VLC Media Player 2.1.5 Final Now Available for Download

VideoLAN has released VLC Media Player (VLC) 2.1.5. This release fixes a few bugs and security issues in third-party libraries, like GnuTLS and libpng.

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 2.1 "Rincewind" is a major upgrade of popular media player. It has a new rendering pipeline for audio, with better effiency, volume and device management, to improve VLC audio support. It supports many new devices inputs, formats, metadata and improves most of the current ones, preparing for the next-gen.

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 2.1.5
VLC is available at the following website. Download the files appropriate for you.

• VLC media player

What's new in VLC 2.1.5?
This version contains following updates:

Important changes:

• Fixed a few decoding bugs, on MP3, MKV, and hardware decoding on Windows.
• Fixed QTsound capture and audio channel orders for Mac OS X.
• Ships with updated GnuTLS and libpng libraries, because of security issues.

For a full description, please have a look at the change log.

Reference:
VLC 2.1.5 Changelog