VLC media player

This release is aimed at fixing bugs and bringing small improvements. It brings multiple libVLC improvements and important fixes for the Win32 and Mac ports, the Windows video output, and the interfaces. It introduces support for ATI GPU decoding on Windows. It updates translations and fixes many small errors.

This release brings many major improvements, especially GPU and DSP decoding on selected platforms, new support for codecs, demuxers and muxers, Lua extensions and Lua content extensions (luaSD), improved interfaces, reworking of video output, removal of lots of modules, and rewriting of many modules in order to improve performance in CPU, RAM, and I/O. It also introduces a new libVLC and new bindings and improves the port on many platforms.

This release brings subtitle improvements, Apple Remote support, an updated compiler for Windows, and updated codecs for all platforms. It also improves many translations.

This minor version fixes most of the notable bugs and regressions that were present in the 1.0.0 version. Notable fixes and improvements were made to flv and mpeg2 seeking, and wmv, wav, rtsp, and ssa support. The Qt and MacOS interfaces were fixed. An integer underflow in the Real pseudo-RTSP module was fixed. The translations were updated. The ZVBI module was ported to Windows for full teletext support. Codecs were updated for Windows and Mac OS.

This release introduces major new features and fixes a lot of bugs. New features include newly supported codecs (AES3, Dolby Digital Plus, TrueHD, Blu-Ray Linear PCM, Real Video 3.0 and 4.0, and more), newly supported formats (Raw Dirac, M2TS, and more), and major improvements in support for many formats, live recording, instant pausing, and frame-by-frame support. The interface for Linux and Windows has been improved and a new default skin is used.