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
Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
Improved libcaca support
Interfaces:
All
* New hotkeys for crop and zoom
* Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
Windows
* Systray support in skins
OS X
* Support for Apple Remote control
* Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
* New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
* right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
* Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
Linux
* Notifications using notification-daemon
Windows port:
Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
Windows 9x/ME users:
- Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
- Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder C:\Windows\System
Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
Localization:
Add Czech
Add Slovak
Add Malay
Add Slovenian
Developers:
Updates to the libvlc API
Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
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