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.
# Input:
- Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
- Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted playlist files
# Decoders:
- Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
# Encoders:
- Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
# Muxers:
- Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
# Video output:
- Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
# Mac OS X Interface
- Minor improvements
- Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
# HTTP Interface
- Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
# Translations:
- Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
- New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations