My very favorite non-HTPC media player released version 1.0.0 this week and includes some great new features. If you're looking for a media player that can handle about any file you throw at it and is free, look no further than VLC.
New features include:
Major New Features:
- AirTunes Streaming
- Video Scaling in fullscreen
- Frame-by-Frame support
- More exact speed controls
- Zipped file playback
- Customizable toolbars
- EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
Playback Features:
- Instantaneous pausing
- Frame-by-Frame playback
- Finer speed control
- Live, on-the-fly recording for all medias
- Timeshift for most medias
- RTSP trickplay support
- Subtitles core improvements and fixes
Decoders Added/Improved:
- AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
- Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
- True HD/MLP decoder and parser
- Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
- QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
- Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
- WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
- Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
- Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
- Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
Demuxers:
- Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
- Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
- Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
- Metadata for mod files are supported
- GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
- New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
- New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
Access:
- Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
- DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
- EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
- On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore) - CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
Playlist:
- Export the playlist in HTML
- Lua script for BBC radio playback
- Better metadata handling and reading
Read about the VLC 1.0.0 release and get your download at videolan.org
