[videolan-announce] VLC media player 0.9.4 and a Call for Windows developers.

[Derk-Jan Hartman]

Dear VideoLAN users,

We present you with VLC media player 0.9.4, the latest increment of  
our 0.9 series. This release brings Windows users all the 0.9.3  
enhancements and fixes (please see our call for Windows developers  
below) as well as fixing a few more bugs for the other platforms.

== 0.9.4 improvements ==
Various bugfixes:
* Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
* Fixes several memory leaks.

Mac OS X port:
* Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use  
0.9.2 or earlier )
* Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
* Fixed targetname for downloaded updates

Windows port:
* Stability fix for the video output.

The complete release notes for this version can be read at <http://www.videolan.org/developers/vlc/NEWS 
 >.
Binary packages for Mac OS X and Windows and the source code tarballs  
are available for download at http://www.videolan.org/vlc/.

Help is available, as usual, in many places:
* The documentation (we need help keeping it up to date!):
  http://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Documentation/
* The forum: http://forum.videolan.org
* Mailing lists: http://www.videolan.org/support/lists.html
* IRC: #videolan on Freenode

We'd like to thank all our contributors, testers and users around the  
world for their support and help making this release possible. Also a  
big thanks to all Mac OS X users who submitted their crashlogs. These  
crashlogs have proven to be invaluable for this bugfix release.

== WANTED: Windows developers ==
We are putting out a call for NEW Windows developers. At the moment,  
our Windows-port is sorely missing some much needed love from a true  
Windows developer. Our team has been without a Windows developer for  
several months now, which is blocking us from supporting our largest  
usergroup in the manner we want to. We are therefore looking for  
developers to help our team in the areas of debugging crashes, Direct  
X, A/V capturing, ActiveX and Windows integration, so we can hopefully  
resume supporting our largest group of users in the best possible way.  
If we are unable to find new developers, new versions of VLC media  
player for Windows might become less frequent and severely out of sync  
with the Linux and Mac OS X versions.

So, no donations for work on the Windows-port and no "opportunities"- 
emails, for Windows we only require: Developers, Developers,  
Developers !!!!!

For the VideoLAN team,
Derk-Jan Hartman