{"id":4724,"date":"2015-02-28T14:05:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T14:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=4724"},"modified":"2016-07-16T15:09:50","modified_gmt":"2016-07-16T15:09:50","slug":"upgrade-vlc-2-2-0-stable-ubuntu-14-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2015\/02\/upgrade-vlc-2-2-0-stable-ubuntu-14-04\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Upgrade to VLC 2.2.0 (Stable) in Ubuntu 14.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/vlc-2.2.0.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/vlc-2.2.0.png\" alt=\"VLC 2.2.0\" width=\"245\" height=\"245\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4725\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/vlc-2.2.0.png 245w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/vlc-2.2.0-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>VLC 2.2.0, codename <i>WeatherWax<\/i>, finally goes stable. Here&#8217;s how to upgrade it in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS or Linux Mint 17.1<\/b> while it&#8217;s already made into Ubuntu repositories for 14.10 Utopic and 15.04 Vivid.<\/p>\n<p>VLC 2.2.0 was released a few hours ago with numerous new features, fix more than one thousand bugs and improves the scope of the formats supported. Here are some of the new features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Auto-rotation of phone movies, to fight Vertical Video Syndrome<\/li>\n<li>Resume playback where you left off in all versions<\/li>\n<li>Extensions API and repository to download extensions directly from the application<\/li>\n<li>GPU 0-copy support for decoding and displaying using hardware<\/li>\n<li>Subtitles download from the web, using OpenSubtitles<\/li>\n<li>Audio core upgrade, notably to support short samples<\/li>\n<li>Improved support for UltraHD codecs, H.265 and VP9<\/li>\n<li>Support for BD-Java menus and overlay in Blu-Ray<\/li>\n<li>Acceleration of VP9 and H.265\/HEVC decoders<\/li>\n<li>Support for encoding in H.265, Opus and VP9<\/li>\n<li>Rewritten support for WMV, Ogg, MP4 and AVI, notably for seeking<\/li>\n<li>Support for WebVTT, Ogg\/VP8, Opus\/MKV<\/li>\n<li>Support for Digital Cinema Packages and encrypted DCP with KDM<\/li>\n<li>Support for THP, Renderware videogames files<\/li>\n<li>GPU accelerated auto-rotation, in OpenGL, Direct3D and Mediacodec<\/li>\n<li>GPU 0-copy decoding-rendering for Linux using VDPAU<\/li>\n<li>Support for HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output<\/li>\n<li>OpenMAX IL improvements for Android, Linux and rPi<\/li>\n<li>Support GStreamer codecs<\/li>\n<li>Support for MMS split streams for audio selection (European Parliament)<\/li>\n<li>Support FTPS (FTP\/TLS) protocol<\/li>\n<li>New decoder for VP8 and VP9 using libvpx for Linux distributions without avcodec<\/li>\n<li>Improvements on Teletext, Subrip, and Tx3g subtitles<\/li>\n<li>Support for MSN audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4<\/li>\n<li>Support for IMC, Vivo g723.1, Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless<\/li>\n<li>Support x264 and FFv1 codecs RGB modes<\/li>\n<li>Support drag&#8217;n drop in the skins2 interface<\/li>\n<li>Support of audio ducking in various audio outputs<\/li>\n<li>Full list of features <a href=\"http:\/\/www.videolan.org\/vlc\/releases\/2.2.0.html\" title=\"VLC 2.2.0 release note\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><u>Install \/ Upgrade to VLC 2.2.0 in Ubuntu 14.04:<\/u><\/b><\/p>\n<p>The 2.2.0 release is available in the Software Center for Ubuntu 14.10 and Ubuntu 15.04 out-of-the-box. Thanks to <i>Doug McMahon<\/i>, VLC 2.2.0 for 14.04 Trusty is available in <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~jonathonf\/+archive\/ubuntu\/vlc\" title=\"VLC backports for Ubuntu 14.04\" target=\"_blank\">this PPA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>1. To add the PPA, open terminal from menu or by pressing <u>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/u> on keyboard. When it opens, run:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jonathonf\/vlc<\/pre>\n<p>Please read the PPA description before press Enter to continue adding the PPA.<\/p>\n<p>2. After adding the PPA, run below commands one by one to upgrade to the 2.2.0 release from previous version:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get update\n\nsudo apt-get install vlc vlc-plugin-*<\/pre>\n<p><b><u>Uninstall\/Downgrade VLC:<\/u><\/b><\/p>\n<p>To downgrade to previous release, install ppa-purge and purge the PPA which also downgrade packages installed from it:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get install ppa-purge\n\nsudo ppa-purge ppa:jonathonf\/vlc<\/pre>\n<p>To remove VLC, just run:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get remove vlc vlc-plugin-*<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VLC 2.2.0, codename WeatherWax, finally goes stable. Here&#8217;s how to upgrade it in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS or Linux Mint 17.1 while it&#8217;s already made into Ubuntu repositories for 14.10 Utopic and 15.04 Vivid. VLC 2.2.0 was released a few hours ago with numerous new features, fix more than one thousand bugs and improves the scope [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[639],"class_list":["post-4724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-vlc-media-player"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4724","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=4724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}