Based on the wip version by Ian D. Leroux and Tobias Nygren.
2.2.1 Highlights
VLC 2.2.1 "Terry Pratchett" is a fixed version of 2.2.0 "WeatherWax"
It fixes numerous crashes (FLAC, SPC), codec issues (VP9, Atrac3,
AAC), regressions and several issues (Resume, MP4 chapters, MKV
over network) and security issues.
2.2.0 Highlights
VLC 2.2.0 auto-rotates the videos taken from phones, to fight
Vertical Video Syndrome!
VLC now resumes where you left off in all versions
Improves support for new HD codecs, VP9, opus and H.265/HEVC, for
decoding and for encoding.
Extensions are now downloadable from within the application.
VLSub extension can download subtitles from the application.
2.2.x Features
Core
Auto-rotation of phone movies, to fight Vertical Video Syndrome
Resume playback where you left off
Extensions API and repository to download extensions directly from the application
GPU 0-copy support for decoding and displaying using hardware
Improved support for UltraHD codecs, notably H.265 and VP9
Subtitles download from the web, using OpenSubtitles
Audio core upgrade, notably to support short samples
Formats
Support for BD-Java menus and overlay in Blu-Ray
Acceleration of VP9 and H.265/HEVC decoders
Rewritten support for WMV, Ogg, MP4 and AVI, notably for seeking
Support for encoding in H.265, Opus and VP9
Support for WebVTT, Ogg/VP8, Opus/MKV, CAF
Support for THP, Renderware and Escape Replay videogames files
Support for SRT language detection
Acceleration
GPU 0-copy decoding-rendering for Android using MediaCodec
GPU accelerated auto-rotation, in OpenGL, Direct3D and Mediacodec
GPU 0-copy decoding-rendering for Linux using VDPAU
Support for HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder for Windows Vista/7
GPU 0-copy decoding-rendering for RaspberryPi using MMAL
OpenMAX IL improvements for Android, Linux and rPi
Support GStreamer codecs on Linux
Codecs / Protocols
Support for MMS split streams for audio selection (European Parliament)
Support FTPS (FTP/TLS) protocol
New decoder for VP8 and VP9 using libvpx for Linux distributions without avcodec
Improvements on Teletext, Subrip, and Tx3g subtitles
Support for MSN audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4
Support for IMC, Vivo g723.1, Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless
Support x264 and FFv1 codecs RGB modes
Fixes for DVD, Audio-CD, M2TS LPCM audio, Speex
Professional
Support for Digital Cinema Packages and encrypted DCP with KDM
HEVC encoding and muxing in MP4 and TS
Support VP8 encoding inside Ogg
Improvements of audio bar graph, for speed and resiliance
Support MPEG-2 video encoding through x262
Large improvements of teletext rendering, for speed and alignments
Platform integration
Port of the interface to Yosemite
Support drag'n drop in the skins2 interface
New TLS module on OS X and iOS, using the central store
Signature of the Windows binaries
Improvement of audio device detections on OS X and Windows
Support of audio ducking in various audio outputs
Mobile Versions
VLC for iOS 2.5.0 release is out
VLC for Windows Phone 1.2.0 public beta is out
VLC for WinRT 1.2.0, x86 and ARM
VLC for Android TV 1.2.6
VLC for Android 1.2.6
For developers
Add equalizer API for libVLC
Add functions for scrambling detection
Experimental new C++11 libVLC library: libvlcpp
New Android buildsystem and Java SDK
New WinRT library component for libVLC: libVLCX
Improvements for iOS/OSX VLCKit: Swift support and ARC
Android
Complete switch to Material design, including black theme
Support for Audio playlists and modtracker files
Support for AC-3 Passthrough and 5.1/7.1 audio
Support switch to background video playback
Large improvements on the first Android TV release
Support chapter selections
iOS
Support for iCloud, box.com and OneDrive
Support 10-band equalizer
Support sharing media between devices
Support Chapters and Title selections
New player design
Add media information dialog and timer for playback
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CVS: CVSROOT cvs.NetBSD.org:/cvsroot
CVS: please use "PR category/123" to have the commitmsg appended to PR 123
Do it for all packages that
* mention perl, or
* have a directory name starting with p5-*, or
* depend on a package starting with p5-
like last time, for 5.18, where this didn't lead to complaints.
Let me know if you have any this time.
to address issues with NetBSD-6(and earlier)'s fontconfig not being
new enough for pango.
While doing that, also bump freetype2 dependency to current pkgsrc
version.
Suggested by tron in PR 47882
a) refer 'perl' in their Makefile, or
b) have a directory name of p5-*, or
c) have any dependency on any p5-* package
Like last time, where this caused no complaints.
