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Title:	VideoLAN (VLC)
Author/Publisher:	Official Website
Ease of use:	Not Rated
Latest Version:	1.0.3 (details)
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License:	Open Source
Date Added:	Nov 27, 2005
Last Updated:	Oct 31, 2009
Page Viewed:	68199 times

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Version 1.0.3

Release Date: Oct 31, 2009
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Video outputs:
- Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to regressions in most popular drivers
- New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
Decoders:
- Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
- Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
Encoders:
- x264 has profile-limitter, like: #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
Input:
- Update for appletrailers lua script
- Fixes on the RAR stream filter
- Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
- Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
- Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
Service discovery:
- New udev module for linux
Qt4 interface:
- Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
Translations:
- French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates

Version 1.0.3 RC

Release Date: Oct 23, 2009
Please refer to this page for a full list of changes

Version 1.0.2

Release Date: Sep 23, 2009
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Version 1.0.1

Release Date: Jul 28, 2009
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Version 1.0.0

Release Date: Jul 7, 2009
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Version 1.0.0 RC4

Release Date: Jun 18, 2009
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Version 1.0.0 RC3

Release Date: Jun 8, 2009
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Version 1.0.0 RC2

Release Date: May 28, 2009
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Version 1.0.0 RC1

Release Date: May 13, 2009
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Version 0.9.9

Release Date: Apr 2, 2009
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Decoders:
- Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
Demuxers:
- Various fixes related to real demuxer
Mac OS X Interface:
- Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
- Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the main controller window.
- Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
Mac OS X Port:
- Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
New Localizations:
- Indonesian
- Bengali
- Updates of other localizations
Various bugfixes:
- Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
- Lots of small bugfixes.
- Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
- Telnet fixes on Windows
- Resampling fixes when transcoding

Version 0.9.8a

Release Date: Dec 9, 2008
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Fixes critical buffer overflow vulnerabilities

Version 0.9.8

Release Date: Dec 5, 2008
Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)

Version 0.9.7

Release Date: Dec 1, 2008
Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)

Version 0.9.6

Release Date: Nov 9, 2008
New Localizations:
- Ukranian
Security updates:
- Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-xxxx)
- Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-xxxx)

Version 0.9.5

Release Date: Oct 24, 2008
Please refer to this page for a full list of changes

Version 0.9.4

Release Date: Oct 8, 2008
Various bugfixes:
- Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
- Fixes several memory leaks.
Mac OS X port:
- Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
- Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
- Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
Windows port:
- Stability fix for the video output.

Version 0.9.3

Release Date: Sep 28, 2008
Various bugfixes:
- Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
- Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
- Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
- Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
- Fixed update system bugs
- Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...)
Mac OS X port:
- Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
- Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
- Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
- Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
- Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
- Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
- Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
- Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
- Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on modern Mac OS X versions
Windows port:
- Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
- Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled before installation
- Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
- Multiple directory and path location fixes.
Qt4 interface:
- Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
- Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
- Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
- Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
- Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
- Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)

Version 0.9.2

Release Date: Sep 15, 2008
New Qt4 interface for Windows and Linux
Support for many new codecs (Dirac, Atrac3, APE, ...) and demuxers
Vastly improved subtitles support
Media library, Live playlist search, Last.FM support
Album art support
Improved metadata support
Video for Linux 2 support (v4l2)
DVB support on Windows (BDA)
Simplified libvlc and Mac OS X development framework
New localization to Finnish, Persian, Polish, Punjabi and Bulgarian
Please refer to this page for a full list of changes

Version 0.8.6i

Release Date: Jul 12, 2008
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)
- Updated Polish translation

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