[FFe] New upstream release 2.0.4

Bug #1067064 reported by Benjamin Drung
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Bug Description

VLC 2.0.4 is a bug fix release of the upstream 2.0.x branch. I like to get a freeze exception to enable two addition VLC plugins: The Opus decoding plugin (see Codecs) and the sftp access plugin.

vlc (2.0.4-0ubuntu1) quantal; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
    - Fix crashes (LP: #947156, #958462, #960020, #979490, #1033682)
    - Correct default encoding for Hebrew subtitles (LP: #1051552)
  * Drop backported bp-fix-hang-caused-by-notify.patch.
  * Build the sftp access and Opus codec plugin and add them to vlc-nox.

 -- Benjamin Drung <email address hidden> Mon, 15 Oct 2012 22:28:55 +0200

Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
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Audio Output:
 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
   during playback on Mac OS X

Access:
 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake

Codecs:
 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding

Demuxers:
 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
 * Support Youtube live streams

Qt:
 * Fix media info dialog update
 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
 * Fix album art display at start

Miscellaneous:
 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates

Translations:
 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
   Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
   Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
   Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian

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Rémi Denis-Courmont (rdenis) wrote :

 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes

-> Only if you update libdvdnav.

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Benjamin Drung (bdrung) wrote :

Here are the changes for the debian/ directory.

description: updated
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Benjamin Drung (bdrung) wrote :

You can review the changes step by step in the Debian git repository [1].

[1] http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-multimedia/vlc.git;a=summary

summary: - FFe New upstream release 2.0.4
+ [FFe] New upstream release 2.0.4
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Benjamin Drung (bdrung) wrote :

Here's the build log for quantal.

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Scott Kitterman (kitterman) wrote :

FFe approved.

Changed in vlc (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package vlc - 2.0.4-0ubuntu1

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vlc (2.0.4-0ubuntu1) quantal; urgency=low

  * New upstream release (LP: #1067064).
    - Fix crashes (LP: #947156, #958462, #960020, #979490, #1033682)
    - Correct default encoding for Hebrew subtitles (LP: #1051552)
  * Drop backported bp-fix-hang-caused-by-notify.patch.
  * Build the sftp access and Opus codec plugin and add them to vlc-nox.
 -- Benjamin Drung <email address hidden> Mon, 15 Oct 2012 22:28:55 +0200

Changed in vlc (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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