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VLC media player - 0.7.0

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Release Date:	2004-01-03
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Product Description:

VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.

What's new in this version:

Core support:

Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
Video outputs are recycled if possible.
This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for subtitle files at the core, and much much more.

Playlist:

Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
Playlist sorting

Input:

RTP/RTSP support.
Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
Support for Flac in Ogg files.
MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
Reworked DVB tuning.
Better Icecast support.
New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.

Codecs:

Support for Theora video encoding.
Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
MPEG 2.5 audio support.
Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).

Stream output:

Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
--sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
Preliminary RTP support.
Fixes to SAP announces.

Interface:

Skins:
- Bugfixes
- misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
wxWindows
- Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
- Improvements and help in preferences
- New streaming wizard
- Revised Disc Open menu
HTTP
- Improvements of the standard pages
- Support for new commands
OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).

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