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Changes between 2.2.x and 3.0.0-git:
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Core:
 * Support wayland surface type
 * Allow to start the video paused on the first frame
 * Support portable version of Windows build
 * Support network browsing for distant file system (SMB, FTP, SFTP, ...)
   and rewrite the parsing of those files
 * VLC now assumes vlcrc config file is in UTF-8

Access:
 * Support HDS (Http Dynamic Streaming) from Adobe (f4m, f4v, etc.)
 * New SMB access module using libdsm
 * Rewrite MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support, including
   MPEG2TS and ISOFF profiles
 * Large rework of the Smooth Streaming module
 * Screen capture plugin for Wayland display
 * Support decompression and extraction through libarchive (tar, zip, rar...)
 * Improvements of cookie handling (share cookies between playlist items,
   domain / path matching, Secure cookies)
 * Support DVB-T2 on Windows BDA
 * Support depayloading Opus from RTP
 * Support sftp username and passwords options and URL
 * New UPnP access module, to list directories without infinite recursions
 * New WASAPI audio capture module on Windows
 * SMB/FTP/SFTP accesses can list directories
 * Support for SAT>IP server dialect for RTSP (satip://)
 * New "concat" access module for concatenating byte streams
 * New HTTP/TLS access module for HTTP 2.0 support
 * Named pipes and device nodes are no longer included in directory listings
   by default. Use --list-special-files to include them back.

Decoder:
 * OMX GPU-zerocopy support for decoding and display on Android using OpenMax IL
 * Support 4:4:4 and 4:2:2 chroma samplings with VDPAU hw acceleration
 * Support for ARIB STD-B24 subtitles
 * Support for Daala video
 * Important improvements for the MMAL decoder and output for rPI and rPI2
 * Support HEVC hardware decoding using OMX and MediaCodec
 * Use MediaCodec via NDK native API after Android Lollipop
 * Support VP9 and WMV3 decoding using OMX and performance improvements
 * New MPEG-1 & 2 audio layer I, II, III + MPEG 2.5 decoder based on libmpg123
 * New BPG decoder based on libbpg
 * Fixed uncompressed DVD-Audio (AOB) LPCM decoding
 * Rewrite WPL playlists and add ZPL playlists support (Zune)
 * Support TDSC, Canopus HQX
 * Support HEVC hardware decoding on Windows, using DxVA2
 * Basic TTML subtitles support
 * Support hardware decoding using Direct3D11, including GPU-zerocopy mode
 * DxVA2 GPU-zerocopy for hardware decoding and displaying on Windows
 * Support 9-bit and 10-bit GBR planar formats
 * New hardware accelerated decoder for OS X and and iOS based on Video Toolbox
   supporting H.263, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, MPEG-4 Part 2, and DV depending on device
   and OS version

Demuxers:
 * Support HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS)
 * Support Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
 * Support Daala in Ogg
 * Important rework of the MP4 demuxer, including fragments
 * Support EIA-608 subtitles in MP4/mov
 * Support SBV subtitles
 * Support WMV and WMAV in MP4/mov, aka Flip4Mac files
 * Support bitmap audio channel reordering in MP4/mov
 * Support AlbumArtist and DiscNumber metadata
 * Important rework of the TS demuxer, including:
    * Fixed program selection with recorded TS (TopField, DreamBox and others)
    * Fixed TS playback with PAT/PMT less recordings
    * Basic support for MPEG4-SL in TS and T-DMB
 * Support for lame's replaygain extension in mpeg files
 * Fixes for DTS detection in WAV and MKV files
 * Support for Creative ADPCM/alaw/ulaw/S16L in VOC files
 * Support for Creative ADPCM in AVI
 * Directory Demux can now sort items, ignore extensions and hidden files
 * Replaced httplive stream filter with new HLS demuxer, replaced smooth 
   stream filter with new Smooth demuxer, both using unified adaptive module
 * Improved smooth streaming compatibility

Stream filter:
 * Added ARIB STD-B25 TS streams decoder
 * Added stream prebuffering plugin
 * Removed HTTP Live streaming stream filter

Audio output:
 * Complete rewrite of the AudioTrack Android module. This is now the default.
   It now supports HDMI/SPDIF passthrough for AC3, 5.1/7.1 and float output.
 * Added Tizen audio module.

