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Tag: Matroska

  • VLC updated to 2.0.6

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    Video Lan Client, the nigh-indispensable open source media player for multiple audio and video formats (MPEG, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, Divx, ogg, etc.), was updated to version 2.0.6. The new version, a 41.9 megabyte download, adds the following fixes and changes:
    – Support for Matroska v4 files.

    – Fix WMV, Ogg, AVI, MP4 and subtitles crashes and issues.

    – Numerous translations updates and new Welsh translation.

    – Small fixes and improvements on the Mac OS X interface.

    – Fix some HTTPS certificate rejection.

    – Fix ALAC decoding.

    – Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel order.

    – Fix the vimeo parser.

    – Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements.

    VLC 2.0.6 requires an Intel-based Mac running Mac OS X 10.6 or later to install and run.

    If you’ve tried the new version and have any feedback to offer, let us know in the comments.

  • Perian 1.2.3 released

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    Late Tuesday, the Perian team released version 1.2.3 of Perian, the open-source QuickTime components effort that allows QuickTime to support and play a variety of additional formats beyond what it would normally be able to handle.

    The new version makes the following fixes and changes:
    – AVI, FLV, and MKV file formats.

    – MS-MPEG4 v1 & v2, DivX, 3ivX, H.264, FLV1, FSV1, VP6, H263I, VP3, HuffYUV, FFVHuff, MPEG1 & MPEG2 Video, Fraps, Windows Media Audio v1 & v2, Flash ADPCM, Xiph Vorbis (in Matroska), MPEG Layer II Audio.

    – AVI support for: AAC, AC3 Audio, H.264, MPEG4, and VBR MP3.

    – Subtitle support for SSA and SRT.

    – Some Fraps videos only displayed black.

    – Workaround checks for Front Row stopped being effective.

    – Fixed compatibility with web video playback.

    – Worked around System Preferences crashing during an update on 10.6.

    – Further fixes to Matroska import.

    Perian 1.2.3 is a 3.4 megabyte download and requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later to install and run.

  • Perian 1.2.1 Released

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    Late Tuesday, the Perian team released version 1.2.1 of Perian, the open-source QuickTime components effort that allows QuickTime to support and play a variety of additional formats beyond what it would normally be able to handle.

    The new version makes the following fixes and changes:
    – Added Indeo 5 decoding. [r1271].
    – Fixed several bugs in Matroska support (1.2 regression) [r1240, r1243].
    – Incomplete AVI files were not fully imported (1.2 regression) [r1242].
    – Fixed subtitles crashing in 10.4 [r1240].
    – Fixed a rare crash with .mp4 [r1265].
    – No error was shown if the installer somehow failed [r1270] Note that it does not try to correct errors, only report them.
    – Fixed crash in SSA support [r1250].
    – Fixed invisible subtitles sometimes appearing over the first frame [r1275].

    Perian is a 3.3 megabyte download and requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later to install and run.