Popular Media Player VLC Gets Another Update [Complete List of Features]

By Kamal Nayan - 28 Feb '15 02:26AM

One of the most popular media player, VLC, has got another update. The update includes a selection of new features, fixes and mobile support.

The latest version 2.2.0, is the result of over one year of volunteer work that fixes thousands of bugs and extends support to even more media formats. In addition to the PC version of the software, new versions of VLC for iOS, Android, Android TV, WinRT, Windows RT, and Windows Phone have also been released.

One notable feature that the PC version has got is the ability to resume playback that was, until now, only available for mobile apps of VLC Media Player. Users can now open a video file, which they were watching previously, and will be prompted by a question at the top of the screen when re-open a file, notes Maximumpc.

Here's the complete list of new features, updates and improvements in VLC 2.2.0:

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.