Audio filters and output:
 * Add SoX Resampler library audio filter module (converter and resampler)

Video ouput:
 * Linux/BSD default video output is now OpenGL, instead of Xvideo
 * Wayland shell surface window provider
 * Wayland shared memory video output
 * Large rework of the Android video outputs: there is now Surface (2.1, 2.2)
   NativeWindow (2.3+, supports hw rotation, subpicture blending, opaque)
 * Support rotation in Android NativeWindow output and hardware decoders
 * Renamed the Direct3D output module to Direct3D9
 * Added Direct3D11 video mode supporting both Windows desktop and WinRT modes,
   supporting subpicture blending and hardware acceleration
 * EFL Evas video output with Tizen TBM Surface support

Text renderer:
 * CTL support through Harfbuzz in the Freetype module

Video filter:
 * Hardware deinterlacing on the rPI, using MMAL
 * New video filter to convert between fps rates
 * Added 9-bit and 10-bit support to image adjust filter

Stream Output:
 * Chromecast output module
 * RGB24 and YCbCr 4:2:0 RTP packetization

Encoder:
 * Support for Daala video in 4:2:0 and 4:4:4

Muxers:
 * Added fragmented/streamable MP4 muxer
 * Added support for muxing VC1 and WMAPro in MP4
 * Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
 * Daala in Ogg

Service Discovery:
 * New NetBios service discovery using libdsm
 * Rewrite of the UPnP service discovery

Mac OS X Interface
 * Dropped support for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
 * Add support for keyboard blacklight dimming during fullscreen video playback
 * new AppleScript API giving access to audio desynchronization
 * Support for building with disabled sparkle update mechanism
 * New configure flag to disable automatic updates

iOS:
 * Dropped support for iOS 6.x

Qt interface:
 * Batch convert support

Skins2:
 * Support key accelerators

libVLC:
 * Add libvlc_media_new_callbacks for custom input byte streams
 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_enum to enumerate devices of current aout
 * Split of libvlc_media_discoverer_new_from_name into libvlc_media_discoverer_new,
   libvlc_media_discoverer_start and libvlc_media_discoverer_stop
   This allows to attach media events between create and start
 * Add libvlc_media_get_codec_description to get a human readable description of a codec
 * Add libvlc_MediaListEndReached Event to get notified when a media list reached the end
 * Add libvlc_media_list_player_get_media_player to get the media player instance of a list player
 * Add libvlc_media_parse_with_options that uses a flag to specify parse options
 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_get to get the currently selected audio output device
   identifier (if there is one available)
 * Add libvlc_media_get_type to get the type of the media
 * Add libvlc_media_player_get_full_title_descriptions to get full title info of the media
   and +libvlc_title_descriptions_release to match it
 * Add libvlc_media_player_get_full_chapter_descriptions to get full chapter info of the media
   and libvlc_chapter_descriptions_release to match it
 * Deprecate libvlc_video_get_title_description, libvlc_video_get_chapter_description,
   libvlc_media_player_get_agl, libvlc_media_player_set_agl
 * Add libvlc_media_player_set_android_context to integrate in an Android surface
 * Add libvlc_media_player_set_evas_object to draw on an EFL/Evas Object

Logging
 * Support for the SystemD Journal
 * Use --syslog and --syslog-debug command line options to include debug
   messages in syslog. With --syslog, errors and warnings will be sent only.
 * New Android module for logging

Misc
 * remove langfromtelx
 * remove ZPL playlist format
 * Update libVLC doxygen modules
 * Add a text-to-speech renderer for subtitles on OS X/iOS
 * Add a text-to-speech renderer for subtitles on Windows

Removed modules
 * Atmo video filter
 * QTCapture access module (use AVCapture instead)
 * httplive (use adaptive instead)
 * smooth (use adaptive instead)
 * Gnome-VFS access module (i.e. Gnome 2.x)
 * QuartText text renderer module (use Freetype instead)
 * Win32 GDI text renderer module (use Freetype instead)
 * Growl notification (replaced by osx_notifications)


