Arthur Posted March 25, 2011 Author Posted March 25, 2011 VLC v1.1.8 is out... http://www.videolan.org/vlc/releases/1.1.8.html What's new in v1.1.8 Security update regarding video width concerning some demuxers Support for a new Dirac encoder based on libschroedinger Package of the new VP8/Webm encoder 'Bali' Notable updates in .mp4, .ogg, .ape demuxers Major updates in most language translations Fixes in skins2 supports of Winamp2 skins Upgrade on the look of VLC for Mac OS X Auto-detection for .txt subtitles is fixed Fixes on Windows integration, notably regarding volume keys Codecs updates Many miscellaneous fixes They also have a note regarding anti-virus software... Yet again, broken anti-virus software flag the latest version of VLC on Windows as a malware. This is, once again, a false positive. As some of the anti-virus makers plainly refuse to fix their code, we recommend to our users to stop using Kaspersky, AVL, TheHacker or AVG. Users are advised to use the free Antivir or the new Microsoft Security Essentials. (Source)
burgemaster Posted April 4, 2011 Posted April 4, 2011 (edited) Hi Arthur, Being the Install King, do you by any chance have an MSI for VLC or some pointers for me to create on myself? Many thanks in advance ! EDIT: dont worry, with help from your previous posts regarding the "trust driver" install, i have managed it myself!!!. Edited April 4, 2011 by burgemaster
Arthur Posted April 4, 2011 Author Posted April 4, 2011 (edited) I do have an MSI for VLC actually, but it's for v1.1.7. However, if you can wait a few more days I should be able to post a link to the latest version. I created it using WiX so you can see how it all works too. Edit. Didn't see your update. If you still want it, just let me know. Edited April 4, 2011 by Arthur
mac_shinobi Posted April 4, 2011 Posted April 4, 2011 VLC v1.1.8 is out... VideoLAN - VLC 1.1.8 release What's new in v1.1.8 Security update regarding video width concerning some demuxers Support for a new Dirac encoder based on libschroedinger Package of the new VP8/Webm encoder 'Bali' Notable updates in .mp4, .ogg, .ape demuxers Major updates in most language translations Fixes in skins2 supports of Winamp2 skins Upgrade on the look of VLC for Mac OS X Auto-detection for .txt subtitles is fixed Fixes on Windows integration, notably regarding volume keys Codecs updates Many miscellaneous fixes They also have a note regarding anti-virus software... They might have upgraded the GUI in terms of visually appealing but it porked up the playback of M2TS files, keep getting this random black rectangle / square in the middle of the video playback which I think is in relation to the supposdly translucent controller that normally floats over the top of the video ie fast forward / rewind, next chapter, previous chapter, volume control etc as per below Any ideas on how to fix this, I did try changing the video playback type to Open GL OS X Default as apposed to just default but still doing the same
Arthur Posted April 4, 2011 Author Posted April 4, 2011 Do you get the same issue if you play your M2TS videos with MPlayerX which also has a partially translucent UI?
mac_shinobi Posted April 4, 2011 Posted April 4, 2011 Do you get the same issue if you play your M2TS videos with MPlayerX which also has a partially translucent UI? No I had different issues ie the aspect ratios were wrong and it was chopping too much off or it would not let me fast forward / rewind or skip to different parts of the m2ts file but translucent UI seemed fine. Only thing I did find which I have not tried was to change the loopback processing for H264 on the FFMPEG section to Bi Dir for better quality or All but setting to All supposdly degrades quality of the video being played back. I have mplayer extended and also the MplayerX as well as VLC and quicktime + perian Using snow leopard ( 10.6.6 )
mac_shinobi Posted April 4, 2011 Posted April 4, 2011 Tried that setting and that black window to start with is in the foreground, double click it and the translucent controller becomes visible and workable with a full screen of pitch black and the video plays behind it. Double click and it shrinks back to a black square and u can click on an area around the black square which is the video and the black square and translucent ui controller vanish and you can bring the video to the foreground but with no controls Any ideas?
Big_Ted Posted April 4, 2011 Posted April 4, 2011 VLC keeps me sane sometimes - shame they removed it from the app store. Great bit of kit.
powdarrmonkey Posted April 5, 2011 Posted April 5, 2011 VLC keeps me sane sometimes - shame they removed it from the app store. Great bit of kit. Shame it was in the app store in contravention of its license.
Arthur Posted April 5, 2011 Author Posted April 5, 2011 Any ideas? Trashing all of VLCs preferences might be worth a try perhaps? ~/Library/Preferences/org.videolan.vlc.plist ~/Library/Preferences/org.videolan.vlc.LSSharedFileList.plist ~/Library/Preferences/VLC ~/Library/Caches/org.videolan.vlc * The last two are folders, not files. 1
mac_shinobi Posted April 6, 2011 Posted April 6, 2011 Trashing all of VLCs preferences might be worth a try perhaps? ~/Library/Preferences/org.videolan.vlc.plist ~/Library/Preferences/org.videolan.vlc.LSSharedFileList.plist ~/Library/Preferences/VLC ~/Library/Caches/org.videolan.vlc * The last two are folders, not files. Still doing it, almost like its creating 2 layers or forms, one for the video canvas and one for the translucent UI and when you launch the m2ts video file the video canvas is in the background playing back and the canvas for the UI controls are in the foreground, annoying is what it is but that didn't make a blind bit of difference.
