Zojuist heeft het ontwikkelteam achter VLC versie 0.84 voldoende stabiel bevonden om de software de bètastatus te laten ontstijgen. VLC Media Player is een open source, crossplatform mediaspeler die diverse formaten audio, video en streaming-protocollen kan afspelen zonder dat hiervoor eerst de betreffende codec voor hoeft te worden geïnstalleerd. Tevens kan de software worden gebruikt om media in uni- of multicast op een lokaal netwerk te streamen. Onder de vele veranderingen treffen we onder andere een nieuwe VLV cone, een nieuwe wizard onder Mac OS X, HTTP interface CGI afhandeling en herkenning van UPnP- en Bonjour-services. Hieronder is de complete lijst met veranderingen sinds versie 0.82 te vinden:
Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:[break]
- Core support:
- Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
- New OSD system
- Video output:
- Fixed problems with OpenGL output
- New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
- Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
- Input:
- Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
- IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
- IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
- GnomeVFS input module
- Support for RTP packet reordering
- Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
- Decoders:
- Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
- Musepack decoder using libmpdec
- QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
- Services discovery:
- UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
- Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
- Video filters:
- RSS feed overlay
- Audio filters:
- Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel Mixer and Dolby Surround
- Stream output:
- New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
- Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
- Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
- Interfaces:
- Mac OS X
- New streaming and transcoding wizard
- New extended controls panel
- New bookmarks window
- Fixed playlist sorting
- Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
- wxWidgets
- Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
- All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
- VLC update checker
- Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
- Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
- Skins2
- Tree playlist
- HTTP
- New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
- Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in the names of files
- Include macro to include other files
- CGI 1.0 support
- ActiveX plugin:
- Should now work outside IE as well
- Mac OS X port:
- New script to delete the preferences automatically
- Windows port:
- Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
- Translations:
- The following languages were added:
- Korean
- Romanian
- Simplified Chinese
- The following languages were re-added:
- Swedish