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Portable VLC Media Player v0.8.6h - Final - 14 Mb

VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multi-platform multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, Ogg, OGM, MOV, wma, wmv...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. The VideoLAN project targets multimedia streaming of MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and DivX files, DVDs, digital satellite channels, digital terrestial television channels and live videos on a high-bandwidth IPv4 or IPv6 network in unicast or multicast under many OSes.

Features in VLC (VideoLAN Client) :

- Rewrite of the playlist (tree structure, input preparsing ...)

- Preferences improvements

- XML parsers

- Client-side SSL/TLS support

- Massive Matroska improvements

- Support for SOCKS proxy

- Support for Shoutcast Meta-data

- Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams

- TiVo demuxer

- Samba (Windows shares) access module

- 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)

- Pocket PC port

- Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin

Changes in VLC (VideoLAN Client) 0.8.6e:

Various bugfixes:

* Resume playback for viewing content over FTP

* Fixed XShm detection with remote X11

Security updates:

* Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)

* HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)

* Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)

* Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296, VideoLAN-SA-0801)

* Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130, VideoLAN-SA-0802)

Audio filter:

* Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter

Audio output:

* Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA

Access:

* Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs

Stream output:

* Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer

Encoders:

* Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones

* Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264 encoding on multi-cpu systems

- Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)

- Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)

Localization:

* Updated Romanian and Polish translations
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