highly portable multimedia player for
various audio and video formats
(MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3,
ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and
various streaming protocols.
VideoLan Client can also be used as a
server to stream in unicast or multicast
in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth
network.
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.
For professional Users:
· Support for ProRes 422 and 4444,
AVC/Intra.
· Support for Jpeg-2000 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.
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.
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.
