Op de website staan nog geen binaries of packages voor mensen die Linux, Solaris of een BSD-variant gebruiken. Voor het Windows-platform is er een installer en een zipfile te downloaden, voor MacOS X kunnen hier de binaries worden opgehaald. Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.Disable monitor power down when watching movies.DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.OpenGL video output is now the default when available.Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.

wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface).New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television).

New options to pass meta info to the input.

Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc.).

New 'file-cat' option to play truncated movies.

Only works with a few fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4)

-start-time and -stop-time to start and stop playing a file at the specified amount of seconds.

Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).

Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).

New H.261 video decoder using openmash.

New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.

Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.

Support for video output embedded in interfaces.

Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.

De developers lieten het volgende changelog achter: Core support: De looks van het programma kunnen worden veranderd met behulp van skins. Ook kunnen er verschillende audioformaten worden gespeeld, zoals mp3 en Ogg Vorbis. VLC is een open source, crossplatform mediaspeler die 'out of the box' ondersteuning voor MPEG1-, MPEG2-, MPEG4-, DivX- en XviD-videobestanden heeft. Het team van het VideoLAN-project heeft versie 0.7.2 van hun mediaplayer uitgebracht.

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