magix used our news submit to tell us about this program he saw over at Free-Codecs: 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.
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player can handle almost any codec even ones that Windows won't play. I have also have read that you can preview a movie file from Bittorrent while it is being downloaded.
|  What's new in version 0.7.2:
Core Support - Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
- Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
- Improved HTTP daemon.
- Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
Codecs: - New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.(http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
- New H.261 video decoder using openmash.- H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
- Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed(allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
- Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
VideoLan Manager: - New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launchand manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
- Supports live streams and VoD.
- Supports scheduling.
- Telnet interface for vlm.
- HTTP interface for vlmInput:- --start-time and --stop-time to start and stop playing a file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a fewfileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
- Improved directory access module.
- New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.- Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
- New options to pass meta info to the input.
- It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream(satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
Stream output: - Improved session announcement system.
- Minimize threads usage by default.
- Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
- Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
- Improved MPEG TS muxer.
- Improved transrater.- Meta info options used by the muxers.
- New configuration system.
- Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
- Demux:- Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
- mmsh streaming fixes.
- Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
- Subtitles:
- Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
- Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
- Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
Interfaces: - Skins II- Ability to embed video output.
- Support for bitmap fonts.
- Lots of improvements.*
- wxWindows- New design and set of icons.
- Ability to embed video output.
- Support for hotkeys.
- Support for bookmarks.
- Service discovery:Fixed sdp in SAP.
- Win32 port:- DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
- Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
- Improved Windows installer.
- Misc:- Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.- Roku HD1000 audio output.
Download: VideoLAN Client for Windows 0.7.2 Final [8.80 MB] |
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Source: Free-Codecs
