VLC New Update 0.5.1

reiman

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A fresh new release for the best media player on the web, an it's free!!!!
It doesn't fix the problems with sound, but they work on it.


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Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
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Core support:
* new mouse gesture interface
* audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
playing

Input access:
* various minor fixes on the network inputs
* fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
* VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing

Input demux:
* fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
* new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
continuity counter

Codecs:
* support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams

DVD support:
* fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
without the user consent

UNIX ports:
* GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
popup menu
* X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
* KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
* ALSA: fixed mono files output

Mac OS X port:
* fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
* lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
* VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
* playlist enhancements
* added half, normal and double video window menu items
* new step forward/step backward commands
* the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
* the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
* vlc.app is now VLC.app

Win32 port:
* fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
* VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
* fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font

BeOS port:
* smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
* few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)

Opie port:
* native video output is working again
* only commandline interface support
* support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
 
sometimes sound will die out and then come back - usually with divx stuff. all in all though, one of the best all around media players around!

(wish they'd put some work into the prefs menus though... and make it easier for joe schmoe media player user (me) to understand what some of those settings do :)
 
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