gHacks technology news » vlc http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:43:02 +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 A VLC alternative called SMPlayer http://www.ghacks.net/2007/06/01/a-vlc-alternative-called-smplayer/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/06/01/a-vlc-alternative-called-smplayer/#comments Fri, 01 Jun 2007 17:03:54 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/06/01/a-vlc-alternative-called-smplayer/ One of my regular readers CC send me a link to SMPlayer about a week ago and I was testing the frontend for mplayer since. SMPlayer is a video player that is supporting the most important video formats out of the box including avi, mpg, mov, wmv and vob plus numerous other formats.

It is also possible to play DVDs and Internet streams with the video player that is available for Windows and Linux. Several ways of displaying subtitles and various subtitle formats are supported including srt, sub and DVD subtitles. I personally think that SMPlayer is a great alternative to the VLC player.

This could be useful for everyone who is having troubles with VLC for example. The only real difference that I was able to spot was that the SMPlayer is Open Source and that it remembers where the playback of the video stopped. Make sure you download the full SMPlayer plus the update.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2007/06/01/a-vlc-alternative-called-smplayer/feed/ 11 Video Wallpapers for all Vista versions http://www.ghacks.net/2007/03/17/video-wallpapers-for-all-vista-versions/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/03/17/video-wallpapers-for-all-vista-versions/#comments Sat, 17 Mar 2007 11:10:39 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/03/17/video-wallpapers-for-all-vista-versions/ Vista Ultimate has a feature called Dreamscene that can be downloaded as a preview version including a Dreamscene content package which was released just a few days ago. Dreamscene makes it possible to use Videos as wallpapers in Windows Vista. The Dreamscene content package added four new videos that could be used as wallpapers in Windows Vista but you can also use other videos to use as a wallpaper.

It is nice that Microsoft added the functionality to Windows Vista Ultimate but all other versions miss the program because it is only available to Windows Vista Ultimate. I really don’t like the way Microsoft added and removed features in various Windows Vista versions, this is just confusing for the customers. Let me show you a free way to add video wallpapers to all versions of Windows Vista. All you need is the free VLC media player.

Just open a video file in VLC, right-click it and choose wallpaper from the menu. That’s it basically, we could finetune it further by doing the following. Go to Settings > Preferences > Interface > Main Interfaces > wxWidgets; disable taskbar and enable systray to remove the VLC windows from the taskbar. Go to Playlist and select Repeat current item to loop it. If the wallpaper option is not available in first place go to Settings > Preferences > Video > Output Modules > Direct X, select Advanced and check Enable Wallpaper Mode.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2007/03/17/video-wallpapers-for-all-vista-versions/feed/ 17 Bsplayer 2.0 out http://www.ghacks.net/2006/07/02/bsplayer-20-out/ http://www.ghacks.net/2006/07/02/bsplayer-20-out/#comments Sun, 02 Jul 2006 13:51:56 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2006/07/02/bsplayer-20-out/ The multimedia player Bsplayer has been released in the new version 2.0 today. I was using previous versions of bsplayer and was really satisfied with it. It had some minor problems and I made the switch to VLC media player and plan on using that one even though the new version of bsplayer has been released.

The player supports most used multimedia formats like avi, mp(e)g, divx, xvid, asf, wmv and many audio formats like mp3 and wav. It supports subtitles, drag and drop, resolution changing, multipled audio streams and is able to capture frames. If you are still using media player you should try and make the switch, it´s faster and better than it.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2006/07/02/bsplayer-20-out/feed/ 4 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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