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.
Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
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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 include subtitles
- screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
- Improved Delete-Preferences-Script