VLC Media Player 2.2.8 (64-bit)

# Core:
* Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
* Fix recording
* Fix some subtitles track selection
# Decoders:
* VP9 support in WebM
* HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
* Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
# Demuxers:
* Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
* Support Speex in ogg files
* Fix some .mov playlists support
* Support Alac in mkv
* Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
* Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
# Access:
* Fix DVB options parsing
* Fix DeckLink HDMI input
* Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
# Audio output:
* Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
* Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
# Interfaces:
* Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
* Fix D-Bus volume setting
# Qt:
* Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
* Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
* Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
* Fix play after drag'n drop
* Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
# Stream out:
* Fix transcoding audio drift issues
* Fix numerous audio encoding issues
# Win32 installer:
* Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
* Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
# Mac OS X interface:
* Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
* Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
* Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
* Fix crashes on proxy lookups
* Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
* Fixes on the streaming dialogs
* Improves interface resizings
# Translations:
* Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek translations

# Important changes:
- The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
- Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+ Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
- The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
# 3rd party libraries (contrib):
- /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
# Core:
- Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management, better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
- Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
- Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
- Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
- Port to Android
- Port to iOS
- Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
- Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
- Remove SQL support
# Decoders:
- Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
- Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
- Support for Ulead DV audio
- Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
- Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
- Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
- Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
- Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
- Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
- Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
- X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
- Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
# Encoders:
- high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
- QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
- New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
# Access:
- Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,remove support for previous OS X releases
- Major improvements in DASH support
- Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
- Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
- HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
- Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
- NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
- Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
- Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
- Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
- New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
- New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
# Demuxers:
- MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
- Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
- AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
- Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
- Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
- Support for total number of tracks in major container
- Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
- AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
- Support for more MJPEG streams
- Add support for liveleak streams
- Add support for Wave/RF64 files
- Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
- Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
# Audio output:
- Windows Audio Session API audio output support
- OpenBSD sndio audio output support
- Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
- Android AudioTrack audio output support
- OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
- Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
- OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices this fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
- Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
- New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
# Audio Filters:
- New remapping channel filter
- New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
- New VSXu visualization plugin
- ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
- Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
- New gain audio filter
# Video Outputs:
- New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
- New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
- OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
- OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
- Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
- Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
- Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
- New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
- Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
# Video Filters:
- New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
- Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
- Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
- Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
- ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
# Stream Output:
- Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
- Options support for AVIO output module
- Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
- Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
- Livehttp stream encryption support
- Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
- Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
# Fingerprinters:
- Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
# Interfaces:
- configurable password for the HTTP server
- .hosts removed from the HTTP server
- fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
- Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
- Hotkey support for TS program selection
- Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
- Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out rotate mode into the rotate video filter
# Services discovery:
- UPnP A/V subtitles
- Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
# OS X Interface:
- Add support for multiple video outputs
- Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen controller
- Add a GUI to manage podcasts
- Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
- Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
- This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
- Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
- Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of VLC's internal volume level
- Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during playback
- Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current selection and to manage the list of presets
- Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
- Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
- Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
- Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
- Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
- Add an option to show next / previous buttons
- Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
- Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
- Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description, date and language
- Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
- Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
- Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
- improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
- rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
- Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through 3rd party applications
- Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams (system-wide settings)
- Add support for the Video Title option
- Add support for the Boss Key
- The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
# Qt:
- Partial support for Qt5.0
- Menus modifications and improvements
- Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
- Streaming output wizard rewrite
- Add bitrate graph in information panels
- Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
- EPG display fixes and improvements
- Add SD pixmap sources
- Preferences hotkeys management fixes
- Display playlist total duration
- Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
- Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
- New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
- Numerous fixes
# Skins2:
- Port to OS/2
- Extend sliders, offsets options
- New bitmaps caching mechanism
- Numerous fixes and improvements
- Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
# libVLC:
- new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
- libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
- new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
- new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
- new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
- new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
# Removed modules:
- portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
- X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
- Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
- PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
- RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
- RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
- Hildon GUI
- MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
- Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
- Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
- Broken crop video filter
- Switcher module
- OSD parser and menu
- Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
- Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
- SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
- SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
- htcpcp :)
# Translations:
- Update of all translations

# Access:
- Fix ISDB-S tuning
- Fix crash in QTsound
- Fix screen mouse file location
- Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
# Demux:
- Fix use after free in sgimb
- Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
# Decoders:
- Fix crash in the libavcodec module
# Mac OS X:
- Fix interface crashes
- Fix autostart playback option
- Respect "playlist-autostart" option
# Translations:
- update Welsh translation
- New Kannada translation

# Input:
- Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
- Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted playlist files
# Decoders:
- Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
# Encoders:
- Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
# Muxers:
- Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
# Video output:
- Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
# Mac OS X Interface
- Minor improvements
- Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
# HTTP Interface
- Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
# Translations:
- Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
- New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations

# Access:
* Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
# Audio Output:
* Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
# Demuxers:
* Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
* Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
* Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
* Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
* Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
* Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
# Decoders:
* Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
* Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
* Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
* 3rd party codecs updates
# Mac OS X:
* Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
* Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
* Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console) in the advanced preferences panel
* Fix spatializer audio filter panel
* Fix crash within the video output code
* Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
* Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
* Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller, lua extensions, ...)
* Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
# Qt:
* Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
# GNU/Linux:
* Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
* Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
# Windows:
* Fix uninstallation in different location than C:
# Translations:
* Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian, Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian, Dutch, Danish, translations
* New Gujarati, Aragonese translations

# Access:
* Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
# Audio Output:
* Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
* Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
# Demuxers:
* Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
* Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
* Fix koreus lua parser
* Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
* Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
* Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
* Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
# Video filters:
* Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
* Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
# Encoders:
* Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
# Mac OS X:
* Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
* Fix crash with local statistics disabled
* Fix Time counter UI look
# Win32:
* Fix https streaming
# libVLC:
* Fix audio and video track selection: The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
# Translations:
* Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
* Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua

# Audio Output:
* Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
* Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
* Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
* Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
* Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged during playback on Mac OS X
# Access:
* Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
* Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
* Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
# Codecs:
* Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
* Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
* Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
* Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
* Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
# Demuxers:
* Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
* Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
* Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
* Support Youtube live streams
# Windows:
* Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
# Qt:
* Fix media info dialog update
* Fix random/repeat preferences saving
* Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
* Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
* Fix album art display at start
# Mac OS X:
* Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
* Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
* Fix menus display and behavior
* Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons, streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
* Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
* Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
* Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
* Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
# Miscellaneous:
* Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
* Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
* Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
* Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
* Codec and other 3rd party library updates
* Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
* Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
* Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
* Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
# Translations:
* Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish, Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
* Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian

* Access:
- Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
* Demuxers:
- Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
- Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
* Mac OS X:
- Add GateKeeper support
- Fix handling for some hotkeys
- Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
- Minor bugfixes and improvements
* Qt:
- Fix Windows 8 interface style
* Translations:
- Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian, Thai, Turkish and Walloon
- New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
- Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations

# Video Output:
* XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions. There were too many errors with broken drivers.
* More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
* Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
* Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
* Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
* Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500, an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
* Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
* Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called Retina Displays.
# Access:
* Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
* Fixes for RAR compressed files
* Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
* Improve PulseAudio input latency
* Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
* v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
* Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
* IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
* Accept more extensions for DVD images
* Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
* Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
* Improvements and fixes in HLS support
# Codec:
* Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
* Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
* Fix G726 support
* Fix MP3 free format support
# Demuxers:
* Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
* Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
* Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
* Fix for DVB channels file support
* Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
# Encoders:
* Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
* Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
# Audio filters and output:
* Limitation of spatializer volume output
* Fix DirectSound device selection
* Correct PulseAudio volume control
* Do not apply volume in file output
* Fix sampling rate in JACK output
* Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
# Mac OS X:
* Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and the persistant media library
* Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules to the media library or the temporary playlist
* Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
* Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer press on the Play/Pause button
* Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup. This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
* Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
* Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
* Many Fullscreen fixes
* Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
* Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track Synchronization panel
* Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
* Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
* Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
* Fix crashes on exit
* Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while VLC is running
* Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
* Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be automatically reset on the first launch. - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
* Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
* Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
# Lua Scripts:
* Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
* Fixes for icecast SD
# Qt:
* Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
* Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
* Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
* Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
* Fix tags and file names display
* Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
# Skins2:
* Fix mousewheel on Windows
* Fix for key events and focus loss
# Web interface:
* Fix display of some buttons
* Fix listing of files in the Open interface
* Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
# Security:
* Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
* Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
* Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
# Translation:
* Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer, Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish, Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukranian, Thai translations update
* New Scottish Gaelic translation

# Access:
* fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
* fix the samba module compilation
* fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
* multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
* multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
* fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
# Codecs:
* Support for MXPEG files
* limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
* fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
# Demuxers:
* Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
* Fix a crash when seeking in mka
* Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
# Muxers:
* Fix ogm header creation
# Audio filters:
* limit spatializer filter distortions
* Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
# Audio output:
* Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
* Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection. The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
* Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
# Video filters:
* Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
# Mac OS X interface:
* allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
* allow to hide the sidebar
* disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading , this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
* noticebly faster launch time
* correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
* re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
* improve track synchronization panel
* fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
* fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
# Qt interface:
* allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
* fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
* fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
# Skins interface:
* fix for menus display
* Addition of $R to display current playback speed
* documentation update
# Web interface:
* fix mobiles display for remote control mode
* support for .drc and .3ga extensions
# Service discovery:
* fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
* fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
* Update Jamendo selections
# Miscellaneous:
* fix DBus crash
* fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
* fix a crash on VLM close
# Security:
* Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
* Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
* Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201)
* Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202)
# Translations:
* Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations

# Core:
* Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
- Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
- x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
* Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
* Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
* Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
* Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
# Access:
* Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
* Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
* DVB-S scanning support on Unix
* DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
* Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
* Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
* Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
* HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
* Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
* Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
* PulseAudio audio input support
* Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
* Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
* Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
* Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
* Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
* MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
* Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
# Codecs:
* One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4 are notably concerned.
* Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
* Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
* New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
* Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
* Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
* New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
* Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
* Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
* Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
* Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
* EIA-608 closed captions improvements
* Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
* Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
* One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
# Demuxers:
* New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
* C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
* Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
* Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
* New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
* Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
* Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
* Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
* Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
* Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
* Improved support of tracker files
* Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
# Interfaces:
* Qt: effects dialogs rework
* Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
* Qt: port to MacOS X platform
* Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
* Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
* Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support and important cleanups and optimisations
* Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
* Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
* Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
* Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
* Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
* Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
* Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
* Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
* The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
* lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
* ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
* dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
* dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
* webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
* webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
* webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
* Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
* Qt: preferences are now searchable
* Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
# Video Output:
* New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
* New video output for iOS platform
* Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
* Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
* Various vmem improvements
* OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
* New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
* Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
* Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
* New video output based on kva API for OS/2
# Audio Output and Filters:
* New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
* New audio output in memory (amem)
* Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
* New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
* New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
* New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
* New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
* New simplistic Karaoke filter
* New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
* Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
# Video Filter:
* New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
* Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
* New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
* Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
* New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
* New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
* New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
* New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
* New anti-flickering filter
* New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
* New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
* Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting blackbox and customizable shadow.
NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually. The Win32 font selection was improved too.
# Stream output:
* New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3, venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
* Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
* Major rework of VoD support
* New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming: #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
* New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming: #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
* New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
* New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio} #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
* New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
# Services Discovery:
* Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
* Upnp module was ported to Win32
# libVLC:
* New capabilities for libVLC:
- libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
- libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the list of available audio and video filters
- libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,libvlc_audio_set_callbacks allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
# Removed modules:
* asademux, subsass: use libass
* fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
* hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
* id3tag: use taglib
* upnp: use upnp_intel
* removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
* removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
* removal of the noise filter
* removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
* growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be removed in Growl's next release, too.
* removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
# Translations:
* Update of translations for most languages.
* New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.

# Security:
* Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587) and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).

# Mac OS X:
* Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
* Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
* Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
* Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
* Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling

# Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
* Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
* Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32

# Demuxers/Meta Readers:
* Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma

# Muxers/Output:
* Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players

# Extensions:
* Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues

# Qt Interface:
* Fix quitting on Linux
* Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
* Miscellaneous

# Win32 port:
* Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash

# Translations:
* Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian

# Windows and Mac OS X:
* Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues

# Mac OS X Interface:
* Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
* Fix for various crashes and small issues

# Demuxer:
* Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser

# Audio output:
* PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one

# Win32 port:
* Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module

# Miscellaneous fixes in:
* Windows 7 taskbar buttons
* Qt interface
* asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
* RTP output and XML export
* Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
* v4l2 access

# Translations:
* Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda, Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish, Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
* Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations

# Windows and Mac OS X:
- Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue

# Demuxers:
- mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)

# Mac OS X Interface:
- Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
- Improve Apple Remote handling
- Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
- Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
- Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
- Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)

# Mac OS X Port:
- Fix Growl local notification plugin
- VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
- Fixes for eyeTV

# Translations:
- Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
- New Luganda Translation

# Mac OS X Interface:
* New UI graphics by Damien Erambert

# Interfaces:
* Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
* Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
* Qt and Mac OS X fixes
* numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins

# Encoder:
* new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one

# Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
* Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
* vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
* mp4 demuxer improvements
* ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
* taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
* vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
* fix a crash in malformed ape files

# Miscellaneous fixes in:
* Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
* Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
* Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
* Configure and build system improvements
* DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated

# Translations:
* Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian, Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
* New icelandic translation