VLC 0.9.2 is out

I don't use VLC, but I know a number of you do. Well, the new version has just been released. I'll give this a shot to see how it runs.

Link: http://www.videolan.org/

Here's a link to the download page:

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html

I suggest you pick up the version of VLC without the installer.

Here's their lengthy list of changes:

Security updates:
* Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
CVE-2008-1807)
* TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
* MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )

Playlist:
* Vastly improved playlist support:
* Media library creation to save all your playlist items
* "Live search"
* Shoutcast TV listings
* Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
* Album art support
* User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
(Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
lots of other URLs)
* User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/****/README.txt

Inputs:
* Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
* UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
* DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
* Proxy support for MMSH stream
* JACK audio input support
* Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
* BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
* Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
* Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
* Experimental EyeTV access module
This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
(available as a separate download).
* Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
* RTMP input support
* QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
* HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
Authentication.
* New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)

Demuxers:
* MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
* Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
* Fixed audio glitch on seek
* Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / **** data)
* AAC tags support
* APEv1/2 tags support
* Improved ID3v2 tags support
* Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
* Raw video support
* Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
* TiVo Series 2 support
* CD+G karaoke Files support
* MXF files support
* OMA support

Decoders:
* VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
* Flash Screen Video support
* CamStudio Screen Video support
* DosBox Capture support
* Karl Morton's Video support
* limited atrac3 support
* Fraps support
* Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
* New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
* H.264 PAFF support
* DNxHD / VC-3 support
* NellyMoser ASAO support
* APE (Monkey audio) support
* RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
* Dirac video support using libschroedinger

Subtitles:
* Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
* VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
* Ogg/Kate subtitles support
* AQTitle subtitles support
* MKV USF subtitles support
* HTML-based subtitles support
* MPSub subtitles support
* JacoSub subtitles basic support
* MPL2 subtitles support
* Rewrite of ***/SSA scripts and subtitles support
* PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
* Realtext subtitle support
* DKS subtitle support
* SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
* Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support

Encoders:
* Flash Screen Video support
* Improved H.264 encoding speed

Video outputs and filters:
* New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
* Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
* New puzzle video output filter
* Re-written motion detection video filter
* New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
video)
* New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
* New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
* Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
(Google Summer of Code Student project)
* Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
* New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
* New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
This was previously part of the mosaic module.
* Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
* Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
* Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
* Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
* New croppadd and canvas video filters.

Audio outputs and filters:
* Replay gain support
* Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
new scaletempo audio filter)
* New spatializer audio filter
* Correct DTS output via S/PDIF

Stream output:
* RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
* New RTP payload formats:
* Speex voice audio codec
* ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
* G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
* UDP-Lite transport for RTP
* DCCP transport for RTP
* Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
* RTMP output

Interfaces:
* All
* New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
end-user suitable way.
* Improved user interaction
* Improved mouse gestures
* Vastly improved Update checker
* Full support for **** data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
* Windows/Linux
* Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
* Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
* Mac OS X
* Improved video output features
* Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
* New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
* When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
* Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
* Simplified Extended Controls panel
* Ncurses:
* Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
if libncursesw is available.
* Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
* Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
share/lua/playlist/README.txt for more info.
* Unix
* Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
* D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
(Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
* Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
* Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
* Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux

Linux Port:
* VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
(which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)

Mac OS X Port:
* Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
* New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
* Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
* It is now required to compile a fully featured build
* The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.

LibVLC:
* Event management and various improvements in libvlc
(Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)

New Localizations:
* Finnish
* Persian
* Polish
* Punjabi
* Bulgarian

Developers:
* LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
* Java bindings are now built from a separate source.

 

Thats great Thanks a lot... yeah I love this VLC thing.. Thanks again

 

Here's my brief rundown of the new version.

First, it does a better job handling sub files, but there are still problems. The text, for whatever reason, is distorted and looks a little blurry. Additionally, the subs aren't centered or in their proper position. Another problem I found is that the picture looks slightly washed out. It's not major, but it is somewhat noticeable. I believe I had a similar complaint with the previous version. Next, it still has some problems when dealing with mkv files. This issue is aggravated when dealing with large mkv files. Furthermore, you can't see where you are in the file. There used to be a little marker present to show you where you were. I don't know why they didn't keep it. Maybe it's hidden somewhere in the options? Finally, I've noticed some stability issues popping up from time to time. Even though I've only been using the program for about 15 minutes, it's already crashed on me 3 times. In closing, VLC has offered some improvements; however, they don't completely fix the problems of the previous version and might have inserted some new ones.

 

thanks tttttttttttttt

 

thanks for the heads-up ive been watching this lot. they just keep saying ...binary will be out in few days, i guess this is the day aye i dont this ill be downloadin this until an update is out though.

 

Overall, its good but when I tried to watch a movie I got a black screen for the first 5 sec, and then the image but all "pixeliy" and then it went back to normal. But I do like the new GUI.

 

* Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / **** data)
I am excited. Can't wait to try this at home.

 

Why is that?

 

No real reason. I just prefer it because there's nothing to clean up if needed. Plus, it is kind of nice not having to run an installer.

 

Pretty big updates on everything. Hated the controller in full screen mode though, quickly disabled that in preferences.

 

How'd you do that? Mine keeps popping up briefly in full screen.

 

Tools>Preferences>Interface tab>uncheck "show a controller in fullscreen"

 

I still think I'll stick with GOM player. Anyone care to share advantages of VLC over GOM, if there are any?

 

VLC is portable.

Thanks for the headsup, jin.

edit: I think VLC has better color correction than GOM, too.

 

I just played the same movie (Jurassic Park III), at the same point with both players, and couldn't notice any difference.

Perhaps other movies might display a noticable difference, but in my test, they both looked absolutely identical.

(I didn't realize I could play the same movie, at the same time, with two different players, but I guess you can.... )

 

Why wouldn't you be able to? Play as many as you want. lol. With VLC I know you can run multiple instances of it, I'm not familiar with GOM though.

 

Ok, I unchecked that, still the controller was popping up. It may have been the source with was a slideshow. It appears OK playing movies.

PS I also notice you can't search desktop. I often leaves stuff there.