VLC is a free cross-platform media player with a large number of codecs built-in.

VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

Various bugfixes:

• Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
• Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
• Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences in input
• Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
• Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code

Windows and Mac OS Binaries

• FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows

Active X plugin:

• Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703)

Mac OS X Interface & Port:

• Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
• Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
• Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
• Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of two different movies
• Support for current Ogg file formats
  NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher. Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.

Encoders:

• Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X

Other changes:

• The automatic updating facility was removed
• You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.

Program Information Category: Multimedia Type: Free Version: 0.8.6d Size: 9MB Works on: Windows Product page: here