VideoLan (VLC Media Player) is a multimedia and DVD player for Linux, BeOS, BSD, MacOS X ...
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.
Playing back .MP4 H.264 encoded movies:
Use VideoLAN which has a built in .MP4 reader and H.264 decoder
For more information on how to play back, encode and convert MP4 files, please refer to our MP4 Usage Guide
Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.1.0-rc4: ------------------------------------ Important changes for users: * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output. Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
Important changes for packagers: * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to launch each time. * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses - xproto, - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb), - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils), - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support. * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
Access: * Support for the sftp protocol * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp:// * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
Decoders: * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux * Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP usage
* Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray * Invmem module improvements * Support for Atrac1 audio codec * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA * Support for Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec natively on all platforms * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port * Support for Indeo5 video codec * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support) * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec * Support for VP8 codec
Demuxers: * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet) * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files * Various EGP improvements * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files * Many fixes on Matroska support and support for Webm format * Metadata and cover art improvements
Playlist: * WPL and ZPL playlist support * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image * Podcast images are now displayed
Video Output: * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks. * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2) * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin) Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one) MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html) Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
Extensions: * New content extensions lua framework
Audio filters: * Chorus/Flanger audio filter * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API * NEON assembly audio converter module * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
Visualization: * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
Service discovery: * Service discoveries can now be written in lua * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories * Service discovery based on libudev * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
Encoders: * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176} * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given, uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
Stream output: * New smem module, streaming to memory * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like: --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
Interfaces: * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet and oldhttp. * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system. * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
Mac OS X Port: * Vastly improved VLCKit framework * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework by Andy Matuschak et al. * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit) * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
Windows port: * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
Maemo port: * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
Misc: * new sqlite module * --save-config command line option not supported anymore. * Fixed and reenabled netsync module. * Improved Solaris port
Bindings: * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
Removed modules: * csri codec: use the libass module instead. * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead. * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X * transrate: broken since too long * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead. * HAL: Use libudev instead. * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one. * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead. * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead. * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead. * cddax: use cdda instead. * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs. * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec * access_file removed in favor of filesystem * RTMP input and output: use avio module
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