Download VLC Media Player 2.2.2

Version 2.2.2 of VLC Media Player has been released. This open source and cross-platform media player can play a variety of audio, video and streaming formats without the need to install the appropriate codec. In version 2.2.0, the Vertical Video Syndrome has been addressed, the desktop now also remembers where it left off and the support for hd codecs, such as vp9, opus and h265/hevc, has been improved. Furthermore, extensions can now be downloaded directly from the media player and the Android version is no longer offered as beta. Version 2.2.2 also fixes many bugs and has updated translations.

Access:

• Fix SetupFormat for continuous framesize in v4l2
• Fix off-by-one buffer overflow in RealRtsp module
• Fix screen recording aspect ratio, framerate and potential crash
• Fix Windows directshow input freeze
• Fix MMS segmentation fault/abort when server forces a large allocation

Demux:

• Fix support for ms-dvr files
• Fix time detection in AVI files over HTTP
• HLS: fix hang on stop, crashes and small improvements
• Fix mp4 NULL dereference reported by Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs
• Fix regression for VC-1 in WMV
• Fix MXF crashes on stop
• Fix EAC3 detection in some TS files

decoders:

• Fix importing surface from main memory in VDPAU
• Fix possible double-free in ADPCM decoder
• Support 9-bit and 10-bit GBR planar formats
• Support GoToMeeting 2 and GoToMeeting 3 codecs
• Fix crash in teletext (zvbi) decoder
• Fix Bluray subtitles (PGS) timestamps

audio output:

• Fix audio drop after a flush with pulseaudio
• Fix audio initialization on iOS
• Fix audio stuttering with AirPlay devices on OS X (2 sec delay needs to be set manually by the user)
• Fix pulseaudio latency computation
• Fix alsa default device selection

Skins2:

• Fix video control that fails to show up
• Fix UTF-8 conversion issues
• Fix Unicode folders location failing to open the skins
• Fix crash over malformed skins bitmaps
• Fix fullscreen for Gnome3/Unity Window Managers

OSX:

• Support for OS X El Capitan
• Fix code signature for releases on El Capitan
• Improve resume dialog, starting time, preferences, lua extensions
• Fix threads ordering, preferences crashes, URL drag’n drops

Qt:

• Fix crash when opening multiple items on Windows
• Fix recent items appending when using a playlist
• Improve addons manager dialog, playlist
• Fix changing the audio device in the menu
• Fix key and mouse event support for Qt >= 5.5 under X11
• Fix memory leaks

Video Output:

• Fix build if one disables XCB but activate VDPAU on Unix
• Fix Direct3D plane allocation size to avoid color bleeding
• Fix some crashes in swscale resizing

Misc:

• Fix build with recent FreeRDP versions
• Fix interface crashes when input-title-format option is empty
• Fix MP4 mux divide-by-zero crash
• Improve PNG encoding time
• Fix some UPnP initialization lag
• Rewrite of the Jamendo Service Discovery
• Fix snapshot aspect ratio for anamorphic contents
• Fix custom snapshot sizes
• Dynamic generation of GnuTLS Diffie-Hellman parameters
• Fix “vb” transcoding parameter
• Fix superfluous audio channel extraction in the core
• Fix miscellaneous crashes, double-frees, integer overflows, infinite loops, read overflow, invalid frees and division by zero issues
• Fix support for lua 5.2 and fix XSS in the http interface
• Update and improve Soundcloud, Vimeo and Youtube scripts
• Update of codecs and libraries to fix 3rd party security issues (like TALOS-CAN-0036, TALOS-CAN-0037, CVE-2015-7981, CVE-2015-8126

translation:

• Add Kashmiri and Maithili languages
• Update of most translations

libVLC:

• Expose audio mute, cork and volume change events: libvlc_MediaPlayerCorked, libvlc_MediaPlayerUncorked, libvlc_MediaPlayerMuted, libvlc_MediaPlayerUnmuted and libvlc_MediaPlayerAudioVolume
• Fix propagation of libvlc_MediaPlayerTitleChanged event

translation:

• Update of most translations