VLC Media Player comes as a highly portable multimedia player that also works as a multimedia framework. It can play almost any audio and video formats available today, including MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, DivX, MPEG-1, mp3, ogg, aac, and more. In addition, the player can also read DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs and a series of streaming protocols.

The folks at the VideoLAN Project have revealed that VLC media player 1.0.3 boasts a completely reworked user interface on the Mac, based upon works from GSoC 2008, according to the release notes. Video output changes include a rewritten video output core, as well as most video outputs; a new desktop mode to the Direct3D output module, which differs from DirectX desktop mode because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks; new x11 and xv modules based on XCB; new deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2).

Decoder changes include support for Atrac1, HD dvb subtitles – Display Definition Segment support, PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray and Invmem modules improvements. Access enhancements mentioned in the changelog include the port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB, support for the sftp protocol and support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD, but the latter applies only for Windows users.

VLC for Mac also now supports WPL and ZPL playlists, Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios, a new Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image, and the ability to display podcast images.

Added / tweaked audio filters include Chorus/Flanger audio filter; 3F1R to stereo downmix filter; Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_float, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API; NEON assembly audio converter module.

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