Arthur Posted February 27, 2015 Posted February 27, 2015 (edited) This is a huge update! Homepage / Download (Windows: x86, x64, Universal App (for 8.1 & 10) / OS X / iOS / Android (inc. TV), Beta / Windows Phone) / Changelog The 2.2.0 release of VLC media player for the desktop is coordinated, for the first time ever, with releases on iOS, Android (including Android TV), WinRT (Windows RT and x86) and Windows Phone. VLC runs everywhere! Those releases are the result of more than one year of volunteer work, add numerous new features, fix more than one thousand bugs and improves the scope of the formats supported. The releases on all the platforms share the same core to support video and audio formats, named libVLC: VLC plays everything! http://a.pomf.se/irqwjh.png What's New Fight the popular vertical video syndrome! VLC automatically detects rotated videos and rotates them using hardware acceleration (on compatible platforms)! This is supported for MP4/MOV, MKV and raw H264. Resume playback where you left off. Supported on all the mobile versions of VLC for quite some time, it is now available on the desktop. Vastly improved support for UltraHD video codecs like VP9 and H265, including encoding. New hardware acceleration mechanism, GPU 0-copy decoding, faster and implementations for Linux, Android, and Raspberry Pi. (Other OSes will have it in 3.0.0) Extensions: supported since a long time, we now feature an in-app downloader for the desktop, like Firefox Subtitles downloading extension Compatibility with a very large number of unusual codecs Vastly improved compatibility for problematic files in Ogg, MP4 and WMV. Support for Digital Cinema Package to play native movie theater formats. Experimental support of Interactive Menus of Blu-Rays: BD-J On OS X, we've updated the interface for Yosemite compatibility. On Android, we rewrote most of the UI to match Google Material Design. This is the first public beta releases for Windows Phone, Windows RT and Android TV. It is also the first non-beta release on Android. Changes between 2.1.6 and 2.2.0 ------------------------------------------- Important changes: The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+, notably most of the streaming output, muxers and access output modules Core: Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible Add extensions manager and downloading from external repositories Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies Partial fix of playback of short audio samples Access: 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 BD-J navigation Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs Fix CDDB lookups, including pregap data Decoder: Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding Support MediaCodec acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding Add Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder Add video decoder module based on GStreamer plugins Add MMAL decoder for Broadcom VideoCore chips (like the Raspberry Pi) supporting MPEG-2 and H.264, supporting GPU-zerocopy display Partial support for Voxware MetaSound libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9 Support MSN Audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1, Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless and numerous videogame codecs Teletext subtitles display improvements Mediacodec speed improvements on x86 Support setting the post processing level in Theora OpenMax IL improvements, notably for Raspberry Pi Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files New jpeg image decoder Add tx3g subtitles decoder New SVG image decoder Fix Speex decoding over RTP and in flv Support more x264 and FFv1 RGB modes Improvements on ZVBI teletext decoder, notably for speed and alignments Encoder: Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262 Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265 Support for Opus encoding using libopus New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg New png image encoder using libpng Demuxer: 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 Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 (AAC) Audio stream type in TS Support HDPR TS files Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles FLAC packets validation using CRC Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files Fix encoding issues and relative paths in some XML playlist formats Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec 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 Video Output: Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android New Android native window provider module Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output Add MMAL based video output for RaspberryPi Video Filter: New Oldmovie effect filter New VHS effect filter New Freeze effect filter Support I422 and J422 in transform NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420 Fix audiobargraph activation and usage Audio Output: Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio Audio device notifications for WASAPI Fix replay of sound buffer in DirectSound Split of MMDevice and WinRT audio modules 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 vlc vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128} :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}' GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums 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 --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234 Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP libVLC: add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function Visualizations: Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization. Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum Interfaces: Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2 Add record button in Qt menus New module for core dialogs on iOS New layout for Qt buttons customization Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and OS X Mac OS X Interface: Support for OS X Yosemite Avoid grey bars in fullscreen when using Mavericks with multiple monitors Improve fullscreen behavior for the native and VLCs own mode Fixes for advanced preferences Added 'file size' column to playlist table in addition to iTunes, Spotify is automatically paused on playback start Option to increase playlist font size Improved crash log reporting Misc: New module for TLS on OS X and iOS Windows installer will kill running instance before installing Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui Update and improve Koreus, Dailymotion, Soundcloud and YouTube scripts Security: Numerous integer and heap overflow in Ogg, AVI, ASF, TTA and MP4 demuxers Removed modules: iOS video output: use ios2 OpenMash H.261 video decoder dirac encoder: use schroedinger Translations: New translation in Urdu, Tatar, Silesian, Samoan, Kapampangan, N'ko, Kurdish, Kabyle, Mexican Spanish, Catalan, Amharic Update of all translations: Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese, Uzbek, Ukrainian, Turkish, Thai, Swedish, Serbian, Albanian, Slovenian, Slovak, Russian, Romanian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Punjabi, Dutch, Nepali, Norwegian Bokmål, Malay, Marathi, Latvian, Lithuanian, Korean, Kannada, Khmer, Japanese, Italian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Hebrew, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, French, Finnish, Persian, Estonian, Spanish, Modern Greek, German, Danish, Welsh, Czech, Bosnian, Bengali, Asturian Edited February 27, 2015 by Arthur
Edu-IT Posted February 28, 2015 Posted February 28, 2015 What are the modifications that need to be made to VLC nowadays before deploying?
Arthur Posted February 28, 2015 Author Posted February 28, 2015 (edited) What are the modifications that need to be made to VLC nowadays before deploying? The number of modifications depends upon how many of the defaults you want to change. If all you want to do is disable the first run dialog box and the network policy/update check, the simplest way to do this is to either use GPP to copy the two files listed below into %AppDataDir%\vlc for each user or modify the same two files that probably already exist in %AppDataDir%\vlc by creating multiple INI preferences for each option. vlc-qt-interface.ini [General] IsFirstRun=0 vlcrc [qt4] # Activate the updates availability notification (boolean) qt-updates-notif=0 # Ask for network policy at start (boolean) qt-privacy-ask=0 VLCs installer still doesn't have any command-line switches to customize which features get installed (like the browser plug-ins, additional context menus and the desktop/Start Menu shortcuts), so if you wanted to change any of those things the relevant NSIS script files would need to be modified and the installer recompiled (unless you did it all post-install). I noticed on VLCs GitHub page they have the source files to create an MSI with WiX so I might try to use those to make a proper installer. If I do, I'll upload it somewhere and post a link. https://github.com/videolan/vlc/tree/master/extras/package/win32/msiVLC Media Player Preferences (v2.2.0).zip Edited February 28, 2015 by Arthur
Arthur Posted February 28, 2015 Author Posted February 28, 2015 The universal app for Windows 8.1 and 10 looks good. http://a.pomf.se/wjdfwv.jpg
Edu-IT Posted March 8, 2015 Posted March 8, 2015 A proper MSI sounds good. Might have a look at that too when I get a moment.
Arthur Posted April 13, 2015 Author Posted April 13, 2015 2.2.1 has been released, although only the 32-bit Windows version is currently downloadable (link). Changes between 2.2.0 and 2.2.1: -------------------------------- Codec: * Fix compilation with older libavcodec versions * Fix some VP9 decoding * Fix flac crashes * Fix lpcm channel ordering * Fix potential NULL dereference in dmo * Fix teletext framing code in DVB PES packets * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroendinger decoder * Fix AAC samplerate Demuxers: * Fix MP4 chapters * Fix MKV overseeking, introducing slowness over network shares * Fix crash when playing SPC files * Fix ATRAC3 playback in MKV * Revert to older ASX code * Workaround TS issue with mpeg-audio Access: * Fix sftp read and close sockets * Fix DTV build with Linux DVB versions < 5.8 * Fix UDP/RTP input on Windows Audio output: * Fix Alsa HDMI plugs * Improve Alsa output, with larger buffers * Fix DirectSound output with multi-channel files OS X: * Fix numerous crashes in the UI * Fix video-wallpaper mode * Fix race when starting VLC from command line Qt: * Fix recent items behaviour * Fix rotation filter activation * Fix mux modules names for the streaming wizard Win32: * Timestamp the signature of the dlls * Fix extensions registration during install * Fix extensions dialog crash * Default to no DxVA decoding libVLC: * fix libvlc_media_get_stats Translations: * Update of Afrikaans, Albanian, Azerbaijani, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (United Kingdom), Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Macedonian, Malay, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian translations
