VLC media player 0.8.4a

[JCAP]

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.

Changelog:

Audio output:

• Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
  
• SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
  

Decoder:

• Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
  
• Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
  

Demux:

• Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
  

Services Discovery:

• HAL fixes, should now work with new API
  
• SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
  
• UPnP fixes
  
• Avahi 0.6 support
  

Interfaces:

• Mac OS X
  
• fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
  

Download: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Changelog: http://developers.videolan.org/vlc/NEWS

Source: http://www.videolan.org/

[Mystical112]

nice thx....

[Malisk]

The cool part about this one is that it has own codec implementations rather than just using DirectShow, so it happens it plays movies that are supported by neither Windows Media Player nor e.g. Media Player Classic because of missing codecs or because of corrupted files, that the DirectShow filters don't like. So it's a media player that's good to have lying around even if you normally prefer others. :)

[+M2Ys4U Subscriber¹]

cheers (Y)

*updates*

[ahfunaki]

I love vlc...

[HouD]

Sweet. Thanks for the heads-up. :)

[krmathis]

Excellent!

* Downloading *

[12Iceman]

I hope the VLC project does not have to shut down on December 23rd because of some stupid new law as the link on the top of the website suggests.

VLC is one of the best media players around.

[Mystical112]

^ that sucks and i just recently found the joy of using vlc

[SonComet]

Does anyone else notice how different VLC for OSX renders .mp4 and .mov files from how Quicktime 7 looks. Either VLC is over saturated with some extra noise or Quicktime 7 is washed out with less noise. Which one is displaying more accurately? Also, I can see more detail when watching the HD Trailers from Apple's website in quicktime than in VLC (especially in peoples skin, everything on vlc seems smoothed over). I never knew that players could make a difference before. I wonder if VLC loses detail that WMP would pick up too. Hrmmm gotta check and see if the windows version does this too.

[hollix]

I've never noticed a change in the vlc, and Quicktime to be honest. I'll pay more attention next time and give you some feedback on that.

[StartMeUp]

Works great. Thanks for the heads up.

[SonComet]

Ok, I did some further testing now that I realized divx 6 was out for OSX and QT7 and I lined up the same video (well I tried it with numerous videos ranging from 640x480 to 1280x720) at the same frame on QT7, VLC, and MPlayer; and basically QT7 was very sharp, Mplayer was almost identical to QT7 but slightly less sharp, and VLC had a noticeable blur to it. Weird. So now I can rest assured knowing I wasn't going crazy when I thought things looked off when using VLC. Owell, I wish it looked better.

[Chode]

Still no fix for the mouse-wheel volume control inoperability :no:

[Rogue`]

The cool part about this one is that it has own codec implementations rather than just using DirectShow, so it happens it plays movies that are supported by neither Windows Media Player nor e.g. Media Player Classic because of missing codecs or because of corrupted files, that the DirectShow filters don't like. So it's a media player that's good to have lying around even if you normally prefer others. :)

I am yet to find a file MPC cant play, maybe people who dont know what a codec is would have problems....