VLC 1.0 ultima versione Videolan

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VLC 1.0 ultima versione Videolan
Vlc 1.0 RC l'ultima versione ufficiale e stabile del famosissimo player e' disponibile al download da oggi.

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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
GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
New dirac demuxer for raw dirac streams

Encoders:
Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder

Access:
RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
OSS or Alsa audio input. Use –input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
DVB scanning on linux
EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form zip://file.zip|file.avi to specify the file)
Opening of any file descriptor using ‘fd://’
MTP device access on Unix
CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
:start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values

Inputs:
Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
Windows.

Playlist:
Export the playlist in HTML
Lua script for BBC radio playback
Better metadata handling and reading

Linux/Windows interface:
Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
Various fixes for skins2 interface
Recently played items list
Interface toolbar customizations
Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
More menus actions
Finer speed slider
Improvements on many dialogs
New dialog for plugins listing
Fixed-size mode for videos
Better teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
Better integration in GTK environments

Mac OS X Interface:
Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
Easy addition of Subtitles through the Video menu
Additional usability improvements

Stream output:
Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.

Maemo Port:
New Maemo port with:
an interface based on Hildon framework.
scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.

Windows CE Port:
EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.

Mac OS X Port:
Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc

Audio output:
Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
Surround support for PulseAudio

Video output:
Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
(hotkey ‘o’) while keeping black borders
Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named ’scene’.
The old image video output has been removed.
Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.

Miscellanous:
Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications