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Jean-Baptiste Kempf | 6 Jun 12:32
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[videolan-announce] VLC media player 1.1.10

Dear VLC community,

I am very glad to present, in the name of the whole development team,
VLC 1.1.10. This eleventh release of the "The luggage" branch brings, as
usual, security fixes and minor to small features improvements.

The most notable ones are:
- Update of libmodplug in binaries to fix multiple security issues
- Fix an integer overflow XSPF playlist demultiplexer
- Rewrite of the PulseAudio output on Linux/BSD
- Removal of FontCache building in Freetype module on Win32
- Many OS X interface and hotkey fixes
- Misc fixes and codec updates
- Update of translations

Source and Binary can be found on our main ftp or on the sourceforge
mirroring system.

Please note that the only official website of VLC can be found at:
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

More information about the changes can be found at:
http://www.videolan.org/developers/vlc-branch/NEWS

With my best regards,

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Rémi Denis-Courmont | 11 Oct 19:47
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[videolan-announce] Update on the VLC browser plugins

	Hello all,

This is a long overdue update on the state of the two VLC plugins for web 
browsers, i.e. the ActiveX plugin for Microsoft Internet Explorer, and the 
Mozilla plugin for just about every other browser.

Effective today, the web plugins will be separated from the VLC media player. 
This is mostly an organizational change for us developers and should not 
directly affect our end-users. There are several motivations behind this:

❶ Prove the plugins are really independent from the stand-alone player.
The web plugins will be used as a testbed to ensure the quality of "LibVLC". 
LibVLC is our Software Development Kit; it enables third party computer 
programs to leverage the power of the VLC media player engine.

❷ Let the web plugins development follow its own pace and decouple it from the 
VLC media player development cycle. This will enable the VideoLAN project to 
deliver innovations and important improvements to its flagship
VLC media player to end users faster than previously. Similarly, enhancements 
to the web plugins will not anymore be kept on hold for months until the next 
major version of VLC media player major is released.

❸ Work on the web plugins will become much easier once separated from VLC. 
Hopefully more developers will be able to join the VideoLAN project's efforts 
to deliver a best-of-breed open-source cross-platform cost-free multimedia 
stack.

But that was the good news. Many of you surely noticed that the web plugins in 
VLC 1.1 were not on the level of quality that you should expect, and not as 
good as previous versions by any measure. While VLC 1.1 was a great new
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Jean-Baptiste Kempf | 21 Jul 23:50
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[videolan-announce] [RELEASE] VLC 1.1.1

Dear users, developers and community,

VideoLAN and the VLC development team are very glad to announce the new
version of VLC.

This version, 1.1.1, is a bugfix version, released to fix shortcomings
of the VLC 1.1.0 version.

VLC 1.1.0 was released one month ago and was downloaded more than
17 million times. Thanks for the support.

This version introduces many fixes and improvements:
 - Many fixes on decoders and demuxers, especially for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
 - ATI GPU decoding should now work on Windows with drivers Catalyst 10.7
 - Interfaces fixes and improvements
 - libVLC was extended with new functions, especially to control the adjust filter
 - Updated translations
 - Various fixes against crashes on MacOS and Windows port

and many other things.

You can download and get more details on:
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/releases/1.1.1.html

We hope you will like it.

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Président de VideoLAN
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Rémi Denis-Courmont | 18 Jun 04:04
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[videolan-announce] VLC 1.0 series End of Life

	Hello,

The official release of VLC media player and LibVLC version 1.1.0 is coming to a 
close. The badly stretched VLC development team is not currently able to 
maintain more than two development branches at a time. The team has been 
focusing on the VLC 1.2 future series and the VLC 1.1 stable series.

As a consequence, source code for VLC 1.0 is not officially unmaintained 
anymore. There will be no further security or major bug fixes. The last version 
was 1.0.6 and will be marked formally obsolete if/when a major issue is 
discovered. I would also like to remind you that:
- the LibVLC API is known to be broken in all 1.0.x releases,
- that the Mozilla plugin is broken on X11 platforms in release 1.0.6, and
- that binary packages (Windows, MacOS) have already been discontinued.

If you need any of these, please update to VLC 1.1.0-RC3 already, or 1.1.0 at 
the earliest.

N.B.: VLC 1.0.5, 0.9.10, 0.8.6i and older versions exhibit known published 
security issues. Update urgently if you have not already done so.

Best regards,

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Rémi Denis-Courmont | 23 Apr 09:23
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[videolan-announce] VLC media player 1.0.6 source


	Dear subscribers,

The VLC development team is proud to introduce a new version of its
'Goldeneye' branch. This release bridges the gap between version 1.0.5
and the upcoming 1.1.0 VLC release. It fixes several vulnerabilities
which were uncovered during the development of VLC 1.1.0. It also
introduces a number of additional stability and other fixes.

Binaries for Windows and Mac OS are not yet on the pipe.
The full change list is below.

