Download VLC Media Player 2.0.2 with support for Retina Display

VLC Media Player (VLC) 2.0.2 is now available for download. VLC 2.0.2 is the third version of "Twoflower", a bugfix release. This update fixes a couple of hundreds of bugs, and adds more than 500 commits on top of 2.0.1 includes playback problem on older platforms, like old drivers on Windows XP, PowerPC on OSX or GMA950 on Intel OSX.

In addition, VLC Media Player 2.0.2 introduces an important number of features for the MacOS platform, notably improving the interface, to be on-par with the classic VLC interface, better performance, removal of font cache and Retina display support.

Overview
VLC Media Player (VLC) is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework, that plays most multimedia files formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols without external codec or program. It is simple to use, yet very powerful and extendable, and can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network. This release include fixes for FTP relative paths and directories and fixes for Podcast and DVD modules.

VLC 2.0.x "Twoflower" is a major new version of our popular media player. With faster decoding on multi-core, GPU, and mobile hardware and the ability to open more formats, notably professional, HD and 10bits codecs, 2.0 is a major upgrade for VLC. VLC 2.0.x has a new rendering pipeline for video, with higher quality subtitles, and new video filters to enhance your videos. It supports many new devices and BluRay Discs (experimental). Completely reworked Mac and Web interfaces and improvements in the other interfaces make VLC easier than ever to use.

Main Features
VLC can play:
  • MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 / DivX files from a hard disk, a CD-ROM drive, and so on.
  • DVDs, VCDs, and Audio CDs.
  • From satellite cards (DVB-S).
  • Several types of network streams: UDP/RTP Unicast, UDP/RTP Multicast, HTTP, RTSP, MMS, etc.
  • From acquisition or encoding cards (on GNU/Linux and Windows only).

Download VLC Media Player 2.0.2
VLC 2.0.2 is now available for download at the links below:

VLC Media Player 2.0.2

What's new in VLC 2.0.2
This release contains new features, updates and fixes including:
  • Rework of the Mac OS X interface.
  • Support for HiDPI, aka Retina Display.
  • Support for H264 v4l2 devices on Linux.
  • Translations updates and new Scottish Gaelic translation.
  • Rewrite of the Digital TV module on Windows.
  • Enhancements in HLS, Blu-Ray and various codecs support.
  • Fix video output for old graphic cards on Windows XP, which are using DirectX.
  • Fix video output on old Macs, notably PowerPC and GMA950 intel Macs.
  • Fixes for splitted RAR, MKV segmented, mp4 and Real media files playback.
  • Fixes for subtitles auto-detection.
  • Fixes on Qt, skins2 and web interfaces.

You can find the full details about changes that are in VLC 2.0.0 from the VLC Media Player 2.0.0 "Twoflower"

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