De ontwikkelaars van het VideoLAN-project hebben een nieuwe versie van de VLC Media Player uitgegeven. Deze mediaspeler ondersteunt bekende video- en audio-formaten met daarnaast verschillende streaming-protocollen. Het versienummer is aangekomen bij 0.7.1 en het changelog laat ons de volgende veranderingen zien:
This new release of VLC media player is a bit more than a bug-fix release as it does in fact include many new features. IGMPv3 support (Linux and WinXP), software DTS audio decoding, MOD audio support, a few new demuxers, an OpenGL video output plugin for OSX and much more!
Core support:Codecs:
- Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
- IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
Playlist:
- Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
(http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)- Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
- SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
Input:
- Internal improvments
- Improved import/export
Stream output:
- Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm) container formars.
- New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many small and strange formats.
- New PVA demux.
- New MOD audio demux.
- Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
- Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
- New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
- Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
Service discovery:
- MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
- Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
- Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
Mac OS X port:
- Fixed sdp in SAP.
Win32 port:
- New opengl video output plugin.
- A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
- Fixed ipv6 name resolution.