Fix HDR support in AV1 when the container provides the metadata.

Add support for 12 bits decoding of AV1.

Fix green/missing line/column when the picture dimensions are odd.

Fix snapshotting with subtitles when using hardware acceleration.

Fix potential subtitle picture allocation failures.

VLC's web plugins have been rewritten for better integration and stability in all browsers.

Implementation of the MPRIS2 interface to control media players.

New JSON requests on the web interface to control running VLC instances.

New libVLC examples are available: media player, photobooth and mediainfo clones.

libVLC, libVLCcore and libcompat have switched from GPL to LGPLv2.1+.

New Dirac/VC-2 encoder, faster than the previous one.

SDI and HD-SDI card support for input on Linux.

Support for EBU subtitles (stl) and EIA-608.

Support for Jpeg-2000 and DNxHD/VC-3 in 10bits.

Rewritten seeking support in cue files.

Correct support for FLAC, RV and Hi10p in MKV.

Rewritten linked segments and ordered chapter files support.

Continued support for X 10.5 and PPC users (1080p and ProRes on Dual-G5!).

Support for all QTKit devices through qtcapture and qtsound modules.

Extensions support and better Lion integration.

Available in 2 colors: Lion grey and QTX black.

Completely new, single window interface:.

Support for new adaptive streaming protocols, like HLS and DASH.

Support for SDI capture cards and QTKit devices.

AACS and BD+ DRM libraries and keys are not shipped, for legal reasons.

Menus are deactivated in this release (will come soon).

CrystalHD cards and Android OpenMAX support for hardware decoding.

Important changes in RealVideo and Real Format support.Rewritten support for images, including jpeg, png, xcf, bmp.Support for 10bits codecs, WMV image and some other codecs.Multi-threaded decoding for H.264, MPEG-4/Xvid and WebM.

New audio outputs for iOS, Android and OS/2.Simplification of the audio core for faster processing.New dynamic range compressor and karaoke filters.New resamplers for higher quality audio.New deinterlacing filter, including an Inverse Telecine algorithm.New debanding, grain, denoising and anti-flickering filters.New video outputs for Windows 7, Android, iOS and OS/2.Shader support in the OpenGL output, for colorspace conversion, including 10bits.Rewritten video output core and modules, allowing subpicture blending in GPU.Completely reworked Mac and Web interfaces and improvements in the other interfaces make VLC easier than ever to use. It supports many new devices and BluRay Discs (experimental). Twoflower has a new rendering pipeline for video, with higher quality subtitles, and new video filters to enhance your videos. With faster decoding on multi-core, GPU, and mobile hardware and the ability to open more formats, notably professional, HD and 10bits codecs, 3.0 is a major upgrade for VLC.

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