Поддержка MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, DVD, VCD, mp3, ogg и других
Поддержка трансляции медиа потока со спутниковых каналов передаваемое по протоколам UDP, RTP, HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, MMS, RTSP, IPSec и SSL/TLS
Расширенные списки воспроизведения
Видео и аудио фильтры
Субтитры и плагины, еще более расширяющих возможности плеера
Свободное редактирование плейлиста
Mac OS X аудио модуль, обеспечивающий поддержку всех девайсов
Поддержка FTP
Поддержка SSL/TLS
Поддержка SOCKS proxy
Декодер PNG
Поддержка кодека Apple Lossless Audio
Поддержка скинов
Высокая скорость работы
Высокое качество результата
Приятный и удобный интерфейс
Nightly builds (ночные сборки) - экспериментальные версии VLC Media Player

между версиями 2.0.x and 2.1.0-pre1:
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Important changes:
* The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
* Discontinued support for PowerPC-based and 32bit Intel-based Macs VLC requires Mac OS X 10.6 or later now on 64bit hardware
* 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* /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner system in /contrib

Core:
* Audio core rewrite
* Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
* Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
* Partial support for Windows Store App
* Removed SQL support
* Added audio fingerprinter support
* Disabled and marked obsolete --language selection

Decoders:
* Support for OPUS via libopus.
* Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec.
* Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec
* 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
* Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
* Support for VDPAU hardware video decoding acceleration on Linux
* Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder

Encoders:
* high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264

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

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

Audio output:
* Windows Audio Session API audio output support
* OpenBSD sndio audio output support
* Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES module
* 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 AudioQueue module for iOS (and OS X)
* New, simplified AudioUnit output module 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

Video Outputs:
* New module to output using Decklink Blackmagic cards
* New module using OpenMAX IL to output video
* 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 modules Also, subpictures now work in the OpenGL ES2 module
* Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
* New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2

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:
* Added 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

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 module 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
* Numerous fixes
* Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
* Removed language preference
* New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality. Added new profiles.

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_log_subscribe and libvlc_log_unsubscribe function to register logging callbacks
* 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.

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)
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