Download VLC Media Player 0.7.2

The VideoLAN project team has released version 0.7.2 of their media player. VLC is an open source, cross platform media player that has ‘out of the box’ support for MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG4, DivX and XviD video files. Also, different audio formats can be played, such as mp3 and Ogg Vorbis. The looks of the program can be changed using skins† The developers left the following changelog:

Core support:

• Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
• Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
• Improved HTTP daemon.
• Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.

Codecs:

• New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec. †http://www.annodex.net/overview.html†
• New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
• H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
• Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
• Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).

Input:

• –start-time and –stop-time to start and stop playing a file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4)
• Improved directory access module.
• New “file-cat” option to play truncated movies.
• Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc…).
• New options to pass meta info to the input.
• It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)

Demux:

• Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
• mmsh streaming fixes.
• Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.

subtitles:

• Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
• Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
• Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.

Stream output:

• Improved session announcement system.
• Minimize threads usage by default.
• Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
• Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
• Improved MPEG TS muxer.
• Improved transformer.
• Meta info options used by the muxers.
• New configuration system.
• Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.

Video LAN manager:

• New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
• Supports live streams and VoD.
• Support scheduling.
• Telnet interface for vlm.
• HTTP interface for vlm.

Interfaces:

• Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
• Ability to embed video output.
• Support for bitmap fonts.
• Lots of improvements.
• wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
• New design and set of icons.
• Ability to embed video output.
• Support for hot keys.
• Support for bookmarks.
• Mac OS X
• Support for ‘groups’ and playlist item properties.
• Better hot keys handling.

Mac OS X port:

• OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
• Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
• Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
• Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).

Win32 port:

• DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
• Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
• Improved Windows installer.

Linux port:

• Power PC fixes.

Misc:

• Improvements to the Goom visualization plugin.
• Roku HD1000 audio output.

[break]For the Windows platform, there is a installer and a zip file to download, for MacOS X can here the binaries are retrieved. The website does not yet contain any binaries or packages for people using Linux, Solaris or a BSD variant. However, the source code can be downloadedto using this one necessary libraries to be compiled.