VLC 0.8.0-test2 first Linux player to support SomaFM's aacPlus stream
 

Hello everybody,

Here is the second test release in preparation for 0.8.0 (aka Janus).

You will find the new tarball here:
http://download.videolan.org/pub/vid...c-0.8.0-test2/
Binaries for Win32 and MacOSX have also already been uploaded.

As usual, this release contains an amazing amount of new features as well as bug fixes. To name just a few:

* Re-write of the input layer.
(better, faster, more extensible - eg. allows multi-input support).
* Re-write of the transcoding layer.
(everything VLC plays can now be transcoded).
* New plugins cache system to speed up launch time.
* Improvements to the subtitles/OSD subsystem.
* Vastly improved DVD support.
* DirectX Media Object decoder/encoder (Win32 only - supports WMV3).
* Cross-platform OpenGL video output.
* New screen capture input plugin (to stream your desktop).
* Windows Media Server RTSP support.
* Multipart JPEG demuxing/muxing.
(for video streaming to a Mozilla Web Browser)
* DVB subtitles decoding/encoding.
* Audio equalizer.
* etc...

Changes since 0.8.0-test1 include:

* More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect.
* Improved video filters and new subpicture filters.
* WAV demuxing/muxing with support for multichannel audio.
* Support for AACPlus webstreams, e.g. http://somafm.com/aacdemo.pls
* VLM enhancements.
* VobSub support.
* etc...

See http://developers.videolan.org/vlc/NEWS for the extensive list.

Please, test heavily and report any problems you might have.

Enjoy!

For the VideoLAN team,

--
Gildas

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