VideoLAN (VLC) media player 0.8.6e

[Tarun]

VLC (VideoLAN) is a multi-platform multimedia player. It can read DVDs, VCDs, MPEG, and DivX files and from a satellite card. It can also read a stream from a network sent by the VideoLAN Server or another source. The stream can be MPEG 2 TS in UDP or HTTP packets unicasted or multicasted on an IPv4 or IPv6 network.This is a bugfix release. VLC media player 0.8.6d and earlier versions suffer from security vulnerabilities in the Web interface, Subtitle demuxer, Real RTSP demuxer, SDL_image library and MP4 demuxer. Technical details are available in our advisories: SA-0801 and SA-0802. The usual collection of assorted changes and improvements can be found here. This release fully supports Mac OS X 10.3.9 once again. We strongly recommend all users to update to this new version.

Changes between 0.8.6d and 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)
    

Mac OS X Interface & Port:

• Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
  
• Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
  
• VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
  

Localization:

• Updated Romanian and Polish translations
  

Download: VLC media player 0.8.6e | Other Versions

Link: Lunarsoft Frontpage

[Eldmannen]

New version of VLC, yay! :)

[Tarun]

I wish they'd release 0.9.0. It looks a great deal better and felt more user friendly. :)

[Eldmannen]

I wish they'd release 0.9.0. It looks a great deal better and felt more user friendly.

Haven't tried 0.9.0 yet...