Download VLC Media Player 0.7.1

The developers of the VideoLAN project have released a new version of the VLC Media Player. This media player supports well-known video and audio formats as well as various streaming protocols. The version number has arrived at 0.7.1 and it changelog show us the following changes:

This new release of VLC media player is a bit more than a bug-fix release as it does in fact include many new features. IGMPv3 support (Linux and WinXP), software DTS audio decoding, MOD audio support, a few new demuxers, an OpenGL video output plugin for OSX and much more!

Core support:

• Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
• IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.

Codecs:

• Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
  (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
• Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
• SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles

playlist:

• Internal improvements
• Improved import/export

Input:

• Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm) container formars.
• New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many small and strange formats.
• New PVA demux.
• New MOD audio demux.
• Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
• Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
• New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
• Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.

Stream output:

• MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc…).
• Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
• Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc…).

Service discovery:

• Fixed sdp in SAP.

Mac OS X port:

• New opengl video output plugin.

Win32 port:

• A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
• Fixed ipv6 name resolution.