VLC media player 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. It doesn't need any external codec or program to work.

Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
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Security updates:
* Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
* Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds

Features:
* Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2

Various bugfixes:
* Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
* Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)

Windows port:
* Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
* Fix some crashes in DirectShow access

Qt Interface:
* Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
* Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
* Various fixed in playlist

Access:
* MMAP module is now deactivated by default

Translations:
* Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation

Note: Currently it's only available for Mac and Linux. A Windows version will follow shortly.

Program Information Category: Multimedia Type: Free Version: 0.9.5 Size: 14MB Works on: Mac, Linux Product page: here