VLC media player 2.2.0 'WeatherWax' - Release Canditate 2 2.2.0 is a major version of VLC media player, introducing many new features fixing numerous bugs (~500 since 2.1.5, ~800 since 2.1.0). Notable features of this release are: - Hardware decoding and zero-copy rendering for Linux (VDPAU), Android (MediaCodec), Linux rPI (MMAL) - Automatic rotation to fight Vertical Video Syndrome, GPU accelerated - New formats supported, like MKV/Opus/VP9, H.265, Ogg/VP8, CAF, raw H.265 - Support for Digital Cinema Packages, Blu-Ray BD-J, FTPS - Restart where you left off feature on Qt and OS X interfaces - VLC Extensions and Addons downloader - HLSL shaders on Windows and CoreAnimation output on OS X - Port of the core on iOS, Android and WinRT Numerous bugs have been fixed: - Important refactor of the AVI, WMV, OGG and MP4 demuxers - Audio loops on Windows using DirectSound - OpenMax IL decoder, Speex, SRT support - AVI, Ogg and MP4 muxer Updates of the translations are, of course, present too.
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