VLC 0.8.5

VLC 0.8.5

 La dernière release de VLC viens de sortir en version 0.8.5, un lecteur multimédia libre multiformat pour MAC, LINUX et PC

Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
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Core support:
* Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, …)
* Support for downloading updates
* Updated strings

Input:
* Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
* Linux DV (Digital Video – Firewire) input
* Improvements to the Audio CD input
– Separate playlist entries for the tracks
– Support for CDDB
* Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
* Improved subtitles encoding support
* Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web

Decoders:
* Cook (Real audio) support

Playlist / Services discovery:
* XSPF playlist support
* Podcast support
* Updated Shoutcast to use new listing

Audio output:
* New JACK audio output

Video output:
* New video filters:
– magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
– gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
– bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
* Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
* RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
* Improvements to the subtitles rendering

Stream output:
* Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams

Interfaces:
* System to inform the user and request information
– HTTP authentication
– Fatal errors
– …
* wxWidgets
– VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
– Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, …)
– Drag & Drop support in the playlist
* Skins2
– New default skin
– Support for Winamp 2 skins
– Improved playlist handling
– Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, …
* OS X
– Embedded Video output
– new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
– Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
– Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, …)
– support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
– option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
* HTTP
– New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
– A bunch of new RPN functions

Windows Port:
* MSN messenger "Now playing" support

OS X Port:
* Mac-Intel compatibility
* Enhanced support of various audio output devices
* Growl "Now playing" support

*Nix port:
* Ability to log to syslog
* Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root

Developers:
* New libvlc API (not finished yet)
* Java bindings
* A bit more automatic testing