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
Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
Codecs:
Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
Playlist:
Internal improvments
Improved import/export
Input:
Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)container formars.
New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
small and strange formats.
New PVA demux.
New MOD audio demux.
Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
Stream output:
MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
Service discovery:
Fixed sdp in SAP.
Mac OS X port
New opengl video output plugin.
Win32 port:
A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
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