[Freeware] VLC Media Player 1.1.4

[Andieohren]

Neue Version online: 1.0.5 Final

Changelog:

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Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
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Decoders:
* SubRip extra styles improvements
* Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders

Mac OS X Interface:
* Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote

Windows port:
* Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
increase performance and fix x264 issues

Translations:
* Portuguese Brazilian, Lithunanian, Romanian, Ukranian, Japanese, Bengali,
Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
Russian, Slovak translation updates
* New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations


Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
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Audio outputs:
* Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
* Make PulseAudio the default output if available

Video outputs:
* Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
* Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing

Input:
* Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
* Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)

Playlist:
* Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)

Unix:
* Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
* Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD

Qt4 interface:
* Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
* Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard

Translations:
* New Walloon translation
* Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates

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[Andieohren]

Neue Version veröffentlich: 1.1.0 Final

Changelog:

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What's new?

Ready for HD

* GPU decoding on Windows Vista and 7, using DxVA2 for H.264, VC-1 and MPEG-2
* GPU decoding on GNU/Linux, using VAAPI for H.264, VC-1 and MPEG-2
* DSP decoding using OpenMax IL, for compatible embedded devices
* Improved support for MKV HD, including seeking fixes, and 7.1 channels codecs
* Support for new codecs, like Blu-Ray subtitles, MPEG-4 lossless and VP8

NB: so far, on Windows, VideoLAN is quite sad to be forced to recommend nVidia® GPU, until ATI® fixes their drivers on Windows, and until VLC developer get access to some Intel® hardware supporting GPU decoding.


Extensions

New add-ons and script framework so one can personalize its vlc.

* Written in lua
* 2 main types of scripts:
o content add-ons, integrated in the playlist
o functionnalities extensions, like metadata searching on the web, or subtitles look-ups
* Very Simple


Web improvements

* Support for WebM decoding and encoding
* Improved web plugins
* Better streaming capabilities


Better Audio experience

* Integrated playlist in the Qt4 interface
* Multiple views (like album art) in the playlist in the Qt4 interface
* Support for AMR-NB, Mpeg-4 ALS, Vorbis 6.1/7.1, FLAC 6.1/7.1 and WMAS
* CDDB and CD-Text works now on the Windows port when listening to CD-Audio
* Support for DVD-Audio files (.aob)
* Improved meta-data and album-art support


Faster, Lighter

* Faster decoding, with up to 40% speed-ups, in HD resolutions
* First part of the Video Output core rewrite
* Removal or rewrite of dozens of modules, code simplification and tens of thousands of lines of code removed
* Some functionalities that are less used are now moved to extensions
* More assembly optimizatinons, especially SSSE3/SSE4 and ARM Neon
* Fewer threads used


Better for developers

* Simplified and improved libVLC, removal of exceptions for better C integration
* New phonon-backend for Qt applications, on all platforms
* New C++ bindings

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[Andieohren]

Weiter geht es mit der neuen Version: 1.1.1

Changelog:

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ibVLC:

New capabilities for libVLC:
· Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
· libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
· libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
· libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
· libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
· libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
· protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
· the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
· libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
· video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
· ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
· See [Link nur für registrierte und freigeschaltete Mitglieder sichtbar. ] as an example.
· libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
· between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
· Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
· called early

Decoders/Demuxers:
· Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
· You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
· Fix rogram selection in TS and DVB-T
· Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
· Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds

Stream output:
· Fix h264 streaming in ts

Interfaces:
· Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
· Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
· Http: fix fullscreen toggle

Windows:
· Activation of DEP on XP SP3
· Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
· Fix crash when My Document isn't available
· Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video

Translations:
· Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
· Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician

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[Andieohren]

Ganz frisch erschienen: 1.1.2

Changelog:

Spoiler:

Quite soon after the 1.1.1, we were able to squash more annoying bugs, hence a new release for you!

* TS and DVB demuxing fixes
* Audio filters fixes to solve the "mono" bug
* Fix of the direct3d output module that display nothing on older nVidia and ATI cards, when overlay was activated

* Extensions and scrips updates
* Miscellaneous fixes in interfaces
* Updated translations
* Various crashes and errors fixed

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[Plutoman]

Neue Version veröffentlich: 1.1.3

Changelog:

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A bit after the 1.1.2, we had to fix some important crashing bugs and you deserve a new release!

Taglib crash (CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004)
Fixes for FTP relative paths and directories
Fixes for Podcast and DVD modules
Extensions and scripts updates
Miscellaneous fixes in interfaces
Updated translations
... and many other crashes and errors fixed

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[Andieohren]

Neue Version erschienen: 1.1.4

Changelog:

Spoiler:

A bit after the 1.1.3, an important security issue was discovery in most windows applications, and VLC is affected too. Since security issues matters, here is a new release, targeted for the Windows platform!

* Windows Dll loading security issue, in Qt4 and dmo modules - VideoLAN-SA-1005
* Fix for folders opening issue on Windows
* Updated translations

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