Download VLC Media Player 2.0.4 for Windows, Mac, Linux and Other Platforms

VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols without external codec or program.  It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.  VLC Media Player is one of the free and open source media player available that you can customize your own.  VLC can be operated with JAWS or NVDA.  There are shortcuts for controlling playback and menus are almost accessible with these screen readers.

VLC can play:

• MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 / DivX files from a hard disk, a CD-ROM drive, and so on
• DVDs, VCDs, and Audio CDs
• From satellite cards (DVB-S)
• Several types of network streams: UDP/RTP Unicast, UDP/RTP Multicast, HTTP, RTSP, MMS, etc.
• From acquisition or encoding cards (on GNU/Linux and Windows only)

What’s New:

Audio Output:

• Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
• Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
• Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
• Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
• Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged during playback on Mac OS X

Access:

• Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
• Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
• Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake

Codecs:

• Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
• Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
• Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
• Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
• Fix crashes when using hardware decoding

Demuxers:

• Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
• Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
• Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
• Support Youtube live streams

Windows:

• Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8

Qt:

• Fix media info dialog update
• Fix random/repeat preferences saving
• Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
• Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
• Fix album art display at start

Mac OS X:

• Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
• Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
• Fix menus display and behavior
• Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons, streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
• Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
• Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
• Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
• Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter

Miscellaneous:

• Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
• Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
• Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
• Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
• Codec and other 3rd party library updates
• Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
• Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
• Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
• Codecs and 3rd party libary updates

Translations:

• Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish, Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
• Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian

Download:

You can download VLC Media Player 2.0.4 for Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android and other platforms. Note: VLC Media Player 2.0.4 is not available for all platforms. Please download the latest available version.

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