[www-doc] [Git][VideoLAN.org/websites][master] 2.2.2 release notes page
Jean-Baptiste Kempf
gitlab at videolan.org
Sat Feb 6 13:44:58 CET 2016
Jean-Baptiste Kempf pushed to branch master at VideoLAN organization / websites
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9f6658fc by Jean-Baptiste Kempf at 2016-02-06T13:44:44Z
2.2.2 release notes page
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+<?php
+ $title = _("VLC 2.2.2 WeatherWax");
+ $body_color = "red";
+ $language = "";
+ $nobanner = true;
+ $additional_js = array("/js/slimbox2.js", "/js/jquery.slides.min.js");
+ $additional_css= array("/js/css/slimbox2.css");
+ require($_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"]."/include/os-specific.php");
+ require($_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"]."/include/header.php");
+ require($_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"]."/include/package.php");
+
+ $macosxversion = "2.2.2";
+ $win32version = "2.2.2";
+?>
+ <div>
+ <center><h1 class='bigtitle' style="padding-bottom: 3px;">VLC <b>2.2.2</b> "Terry Pratchett"</h1>
+ <div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; color: grey;">VLC 2.2.2 is the second bugfix release of the "Weatherwax" branch of our popular media player.</div>
+ </center>
+
+ <style>
+ body {
+ -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
+ color: #232525;
+ }
+
+ #slides {
+ display: none
+ border: 1px solid red;
+ }
+
+ #slides .slidesjs-navigation {
+ margin-top: 5px;
+ }
+
+ a.slidesjs-next,
+ a.slidesjs-previous,
+ a.slidesjs-play,
+ a.slidesjs-stop {
+ background-image: url(/js/css/btns-next-prev.png);
+ background-repeat: no-repeat;
+ display:block;
+ width:12px;
+ height:18px;
+ overflow: hidden;
+ text-indent: -9999px;
+ float: left;
+ margin-left: 10px;
+ }
+
+ a.slidesjs-next {
+ margin-right:10px;
+ background-position: -12px 0;
+ }
+
+ a:hover.slidesjs-next {
+ background-position: -12px -18px;
+ }
+
+ a.slidesjs-previous {
+ background-position: 0 0;
+ }
+
+ a:hover.slidesjs-previous {
+ background-position: 0 -18px;
+ }
+
+ .slidesjs-pagination {
+ margin: 7px 0 0;
+ float: right;
+ list-style: none;
+ }
+
+ .slidesjs-pagination li {
+ float: left;
+ margin: 0 1px;
+ }
+
+ .slidesjs-pagination li a {
+ display: block;
+ width: 13px;
+ height: 0;
+ padding-top: 13px;
+ background-image: url(/js/css/pagination.png);
+ background-position: 0 0;
+ float: left;
+ overflow: hidden;
+ }
+
+ .slidesjs-pagination li a.active,
+ .slidesjs-pagination li a:hover.active {
+ background-position: 0 -13px
+ }
+
+ .slidesjs-pagination li a:hover {
+ background-position: 0 -26px
+ }
+
+ #slides a:link,
+ #slides a:visited {
+ color: #333
+ }
+
+ #slides a:hover,
+ #slides a:active {
+ color: #9e2020
+ }
+
+ .subtext { position: relative; top: -20px; left:250px; width: 400px; text-align: center; }
+
+</style>
+ <script>
+ $(function(){
+ $("#slides").slidesjs({
+ width: 940,
+ height: 340,
+ navigation: {
+ active: true,
+ effect: "slide"
+ },
+ play: {
+ active: false,
+ effect: "slide",
+ interval: 4000,
+ auto: true,
+ swap: true,
+ pauseOnHover: true,
+ restartDelay: 3000
+ },
+ callback: {
+ complete: function(number) {
+ var selector = "#text_" + number;
+ $(".subtext").css("display", "none");
+ $(selector).css("display", "block");
+ }
+ }
+ });
+ });
+ </script>
+
+ <div style="width: 940px; margin: 0 auto;">
+ <div id="slides" style="margin: 0 auto;">
+ <img src="/vlc/releases/2.2.0/vlc-2.2-mac.gif">
+ <img src="/vlc/releases/2.2.0/VVS.jpg">
+ <img src="/vlc/releases/2.2.0/winrt.jpg">
+ <img src="/vlc/releases/2.2.0/ios-2.4.1-phone.gif">
+ <img src="/vlc/releases/2.2.0/android.jpg">
+ <img src="/vlc/releases/2.2.0/addons.png">
+ </div>
+ <h2 class="subtext" id="text_1">Restart where you left off</h2>
+ <h2 class="subtext" style="display: none;" id="text_2">Fight the Vertical Video Syndrome</h2>
+ <h2 class="subtext" style="display: none;" id="text_3">Windows Phone and Windows RT</h2>
+ <h2 class="subtext" style="display: none;" id="text_4">VLC is back on iOS!</h2>
+ <h2 class="subtext" style="display: none;" id="text_5">Material update for Android</h2>
+ <h2 class="subtext" style="display: none;" id="text_6">Addons download from VLC</h2>
+ </div>
+
+ <a id='downloadButton' href='#download' style="margin-left: 300px; margin-top: 0px;">
+ <img style='position: absolute; top: -10px; left: -10px;' src='/images/downloadVLC.png' alt='Download VLC icon' />
+ <span class='downloadText'><?php echo _("Get VLC now!"); ?></span>
+ <span id='downloadDetails' style='font-size: 12px; color: white;'>
+ Version <span id='downloadVersion'>2.2.2</span>
+ </span>
+ </a>
+ <script>
+ $(document).ready(function() {
+ $("#downloadButton").removeAttr('href');
+ });
+ $("#downloadButton").click(function() {
+ $('html, body').animate({
+ scrollTop: $("#getit").offset().top
+ }, 2000);
+ });
+ </script>
+
+ <div class="clearme" style='padding-top: 30px;'>
+ <div style='float: left; width: 600px;'>
+ <h1 style='margin-bottom: 12px;'><?php echo _("2.2.2 Highlights"); ?></h1>
+ <div class='projectDescription' style="width: 600px;">
+ <div style="padding-bottom: 8px;">VLC 2.2.2 <a href="https://wiki.videolan.org/VLC_CodeNames">"Weatherwax"</a> is a fixed version of 2.2.1 </div>
+ <div>It fixes numerous security issues, notably in the MP4, RealRtsp and Sparkle modules, but also important crashes for the MXF, ADPCM, Telextext, Skins and Qt modules.</div>
+ <div>It also improves our codecs suport by adding new format and giving faster decompression.</div>
+
+ <h2 style='margin-bottom: 12px;'><?php echo _("2.2.0 Highlights"); ?></h2>
+ <div>VLC 2.2.0 auto-rotates the videos taken from phones, to fight <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt9zSfinwFA">Vertical Video Syndrome!</a></div>
+ <div>VLC now resumes where you left off in all versions</div>
+ <div>Improves support for new HD codecs, VP9, opus and H.265/HEVC, for decoding and for encoding.</div>
+ <div>Extensions are now downloadable from within the application.</div>
+ <div>VLSub extension can download subtitles from the application.</div>
+ <div>We release at the same time, new versions and betas for iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Android TV and Windows RT.</div>
+ <div style="float: right;">Read the <a href="/press/vlc-2.2.0.html">Press release</a> and the <a href="/developers/vlc-branch/NEWS"/>Changelog</a>.</div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div style='float: left; width: 200px;'><?php image( 'largeVLC.png', 'Large Orange VLC media player Traffic Cone Logo', 'projectImg' ); ?></div>
+ </div>
+<!--
+<p>So, what's new in <b>VLC 2.2.0</b>, codename <i>WeatherWax</i>?</p>
+<ul><li>Fight the popular vertical video syndrome! VLC automatically detects rotated videos and rotates them using hardware acceleration (on compatible platforms)!</li
+><li>This is supported for MP4/MOV, MKV and raw H264.</li
+><li>Resume playback where you left off. Supported on all the mobile versions of VLC for quite some time, it is now available on the desktop.</li
+><li>Vastly improved support for UltraHD video codecs like VP9 and H265, including encoding.</li
+><li>New hardware acceleration mechanism, GPU 0-copy decoding, faster and implementations for Linux, Android, and Raspberry Pi. (Other OSes will have it in 3.0.0)</li
+><li>Extensions: supported since a long time, we now feature an in-app downloader for the desktop, like Firefox</li
+><li>Subtitles downloading extension</li
+><li>Compatibility with a very large number of unusual codecs</li
+><li>Vastly improved compatibility for problematic files in Ogg, MP4, and WMV.</li
+><li>Support for Digital Cinema Package to play native movie theater formats.</li
+><li>Experimental support of Interactive Menus of BluRays: BD-J</li
+><li>On OS X, we've updated the interface for Yosemite compatibility.</li
+><li>On Android, we rewrote most of the UI to match Google Material Design.</li
+><li>This is the first public beta releases for Windows Phone, Windows RT and Android TV.</li
+><li>It is also the first non-beta release on Android.</li></ul>
+
+<p>This is made possible through a lot of improvements of the VLC engine, the libVLC library, which starts showing its maturity and solidity.</p>
+-->
+ <!--
+<h2>Quotes</h2>
+<h3>Jean-Baptiste Kempf, president of the VideoLAN non-profit:</h3>
