gHacks technology news » vlc media player http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:02:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 VLC Media Player 1.0 Released http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/07/vlc-media-player-1-0-released/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/07/vlc-media-player-1-0-released/#comments Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:34:24 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=14198 videolanThe VideoLan team today announced the release of version 1.0.0 of their popular media player VLC Media Player. The major release introduces many few features, formats and codecs to VLC and fixes a high number of bugs that were present in previous versions of the media player.

The changelog lists all of the changes and additions that the developers have packed into the new release of the VLC Player including live recording, finer speed controls, new HD codecs (AES3, Dolby Digital Plus, Real video 3.0 and 4.0), formats, video scaling in full screen or zipped file playback. VLC Media Player can still play most video and audio formats out of the box without needing third party codec installations to do so.

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VLC Player is still cross platform which means that the new release is available for all supported operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OSX and Linux. Users can download the new release directly from the developer’s website.

A viable alternative is SMPlayer which uses less resources than VLC Player while providing most of the benefits.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/07/vlc-media-player-1-0-released/feed/ 9 VLC Player Vulnerability http://www.ghacks.net/2008/03/19/vlc-player-vulnerability/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/03/19/vlc-player-vulnerability/#comments Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:22:13 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2008/03/19/vlc-player-vulnerability/ Torrentfreak are reporting that two vulnerabilities have been discovered in VLC Player which allow execution of arbitrary code. The second vulnerability has already been fixed in the newest version of VLC which is available for download on the developers homepage. The first vulnerability however can be exploited to cause stack-based buffer overflows when loading subtitles in VLC.

The solution given by the security company that discovered the vulnerability is to load only subtitles from trusted source or no subtitles at all until an official fix has been posted by the developers ov VLC.

Another option would be to switch to another player for the time being. SMPlayer, my favorite player, is another good choice which does not have this vulnerability.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/03/19/vlc-player-vulnerability/feed/ 2 VLC Media Player 0.86b Test 1 http://www.ghacks.net/2007/04/13/vlc-media-player-086b-test-1/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/04/13/vlc-media-player-086b-test-1/#comments Fri, 13 Apr 2007 09:58:10 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/04/13/vlc-media-player-086b-test-1/ The VideoLan team has upped a first test version of VLC Media Player 0.86b which happens to be my favorite media player. The new version fixes some crashes, adds VP31 decoding to Windows platforms and Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility. You can download this version right from the VideoLan ftp site; Simply select the version for your operating system (Win,Mac,Linux) and install it. I had no problems using the new version. If you experience crashes you might want to try this new version out.

VLC Media Player is one of the few players that is able to play most file types out of the box without the need for additional codecs or plugins. It does not use a lot of processing power or ram even when playing large video files. A 700 megabyte testfile used about 32 megabytes of ram and most of the time 0-2 processing power. Media Player Classic used less ram on the files (24.6) but between 18-28 processing power. So, if you are looking for a new media player to switch to give VLC a try, it is worth it.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2007/04/13/vlc-media-player-086b-test-1/feed/ 3 VLC Media Player http://www.ghacks.net/2006/05/04/vlc-media-player/ http://www.ghacks.net/2006/05/04/vlc-media-player/#comments Thu, 04 May 2006 07:12:42 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2006/05/04/vlc-media-player/ Don´t you hate all the different video and audio formats, all those codes and tools you need to play them all ? The VLC media player is able to play many formats including (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX) as well as DVD, (S)VCD and various streaming types. The player is available for various systems including windows, macintosh and linux. It can also act as a server and send streams through the network, with optional support for audio and video.

Remarkable is the ability to play broken and incomplete video files which means that users of e.g. emule are able to preview a video without downloading the complete file. The website offers a great howto which helps you understand the players functions. Oh, and it is open source, source code is available on the website.

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