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Program Information:
File Name: VLC Player 0.5.0
File Size: 3.4 MB
Date Released: 03 February, 2003System Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.1 (Puma) or newer
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What's New in VLC Player 0.5.0: Version History of VLC Player 0.5.0
Core structure:
- object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
- new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
- S/PDIF and multi-channel support
- localization support via gettext on most architectures
- new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
- multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
- and A/52 streams are supported)
- build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
Input access:
- mms:// support
- ftp:// support
- stability fixes in the HTTP access
- auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
- VCD entry points support
- VCD image file support
Input demux:
- support for *.asf format
- improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
- support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
- support for ogg encapsulation
- support for raw DV format
- support for *.wav format
- new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
- raw AAC support
Stream discovery & playlists:
- support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
- support for .m3u file format
- support for .asx file format
- hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
Codecs:
- support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
- (only available with the .avi demux)
- support for ADPCM audio codec
- support for raw PCM data
- support for Cinepak video codec
- support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
- support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
- support for Xvid codec
- support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
- support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
- support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
- from sources)
- new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
- H263i, MJPEG A/B
- fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
DVD support:
- experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
Miscellaneous:
- new WxWindows interface
- all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
- device and the channels configuration
- headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
- Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
- format that VLC can play
- new swedish translation
- enhancements of the playlist window
- new messages window to see debug info
- fixed a few crashes
iPaq port:
- slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
- fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
- added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
- native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working
About: VideoLAN Client (VLC) is a media player, streamer, and encoder for Unix, Windows, Mac OS X, BeOS, QNX, and PocketPC. It can play most audio and video codecs (MPEG 1/2/4, DivX, WMV, Vorbis, AC3, AAC, etc.), has support for VCD, SVCD, and DVD (with menus), and can read or dump streams from a network source (HTTP, UDP, DVB, MMS, etc.). It can also act as a server and send streams through the network, with optional support for audio and video transcoding.
VLC Player Features
- VLC is very popular for its ability to play the video content of incomplete, unfinished, or damaged video downloads before the files have been fully downloaded.
- Ability to use libcdio to access .iso files so that the user can play files on a disk image
- VLC supports all codecs and all file formats supported by FFmpeg
- Through a simple FireWire connection from cable boxes to computers, VLC streams live unencrypted content to a monitor or HDTV.
- Set the playing video as wallpaper.
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