VideoLAN and the VLC development teams are proud to publish a major new release of VLC.

The  2.2.0 release of VLC media player for the desktop is coordinated, for  the first time ever, with releases on iOS, Android (including Android  TV), WinRT (Windows RT and x86) and Windows Phone. VLC runs everywhere!

Those  releases are the result of more than one year of volunteer work, add  numerous new features, fix more than one thousand bugs and improves  the scope of the formats supported.
The releases on all the platforms share the same core to support video and audio formats, named libVLC: VLC plays everything!

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So, what's new in VLC 2.2.0, codename WeatherWax?

• Fight  the popular vertical video syndrome! VLC automatically detects rotated  videos and rotates them using hardware acceleration (on compatible  platforms)!
• This is supported for MP4/MOV, MKV and raw H264.
• Resume playback  where you left off. Supported on all the mobile versions of VLC for  quite some time, it is now available on the desktop.
• Vastly improved support for UltraHD video codecs like VP9 and H265, including encoding.
• New  hardware acceleration mechanism, GPU 0-copy decoding, faster and  implementations for Linux, Android, and Raspberry Pi. (Other OSes will  have it in 3.0.0)
• Extensions: supported since a long time, we now feature an in-app downloader for the desktop, like Firefox
• Subtitles downloading extension
• Compatibility with a very large number of unusual codecs
• Vastly improved compatibility for problematic files in Ogg, MP4, and WMV.
• Support for Digital Cinema Package to play native movie theater formats.
• Experimental support of Interactive Menus of BluRays: BD-J
• On OS X, we've updated the interface for Yosemite compatibility.
• On Android, we rewrote most of the UI to match Google Material Design.
• This is the first public beta releases for Windows Phone, Windows RT and Android TV.
• It is also the first non-beta release on Android.

This  is made possible through a lot of improvements of the VLC engine, the  libVLC library, which starts showing its maturity and solidity.

Therefore, today, we release:

• VLC media player 2.2.0
• VLC for iOS 2.4.1
• VLC for Android 1.1.0
• VLC for Android TV 1.1.0
• VLC for WinRT 1.1.0
• VLC for Windows RT 1.1.0 Beta
• VLC for Windows Phone 1.1.0 Beta

We hope that you like our new release as much as we do and we are looking forward to answer any question you might have.