[Update] VLC media player 0.8.4a

[CoMa]

VLC media player
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player
for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4,
DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming
protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or
multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.




Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
---------------------------------
Audio output:
* Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
* SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.

Decoder:
* Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
* Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263

Demux:
* Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks

Services Discovery:
* HAL fixes, should now work with new API
* SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
* UPnP fixes
* Avahi 0.6 support

Interfaces:
* Mac OS X
- fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard



/CoMa

 

[Hans Schlager]

VLC media player
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Is it somehow possible to use VLC for connections to internet-streams
via a proxy-server?

 

[CoMa]

Is it somehow possible to use VLC for connections to internet-streams
via a proxy-server?

I think you maybe can find the answer in one of these three documents

http://www.videolan.org/doc/streaming-howto/en/streaming-howto-en.html

http://www.videolan.org/doc/play-howto/en/play-howto-en.html

http://www.videolan.org/doc/faq/en/videolan-faq-en.html

if you want to read them offline,
then go here and download them
http://www.videolan.org/doc/


You could also ask them at VLC's forum
http://forum.videolan.org/



/CoMa

 

[George]

VLC is hard to beat as a portable player. However, I've tried it on a
variety of video files on my PC and found that if it does not have a
codec it won't play the video even if the codec is installed on your
computer. VLC comes with its own codecs. If the codec is not included
in its own program files, it won't play. This has its pluses and
minuses. The plus is it makes it so you can play quite a few video
formats in a portable player. The minuses is that not checking your
system for codecs tends to make it less versatile. There might be a
way of adding codecs but couldn't figure out a way from the
documentation. The documentation just says it does not support some
codecs.

 

[rdt]

VLC media player
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player
for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4,
DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming
protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or
multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.




Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
---------------------------------
Audio output:
* Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
* SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.

Decoder:
* Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
* Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263

Demux:
* Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks

Services Discovery:
* HAL fixes, should now work with new API
* SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
* UPnP fixes
* Avahi 0.6 support

Interfaces:
* Mac OS X
- fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard



/CoMa

Biggest let down with VLC is that it can't do coloured subs which most
media players can

 

[Ric]

Biggest let down with VLC is that it can't do coloured subs which most
media players can

Mine plays The Beatles Yellow Submarine with no problems. :0)

Ric