Core:
* Support wayland surface type
+ * Allow to start the video paused on the first frame
Access:
* Support HDS (Http Dynamic Streaming) from Adobe (f4m, f4v, etc.)
domain / path matching, Secure cookies)
* Support DVB-T2 on Windows BDA
* Support depayloading Opus from RTP
+ * Support sftp username and passwords options and URL
+ * New UPnP access module, to list directories without infinite recursions
+ * New WASAPI audio capture module on Windows
Decoder:
* OMX GPU-zerocopy support for decoding and display on Android using OpenMax IL
* New MPEG-1 & 2 audio layer I, II, III + MPEG 2.5 decoder based on libmpg123
* New BPG decoder based on libbpg
* Fixed uncompressed DVD-Audio (AOB) LPCM decoding
+ * Rewrite WPL playlists and add ZPL playlists support (Zune)
+ * Support TDSC, Canopus HQX
Demuxers:
* Support HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS)
Audio output:
* Complete rewrite of the AudioTrack Android module. This is now the default.
+ It now supports HDMI/SPDIF passthrough for AC3, 5.1/7.1 and float output.
Video ouput:
* Linux/BSD default video output is now OpenGL, instead of Xvideo
Service Discovery:
* New NetBios service discovery using libdsm
+ * Rewrite of the UPnP service discovery
Mac OS X Interface
* new AppleScript API giving access to audio desynchronization
* 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)
+ * Add libvlc_media_get_type to get the type of the media
Logging
* Support for the SystemD Journal