Download VLC Media Player 1.1.7

The developers of VideoLAN have released an update for last week’s version 1.1.6 of VLC Media Player. This open source cross platform media player can play a variety of audio, video and streaming formats without having 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. Since version 1.1.1 there is DxVA2 hardware acceleration in combination with ATi video cards, provided that at least version 10.7 of the Catalyst drivers is used. In version 1.1.7, a minor security issue has been reported to have been resolved.

VLC 1.1.7

VideoLAN and the VLC development team present VLC 1.1.7, a small security update on 1.1.6.

Small new features, many bug fixes, updated translations and security issues were making the 1.1.6 release. Notable improvements include codecs, demuxers, Audio-CD support, subtitles, visualization and platform integration.

Source and Windows and MacOSX builds are available.

see the release notes for more information on 1.1.6.