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Software Overview
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
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Program Information:
File Name: VLC Player 0.8.0
File Size: 6.6 MB
Date Released: 03 November, 2004System Requirements: 32-Bit versions
- Windows Vista
- Windows XP
- Windows Me
- Windows 2000
- Windows 98
64-Bit Versions
- Windows Vista x64
- Windows XP x64
Download VLC Player 0.8.0:
What's New in VLC Player 0.8.0: Version History of VLC Player 0.8.0
- Core support:
- Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
- Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
- New plugins cache to speed up launch time
- New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
- Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
- Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
- Input:
- New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
(Stream your desktop)
- Improved DVD support:
- uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
- uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
- Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
- Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
- More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access (selection of titles/chapters).
- Demuxers:
- Support for iTunes Music Store previews
- Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
- Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
- Windows Media Server RTSP support
- Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
- Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
- Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
- Improved Ogg demuxer
- Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
- Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
- Codecs:
- G.726 audio support
- 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
- MPEG-4 text support
- Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
- Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
- VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
- Stream Output:
- Encoders:
- Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
- Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
- Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
- Frame rate selection in the transcoder
- DVB subtitles encoder
- MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
- Improved vorbis/theora encoding
- Muxers:
- Text track muxing for mp4
- Text track muxing for mp4
- 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
- Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
- Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
- New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
- Improved ASF muxer
- Misc:
- H.263 RTP streaming support
- SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
- Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
- Audio Output:
- New audio equalizer filter
- Very trivial volume normalizer
- True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
- More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
- New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
- Video Output:
- Roku HD1000 Video output
- Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
with support for effects.
- Improved filter and subpictures support :
- New filters can be streamed.
- "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
- Centralized scaling and blending
- New filters :
- "time", to display current time
- "marq", to display a marquee
- Interfaces:
- OSD sliders for volume and postition information
- OSD icons for Play and Pause
- New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
- A few skins2 improvements
- Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
- Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
- The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
- Improved CORBA control module
- Mac OS X port:
- Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
- Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
- The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
- Linux port:
- New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
- Experimental SVG rendering module
- Support for DVB CAM modules.
- Windows port:
- DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
- DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
- Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
- Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
- Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
- WinCE port:
- Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
- Mozilla plugin:
- Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
- Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc
- Misc:
- Server/client network synchronization module
- VBrick streams fully supported
- Cisco IP/TV streams supported
- VLM enhancements
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
- VLC Player needs little CPU power
- VLC can use a large number of input devices
- Easy to use interface.
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