Friday, 22 December 2006

VLC 0.8.6 released

VideoLan Client version 0.8.6 just went live over at videolan.org. The new update includes su ort for Windows Media Video 9 and Flash Video, improved H.264 decoding, better Windows Unicode su ort, a Fullscreen controller, and su ort for the A le Remote.

Other improvements include "vastly improved" playlist su ort, with Shoutcast TV listings, last.fm/Audioscro ler su ort, and "live search"--which I'm going to have to play with to figure out what that mea . The interface has been updated bigtime and the Linux and Windows UIs are brand new. The OS X interface uses custom artwork by Simon Damkjar Andersen. New hotkeys for crop and zoom are included as well as a hot su ort.

You'll find lots of new video effects including "Adjust", "Invert", "Distort" (such as Wave, Ri le and Gradient) filters and a "puzzle video output" filter, which sounds cool but not very useful.

More details to follow as we get a chance to download and play with the new software. YAY!

Thanks Andrew Eller

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