VLC 2.2 Officially Released, Lets Users Resume Movies from Where They Left Off


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VideoLAN announced the general availability of the highly anticipated VLC Media Player 2.2.0 open-source and multi-platform video playback application a couple of hours after releasing the sixth maintenance release of the 2.1 branch, VLC 2.1.6, as reported by Softpedia yesterday, February 27.

Some of our readers were confused about these new VLC releases that appeared on the same day, so they’ve asked us to clear up the confusion and make a separate article with all the features introduced by the major 2.2.0 update of VLC Media Player, which deprecates version 2.1.6.

VLC 2.2.0 includes a huge number of new features, as well as assorted bug fixes and improvements, so make sure you visit the official announcement for details. We've also reported earlier this month that VLC 3.0.0 will introduce some powerful features, including Wayland and Chromecast support.

Prominent features of VLC Media Player 2.2.0, dubbed Weatherwax, include support for resuming videos from where you left off, support for automatically rotating videos on mobile phones, compatibility with new HD (High Definition), H.265/HEVC, Opus, and VP9 codecs for both encoding and decoding operations.
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