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VideoLAN VLC (VideoLAN) for Linux 0.8.6e

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.

VLC (VideoLAN) has the following other editions available: VLC (VideoLAN) for Windows and VLC (VideoLAN) for Mac OS X.

Latest Changes:

Fixed resume playback for viewing content over FTP
Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
Security update:
Security update: Subtitle demuxers overflow
Security update: HTTP listener format string injection
Security update: Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library
Security update: Real RTSP overflows
Security update: Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer
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 and improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264 encoding on multi-cpu systems
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