De ontwikkelaars van VideoLAN hebben versie 1.1.1 van VLC Media Player uitgebracht. Deze opensource-crossplatform-mediaspeler kan diverse audio-, video- en streamingformaten afspelen, zonder dat hiervoor de desbetreffende 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. Deze release bevat onder andere diverse libVLC-verbeteringen en er is DxVA2-hardwareversnelling in combinatie met ATi-videokaarten. Hiervoor moet dan wel de binnenkort te verschijnen versie 10.7 van de Catalyst-drivers op het systeem aanwezig zijn. Het volledige changelog van deze release ziet er als volgt uit:
libVLC:Decoders/Demuxers:
- New capabilities for libVLC:
- Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable, libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue, libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
- libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
- libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
- libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions. See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
- libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
- Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were called early
Stream output:
- Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards. You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
- Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
- Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
- Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
Interfaces:
- Fix h264 streaming in ts
Linux:
- Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
- Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
- Http: fix fullscreen toggle
MacOS:
- Fix pulse closing
- VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
Windows:
- Multiple interface and crash fixes
- Deinterlace selection is repaired
- Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
Translations updated:
- Activation of DEP on XP SP3
- Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
- Fix crash when My Document isn't available
- Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
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