Na ongeveer twee jaar van ontwikkeling hebben de ontwikkelaars van Videolan versie 0.9.2 van VLC Media Player beschikbaar gesteld. VLC Media Player is een opensource- en crossplatformmediaspeler die diverse audio-, video- en streamingformaten kan afspelen zonder dat hiervoor de betreffende codec hoeft te worden geïnstalleerd. Versie 0.9.2 is beschikbaar voor Windows, Linux en Mac OS X, oudere versies zijn ook beschikbaar voor Beos, BSD, Linux, Morphos, Solaris en Windows CE. De belangrijkste veranderingen in deze release zijn de nieuwe interface voor Windows en Linux, het gebruik van een mediabibliotheek en ondersteuning voor diverse nieuwe audio- en videoformaten. Voor de volledigheid kunnen hieronder alle veranderingen sinds versie 0.8.6i worden gevonden:

Changes between 0.9.2 and 1.0.0-git:

• Inputs:
• Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
• Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on windows.
• Decoders:
• AES3 (SMPTE 302M) support
• E-AC3 (A/52b) support
• Stream output:
• Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
• Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
• bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.

Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2

• Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
• Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
• Multiple bugfixes.

Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:

• Multiple bug fixes.

Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:

Important notes:

• This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more recent to work correctly
• The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default. If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to edit the ".hosts" file. - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts If you're using the old http interface, it's located in /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts - On Windows they are in C:Program FilesVideoLANVLChttp.hosts and C:Program FilesVideoLANVLChttpold.hosts - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
• This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux. This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences. This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
• The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
• The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They now require a target name as their first argument. Example: vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example. These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
• The "rtp" access output module has been removed. Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.: Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}' New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
• You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
• The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities with some file names. Use access://url instead. E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ; udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
• The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec, avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build) and postproc modules.
• The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4, STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not functional atm.
• Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video filter. For example: transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
• Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter. For example: transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
• Glide video output module has been removed.