14 DAY TRIAL // The famous VLC Media Player software has just reached version 2.1.5 earlier today, as the source archive pop up in the official FTP server of the project. This means that VLC 2.1.5 is ready for download on Linux platforms, with binary packages for Windows and Mac OSes probably coming in a day or two.
According to the official changelog, VLC 2.1.5 fixes compilation issues on the OS/2 operating system, adds various stability improvements for the QTSound capture module, no longer renames MP3 converted files to .raw, increases the buffer size, and fixes channel ordering issues on Mac OS X audio output.
Moreover, it fixes DxVA2 decoding of samples that require more surfaces, improves MAD (MPEG Audio Decoder) resistance to damaged MP3 streams, fixes PGS subtitles alignment in MKV files, and repairs transcode issues that appeared when the audio format was changed.
Last the but not least, the Mac OS X interface has been improved with better video-on-top functionality and proper video output event propagation on Macs with Retina displays, GnuTLS has been updated to version 3.1.25, the libpng library has been updated to version 1.6.10, and the British English translation has been updated.
Download VLC 2.1.5 right now from Softpedia. Keep in mind though that it is only available as a source archive, which means that you must configure and compile it prior to installation.