Changes between 2.2.0 and 2.2.1:
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Codec:
 * Fix compilation with older libavcodec versions
 * Fix some VP9 decoding
 * Fix flac crashes
 * Fix lpcm channel ordering
 * Fix potential NULL dereference in dmo
 * Fix teletext framing code in DVB PES packets
 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroendinger decoder (CVE-2014-9629)
 * Fix AAC samplerate

Demuxers:
 * Fix MP4 chapters
 * Fix MKV overseeking, introducing slowness over network shares
 * Fix crash when playing SPC files
 * Fix ATRAC3 playback in MKV
 * Revert to older ASX code
 * Workaround TS issue with mpeg-audio

Access:
 * Fix sftp read and close sockets
 * Fix DTV build with Linux DVB versions < 5.8
 * Fix UDP/RTP input on Windows

Audio output:
 * Fix Alsa HDMI plugs
 * Improve Alsa output, with larger buffers
 * Fix DirectSound output with multi-channel files

OS X:
 * Fix numerous crashes in the UI
 * Fix video-wallpaper mode
 * Fix race when starting VLC from command line

Qt:
 * Fix recent items behaviour
 * Fix rotation filter activation
 * Fix mux modules names for the streaming wizard

Win32:
 * Timestamp the signature of the dlls
 * Fix extensions registration during install
 * Fix extensions dialog crash
 * Default to no DxVA decoding

libVLC:
 * fix libvlc_media_get_stats

Translations:
 * Update of Afrikaans, Albanian, Azerbaijani, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch,
   English (United Kingdom), Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian,
   Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Macedonian, Malay, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål,
   Norwegian Nynorsk, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian,
   Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai,
   Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian translations


Changes between 2.1.6 and 2.2.0:
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Important changes:
 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+,
   notably most of the streaming output, muxers and access output modules

Core:
 * Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible
 * Add extensions manager and downloading from external repositories
 * Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies
 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples

Access:
 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access
   New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes
 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection
   and BD-J navigation
 * Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM
 * Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs
 * Fix CDDB lookups, including pregap data

Decoder:
 * Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
 * Support MediaCodec acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
 * Add Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder
 * Add video decoder module based on GStreamer plugins
 * Add MMAL decoder for Broadcom VideoCore chips (like the RaspberryPi)
   supporting MPEG-2 and H.264, supporting GPU-zerocopy display
 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
 * Support MSN Audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1,
   Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless, and numerous videogame codecs
 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
 * OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
 * New jpeg image decoder
 * Add tx3g subtitles decoder
 * New SVG image decoder
 * Fix Speex decoding over RTP and in flv
 * Support more x264 and FFv1 RGB modes
 * Improvements on ZVBI teletext decoder, notably for speed and alignments

Encoder:
 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
 * New png image encoder using libpng

Demuxer:
 * Support for Core Audio Format (CAF) files
 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking,
   streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg
 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking,
   synchronization and tracks exclusion
 * AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations
 * AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps
 * MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio
   and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion
 * Support Opus in MKV
 * Support VP8 in OGG
 * Basic support for WebVTT
 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 (AAC) Audio stream type in TS
 * Support HDPR TS files
 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
 * Fix encoding issues and relative paths in some XML playlist formats
 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
 * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
 * TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
 * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
 * Support SVG images files (on glib platforms)
 * Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV
 * Support detection of SRT languages based on filename
 * Support for seeking Standard MIDI Files

Video Output:
 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
 * New Android native window provider module
 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
 * Add MMAL based video output for RaspberryPi

Video Filter:
 * New Oldmovie effect filter
 * New VHS effect filter
 * New Freeze effect filter
 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
 * Fix audiobargraph activation and usage

Audio Output:
 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
 * Audio device notifications for WASAPI
 * Fix replay of sound buffer in DirectSound
 * Split of MMDevice and WinRT audio modules
 * Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes
 * Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules

Muxers:
 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
 * Fixes for the AVI muxer to respect the specification
 * Support VP8 in OGG
 * Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS

Streaming:
 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
    vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout  '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
    :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
 * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
 * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
 * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
    with --no-sout-all
 * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
    --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
 * Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP

libVLC:
 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function

Visualizations:
 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
 * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum

Interfaces:
 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
 * Add record button in Qt menus
 * New module for core dialogs on iOS
 * New layout for Qt buttons customization
 * Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and OS X

Mac OS X Interface:
 * Support for OS X Yosemite
 * Avoid grey bars in fullscreen when using Mavericks with multiple monitors
 * Improve fullscreen behavior for the native and VLCs own mode
 * Fixes for advanced preferences
 * Added 'file size' column to playlist table
 * in addition to iTunes, Spotify is automatically paused on playback start
 * Option to increase playlist font size
 * Improved crash log reporting

Misc:
 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
 * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
 * Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
 * Update and improve Koreus, Dailymotion, Soundcloud and Youtube scripts

Security:
 * Numerous integer and heap overflow in Ogg, AVI, ASF, TTA and MP4 demuxers

Removed modules:
 * iOS video output: use ios2
 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger

Translations:
 * New translation in Urdu, Tatar, Silesian, Samoan, Kapampangan, N'ko,
   Kurdish, Kabyle, Mexican Spanish, Catalan, Amharic
 * Update of all translations:
   Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese, Uzbek, Ukrainian,
   Turkish, Thai, Swedish, Serbian, Albanian, Slovenian, Slovak, Russian,
   Romanian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Punjabi, Dutch, Nepali, Norwegian
   Bokmål, Malay, Marathi, Latvian, Lithuanian, Korean, Kannada, Khmer,
   Japanese, Italian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Hebrew, Galician, Scottish
   Gaelic, French, Finnish, Persian, Estonian, Spanish, Modern Greek, German,
   Danish, Welsh, Czech, Bosnian, Bengali, Asturian


Changes between 2.1.5 and 2.1.6:
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Audio output:
 * Fix OSS stuttering

Security:
 * Fix heap overflow in decomp stream filter
 * Fix buffer overflow in updater (CVE-2014-9625)
 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroedinger encoder
 * Fix null-pointer dereference in DMO decoder
 * Fix buffer overflow in parsing of string boxes in mp4 demuxer (CVE-2014-9626,9627,9628)
 * Fix SRTP integer overflow
 * Fix potential crash in zip access
 * Fix read overflow in Ogg demuxer
 * Fix RTP overflow (CVE-2014-9630)

Win32 installer:
 * Update translations and greek encoding


Changes between 2.1.4 and 2.1.5:
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Core:
 * Fix compilation on OS/2

Access:
 * Stability improvements for the QTSound capture module

Mac OS X audio output:
 * Fix channel ordering
 * Increase the buffersize

Decoders:
 * Fix DxVA2 decoding of samples needing more surfaces
 * Improve MAD resistance to broken mp3 streams
 * Fix PGS alignment in MKV

Qt Interface:
 * Don't rename mp3 converted files to .raw

Mac OS X Interface:
 * Correctly support video-on-top
 * Fix video output event propagation on Macs with retina displays
 * Stability improvements when using future VLC releases side by side

Streaming:
 * Fix transcode when audio format changes

Security contents:
 * Updated GnuTLS to 3.1.25 (CVE-2014-3466)
 * Updated libpng to 1.6.10 (CVE-2014-0333)

Translations:
 * Update British English


Changes between 2.1.3 and 2.1.4:
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Demuxers:
 * Fix issue in WMV with multiple compressed payload and empty payloads

Video Output:
 * Fix subtitles size rendering on Windows

Mac OS X:
 * Fix DVD playback regression
 * Fix misleading error message during video playback on OS X 10.9
 * Fix hardware acceleration memleaks


Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3:
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Core:
 * Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
 * Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir

Access:
 * Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
 * Fix encrypted DVD playback
 * Fix v4l2 frequency conversion

Decoders:
 * Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
   by updating codec libraries
 * Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
 * Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
 * Fix teletext crash on Windows

Demuxers:
 * Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
 * Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
 * Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
 * Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing

Audio output:
 * Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
 * Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X

Video Output:
 * Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
 * Fix transform off-by-one issue
 * Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
 * Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
 * Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC

Stream output:
 * Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
 * Fix record file names

Qt interface:
 * Fix minimal size possible on start
 * Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
 * Fix a crash in the audio menu building
 * Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
 * Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows

HTTP interface:
 * Fix album art display on Windows

Translations:
 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek,
   Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew,
   Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Nepali,
   Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
   Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
   and Simplified Chinese translations
 * Fix encoding for Windows installer translations


Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2:
--------------------------------

Audio output:
 * Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
 * Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
 * Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external
   audio devices on OS X
 * Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
 * Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS

Demuxers:
 * Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
 * Various WMV playback improvements and fixes

Decoders:
 * Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
 * Fix playback of some HEVC samples

Video filters:
 * Fix crash on deinterlace selection

Qt interface:
 * Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
 * Improve A-B loop control
 * Fix album art update when changing media

Mac OS X interface:
 * Add a language option in the interface
 * Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
 * Improved UI resetting when requested in the preferences
 * Fix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
 * Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
 * Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
 * Fix crash when closing window without decorations
 * Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled

Win32 installer:
 * Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update

Translations:
 * Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian,
   French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer,
   Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala,
   Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations


Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
--------------------------------

Core:
 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
 * Fix recording
 * Fix some subtitles track selection

Decoders:
 * VP9 support in WebM
 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes

Demuxers:
 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
 * Support Speex in ogg files
 * Fix some .mov playlists support
 * Support Alac in mkv
 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files

Access:
 * Fix DVB options parsing
 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain

Audio output:
 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD

Interfaces:
 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
 * Fix D-Bus volume setting

Qt:
 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
 * Fix play after drag'n drop
 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter

Stream out:
 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues

Win32 installer:
 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism

Mac OS X interface:
 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
 * Improves interface resizings

Translations:
 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
   Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
   Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
   Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
   Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
   translations


Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
--------------------------------

Important changes:
 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
   Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
   compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually

3rd party libraries (contrib):
 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib

Core:
 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
   better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
 * Port to Android
 * Port to iOS
 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
 * Remove SQL support

Decoders:
 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
 * Support for Ulead DV audio
 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
   Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)

Encoders:
 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)

Access:
 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
           remove support for previous OS X releases
 * Major improvements in DASH support
 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
   vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm

Demuxers:
 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
 * Support for more MJPEG streams
 * Add support for liveleak streams
 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml

Audio output:
 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
   This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
   distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS

Audio Filters:
 * New remapping channel filter
 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
 * New VSXu visualization plugin
 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
 * New gain audio filter

Video Outputs:
 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards

Video Filters:
 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
   anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
   and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters

Stream Output:
 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
 * Options support for AVIO output module
 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
 * Livehttp stream encryption support
 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting

Fingerprinters:
 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter

Interfaces:
 * configurable password for the HTTP server
 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
   rotate mode into the rotate video filter

Services discovery:
 * UPnP A/V subtitles
 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item

OS X Interface:
 * Add support for multiple video outputs
 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
   controller
 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
   - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
   VLC's internal volume level
 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
   playback
 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
   selection and to manage the list of presets
 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
   multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
   date and language
 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
   when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
   3rd party applications
 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
   handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
   (system-wide settings)
 * Add support for the Video Title option
 * Add support for the Boss Key
 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
   deprecated now and will be removed in a future release

Qt:
 * Partial support for Qt5.0
 * Menus modifications and improvements
 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
 * EPG display fixes and improvements
 * Add SD pixmap sources
 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
 * Display playlist total duration
 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
 * Numerous fixes

Skins2:
 * Port to OS/2
 * Extend sliders, offsets options
 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
 * Numerous fixes and improvements
 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller

libVLC:
 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
   to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
   and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
   media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
   libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons

Removed modules:
 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
 * Hildon GUI
 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
 * Broken crop video filter
 * Switcher module
 * OSD parser and menu
 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
 * htcpcp :)

Translations:
 * Update of all translations


Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
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Demux:
 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer

Contribs:
 * Fix modplug security issues


Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
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Access:
 * Fix ISDB-S tuning
 * Fix crash in QTsound
 * Fix screen mouse file location
 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access

Demux:
 * Fix use after free in sgimb
 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files

Decoders:
 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module

Mac OS X:
 * Fix interface crashes
 * Fix autostart playback option
 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option

Translations:
 * update Welsh translation
 * New Kannada translation


Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
--------------------------------

Input:
 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
   playlist files

Decoders:
 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback

Encoders:
 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac

Muxers:
 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files

Video output:
 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)

Mac OS X Interface
 * Minor improvements
 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding

HTTP Interface
 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)

Translations:
 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
   Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations


Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
--------------------------------

Access:
 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected

Audio Output:
 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)

Demuxers: