Access:
* Support HDS (Http Dynamic Streaming) from Adobe (f4m, f4v, etc.)
* New SMB access module using libdsm
+ * 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)
+
+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 for Daala video
+
+Encoder:
+ * Support for Daala video
+
+Demuxers:
+ * Support HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS)
+ * Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
+ * Daala in Ogg
+ * Support EIA-608 subtitles in MP4/mov
+
+Muxers:
+ * Added fragmented/streamable MP4 muxer
+ * Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
+ * Daala in Ogg
Service Discovery:
* New NetBios service discovery using libdsm
Mac OS X Interface
* new AppleScript API giving access to audio desynchronization
+Skins2:
+ * Support key accelerators
+
Changes between 2.1.x and 2.2.0:
--------------------------------
Important changes:
- * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
+ * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+,
+ notably the streaming output, muxers and access output ones
Core:
+ * Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible
* Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
* Add extensions download from external repositories
- * Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible
* Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies
Access:
- * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access.
- New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes.
+ * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access
+ New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes
* MMS audio selection on split audio streams
* Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection
- and navigation
+ and BD-J navigation
* Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM
* Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs
* New png image encoder using libpng
Demuxer:
- * New CAF format module
+ * Support for Core Audio Format (CAF) files
* Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking,
streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg
* Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking,
synchronization and tracks exclusion
* AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations
* AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps
+ * MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio
+ and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion
* Support Opus in MKV
* Support VP8 in OGG
* Basic support for WebVTT
* New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
* TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
* Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
- * MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio
- and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion
* Support SVG images files (on glib platforms)
* Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV
* Support detection of SRT languages based on filename
* Support for seeking Standard MIDI Files
-Muxers:
- * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
- * Fixes for the AVI muxer for specification respect
- * Support VP8 in OGG
- * Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS
-
Video Output:
* Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
* New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
* Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes
* Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules
+Muxers:
+ * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
+ * Fixes for the AVI muxer to respect the specification
+ * Support VP8 in OGG
+ * Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS
+
Streaming:
* Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
* WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
* transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
* VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
with --no-sout-all
- * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
+ * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
--demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
* Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP
* OpenMash H.261 video decoder
* dirac encoder: use schroedinger
+Translations:
+ * Update of all translations
+
+
+Changes between 2.1.4 and 2.1.5:
+--------------------------------
+
+Core:
+ * Fix compilation on OS/2
+
+Access:
+ * Stability improvements for the QTSound capture module
+
+Mac OS X audio output:
+ * Fix channel ordering
+ * Increase the buffersize
+
+Decoders:
+ * Fix DxVA2 decoding of samples needing more surfaces
+ * Improve MAD resistance to broken mp3 streams
+ * Fix PGS alignment in MKV
+
+Qt Interface:
+ * Don't rename mp3 converted files to .raw
+
+Mac OS X Interface:
+ * Correctly support video-on-top
+ * Fix video output event propagation on Macs with retina displays
+ * Stability improvements when using future VLC releases side by side
+
+Streaming:
+ * Fix transcode when audio format changes
+
+Security contents:
+ * Updated GnuTLS to 3.1.25 (CVE-2014-3466)
+ * Updated libpng to 1.6.10 (CVE-2014-0333)
+
+Translations:
+ * Update British English
+
Changes between 2.1.3 and 2.1.4:
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