VLC Media Player 1.0.5

VLC media player is an open source, free software media player and multimedia framework written by the VideoLAN project.VLC is a portable multimedia player, encoder, and streamer supporting many audio and video codecs and file formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It is able to stream over networks and to transcode multimedia files and save them into various formats. VLC used to stand for VideoLAN Client, but that meaning is now deprecated.
VLC Media Player HOMEPAGE:www.videolan.org/vlc
VLC Media Player Type: Open Source
VLC Media Player DOWNLOAD:VLC 1.0.5
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VLC Media Player Size: 17.64MB
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It is one of the most platform-independent players available, with versions for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, BeOS, Syllable, BSD, MorphOS, Solaris and Sharp Zaurus, and is widely used with over 324 609 909 downloads for all versions as of 07 November 2009.

The default distribution of VLC includes a large number of free decoding and encoding libraries; on the Windows platform, this greatly reduces the need for finding/calibrating proprietary plugins. Many of VLC's codecs are provided by the libavcodec library from the FFmpeg project, but it uses mainly its own muxer and demuxers. It also gained distinction as the first player to support playback of encrypted DVDs on Linux by using the libdvdcss DVD decryption library.

VLC Media Player 1.0.5 fix's:

# 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