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VLC 2.2.0 multi-releases

VLC 2.2.0 is the first version of "Weatherwax" branch of our popular media player.

Restart where you left off

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2.2.0 Highlights

  • VLC 2.2.0 "Weatherwax" is a new major update of VLC.
  • VLC 2.2.0 auto-rotates the videos taken from phones, to fight Vertical Video Syndrome!
  • VLC now resumes where you left off in all versions
  • Improves support for new HD codecs, VP9, opus and H.265/HEVC, for decoding and for encoding.
  • Extensions are now downloadable from within the application.
  • VLSub extension can download subtitles from the application.
  • We release at the same time, new versions and betas for iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Android TV and Windows RT.
  • Read the Press release and the Changelog.

2.2.0 Features

Core
  • Auto-rotation of phone movies, to fight Vertical Video Syndrome
  • Resume playback where you left off
  • Extensions API and repository to download extensions directly from the application
  • GPU 0-copy support for decoding and displaying using hardware
  • Improved support for UltraHD codecs, notably H.265 and VP9
  • Subtitles download from the web, using OpenSubtitles
  • Audio core upgrade, notably to support short samples
Formats
  • Support for BD-Java menus and overlay in Blu-Ray
  • Acceleration of VP9 and H.265/HEVC decoders
  • Rewritten support for WMV, Ogg, MP4 and AVI, notably for seeking
  • Support for encoding in H.265, Opus and VP9
  • Support for WebVTT, Ogg/VP8, Opus/MKV, CAF
  • Support for THP, Renderware and Escape Replay videogames files
  • Support for SRT language detection
Acceleration
  • GPU 0-copy decoding-rendering for Android using MediaCodec
  • GPU accelerated auto-rotation, in OpenGL, Direct3D and Mediacodec
  • GPU 0-copy decoding-rendering for Linux using VDPAU
  • Support for HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
  • Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder for Windows Vista/7
  • GPU 0-copy decoding-rendering for RaspberryPi using MMAL
  • OpenMAX IL improvements for Android, Linux and rPi
  • Support GStreamer codecs on Linux
Codecs / Protocols
  • Support for MMS split streams for audio selection (European Parliament)
  • Support FTPS (FTP/TLS) protocol
  • New decoder for VP8 and VP9 using libvpx for Linux distributions without avcodec
  • Improvements on Teletext, Subrip, and Tx3g subtitles
  • Support for MSN audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4
  • Support for IMC, Vivo g723.1, Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless
  • Support x264 and FFv1 codecs RGB modes
  • Fixes for DVD, Audio-CD, M2TS LPCM audio, Speex
Professional
  • Support for Digital Cinema Packages and encrypted DCP with KDM
  • HEVC encoding and muxing in MP4 and TS
  • Support VP8 encoding inside Ogg
  • Improvements of audio bar graph, for speed and resiliance
  • Support MPEG-2 video encoding through x262
  • Large improvements of teletext rendering, for speed and alignments
Platform integration
  • Port of the interface to Yosemite
  • Support drag'n drop in the skins2 interface
  • New TLS module on OS X and iOS, using the central store
  • Signature of the Windows binaries
  • Improvement of audio device detections on OS X and Windows
  • Support of audio ducking in various audio outputs
Mobile Versions
  • VLC for iOS 2.4.1 release is out
  • VLC for Windows Phone 1.1.0 public beta is out
  • VLC for WinRT 1.1.0, x86 and ARM
  • VLC for Android TV 1.1.0
  • VLC for Android 1.1.0 beta
  • VLC for iOS 2.5.0 is in testing
libVLC
  • Add equalizer API for libVLC
  • Add functions for scrambling detection
  • Experimental new C++11 libVLC library: libvlcpp
  • New Android buildsystem and Java SDK
  • New WinRT library component for libVLC: libVLCX
  • Improvements for iOS/OSX VLCKit: Swift support and ARC

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Windows

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macOS

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Sources

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Linux

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