Related: What Is HEVC H.265 Video, and Why Is It So Important for 4K Movies? The rest of the changes are bug fixes or rewritten code - Winamp's development team said the most significant change was 'migrating the entire project from VS2008 to VS2019 and getting it all to build successfully.' The media player still looks and works the same as before, but now officially supports Windows 11, media using the VP8 codec, and HTTPS media streams. The stable version of Winamp 5.9 is now available to download for Windows PCs, following a beta release earlier this year.
