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
Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences in input
Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
Windows and Mac OS Binaries
FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
Active X plugin:
Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
Mac OS X Interface & Port:
Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of two different movies
Support for current Ogg file formats
NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
Encoders:
Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
Other changes:
The automatic updating facility was removed
You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
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
