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    VLC 2.0.6

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    LGPL / FREE
    April 8th, 2013, 11:00 GMT [view history]
    ROOT / Multimedia / Video

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    VLC description

    A media player for Unix, Mac OS X, BeOS, QNX, and PocketPC

    VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.

    VLC Media Player can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.


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    Here are some key features of "VLC":

    Inputs:

    · UDP Unicast / Multicast
    · RTP Unicast / Multicast
    · HTTP
    · FTP
    · MMS
    · File
    · DVD
    · VCD
    · Audio CD
    · DVB-S/C/T
    · MPEG encoding card
    · Video acquisition

    Input formats:

    · MPEG ES/PS/TS/PVA/mp3
    · AVI
    · ASF/wmv/wma
    · Ogg/OGM/Annodex
    · MP4/MOV/3gpp
    · Matroska
    · Wav
    · DTS Wav
    · Raw DV
    · Raw AAC
    · Raw ac3/a52 audio
    · Raw DTS audio
    · FLAC audio

    Video Codecs:

    · MPEG-1
    · MPEG-2
    · DivX 1/2/3
    · MPEG-4/DivX 5/XviD/3ivX D4
    · Sorenson (SVQ 1/3)
    · DV
    · Cinepak
    · Theora (alpha 3)
    · H263/H263i
    · MJPEG A/B
    · WMV 1/2

    Subtitles:

    · SVCD
    · CVD
    · DVB
    · OGM
    · Matroska
    · MicroDVD
    · Vobsub
    · SubRIP
    · SubViewer (v1 & v2)
    · SSA1-4
    · SAMI
    · Vplayer

    Video Filters:

    · Deinterlace
    · Crop
    · Image Wall
    · Brightness-Saturation-Contrast
    · Rotate
    · Upside down
    · Logo overlay

    Video Output:

    · Native
    · GDI
    · X11
    · Xvideo
    · SDL
    · Framebuffer
    · ASCII art
    · colored ASCII art
    · MGA
    · GGI

    Audio Codecs:

    · MPEG Layer 1 and 2
    · MP3
    · AC3 (i.e. A52)
    · DTS
    · LPCM
    · AAC
    · Vorbis
    · WMA 1/2
    · ADPCM
    · DV Audio
    · FLAC
    · MACE
    · Speex

    Audio Output:

    · Native
    · S/PDIF
    · multi-channel
    · SDL
    · ESD
    · aRts
    · File

    Interfaces:

    · GTK+ (unmaintained)
    · Gnome (unmaintained)
    · QT (unmaintained)
    · KDE (unmaintained)
    · WxWidgets
    · Skins
    · HTTP/Webpage

    Service Information:

    · SAP / SDP
    · SLP

    Misc:

    · Command line
    · RTSP client
    · Remote Control
    · Infrared
    · Mozilla plugin
    · DVD Menus
    · Audio Visualization Effects
    · Localization
    · ID3 tags
    · CDDB CD info
    · IPv6
    · IGMPv3
    · CPU acceleration

    What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

    Access:
    · Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected

    Audio Output:
    · Fix lookup for device names in auhal plugin

    Demuxers:
    · Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
    · Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
    · Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
    · Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
    · Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
    · Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser

    Decoders:
    · Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
    · Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
    · Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
    · 3rd party codecs updates

    Mac OS X:
    · Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
    · Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
    · Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console) in the advanced preferences panel
    · Fix spatializer audio filter panel
    · Fix crash within the video output code
    · Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
    · Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
    · Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
    · Fix various interface rendering issues

    Qt:
    · Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit

    GNU/Linux:
    · Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
    · Reject broken versions of PulseAudio

    Windows:
    · Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\

    Translations:
    · Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian, Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German Slovenian Norwegian BokmÃ¥l, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian, Dutch, Danish, translations
    · New Gujarati, Aragonese translations

        


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