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
Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
Improvements to the Audio CD input
- Separate playlist entries for the tracks
- Support for CDDB
Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
Improved subtitles encoding support
Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
Decoders:
Cook (Real audio) support
Playlist / Services discovery:
XSPF playlist support
Podcast support
Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
Audio output:
New JACK audio output
Video output:
New video filters:
- magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
- gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
Improvements to the subtitles rendering
Stream output:
Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
Interfaces:
System to inform the user and request information
- HTTP authentication
- Fatal errors
- ...
wxWidgets
- VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
- Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
- Drag & Drop support in the playlist
Skins2
- New default skin
- Support for Winamp 2 skins
- Improved playlist handling
- Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
OS X
- Embedded Video output
- new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
- Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
- Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
- support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
- option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
HTTP
- New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
- A bunch of new RPN functions
Windows Port:
MSN messenger "Now playing" support
OS X Port:
Mac-Intel compatibility
Enhanced support of various audio output devices
Growl "Now playing" support
*Nix port:
Ability to log to syslog
Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
Developers:
New libvlc API (not finished yet)
Java bindings
A bit more automatic testing
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