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
Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
GnomeVFS input module
Support for RTP packet reordering
Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
Decoders:
Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
Musepack decoder using libmpdec
QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
Services discovery:
UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
Video filters:
RSS feed overlay
Audio filters:
* Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
Mixer and Dolby Surround
Stream output:
New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
Interfaces:
new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
Mac OS X
- New streaming and transcoding wizard
- New extended controls panel
- New bookmarks window
- Fixed playlist sorting
- Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
wxWidgets
- Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
- All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
- Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
- Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
Skins2
- Tree playlist
HTTP
- New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
- Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
the names of files
- Include macro to include other files
- CGI 1.0 support
ActiveX plugin:
* Should now work outside IE as well
Mac OS X port:
* New script to delete the preferences automatically
Windows port:
* Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
* Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
Translations:
The following languages were added:
Galician
Korean
Romanian
Simplified Chinese
The following languages were re-added:
Swedish
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