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
Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
Various fixes on theora and ogg
Demuxers:
Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
Access:
Fixes for v4l2 devices
Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
Qt Interface:
Fix some playlist sorting issues
Encoders:
MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
otherwise ABR-mode is used
x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
Playlist:
Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
Unix builds:
Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
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
