VLC (skrót od VideoLAN Client) media player to bezpłatny odtwarzacz umożliwiajšcy oglšdanie filmów i słuchanie muzyki w najróżniejszych formatach (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, DVD, MP3, OGG itd.). Głównym siłš programu nie jest jednak odtwarzanie plików zapisanych na dysku twardym czy płycie CD ale przede wszystkim multimediów nadawanych zdalnie (poprzez Internet lub sieć lokalnš LAN) za porednictwem różnych protokołów dla transmisji strumieniowych. Dzięki temu VLC media player jest jednym z najlepszych rozwišzań do oglšdania np. telewizji internetowych nadawanych w różnych standardach. Odtwarzacz obsługuje też różne formaty wywietlania napisów - funkcjonalnoć ta nie jest jednak jeszcze ostatecznie dopracowana. VLC od wersji 1.0.1 potrafi dekodować dwięk z cieżki Blu-ray Linear PCM czy Dolby Digital Plus. Ulepszono ponadto dekodery Real Video (wersje 3.0 i 4.0) oraz WMA. Pojawiła się również możliwoć obsługi formatów Dirac, MLP and RealVideo w kontenerach MKV. VLC posiada również obsługę cyfrowych tunerów telewizji satelitarnej (DVB-S). Dodano eksperymentalnš obsługę noników Blu-ray oraz materiałów AVCHD. W nowej wersji wprowadzono również poprawki w dekodowaniu cieżek dwiękowych, zakodowanych w systemach 5.1 oraz 7.1 oraz obsłudze plików RealMedia. Użytkownicy wersji linuksowej muszš zwrócić uwagę na usunięcie z projektu pluginów serwerów dwięku Esound oraz aRts, jak również dodanej obsłudze dwięku przestrzennego dla serwera PulseAudio. Poprawiono integrację z bibliotekami GTK i Qt. VLC media player is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVD, Audio CD, VCD, and various streaming protocols. VLC Player is Simple, Powerful and Fast. Plays everything, Files, Discs, Devices and Streams. VLC also is Media Converter and Streamer, plays most codecs with no codec packs needed. VLC is a highly portable multi-platform multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, Ogg, OGM, MOV, wma, wmv) The VLC media player project targets multimedia streaming of MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and DivX files, DVDs, digital satellite channels, digital terrestial television channels and live videos on a high-bandwidth IPv4 or IPv6 network in unicast or multicast under many OSes. VLC also features a cross-platform player, which can be used to read the stream from the network or display video read locally on the computer under all GNU/Linux flavours, all BSD flavours, Windows, Mac OS X, BeOS, Solaris, QNX, Familiar Linux Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0: --------------------------------- Important notes: * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+ * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options: - --file-caching specifies caching for local files, - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources, - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media. All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions. * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized: - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]". By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used. - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers. By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS. - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate), --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and --http-crl (optional CRL). * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly. Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively. * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0. * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later. Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported. * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines. Important changes for packagers: * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script. Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions. * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed. * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation. * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git Core: * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite: Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs. * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64. Access: * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module * DVB-S scanning support on Unix * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently) * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux) * PulseAudio audio input support * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port Codecs: * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4 are notably concerned. * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl) * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits * EIA-608 closed captions improvements * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2 Demuxers: * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl) * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts) * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks * Improved support of tracker files * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat Interfaces: * Qt: effects dialogs rework * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist * Qt: port to MacOS X platform * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support and important cleanups and optimisations * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style) * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery * webUI/http: some requests are now support...
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