VLC Media Player 0.8.6e Free download

Downloads:	5
Op. System:	Windows (All Versions)
License:	Open Source
Last updated:	February 28, 2008
File size:	9503 Kb
Publisher:	VideoLAN.org

Publisher description for VLC Media Player 0.8.6e

VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols without external codec or program.

It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

VLC can play:

MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 / DivX files from a hard disk, a CD-ROM drive, and so on
DVDs, VCDs, and Audio CDs
From satellite cards (DVB-S)
Several types of network streams: UDP/RTP Unicast, UDP/RTP Multicast, HTTP, RTSP, MMS, etc.
From acquisition or encoding cards (on GNU/Linux and Windows only)

Changes:

Various bugfixes:
* Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
* Fixed XShm detection with remote X11

Security updates:
* Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
* HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
* Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
* Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296, VideoLAN-SA-0801)
* Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130, VideoLAN-SA-0802)

Audio filter:
* Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter

Audio output:
* Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA

Access:
* Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs

Stream output:
* Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer

Encoders:
* Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
* Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264 encoding on multi-cpu systems
- Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
- Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)

Mac OS X Interface & Port:
* Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
* Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
* VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing

Localization:
* Updated Romanian and Polish translations