{"id":1731,"date":"2013-09-26T03:25:53","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T03:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=1731"},"modified":"2013-09-27T02:00:32","modified_gmt":"2013-09-27T02:00:32","slug":"vlc-210-stable-released-upgrade-in-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2013\/09\/vlc-210-stable-released-upgrade-in-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"VLC 2.1.0 (Stable) Released, Upgrade in Ubuntu 13.10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/VLC-2-1-0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/VLC-2-1-0.jpg\" alt=\"vlc 2.1.0 stable released\" width=\"250\" height=\"178\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1733\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>VLC 2.1.0 stable has been released with numerous improvements, new features and bugfixes. 2.1 is a major upgrade for VLC, named <i>RinceWind<\/i>. <\/p>\n<p>Below is the announcement in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.videolan.org\/\" title=\"VLC homepage\" target=\"_blank\">VLC website<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>VideoLAN and the VLC development team are glad to present the new major version of VLC, 2.1.0, named RinceWind<\/p>\n<p>With a new audio core, hardware decoding and encoding, port to mobile platforms, preparation for Ultra-HD video and a special care to support more formats, 2.1 is a major upgrade for VLC.<\/p>\n<p>Rincewind has a new rendering pipeline for audio, with better effiency, volume and device management, to improve VLC audio support.<\/p>\n<p>It supports many new devices inputs, formats, metadata and improves most of the current ones, preparing for the next-gen codecs.<\/p>\n<p>Rincewind fixes around a thousand bugs, in more than 7000 commits from 140 volunteers..<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><del datetime=\"2013-09-26T08:36:20+00:00\">At the moment of writting this tutorial, the release note is still 404 page. I&#8217;ll add the link once it&#8217;s OK.<\/del><\/p>\n<p><b>Features:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>AUDIO:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rewritten audio core, allowing better volume and device management.<\/li>\n<li>Rewrite of the audio modules, to adapt to the new core.<\/li>\n<li>Correct support for multi-channel layouts in all formats: 5.1, 6.1 and 7.1<\/li>\n<li>New audio outputs for Windows Vista, Android, iOS, OpenBSD and OSSv4.<\/li>\n<li>New remapping, gain, stereo widening, downmixing effects.<\/li>\n<li>Higher samplerate, precision, live configuration in the core.<\/li>\n<li>Numerous new audio metadata format supported.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_1741\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/VLC_audio.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1741\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/VLC_audio.png\" alt=\"VLC new audio core\" width=\"500\" height=\"181\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1741\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/VLC_audio.png 500w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/VLC_audio-300x108.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1741\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">VLC new audio core<\/p><\/div>\n<p>VEDIO:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Port the OpenGL output to OpenGL ES.<\/li>\n<li>Support color conversion shaders in glsl on Android and iOS.<\/li>\n<li>New outputs for OpenMax IL on mobile and Decklink Blackmagic.<\/li>\n<li>New video outputs for iOS using OpenGL ES2.<\/li>\n<li>Support for deinterlacing for higher bit depth and XYZ colorspace.<\/li>\n<li>New anaglyph filter for side-by-side 3D.<\/li>\n<li>4K-ready :)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>CODECS:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Add hardware decoding for OS X using VDADecoder.<\/li>\n<li>Add hardware decoding for Android using MediaCodec.<\/li>\n<li>Add hardware decoding for GNU\/Linux using VDPAU.<\/li>\n<li>Add hardware encoding for Windows using Intel QuickSyncVideo.<\/li>\n<li>Support for G2M4, MSS1, MSS2, TSCC2, CDXL, Ut, VBLE video codecs.<\/li>\n<li>Support for Ulead DV audio, Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless audio.<\/li>\n<li>Support for SCTE-27 and complete EIA-608 subtitles<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_1742\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/VLC-2.1-MacOS.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1742\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/VLC-2.1-MacOS.gif\" alt=\"faster video decoding\" width=\"500\" height=\"181\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1742\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1742\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">faster video decoding<\/p><\/div>\n<p>FORMATS:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Support for fragmented MP4, Wave\/RF64 files.<\/li>\n<li>Extended metadata tags and cover art support in Ogg, AVI, MP4 and MKV.<\/li>\n<li>Support FLAC, Atrac, ADPCM, DV Type 1, 12bits DV audio in AVI.<\/li>\n<li>Extended support for AVI, MKV and MJPEG streams.<\/li>\n<li>Better recording of AVI and MKV format.<\/li>\n<li>Audio fingerprinting using AcoustID.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>INPUT AND DEVICES:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Support for screen input on OSX Lion and later.<\/li>\n<li>Support for Microsoft Smooth Streaming, developed by Viotech.net<\/li>\n<li>New RTMP input module, using libavformat!<\/li>\n<li>Support for VNC\/rfb and Remote Desktop view-only modes.<\/li>\n<li>Important improvements on Blu-Ray, Dash, v4l2 and HTTP inputs.<\/li>\n<li>New AVFoundation OS X and shm framebuffer inputs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>FOR ANIME FANS:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>New 6.1 downmixer to 5.1 and Stereo from MKV\/Flac 6.1.<\/li>\n<li>Correct YUV->RGB color matrix in the OpenGL shaders.<\/li>\n<li>Improved MKV support for seeking, and resiliancy.<\/li>\n<li>Editions support in MKV.<\/li>\n<li>Better subtitles and metadata support from MKV.<\/li>\n<li>Various ASS subtitles improvements.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>FOR MOBILE:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Port to Android, from 2.1 to 4.3, on ARMv6, ARMv7, x86 and MIPS.<\/li>\n<li>New port to iOS, from iOS 5 to 7, on all iPads and iPhones after 3GS.<\/li>\n<li>Partial port to WinRT, for Windows 8, 8.1 and WP8.<\/li>\n<li>OpenGL ES optimized outputs.<\/li>\n<li>Improvements of OpenMAX IL decoders, encoders and renderers.<\/li>\n<li>New audio, video outputs and interfaces for mobiles.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_1740\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/VLC_iOS.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1740\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/VLC_iOS.gif\" alt=\"VLC on mobile\" width=\"500\" height=\"181\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1740\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1740\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">VLC on mobile<\/p><\/div>\n<p>FOR DEVELOPERS:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>libVLC and most modules are now LGPLv2.1+.<\/li>\n<li>libVLC media framework can now be used in all types of applications.<\/li>\n<li>libVLC SDK packages now exists, in addition to more examples.<\/li>\n<li>Improved libVLC API, for better control.<\/li>\n<li>VLC&#8217;s web plugins now support windowless mode, for smoother integration with HTML elements.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.videolan.org\/vlc\/releases\/2.1.0.html\">VLC 2.1 release note.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>The VLC stable PPA is ready for Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy. Due to dependency problem, you can&#8217;t install VLC 2.1 on Ubuntu 13.04 and older editions.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Run below commands one by one in terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) to upgrade to 2.1.0 in Ubuntu 13.10:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:videolan\/stable-daily\n\nsudo apt-get update\n\nsudo apt-get install vlc browser-plugin-vlc<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VLC 2.1.0 stable has been released with numerous improvements, new features and bugfixes. 2.1 is a major upgrade for VLC, named RinceWind. Below is the announcement in VLC website: VideoLAN and the VLC development team are glad to present the new major version of VLC, 2.1.0, named RinceWind With a new audio core, hardware decoding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[614,639],"class_list":["post-1731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-media-player","tag-vlc-media-player"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}