VLC VIDEOLAN 0.8.4

VLC VIDEOLAN 0.8.4

Nouvelle mouture pour le célébre lecteur multimedia VLC qui passe en versio 0.8.4 avec son lot d’amélioration, multi-palteforme, champion du streaming et gratuit.

Core support:
* Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
* New OSD system

Video output:
* Fixed problems with OpenGL output
* New –monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
* Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format

Input:
* Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
* IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
* IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
* GnomeVFS input module
* Support for RTP packet reordering
* Fixed syntax for FTP URLs

Decoders:
* Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
* Musepack decoder using libmpdec
* QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)

Services discovery:
* UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
* Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)

Video filters:
* RSS feed overlay

Audio filters:
* Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
Mixer and Dolby Surround

Stream output:
* New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
* Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
* Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments

Interfaces:
– new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
* Mac OS X
    – New streaming and transcoding wizard
    – New extended controls panel
    – New bookmarks window
    – Fixed playlist sorting
    – Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
* wxWidgets
    – Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
    – All the –wxwin-* options are now –wx-*
    – VLC update checker
    – Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
    – Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
* Skins2
    – Tree playlist
* HTTP
    – New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
    – Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
      the names of files
    – Include macro to include other files
    – CGI 1.0 support