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 Published by VideoLAN
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 Date Posted:   April 3rd, 2001
 Last Updated:   July 3rd, 2007
 License: See Below
 Downloads: 191,077 total; 4,134 recently
 Page Views: 727,099 total
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8.98 / 10, with 235 votes
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About VLC Media Player:
A DVD and video file player.

VLC (VideoLAN Client) is a multi-platform multimedia player. It handles most MPEG, AVI (including DivX), ASF, WMV, OGG, MP4 and WAV files. See the complete features list.

Please see here for bug reporting. Do not post bug reports in the talkback. Writing full reports in our bug tracking system is much more useful for us.
Release
version 0.8.6c - GPL 
   
Variation description:
This is the latest stable release of VLC.

Details about this version:
VLC 0.8.6c for BeOS and Zeta. This is (generally) a security and stability update from 0.8.6

Changes between 0.8.6b and 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


Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
----------------------------------

Various bugfixes, notably:
* Out-of-bound read in demuxers
* Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
* Mac OS X Interface crashes
* VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
* Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
* Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers

Decoders:
* Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
* Teletext subtitles (telx) support

Webbrowser plugins:
* Rectified behaviour and improved usability

Mac OS X Interface & Port:
* Diverse usability improvements
* New wizard option to embed subtitles
* Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
* Improved Delete-Preferences-Script


Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
---------------------------------

CDDA / VCDX plugins:
* Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701)

Mac OS X Interface:
* Fullscreen controller improvements


 
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VCD Script
version 1.0 - Public Domain 
   
Variation description:
This is a simple shell script that mounts, then plays a VCD using VLC. If the VCD has multiple movies or files all will be played in order.
Instructions:
Edit the first 3 variables in the script to suit your machine.
VCD_MOUNT_DIR="/boot/home/vcd"
CDROM_RAW_DEV="/dev/disk/ide/atapi/1/slave/0/raw"
VLC_BIN="/boot/home/vlc-0.4.2/vlc"
Mark the file as executable.
Double Click from tracker.

Easy

Details about this version:
Initial version, probably won't change unless VLC's command line options change.

 
Intel Version - requires R5   (0 KB) 16,945 downloads
 
 
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