VLC Media Player v2.0.0 Officially Released

[Arthur]

Now that VLC Media Player v2.0 has been officially released, I thought I would start a brand new thread. As you can see below, there are tons of new features!

 

Download / Homepage

 

http://i.imgur.com/vLOAZ.pngvv

 

FEATURES

 

VIDEO

• Rewritten video output core and modules, allowing subpicture blending in GPU.
  
• Shader support in the OpenGL output, for colorspace conversion, including 10bits.
  
• New video outputs for Windows 7, Android, iOS and OS/2.
  
• New debanding, grain, denoising and anti-flickering filters.
  
• New deinterlacing filter, including an Inverse Telecine algorithm.
  

 

AUDIO

• New resamplers for higher quality audio.
  
• New dynamic range compressor and karaoke filters.
  
• Simplification of the audio core for faster processing.
  
• New audio outputs for iOS, Android and OS/2.
  

 

FORMATS

• Multi-threaded decoding for H.264, MPEG-4/Xvid and WebM.
  
• Support for 10bits codecs, WMV image and some other codecs.
  
• Rewritten support for images, including jpeg, png, xcf, bmp...
  
• Important changes in RealVideo and Real Format support.
  
• CrystalHD cards and Android OpenMAX support for hardware decoding.
  

 

INPUT AND DEVICES

• Experimental support for BluRay discs:
  - Menus are deactivated in this release (will come soon).
  - AACS and BD+ DRM libraries and keys are not shipped, for legal reasons.
  
• Support for SDI capture cards and QTKit devices.
  
• Support for new adaptive streaming protocols, like HLS and DASH.
  

 

FOR MAC USERS

• Completely new, single window interface:
  - Available in 2 colours: Lion grey and QTX black.
  - Extensions support and better Lion integration.
  
• Support for all QTKit devices through qtcapture and qtsound modules.
  
• Continued support for X 10.5 and PPC users (1080p and ProRes on Dual-G5!).
  

 

FOR ANIME FANS

• Vastly improved MKV demuxer.
  
• Rewritten linked segments and ordered chapter files support.
  
• Correct support for FLAC, RV and Hi10p in MKV.
  
• Rewritten seeking support in cue files.
  
• Various ASS subtitles improvements.
  

 

FOR PROFESSIONAL USERS

• Support for ProRes 422 and 4444, AVC/Intra.
  
• Support for Jpeg-2000 and DNxHD/VC-3 in 10bits.
  
• Support for EBU subtitles (stl) and EIA-608.
  
• SDI and HD-SDI card support for input on Linux.
  
• New Dirac/VC-2 encoder, faster than the previous one.
  

 

FOR DEVELOPERS

• libVLC, libVLCcore and libcompat have switched from GPL to LGPLv2.1+.
  
• New libVLC examples are available: media player, photobooth and mediainfo clones.
  
• New JSON requests on the web interface to control running VLC instances.
  
• Implementation of the MPRIS2 interface to control media players.
  
• VLC's web plugins have been rewritten for better integration and stability in all browsers.
  

 

http://i.imgur.com/fvyct.png

Edited February 18, 2012 by Arthur

[FN-GM]

Thanks, will download and test this ready for deployment. Will let you know if i find any issues.

[Arthur]

It appears that the latest version of VLC breaks the DVD decoding feature of HandBrake on Mac's. See this thread on the HandBrake forums for more info (and a fix).

 

If you want to use VLC to play Blu-ray's, you need to download the relevant plug-in from the VideoHelp website.

[FN-GM]

Thanks, good job i didnt update my mac as i intend to use Handbrake allot this week

[AngryTechnician]

On the more obscure side of the featureset, VLC 2.0 also has partial support for DVB-T2 EPG data (in previous versions the data was completely garbled, now decodes some of it and omits the rest).

[mac_shinobi]

Thanks, good job i didnt update my mac as i intend to use Handbrake allot this week

 

2. Install a copy of libdvdcss.2.dylib in /usr/lib or /usr/local/lib

Videolan kindly provides a Universal (Intel 32+64-bit) .pkg installer: link - thanks!

This is the recommended solution; and it works for HandBrake 0.9.5, too

 

 

Then to run the command as per the forum -->

[color=#2E8B57][font=Monaco]file /usr/lib/libdvdcss.2.dylib[/font][/color]

 

Which should give you an output similar to:

 

[color=#2E8B57][font=Monaco]/usr/lib/libdvdcss.2.dylib: Mach-O universal binary with 2 architectures[/font][/color]
[color=#2E8B57][font=Monaco]/usr/lib/libdvdcss.2.dylib (for architecture i386):   Mach-O dynamically linked shared library i386[/font][/color]
[color=#2E8B57][font=Monaco]/usr/lib/libdvdcss.2.dylib (for architecture x86_64):   Mach-O 64-bit dynamically linked shared library x86_64[/font][/color]

[Arthur]

VLC Media Player has been updated to v2.0.1. Click here to download.

 

[b]Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1[/b]
--------------------------------
Access:
* fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
* fix the samba module compilation
* fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
* multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
* multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
* fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives

Codecs:
* Support for MXPEG files
* limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
* fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams

Demuxers:
* Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
* Fix a crash when seeking in mka
* Improve MKV multi-video tracks support

Muxers:
* Fix ogm header creation

Audio filters:
* limit spatializer filter distortions
* Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module

Audio output:
* Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
* Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
  The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
* Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X

Video filters:
* Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform

Mac OS X interface:
* allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
* allow to hide the sidebar
* disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
  - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
* noticebly faster launch time
* correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
* re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
* improve track synchronization panel
* fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
* fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu

Qt interface:
* allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
* fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
  the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
* fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts

Skins interface:
* fix for menus display
* Addition of $R to display current playback speed
* documentation update

Web interface:
* fix mobiles display for remote control mode
* support for .drc and .3ga extensions

Service discovery:
* fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
* fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
* Update Jamendo selections

Miscellaneous:
* fix DBus crash
* fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
* fix a crash on VLM close

Security:
* Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
* Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
* Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201)
* Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202)

Translations:
* Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations

[Arthur]

A 64-bit build of VLC Media Player for Windows is now available...

