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Program Information:
File Name: VLC Player 0.8.5 (Intel)
File Size: 13 MB
Date Released: 06 May, 2006System Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) (Intel) or newer
- Requires QuickTime 7 or later
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What's New in VLC Player 0.8.5 (Intel): Version History of VLC Player 0.8.5 (Intel)
Core support:
- Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
- Support for downloading updates
- Updated strings
Input:
- Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
- Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
- Improvements to the Audio CD input
- Separate playlist entries for the tracks
- Support for CDDB
- Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
- Improved subtitles encoding support
- Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
Decoders:
- Cook (Real audio) support
- Playlist / Services discovery:
- XSPF playlist support
- Podcast support
- Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
Audio output:
Video output:
- New video filters:
- magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
- gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
- bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
- Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
- RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
- Improvements to the subtitles rendering
Stream output:
- Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
Interfaces:
- System to inform the user and request information
- HTTP authentication
- Fatal errors
- ...
- wxWidgets
- VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
- Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
- Drag & Drop support in the playlist
- Skins2
- New default skin
- Support for Winamp 2 skins
- Improved playlist handling
- Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
- OS X
- Embedded Video output
- new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
- Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
- Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
- support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
- option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
- HTTP
- New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
- A bunch of new RPN functions
OS X Port:
- Mac-Intel compatibility
- Enhanced support of various audio output devices
- Growl "Now playing" support
*Nix port:
- Ability to log to syslog
- Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
Developers:
- New libvlc API (not finished yet)
- Java bindings
- A bit more automatic testing
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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