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
There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
after a pause.
Stream output:
Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
Win32 port:
Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
Fixed sound on Windows NT.
UNIX ports:
Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
iPaq port:
Gtk+2 interface called PDA
Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
Interfaces:
Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
A new CORBA control plugin.
Input demux:
Improved support for the Matroska container format.
Miscellaneous:
Improved build system.
New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size. Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
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
