The most versatile video playback application for the Mac and Linux systems has been released in version 0.8.4. Changes include:
Core support:
* Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
* New OSD systemVideo output:
* Fixed problems with OpenGL output
* New –monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
* Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 formatInput:
* 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 URLsDecoders:
* 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 overlayAudio filters:
* Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
Mixer and Dolby SurroundStream output:
* New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
* Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
* Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragmentsInterfaces:
* 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 supportActiveX plugin:
* Should now work outside IE as wellMac OS X port:
* New script to delete the preferences automaticallyWindows port:
* Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
