[ANN] VLC 0.5.2 Media Player for iPaq and Opie

Jean-Paul Saman jpsaman at wxs.nl
Wed Mar 12 22:53:15 CET 2003


The VideoLAN team is very happy to announce a great series of releases,
codenamed "say no to war!", which are one more step towards the ultimate
free video streaming solution and total world domination! :-)

VLC Media Player is a multi platform multimedia player that can read 
from network (UDP, RTP, HTTP, ipv4 or ipv6), file or DVD. It supports 
multiple media formats MPEG1/2 PS/TS, MP3, DivX, Mpeg4, OggVorbis 
codecs, etc. See the features page for a full listing of what is 
currently supported under Familiar Linux:

     http://www.videolan.org/vlc/features.html


* VLC 0.5.2 : This new version of VLC media player includes:

     - improved audio quality, especially under Mac OS X (new resampler),

     - support for new audio formats (audio DV and FLAC),

     - support for streaming of DivX 1/2/3, WMV 1/2 and h/i263 with VLC's
       stream output,

     - support for multi-channel audio, S/PDIF, and localization
       under Windows,

     - many bug fixes (including the lock-ups under Mac OS X).


   Binary packages are already available for the following platforms:
     - Windows,
     - Mac OS X,
     - Debian GNU/Linux,
     - BeOS,
     - Familiar Linux,
     - Yopy/Linupy.


You can download binary packages for vlc_0.5.0_arm.ipk (X11/GTK+)
and gpe-vlc_0.5.0_arm.ipk (GPE) here :

     http://www.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/ipkg-feed/armv4l


Or as ipkg feed on the following location:

     http://www.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/ipkg-feed/armv4l


You can download all this great software from the VideoLAN web site:

    http://www.videolan.org/


If you experience network connectivity problems, please use our mirror
site:

    http://www.fr.videolan.org/


The VideoLAN Quickstart and the VLC user guide have been updated for the
release (VLC user guide now includes a chapter about the VLC Mozilla
plug-in). The full VideoLAN documentation is available from :

    http://www.videolan.org/doc/


You are now a true VideoLAN fan? We have set up a new "Goodies" page
where you can download funny VideoLAN logos:

    http://www.videolan.org/goodies.html

Don't hesitate to send us new artistic creations around VideoLAN!


Enjoy!

-- 
Jean-Paul Saman, for the VideoLAN team



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