Download Old Version of VLC Player 0.8.4

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Program Information:

System Requirements:

• Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) or newer
• Requires QuickTime 6.5.2 or later

Download VLC Player 0.8.4:

VLC Player 0.8.4   (13 MB)

What's New in VLC Player 0.8.4:

Core support:

• Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
• New OSD system

Video output:

• Fixed problems with OpenGL output
• New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
• Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format

Input:

• Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
• IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
• IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
• GnomeVFS input module
• Support for RTP packet reordering
• Fixed syntax for FTP URLs

Decoders:

• Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
• Musepack decoder using libmpdec
• QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)

Services discovery:

• UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
• Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)

Video filters:

• RSS feed overlay

Audio filters:

• Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
• Mixer and Dolby Surround

Stream output:

• New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
• Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
• Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments

Interfaces:

• new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)

Mac OS X

• New streaming and transcoding wizard
• New extended controls panel
• New bookmarks window
• Fixed playlist sorting
• Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist

wxWidgets

• Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
• All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
• Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
• Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support

Skins2

• Tree playlist

HTTP

• New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
• Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in

the names of files

• Include macro to include other files
• CGI 1.0 support

ActiveX plugin:

• Should now work outside IE as well

Mac OS X port:

• New script to delete the preferences automatically

Windows port:

• Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
• Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output

Translations:

• The following languages were added:
• Galician
• Korean
• Romanian
• Simplified Chinese
• The following languages were re-added:
• Swedish

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 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.