[FFe] New upstream release 2.0.4
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vlc (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Bug Description
VLC 2.0.4 is a bug fix release of the upstream 2.0.x branch. I like to get a freeze exception to enable two addition VLC plugins: The Opus decoding plugin (see Codecs) and the sftp access plugin.
vlc (2.0.4-0ubuntu1) quantal; urgency=low
* New upstream release.
- Fix crashes (LP: #947156, #958462, #960020, #979490, #1033682)
- Correct default encoding for Hebrew subtitles (LP: #1051552)
* Drop backported bp-fix-
* Build the sftp access and Opus codec plugin and add them to vlc-nox.
-- Benjamin Drung <email address hidden> Mon, 15 Oct 2012 22:28:55 +0200
Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
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Audio Output:
* Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
* Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
* Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
* Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
* Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
during playback on Mac OS X
Access:
* Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
* Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
* Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
Codecs:
* Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
* Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
* Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
* Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
* Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
Demuxers:
* Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
* Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
* Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
* Support Youtube live streams
Qt:
* Fix media info dialog update
* Fix random/repeat preferences saving
* Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
* Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
* Fix album art display at start
Miscellaneous:
* Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
* Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
* Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
* Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
* Codec and other 3rd party library updates
* Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
* Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
* Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
* Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
Translations:
* Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
* Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
* Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
-> Only if you update libdvdnav.