VLC Media Player 0.8.6c Date added: June, 18th 2007 - (Open Source)

VLC (formerly VideoLAN Client) is a lightweight player and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVD, Audio CD, VCD, also allows you to watch streaming media from remote computers and servers.

With faster decoding on multi-core, GPU, and mobile hardware and the ability to open more formats, notably professional, HD and 10bits codecs, 2.0 is a major upgrade for VLC. Twoflower has a new rendering pipeline for video, with higher quality subtitles, and new video filters to enhance your videos.

VLC New Features:

• Rewritten video output core and modules, allowing blending in GPU.
• Shader support in the OpenGL output, for conversion, including 10bits.
• Video outputs for Windows 7, Android, iOS and OS/2.
• Debanding, grain, denoising and anti-flickering filters.
• Deinterlacing filter, including an Inverse Telecine algorithm.
• Resamplers for higher quality audio.
• Dynamic range compressor and karaoke filters.
• Simplification of the audio core for faster processing.
• Audio outputs for iOS, Android and OS/2.
• Multi-threaded decoding for H.264, MPEG-4/Xvid and WebM.
• Support for 10bits codecs, WMV image and some other codecs.
• Rewritten support for images, including jpeg, png, xcf, bmp etc.
• Important changes in RealVideo and Real Format support.
• CrystalHD cards and Android OpenMAX support for hardware decoding.
• And many more features...

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