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
Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
Goodies:
Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
(ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead to an unexpected application termination
New Serbian translation
Updated Romanian translation
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