[vlc] Re: [ANN] VLC 0.8.0

Hu Wei huw02 at mails.tsinghua.edu.cn
Wed Nov 3 14:56:35 CET 2004


>  * New screen capture input plugin (to stream your desktop).
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	How to used this plugin to stream my desktop? Could someone tell
me the detailed commands? Thanks!


>We counted the votes and the results are conclusive. It has taken a 
>long time, but the VideoLAN team is happy to announce version 0.8.0 of 
>VLC media player.
>
>This new release features:
>  * Re-write of the input layer.
>       (better, faster, more extensible - eg. allows multi-input 
>support).
>  * Re-write of the transcoding layer.
>       (everything VLC plays can now be transcoded).
>  * New plugins cache system to speed up launch time.
>  * Improvements to the subtitles/OSD subsystem.
>  * Vastly improved DVD support.
>  * DirectX Media Object decoder/encoder (Win32 only - supports WMV3).
>  * Cross-platform OpenGL video output.
>  * New screen capture input plugin (to stream your desktop).
>  * Windows Media Server RTSP support.
>  * Multipart JPEG webcam support
>  * Multipart JPEG muxing.
>       (for video streaming to a Mozilla Web Browser)
>  * DVB subtitles decoding/encoding.
>  * Audio equalizer.
>  * Vobsub support
>  * Multichannel audio downmixing
>  * etc...
>
>For a complete list, please have a look at the release notes:
>      http://developers.videolan.org/vlc/NEWS
>
>Binary packages are already available for:
>         - Windows
>         - MacOS X
>
>Other binaries packages (Debian Packages, RedHad/Fedora Core RPM, BeOS) 
>should follow.
>
>You can download the source code or binary packages from here:
>http://www.videolan.org/vlc by clicking your OS logo.
>
>This release doesn't include DTS audio decoding support.
>DTS Inc. claims that distributing this software with DTS decoding 
>capabilities is a violation of their patent EP 864 146. At DTS Inc. 
>request, we decided, as a precautionary measure, to provisionally 
>suspend the distribution of VLC with DTS decoding capabilities while 
>reviewing DTS Inc. claim. This is not an acknowledgement of the 
>validity of the claim.
>
>For the VideoLAN team,
>Derk-Jan Hartman
>
>
>---
>Universiteit Twente
>Derk-Jan Hartman (d.hartman at student.utwente dot nl)
>http://home.student.utwente.nl/d.hartman
>
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