Download VLC Media Player 0.8.6h

Version 0.8.6h of VLC Media Player has been available for download from Videolan’s ftp server for several days, but has finally been officially announced on the front page today. VLC Media Player is an open source and cross platform media player that can play various audio, video and streaming formats without having to install the respective codec. Version 0.8.6h is available for Windows and Mac OS X, older versions are also available for BeOS, BSD, Linux, MorphOS, Solaris and Windows CE. Below is what changes have been made since the previous entry in the muck tracker:

Changelog/0.8.6h

security updates

• Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X
• Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X

Goodies

• Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
• Miscellaneous bug fixes in multiple modules and in libvlc (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface, playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
• Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
• More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
• Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead to an unexpected application termination
• New Serbian translation
• Updated Romanian translation

Changelog/0.8.6g

security updates

• Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
• Removed loading plugins from the current directory
• Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X
• Fixed libid3tag denial of service
• Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities
• Fixed spex insufficient boundary check

Various bug fixes

• Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
• Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
• Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
• Fixed AAC resampling
• The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X, if the ‘Always-on-top’ video option was selected.

[break]The following downloads are available:
VLC media player 0.8.6h for Windows
VLC media player 0.8.6h for Mac OS X[break]