Download VLC Media Player 0.8.4

The development team behind VLC version 0.84 has just found it stable enough to allow the software to rise above beta status. VLC Media Player is an open source, cross-platform media player that can play various formats of audio, video and streaming protocols without having to install the appropriate codec first. The software can also be used to stream media in unicast or multicast on a local network. Among the many changes we find a new VLV cone, a new wizard under Mac OS X, HTTP interface CGI handling and recognition of UPnP and Bonjour services. Below is the complete list of changes since version 0.82:

Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:

• core support:
  • Internal string handling is now UTF-8 based
  • New OSD system
• Video output:
  • Fixed problems with OpenGL output
  • New –monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
  • Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
• Input:
  • Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku band
  • IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
  • IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
  • GnomeVFS input module
  • Support for RTP packet reordering
  • Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
• decoders:
  • Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
  • Musepack decoder using libmpdec
  • QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
• Service discovery:
  • UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
  • Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
• Video filters:
  • RSS feed overlay
• audio filters:
  • Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel Mixer and Dolby Surround
• streaming output:
  • New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
  • Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
  • Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
• Interfaces:
  • Mac OS X
    • New streaming and transcoding wizard
    • New extended controls panel
    • New bookmark window
    • Fixed playlist sorting
    • Fixed drag and drop inside the playlist
  • wxWidgets
    • Rename wxWindows interface to wxWidgets.
    • All the –wxwin-* options are now –wx-*
    • VLC update checker
    • Support for RTP streaming in Stream Output dialog
    • Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
  • Skins2
    • tree playlist
  • HTTP
    • New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
    • Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in the names of files
    • Include macro to include other files
    • CGI 1.0 support
• ActiveX plug-in:
  • Should now work outside IE as well
• Mac OS X ports:
  • New script to delete the preferences automatically
• windows ports:
  • Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
• Translations:
  • The following languages ​​were added:
    • Korean
    • Romanian
    • Simplified Chinese
  • The following languages ​​were re-added:
    • swedish

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