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.
Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
Decoders:
SubRip extra styles improvements
Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
Mac OS X Interface:
Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
Windows port:
Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly increase performance and fix x264 issues
Translations:
Portuguese Brazilian, Lithunanian, Romanian, Ukranian, Japanese, Bengali, Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish Russian, Slovak translation updates
New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:Audio outputs:
Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
Make PulseAudio the default output if available
Video outputs:
Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
Input:
Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
Playlist:
Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
Unix:
Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
Qt4 interface:
Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
Translations:
New Walloon translation
Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates