VideoLAN is an excellent multimedia player with it’s own plugins for playing different formats, so it doesn’t need any codecs to be installed. It works great for previewing partially downloaded files too as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. I hope they’ve fixed the pixelation problems I have under Windows 7.
Decoders:
* Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
* Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
* Various fixes on theora and oggDemuxers:
* Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
* Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxersAccess:
* Fixes for v4l2 devices
* Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanningQt Interface:
* Fix some playlist sorting issues
Mac OS X Interface:
* Fixed a crash when updating VLC
* Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
* Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
* Added the “Quit after Playback” featureMac OS X Port:
* The “Delete Preferences” script is now delivered as a Universal Binary with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
* Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
o no support for Goom and SDL
o limited text rendering support
o This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.Encoders:
* MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
* x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
* x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
o if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
o otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
o otherwise ABR-mode is used
* x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn’t defined these:
o ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
o vbv-bufsize is bitrate
o seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)Playlist:
* Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
Unix builds:
* Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
Translations:
* New Kazakh and Croatian translations
* Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
* Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Brazilian, Arabic and French translation updates