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
Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
Decoders:
Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
Teletext subtitles (telx) support
Webbrowser plugins:
Rectified behaviour and improved usability
Mac OS X Interface & Port:
Diverse usability improvements
New wizard option to embed subtitles
Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
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