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, OGM, MOV, wma, wmv...) 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.
- Rewrite of the playlist (tree structure, input preparsing ...)
- Preferences improvements
- XML parsers
- Client-side SSL/TLS support
- Massive Matroska improvements
- Support for SOCKS proxy
- Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
- Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
- TiVo demuxer
- Samba (Windows shares) access module
- Dirac decoder and encoder
- PNG decoder/encoder
- Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
- Services discovery modules (brand new SAP module, HAL discovery, DAAP (iTunes shares), shoutcast)
- Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
- Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
- Image file video output (png)
- Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
- Pocket PC port
- Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
...
Changes in VLC (VideoLAN Client) 0.8.6f :
• Security updates:
- Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
- Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
- Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489)
- Fixed cinepak integer overflow
• Various bugfixes:
- The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
- Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
- Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
- Close MMS access on network timeout
- Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
• Related downloads: - Media Player Classic: looks just like Windows Media Player 6.4, but has many additional features.
- SubEdit Player: is a very easy-to-use, versatile movie player and subtitles editor.
- MV2Player: freeware multimedia player for Windows, with tons of usefull features.
- MPUI: is an easy-to-use Windows frontend for MPlayer - one of the best media player application of the world.
- KMPlayer: is an all in one hybrid directshow player including DVD, WDM device support...
- DivX Player: is the official playback application from the creators of DivX video.
