VLC Media Player 2.1.0 brings significant changes to module licenses, build versions, eliminates some inappropriate options, fixes various fundamental errors from previous VLC versions, adds support for new media formats, and enhances performance on Windows hardware platforms.
In VLC Media Player 2.1.0, the licenses for many modules (General Public License - open-source license) have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+. The official build is now compatible with 64-bit operating systems. Some adjusted or inconsistent options have been removed.
This version has rewritten the audio core, offering higher sample speeds, improved volume management, better device selection, new channel layouts, and modified output compatibility. The release also fixes support issues for .001, .00x split files on Windows, provides full support for Unicode in Windows, Windows Store App/WinRT, adds audio fingerprinting, uses AcoustID, and removes SQL. Additionally, this version supports additional connections to Android and iOS.
VLC Media Player 2.1.0 integrates new decoders with various codecs such as CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory via libavcodec, improves OpenMAX IL codec modules, adds Ulead DV audio, TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen, Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1), and 2 (MSS2), supports Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless, Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4), adds SCTE-27 subtitles, separates G.711 decoder from Araw decoder.
This version also supports high10, high422, and high444 encoding in h264; QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) using Intel GPU on Windows, new ACC encoding using the fdk-aac library. Audio filters have also seen many improvements, with the addition of a new channel remap filter, upgraded stereo effects by removing mono sound and delay effects, ARM NEON acceleration for volume filters.
Video output has also changed with adjustments for the Decklink Blackmagic card, using hardware acceleration through the OpenMAX IL API, employing glsl instead of ARB to convert YUV to RGB, supporting color conversion, fixing and supporting OpenGL ES1 and ES2 output, and supporting auxiliary images in OpenGL ES2 output.
File support capabilities have been expanded, adding more Matroska v4 media format files, fixing display issues for MKV, Ogg, AVI, WMV... files and subtitles, improving performance when playing FLAC 6.1/7.1, ALAC files, and decoding on the Windows Intel HD 2000/3000 GPU hardware platform.
You can download the latest version here: VLC Media Player 2.1.0 32-bit or VLC Media Player 2.1.0 64-bit.
