Download VLC Media Player 0.9.8a

Description:

VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.
It is a free cross-platform media player
It supports a large number of multimedia formats, without the need for additional codecs
It can also be used as a streaming server, with extended features (video on demand, on the fly transcoding, ...)

Technical:

Title:	VLC Media Player 0.9.8a
Filename:	vlc-0.9.8a-win32.exe
File size:	15.56MB (16,320,472 bytes)
Requirements:	Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/XP64/Vista64
License:	Open Source
Date added:	December 8, 2008
Author:	VideoLAN.org www.videolan.org

Change Log:

Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8:
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Security update:

• Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
  

Bunch of small bugfixes.

Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
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New Localizations:

• Ukranian

Security updates:

• Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-xxxx)
• Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-xxxx)
  

Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
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Security updates:

• Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
• Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds

Features:

• Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2

Various bugfixes:

• Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
• Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)

Windows port:

• Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
• Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
  

Qt Interface:

• Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
• Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
• Various fixed in playlist
  

Access:

• MMAP module is now deactivated by default
  

Translations:

• Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
  

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