Software Update: VLC Media Player 0.8.0

7px; height:100px;” align=right hspace=5 vspace=2 title=”VideoLAN / VLC logo” alt=”VideoLAN / VLC logo” />The VideoLAN team have put together a new version in the form of 0.8.0 from VLC Media Player. The update can be done from this page available for download in several flavors, including for Windows, Linux, and MacOS X. VLC Media Player is an open source, cross-platform media player that natively supports MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG4, DivX, and XviD video files. Various audio formats can also be played, such as mp3 and Ogg Vorbis. Below are the release notes with the most important changes of the 0.8.0 release. An overview with all adjustments is possible here to be found:

It’s been a long wait, but it’s finally there. A plethora of new features for everyone’s enjoyment. They include: faster and more flexible input layer, improved transcoding, a plugins cache to speedup VLC startup time, vastly improved subtitles, OSD and DVD support, Windows Media Video 3 support under Windows, Multipart JPEG webcam support, an audio equalizer and so much , much more.