Important changes for packagers:
* The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed. To tune
compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually.
+ * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
3rd party libraries (contrib):
* /extras/contrib has been replaced by a better system in /contrib
+Core:
+ * Audio core rewrite
+ * Fix support for .001, .00x splitted files on Windows
+
Codecs:
* Support for OPUS via libopus.
* Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec.
Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1)
* Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
* Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
+ * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
Encoders:
* high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
Access:
- * Screen: Added support for OS X Lion
+ * Screen: add support for OS X Lion, remove support for previous OS releases
* Major improvements in DASH support
* Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
* Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
* HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
+ * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developped by Viotech.net
+ * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
Demuxers:
* MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
* Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
* AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
* Support for more MJPEG streams
+ * Add support for liveleak streams
Audio output:
* Windows Audio Session API audio output support
* OpenBSD sndio audio output support
* Important improvements on the OpenSL ES module
+ * Android AudioTrack audio output support
Audio Filters:
* new remapping channel filter
Stream Output:
* Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
+ * Options support for AVIO output module
Interfaces:
* configurable password for the HTTP server.
* fixed Lua command line interface console mode under Windows.
* Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
* Hotkey support for TS program selection
+ * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
Mac OS X Port:
* Discontinued support for PowerPC-based and 32bit Intel-based Macs
* VLC requires Mac OS X 10.6 or later now
Mac OS X Interface:
+ * add support for multiple video outputs
* add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
controller
* add a GUI to manage podcasts
+ * add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
* add a GUI for the QTSound access module to process audio captured locally
- This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time.
* add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
selection and to manage the list of presets
* add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
+ * add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
+ * add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
* add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
* add an option to show next / previous buttons
* add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
date and language
* add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
* add an option to play videos as a desktop background
- * add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
- * allow the OS to turn off the screen(s) when playing audio-only media while
- the user is idle
+ * add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
* The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
deprecated now
* Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
+Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
+--------------------------------
+
+Audio Output:
+ * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
+ * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
+ * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
+ * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
+ * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
+ during playback on Mac OS X
+
+Access:
+ * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
+ * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
+ * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
+
+Codecs:
+ * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
+ * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
+ * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
+ * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
+ * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
+
+Demuxers:
+ * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
+ * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
+ * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
+ * Support Youtube live streams
+
+Windows:
+ * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
+
+Qt:
+ * Fix media info dialog update
+ * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
+ * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
+ * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
+ * Fix album art display at start
+
+Mac OS X:
+ * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
+ * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
+ * Fix menus display and behavior
+ * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
+ streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
+ * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
+ * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
+ allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
+ * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
+ * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
+
+Miscellaneous:
+ * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
+ * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
+ * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
+ * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
+ * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
+ * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
+ * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
+ * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
+ * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
+
+Translations:
+ * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
+ Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
+ Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
+ Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
+
+
Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
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