VLC Media Player 2.0.4 available for download

VLC Media Player (VLC) 2.0.4 is a major update that fixes a lot of regressions, issues and security issues in this branch. This version introduces Opus support, improves Youtube, Vimeo streams and Blu-Ray dics support. It also fixes many issues in playback, notably on Ogg and MKV playback and audio device selections and a hundred of other bugs.

Overview
VLC Media Player (VLC) is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework, that plays most multimedia files formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols without external codec or program. It is simple to use, yet very powerful and extendable, and can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network. This release include fixes for FTP relative paths and directories and fixes for Podcast and DVD modules.

VLC 2.0.x "Twoflower" is a major new version of our popular media player. With faster decoding on multi-core, GPU, and mobile hardware and the ability to open more formats, notably professional, HD and 10bits codecs, 2.0 is a major upgrade for VLC. VLC 2.0.x has a new rendering pipeline for video, with higher quality subtitles, and new video filters to enhance your videos. It supports many new devices and BluRay Discs (experimental). Completely reworked Mac and Web interfaces and improvements in the other interfaces make VLC easier than ever to use.

Main Features
VLC can play:
  • MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 / DivX files from a hard disk, a CD-ROM drive, and so on.
  • DVDs, VCDs, and Audio CDs.
  • From satellite cards (DVB-S).
  • Several types of network streams: UDP/RTP Unicast, UDP/RTP Multicast, HTTP, RTSP, MMS, etc.
  • From acquisition or encoding cards (on GNU/Linux and Windows only).

Download VLC 2.0.4
VLC 2.0.4 is now available for download at the links below:

VLC Media Player 2.0.4

What's new in VLC 2.0.4
This release includes various fixes and improvements for the Mac OS X port as well as all the other desktop platforms.

Mac:
  • Improved audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged during playback and fixed live audio device selection.
  • Disabled CoreAnimation UI effects on OS X Leopard leading to overall performance improvements.
  • Improved menu display and behavior.
  • Fixed various crashes and minor issues in bookmarks, playlist, main window buttons, streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controler.
  • Fixed font selection for unicode subtitles.
  • Improved system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is now allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
  • Added option to the Audio Effects panel to activate the karaoke filter.
  • Improved behavior when using command-line options to control the Mac interface.

Cross-platform:
  • Added support for OPUS decoding via libopus including multi-channel files.
  • Fixed numerous crashes related to DVD playback (dvdnav).
  • Improved Blu-Ray and HLS playback.
  • Improved H.264, MPEG2, MPEG4 part 2 and VP80 playback behavior when using more than one CPU core for decoding.
  • Fixed HTTP playback through proxies and advertise gzip correctly.
  • Fixed TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake.
  • Fixed Hebrew and Greek subtitles decoding.
  • Improved playback behavior of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files.
  • Fixed crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files.
  • Added support for YouTube live streams.
  • Fixed playback of Vimeo, Koreus and YouTube streams.
  • Fixed buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules.
  • Fixed issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI.
  • Codec and other 3rd party library updates.
  • Fixed swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio.
  • Fixed mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP.

For the large number of improvements for MS Windows and Linux, please have a look at the change log.

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