At a presentation in Brussels the developer of the VLC media player have recently presented the features of the upcoming versions VLC 2.2.0 and 3.0. VLC 2.2.0 will have an automatic inter alia, GPU-accelerated rotation of videos as well as new codecs and format as X265 (HEVC / H.265 encoding), DCP (Digital Cinema Package - even exchange encoded by KDM) GPU VDPAU and zero-copy operations (on Linux) support. In addition, Blu-ray Disc features such as overlays, preferred menu language and region selection are then implemented. VLC 2.2.0 is to be published shortly. It will take some time until VLC 3.0.0 will be released - this version is hardware accelerated HEVC / VP9 decoding Android, Adobe HTTP Dynamic Streaming (HDS), ARIB subtitle and GPU zero-copy under OpenMAX more infos at bei www.phoronix.com