14 DAY TRIAL // VLC Media Player is one of the most popular applications that have been recently updated to the 1.0 version, and now a new flavor has been released to users. VLC Media Player 1.0.1 comes with a series of improvements and bug fixes, including translation updates, fixes for Qt and MacOS interface or codec updates for Mac OS and Windows.
As many of you might already know, VLC Media Player comes as a highly portable multimedia player that also works as a multimedia framework that can play back almost all the 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 change log of VLC Media Player 1.0.1 shows, besides the already mentioned features, flv and mpeg2 seeking, along with wmv, wav, rtsp and ssa support, a fix of an integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, as well as port of the ZVBI module to Windows for full teletext support.
The new improvements add to the already existing features of the VLC Media Player, such as Live recording, Instant pausing and Frame-by-Frame support, Zipped file playback, Customizable toolbars, AirTunes streaming, MTP devices on linux, Video scaling in fullscreen, RTSP Trickplay support, or the fact that it can be used as server to stream on IPv4 or IPv6 via high-bandwidth networks.
Those who would like to use the player on Mac systems should know that it requires QuickTime 6.5.2 or later, as well as a G4 / Intel processor for smooth MPEG-2 decoding. VLC Media Player comes as a free application, released under the GNU General Public License. Download VLC Media Player 1.0.1 for Mac OS X Download VLC Media Player 1.0.1 for Windows Download Portable VLC Media Player 1.0.0 for Windows Download VLC Media Player 1.0.1 for Linux