• Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
• Fixes several memory leaks.
• Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier)
• Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
• Fixed targetname for downloaded updates

Bugfix release.

Inputs:

• Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
• Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on windows.

Decoders:

• AES3 (SMPTE 302M) support
• E-AC3 (A/52b) support

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.

Security updates:

• Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)

Various bugfixes:

• Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
• Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
• Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input, SAP services discovery, http control interface)
• Updated Polish translation

This is a bugfix release. VLC media player 0.8.6e and earlier versions suffer from security vulnerabilities in the Subtitle demuxer, Real RTSP demuxer, MP4 demuxer and Cinepak codec. This release also includes improved video output on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X and compatibility with Windows 9x/ME has been restored. We strongly recommend all users to update to this new version.

• Various bugfixes:
  • Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
  • Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
• Security updates:
  • Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
  • HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
  • Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
  • Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296, VideoLAN-SA-0801)
  • Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130, VideoLAN-SA-0802)
• Audio filter:
  • Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
• Audio output:
  • Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
• Access:
  • Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
• Stream output:
  • Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
• Encoders:
  • Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
  • Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264 encoding on multi-cpu systems
    • Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
    • Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
• Mac OS X Interface & Port:
  • Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
  • Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
  • VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
• Localization:
  • Updated Romanian and Polish translations

Various bugfixes:
* Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
* Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
* Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences in input
* Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
* Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code

Windows and Mac OS Binaries
* FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows

Active X plugin:
* Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703)

Mac OS X Interface & Port:
* Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
* Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
* Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
* Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of two different movies
* Support for current Ogg file formats

NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher. Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.

Encoders:
* Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X

Other changes:
* The automatic updating facility was removed
* You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.

VLC media player versions 0.8.6b and lower suffer from a security vulnerability in the CDDA, Vorbis, Theora and SAP plugins.

Version 0.8.6b is aimed at fixing some annoying bugs. But with a few improvements too. It includes a new teletext subtitles decoder, new flash video decoders and Mac OS X interface improvements. It fixes many crashes, especially during fullscreen on Mac OS X.

Various bugfixes, notably:

• Out-of-bound read in demuxers
• Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
• Mac OS X Interface crashes
• VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
• Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
• Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers

Decoders:

• Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
• Teletext subtitles (telx) support

Webbrowser plugins:

• Rectified behaviour and improved usability

Mac OS X Interface & Port:

• Diverse usability improvements
• New wizard option to embed subtitles
• Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
• Improved Delete-Preferences-Script

• Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701)
• Full screen controller improvements

Building on feedback from the 29 million downloads of VLC media player 0.8.5, we bring you version 0.8.6 with many bugfixes, as well as a couple of new features we think you will truly enjoy. Most prominent are probably Windows Media Video 9 and Flash Video. Other important changes are improved H.264 decoding, better Windows Unicode support, a Fullscreen controller and Apple Remote support for Mac OS X.

(note: now links to a load-balancing server, not the download mirrors page)

Core support:
* Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
* Support for downloading updates
* Updated strings

Input:
* Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
* Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
* Improvements to the Audio CD input
- Separate playlist entries for the tracks
- Support for CDDB
* Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
* Improved subtitles encoding support
* Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web

Decoders:
* Cook (Real audio) support

Playlist / Services discovery:
* XSPF playlist support
* Podcast support
* Updated Shoutcast to use new listing

Audio output:
* New JACK audio output

Video output:
* New video filters:
- magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
- gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
- bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
* Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
* RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
* Improvements to the subtitles rendering

Stream output:
* Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams

Interfaces:
* System to inform the user and request information
- HTTP authentication
- Fatal errors
- ...
* wxWidgets
- VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
- Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
- Drag & Drop support in the playlist
* Skins2
- New default skin
- Support for Winamp 2 skins
- Improved playlist handling
- Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
* OS X
- Embedded Video output
- new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
- Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
- Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
- support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
- option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
* HTTP
- New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
- A bunch of new RPN functions

Windows Port:
* MSN messenger "Now playing" support

OS X Port:
* Mac-Intel compatibility
* Enhanced support of various audio output devices
* Growl "Now playing" support

*Nix port:
* Ability to log to syslog
* Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root

Developers:
* New libvlc API (not finished yet)
* Java bindings
* A bit more automatic testing