VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multi-platform multimedia player for various audio and Video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, Ogg, OGM, MOV, wma, wmv…) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. The VideoLAN project targets multimedia streaming of MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and DivX files, DVDs, digital satellite channels, digital terrestial television channels and live videos on a high-bandwidth IPv4 or IPv6 network in unicast or multicast under many OSes. VideoLAN also features a cross-platform multimedia player, VLC, which can be used to read the stream from the network or display video read locally on the computer under all GNU/Linux flavours, all BSD flavours, Windows, Mac OS X, BeOS, Solaris, QNX, Familiar Linux…

Features in VLC (VideoLAN Client) :
- Rewrite of the playlist (tree structure, input preparsing …)
- Preferences improvements
- XML parsers
- Client-side SSL/TLS support
- Massive Matroska improvements
- Support for SOCKS proxy
- Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
- Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
- TiVo demuxer
- Samba (Windows shares) access module
- Dirac decoder and encoder
- PNG decoder/encoder
- Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
- Services discovery modules (brand new SAP module, HAL discovery, DAAP (iTunes shares), shoutcast)
- Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
- Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
- Image file video output (png)
- Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
- Pocket PC port
- Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin

Changes in VLC (VideoLAN Client) 0.9.6:
• New Localizations:
- Ukranian
• Security updates:
- Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access
- Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support
• VLC (VideoLAN Client) 0.9.5
• Security updates:
- Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
- Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
• Features:
- Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
• Various bugfixes:
- Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
- Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
• Windows port:
- Fix bug where interface was “eating” some media keys
- Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
• Qt Interface:
- Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn’t reset the dialog states
- Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
- Various fixed in playlist
• Access:
- MMAP module is now deactivated by default
• Translations:
- Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation

Homepage – http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Size: 15.2 MB

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