VLC media player 0.8.6c release

[Felix Paul Kühne]

Dear VideoLAN users,

We hereby announce the release of 0.8.6c aimed at fixing a security
vulnerability in multiple plugins. Several other issues have been
addressed as well. The change list includes:

Various bugfixes, notably:
======================
  * Windows Vista compatibility
  * Cropping in Direct3D
  * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
  * RSS filter string overflow
  * Few memory leaks
  * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)

CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
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  * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702)

Demuxers:
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  * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format)  
in AVI

Decoders:
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  * Updated FLAC API compatibility

Input:
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  * Support for the new v4l2 encoder API

Localisation:
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  * New translations to Arabic and Persian

You can download VLC from here:
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Packages are already available for MS Windows and Mac OS X.

Other binary packages (Debian Packages, Fedora Core RPM, BeOS...)
should follow soon. Remember to reset your preferences if you experience
problems after upgrading from a previous version.

We strongly recommend all users to update to this new version.

For detailed technical information, please have a look at the  
Security Advisory:
http://www.videolan.org/sa0702.html


The VideoLAN Team

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