VLC (VideoLAN Client) Media Player 0 8 6d

VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multi-platform 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. The VideoLAN project targets multimedia streaming of MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and DivX files, DVDs, digital satellite channels, digital terrestial television channels and live videos on a high-bandwidth IPv4 or IPv6 network in unicast or multicast under many OSes. VideoLAN also features a cross-platform multimedia player, VLC, which can be used to read the stream from the network or display video read locally on the computer under all GNU/Linux flavours, all BSD flavours, Windows, Mac OS X, BeOS, Solaris, QNX, Familiar Linux...

Features in VLC (VideoLAN Client) :
- 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) 0.8.6c :
? 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