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Program Information:
File Name: VLC Player 0.8.0
File Size: 9.6 MB
Date Released: 03 November, 2004System Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) or newer
- Requires QuickTime 6.5.2 or later
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What's New in VLC Player 0.8.0: Version History of VLC Player 0.8.0
Core support:
- Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
- Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
- New plugins cache to speed up launch time
- New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
- Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
- Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
Input:
- New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
- (Stream your desktop)
- Improved DVD support:
- uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
- uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
- Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
- Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
- More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
- (selection of titles/chapters).
Demuxers:
- Support for iTunes Music Store previews
- Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
- Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
- Windows Media Server RTSP support
- Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
- Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
- Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
- Improved Ogg demuxer
- Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
- Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
Codecs:
- G.726 audio support
- 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
- MPEG-4 text support
- Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
- Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
- VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
Stream Output:
Encoders:
- Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
- everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
- Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
- Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
- Frame rate selection in the transcoder
- DVB subtitles encoder
- MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
- Improved vorbis/theora encoding
Muxers:
- Text track muxing for mp4
- Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
- 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
- Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
- Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
- New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
- Improved ASF muxer
Misc:
- H.263 RTP streaming support
- SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
- Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
Audio Output:
- New audio equalizer filter
- Very trivial volume normalizer
- True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
- More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
- New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
Video Output:
- Roku HD1000 Video output
- Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
- with support for effects.
- Improved filter and subpictures support :
- New filters can be streamed.
- "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
- Centralized scaling and blending
- New filters :
- "time", to display current time
- "marq", to display a marquee
Interfaces:
- OSD sliders for volume and postition information
- OSD icons for Play and Pause
- New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
- A few skins2 improvements
- Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
- Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
- The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
- Improved CORBA control module
Mac OS X port:
- Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
- Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
- The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
Mozilla plugin:
- Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
- Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
Misc:
- Server/client network synchronization module
- VBrick streams fully supported
- Cisco IP/TV streams supported
- VLM enhancements
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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