VLC Player Gets Bumped to 0.9.2

by Ashwin

VLC Player Gets Bumped to 0.9.2

by Ashwin on September 17, 2008

VLC, the popular media player, has been updated to 0.9.2, and brings with it a host of new features—a new UI, fullscreen controller, and simplified settings and dialogs—most of which were already present in the 0.8.6b ‘Leopard’ version.

What’s new?

Here are some highlight of the changes:

  • Plays .flv files
  • Album art displaying and metadata editing
  • New codecs like Flash video variants, camcorder codecs (M2TS ones), Dirac, Atrac3, H.264 PAFF, APE audio, RealVideo, VC-3, Fraps and others, but also better decoding and better performance.
  • Media library integration (what is this supposed to do?)
  • And more.
  • I noticed some improvements here and there, like how it behaves while switching to full screen mode, faster and smoother seeking (still no frame preview while doing so though), and better meta data editing options. This version might not bring about any noticeable changes but is worth the update for the small improvements and bug fixes nevertheless.

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