+"I'm very happy about those releases. Moving VLC to the mobile world was difficult, but the difficult is done. VLC runs everywhere, plays everything. We're working on many new features for VLC 3.0.0 to finish what we've started here."<br
+/>"We're quite happy to see that libVLC and the libVLC SDK on all platforms are now demonstrating that this framework is now ready for production."<br
+/><br
+/><h3>Felix Paul Kühne, secretary of the VideoLAN non-profit and iOS Lead Developer:</h3>
+"Synchronizing the release leads to an unprecedented level of run-time stability and future innovation. We are excited about sharing further results from that work later this year."<br
+/><br
+/><h3>Ludovic Fauvet, treasurer of the VideoLAN non-profit:</h3>
+"The VideoLAN community shows this time again an unprecedented level of professionalism in releasing VLC media player 2.2.0 simultaneously on all supported platforms. This is a groundbreaking change that any contributor can be proud of."<br
+/><br
+/
+-->
+ <div class="clearme" style='padding-top: 20px;'>
+ <h1 style='margin-bottom: 12px;'> 2.2.x <?php echo _("Features"); ?></h1>
+
+ <div style='float: left; width: 480px; margin-bottom: 25px;'>
+ <div class='audienceCallout'><?php echo _("Core"); ?></div>
+ <div class='clearme'>
+ <div class='productDescription'>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Auto-rotation of phone movies, to fight Vertical Video Syndrome</li>
+ <li>Resume playback where you left off</li>
+ <li>Extensions API and repository to download extensions directly from the application</li>
+ <li>GPU 0-copy support for decoding and displaying using hardware</li>
+ <li>Improved support for UltraHD codecs, notably H.265 and VP9</li>
+ <li>Subtitles download from the web, using OpenSubtitles</li>
+ <li>Audio core upgrade, notably to support short samples</li>
+ </ul>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div style='float: left; width: 480px;'>
+ <div class='audienceCallout'><?php echo _("Formats"); ?></div>
+ <div class='clearme'>
+ <div class='productDescription'>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Support for BD-Java menus and overlay in Blu-Ray</li>
+ <li>Acceleration of VP9 and H.265/HEVC decoders</li>
+ <li>Rewritten support for WMV, Ogg, MP4 and AVI, notably for seeking</li>
+ <li>Support for encoding in H.265, Opus and VP9</li>
+ <li>Support for WebVTT, Ogg/VP8, Opus/MKV, CAF</li>
+ <li>Support for THP, Renderware and Escape Replay videogames files</li>
+ <li>Support for SRT language detection</li>
+ </ul>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="clearme" style='float: left; width: 480px; margin-bottom: 20px;'>
+ <div class='audienceCallout'><?php echo _("Acceleration"); ?></div>
+ <div class='clearme'>
+ <div class='productDescription'>
+ <ul>
+ <li>GPU 0-copy decoding-rendering for Android using MediaCodec</li>
+ <li>GPU accelerated auto-rotation, in OpenGL, Direct3D and Mediacodec</li>
+ <li>GPU 0-copy decoding-rendering for Linux using VDPAU</li>
+ <li>Support for HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output</li>
+ <li>Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder for Windows Vista/7</li>
+ <li>GPU 0-copy decoding-rendering for RaspberryPi using MMAL</li>
+ <li>OpenMAX IL improvements for Android, Linux and rPi</li>
+ <li>Support GStreamer codecs on Linux</li>
+ </ul>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div style='float: left; width: 480px;'>
+ <div class='audienceCallout'><?php echo _("Codecs / Protocols"); ?></div>
+ <div class='clearme'>
+ <div class='productDescription'>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Support for MMS split streams for audio selection (European Parliament)</li>
+ <li>Support FTPS (FTP/TLS) protocol</li>
+ <li>New decoder for VP8 and VP9 using libvpx for Linux distributions without avcodec</li>
+ <li>Improvements on Teletext, Subrip, and Tx3g subtitles</li>
+ <li>Support for MSN audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4 </li>
+ <li>Support for IMC, Vivo g723.1, Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless</li>
+ <li>Support x264 and FFv1 codecs RGB modes </li>
+ <li>Fixes for DVD, Audio-CD, M2TS LPCM audio, Speex
+ </ul>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="clearme" style='float: left; width: 480px; margin-bottom: 20px;'>
+ <div class='audienceCallout'><?php echo _("Professional"); ?></div>
+ <div class='clearme'>
+ <div class='productDescription'>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Support for Digital Cinema Packages and encrypted DCP with KDM</li>
+ <li>HEVC encoding and muxing in MP4 and TS</li>
+ <li>Support VP8 encoding inside Ogg</li>
+ <li>Improvements of audio bar graph, for speed and resiliance</li>
+ <li>Support MPEG-2 video encoding through x262</li>
+ <li>Large improvements of teletext rendering, for speed and alignments</li>
+ </ul>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+ <div style='float: left; width: 480px;'>
+ <div class='audienceCallout'><?php echo _("Platform integration")?></div>
+ <div class='clearme'>
+ <div class='productDescription'>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Port of the interface to Yosemite</li>
+ <li>Support drag'n drop in the skins2 interface</li>
+ <li>New TLS module on OS X and iOS, using the central store</li>
+ <li>Signature of the Windows binaries</li>
+ <li>Improvement of audio device detections on OS X and Windows</li>
+ <li>Support of audio ducking in various audio outputs</li>
+ </ul>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+
+ <div class="clearme" style='float: left; width: 480px; margin-bottom: 20px;'>
+ <div class='audienceCallout'><?php echo _("Mobile Versions"); ?></div>
+ <div class='clearme'>
+ <div class='productDescription'>
+ <ul>
+ <li>VLC for iOS 2.5.0 release is out</li>
+ <li>VLC for Windows Phone 1.2.0 public beta is out</li>
+ <li>VLC for WinRT 1.2.0, x86 and ARM</li>
+ <li>VLC for Android TV 1.2.6</li>
+ <li>VLC for Android 1.2.6</li>
+ </ul>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+ <div style='float: left; width: 480px; margin-bottom: 10px;'>
+ <div class='audienceCallout'><?php echo _("For developers")?></div>
+ <div class='clearme'>
+ <div class='productDescription'>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Add equalizer API for libVLC</li>
+ <li>Add functions for scrambling detection</li>
+ <li>Experimental new C++11 libVLC library: libvlcpp</li>
+ <li>New Android buildsystem and Java SDK</li>
+ <li>New WinRT library component for libVLC: libVLCX</li>
+ <li>Improvements for iOS/OSX VLCKit: Swift support and ARC</li>
+ </ul>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="clearme" style='float: left; width: 480px; margin-bottom: 20px;'>
+ <div class='audienceCallout'><?php echo _("Android"); ?></div>
+ <div class='clearme'>
+ <div class='productDescription'>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Complete switch to Material design, including black theme</li>
+ <li>Support for Audio playlists and modtracker files</li>
+ <li>Support for AC-3 Passthrough and 5.1/7.1 audio</li>
+ <li>Support switch to background video playback</li>
+ <li>Large improvements on the first Android TV release</li>
+ <li>Support chapter selections</li>
+ </ul>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+ <div style='float: left; width: 480px;'>
+ <div class='audienceCallout'><?php echo _("iOS")?></div>
+ <div class='clearme'>
+ <div class='productDescription'>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Support for iCloud, box.com and OneDrive</li>
+ <li>Support 10-band equalizer</li>
+ <li>Support sharing media between devices</li>
+ <li>Support Chapters and Title selections</li>
+ <li>New player design</li>
+ <li>Add media information dialog and timer for playback </li>
+ </ul>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+
+<!-- Downloads -->
+ <div class="clearme"></div>
+
+ <a name="download" id="getit"></a>
+
+ <div class="clearme"></div>
+ <div style="float: right; width: 50%;">
+ <h1>Spread the news</h1>
+ <a href="https://www.facebook.com/vlc.media.player/posts/10152878439401245" style="padding-top: 10px;"><img src='//images.videolan.org/images/facebook.png' alt='Facebook' /></a>
+ <a href="https://twitter.com/videolan/status/588711970179837952"><img src='//images.videolan.org/images/twitter.png' alt='Twitter' /></a>
+ <a href="https://plus.google.com/+vlc/posts/bUh23Z873ri"><img src='//images.videolan.org/images/gplus.png'></a>
+ <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9388245">Hacker News</a>
+ <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/32t62a/vlc_221_named_terry_pratchett_release/">Reddit</a>
+ </div>
+
+ <h1>Download VLC</h1>
+ <div style="width: 50%;">
+ <h2>Windows</h2>
+ <a id='downloadButton' href='<?php echo getDownloadLink("vlc", $win32version, "win32/vlc-$win32version-win32.exe"); ?>' >
+ <img style='position: absolute; top: -10px; left: -10px;' src='/images/downloadVLC.png' alt='Download VLC icon' />
+ <span class='downloadText'><?php echo _("VLC for Windows"); ?></span>
+ <span id='downloadDetails' style='font-size: 12px; color: white;'>
+ Version <span id='downloadVersion'><?php echo $win32version ?></span>
+ </a>
+ </div>
+ <div style="width: 40%; float: left; margin-left: 96px; margin-top:10px;">
+ <h2>Android</h2>
+ <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.videolan.vlc"><img src="/images/get_it_on_play_logo_large.png" border="0" /></a>
+ </div>
+ <div class="clearme"></div>
+ <div style="width: 50%; float: left;">
+ <h2 style="margin-top: 30px;">OS X</h2>
+ <a id='downloadButton' href='<?php echo getDownloadLink("vlc", $macosxversion, "macosx/vlc-$macosxversion.dmg" ); ?>' >
+ <img style='position: absolute; top: -10px; left: -10px;' src='/images/downloadVLC.png' alt='Download VLC icon' />
+ <span class='downloadText'><?php echo _("VLC for OS X"); ?></span>
+ <span id='downloadDetails' style='font-size: 12px; color: white;'>
+ Version <span id='downloadVersion'><?php echo $macosxversion ?></span> - 64bits</span>
+ </a>
+ </div>
+ <div style="width: 45%; float: left;">
+ <h2 style="margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 30px;">iOS</h2>
+ <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/app/vlc-ios/id650377962"><img src="/images/appstoredownload-en.png" /></a>
+ </div>
+
+
+ <div class="clearme"></div>
+ <div style="width: 50%; float: left;">
+ <h2 style="margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 10px;">Windows RT and Windows Metro</h2>
+ <a href="http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/vlc-for-windows-8/c527ff2d-b5d0-45b6-bfc3-92fb7357ef72"><img src="/images/badges/WS_green.png" /></a>
+ </div>
+
+ <div style="width: 45%; float: left;">
+ <h2 style="margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 10px;">Windows Phone</h2>
+ <a href="http://www.windowsphone.com/s?appid=44fa83f7-a98d-4647-b9d4-c35ed729d0c9"><img src="/images/badges/WPS_cyan.png" /></a>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="clearme"></div>
+ <div style="width: 50%; float: left;">
+ <h2 style="margin-top: 20px;">Sources</h2>
+ <a href="/vlc/download-sources.html">Get the source!</a>
+ </div>
+ <div style="width: 45%; float: left;">
+ <h2>Linux</h2>
+ <p>Ask your favorite packager for VLC 2.2!</p>
+ </div>
+
+
+ <div class="clearme"></div>
+ <h1>Related links</h1>
+ <ul>
+ <li><a href="/developers/vlc-branch/NEWS">Changelog</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://video.fosdem.org/2015/devroom-open_media/vlc.mp4">FOSDEM talk about VLC 2.2.0</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://feepk.net/2015/02/27/vlc-media-player-for-mac-os-x-2-2-0/">VLC media player for Mac OS X 2.2.0</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://feepk.net/2015/03/27/vlc-for-ios-2-5-0/">VLC for iOS 2.5.0</a></li>
+ <li><a href="https://blog.l0cal.com/2015/02/27/vlc-2.2.0-weatherwax/">VLC 2.2.0 WeatherWax</a></li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <div class="clearme"></div>
+ <h1>Contact</h1>
+ <p>For any questions related to this release, please <a href="/contact.html">contact us</a>.</p>
+ </div>
+
+</div>
+<?php footer('$Id: index.php 7173 2012-02-11 00:58:09Z jb $'); ?>
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<h2>VLC 2.2.x branch</h2>
<a href="/vlc/releases/2.2.0.html">VLC 2.2.0</a><br />
<a href="/vlc/releases/2.2.1.html">VLC 2.2.1</a><br />
+<a href="/vlc/releases/2.2.2.html">VLC 2.2.2</a><br />
<h2>VLC 2.1.x branch</h2>
<a href="/vlc/releases/2.1.0.html">VLC 2.1.0</a><br />
View it on GitLab: https://code.videolan.org/VideoLAN.org/websites/commit/9f6658fc295aa3adf1e18df39f09e4858053f549
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