VLC media player 1.0.3 – Final

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. TheVideoLAN 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…

• 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) 1.0.2:
• Decoders:
- Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
- Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
- Various fixes on theora and ogg
• Demuxers:
- Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
- Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
• Access:
- Fixes for v4l2 devices
- Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
• Qt Interface:
- Fix some playlist sorting issues
• Encoders:
* MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
* x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
* x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
- if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
- otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
- otherwise ABR-mode is used
* x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn’t defined these:
- ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
- vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
• Playlist:
- Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
• Translations:
- New Kazakh and Croatian translations
- Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
- Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Brazilian, Arabic and French translation updates

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