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VideoLAN 0.8.2 & 0.8.4-test1 beta

Author: VideoLAN
Latest version: 0.8.6e <-- GET THE LATEST VERSION
VideoLAN plays lots of video formats, even without the proper codecs installed. Good for previewing partially downloaded files. VideoLAN is a project of French students from the École Centrale Paris and developers from all over the world. VLC (VideoLAN Client) is a multi-platform multimedia player. It handles most MPEG, AVI (including DivX), ASF, WMV, OGG, MP4 and WAV files. See the complete features list: http://videolan.org/vlc/features.html VideoLAN allows you to stream 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 also features a cross-plaform multimedia player, VLC, which can be used to read the stream from the network or display video read locally on the computer under Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, BeOS, BSD, Solaris, QNX, Familiar Linux... VideoLAN is free software, and is released under the GNU General Public License.

Windows:
1st mirror: 0.8.2 Final / 2nd mirror: 0.8.4-test1 beta
Mirror 1. Download VideoLAN 0.8.2 & 0.8.4-test1 beta
Mirror 2. Download VideoLAN 0.8.2 & 0.8.4-test1 beta

Report a version update

Date: 4/19/2003 11:44:51 AM

Reported by: Nautus

Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
(27th February 2008)
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Various bugfixes:
* Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
* Fixed XShm detection with remote X11

Security updates:
* Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
* HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
* Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
* Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296, VideoLAN-SA-0801)
* Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130, VideoLAN-SA-0802)

Audio filter:
* Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter

Audio output:
* Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA

...
http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/browser/tags/0.8.6e/NEWS

Earlier versions:
VideoLAN - 0.8.6e
VideoLAN - (VLC media player) 0.8.6d
VideoLAN - 0.86c
VideoLAN - 0.86b
VideoLAN - 0.8.6a
VideoLAN - 0.8.5
VideoLAN - 0.8.4a
VideoLAN - 0.8.2 & 0.8.4-test2 beta
VideoLAN - 0.8.2 & 0.8.4-test1 beta
VideoLAN - 0.8.2 Final
VideoLAN - 0.8.1 Final / 0.8.2-test3 beta
VideoLAN - 0.8.1 Final / 0.8.2-test2 beta
VideoLAN - 0.8.1 Final / 0.8.2-test1 beta
VideoLAN - 0.7.2
VideoLAN - 0.7.1
VideoLAN - 0.7.0
VideoLAN - 0.6.0
VideoLAN - 0.5.3

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