VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) 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 plays absolutely anything. It supports an enormous number of multimedia formats, and does not require you to download additional codecs. VLC features a complete streaming server, with extended features like video on demand, on-the-fly transcoding, granular speed controls, frame-by-frame advancement and more. It can also be used as a server for unicast or multicast streams in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.
VLC Media Player now features fully customizable toolbars, customizable Skins, supports playback for broken files as well as zipped files, and so much more.
Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
Access:
- fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
- fix the samba module compilation
- fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
- multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
- multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
- fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
Codecs:
- Support for MXPEG files
- limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
- fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
Demuxers:
- Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
- Fix a crash when seeking in mka
- Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
Muxers:
- Fix ogm header creation
Audio filters:
- limit spatializer filter distortions
- Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
Audio output:
- Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
- Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
- The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
- Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
Video filters:
- Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
Mac OS X interface:
- allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
- allow to hide the sidebar
- disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
- this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
- noticebly faster launch time
- correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
- re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
- improve track synchronization panel
- fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
- fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
Qt interface:
- allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
- fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
- fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
Skins interface:
- fix for menus display
- Addition of $R to display current playback speed
- documentation update
Web interface:
- fix mobiles display for remote control mode
- support for .drc and .3ga extensions
Service discovery:
- fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
- fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
- Update Jamendo selections
Miscellaneous:
- fix DBus crash
- fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
- fix a crash on VLM close
Security:
- Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
- Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
- Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201)
- Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202)
Translations:
- Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
Download: VLC Media Player 2.0.1 | 20.9 MB (Freeware)
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