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DESCRIPTION
VLC Media Player 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.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 1.0.3:
- Video outputs:
- Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to regressions in most popular drivers
- New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
- Decoders:
- Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
- Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
- Encoders:
- x264 has profile-limitter, like: #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
- Input:
- Update for appletrailers lua script
- Fixes on the RAR stream filter
- Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
- Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
- Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
- Service discovery:
- New udev module for linux
- Qt4 interface:
- Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
- Translations:
- French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.5 or later and a Quartz Extreme capable Mac.
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| VLC Media Player User Reviews (633 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Apr 4 2009 |
THE DJ Just so everyone knows: Building VLC for PPC is REALLY hard, when no developer uses PPC anymore. So every time around releasedate we find that something broke (usually ffmpeg), and we need to spend time fixing it (often this delays the ppc version, this time even more than before). VLC has many mac developer veterans, but almost no ACTIVE mac developers (significantly holding back VLC Mac development, and usually keeping us in the "we need to keep it running"-mode, instead of the "let's improve it"-mode) We discovered we forgot to update ffmpeg for the intel version in 0.9.9, so we are preparing an 0.9.9a release, which should have the RV30/40 support (intel AND ppc) like announced for 0.9.9 and a PPC version should be ready as well. The amount of mess ups we have made with the Mac build on the 0.9.* versions with simply making a working and up-to-date binary should show you the need for fresh Mac OS X blood in the VLC media player team. But rest assured, the PPC build is coming. For 1.0.0, however we are dropping support for anything older than Leopard. (sorry folks can't help it, we need llvm for some threading and locking features we use in the VLC core and 10.5 is the lowest platform that has this, and even then we need to switch to llvm-gcc). PPC support is still uncertain, it depends on wether we can get a working build with 10.5 llvm-gcc on powerpc. It looks like it might be possible, but it's proving to be a huge challenge. We haven't given up on that though.
(Version 0.9.9) | |
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| Apr 5 2009 |
UMAROMC Interesting to know, thanks!
(Version 0.9.9) | |
| Apr 5 2009 |
DOM21 " . . . we are dropping support for anything older than Leopard." Well, thanks for sticking with Le Tigre for as long as you did. VLC rocks!
(Version 0.9.9a) | |
 | Nov 1 2009 |
JON555 I don't know why there's so much hate towards VLC. It's an awesome player that is incredibly easy to use. You don't have to spend hours messing with settings and junk like that, audio/video is very excellent out of the box. It's feature-rich, free, and consistently updated. It's plays just about everything, and plays it well. It (on some rare occasions) has slight issues with subs, but again, those are rare. This is a fantastic player. Keep up the awesome work devs!
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| Nov 1 2009 |
DR. GIRLFRIEND I don't see any hate here, just people reporting various problems. That's a good thing, since it helps contribute to the program's improvement. :) Nobody is denying that VLC is an awesome app or that the devs aren't to be commended (it is and they are), but from the comments I've read here and elsewhere, it seems version 1.02 wasn't a very stable release.
(Version 1.0.3) | |
| Apr 3 2009 |
ALBABE Thanx much to NEONBLUE2. I appreciate the very thoughtful information (even though I only just barely understand it). As for the people who express the fact that VLC is "Freeware..." and that the rest of us can... VLC has always been a great client... No question. it kicks everything else's azz. My problem is that the vast majority of Working Macs are NOT Intel, yet we are being edged out. I have the last generation of G5 (Dual 2 GB). I bought it brand new from Apple. It's just 3 years old... and as far as I know, this will be the first time in Mac History that when you buy a Brand new Top Of The Line Apple, that you will only be able to USE one (1) OS upgrade. My G5 came with 10.4. I bought 10.5... and from everything i understand, 10.6 will not run on a PPC. That's ethically irresponsible and unconscionable business practice on the part of Apple. Anyone who is paying attention over the last years knows that Apple is a Hardware company... but now it seems they don't give a rats azz for the majority of Users... and would rather try to strong-arm us out of the loop, and into having to buy a New Mac to stay current. As for VLC... hopefully the comment that there will be a version that works on a PPC is correct. | |
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| Apr 4 2009 |
LADIRECTION False. According to the latest Macbidouille survey, less than 40% of web browsing Macs are powerPc and rapidly decreasing. Moreover, when you consider the hardware capable of playing videos in vlc, you cut out most PowerPc g3/g4 systems. Dropping PPC support is the next logical step for ALL developers.
(Version 0.9.9) | |
| Apr 6 2009 |
No offense meant, but the numbers I was quoted were from 2 OS X Engineers at Apple, a relative that works for Intel, and a couple of guys running a Genius Bar in SF. Nobody who's professional had disputed them. I'm glad you feel cocky enough to purport the numbers at Macbidouille, but I got my numbers from the guys inside. And thanx to NED SCOTT for a cogent comment.
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 | Apr 14 2009 |
ANONYMOUS Numbers are lame. You can skew them to say what you want. And in the end, they are irrelevant. It doesn't matter how many PPC or Intel machines are out there. What matters is how many are out there that use VLC. And that isn't something EITHER ONE of you can figure out.
(Version 0.9.9a) | |
| Jul 7 2009 |
VIKRAM SHARMA My Heartiest Congratulations to the VLC Team for releasing the 1.0 version, thanks a lot giving us Mac Users such a great media player.
(Version 1.0) | |
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| Apr 5 2009 |
NED SCOTT You had us worried there for a bit! Glad to see it really was just a small delay, and not the VLC team abandoning PPC.
(Version 0.9.9a) | |
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| Apr 5 2009 |
CUNEYT PPC 4ever.. ;)
(Version 0.9.9a) | |
| Apr 14 2009 |
ANONYMOUS That didn't stop people from knee-jerking and spazzing out. *sigh*
(Version 0.9.9a) | |
| Sep 15 2008 |
MEEGO If you encounter issues with v0.9.2 after updating, try removing preferences files. There is a script in the install DMG that does it automatically.
(Version 0.9.2) | |
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| May 31 2009 |
EBATALHA The correct download link : http://download.videolan.org/pub/testing/vlc-1.0.0-rc2/macosx/
(Version 1.0rc2) | |
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| Dec 19 2008 |
TSALAGI RED While VLC is still the best movie player out there, the quality of FLV image playback has suffered since I updated to 0.9.8a from 0.8.6. I used to get a very nice video, but now it the video image is filled with artifacts and off-color.
(Version 0.9.8a) | |
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| Jun 18 2009 |
YOSHINATSU VIDEO_TS folder playback now works on RC4!! VLC keeps getting better and better every day!
(Version 1.0rc4) | |
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| Oct 26 2008 |
MICKANGEL Generally I *love* VLC. It's been a great beacon for what free software can do and I've been using it for at least 3-years. Overall, it's the first thing I install on a machine (Windows or OS X). Great software Sadly this range of new versions (9.x) do not work properly. On my machine viewing movies causes the image to freeze every 10 seconds. The last two version have had this problem. I'd advise you to keep a copy of 8.6 around for when you need to watch something. I hope the 9.x development will turn out well, but at the moment 8.6 is the one to use.
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