Last month, the developers of VLC Media Player announced a new release candidate for the popular cross-platform multimedia player, posting a few important notes. Additionally, the release notes say, version 1.0.0 fixes “a very high number of bugs” discovered in earlier versions of the software, particularly in the 0.9.x or 0.8.6 versions. The program can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network and doesn’t require external codecs or additional software to operate.Īccording to the folks at the VideoLAN Project, VLC Media Player 1.0.0 for Mac OS X introduces many new features, new formats and new codecs to the VLC multimedia framework. VLC Media Player is one of the most popular multimedia players for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, etc.) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. The program is free to download and install on any Macintosh computer running Mac OS X Leopard. The people behind the VideoLAN Project have released a stable and much improved version of their VLC Media Player for Mac OS X, adding a number of new features, codecs and the usual laundry of bug fixes that any piece of software needs every now and then.
