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Title: VideoLAN
Author/Publisher: Official Website
Ease of use: Not Rated
Latest Version: 0.8.4 (details)
OS Support: Windows 95 Windows 98 Windows Me Windows 2000 Windows XP Linux/Unix Mac OS Other
License: Open Source
Date Added: Nov 27, 2005
Last Updated: Nov 27, 2005
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Revision History:

Version 0.8.6h
  • Release Date: Jun 5, 2008
  • Security updates:
    • Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948, CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
    • Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
    Goodies:
    • Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
    • Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
    • Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
    • More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
    • Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could leadto an unexpected application termination
    • New Serbian translation
    • Updated Romanian translation
Version 0.8.6g
  • Release Date: Jun 2, 2008
  • Security updates:
    • Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
    • Removed loading plugins from the current directory (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
    • Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
    • Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
    • Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
    • Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
  • Various bugfixes:
    • Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
    • Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
    • Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
    • Fixed AAC resampling
    • The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X, if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
Version 0.8.6f
  • Release Date: Apr 3, 2008
  • 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
Version 0.8.6e
  • Release Date: Feb 28, 2008
  • This version is aimed at fixing security vulnerabilities in the Web interface, Subtitle demuxer, Real RTSP demuxer, SDL_image library and MP4 demuxer which affect VLC media player 0.8.6d and earlier.
  • Improvements in this release include H.264 encoding compatibility,DTS to S/PDIF and 5.1 audio fixes on ALSA. The behavior of the Preferences panel on Mac OS X has been corrected.
  • Please refer to this page for a full list of changes
Version 0.8.6d
  • Release Date: Nov 29, 2007
  • This version is aimed at fixing security vulnerabilities in the Active X plugin and the Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) library which affect VLC media player 0.8.6c and lower. For more technical details see our ADVISORY (http://www.videolan.org/sa0703.html).
  • Improvements in this release include better Video Output compatibility on Mac OS X and Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Please note that Mac OS X 10.3.9 is no longer supported.
Version 0.8.6c
  • Release Date: Jun 17, 2007
  • Various bugfixes, notably:
    • Windows Vista compatibility
    • Cropping in Direct3D
    • Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
    • RSS filter string overflow
    • Few memory leaks
    • MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
  • CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
    • Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702)
  • Demuxers:
    • Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
  • Decoders:
    • Updated FLAC API compatibility
  • Input:
    • Support for new v4l2 encoder API
    Localisation:
    • New localisation: Arabic, Persian
Version 0.8.6b
  • Release Date: Apr 19, 2007
Version 0.8.6b test1
  • Release Date: Apr 14, 2007
  • Various bugfixes notably:
    • out-of-bound read in demuxers
    • demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
    • Mac OS X Interface crashes
    • VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
  • Decoders:
    • Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
    • Teletext subtitles (telx) support
  • Webbrowser plugins:
    • rectified behaviour and improved usability
  • Mac OS X Interface & Port:
    • diverse usability improvements
    • new wizard option to include subtitles
    • screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
    • Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
Version 0.8.6a
  • Release Date: Jan 5, 2007
  • Fixes security vulnerability which can lead to arbitrary code execution (Security Advisory 0701)
  • Improves the usability of the Fullscreen Controller on Mac OS X
Version 0.8.6
  • Release Date: Dec 11, 2006
  • Support for Windows Media Video 9 and VC-1
  • Support for VP5/VP6 and Flash video
  • Support for TTA and WavPack Lossless audio
  • Much improved H.264 support
  • Preliminary DVR-ms, MXF support
  • Shoutcast TV support
  • Windows unicode fixes
  • Apple Remote support
  • Apple Fullscreen controller
  • Universal Binary
Version 0.8.6 RC1
  • Release Date: Dec 2, 2006
  • Please refer to this page for more information
Version 0.8.6 test2a
  • Release Date: Nov 22, 2006
  • Please refer to this page for more information
Version 0.8.6 test2
  • Release Date: Nov 17, 2006
  • Support for Windows Media Video 9
  • Support for VP5/VP6 video
  • Support for TTA and Wavpack Lossless audio
  • Improved H264 support
  • Preliminary DVR-ms, MXF support
  • Apple Remote support
  • Please refer to this page for more information
Version 0.8.6 test1
  • Release Date: Oct 26, 2006
  • Please refer to this page
Version 0.8.5
  • Release Date: May 7, 2006
  • Please refer to this page
Version 0.8.5 test4
  • Release Date: May 2, 2006
  • Please refer to this page
Version 0.8.5 test3
  • Release Date: Apr 21, 2006
  • Please refer to this page
Version 0.8.5 test2
  • Release Date: Apr 3, 2006
  • Please refer to this page
Version 0.8.5 test1
  • Release Date: Mar 13, 2006
  • Please refer to this page
Version 0.8.4
  • Release Date: Nov 27, 2005
  • Please refer to this page
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