Download VLC Media Player 1.0.5

The developers of VideoLAN released version 1.0.5 of VLC Media Player on Sunday. This open source and cross platform media player can play various audio, video and streaming formats without the need to install the appropriate codec. VLC Media Player is available for Windows 2000 and above, Linux, Mac OS X, and BSD; older versions are also available for Windows 9x, BeOS, Morphos, and Windows CE, among others. Version 1.0.5 includes performance improvements in the Windows version and updated translations. Below are all the changes made since version 1.0.3:

Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:

decoders:

• SubRip additional style improvements
• Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders

Mac OS X Interface:

• Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote

Windows port:

• Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly increase performance and fix x264 issues

translation:

• Portuguese Brazilian, Lithunanian, Romanian, Ukranian, Japanese, Bengali, Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish Russian, Slovak translation updates
• New Malayalam, Macedonian, Nynorsk translations

Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:

Audio outputs:

• Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
• Make PulseAudio the default output if available

Video output:

• Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
• Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing

Input:

• Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
• Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)

playlist:

• Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)

Unix:

• Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
• Fix global hotkeys on FreeBSD

Qt4 interface:

• Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
• Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard

translation:

• New Walloon translation
• Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates