VLC 2.1.0-rc1

28 August 2013

VLC 2.1.0-rc1

I’m pleased to announce, from the VLC development team, the first release candidate of VLC media player 2.1.0, named RinceWind.

This is a major version, totally more than 7000 commits, improving a lot most parts of VLC and fixing the important issues of the 2.0.x branch.

Highlights

  • Port of the VLC engine to Mobile OS, including Android, iOS (again), WinRT. This denotes new audio and video outputs, OpenGL ES improvements, including shaders; but also work on the hardware decoding for mobile.

  • A new audio core, including rewrite of most audio output modules. This improves the stability, reactivity (no more volume change lag), volume control (logarithmic), performance, precision (up to 384kHz).

  • An important work on correct playback of new formats and old non-standard files, fixing most of the small regressions on rare formats that we’ve seen in the 2.0.x branch. New codecs have been added, including G2M4, MSS1/2, SCTE-27, Real Lossless or Ulead DV Audio

  • New protocols and input support have been added like Smooth Streaming, improved MPEG-DASH, improved Blu-Ray; but also a new VNC support and an AVCapture module for OSX.

  • Hardware decoders (Mac OS X, Android) and encoders (Intel QuickSync Video) were also added in this release, to focus on performance.

  • The OS X interface has seen a lot of polishing and fixes, which finishes the work started in 2.0.0 to renew the interface.

  • For developers, libVLC and most libVLC modules are now licensed under the LGPL, a copyleft license that should allow more flexibility for application developers.

  • For web developers, the webplugin has been partially rewritten and now support windowless, allowing CSS transform like 3D and overlaying objects above the video, like Flash does.

  • Many other issues fixed that I forget about.

You can get it now:

Please test it and file bugreports,

Jean-Baptiste Kempf

2.1
VLC

Comments

  1. On 26 May 26260, 3:42 by Erick

    Big thx for this review. :) VLC — rulezzz. :)

  2. On 24 May 24240, 1:35 by ronan

    Appreciate all the work that is going into developing this, thanks guys! my windows surface still tells me this application cannot run on this device but hoping this is just a bug that will eventually get sorted.

  3. On 19 May 19190, 8:11 by stormtroller

    VLC prioritizes iOS and Android more than WinRT. not surprising tho. we may heard of WinRT VLC development canceled too..so be prepare for that.

  4. On 15 May 15150, 8:39 by Sam

    It is highly disappointing and extremely unconvincing that you people are taking so much time for Windows 8 version of VLC media player. You people have even stopped publishinng information about it. Very bad!

  5. On 15 May 15150, 1:37 by Dave

    Nice to see excellent progress in VLC.

    VLC’s CDDB has never worked on Linux. I’ve used VLC for years and am a professional software engineer with decades of experience. Something is wrong with VLC disc checksumming and/or server access.

    Please make sure CDDB is fixed in the next release. I noticed some trac bug reports dismissed as unimportant (6921, 6922, 6923). Trust me, this issue is annoying. Users switch to other players just for CDDB. All other players do CDDB just fine on the same PCs with the same music discs. Only VLC fails.

    Merci for all the hard work and for listening.

  6. On 11 May 11110, 8:33 by keshav

    Sir when we expect vlc for Windows phone

  7. On 5 May 5050, 4:34 by Gabriel

    Just wanted to say a big thank you to the VLC devs. Your efforts are very appreciated. Will love to fire up the new VLC on my Linux machine.

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