NEw VLC 8.0 is out

[terryj]

from the VLC newsletter:

We counted the votes and the results are conclusive. It has taken a
long time, but the VideoLAN team is happy to announce version 0.8.0 of
VLC media player.

This new release features:
* 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 webcam support
* Multipart JPEG muxing.
(for video streaming to a Mozilla Web Browser)
* DVB subtitles decoding/encoding.
* Audio equalizer.
* Vobsub support
* Multichannel audio downmixing
* etc...

For a complete list, please have a look at the release notes:
http://developers.videolan.org/vlc/NEWS

Binary packages are already available for:
- Windows
- MacOS X

Other binaries packages (Debian Packages, RedHad/Fedora Core RPM, BeOS)
should follow.

You can download the source code or binary packages from here:
http://www.videolan.org/vlc by clicking your OS logo.

This release doesn't include DTS audio decoding support.
DTS Inc. claims that distributing this software with DTS decoding
capabilities is a violation of their patent EP 864 146. At DTS Inc.
request, we decided, as a precautionary measure, to provisionally
suspend the distribution of VLC with DTS decoding capabilities while
reviewing DTS Inc. claim. This is not an acknowledgement of the
validity of the claim.

For the VideoLAN team,
Derk-Jan Hartman


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Universiteit Twente
Derk-Jan Hartman (d.hartman at student.utwente dot nl)
http://home.student.utwente.nl/d.hartman
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[galactica]

SWEET!!!!!!!!!

[bendermac]

a friend told me that the pc version of vlc 8.0 supports wmv9. too bad it doesn't do the same with the mac version as the mac wmp really sucks with wmv9 contend and thats includes a g5 dual 2.5ghz

[thoughton]

Sounds good ! Although I wonder if transcoding really works now

And Booo to DTS!

[thoughton]

I've spent a couple of days playing with the transcoding, and ... well ... that 'feature' still barely works.

Perhaps it works great for streaming video now, I don't know. I don't watch any streaming video.

What I do know is that it cannot transcode an mpeg1 to divx+mp3 avi (actually it can, but the resultant avi causes QT Player to hang). It crashed when I tried to transcode an mpeg2 into a divx+mp3 avi. It couldn't recognise the audio in a divx+ogg ogm. And it didn't recognise an mkv at all.