Website: http://www.videolan.org/ Software Provider: VIA Centrale Réseaux Current Version:
VLC Player 1.0.3 Operating Systems: Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista, 7 License: Freeware
new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
Mac OS X
fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
DTS S/PDIF support
Codecs:
support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
support for FLAC audio through libflac
new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
Stream output
support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
new --ttl option for Time To Liv
DVD support:
fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
UNIX ports:
fixed the GNU-pth support
Win32 port:
multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
plugins
localization support via gettext is now fully working
rc interface is now fully useable
fixed the MSVC project files generation
Mac OS X port:
several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
VLC now uses the default audio device
new info panel
very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
support for mouse gestures
new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
Linupy port:
there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
Miscellaneous
improved ID3 tag detection
changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
gestures
some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
About:
VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, avi) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.
VLC Player Features
It supports a large number of multimedia formats, without the need for additional codecs
