Advisories ยป MGAA-2013-0029

VLC upgrade for bug fixes

Publication date: 12 Jun 2013
Modification date: 12 Jun 2013
Type: bugfix
Affected Mageia releases : 2

Description

2.0.5 fixes around a hundreds of bugs, and adds around 100 commits on
top of 2.0.4, fixing 50 bugs.

With faster decoding on multi-core, GPU, and mobile hardware and the
ability to open more formats, notably professional, HD and 10bits codecs,
2.0 was a major upgrade for VLC.

2.0.5 is an important update that fixes some regressions of the 2.0.x
branch of VLC.

2.0.5 introduces an important number of fixes for MKV, SWF, AIFF, RTSP,
subtitles and encoding.

2.0.4 is a major update that fixes a lot of regressions of the 2.0.x
branch of VLC.

2.0.4 introduces an important number of fixes and improvements for all
playback, notably for Blu-Ray, DVD, HLS, Ogg and MKV files; but also
for Youtube, Vimeo, Koreus and Soundcloud.

2.0.4 adds Opus codec support, including multichannel ones and streams,
and MSS playback through DMO libraries.

2.0.4 fixes numerous issues, including audio device selection, Qt and
Mac OS interface, security issues and Windows wallpaper mode...
With faster decoding on multi-core, GPU, and mobile hardware and the
ability to open more formats, notably professional, HD and 10bits codecs,
2.0 was a major upgrade for VLC.

2.0.4 fixes around a hundreds of bugs, and adds more than 300 commits
on top of 2.0.3.

References

SRPMS

2/tainted

2/core