Download VLC Media Player 0.8.6-rc1

spellcoder points us to the first release candidate of VLC Media Player 0.8.6. This release was preceded by three test versions in which a number of new decoders, video outputs and localizations were tested and are still being tested with the arrival of the rc status, including native support for WMV3 and VC-1, improved support for H.264 and improvements for the Mozilla and ActiveX plugins. VLC Media Player is an open source media player that can be used on a wide range of operating systems such as Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. The player is able to play a large number of media formats without additional codecs, ranging from MPEG1, MPEG2 and VCD to various streaming protocols. VLC Media Player 0.8.6-rc1 can via this folder be downloaded in a number of versions. Below is the changelog compared to version 0.8.5:

playlist:

• Shoutcast TV listing support

Input:

• Support for RTSP authentication
• Support for adding subtitles on the fly
• Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
• ATSC support for DVB input
• Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
• Partial reading support for MXF and GXF file format
• Improved support for Flash Video files

decoders:

• Native WMV9/VC-1 support
• WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
• VP5/VP6 – Flash Video support
• The True Audio Lossless codec support
• Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc)
• Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
• Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles

Video output:

• Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, …)
• Improved libcaca support

Interfaces:

• All
  • New hotkeys for crop and zoom
  • Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
• Windows
  • Systray support in skins
• OS X
  • Support for Apple Remote control
  • Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
  • New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
  • right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
  • Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
• Linux
  • Notifications using notification daemon

windows ports:

• Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
  Windows 9x/ME users:
  • Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
  • Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the Microsoft Layer for Unicode
• Fixed IPv6 support on the client side

Localisation:

• Add Czech
• Add Slovak
• Add Malay
• Add Slovenian

Developers:

• Updates to the libvlc API
• Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins