Rewritten support for images, including jpeg, png, xcf, bmp etc.

Support for 10bits codecs, WMV image and some other codecs.

Multi-threaded decoding for H.264, MPEG-4/Xvid and WebM.

Audio outputs for iOS, Android and OS/2.

Simplification of the audio core for faster processing.

Dynamic range compressor and karaoke filters.

Deinterlacing filter, including an Inverse Telecine algorithm.

Debanding, grain, denoising and anti-flickering filters.

Shader support in the OpenGL output, for conversion, including 10bits.

Rewritten video output core and modules, allowing blending in GPU.

Note that the first generation of Intel-based Macs equipped with Core Solo or Core Duo processors is no longer supported. Previous devices are supported by older releases. VLC media player requires Mac OS X 10.7.5 or later. It supports many new devices inputs, formats, metadata and improves most of the current ones, preparing for the next-gen codecs. Rincewind has a new rendering pipeline for audio, with better efficiency, volume and device management, to improve VLC for Mac audio support. With a new audio core, hardware decoding and encoding, port to mobile platforms, preparation for Ultra-HD video and special care to support more formats, 2.1 is a major upgrade for VLC for macOS. It also can be used as a server for unicast or multicast streams in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network. VLC Media Player for Mac (formerly VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats, including MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, MP3, and OGG, as well as for DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.

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