Software Update: VLC Media Player 2.0.8

An update of version 2.0 of VLC Media Player has been released. This open source and cross-platform media player can play a variety of audio, video and streaming formats without the need to install the appropriate codec. There is also a version for Windows. The source code should also make the program usable for operating systems such as Linux, BSD and Solaris. A version for Android is in development.

Version 2.0, codenamed Twoflower after a character from Terry Pratchett’s Discworld books, is a lot faster on systems equipped with a multicore processor. Furthermore, the program now supports more media formats, subtitles are displayed in better quality and there is experimental support for Blu-ray discs. In version 2.0.8 the following changes and improvements have been made:

2.0.8 specific changes

• Fix ISDB-S tuning on Linux.
• Fix crash in QTsound.
• Fix use after free in sgimb module.
• New Kannada translation.
• Fix crashes in libavcodec module.
• Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access module.
• Improve resistance against malformed MKV files.