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What's new in 1.1.6

Two months after VLC 1.1.5, and after mor than 58 million downloads of VLC 1.1.5, here is a minor release of VLC 1.1.6.

Introducing small features and fixing important bugs and a security issues, here is VLC 1.1.6.

Security updates in codecs and demuxers

Support for RTP/PCM 24bits, audio/L24

Support for MPC SV7/SV8 on Windows and MacOS builds

Faster Webm/VP8 decoding

Support for Midi on MacOS

Major updates in most language translations

Support for projectM visualisation on Windows

KDE and PulseAudio integration improvements

Subtitles fixes and improvements

Improvements in visualisations and interfaces

Codecs updates

Many miscellaneous fixes

What was new in 1.1.5

Two and a half months after VLC 1.1.4, and after almost 50 million downloads of VLC 1.1.4, here is a minor release of VLC 1.1.5.

Introducing small features and fixing important bug and a security issue, here is VLC 1.1.5.

1000 Web-shows listing integrated inside VLC's playlist, provided by MetaChannels.com

New Game Music Emu (GME) support

Windows SMB security issue - VideoLAN-SA-1006

Major updates in translations, and new translations in Asturian, Armenian and Modern Greek

Mac/PowerPC port fixed in 1.1.4.1

live .webm streams support

GPU HD decoding using Intel IGP on Windows, using DxVA2

Miscellaneous fixes on all Interfaces, Demuxers and Decoders modules

Codecs updates

What was new in 1.1.4

A bit after the 1.1.3, an important security issue was discovery in most windows applications, and VLC is affected too. Since security issues matters, here is a new release, targeted for the Windows platform!

Windows Dll loading security issue, in Qt4 and dmo modules - VideoLAN-SA-1005

Fix for folders opening issue on Windows

Updated translations

What was new in 1.1.3

A bit after the 1.1.2, we had to fix some important crashing bugs and you deserve a new release!

Taglib crash (CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004)

Fixes for FTP relative paths and directories

Fixes for Podcast and DVD modules

... and many other crashes and errors fixed

Extensions and scripts updates

Miscellaneous fixes in interfaces

Updated translations

What was new in 1.1.2

Quite soon after the 1.1.1, we were able to squash more annoying bugs, hence a new release for you!

TS and DVB demuxing fixes

Audio filters fixes to solve the "mono" bug

Fix of the direct3d output module that display nothing on older nVidia and ATI cards, when overlay was activated

Extensions and scripts updates

Miscellaneous fixes in interfaces

Updated translations

Various crashes and errors fixed

What was new in 1.1.1

After more than 17million downloads of VLC 1.1.0 in one month,

this is a release focused on numerous fixes and small improvements:

Multiple libVLC improvements and fixes

Windows video output fixes

DxVA2 decoding on ATI GPU, with Catalyst 10.7

Various crashes and errors fixed

Multiple fixes for interfaces

Various decoders and demuxers fixes

Updated translations

What's new in all 1.1.x releases?

Ready for HD GPU decoding on Windows Vista and 7, using DxVA2 for H.264, VC-1 and MPEG-2

GPU decoding on GNU/Linux, using VAAPI for H.264, VC-1 and MPEG-2

DSP decoding using OpenMax IL, for compatible embedded devices

Improved support for MKV HD, including seeking fixes, and 7.1 channels codecs

Support for new codecs, like Blu-Ray subtitles, MPEG-4 lossless and VP8 NB: so far, on Windows for GPU decoding, VideoLAN is recommending nVidia® GPU, or ATI® GPUs, with the Catalyst 10.7. Intel® GPU support will come when VLC developers get access to some Intel® hardware supporting GPU decoding.

Extensions New add-ons and script framework so one can personalize its vlc. Written in lua

2 main types of scripts: content add-ons, integrated in the playlist functionnalities extensions, like metadata searching on the web, or subtitles look-ups

Very Simple Web improvements Support for WebM decoding and encoding

Improved web plugins

Better streaming capabilities New add-ons and script framework so one can personalize its vlc.

Better Audio experience Integrated playlist in the Qt4 interface

Multiple views (like album art) in the playlist in the Qt4 interface

Support for AMR-NB, Mpeg-4 ALS, Vorbis 6.1/7.1, FLAC 6.1/7.1 and WMAS

CDDB and CD-Text works now on the Windows port when listening to CD-Audio

Support for DVD-Audio files (.aob)

Improved meta-data and album-art support Faster, Lighter Faster decoding, with up to 40% speed-ups, in HD resolutions

First part of the Video Output core rewrite

Removal or rewrite of dozens of modules, code simplification and tens of thousands of lines of code removed

Some functionalities that are less used are now moved to extensions

More assembly optimizatinons, especially SSSE3/SSE4 and ARM Neon

Fewer threads used Better for developers Simplified and improved libVLC, removal of exceptions for better C integration

New phonon-backend for Qt applications, on all platforms

New C++ bindings



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Removal of SHOUTcast functionnality

If you link to this release, please use the following links.

VideoLAN is in discussion with SHOUTcast to solve the current SHOUTcast issue. We'll keep you posted as soon as possible.