VLC 2.0.7 Now Available for Download

VideoLAN has released VLC Media Player (VLC) version 2.0.7. VLC 2.0.7 is a small update that improves the overall stability. Notable changes include fixes for audio decoding, audio encoding, small security issues, regressions fixes for PowerPC, MacOS X and new translations.

Overview
VLC Media Player (VLC) is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework, that plays most multimedia files formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols without external codec or program. It is simple to use, yet very powerful and extendable, and can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network. This release include fixes for FTP relative paths and directories and fixes for Podcast and DVD modules.

VLC 2.0.x "Twoflower" is a major new version of our popular media player. 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. VLC 2.0.x has a new rendering pipeline for video, with higher quality subtitles, and new video filters to enhance your videos. It supports many new devices and BluRay Discs (experimental). Completely reworked Mac and Web interfaces and improvements in the other interfaces make VLC easier than ever to use.

Main Features
VLC can play:

• MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 / DivX files from a hard disk, a CD-ROM drive, and so on.
• DVDs, VCDs, and Audio CDs.
• From satellite cards (DVB-S).
• Several types of network streams: UDP/RTP Unicast, UDP/RTP Multicast, HTTP, RTSP, MMS, etc.
• From acquisition or encoding cards (on GNU/Linux and Windows only).

Download VLC 2.0.7
VLC is available at the following website. Download the files appropriate for you.

• VLC media player

VLC Media Player 2.0.7

What's new in VLC 2.0.7?
This build contains following updates and fixes:

• Fixed track selection for PowerPC machines.
• Fixed audio decoding for WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4.
• Fixed audio encoding for MP3 and AAC.
• Fixed a memory leak when creating AVI files.
• Fixed two XSS vulnerabilities in the Web UI.
• Fixed memory exhaustion vulnerability in some playlist files.
• Fixed a libVLC crash in MacOS X port.
• Numerous translations updates and new Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations.

For the large number of improvements for Windows and Linux, please have a look at the change log.

Reference:
VLC 2.0.7 Changelog