Software Update: VLC Media Player 0.7.0

The developers of the VideoLAN project have released a new version of their client, VLC Media Player. With the program you can watch streams broadcast by the VideoLAN server, but also play almost any format video from your hard disk:

The VideoLAN project targets multimedia streaming of MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and DivX files, DVDs, digital satellite channels, digital terrestial television channels and live videos on a high-bandwidth IPv4 or IPv6 network in unicast or multicast under many OSes. VideoLAN also features a cross-plaform multimedia player, VLC, which can be used to read the stream from the network or display video read locally on the computer under all GNU/Linux flavours, all BSD flavours, Windows, Mac OS X, BeOS, Solaris, QNX, Familiar Linux…[break]The new release is numbered 0.7.0, the complete changelog is available here† The announcement summarizes those changes as follows:[/break]This major release of VLC Media Player, codenamed “Bond”, features major core enhancements, support for RTP/RTSP, new audio visual effects, supports for new formats (Speex, MPEG2 4/2/2, AAC+SBR, … ), many interfaces and playlist enhancements, a new interface for MacOS X, a DirectShowinput on Win32, support for MacOS X 10.3 Panther, and much more![break]VLC Media Player is available as binary for many operating systems, and since it is an open source project you can always compile the source code yourself. you can do them all here to pick up.