VLC Media Player 2.0.4 is out, x64 build available

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.

Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:

Audio Output:

Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged during playback on Mac OS X

Access:

Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake

Codecs:

Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
Fix crashes when using hardware decoding

Demuxers:

Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
Support Youtube live streams

Windows:

Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8

Qt:

Fix media info dialog update
Fix random/repeat preferences saving
Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
Fix album art display at start

Mac OS X:

Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
Fix menus display and behavior
Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons, streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter

Miscellaneous:

Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
Codec and other 3rd party library updates
Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
Codecs and 3rd party libary updates

Translations:

Updates of Norwegian BokmÃ¥l, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish, Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian

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