VLC media player 1.1.6

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VLC media player 1.1.6

The media player that fills all your needs. It can handle DVDs, (S)VCDs, Audio CDs, web streams, TV cards and much more.

You don't need to keep track of a dozen codec packs you need to have installed. VLC has all codecs built-in. It comes with support for nearly all codec there is.

And what is more it can even play back the file or media if it is damaged! Missing or broken pieces are no stop to VLC, it plays all the video and audio information that's still intact.



Windows self-extracting package

Code:
[url]http://space.dl.sourceforge.net/project/vlc/1.1.6/win32/vlc-1.1.6-win32.exe[/url]

Windows 7zip (No installer needed)

Code:
[url]http://space.dl.sourceforge.net/project/vlc/1.1.6/win32/vlc-1.1.6-win32.7z[/url]

Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
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Audio output:
* Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.

Access:
* Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows

Decoders:
* Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
* Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
* Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries

Demuxers:
* Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
* Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
* Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)

Subtitles and renderer:
* Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
* Mark more freetype options as safe
* Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
* Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi

Visualization:
* Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
* Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
* Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
* Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X

Interfaces:
* Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
* Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
* KDE: work-around open dialog first slow opening because of KMimeTypeRepository

Miscellaneous fixes:
* KDE device solid actions
* XDG screensaver
* Transcode integer overflow
* HTTP Icy metadata reading
* Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers

Translations:
* Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
 
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