Software Update: VLC Media Player 0.8.2

After seven months of hard work, the development team behind VLC has finally found version 0.82 sufficiently stable to allow the software to move out of beta. VLC Media Player is an open source, cross-platform media player that supports various formats of audio, video and streaming protocols. The software can also be used to stream media in unicast or multicast on a local network. This release includes a completely rewritten playlist, improved preferences, full support for Mac OS X Tiger, a new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin and VLC is now also available for the Pocket PC. The complete changelog is available on this page are found, these are the highlights from this release:

Features include:

• Rewrite of the playlist (tree structure, input preparsing …)
• Preference improvements
• Mac OS X Tiger compatibility
• Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
• Client side SSL/TLS support
• Support for FTP over IPv6
• Massive Matroska improvements
• Support for SOCKS proxy
• Support for Shoutcast metadata
• Support for (HE-)AAC raw audio streams
• TiVo demuxer
• Samba (Windows shares) access module for Linux
• Dirac decoder and encoder
• PNG decoder/encoder
• Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
• Services discovery modules (brand new SAP module, HAL discovery, DAAP (iTunes shares), shoutcast
• Support for 20/24 bit LPCM
• Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
• Image file video output (png)
• Mosaic (picture in picture system)
• New Mac OS X audio output module. SPDIF is not supported by this module.
• Pocket PC port