 

download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/last/win64/

[lestat]

very interesting

[Edu-IT]

In what way?

[gshaw]

Had some issues with DVD playback using 2.01 the other day on a home laptop... video was very slow and blocky but VLC 1.x and MPCHD both worked fine... just a little buglet to watch out for I think...

[Arthur]

VLC Media Player v2.0.2 has just been released. It isn't showing up on the main website yet, but you can download it directly from SourceForge.

 

Windows: (32-bit / 64-bit)

Mac OS X

Linux

 

Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
--------------------------------

Video Output:
* XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
  There were too many errors with broken drivers.
* More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
* Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
* Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
* Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
* Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
  an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
* Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
  with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
* Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
  Retina Displays.

Access:
* Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
* Fixes for RAR compressed files
* Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
* Improve PulseAudio input latency
* Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
* v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
* Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
* IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
* Accept more extensions for DVD images
* Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
* Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
* Improvements and fixes in HLS support

Codec:
* Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
* Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
* Fix G726 support
* Fix MP3 free format support

Demuxers:
* Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
* Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
* Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
* Fix for DVB channels file support
* Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4

Encoders:
* Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
* Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots

Audio filters and output:
* Limitation of spatializer volume output
* Fix DirectSound device selection
* Correct PulseAudio volume control
* Do not apply volume in file output
* Fix sampling rate in JACK output
* Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers

Mac OS X:
* Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
  the persistant media library
* Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
  to the media library or the temporary playlist
* Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
  This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
  manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
* Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
  press on the Play/Pause button
* Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
  This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
* Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
* Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
* Many Fullscreen fixes
* Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
* Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
  Synchronization panel
* Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
* Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
* Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
* Fix crashes on exit
* Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
  VLC is running
* Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
* Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
  Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
  automatically reset on the first launch.
  - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
* Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
* Miscellaneous minor interface improvements

Lua Scripts:
* Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
* Fixes for icecast SD

Qt:
* Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
* Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
* Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
* Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
* Fix tags and file names display
* Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues

Skins2:
* Fix mousewheel on Windows
* Fix for key events and focus loss

Web interface:
* Fix display of some buttons
* Fix listing of files in the Open interface
* Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog

Security:
* Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
* Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
* Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries

Translation:
* Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
  Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
  Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukranian,
  Thai translations update
* New Scottish Gaelic translation

[Arthur]

VLC Media Player v2.0.3 was released today.

 

Download: Windows (32-bit), Mac OS X, Linux

 

Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
--------------------------------

Access:
* Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels

Demuxers:
* Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
* Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags

Mac OS X:
* Add GateKeeper support
* Fix handling for some hotkeys
* Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
* Minor bugfixes and improvements

Qt:
* Fix Windows 8 interface style

Translations:
* Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
  Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
  Turkish and Walloon
* New translation to Uzbek and Marathi
* Fix activation of the Gaelic and the Thai translation

[Arthur]

VLC Media Player has been updated to v2.0.4.

 

Download: Windows (32-bit), Mac OS X, Linux

 

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
* Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian

[Arthur]

v2.0.4 for 64-bit Windows can be downloaded from here...

 

download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/2.0.4/win64/

[Arthur]

VLC Media Player has been updated to v2.0.5.

 

Download: Windows (32-bit), Mac OS X, Linux

 

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

[Arthur]

VLC Media Player v2.0.6 is out!

 

Download: Windows (32-bit), Mac OS X, Linux

 

Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
--------------------------------

Access:
* Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected

Audio Output:
* Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)

Demuxers:
* Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
* Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
* Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
* Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
* Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
* Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser

Decoders:
* Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
* Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
* Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
* 3rd party codecs updates

Mac OS X:
* Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
* Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
* Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
  in the advanced preferences panel
* Fix spatializer audio filter panel
* Fix crash within the video output code
* Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
  folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
* Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
* Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
  lua extensions, ...)
* Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages

Qt:
* Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit

GNU/Linux:
* Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
* Reject broken versions of PulseAudio

Windows:
* Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\

Translations:
* Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
  Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
  Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
  Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
  Dutch, Danish, translations
* New Gujarati, Aragonese translations

[Arthur]

VLC Media Player v2.0.7 is out!

 

Download: Windows (32-bit / 64-bit), Mac OS X, Linux

 

Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
--------------------------------

Input:
* Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
* Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
  playlist files

Decoders:
* Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback

Encoders:
* Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac

Muxers:
* Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files

Video output:
* Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)

Mac OS X Interface
* Minor improvements
* Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding

HTTP Interface
* Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)

Translations:
* Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
  Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
* New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations

[Arthur]

VLC Media Player v2.0.8 is out!

 

Download: Windows (32-bit / 64-bit), Mac OS X, Linux

 

Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
--------------------------------

Access:
* Fix ISDB-S tuning
* Fix crash in QTsound
* Fix screen mouse file location
* Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access

Demux:
* Fix use after free in sgimb
* Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files

Decoders:
* Fix crash in the libavcodec module

Mac OS X:
* Fix interface crashes
* Fix autostart playback option
* Respect "playlist-autostart" option

Translations:
* update Welsh translation
* New Kannada translation