Arthur Posted May 4, 2016 Author Posted May 4, 2016 2.2.3 was released yesterday. Download: www.videolan.org/vlc/releases/2.2.3.html [b]Changes between 2.2.2 and 2.2.3[/b] -------------------------------- Demux: * Fix HLS quality selection and a potential stack overflow * Fix potential MKV infinite loop and improve MKV tags support * Fix WMV regression Decoder: * Fix hardware decoding with libvdpau-va-gl * Fix crashes with libvpx * Use libass without caching dialog Video Ouptut: * Fix green lines on Direct3D output Skins2: * Fix maximizing Window in multi-screen context Qt: * Fix resume where you left off * Fix infinite recursion in the customize dialog * Fix size when switching to/from the minimal interface * Fix size after resume toolbar is displayed MacOS X: * Fix crashes in media information panel * Correctly respect the disable-screensaver option Win32: * Allow opening more than 15 elements in Explorer Translations: * Update of most translations [b]Changes between 2.2.1 and 2.2.2[/b] -------------------------------- Access: * Fix SetupFormat for continuous framesize in v4l2 * Fix off-by-one buffer overflow in RealRtsp module * Fix screen recording aspect-ratio, framerate and potential crash * Fix Windows directshow input freeze * Fix MMS segmentation fault/abort when server forces a large allocation Demux: * Fix support for ms-dvr files * Fix time detection in AVI files over HTTP * HLS: fix hang on stop, crashes and small improvements * Fix mp4 NULL dereference reported by by Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs * Fix regression for VC-1 in WMV * Fix MXF crashes on stop * Fix EAC3 detection in some TS files Decoders: * Fix importing surface from main memory in VDPAU * Fix possible double-free in ADPCM decoder * Support 9-bit and 10-bit GBR planar formats * Support GoToMeeting 2 and GoToMeeting 3 codecs * Fix crash in teletext (zvbi) decoder * Fix Bluray subtitles (PGS) timestamps Audio output: * Fix audio drop after a flush with pulseaudio * Fix audio initialization on iOS * Fix audio stuttering with AirPlay devices on OS X (2 sec delay needs to be set manually by the user) * Fix pulseaudio latency computation * Fix alsa default device selection Skins2: * Fix video control that fails to show up * Fix UTF-8 conversion issues * Fix Unicode folders location failing to open the skins * Fix crash over malformed skins bitmaps * Fix fullscreen for Gnome3/Unity Window Managers OS X: * Support for OS X El Capitan * Fix code signature for releases on El Capitan * Improve resume dialog, starting time, preferences, lua extensions * Fix threads ordering, preferences crashes, URL drag'n drops Qt: * Fix crash when opening multiple items on Windows * Fix recent items appending when using a playlist * Improve addons manager dialog, playlist * Fix changing the audio-device in the menu * Fix key and mouse event support for Qt >= 5.5 under X11 * Fix memory leaks Video Output: * Fix build if one disables XCB but activate VDPAU on Unix * Fix Direct3D plane allocation size to avoid colour bleeding * Fix some crashes in swscale resizing Misc: * Fix build with recent FreeRDP versions * Fix interface crashes when input-title-format option is empty * Fix MP4 mux divide-by-zero crash * Improve PNG encoding time * Fix some UPnP initialization lag * Rewrite of the Jamendo Service Discovery * Fix snapshot aspect ratio for anamorphic contents * Fix custom snapshot sizes * Dynamic generation of GnuTLS Diffie-Hellman parameters * Fix "vb" transcoding parameter * Fix superfluous audio channel extraction in the core * Fix miscellaneous crashes, double-frees, integer overflows, infinite loops, read overflow, invalid frees and division by zero issues * Fix support for lua 5.2 and fix XSS in the http interface * Update and improve Soundcloud, Vimeo and Youtube scripts * Update of codecs and libraries to fix 3rd party security issues (like TALOS-CAN-0036, TALOS-CAN-0037, CVE-2015-7981, CVE-2015-8126 Translations: * Add Kashmiri and Maithili languages * Update of most translations libVLC: * Expose audio mute, cork and volume change events: libvlc_MediaPlayerCorked, libvlc_MediaPlayerUncorked, libvlc_MediaPlayerMuted, libvlc_MediaPlayerUnmuted and libvlc_MediaPlayerAudioVolume * Fix propagation of libvlc_MediaPlayerTitleChanged event Translations: * Update of most translations Did you look into an MSI? I didn't in the end.
