VideoLAN is an excellent multimedia player with it’s own plugins for playing different formats, so it doesn’t need any codecs to be installed. It works great for previewing partially downloaded files too as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. The Windows 7 image quality issues should have been fixed in this release.
Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
——————————–Video outputs:
* Fix 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) algorithmsDecoders:
* Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
didn’t work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
* Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracksEncoders:
* 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
* Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxerService discovery:
* New udev module for linuxQt4 interface:
* Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panelsTranslations:
* French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
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