Best regards,

Summary changes:
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Access:
 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path

Decoders/Packetizers:
 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support

Demuxers:
 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
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Christophe Massiot | 2 Mar 00:12
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[videolan-announce] Multicat 1.0

Dear VideoLAN users,

We are very glad to announce the first public release of Multicat. It 
is a set of tools designed to easily and efficiently manipulate 
multicast streams in general, and MPEG-2 Transport Streams in 
particular:

  - multicat is a multicast equivalent of netcat; a gateway 
application between files and multicast streams
  - ingests parses a transport stream to generate a timestamp file 
suitable for multicat streaming; the combination of ingests and 
multicat makes a simple and efficient TS file streamer
  - offsets allows to cut a media file at a precise time boundary
  - aggregartp and desaggregartp can split a single multicast stream 
onto several contribution links

For more information please proceed to the project page:
http://www.videolan.org/projects/multicat.html

Direct link for downloads:
http://downloads.videolan.org/pub/videolan/multicat/1.0/multicat-1.0.tar.bz2

Enjoy!

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Christophe Massiot | 1 Mar 23:58
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[videolan-announce] DVBlast 1.2

Dear VideoLAN users,

We are very proud to announce version 1.2 of DVBlast, a powerful DVB 
demux and streaming application. In addition to multiple demux and 
descrambling fixes, it brings exciting new features:

   * IPv6 output and duplicate
   * Input from Computer Modules DVB-ASI cards
   * Input from (IPv4) RTP / UDP stream

Direct link for downloads:
http://downloads.videolan.org/pub/videolan/dvblast/1.2/dvblast-1.2.tar.bz2

Enjoy!

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Jean-Baptiste Kempf | 1 Feb 09:02
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[videolan-announce] VLC 1.0.5

Dear VLC users and community,

VideoLAN and the VLC developers are very proud to introduce VLC 1.0.5.

This version is a minor bugfix version that provides various fixes,
translation updates and codec updates that should provide decoding
speed-ups.

This version introduces a new compiler for the Windows version and
support for the latest Apple remotes for the Mac version.

We hope you will enjoy this version,

With all our best wishes for 2010,

VideoLAN

Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
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Decoders:
 * SubRip extra styles improvements
 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders

Mac OS X Interface:
 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote

Windows port:
 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
   increase performance and fix x264 issues
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Rémi Denis-Courmont | 10 Dec 19:42
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[videolan-announce] VLC media player 1.0.4

	Hello,

The VideoLAN project is happy to announce the immediate source code release[1] 
of the latest stable version 1.0.4 of VLC media player[2]. This release mostly 
addresses bugs, especially on X11 (Linux, BSD, Solaris) platforms.

We recommend affected users and distributions upgrade as soon as possible.
The most important changes are noted below.

N.B.: There are currently no plans to ship binary releases for this version.

[1] http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-sources.html
[2] http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
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Audio outputs:
 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available

Video outputs:
 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing

Input:
 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)

Playlist:
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Rémi Denis-Courmont | 3 Oct 18:14
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[videolan-announce] VLC 1.0.2

	Hello every one,

The VideoLAN team has released version 1.0.2 of its VLC media player, 
including many bug fixes, a few security fixes, and a couple of enhancement 
(especially support for the WMA Professional codec). If you haven't done so 
already, we recommend you update as soon as possible.

N.B.: there is a bug in VLC 1.0.0 and 1.0.1 that might prevent automatic 
update on Windows and MacOS. If this happens to you, please download VLC 
manually from http://www.videolan.org/ The issue should be fixed in the 
forthcoming updates. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Detailed changes from 1.0.1 follow:

Decoders:
 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
 * Various fixes on theora and ogg

Demuxers:
 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers

Access:
 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning

Qt Interface:
 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
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Jean-Baptiste Kempf | 7 Jul 13:10
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[videolan-announce] VLC 1.0.0

Dear VLC users and VideoLAN community,

The VideoLAN project and the VLC developers are very pleased to announce
the immediate release of VLC media player 1.0.0, codename "Goldeneye".

This release introduces many new features and includes:
* Instant pausing and Frame-by-Frame support
* Live recording
* Finer speed controls
* New HD codecs (AES3, Dolby Digital Plus, TrueHD, Blu-Ray Linear PCM, Real Video 3.0 and 4.0, ...)
* New formats (Raw Dirac, M2TS, ...) and majors improvements in many formats...
* New Dirac encoder and MP3 fixed-point encoder
* Video scaling in fullscreen
* RTSP Trickplay support
* Zipped file playback
* Customizable toolbars
* Easier encoding GUI in Qt interface
* Better integration in Gtk environments
* MTP devices on linux
* AirTunes streaming
* New skin for skins2 interface, made by Martin Pöhlmann

You can download it now on http://www.videolan.org/.

The VideoLAN team needs your help to continue the project.
If you can share time, hardware or money, that would help us a lot.

You can find more details on this release on the NEWS and Changelog files
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