Arthur Posted May 13, 2017 Author Posted May 13, 2017 2.2.5.1 now available. Download: www.videolan.org/vlc/releases/2.2.5.html Changes between 2.2.5 and 2.2.5.1: -------------------------------- Security hardening for DLL hijacking environments Translations updates Misc: * Update for Soundcloud, liveleak and Youtube scripts * Fix potential out-of-band dereference in flac decoder * Fix potential out-of-band reads in mpeg packetizers * Fix infinite loop in subtitles demuxer * Fix incorrect memory free in ogg demuxer Changes between 2.2.4 and 2.2.5: -------------------------------- Decoder: * Fix mp3 playback quality regression in libmad * Fix video scaling in VDPAU * Fix playback of palettized codecs * Fix ADPCM heap corruption (FG-VD-16-067) * Fix AES3 16bps decoding * Fix DVD/LPCM heap corruption (FG-VD-16-090) * Fix SCTE-27 colors Demuxer: * Fix possible ASF integer overflow * Fix MP4, VOC, XA, SMF divide-by-zero errors * Fix MP4 heap buffer overflows * Fix Flac metadata integer overflow * Fix NSVf and AIFF infinite loops * Fix flac null-pointer dereference * Fix vorbis and opus comments integer overflows and leaks Video output: * Fix green line on Windows with AMD drivers * Fix screenshots size Access: * Fix crash in screen recording on Windows * Fix FTP scan string injection * Fix HTTP size handling Mux: * Fix mp4 drift Lua: * Fix vimeo, youtube, dailymotion, cli, appletrailers, http, soundcloud scripts Audio filter: * Fix heap write in stereo_widen audio filter Windows: * The plugins loading will not load external DLLs by default. Plugins will need to LoadLibrary explicitly. * Fix uninstaller path handling * Fix taskbar buttons behavior MacOS: * Fix scrolling sensitivity on Sierra * Resume points are deleted now if the user clears the list of recent items Did you look into an MSI? I posted an MSI in this thread... www.edugeek.net/forums/educational-software/174577-vlc-msi-issues.html#post1500539 I'll guess I will have to update it now. 1
mullet_man Posted May 13, 2017 Posted May 13, 2017 Arthur will the MSI update previously installed versions? Or do they need uninstalling first?
Arthur Posted May 13, 2017 Author Posted May 13, 2017 will the MSI update previously installed versions? Or do they need uninstalling first? Previous versions will need to uninstalling first.
Arthur Posted December 6, 2017 Author Posted December 6, 2017 2.2.8 is now available. Download: https://www.videolan.org/vlc/#download Changes between 2.2.7 and 2.2.8: -------------------------------- Demuxers: * Fix AVI invalid pointer dereferences Translations updates Changes between 2.2.6 and 2.2.7: -------------------------------- Decoders: * Fix flac heap write overflow on format change * Fix crash in libavcodec module (heap write out-of band) (CVE-2017-10699) * Fix infinite loop in sami subtitle * Fix AAC 7.1 channels detection Demuxers: * Fix potential crash in ASX parser * Fix AVI read/write overflow Mac OS X: * Fix compatibility with macOS High Sierra * Fix regression in ASS subtitle decoding * Fix crash during automatic update. Some users might need to manually update to the newest version. Video Output: * Fix Direct3D9 output with odd offsets Misc: * Fix crash in MTP * Support libupnp 1.8 Translations updates The Android version has also received a big update... https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.videolan.vlc New features 360° videos support Android Auto implementation More dynamic and Material-compliant UI Enable Picture-In-Picture mode on Android O Refactored MediaLibrary DayNight mode integration New Search activity and integration with Google Now Resume position for audio media tagged as audiobook or podcast Double tap on screen edges in video player to seek by 10s Audio boost in video player Custom equalizer presets Improve RTL support Improve app & video player startup speed 1
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