{"id":652324,"date":"2013-04-14T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-14T19:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/betanews.com\/?p=142950"},"modified":"2013-04-14T15:40:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-14T19:40:00","slug":"vlc-media-player-2-0-6-is-full-of-tweaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/652324","title":{"rendered":"VLC Media Player 2.0.6 is full of tweaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/betanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/shutterstock_59876998-600x350.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Film move video\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-46566\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Popular cross-platform, open-source\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.downloadcrew.com\/article\/161-vlc_media_player\" >VLC Media Player 2.0.6<\/a>\u00a0has been released, focussing on fixing a number of regressions introduced in previous builds since its initial 2.0 release. The update also adds support for Matroska v4 files, tweaks the user interface on the OS X build and implements a new compiler for the Windows version.<\/p>\n<p>VLC Media Player offers support for all major video and audio formats, and also supports playback from DVDs and unencrypted Blu-ray discs, making it an excellent choice for systems, including Windows XP and 8, where native support for video disc playback is missing.<\/p>\n<p>The Matroska v4 (.MKV) file container is an open-source alternative to proprietary containers such as MP4 (Apple) and WMV (Microsoft), and version four, which was launched in September 2012, introduced new elements to improve time-coding and seek-positioning while retaining backward compatibility with previous versions of the file.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to extending support to Matroska v4, VLC 2.06 also introduces a large number of important fixes for other formats, including MKV, Ogg, WMV, HTTPS and subtitle support where crashing may have occurred.<\/p>\n<p>Other notable fixes included GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000\/3000 graphic chipsets in Windows, a fix for HTTPS certificate rejections, ALAC decoding, FLAC 6.1\/7.1 channel order and the vimeo parser.<\/p>\n<p>The update also includes small unspecified tweaks and improvements to the OS X interface to build on those made in\u00a0<a title=\"VLC Media Player 2.0.5 improves encoding, fixes bugs, tweaks Mac interface\" href=\"http:\/\/www.softwarecrew.com\/2012\/12\/vlc-media-player-2-0-5-improves-encoding-fixes-bugs-tweaks-mac-interface\/\" >the previous release<\/a>, numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements and a new Welsh translation to go with numerous other translation updates.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s also a new compiler for the Windows builder, taken from the MinGW-w64 project, which is probably in readiness for VLC releasing its first stable Windows 64-bit build from the current experimental editions being developed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.downloadcrew.com\/article\/161-vlc_media_player\" >VLC Media Player 2.0.6<\/a>\u00a0is available now as a free, open-source download for Windows, Mac and Linux. Also available is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.downloadcrew.com\/article\/27813-vlc_android\" >VLC for Android Beta<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo Credit:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/gallery-101304p1.html\" >Leigh Prather<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/\" >Shutterstock<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.betanews.com\/~ff\/bn?a=iTmyRBnwuoo:u75ZBw5ANbg:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/bn?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.betanews.com\/~ff\/bn?a=iTmyRBnwuoo:u75ZBw5ANbg:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/bn?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/bn\/~4\/iTmyRBnwuoo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popular cross-platform, open-source\u00a0VLC Media Player 2.0.6\u00a0has been released, focussing on fixing a number of regressions introduced in previous builds since its initial 2.0 release. The update also adds support for Matroska v4 files, tweaks the user interface on the OS X build and implements a new compiler for the Windows version. 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