VLC Media Player 2.0.4

by **lario48** Wed Nov 21, 2012 8:17 am

VLC Media Player 2.0.4

What's new in this version:

Audio Output:
- Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
- Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
- Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
- Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
- Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged during playback on Mac OS X

Access:
- Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
- Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
- Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake

Codecs:
- Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
- Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
- Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
- Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
- Fix crashes when using hardware decoding

Demuxers:
- Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
- Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
- Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
- Support Youtube live streams

Windows:
- Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8

Qt:
- Fix media info dialog update
- Fix random/repeat preferences saving
- Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
- Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
- Fix album art display at start

Mac OS X:
- Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
- Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
- Fix menus display and behavior
- Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist,
buttons, streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
- Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
- Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The
screen is allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during
playback.
- Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
- Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter

Miscellaneous:
- Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
- Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
- Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
- Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
- Codec and other 3rd party library updates
- Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
- Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
- Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
- Codecs and 3rd party libary updates

Translations:
- Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian,
Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish,
Thai, Polish, Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German,
Breton, Scottish Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
- Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
VLC Media Player Screenshots

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html

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