VLC Media Player 0.8.6e
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VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats, including MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, MP3, and OGG, as well as for DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It also can be used as a server for unicast or multicast streams in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network. The most prominent additions to version 0.8.6 are probably Windows Media Video 9 and Flash Video. Other important changes are improved H.264 decoding, better Windows Unicode support, and a full-screen controller. When it comes to video files, nothing is ever as easy as it should be. Thankfully, VLC Media Player offers a one-stop solution for the file-format problem. The program supports playback of OGG, MP2, MP3, MP4, DivX, DVD, and a whole slew of other file types. In addition, it also can function as a streaming media server. Because of its open-source foundation, VLC Media Player evolves quickly, with new features and fixes released frequently. Though the interface varies from platform to platform, the sparseness of the Windows version leaves plenty to be desired. The skinned mode perks things up slightly, but the program seems to suffer from unpredictable behavior when skinned. Also, the basic task of opening a file is far more confusing than it should be; the program gives you several options, including the head-scratching Quick Open File. Overall, though, VLC Media Player is a must-have application for its ability to open just about any type of video file you throw at it. File size: 9.01MB License: FreeLicense: OpensourcePublisher: VideoLAN ProjectRequirements: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP |
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VLC media player 0.8.6e
This is a bugfix release. VLC media player 0.8.6d and earlier versions suffer from security vulnerabilities in the Web interface, Subtitle demuxer, Real RTSP demuxer, SDL_image library and MP4 demuxer.
Technical details are available in our advisories: SA-0801 and SA-0802.
The usual collection of assorted changes and improvements can be found here.
This release fully supports Mac OS X 10.3.9 once again.
We strongly recommend all users to update to this new version.
Changes in VLC Media Player 0.8.6
Changes:
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Playlist:
* Vastly improved playlist support:
* Media library support
* "Live search"
* Shoutcast TV listings
* Audioscrobbler/last.fm support
Input/Demuxers:
* UDP-Lite protocol (requires OS support) for RTP/AVP
* DCCP protocol (requires OS support) for RTP/AVP
Decoders:
* VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
* MKV USF subtitles support
* HTML based subtitles support
* Flash Screen Video support
Encoders:
* Flash Screen Video support
Video output and filters:
* Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
* New puzzle video output filter
* Rewrite motion detection video filter
* New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
video)
* New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
* New erase video filter (remove a logo from a video)
* Enhancements to subtitles' renderer to support bold, italics and some HTML
tags
* Support for RGBA and I420 blending. This improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
* New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
* New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module). This
was previously part of the mosaic module.
Stream output:
* UDP-Lite (requires OS support) for RTP/TS encapsulation
Interfaces:
* Windows/Linux
* Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
* All
* Improved user interaction
* Unix
* Allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface (experimental).
Capture:
* new BDA device driver plugin for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft
Windows