VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multi-platform multimedia player for various audio and Video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, Ogg, OGM, MOV, wma, wmv...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. The VideoLAN project targets multimedia streaming of MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and DivX files, DVDs, digital satellite channels, digital terrestial television channels and live videos on a high-bandwidth IPv4 or IPv6 network in unicast or multicast under many OSes. VideoLAN also features a cross-platform multimedia player, VLC, which can be used to read the stream from the network or display video read locally on the computer under all GNU/Linux flavours, all BSD flavours, Windows, Mac OS X, BeOS, Solaris, QNX... Rewrite of the playlist (tree structure, input preparsing ...) Preferences improvements XML parsers Client-side SSL/TLS support Massive Matroska improvements Support for SOCKS proxy Support for Shoutcast Meta-data Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams TiVo demuxer Samba (Windows shares) access module Dirac decoder and encoder PNG decoder/encoder Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec Services discovery modules (brand new SAP module, HAL discovery, DAAP (iTunes shares), shoutcast) Support for 20/24 bits LPCM Video snapshot support (png or jpg) Image file video output (png) Mosaic (picture-in-picture system) Pocket PC port Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin Changes in VLC (VideoLAN Client): Demuxers * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326 * Fix Dailymotion access script * Fix crashes in xspf files handler * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version Access * Add extra caching for files on network shares * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria Decoders * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files * Improve SSA subtitles rendering * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version Muxers * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio Qt Interface * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening Mac OS X Interface * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips * More reliable Information and Messages panels * Fix various crashes Windows port * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support