VLC Media Player Updated to v0.7
Update: The DIVX quality in this release is simply amazing. Grab your copy now!
Core support:
*Brand new decoder/packetizer api. Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
*New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
*Video outputs are recycled if possible. This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
*Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
*New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
Playlist:
*Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
*Playlist sorting
Input:
*RTP/RTSP support.
*Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
*Support for Flac in Ogg files.
*MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
*Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
*cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
*Reworked DVB tuning.
*Better Icecast support.
*New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
*New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
Codecs:
*Support for Theora video encoding.
*Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
*Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
*Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
*Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
*MPEG 2.5 audio support.
*Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
Stream output:
*Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
*New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
*Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
*Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
*Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
*Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
*MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
*--sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
*Preliminary RTP support.
*Fixes to SAP announces.
Interface:
*Skins: - Bugfixes - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
*New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
HTTP:
*Improvements of the standard pages
*Support for new commands OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
Service discovery:
*Many fixes to the SAP module
*SAP now supports HTTP streams
Subtitles:
*Text subtitles now have a black outline.
*Text subtitles autodetection.
*Text subtitles charset autodetection.
*Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
*Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
*Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
*Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
*Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
*Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
Mac OS X port:
*New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
*Save playlist.
*Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
*Support for Panther.
*Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
*Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).







