VideoLan v0.8.6 Final

VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multi-platform multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, Ogg, OGM, MOV, wma, wmv…) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.The VideoLAN project targets multimedia streaming of MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and DivX files, DVDs, digital satellite channels, digital terrestial television channels and live videos on a high-bandwidth IPv4 or IPv6 network in unicast or multicast under many OSes. VideoLAN also features a cross-platform multimedia player, VLC, which can be used to read the stream from the network or display video read locally on the computer under all GNU/Linux flavours, all BSD flavours, Windows, Mac OS X, BeOS, Solaris, QNX, Familiar Linux… It’s Freeware
Features in VLC (VideoLAN Client):- Rewrite of the playlist (tree structure, input preparsing …)- Preferences improvements- XML parsers- Client-side SSL/TLS support- Massive Matroska improvements- Support for SOCKS proxy- Support for Shoutcast Meta-data- Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams- TiVo demuxer- Samba (Windows shares) access module- Dirac decoder and encoder- PNG decoder/encoder- Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec- Services discovery modules (brand new SAP module, HAL discovery, DAAP (iTunes shares), shoutcast)- Support for 20/24 bits LPCM- Video snapshot support (png or jpg)- Image file video output (png)- Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)- Pocket PC port- Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
Changes:_____________
Playlist:* Vastly improved playlist support:* Media library support* “Live search”* Shoutcast TV listings* Audioscrobbler/last.fm support
Video output:* Adjust, Invert and Distort (now splitted into Wave, Ripple, Gradientand Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed* New puzzle video output filter
Interfaces:* Windows/Linux* Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit* All* Improved user interaction