VideoLAN is an excellent multimedia player with it"s own plugins for playing different formats, so it doesn"t need any codecs to be installed. It works great for previewing partially downloaded files too 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.
Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
Various bugfixes, notably:
* Windows Vista compatibility
* Cropping in Direct3D
* Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
* RSS filter string overflow
* Few memory leaks
* MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
* Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702)
Demuxers:
* Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
Decoders:
* Updated FLAC API compatibility
Input:
* Support for new v4l2 encoder API
Localisation:
* New localisation: Arabic, Persian