[streaming] [ANN] VLC 0.6.0 and libdvdcss 1.2.7
Alexis de Lattre
alexis at via.ecp.fr
Mon Jun 23 15:33:02 CEST 2003
The VideoLAN team is happy to announce the release of VLC media player
0.6.0, code-named "Trevelyan", and libdvdcss 1.2.7.
******* VLC 0.6.0 *******
VLC media player 0.6.0 is a major release which features:
- a new Video 4 Linux input (for webcams and acquisition cards),
- a new CDDA input (for audio CDs
- multicast IPv6 support under Windows and Mac OS X,
- an early support for the Matroska container format,
- support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg,
- support for QuickTime codecs under Mac OS X,
- a new HTTP remote control interface,
- improved wxWindows interface (now the default under Windows),
- improved skinnable interface, with X11 support,
- better SAP/SDP announcing support in IPv4 and IPv6
(requires miniSAPserver 0.2.1),
- a new stream output scheme (it is now possible to build a chain of
stream outputs allowing for instance to stream and display some
content at the same time),
- transcoding support for the stream output,
- as usual, many bug fixes !
For a more complete list, please see the full release notes:
http://developers.videolan.org/vlc/NEWS
Binary packages are already available for the following platforms:
- Windows
- Mac OS X
- BeOS
You can download the binary packages and the source code on:
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
Debian packages will be uploaded into 'sid' soon. RPM packages for RedHat
and packages for iPaq and Opie should be available soon. We are still
looking for a Mandrake RPM maintainer...
******* libdvdcss 1.2.7 *******
The new release of libdvdcss (version 1.2.7), the DVD decryption library
used by VLC and many other GPL media players, has key caching enabled
by default and some bugfixes. For a more complete list, read the release
notes or the ChangeLog of libdvdcss available on:
http://developers.videolan.org/libdvdcss/
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