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:
Use VideoLAN which has a built in .MP4 reader and H.264 decoder
For more information on how to play back, encode and convert MP4 files, please refer to our MP4 Usage Guide
The official change log for version 0.8.6i is as follows:
Security updates:
Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
Various bugfixes:
Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input, SAP services discovery, http control interface)
