VLC media player (formerly VideoLAN Client) 1.0.0 Goldeneye

VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player that supports various audio and video formats (MPEG-4, MPEG-2, MPEG-1, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network. The stream can be MPEG 2 TS in UDP or HTTP packets unicasted or multicasted on an IPv4 or IPv6 network.

Major Features:

1. Input 
   • Input media
   • • UDP/RTP Unicast
     • UDP/RTP Multicast
     • HTTP / FTP
     • MMS
     • File
     • DVD 1
     • VCD
     • SVCD 2
     • Audio CD (without DTS)
     • DVB (Satellite, Digital TV, Cable TV)
     • MPEG encoder 3
     • Video acquisition Direct Show
   • Input formats
   • • MPEG (ES,PS,TS,PVA,MP3)
     • ID3 tags
     • AVI
     • ASF / WMV / WMA
     • MP4 / MOV / 3GP
     • OGG / OGM / Annodex
     • Matroska (MKV)
     • Real
     • WAV (incuding DTS)
     • Raw Audio: DTS, AAC, AC3/A52
     • Raw DV
     • FLAC
     • FLV (Flash)
     • Video
     • Decoders
     • MPEG-1/2
     • DIVX (1/2/3)
     • MPEG-4, DivX 5, XviD, 3ivX D4
     • H.264
     • Sorenson 1/3 (Quicktime)
     • DV
     • Cinepak
     • Theora (alpha 3)
     • H.263 / H.263i
     • MJPEG (A/B)
     • WMV 1/2
     • WMV 3 / WMV-9 / VC-1 4, 5
     • Indeo Video v3 (IV32)
     • Subtitles
     • DVD 6
     • SVCD / CVD
     • DVB
     • OGM
     • Matroska
     • Text files (MicroDVD, SubRIP, SubViewer, SSA1-5, SAMI, VPlayer)
     • Vobsub
     • Filters
     • Deinterlace
     • Cropping
     • Image wall
     • Image adjust
     • Rotate/Mirror
     • Logo overlay
     • Magnification
     • Image distortion
     • Bluescreen
     • RSS/Atom feeds
2. Outputs
   • Native DirectX, GDI
   • SDL
   • ASCII Art
   • Audio
   • Decoders
   • MPEG Layer 1/2
   • MP3
   • AC3 A/52
   • DTS
   • LPCM
   • AAC
   • Vorbis
   • WMA 1/2
   • WMA 3 7
   • ADPCM
   • DV Audio
   • FLAC
   • QDM2/QDMC (QuickTime)
   • MACE
   • Real Audio 8
   • Speex
   • Filters
   • Visualization effects
   • Equalizer
3. CPU acceleration 13Free, Open Source and cross-platform
4. Independent of systems codecs to support most video types
5. Live recording
6. Instant pausing and Frame-by-Frame support
7. Finer speed controls
8. New HD codecs (AES3, Dolby Digital Plus, TrueHD, Blu-Ray Linear PCM, Real Video 3.0 and 4.0, ...)
9. New formats (Raw Dirac, M2TS, ...) and major improvements in many formats...
10. New Dirac encoder and MP3 fixed-point encoder
11. Video scaling in fullscreen
12. RTSP Trickplay support
13. Zipped file playback
14. Customizable toolbars
15. Easier encoding GUI in Qt interface
16. Better integration in Gtk environments
17. MTP devices on linux
18. AirTunes streaming
19. New skin for the skins2 interface

Enhancements

• Playback:
• • Instantaneous pausing
  • Frame-by-Frame playback
  • Finer speed control
  • On-the-fly recording for all medias
  • Timeshift for most medias
  • RTSP trickplay support
  • Subtitles core improvements and fixes
• Decoders:
• • New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
  • New Dolby Digital Plus E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
  • New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
  • New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
  • New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
  • Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
  • New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
  • Close Caption under SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
  • Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
  • Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
• Demuxers:
• • Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
  • Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
  • Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
  • Metadata for mod files are supported.