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VLC - v2.2.0 Released

GroutyGrouty Posts: 34,034
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http://www.videolan.org/vlc/releases/2.2.0.html


Download for 64bit :-

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html

Not coming through the update checker yet.

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    koantemplationkoantemplation Posts: 101,293
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    Grouty wrote: »
    http://www.videolan.org/vlc/releases/2.2.0.html


    Download for 64bit :-

    http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html

    Not coming through the update checker yet.

    Cheers but that link gave me the 32bit version.
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    GroutyGrouty Posts: 34,034
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    64bit link should give this :- http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/last/win64/

    I just grabbed the .exe (6th one down).
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    koantemplationkoantemplation Posts: 101,293
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    Grouty wrote: »
    64bit link should give this :- http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/last/win64/

    I just grabbed the .exe (6th one down).

    Thanks have updated now. Not sure what improvements have been made.
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    LION8TIGERLION8TIGER Posts: 8,484
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    I dont use it much these days but will probably download the new version. I'll wait a week and look out for any 'VLC 2.2.0 broke my computer' just in case :).
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    radioanorakradioanorak Posts: 4,247
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    I dont use VLC,Windows Media or Winamp players to listen to the radio.
    Prefer this
    www.yourmuze.fm
    There are loads of stations listed or add the url of your favourite station if not already shown.
    You can even listen on your mobile phone
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    Thine WonkThine Wonk Posts: 17,190
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    koantemplation wrote: »
    Thanks have updated now. Not sure what improvements have been made.

    Fight the popular vertical video syndrome! VLC automatically detects rotated videos and rotates them using hardware acceleration (on compatible platforms)!
    This is supported for MP4/MOV, MKV and raw H264.
    Resume playback where you left off. Supported on all the mobile versions of VLC for quite some time, it is now available on the desktop.
    Vastly improved support for UltraHD video codecs like VP9 and H265, including encoding.
    New hardware acceleration mechanism, GPU 0-copy decoding, faster and implementations for Linux, Android, and Raspberry Pi. (Other OSes will have it in 3.0.0)
    Extensions: supported since a long time, we now feature an in-app downloader for the desktop, like Firefox
    Subtitles downloading extension
    Compatibility with a very large number of unusual codecs
    Vastly improved compatibility for problematic files in Ogg, MP4, and WMV.
    Support for Digital Cinema Package to play native movie theater formats.
    Experimental support of Interactive Menus of BluRays: BD-J
    On OS X, we've updated the interface for Yosemite compatibility.
    On Android, we rewrote most of the UI to match Google Material Design.
    This is the first public beta releases for Windows Phone, Windows RT and Android TV.
    It is also the first non-beta release on Android.
    This is made possible through a lot of improvements of the VLC engine, the libVLC library, which starts showing its maturity and solidity.
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    koantemplationkoantemplation Posts: 101,293
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    Thine Wonk wrote: »
    Fight the popular vertical video syndrome! VLC automatically detects rotated videos and rotates them using hardware acceleration (on compatible platforms)!
    This is supported for MP4/MOV, MKV and raw H264.
    Resume playback where you left off. Supported on all the mobile versions of VLC for quite some time, it is now available on the desktop.
    Vastly improved support for UltraHD video codecs like VP9 and H265, including encoding.
    New hardware acceleration mechanism, GPU 0-copy decoding, faster and implementations for Linux, Android, and Raspberry Pi. (Other OSes will have it in 3.0.0)
    Extensions: supported since a long time, we now feature an in-app downloader for the desktop, like Firefox
    Subtitles downloading extension
    Compatibility with a very large number of unusual codecs
    Vastly improved compatibility for problematic files in Ogg, MP4, and WMV.
    Support for Digital Cinema Package to play native movie theater formats.
    Experimental support of Interactive Menus of BluRays: BD-J
    On OS X, we've updated the interface for Yosemite compatibility.
    On Android, we rewrote most of the UI to match Google Material Design.
    This is the first public beta releases for Windows Phone, Windows RT and Android TV.
    It is also the first non-beta release on Android.
    This is made possible through a lot of improvements of the VLC engine, the libVLC library, which starts showing its maturity and solidity.

    Thanks for that list, they definitely seem like improvements, rather than the changes we get with Fire Fox upgrades. :)
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    zx50zx50 Posts: 91,270
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    It's a bit strange that VLC on my system is reporting that I have the latest version. The version I have is 2.1.5.
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    koantemplationkoantemplation Posts: 101,293
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    zx50 wrote: »
    It's a bit strange that VLC on my system is reporting that I have the latest version. The version I have is 2.1.5.

    As Gouty said in the OP, it is not coming through the update checker yet.

    I had to download manually.
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    zx50zx50 Posts: 91,270
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    ^ Ah, okay.
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