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
Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to regressions in most popular drivers
New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
Decoders:
Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
Encoders:
x264 has profile-limitter, like: #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
Input:
Update for appletrailers lua script
Fixes on the RAR stream filter
Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
Service discovery:
New udev module for linux
Qt4 interface:
Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
Translations:
French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
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