VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multi-platform
multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2,
MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, Ogg, OGM, MOV, wma, wmv…) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and
various streaming protocols. The VideoLAN project targets
multimedia streaming of MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and DivX files, DVDs,
digital satellite channels, digital terrestial television channels and
live videos on a high-bandwidth IPv4 or IPv6 network in unicast or
multicast under many OSes. VideoLAN also features a cross-platform
multimedia player, VLC, which can be used to read the stream from the
network or display video read locally on the computer under all
GNU/Linux flavours, all BSD flavours, Windows, Mac OS X, BeOS, Solaris,
QNX… OS : Windows XP/Vista/7 (x86/x64)
Released : January 24, 2011 Features • Rewrite of the playlist (tree structure, input preparsing …)
• Preferences improvements
• XML parsers
• Client-side SSL/TLS support
• Massive Matroska improvements
• Support for SOCKS proxy
• Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
• Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
• TiVo demuxer
• Samba (Windows shares) access module
• Dirac decoder and encoder
• PNG decoder/encoder
• Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
• Services discovery modules (brand new SAP module, HAL discovery, DAAP (iTunes shares), shoutcast)
• Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
• Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
• Image file video output (png)
• Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
• Pocket PC port
• Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin Changes in VLC media player 1.1.6 Audio output:
* Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output PACKAGERS are
VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22. Update is required
to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE) and with the Mozilla
VLC web browser plugin. Access:
* Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows Decoders:
* Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
* Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
* Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries Demuxers:
* Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
* Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn’t go to a keyframe
* Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24) Subtitles and renderer:
* Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
* Mark more freetype options as safe
* Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
* Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable, discovered by Harry Sintonen – sintonen at iki.fi Visualization:
* Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
* Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
* Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
* Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X Interfaces:
* Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
* Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
* KDE: work-around open dialog first slow opening because of KMimeTypeRepository Miscellaneous fixes:
* KDE device solid actions
* XDG screensaver
* Transcode integer overflow
* HTTP Icy metadata reading
* Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers Translations:
* Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish,
Galician, Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak,
Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish Download VLC media player 1.1.6 | 19.5 MB Installer | Portable
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