vlc-3.0.17

[Bruce Dubbs]

New point version.

[Bruce Dubbs]

Changes between 3.0.16 and 3.0.17:

Core:

• Fix a regression in parsing secondary source MRLs
• Allow brackets in path part of URLs

Access:

• Fix support for screen capture on macOS with avcapture
• Fix closing of HTTP 1.x connections
• Improve HTTP2 memory usage
• Improve AVCapture module
• Improve AudioCD support (audio/data mixed mode, musicbrainz)
• Improve SMB compatibility by changing the read size
• Several improvements on the SRT modules (including streamID)

Decoders/Packetizers:

• Add support for DTS LBR
• Fix some HEVC hardware decoding on Windows and crashes when aspect ratio changes
• Fix hardware decoding for some AMD GPU drivers
• Add support for new Fourcc for E-AC3, AV1, GeoVision
• Fix crashes with VP9 streams
• Fix styling issues with subs tx3g (mp4) tracks
• Fix playback of live AV1 streams

Audio Output:

• iOS/tvOS: add support for spatial audio
• macOS: fix some channels ordering for > 5.1 channels
• Android: rework audio volume management

Video Output:

• Fix a D3D11 crash when the stream changes aspect ratio

Demux:

• Major overhaul of the adaptive streaming stack
• Support for DAV video files
• Add WebP image mapping
• Fix missing audio start of Opus audio in MKV/WebM
• Fix an infinite loop in MP4
• Fix attachments extractions in ogg files
• Support Uncompressed audio in mp4 (ISO/IEC 23003-5)
• Fix some lip sync issue in rare MPEG-TS streams

Interface:

• Qt/macOS: Fixup user provided URLs
• Add safe area handling on macOS
• Qt: improve preferences search
• Qt: fix --no-mouse-events option

Misc:

• Update YouTube script
• Fix Icecast directory parsing which could lead to missing entries
• Improve UPnP compatibility with some servers

3rd party libraries (contrib):

• Update FFmpeg to 4.4
• Update libsmb2 to fix invalid UTF-8 encoding of some filenames
• Update taglib to fix corruptions when editing some OGG metadata
• Update dav1d to 0.9.2
• Update fribidi to 1.0.11
• Update freetype to 2.11.1
• Update libass to 0.15.2
• Drop pthreadGC2 in favor of winpthreads
• Enable Java support for blurays on Apple M1
• Update libsrt to 1.4.4
• Update twolame to 0.4.0
• Update mpg123 to 1.29.3
• Update libnfs to 5.0.1
• Update libarchive to 3.6.0
• Update AOM encoder to 3.1.1

[Bruce Dubbs]

Fixed at commit 7495c403eaecf459900daf45bc5f2031f551635c

Package updates.
    Update to xine-lib-1.2.12.
    Update to xterm-372.
    Update to upower-v0.99.17.
    Update to vlc-3.0.17.