[vlc] VLC 2.2.1 is out!

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Dear VLC community,

VideoLAN and the VLC development team are releasing today VLC 2.2.1,
named "Terry Pratchett", in honor of Sir Terry Pratchett, who inspires
VLC code names.

This first stable release of the "WeatherWax" version of VLC fixes most
of the important bugs (more than 100) reported of VLC 2.2.0.

It fixes numerous crashes (FLAC, SPC), codec issues (VP9, Atrac3, AAC),
regressions and several issues (Resume, MP4 chapters, MKV over network)
and security issues.

VLC 2.2.0 was a major release, who added important new features:
- VLC 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.

We hope you like it as much as us!


More detailed log
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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 2.5.0 release is out
VLC for Windows Phone 1.2.0 public beta is out
VLC for WinRT 1.2.0, x86 and ARM
VLC for Android TV 1.2.6
VLC for Android 1.2.6 (1.3.0 is in beta)

For developers

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

Android

Complete switch to Material design, including black theme
Support for Audio playlists and modtracker files
Support for AC-3 Passthrough and 5.1/7.1 audio
Support switch to background video playback
Large improvements on the first Android TV release
Support chapter selections

iOS

Support for iCloud, box.com and OneDrive
Support 10-band equalizer
Support sharing media between devices
Support Chapters and Title selections
New player design
Add media information dialog and timer for playback