Video Lan Client, the nigh-indispensable open source media player for multiple audio and video formats (MPEG, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, Divx, ogg, etc.), was updated to version 1.0.3 over the weekend. The new version, a 41 megabyte download, adds the following fixes and changes:
Video outputs:
– Fixed video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to regressions in most popular drivers.
– New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms.
Decoders:
– Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it didn’t work in the packaged version of 1.0.2.
– Fixed downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks.
Encoders:
– x264 has profile-limitter, like: #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}.
Input:
– Update for appletrailers lua script.
– Fixes on the RAR stream filter.
– Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams.
– Various fixes for v4l and v4l2.
– Fixed a crash in mjpeg demuxer.
Service discovery:
– New udev module for linux.
Qt4 interface:
– Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels.
Translations:
– French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates.
VLC 1.0.3 requires Mac OS X 10.5 or later to install and run and is available as a free download.