Download VLC Media Player 2.0.1

VideoLAN has released an update for version 2.0 of VLC Media Player. This open source and cross platform media player can play various audio, video and streaming formats without the need to install the appropriate codec. Downloads are available for Windows and Mac OS X, while the source code should also make the program usable for operating systems such as Linux, BSD and Solaris. A version for Android is still in development.

Version 2.0, codenamed ‘Twoflower’, is a lot faster on systems equipped with a multicore processor, among other things. Furthermore, it supports more media formats, subtitles are displayed in better quality and there is experimental support for Blu-ray discs. In version 2.0.1, the following changes and improvements have also been made:

2.0.1 specific changes

• Support for MxPEG files and streams
• New features in the Mac OS X interface for more customization.
• Numerous fixes in the Qt, the Mac OS and the skins interfaces.
• Fixes for HTTP Live Streaming, CDDB, UDP/RTP support.
• Security issues SA-1201 and SA-1202.
• Limited support for Bluray discs menus.
• Numerous fixes for MKV support.
• Fix for splitted RAR files playback.
• Numerous fixes for more than 120 bugs.
• Codec and 3rd party libraries security updates.