From jb at videolan.org Thu Apr 16 18:54:38 2015 From: jb at videolan.org (Jean-Baptiste Kempf) Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 18:54:38 +0200 Subject: [vlc] VLC 2.2.1 is out! Message-ID: <20150416165438.GA652@videolan.org> Dear VLC community, VideoLAN and the VLC development team are releasing today VLC 2.2.1, named "Terry Pratchett", in honor of Sir Terry Pratchett, who inspires VLC code names. This first stable release of the "WeatherWax" version of VLC fixes most of the important bugs (more than 100) reported of VLC 2.2.0. It fixes numerous crashes (FLAC, SPC), codec issues (VP9, Atrac3, AAC), regressions and several issues (Resume, MP4 chapters, MKV over network) and security issues. VLC 2.2.0 was a major release, who added important new features: - VLC auto-rotates the videos taken from phones, to fight Vertical Video Syndrome! - VLC now resumes where you left off in all versions - Improves support for new HD codecs, VP9, opus and H.265/HEVC, for decoding and for encoding. - Extensions are now downloadable from within the application. - VLSub extension can download subtitles from the application. - We release at the same time, new versions and betas for iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Android TV and Windows RT. We hope you like it as much as us! More detailed log ----------------- Core Auto-rotation of phone movies, to fight Vertical Video Syndrome Resume playback where you left off Extensions API and repository to download extensions directly from the application GPU 0-copy support for decoding and displaying using hardware Improved support for UltraHD codecs, notably H.265 and VP9 Subtitles download from the web, using OpenSubtitles Audio core upgrade, notably to support short samples Formats Support for BD-Java menus and overlay in Blu-Ray Acceleration of VP9 and H.265/HEVC decoders Rewritten support for WMV, Ogg, MP4 and AVI, notably for seeking Support for encoding in H.265, Opus and VP9 Support for WebVTT, Ogg/VP8, Opus/MKV, CAF Support for THP, Renderware and Escape Replay videogames files Support for SRT language detection Acceleration GPU 0-copy decoding-rendering for Android using MediaCodec GPU accelerated auto-rotation, in OpenGL, Direct3D and Mediacodec GPU 0-copy decoding-rendering for Linux using VDPAU Support for HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder for Windows Vista/7 GPU 0-copy decoding-rendering for RaspberryPi using MMAL OpenMAX IL improvements for Android, Linux and rPi Support GStreamer codecs on Linux Codecs / Protocols Support for MMS split streams for audio selection (European Parliament) Support FTPS (FTP/TLS) protocol New decoder for VP8 and VP9 using libvpx for Linux distributions without avcodec Improvements on Teletext, Subrip, and Tx3g subtitles Support for MSN audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4 Support for IMC, Vivo g723.1, Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless Support x264 and FFv1 codecs RGB modes Fixes for DVD, Audio-CD, M2TS LPCM audio, Speex Professional Support for Digital Cinema Packages and encrypted DCP with KDM HEVC encoding and muxing in MP4 and TS Support VP8 encoding inside Ogg Improvements of audio bar graph, for speed and resiliance Support MPEG-2 video encoding through x262 Large improvements of teletext rendering, for speed and alignments Platform integration Port of the interface to Yosemite Support drag'n drop in the skins2 interface New TLS module on OS X and iOS, using the central store Signature of the Windows binaries Improvement of audio device detections on OS X and Windows Support of audio ducking in various audio outputs Mobile Versions VLC for iOS 2.5.0 release is out VLC for Windows Phone 1.2.0 public beta is out VLC for WinRT 1.2.0, x86 and ARM VLC for Android TV 1.2.6 VLC for Android 1.2.6 (1.3.0 is in beta) For developers Add equalizer API for libVLC Add functions for scrambling detection Experimental new C++11 libVLC library: libvlcpp New Android buildsystem and Java SDK New WinRT library component for libVLC: libVLCX Improvements for iOS/OSX VLCKit: Swift support and ARC Android Complete switch to Material design, including black theme Support for Audio playlists and modtracker files Support for AC-3 Passthrough and 5.1/7.1 audio Support switch to background video playback Large improvements on the first Android TV release Support chapter selections iOS Support for iCloud, box.com and OneDrive Support 10-band equalizer Support sharing media between devices Support Chapters and Title selections New player design Add media information dialog and timer for playback -- Jean-Baptiste Kempf http://www.jbkempf.com/ - +33 672 704 734 Sent from my Electronic Device