A problem with Windows 0.9.6 binary

2008-11-14

The released 0.9.6 Windows binary presents some issues in the avformat module that can prevent playback of FLV or MXF files. We apologize for this, and corrected the builds accordingly.
You can download the correctly builds on your favorite mirror.

VLC media player 0.9.6

2008-11-06

The VideoLAN team is pleased to announce the release of VLC media player 0.9.6.
This is a bugfix release. VLC media player 0.9.5 and earlier versions suffer from a security vulnerability in CUE and Realtext subtitle demuxer. Further technical details are available in our advisory.
We recommend all users upgrade to this new version.

VLC media player wins tim Award

2008-10-30

On 30 October 2008 VLC media player won a "tim Award" in category "Multimedia Software" at a PC-WELT event. The awards were announced during a gala diner at "Bayerische Hof" in Munich. Two famous german TV presenters hosted the event. The VideoLAN team is very honoured by winning this award and wants to thank its user base for giving us this token of your appreciation. VLC media player could not have won this award without the support and dedication of its users and Open Source developers. Read more about the event on PC-WELT website.

End of support for VLC 0.8.6 series

2008-10-26

The VideoLAN team ceases all form of support for VLC media player the 0.8.6-bugfix tree. After several several call for help, it is apparent that there is no interest in the community to maintain the 0.8.6 branch of the VLC media player. As a consequence, it has not been possible to put sufficient efforts to ensure adequate continued quality of the 0.8.6-bugfix branch. Effective immediately, there will be no more security and critical fixes for VLC 0.8.6. Binary releases of the 0.8.6-bugfix branch had already stopped as of July 2008. The VideoLAN team will continue to provide major or security-related bug fixes for the VLC media player 0.9-bugfix branch. If you have not already upgraded to VLC version 0.9.5, please do so urgently (exploits for vulnerabilities found in older versions are widely available as of today).

VLC media player 0.9.5

2008-10-24

The VideoLAN team is pleased to announce the release of VLC media player 0.9.5. This is a bugfix release. VLC media player 0.9.4 and earlier versions suffer from a security vulnerability in TiVo demuxer. Further technical details are available in our advisory (CVE-2008-4654, CVE-2008-4686). Also, libpng was updated in Windows and MacOS builds to address a separate security issue (CVE-2008-3964).
This release also improves media keys support under Windows, file access under all OSes, Qt4 interface usability, and fixes a few extra bugs. Full list of changes can be found here.
We utmostly recommend all users upgrade to this new version.
Binary packages for Mac OS X and source code tarballs are available for download. Windows binary release is indefinitely postponed pending volunteers taking over the Windows port.
Help is available, as usual, in many places:

• The documentation (we need help keeping it up to date!)
• The forums
• The mailing lists
• IRC: #videolan on Freenode

We'd like to thank all our contributors, testers and users around the world for their support and help making this release possible.