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VideoLAN Updates to Version 0.8.6f

Posted by: , 05:16 AEDT, Fri April 4, 2008

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VideoLan (VLC Media Player) is a multimedia and DVD player for Linux, BeOS, BSD, MacOS X
VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

Playing back .MP4 H.264 encoded movies:

The official change log for version 0.8.6f is as follows:
  • Security updates:
    • Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
    • Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
    • Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489)
    • Fixed cinepak integer overflow
  • Various bugfixes:
    • The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
    • Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
    • Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
    • Close MMS access on network timeout
    • Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer


    You may download this updated version here.

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