WinApp | VLC Media Player 1.2.0 Nightly [28/11/2010] | 19.33 MB

Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.2.0-git:

Important changes for packagers:
* The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
* The default tarballs are now .tar.xz

* The NPAPI webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
* The ActiveX webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/activex-vlc.git
Access
* Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
* BDA: experimental support for ClearQam devices
* DVB-S scanning support
* DShow: support for freq and video standard selection
* Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
* Blu-Ray Discs integration using libbluray
* HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
* Blackmagic DeckLink SDI card input support (Linux only currently)
Codecs
* You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc
* Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
Core:
* Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
* Major Video Output and Video Core reworks and rewrites
* Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
Demuxers:
* id3tag plugin is now removed (superseded by taglib)
* new images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
* Ogg seeking improvements
* Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten from scratch using the C api
Interfaces
* The telnet interface has been removed in the favour of the lua one
* Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
* Qt: effects dialogs rework
* Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
* Qt: port to MacOS X platform
* ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
Video Output:
* New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
* New video output for iOS platform
* Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
* Various vmem improvements
Video Filter:
* New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
* Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
* New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
* Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht up to 254 channels
Audio Output:
* New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
Audio Filter:
* New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
Stream output:
* New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
Services Discovery:
* Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
libVLC:
* New capabilities for libVLC:
** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation