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The excellent VLC Media Player for the Mac has had an update, taking it to version 2.0.2
Here are the most important improvements for VLC for the Mac:
- Enabled drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and the persistent media library
- Various video output improvements, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
- Enabled import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules to the media library or the temporary playlist
- Added media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple. This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG manufacturing keyboards under the brand “Cherry”.
- Added HiDPI / Retina Display save UI artwork
- Restored the preferences’ fullscreen options, which allows the user to start videos directly in fullscreen mode
- Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
- Added controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track Synchronization panel
- Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
- Fixed crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
- Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
- Fixed a crash when attaching harddrives with multiple partitions while VLC is running
- Improved OSD rendering in fullscreen mode
- Improved fullscreen behavior when using a smartphone remote based upon VLC’s http interface
- The selected audio device is retained throughout multiple VLC sessions now
- Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control Interface can lead to undefined results, the respective options will be automatically reset on the first launch, if needed.
- This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
- Updated Growl plugin supporting Growl 1.3.
- Improved reliablity in detecting VIDEO_TS folders when opened through the “Open Disc” panel.
- Re-implemented the “Window Decorations” option, which, if disabled, hides all the UI elements from the video output window to give you the cleanest experience possible.
- Improved the window title behavior when using the dark interface mode. It correctly responds to right and double-click events now.
- Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
Additionally, VLC 2.0.1 includes the following cross-platform improvements:
Video Output
- PCs running Windows XP will use the DirectX mode by default now, like in VLC’s 1.1.x release due to a fast number of broken drivers
- More accurate colorspace conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
- Misc fixes in the OpenGL module, on all platforms
- Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500, an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.[1]
- Fixed video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.[2]
Access
- Reworked Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C work again
- Fixes for RAR compressed files
- Fixed DirectShow crashes on exit
- Improved PulseAudio input latency
- Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
- v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use –v4l2-chroma=h264)
- Fixed Subtitle auto-detection in subfolders
- IE http proxy is no longer used by VLC on Windows
- Accepts more extensions for DVD images
- Fixed crash in VC1 packetizer
Codecs
- Fixed crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
- Fixed compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
- Fixed G726 support
Demuxers
- Fixes for MKV segments and MKV title display
- Fixed some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
- Fixed Real .ram and .ra files support
- Fixed DVB channel file support
- Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
Encoders
- Fix for MPEG audio encoding. Use Layer2 for the FOURCCs “mp2 ” and “mp2a”
- Fixed JPEG generation when doing snapshots
Audio filters and output
- Limitation of the Spatializer output volume
- Fixed DirectSound device selection
- Correct PulseAudio volume control
- Fixed Directsound volume initialization
- Volume level is no longer applied to the file output
- Fixed sampling rate for the JACK output
Lua Scripts
- Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
Qt interface
- Fixed preferences for audio devices on Windows
- Fixed various crashes
- Fixed multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
- Fixed playlist search and selector behavior
- Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
- Fixed tags and file names display
Skins2
- Fixed mousewheel on Windows
- Fixes for key events and focus loss
Web interface
- Fixed display of some buttons
- Fixed listing of files in the Open interface
