Software Update: VLC Media Player 1.0.3

The developers of VideoLAN have released version 1.0.3 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. Version 1.0.3 mainly contains bug fixes and should provide improved quality mainly for Windows 7 users. The Mac OS X download isn’t available at this time, but should be coming soon. Below are all the changes made since version 1.0.2:

Video output:

• Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to regressions in most popular drivers
• New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms

decoders:

• Windows version now natively supports the WMA Professional codec, as it didn’t work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
• Fix downmixing of partial 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks

encoders:

• x264 has profile-limitter, like: #transcode{vcodec=h264, venc=x264 {profile=baseline,level=12}..}

Input:

• Update for appletrailers lua script
• Fixes on the RAR stream filter
• Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
• Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
• Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer

Service discovery:

• New udev module for linux

Qt4 interface:

• Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels

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