Download VLC (VideoLAN Client) 0.8.6d

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.

Features in VLC (VideoLAN Client) 0.8.6 :

- 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) 0.8.6d :

• Various bugfixes:
- Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
- Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences in input
- Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
- Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
• Windows
- FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
Active X plugin:
- Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703)
• Encoders:
- Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
• Other changes:
- The automatic updating facility was removed
- You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.


Download VLC (VideoLAN Client) 0.8.6d