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VLC 2.0 is Released, New Look with Tons New Features and Improvement

VLC is a popular open source Media player. If you don’t install additional codec, your default Windows Media Player will only be able to play a limited number of formats. VLC is an alternative, much preferred player for videos. VLC 2.0 is a major update, comes with some awesome new improvements and features that worth to check it out if you haven’t.

New Features/Improvements Highlight

• Rewritten video output core and modules, allowing subpicture blending in GPU.
  
• Multi-threaded decoding for H.264, MPEG-4/Xvid and WebM
  
• Completely new, single window interface
  
• New resamplers for higher quality audio
  
• Support for 10bits codecs, WMV image and some other codecs
  
• New JSON requests on the web interface to control running VLC instances
  
• VLC’s web plugins have been rewritten for better integration and stability in all browsers

For most average consumers, with VLC, you don’t ever need to worry which format the video is. It can pretty much play all kinds of videos, even for some partial uncompleted videos.

Download VLC 2.0 for Windows now

SOURCE: http://www.windows7h...d-improvements/

Steve

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Security Advisory - VLC 2.0.5 and earlier..

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Critical flaw hits latest VLC media player software

Vulnerability can be exploited remotely by tricking users into opening malicious ASF files

By Lucian Constantin
January 31, 2013 03:52 AM ET

IDG News Service - Versions 2.0.5 and earlier of the popular VLC media player software contain a critical vulnerability that can be potentially exploited by attackers to execute malicious code on computers.

The vulnerability is located in the VLC component responsible for playing ASF (Advanced Streaming Format) video files, VideoLAN, the non-profit organization that develops the media player, said in a security advisory published on its website.

Vulnerability research and management firm Secunia rated the flaw as highly critical and said its successful exploitation could allow the execution of arbitrary code. The flaw can be exploited by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted ASF file.

VideoLAN advises users to refrain from opening files from untrusted locations and to disable the VLC browser plug-ins until the issue is patched. By default, VLC installs plug-ins for Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Apple Safari, Opera and Konqueror. The plug-ins allow the playback of video files embedded into Web pages.

An alternative solution is to manually delete the vulnerable libasf_plugin.dll file from the VLC installation directory, VideoLAN said. This will disable the software's ability to play ASF videos until a patched version of the file is reinstalled during a software update.
A patch will be included in VLC 2.0.6 (More...)

Read more on this flaw at: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9236393/Critical_flaw_hits_latest_VLC_media_player_software

Steve

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VLC 2.0.6 is now available for download.

April 12, 2013

Windows version; other versions further down in this post..

Windows XP SP2, 2003 SP2, Vista SP1, 2008 SP1, 7 and 8


Features:

Simple, fast and powerful media player.

Plays everything: Files, Discs, Webcams, Devices and Streams.

Plays most codecs with no codec packs needed:
MPEG-2, DivX, H.264, MKV, WebM, WMV, MP3...

Runs on all platforms: Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Unix...

Completely Free, 0 spyware, 0 ads and no user tracking.

Can do media conversion and streaming.

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Steve