Access:
* Support HDS (Http Dynamic Streaming) from Adobe (f4m, f4v, etc.)
* New SMB access module using libdsm
+ * Rewrite MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support, including
+ MPEG2TS and ISOFF profiles
+ * Large rework of the Smooth Streaming module
* Screen capture plugin for Wayland display
* Support decompression and extraction through libarchive (tar, zip, rar...)
* Improvements of cookie handling (share cookies between playlist items,
domain / path matching, Secure cookies)
+ * Support DVB-T2 on Windows BDA
+ * Support depayloading Opus from RTP
Decoder:
* OMX GPU-zerocopy support for decoding and display on Android using OpenMax IL
- * Support 4:4:4 chroma sampling with VDPAU hw acceleration
- * Support for ARIB B24 subtitles
+ * Support 4:4:4 and 4:2:2 chroma samplings with VDPAU hw acceleration
+ * Support for ARIB STD-B24 subtitles
* Support for Daala video
* Important improvements for the MMAL decoder and output for rPI
* Support HEVC hardware decoding using OMX and MediaCodec
* Support VP9 and WMV3 decoding using OMX and performance improvements
+ * New MPEG-1 & 2 audio layer I, II, III + MPEG 2.5 decoder based on libmpg123
+ * New BPG decoder based on libbpg
Demuxers:
* Support HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS)
* Support Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
* Support Daala in Ogg
+ * Important rework of the MP4 demuxer
* Support EIA-608 subtitles in MP4/mov
* Support WMV and WMAV in MP4/mov, aka Flip4Mac files
* Support bitmap audio channel reordering in MP4/mov
+ * Support AlbumArtist and DiscNumber metadata
+ * Fixed program selection with recorded TS (TopField, DreamBox and others)
+ * Fixed TS playback with PAT/PMT less recordings
+ * Support for lame's replaygain extension in mpeg files
+ * Fixes for DTS detection in WAV and MKV files
Stream filter:
* Added ARIB STD-B25 TS streams decoder
+Audio output:
+ * Complete rewrite of the AudioTrack Android module. This is now the default.
+
Video ouput:
+ * Linux/BSD default video output is now OpenGL, instead of Xvideo
* Wayland shell surface window provider
* Wayland shared memory video output
- * Support rotation in Android NativeWindow output
+ * Large rework of the Android video outputs: there is now Surface (2.1, 2.2)
+ NativeWindow (2.3+, supports hw rotation, subpicture blending, opaque)
+ * Support rotation in Android NativeWindow output and hardware decoders
Video filter:
* Hardware deinterlacing on the rPI, using MMAL
Stream Output:
* Chromecast output module
+ * RGB24 and YCbCr 4:2:0 RTP packetization
Encoder:
* Support for Daala video in 4:2:0 and 4:4:4
* new AppleScript API giving access to audio desynchronization
* Port to Yosemite X.10
+Qt interface:
+ * Batch convert support
+
Skins2:
* Support key accelerators
+libVLC:
+ * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_enum to enumerate devices of current aout
+ * Split of libvlc_media_discoverer_new_from_name into libvlc_media_discoverer_new,
+ libvlc_media_discoverer_new and libvlc_media_discoverer_start.
+ This allows to attach media events between create and start.
+ * Add libvlc_media_get_codec_description to get a human readable description of a codec
+ * Add libvlc_MediaListEndReached Event to get notified when a media list reached the end
+ * Add libvlc_media_parse_with_options that uses a flag to specify parse options
+ * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_get to get the currently selected audio output device
+ identifier (if there is one available)
+
+Logging
+ * Support for the SystemD Journal
+ * Use --syslog and --syslog-debug command line options to include debug
+ messages in syslog. With --syslog, errors and warnings will be sent only.
+ * New Android module for logging
+
Changes between 2.1.x and 2.2.0:
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