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.
# Windows and Mac OS X:
- Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
# Demuxers:
- mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
# Mac OS X Interface:
- Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
- Improve Apple Remote handling
- Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
- Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
- Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
- Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
# Mac OS X Port:
- Fix Growl local notification plugin
- VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
- Fixes for eyeTV
# Translations:
- Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
- New Luganda Translation