VLC 0.8.6 released

VideoLan Client version 0.8.6 just went live over at videolan.org. The new update includes support for Windows Media Video 9 and Flash Video, improved H.264 decoding, better Windows Unicode support, a Fullscreen controller, and support for the Apple Remote.

Other improvements include "vastly improved" playlist support, with Shoutcast TV listings, last.fm/Audioscrobbler support, and "live search"--which I'm going to have to play with to figure out what that means. The interface has been updated bigtime and the Linux and Windows UIs are brand new. The OS X interface uses custom artwork by Simon Damkjar Andersen. New hotkeys for crop and zoom are included as well as snapshot support.

You'll find lots of new video effects including "Adjust", "Invert", "Distort" (such as Wave, Ripple and Gradient) filters and a "puzzle video output" filter, which sounds cool but not very useful.

More details to follow as we get a chance to download and play with the new software. YAY!

Thanks Andrew Eller

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Andrew

No, Dexter, you're not the only one still looking for the last.fm support. According to a thread on the VLC forums, it may or may not be listed in the control interfaces of the preferences in version 0.9.0:

http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?p=88283

December 15 2006 at 1:49 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

marc cardwell

does any one know if the mac version supports skins? all i see on the skin DL page are directions for windows and linux.

December 11 2006 at 8:22 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Dexter

Peter, I completely agree - those error messages are a total pain in the ass. If you care about this stuff, just open the frickin Messages window.

I cannot seem to find the last.fm support - am I the only one?

December 11 2006 at 2:27 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Cowboy_X

big improvement... VLC was choppy on my MBPro when I played vids at fullscreen on the prior release

December 10 2006 at 10:57 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

mike

wat??? APPLE REMOTE SUPPORT? Awesome! This app is amazing

December 10 2006 at 9:47 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

henrrrik

@NKHK

No, that won't work.

December 10 2006 at 8:24 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Ben the Dog

Nice - VLC is a great little app.

A question - with WMV9 supported, does this mean that DRM protected WMV9 movies will play on the latest version of VLC? I use mediazone.com to watch rugby out here in Hong Kong, and can only watch it on my fiance's PC (which is a bit old and painful to use).

I'm not entirely sure how the WMV9 + License thing works though - is Mac OS still DRM incompatible? Would I have to somehow transfer over the licenses from the PC?

December 10 2006 at 8:11 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Vincent

To all users who have VLC crashing at startup, consider deleting all previous VLC preferences.
It fixed the problem for me.

December 10 2006 at 3:12 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Sadat

DJ fixed the Intel broken build. Works now. :D

December 10 2006 at 2:19 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

tony

It's fixed. Just download the intel file again (you'll notice it weighs in a bit heaver now).

December 10 2006 at 1:57 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply