VLC 1.1.4 release - VideoLAN
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VLC 1.1.4

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What's new in 1.1.4

A bit after the 1.1.3, an important security issue was discovery in most windows applications, and VLC is affected too. Since security issues matters, here is a new release, targeted for the Windows platform!

What's new in 1.1.3

A bit after the 1.1.2, we had to fix some important crashing bugs and you deserve a new release!

  • Taglib crash (CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004)
  • Fixes for FTP relative paths and directories
  • Fixes for Podcast and DVD modules
  • ... and many other crashes and errors fixed
  • Extensions and scripts updates
  • Miscellaneous fixes in interfaces
  • Updated translations

What's new in 1.1.2

Quite soon after the 1.1.1, we were able to squash more annoying bugs, hence a new release for you!

  • TS and DVB demuxing fixes
  • Audio filters fixes to solve the "mono" bug
  • Fix of the direct3d output module that display nothing on older nVidia and ATI cards, when overlay was activated
  • Extensions and scripts updates
  • Miscellaneous fixes in interfaces
  • Updated translations
  • Various crashes and errors fixed

What was new in 1.1.1

After more than 17million downloads of VLC 1.1.0 in one month,
this is a release focused on numerous fixes and small improvements:

  • Multiple libVLC improvements and fixes
  • Windows video output fixes
  • DxVA2 decoding on ATI GPU, with Catalyst 10.7
  • Various crashes and errors fixed
  • Multiple fixes for interfaces
  • Various decoders and demuxers fixes
  • Updated translations

What's new in all 1.1.x releases?

Ready for HD

  • GPU decoding on Windows Vista and 7, using DxVA2 for H.264, VC-1 and MPEG-2
  • GPU decoding on GNU/Linux, using VAAPI for H.264, VC-1 and MPEG-2
  • DSP decoding using OpenMax IL, for compatible embedded devices
  • Improved support for MKV HD, including seeking fixes, and 7.1 channels codecs
  • Support for new codecs, like Blu-Ray subtitles, MPEG-4 lossless and VP8

NB: so far, on Windows for GPU decoding, VideoLAN is recommending nVidia® GPU, or ATI® GPUs, with the Catalyst 10.7. Intel® GPU support will come when VLC developers get access to some Intel® hardware supporting GPU decoding.


Extensions

New add-ons and script framework so one can personalize its vlc.
  • Written in lua
  • 2 main types of scripts:
    • content add-ons, integrated in the playlist
    • functionnalities extensions, like metadata searching on the web, or subtitles look-ups
  • Very Simple

Web improvements

  • Support for WebM decoding and encoding
  • Improved web plugins
  • Better streaming capabilities

Better Audio experience

  • Integrated playlist in the Qt4 interface
  • Multiple views (like album art) in the playlist in the Qt4 interface
  • Support for AMR-NB, Mpeg-4 ALS, Vorbis 6.1/7.1, FLAC 6.1/7.1 and WMAS
  • CDDB and CD-Text works now on the Windows port when listening to CD-Audio
  • Support for DVD-Audio files (.aob)
  • Improved meta-data and album-art support

Faster, Lighter

  • Faster decoding, with up to 40% speed-ups, in HD resolutions
  • First part of the Video Output core rewrite
  • Removal or rewrite of dozens of modules, code simplification and tens of thousands of lines of code removed
  • Some functionalities that are less used are now moved to extensions
  • More assembly optimizatinons, especially SSSE3/SSE4 and ARM Neon
  • Fewer threads used

Better for developers

  • Simplified and improved libVLC, removal of exceptions for better C integration
  • New phonon-backend for Qt applications, on all platforms
  • New C++ bindings

Complete Changelog

Changelog for 1.1.3

Direct links and press contact

If you link to this release, please use the following links.

Source

VLC Source download

Win32

VLC Win32 installer
VLC Win32 7zip (no install)
VLC Win32 zip (no install)

Press contact

Contact infos

Removal of SHOUTcast functionnality

VideoLAN is in discussion with SHOUTcast to solve the current SHOUTcast issue. We'll keep you posted as soon as possible.