Download VLC Media Player 2.0.6

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

Version 2.0, codenamed Twoflower after a character from Terry Pratchett’s Discworld books, is a lot faster on systems equipped with a multicore processor. Furthermore, the program now supports more media formats, subtitles are displayed in better quality and there is experimental support for Blu-ray discs. In version 2.0.6, the following changes and improvements have been made:

VLC 2.0.6 “Twoflower” is an important update to our 2.0 media player.

• Important update that fixes some regressions of the 2.0.x branch of VLC.
• Introduces support for Matroska v4 files.
• Introduces an important number of fixes for MKV, Ogg, AVI, WMV, HTTPS and subtitles support. Fixes FLAC 6.1/7.1, ALAC, and Intel HD 2000/3000 GPU decoding on Windows are also present.
• Improves the Mac OS X, the D-Bus and MPRIS2 interfaces.
• Uses a new compiler for Windows version, done by the MinGW-w64 project.