VLC Media Player 32 VLC Media Player 0.8.6 RC1

VideoLAN.org - (Open Source)

VLC Media Player is one of the most used media player that supports most o the video and audio formats that deserves to be chisen when it comes to play a movie.

VLC Media Player is a famous open source media player. It can play almost all formats of video and audio including HD: MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, AAC, MP3, OGG, AVI, WMV , MOV, VCD, SVCD, DVD, etc and network streams proposed for WebTV, all without having to download anything else. It comes with all the necessary codecs: Flash, Dirac, Atrac3, H.264 PAFF, APE audio, RealVideo, VC-3, Fraps and more.

The application also supports the configuration server as a unicast or multicast on IPv4 or IPv6 networks.

VLC Media Player enjoys many hardware acceleration options, including via the graphics card as well as optimization for multi-core systems (for decoding codecs such as H.264, WebM or Xvid) .

On the same principle as Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome, VLC handles extensions and skins . There are two types of extensions , the first objective will be to retrieve video content , audio and subtitles on the Internet , the latter offer the possibility to access additional contextual information.

VLC gets also to BluRay, which is, for the moment only partially managed (no support for menus).

Function post-processing optimizes file playback for an optimal picture and sound. In addition, it includes a video converter or audio file, audio and video in real time filters, video streaming function, a wide range of settings that improves the rendering of the image and sound.

Title:: VLC Media Player 32 VLC Media Player 0.8.6 RC1
File Size:: 10.1 MB
Requirements:: Windows 9x / 2000 / XP / XP64
Language:: en-us
License:: Open Source
Date Added:: 30 Nov 2006
Publisher:: VideoLAN.org
Homepage:: http://www.videolan.org
MD5 Checksum:: BF80E02CE9867E70EB3B1215C23FD7DC

Playlist:
- Shoutcast TV listings support

Input:
- Support for RTSP authentication
- Support for adding subtitles on the fly
- Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
- ATSC support for DVB input
- Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
- Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
- Improved support for Flash Video files

Decoders:
- Native WMV9 / VC-1 support
- WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
- VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support
- The True Audio Lossless codec support
- Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc)
- Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
- Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles

Video output:
- Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
- Improved libcaca support

Interfaces:
- All
- New hotkeys for crop and zoom
- Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
- Windows
- Systray support in skins
- OS X
- Support for Apple Remote control
- Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon DamkjÃƒÂ¦r Andersen)
- New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon DamkjÃƒÂ¦r Andersen)
- right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
- Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
- Linux
- Notifications using notification-daemon

Windows port:
- Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
- Fixed IPv6 support on the client side

Localization:
- Add Czech
- Add Slovak
- Add Malay
- Add Slovenian

Developers:
- Updates to the libvlc API
- Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins