The changelog lists all of the changes and additions that the developers have packed into the new release of the VLC Player including live recording, finer speed controls, new HD codecs (AES3, Dolby Digital Plus, Real video 3.0 and 4.0), formats, video scaling in full screen or zipped file playback. VLC Media Player can still play most video and audio formats out of the box without needing third party codec installations to do so.

VLC Player is still cross platform which means that the new release is available for all supported operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OSX and Linux.

- Free, Open Source and cross-platform

- Independant of systems codecs to support most video types

- Live recording

- Instant pausing and Frame-by-Frame support

- Finer speed controls

- New HD codecs (AES3, Dolby Digital Plus, TrueHD, Blu-Ray Linear PCM, Real Video 3.0 and 4.0, ...)

- New formats (Raw Dirac, M2TS, ...) and major improvements in many formats...

- New Dirac encoder and MP3 fixed-point encoder

- Video scaling in fullscreen

- RTSP Trickplay support

- Zipped file playback

- Customizable toolbars

- Easier encoding GUI in Qt interface

- Better integration in Gtk environments

- MTP devices on linux

- AirTunes streaming

- New skin for the skins2 interface

Visit: videolan.org