Clanless Fun

VLC media player is a portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, etc) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and streaming protocols. With this baby there is no need for additional codecs.

Change-list:

VLC media player versions 0.8.6b and lower suffer from a security vulnerability in the CDDA, Vorbis, Theora and SAP plugins. More technical details are available in our advisory. An updated release of VLC is available which includes a few other fixes as well. We strongly recommend all users to update to this new version.

Various bugfixes, notably:

* Windows Vista compatibility
* Cropping in Direct3D
* Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
* RSS filter string overflow
* Few memory leaks
* MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)

CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:

* Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702)

Demuxers:

* Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI

Decoders:

* Updated FLAC API compatibility

Input:

* Support for new v4l2 encoder API

New localisation:

* Arabic
* Persian

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