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
Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
Improved HTTP daemon.
Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
Codecs:
New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec. (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
Input:
-start-time and --stop-time to start and stop playing a
file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
Improved directory access module.
New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies
Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
New options to pass meta info to the input.
It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
(satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
Demux:
Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
mmsh streaming fixes.
Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
Subtitles:
Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
Stream output:
Improved session announcement system.
Minimize threads usage by default.
Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
Improved MPEG TS muxer.
Improved transrater.
Meta info options used by the muxers.
New configuration system.
Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
VideoLAN manager:
New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
Supports live streams and VoD.
Supports scheduling.
Telnet interface for vlm.
HTTP interface for vlm.
Interfaces:
Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
Ability to embed video output.
Support for bitmap fonts.
Lots of improvements.
wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
New design and set of icons
Ability to embed video output.
Support for hotkeys.
Support for bookmarks
Mac OS X
Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
Better hotkeys handling.
Mac OS X port:
OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
Win32 port:
DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
Improved Windows installer.
Linux port:
PowerPC fixes.
Misc:
Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
Roku HD1000 audio output.
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
