VLC media player gets a new update

The VideoLAN team has posted a fresh update for its VLC media player, bringing the software to version 1.0.3. This release is compatible with Windows 7 and includes the following changes and additions: Video outputs - Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to regressions in the most popular drivers - New deinterlacer modules based on yadif and yadif (x2) algorithms Decoder - Windows version now natively supports the WMA Professional codec, as it did not work in the packaged version of 1.0.2 - Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks Encoders - X264 has limitter-profile, like: # transcode (vcodec = h264, venc profile = (x264 = baseline, level = 12)) .. Input - Update for apple trailers lua script - Fixes On The RAR stream filter - Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC / TS streams - Various fixes for v4l and v4l2 - Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer Service discovery - New module for linux udev Qt4 interface - Fixes On The playlist and the stream output panels Translations - French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romana, Slovak and Ukrainian updates VLC 1.0.3 is available here for both Windows and Mac OS.

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