* Audio core rewrite
* Fix support for .001, .00x splitted files on Windows
-Codecs:
+Decoders:
* Support for OPUS via libopus.
* Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec.
* Numerous improvements in OpenMAX IL codec
* Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
* Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
* Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
+ * Support for VDPAU hardware video decoding acceleration on Linux
Encoders:
* high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
Audio output:
* Windows Audio Session API audio output support
* OpenBSD sndio audio output support
- * Important improvements on the OpenSL ES module
+ * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES module
* Android AudioTrack audio output support
+ * Mac OS X Auhal output supports for 6.1 and 7.1
+ * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
Audio Filters:
* new remapping channel filter
* new VSXu visualization plugin
Video Outputs:
+ * DecklinkOutput: New module using Blackmagic cards
* OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
* Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
* Hotkey support for TS program selection
* Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
+Services discovery:
+ * UPnP A/V subtitles
+ * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
+
Mac OS X Port:
* Discontinued support for PowerPC-based and 32bit Intel-based Macs
* VLC requires Mac OS X 10.6 or later now
* add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
* add an option to play videos as a desktop background
* add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
+ * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
* The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
deprecated now
* new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
+ * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
* new libvlc_log_subscribe and libvlc_log_unsubscribe function to register logging callbacks
Removed modules:
* Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
+Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
+--------------------------------
+
+Access:
+ * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
+
+Audio Output:
+ * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
+ (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
+ * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
+
+Demuxers:
+ * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
+ * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
+ * Fix koreus lua parser
+ * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
+ * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
+ * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
+ * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
+
+Video filters:
+ * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
+ * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
+
+Encoders:
+ * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
+
+Mac OS X:
+ * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
+ * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
+ * Fix Time counter UI look
+ * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
+
+Win32:
+ * Fix https streaming
+
+libVLC:
+ * Fix audio and video track selection:
+ The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
+ incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
+
+Translations:
+ * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
+ Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
+ Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
+ Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
+ * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
+
+
Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
--------------------------------
Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
+ * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3: