VLC Media Player

Originally Posted by Mooley

Sorry 7th only read your post now! I use XP Pro. The best in my opinion.

No problem. The reason i was asking is that i've seen this error on Linux a few times.

iv been using this now for a few days now and must say im very impress with it so far so thank you all so far its really good

Glad you like it Had. I've been using it for a while now, and rarely use anything else.

ya i had seen it around just never tried it but am impress

VLC media player 1.0.2

Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
--------------------------------

Decoders:
* Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
* Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
* Various fixes on theora and ogg

Demuxers:
* Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
* Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers

Access:
* Fixes for v4l2 devices
* Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning

Qt Interface:
* Fix some playlist sorting issues

Mac OS X Interface:
* Fixed a crash when updating VLC
* Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
* Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
* Added the "Quit after Playback" feature

Mac OS X Port:
* The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
* Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
- no support for Goom and SDL
- limited text rendering support
- This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.

Encoders:
* MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
* x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
* x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
- if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
- otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
- otherwise ABR-mode is used
* x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
- ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
- vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)

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thanks ferguj

Cheers ferguj, i'n still using the outdated version, time to upgrade.

Lads can anyone give me a step by step on how to stream from dreambox to my laptop as iv never streamed anything before,i have downloaded VLC last month but just dont no how to.

Thanks
Paddy.

VLC media player 1.0.3 RC

Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3-rc:
--------------------------------

Video outputs:
* 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 supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
* Fix downmixing of particual 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

Service discovery:
* New udev module for linux

Qt4 interface:
* Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels

Translations:
* Russian, Korean, Ukrainian, French, Polish, Slovak and Galician updates

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Nice one ferguj.

Thanks much for the update.

VLC media player 1.0.3

Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
--------------------------------

Video outputs:
* 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 supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
* Fix downmixing of particual 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

Translations:
* French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates

Just updated to 1.03. It set itself up as default player. Does anyone know how to disable auto default player ?


Thanks and Happy Holidays !


endo

Originally Posted by iluvendo

Just updated to 1.03. It set itself up as default player. Does anyone know how to disable auto default player ?


Thanks and Happy Holidays !


endo

I'm not sure if this is the most effecient way but its worth a try.

If your trying to play a MP3 or AVI and its opening up with VLC but you'd like it to open with windows media player instead then just select any mp3 or avi file on your computer, right click | properties | and change the default application these file types open with it, so no matter which avi or mp3 you chose, it will automatically open with your preferred player.

Hope that helps.

Endo, open VLC and go to "Tools" and then to "Preferences". There should be a pop up open and it should be showing the options for "Interface Settings." About half way down there will be a button labeled "Association Setup". Click it and then you can add or remove the files you want to automatically associate with the player.

Originally Posted by ferguj1

Endo, open VLC and go to "Tools" and then to "Preferences". There should be a pop up open and it should be showing the options for "Interface Settings." About half way down there will be a button labeled "Association Setup". Click it and then you can add or remove the files you want to automatically associate with the player.

Thanks bro, and Merry Christmas !

A Merry Christmas to you too buddy.

VLC media player 1.1.0 pre1

Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.1.0-pre1:
------------------------------------
Important changes for users:

Important changes for packagers:
* The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
launch each time.

Access:
* Support for the sftp protocol
* Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
* New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
* New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
* Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
* Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0

Decoders:
* Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
* Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
* Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP usage

* Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
* Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
* Invmem module improvements
* Support for Atrac1 audio codec
* Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
* Multiple improvements for subtitles styles .SRT and .SSA
* Support for Indeo5 video codec
* Support for Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec natively on all platforms
* Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
* Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
* Direct rendering is always used with H.264 in avcodec module
* Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec

Demuxers:
* Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
* Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
* Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
* Various EGP improvements
* Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files

Playlist:
* WPL and ZPL playlist support
* Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
* New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
* Podcast images are now displayed