Arthur Posted April 13, 2011 Author Posted April 13, 2011 VLC v1.1.9 is out with quite a lot of fixes for Mac OS X. [b]Changes between v1.1.8 and v1.1.9[/b] --------------------------------- Windows and Mac OS X: * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue [b]Demuxers[/b]: * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103) [b]Mac OS X Interface[/b]: * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments * Improve Apple Remote handling * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.) [b]Mac OS X Port[/b]: * Fix Growl local notification plugin * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework * Fixes for eyeTV [b]Translations[/b]: * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish, German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations * New Luganda Translation 1
Arthur Posted June 6, 2011 Author Posted June 6, 2011 VLC v1.1.10 released. This release, 2 months after 1.1.9, was necessary because some security issues were found, and the VLC development team cares about security. This release brings a rewritten pulseaudio output, an important number of small Mac OS X fixes, the removal of the font-cache building for the freetype module on Windows and updates of codecs. [b]Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10[/b] --------------------------------- [b]Windows and Mac OS X:[/b] * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues [b]Mac OS X Interface:[/b] * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB * Fix for various crashes and small issues [b]Demuxer:[/b] * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser [b]Audio output:[/b] * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one [b]Win32 port:[/b] * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module [b]Miscellaneous fixes in:[/b] * Windows 7 taskbar buttons * Qt interface * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer * RTP output and XML export * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows * v4l2 access [b]Translations:[/b] * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda, Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish, Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations 1
mac_shinobi Posted June 6, 2011 Posted June 6, 2011 I used OS X MPlayer Extended which works better then the normal MPlayer and allowed me to pause m2ts files and works most of the time, sometimes the video footage is shifted to an odd place like its been moved diagonally by about 10 cm's to the top right so has chopped off a good chunk, I just have to keep flicking between players depending no the video
garethEds Posted June 8, 2011 Posted June 8, 2011 How do you guys deploy this? I made an MSI the other year of 1.0.3 (I think that's the version number). It works and I've never bothered to update - but I wish the people who create it would make a generic MSI. I read it can be installed on a network drive but does this install the 'Play With VLC.... ' on the right click button? I don't really want it accessed over the network. Gareth
AngryTechnician Posted June 8, 2011 Posted June 8, 2011 I built my own MSI using Advanced Installer. Takes me about 5 minutes to update it when there's a new version, and most of that is just checking which files have been added/removed. Mine doesn't have any context menu items though (and only one file association) so probably wouldn't be much use to you I'm afraid, plus I'm not really sure how distributing an alternative installer gels with the licence agreement. 1
garethEds Posted June 8, 2011 Posted June 8, 2011 Yeah - I think this is what I will end up doing. Just need to rebuild a clean machine. Thanks AT. Gareth
kili Posted June 9, 2011 Posted June 9, 2011 How do you guys deploy this? I made an MSI the other year of 1.0.3 (I think that's the version number). It works and I've never bothered to update - but I wish the people who create it would make a generic MSI. I read it can be installed on a network drive but does this install the 'Play With VLC.... ' on the right click button? I don't really want it accessed over the network. Gareth I send the vlc exe to the workstation to C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\vlc-1.1.9-win32.exe then simply execute a batch file with the command vlc-1.1.9-win32.exe /L=1033 /S L=1033 being the language ( English) and /S being a silent install
Edu-IT Posted July 13, 2011 Posted July 13, 2011 I built my own MSI using Advanced Installer. Takes me about 5 minutes to update it when there's a new version, and most of that is just checking which files have been added/removed. Mine doesn't have any context menu items though (and only one file association) so probably wouldn't be much use to you I'm afraid, plus I'm not really sure how distributing an alternative installer gels with the licence agreement. Have you done this with the latest version? Would you mind suggesting how?
AngryTechnician Posted July 13, 2011 Posted July 13, 2011 VLC runs with almost no config, so it's really just a case of starting a new project and throwing all the files from the .zip distribution in.
Arthur Posted July 18, 2011 Author Posted July 18, 2011 VLC Media Player v1.1.11 released. [b]Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11[/b] ---------------------------------- [b]Security[/b]: * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587) and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588). [b]Mac OS X[/b]: * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling [b]Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin[/b]: * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32 [b]Demuxers/Meta Readers[/b]: * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma [b]Muxers/Output[/b]: * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players [b]Extensions[/b]: * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues [b]Qt Interface[/b]: * Fix quitting on Linux * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows * Miscellaneous [b]Win32 port[/b]: * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash [b]Translations[/b]: * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian Please see the other VLC thread if you would like a copy of my NSIS script.
Edu-IT Posted July 18, 2011 Posted July 18, 2011 VLC Media Player v1.1.11 released. [b]Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11[/b] ---------------------------------- [b]Security[/b]: * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587) and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588). [b]Mac OS X[/b]: * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling [b]Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin[/b]: * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32 [b]Demuxers/Meta Readers[/b]: * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma [b]Muxers/Output[/b]: * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players [b]Extensions[/b]: * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues [b]Qt Interface[/b]: * Fix quitting on Linux * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows * Miscellaneous [b]Win32 port[/b]: * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash [b]Translations[/b]: * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian Please see the other VLC thread if you would like a copy of my NSIS script. Wha a pain in the backside! I only just rolled out 1.1.10 last week.
Arthur Posted October 10, 2011 Author Posted October 10, 2011 VLC Media Player v1.1.12 released. [b]Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12[/b]: ---------------------------------- [b]Audio outputs[/b]: * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF) including support for OS X Lion * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0 [b]Unix port[/b]: * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1 [b]Misc[/b]: * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface) [b]Translations[/b]: * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
mac_shinobi Posted February 17, 2012 Posted February 17, 2012 VLC V2.0 --> VLC 2.0 hits RC, brings new UI and Blu-ray support for OS X - TechSpot News
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