De ontwikkelaars van VideoLAN hebben versie 1.0.2 van VLC Media Player uitgebracht. Deze opensource- en crossplatform-mediaspeler kan diverse audio-, video- en streamingformaten afspelen, zonder dat hiervoor de betreffende codec hoeft te worden geïnstalleerd. VLC Media Player is beschikbaar voor Windows 2000 en hoger, Linux, Mac OS X en BSD; oudere versies zijn ook beschikbaar voor onder andere Windows 9x, BeOS, Morphos, en Windows CE. Hieronder zijn alle veranderingen te vinden die sinds versie 1.01 zijn aangebracht:
Decoders:Demuxers:
- Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
- Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
- Various fixes on theora and ogg
Access:
- Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
- Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
Qt Interface:
- Fixes for v4l2 devices
- Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
Mac OS X Interface:
- Fix some playlist sorting issues
Mac OS X Port:
- Fixed a crash when updating VLC
- Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
- Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
- Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
Encoders:
- The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
- Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
- no support for Goom and SDL
- limited text rendering support
- This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
Playlist:
- MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
- x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
- x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
- if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
- otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
- otherwise ABR-mode is used
- x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
- ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
- vbv-bufsize is bitrate
- seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
Unix builds:
- Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
Translations:
- Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
- New Kazakh and Croatian translations
- Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
- Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Brazilian, Arabic and French translation updates
