The VideoLAN project targets multimedia streaming of MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and DivX files, DVDs, digital satellite channels, digital terrestial television channels and live videos on a high-bandwidth IPv4 or IPv6 network in unicast or multicast under many OSes.
VideoLAN - News
VLC media player 0.8.6i release We are pleased to announce the release of VLC media player 0.8.6i.This is a bugfix release. VLC media player 0.8.6h and earlier versions suffer from security vulnerabilities in the WAV demuxer.This release also includes improved audio visualizations on FreeBSD and miscellaneous bug fixes in multiple modules.More information can be found in our Security Advisory and in the Release Notes.We strongly recommend all users to update to this new version.
VLC media player 0.8.6h release We are pleased to announce the release of VLC media player 0.8.6h.This is a bugfix release. VLC media player 0.8.6g (a source code release) and earlier versions suffer from security vulnerabilities in the GnuTLS, libgcrypt and libxml2 libraries.VLC media player 0.8.6f and earlier versions suffer from security vulnerabilities in the Mozilla and ActiveX plugins, in the libpng, libid3tag, libvorbis libraries and in the Speex codec. Technical details are available in our security advisories. This update also includes reliability improvements in multiple modules. More information can be found in the release notes for 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h. We strongly recommend all users to update to this new version.
VLMa release The VideoLAN team is pleased to announce the release of VideoLAN Manager 0.1.VideoLAN Manager (VLMa) is a Java application which aims to provide an easy way to manage several servers running VLC to stream over a multicast network.More information at http://www.videolan.org/vlma.
Google Summer of Code 2008 (2) The VideoLAN project was assigned 14 slots by Google. 10 of those went to VLC related projects and 4 to x264 projects. Official results are available on Google's website. Thanks to all the students who posted an application. Sorry to those who weren't chosen ... and start coding if you were!
VLC media player 0.8.6f release We are pleased to announce the release of VLC media player 0.8.6f.This is a bugfix release. VLC media player 0.8.6e and earlier versions suffer from security vulnerabilities in the Subtitle demuxer, Real RTSP demuxer, MP4 demuxer and Cinepak codec.This release also includes improved video output on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X and compatibility with Windows 9x/ME has been restored.We strongly recommend all users to update to this new version.More information can be found in our Security Advisory and in the Release Notes.
