrite of the audio modules, to adapt to the new core.
>   - Correct support for multi-channel layouts in all formats: 5.1, 6.1 and 7.1
>   - New audio outputs for Windows Vista, Android, iOS, OpenBSD and OSSv4.
>   - New remapping, gain, stereo widening, downmixing effects.
>   - Higher samplerate, precision, live configuration in the core.
>   - Numerous new audio metadata format supported.
>
> Video
>   - Port the OpenGL output to OpenGL ES.
>   - Support color conversion shaders in glsl on Android and iOS.
>   - New outputs for OpenMax IL on mobile and Decklink Blackmagic.
>   - New video outputs for iOS using OpenGL ES2.
>   - Support for deinterlacing for higher bit depth and XYZ colorspace.
>   - New anaglyph filter for side-by-side 3D.
>
> Codecs
>   - Add hardware decoding for OS X using VDADecoder.
>   - Add hardware decoding for Android using MediaCodec.
>   - Add hardware decoding for GNU/Linux using VDPAU.
>   - Add hardware encoding for Windows using Intel QuickSyncVideo.
>   - Support for G2M4, MSS1, MSS2, TSCC2, CDXL, Ut, VBLE video codecs.
>   - Support for Ulead DV audio, Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless audio.
>   - Support for SCTE-27 and complete EIA-608 subtitles.
>
> Formats
>   - Support for fragmented MP4, Wave/RF64 files.
>   - Extended metadata tags and cover art support in Ogg, AVI, MP4 and MKV.
>   - Support FLAC, Atrac, ADPCM, DV Type 1, 12bits DV audio in AVI.
>   - Extended support for AVI, MKV and MJPEG streams.
>   - Better recording of AVI and MKV format.
>   - Audio fingerprinting using AcoustID.
>
> Input and Devices
>   - Support for screen input on OSX Lion and later.
>   - Support for Microsoft Smooth Streaming, developed by Viotech.net
>   - New RTMP input module, using libavformat!
>   - Support for VNC/rfb and Remote Desktop view-only modes.
>   - Important improvements on Blu-Ray, Dash, v4l2 and HTTP inputs.
>   - New AVFoundation OS X and shm framebuffer inputs.
>
> For Anime Fans
>   - New 6.1 downmixer to 5.1 and Stereo from MKV/Flac 6.1.
>   - Correct YUV->RGB color matrix in the OpenGL shaders.
>   - Improved MKV support for seeking, and resiliancy.
>   - Editions support in MKV.
>   - Better subtitles and metadata support from MKV.
>   - Various ASS subtitles improvements.
>
> For Mobile
>   - Port to Android, from 2.1 to 4.3, on ARMv6, ARMv7, x86 and MIPS.
>   - New port to iOS, from iOS 5 to 7, on all iPads and iPhones after 3GS.
>   - Partial port to WinRT, for Windows 8, 8.1 and WP8.
>   - OpenGL ES optimized outputs.
>   - Improvements of OpenMAX IL decoders, encoders and renderers.
>   - New audio, video outputs and interfaces for mobiles.
>
> For Developers
>   - libVLC and most modules are now LGPLv2.1+.
>   - libVLC media framework can now be used in all types of applications.
>   - libVLC SDK packages now exists, in addition to more examples.
>   - Improved libVLC API, for better control.
>   - VLC's web plugins now support windowless mode, for smoother integration with HTML elements.
>
>
> jb, for VideoLAN
>

Great job. Thanks for all the added features!

I was trying out 2.2 (GIT), and trying it out on VA API Desktop Intel, 
CPU usage of full HD video is ~ 3%, in contrast to 1-2% of mplayer-vaapi.