Software Update: VLC Media Player 1.0.2

The developers of VideoLAN have released version 1.0.2 of VLC Media Player. This open source and cross platform media player can play various audio, video and streaming formats without the need to install the appropriate codec. VLC Media Player is available for Windows 2000 and above, Linux, Mac OS X, and BSD; older versions are also available for Windows 9x, BeOS, Morphos, and Windows CE, among others. Below are all the changes made since version 1.01:

decoders:

• Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
• Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
• Various fixes on theora and ogg

Demuxers:

• Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
• Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers

Access:

• Fixes for v4l2 devices
• Fixes for dvb-c channels scanning

Qt Interface:

• Fix some playlist sorting issues

Mac OS X Interface:

• Fixed a crash when updating VLC
• Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
• Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
• Added the “Quit after Playback” feature

Mac OS X Port:

• The “Delete Preferences” script is now delivered as a Universal Binary with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
• Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
  • no support for Goom and SDL
  • limited text rendering support
  • This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.

encoders:

• MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
• x264 default-values ​​closer to x264.exe defaults.
• x264 rc behavior fixes:
  • if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
  • otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
  • otherwise ABR mode is used
• x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn’t defined these:
  • ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
  • vbv-bufsize is bitrate
  • seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)

playlist:

• Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback

Unix builds:

• Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD

translation:

• New Kazakh and Croatian translations
• Lithuanian translation is available on Windows
• Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Brazilian, Arabic and French translation updates