Download VLC Media Player 0.8.6 Test2a

The folks at VideoLAN have made available in the form of test2a a new build of the test2 version of VLC Media Player 0.8.6, which in turn was released last week. VLC Media Player is an open source media player that can be used on a wide variety of operating systems. The player is able to play a large number of media formats without additional codecs, including MPEG1, MPEG2, VCD and various streaming protocols. The test releases test the new features of the 0.8.6 branch, including native support for WMV3 and VC-1, improved H.264 support, and improvements to the Mozilla and ActiveX plugins. Below you can read about the changes in VLC Media Player 0.8.6-test2a compared to the 0.8.5 release:

playlist:

• Shoutcast TV listing support

Input:

• Support for RTSP authentication
• Support for adding subtitles on the fly
• Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
• ATSC support for DVB input
• Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
• Partial reading support for MXF and GXF file format
• Improved support for Flash Video files

decoders:

• Native WMV9 / VC-1 support
• WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
• VP5/VP6 – Flash Video support
• The True Audio Lossless codec support
• Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc)
• Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
• Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles

Video output:

• Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, …)
• Improved libcaca support

Interfaces:

• All
  • New hotkeys for crop and zoom
  • Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
• Windows
  • Systray support in skins
• OS X
  • Support for Apple Remote control
  • Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
  • New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
  • right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
  • Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
• Linux
  • Notifications using notification daemon

windows ports:

• Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
• Fixed IPv6 support on the client side

Localisation:

• Add Czech
• Add Slovak
• Add Malay
• Add Slovenian

Developers:

• Updates to the libvlc API
• Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins

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