Video Output:
* Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
* Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
* New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
* New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
* New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
* Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
Classic AtmoLight (Atmo-plugin )
Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
MoMoLight (amiblight4pc - MoMoLight)
Simple serial DMX controller (Elektronik, Mikroelektronik, Computer - UlrichRadig.de search for DMX)

Extensions:
* New content extensions lua framework
* IMDb extension

Audio filters:
* Chorus/Flanger audio filter
* 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
* Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
* NEON assembly audio converter module
* Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input

Visualization:
* Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries

Service discovery:
* Service discoveries can now be written in lua
* Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
* Service discovery based on libudev
* Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed

Encoders:
* x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
* x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
#transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline, level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
* x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
* libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required

Stream output:
* New smem module, streaming to memory
* Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
--sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0 ,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"

Interfaces:
* Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
and oldhttp.
* rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.

Mac OS X Port:
* Vastly improved VLCKit framework
* A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
* Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
by Andy Matuschak et al.
* New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
* New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)

Windows port:
* Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
* Experimental playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module

Maemo port:
* Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
* Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
* Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface

Misc:
* new sqlite module
* --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
* Fixed and reenabled netsync module.

Bindings:
* new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
* phonon bindings are now usable

Removed modules:
* csri codec: use the libass module instead.
* galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
* showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
* transrate: broken since too long
* Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
* HAL: Use libudev instead.
* gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
* WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
* opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
* linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
* XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
* MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
* opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
* cddax: use cdda instead.
* cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
* realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
* access_file removed in favor of filesystem
* RTMP input and output: use avio module

VLC media player 1.1.0 pre3

Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.1.0-pre3:
------------------------------------
Important changes for users:
* On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output. Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.

Important changes for packagers:
* The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to launch each time.
* Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses - xproto, - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb), - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils), - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
* On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.

Access:
* Support for the sftp protocol
* Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
* New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
* New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
* Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
* Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0

Decoders:
* Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
* Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
* Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP usage

* Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
* Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
* Invmem module improvements
* Support for Atrac1 audio codec
* Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
* Multiple improvements for subtitles styles .SRT and .SSA
* Support for Indeo5 video codec
* Support for Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec natively on all platforms
* Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
* Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
* Direct rendering is always used with H.264 in avcodec module
* Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec

Demuxers:
* Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
* Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
* Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
* Various EGP improvements
* Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files

Playlist:
* WPL and ZPL playlist support
* Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
* New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
* Podcast images are now displayed

Video Output:
* Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
* Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
* New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
* New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
* New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
* Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support forClassic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.ph...plugin)Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momoligh...ht.html)Simple serial DMX controller (Elektronik, Mikroelektronik, Computer - UlrichRadig.de search for DMX)

Extensions:
* New content extensions lua framework
* IMDb extension

Audio filters:
* Chorus/Flanger audio filter
* 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
* Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimitedresampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIFand A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
* NEON assembly audio converter module
* Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input

Visualization:
* Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries

Service discovery:
* Service discoveries can now be written in lua
* Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
* Service discovery based on libudev
* Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed

Encoders:
* x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
* x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example#transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=ba seline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
* x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given, uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
* libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required

Stream output:
* New smem module, streaming to memory
* Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like: --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0 ,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"

Interfaces:
* Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet and oldhttp.
* rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.

Mac OS X Port:
* Vastly improved VLCKit framework
* A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
* Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework by Andy Matuschak et al.
* New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
* New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
* Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote

Windows port:
* Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
* Experimental playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module

Maemo port:
* Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
* Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
* Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface

Misc:
* new sqlite module
* --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
* Fixed and reenabled netsync module.

Bindings:
* new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
* phonon bindings are now usable

Removed modules:
* csri codec: use the libass module instead.
* galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
* showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
* transrate: broken since too long
* Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
* HAL: Use libudev instead.
* gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
* WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
* opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
* linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
* XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
* MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
* opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
* cddax: use cdda instead.
* cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
* realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
* access_file removed in favor of filesystem
* RTMP input and output: use avio module

Beta download link:
http://download.videolan.org/pub/vid...pre3-win32.exe

VLC media player software page:
VLC media player - Open Source Multimedia Framework and Player