VLC 1.1.8

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What's new in 1.1.8

Two months after VLC 1.1.6, and after more than 50 million downloads of VLC 1.1.7, here is a minor release of VLC 1.1.8.

Introducing small features and fixing important bugs and a security issues, here is VLC 1.1.8.

Security update regarding video width concerning some demuxers
Support for a new Dirac encoder based on libschroedinger
Package of the new VP8/Webm encoder 'Bali'
Notable updates in .mp4, .ogg, .ape demuxers
Major updates in most language translations
Fixes in skins2 supports of Winamp2 skins

Upgrade on the look of VLC for Mac OS X
Auto-detection for .txt subtitles is fixed
Fixes on Windows integration, notably regarding volume keys
Codecs updates
Many miscellaneous fixes

What's new in 1.1.6 and 1.1.7

Two months after VLC 1.1.5, and after more 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.

Introducing a security fix over 1.1.6, 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

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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Changelog for 1.1.8

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VLC Win32 7zip (no install)
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MacOSX

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Removal of SHOUTcast functionnality

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