Is it worth it to upgrade from 1.1.2 to 1.1.5?

[klawdek]

From what I have read the later versions are all very buggy.

[dumbo4711]

i think its worth a try

here is the list with changes and updates from 1.1.2 to 1.1.5


Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
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Security:
* Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
VideoLAN-SA-1006

Access:
* Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL

Services Discovery:
* Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com

Demuxers:
* Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
* DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
* Playback of live http .Webm streams
* Taglib thread-safety fix

Decoders:
* Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
"Puget Systems"

Skins:
* Add an icon to VLC on Linux

Video Output:
* fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB

Interfaces:
* fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
* fixes on luatelnet and luarc

Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
TS-mux, Qt)

libLVC:
* add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
* Miscellaneous fixes

Translations:
* Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
French and Ukrainian
* Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
* New Asturian translation

Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
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Mac OS X:
* Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
by 16
* Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider

Demuxer:
* Fix crash when closing rtsp streams

Qt interface:
* Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
* Various fixes for Windows

Translations:
* New Armenian translation
* Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon


Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
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Win32:
* Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
See VideoLAN-SA-1005
* Fix folders opening from the interface

Translations:
* Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician


Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
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Access and demuxers:
* fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
* fix for podcasts parsing
* DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks

Taglib:
* fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004

Playlist:
* fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
* fix m3u playlists exports

Skins2:
* fix video autoresize behaviour

Translations:
* Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali

Windows and Mac:
* Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed

Mac:
* architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates

BSD:
* Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc

[klawdek]

The biggest problem I have with VLC aside from a lot of crashes is that often times when using the frame by frame feature the picture freezes. Hitting play or stop does not work and VLC has to be closed and re-opened.

There are also some crashes where after VLC is closed it still remains running in task manager.

Maybe these will be cleared up. I just do not want to find a bunch of newer and worse problems.

[dumbo4711]

normally vlc should run very stable
u could use another player
but i dont want to advertise a competing player here

[Scrappy]

Try it, you can always go backwards if it doesn't work for you.

I'm using 1.1.4 as 1.1.5 refuses to work on both of my PCs (It refuses to close and needs to be killed on one and on the other stops playing video after a random amount of time and then crashes if you try and exit), which is strange for a version which is described as a "bug-fix" release.