VLC 2.1.5 has been released

VideoLAN has announced the release of the final update in the 2.1.x series of its popular open source, cross-platform media player and streaming media server: the VLC media player. VLC 2.1.5 is now available for download and installation on Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems. Notably, the next big release for the VLC media player will be that of the 2.2.x branch. A careful look at the change log reveals that although the VLC 2.1.5 update has been released across multiple platforms, the most noticeable improvements are for OS X users. Others could consider it as a minor update.

For OS X users, VLC 2.1.5 brings about additional stability to the Qtsound capture module as well as improved support for Reti. Other notable changes (for the OS X platform) include compilation fixes for OS/2 operating systems. Also, MP3 file conversions will no longer be renamed ‘.raw’ under the Qt interface following the update. A few decoder fixes will now benefit DxVA2 sample decoding, MAD resistance in broken MP3 streams and PGS alignment tweaks for MKV. In terms of security, the new release comes with fixes for GNU TLS and libpng as well. One should remember that VLC is a portable, free and open source, cross-platform media player and streaming media server written by the VideoLAN project that supports many audio and video compression methods and file formats. It comes with a large number of free decoding and encoding libraries, thereby eliminating the need of finding or calibrating proprietary plugins.