Download VLC Media Player 1.1.8

The developers of VideoLAN have released an update for the version 1.1.7 of VLC Media Player, which was released two months ago. This open source cross platform media player can play a variety of audio, video and streaming formats without having 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. Since version 1.1.1 there is DxVA2 hardware acceleration in combination with ATi video cards, provided that at least version 10.7 of the Catalyst drivers is used. In version 1.1.8 the following changes and improvements have been made:

What’s new in 1.1.8

• Security update regarding video width concerning some demuxers
• Support for a new Dirac encoder based on libschroedinger
• Package of the new VP8/Webm encoder ‘Bali’
• Notable updates in .mp4, .ogg, .ape demuxers
• Major updates in most language translations
• Fixes in skins2 supports of Winamp2 skins
• Upgrade on the look of VLC for Mac OS X
• Auto-detection for .txt subtitles is fixed
• Fixes on Windows integration, notably regarding volume keys
• Codec updates
• Many miscellaneous fixes