[vlc] Release : VLC media player 0.8.2
Antoine Cellerier
dionoea at via.ecp.fr
Sun Jun 26 10:30:52 CEST 2005
Dear VideoLAN users,
The VideoLAN team is happy to announce the release of VLC media player
0.8.2 after more then 7 months of hard work.
Features include :
* Rewrite of the playlist (tree structure, input preparsing ...)
* Preferences improvements
* Mac OS X Tiger compatibility
* Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
* Client-side SSL/TLS support
* Support for FTP over IPv6
* Massive Matroska improvements
* Support for SOCKS proxy
* Support for Shoutcast metadata
* Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
* TiVo demuxer
* Samba (Windows shares) access module for Linux
* Dirac decoder and encoder
* PNG decoder/encoder
* Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
* Services discovery modules (brand new SAP module, HAL discovery, DAAP
* (iTunes shares), shoutcast)
* Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
* Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
* Image file video output (png)
* Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
* New Mac OS X audio output module. SPDIF is not supported by this
* module.
Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
* Pocket PC port
You can get a complete list by reading the release notes :
http://developers.videolan.org/vlc/NEWS
Binary packages are already available for Windows and MacOS X. Other
packages will follow shortly. You can download those and the source code
on the VLC home page : http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
Help concerning this new VLC version is available :
* Documentation - http://www.videolan.org/doc/
* The Forum - http://forum.videolan.org/
* The Wiki Pages - http://wiki.videolan.org/
* The User Mailing Lists - http://www.videolan.org/support/lists.html
* IRC - #videolan on Freenode
Remember to reset your preferences if you experience problems after
upgrading from a previous version.
On behalf of the VideoLAN team,
--
Antoine Cellerier
dionoea
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