VideoLAN VLC Media Player Version 2.0.0 has been released and includes the following fixes and new 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 colors: 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, Dirac 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
VLC Media Player can be download from http://www.videolan.org/vlc/#download