VLC Media Player 2.1.0 - Popular multimedia player. (Free)

VLC Media Player 2.1.0 - Popular multimedia player. (Free): "

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 2.1.0:

• The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
• Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires OS X 10.6 or later. Moreover, the official builds will be 64-bit only
• The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually 3rd party libraries (contrib):
• /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib Core:
• Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management, better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
• Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
• Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
• Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
• Port to Android
• Port to iOS
• Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
• Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
• Remove SQL support Decoders:
• Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
• Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
• Support for Ulead DV audio
• Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen, Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
• 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
• Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
• Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
• Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
• X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
• Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4) Encoders:
• high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
• QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
• New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free) Access:
• Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later, remove support for previous OS X 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) developed by Viotech.net
• NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
• Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
• Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
• Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
• New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
• New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm Demuxers:
• MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
• Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
• AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
• Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
• Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
• Support for total number of tracks in major container
• 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
• Add support for Wave/RF64 files
• Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
• Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml Audio output:
• Windows Audio Session API audio output support
• OpenBSD sndio audio output support
• Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
• Android AudioTrack audio output support
• OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
• Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
• OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH distributing such devices under the brand 'TASCAM' (US-122, US-144, etc.).
• Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
• New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS Audio Filters:
• New remapping channel filter
• New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
• New VSXu visualization plugin
• ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
• Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
• New gain audio filter Video Outputs:
• New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
• New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
• OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
• OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
• Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
• Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
• Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
• New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
• Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards Video Filters:
• New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
• Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
• Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
• Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
• ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters Stream Output:
• Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
• Options support for AVIO output module
• Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
• Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
• Livehttp stream encryption support
• Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
• Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting Fingerprinters:
• Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter Interfaces:
• configurable password for the HTTP server
• .hosts removed from the HTTP server
• fix 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
• Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out rotate mode into the rotate video filter Services discovery:
• UPnP A/V subtitles
• Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item 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 input 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
• Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of VLC's internal volume level
• Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during playback
• Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current 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
• Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
• 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
• Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
• Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description, 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 support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
• improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
• rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
• Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through 3rd party applications
• Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams (system-wide settings)
• Add support for the Video Title option
• Add support for the Boss Key
• The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are deprecated now and will be removed in a future release Qt:
• Partial support for Qt5.0
• Menus modifications and improvements
• Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
• Streaming output wizard rewrite
• Add bitrate graph in information panels
• Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
• EPG display fixes and improvements
• Add SD pixmap sources
• Preferences hotkeys management fixes
• Display playlist total duration
• Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
• Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
• New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
• Numerous fixes Skins2:
  
  • Port to OS/2
  • Extend sliders, offsets options
  • New bitmaps caching mechanism
  • Numerous fixes and improvements
• Skinning of the Fullscreen controller libVLC:
  
  • new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
  • libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
  • new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
  • new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
  • new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
  • new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons Removed modules:
    
    • portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
• X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
• Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
• PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
• RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
• RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
• Hildon GUI
• MSN messenger 'now playing' (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
• Telepathy framework 'now playing' (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
• Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
• Broken crop video filter
• Switcher module
• OSD parser and menu
• Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
• Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
• SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
• SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
• htcpcp :) Translations: Update of all translations

• OS X 10.6 or later

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