Changes between 0.8.5 (Final) and 0.8.6
--------------------------------

Playlist:
* Shoutcast TV listings support

Input:
* Support for RTSP authentication
* Support for adding subtitles on the fly
* Fixed Mpeg- ps duration calculation
* ATSC support for DVB
* Partial support for DVR- ms recordings
* Partial support for MXF fileformat

Decoders:
* Native WMV3/Vc-1 support
* WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
* VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support
* The True Audio Lossless codec support
* WavPack support
* Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc)

Video output:
* Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere...)
* Improved libcaca support

Interfaces:
* All
* New hotkeys for crop and zoom
* Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
* Windows
* Systray support in skins
* OS X
* Support for Apple Remote control
* Fullscreen controller panel
* new playmode buttons
* right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
* Main Menu keeps accessible when playing videos in fullscreen mode
* Linux
* Notifications using notification-daemon

Windows port:
* Support for Unicode filenames (Windows nt and above)
* Fixed IPv6 support on the client side

Localization:
* Add Czech
* Add Slovak
* Add Malay
* Add Slovenian

Developers:
* Updates to the libvlc API
* Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins



http://downloads.videolan.org/pub/videolan...test2-win32.exe

VLC Media Player 0.8.6 Test 2a released
http://downloads.videolan.org/pub/videolan...est2a-win32.exe

wow so fast another version?

VideoLAN Client (VLC) Media Player 0.8.6b Test 1

Changes in VLC (VideoLAN Client) 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
Various bugfixes notably:
* out-of-bound read in demuxers
* demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
* Mac OS X Interface crashes
* VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
* Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
* correct behaviour for feeding streams to icecast or shoutcast servers

Decoders:
* Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
* Teletext subtitles (telx) support

Download

VideoLan 0.8.6b Final

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. VideoLAN also features a cross-platform multimedia player, VLC media player, which can be used to read the stream from the network or display video read locally on the computer under all GNU/Linux flavours, all BSD flavours, Windows, Mac OS X, BeOS, Solaris, QNX, Familiar Linux.


Download: VideoLan 0.86b Final

Webbrowser plugins:
- rectified behaviour and improved usability

Mac OS X Interface & Port:
- diverse usability improvements
- new wizard option to include subtitles
- screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
- Improved Delete-Preferences-Script



This post has been edited by scorps: Apr 19 2007, 03:33 AM