Powerful Media Player

CORE

Network browsing for distant filesystems (SMB, FTP, SFTP, NFS...)

HDMI passthrough for Audio HD codecs, like E-AC3, TrueHD or DTS-HD

12bits codec and extended colorspaces (HDR)

Stream to distant renderers, like Chromecast

360 video and 3D audio playback with viewpoint change

Support for Ambisonics audio and more than 8 audio channels

Subtitles size modification during playback

Secure passwords storage
 

ACCELERATION

Hardware decoding and display on all platforms

HEVC hardware decoding on Windows, using DxVA2 and D3D11

MPEG-2, VC1/WMV3 hardware decoding on Android

Important improvements for the MMAL decoder and output for rPI and rPI2

HEVC and H.264 hardware decoding for macOS and and iOS based on VideoToolbox

CODECS

BD-Java menus and overlay in Blu-Ray

Experimental AV1 video and Daala video decoders

OggSpots video decoder

New MPEG-1 & 2 audio layer I, II, III + MPEG 2.5 decoder based on libmpg123

New BPG decoder based on libbpg

TDSC, Canopus HQX, Cineform, SpeedHQ, Pixlet, QDMC and FMVC decoders

TTML subtitles support, including EBU-TT variant

Rewrite of webVTT subtitles support, including CSS style support

BluRay text subtitles (HDMV) deocoder

Support for ARIB-B24, CEA-708

New decoder for MIDI on macOS, iOS and Windows

PROTOCOLS AND DEVICES

Full support for Bluray Menus (BD-J) and Bluray ISO

Rewrite of Adaptive Streaming protocols support

Support for HLSv4 to HLSv7, including MP4 and ID3 cases

Rewrite of DASH support, including MPEG2TS and ISOBMFF

Support SAT>IP devices, for DVB-S via IP networks

Support for HTTP 2.0

Support NFS, SMB and SFTP shares, with browsing

Support for SRT streaming protocol