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VLC Media Player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

Version 2.0.0-rc1:

Important notes:

The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
- --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
- --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
- --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
- --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
- All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
- The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]". By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
- The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers. By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
- The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate), --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and --http-crl (optional CRL).
RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly. Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.

Important changes for packagers:

The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script. Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
The webplugins has moved to git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git

Core:

Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite: Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.

Access:

Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
DVB-S scanning support on Unix
DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
PulseAudio audio input support
Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port

Codecs:

One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4 are notably concerned.
Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
EIA-608 closed captions improvements
Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2

Demuxers:

New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
Improved support of tracker files

Interfaces:

Qt: effects dialogs rework
Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
Qt: port to MacOS X platform
Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support and important cleanups and optimisations
Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
Qt: preferences are now searchable
Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom

Video Output:

New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
New video output for iOS platform
Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
Various vmem improvements
OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
New video output based on kva API for OS/2

Audio Output and Filters:

New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
New audio output in memory (amem)
Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
New simplistic Karaoke filter
New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0

Video Filter:

New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
New anti-flickering filter
New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting blackbox and customizable shadow. NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually. The Win32 font selection was improved too.

Stream output:

New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3, venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{ access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8, index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames}, dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
Major rework of VoD support
New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming: #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming: #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio} #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming

Services Discovery:

Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
Upnp module was ported to Win32

libVLC:

New capabilities for libVLC:
- libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
- libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the list of available audio and video filters
- libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks, libvlc_audio_set_callbacks allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.

Removed modules:

asademux, subsass: use libass
fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
id3tag: use taglib
upnp: use upnp_intel
removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
removal of the noise filter
removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be removed in Growl's next release, too.
removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one

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