VLC 0.8.6c: now it works on Windows Vista!

carus · Postby **carus** » 17 Jun 2007 09:50

vlc 0.8.6c is the first version fully working on Windows Vista
Hallelujah!!!!

http://downloads.videolan.org/pub/video ... -win32.exe

hatipoglu · Postby **hatipoglu** » 17 Jun 2007 10:45

Can any Site Admin confirm this situation? At the home page still remain version 0.8.6b

Saribro · Postby **Saribro** » 17 Jun 2007 10:57

Probably giving the mirrors some time to get their copy before they announce?

Postby **Jean-Baptiste Kempf** » 17 Jun 2007 11:43

Can any Site Admin confirm this situation? At the home page still remain version 0.8.6b

Those versions are broken. Don't use them.

Release with new version will come in a few hours/days.

carus · Postby **carus** » 17 Jun 2007 11:54

Those versions are broken. Don't use them.

Don't say stupidities, it works fine

Postby **Jean-Baptiste Kempf** » 17 Jun 2007 12:49

Last time I warn you. I am the one that make the official binaries, and those are not official, and ARE broken.

Try x264 multi-threading encoding or an ogg crafted version, and you will see.

carus · Postby **carus** » 17 Jun 2007 14:16

Last time I warn you. I am the one that make the official binaries, and those are not official

Is http://downloads.videolan.org/ the official server? YES
Is http://downloads.videolan.org/pub/video ... -win32.exe located on the official server? YES
Then it's official!
or May be you are admitting your servers have been compromized?

Postby **Jean-Baptiste Kempf** » 17 Jun 2007 16:39

You are getting boring.

Those are testing binaries. They are broken, don't use them. Don't come back to whine if they are broken.

And stop advertising them as correct ones.

hatipoglu · Postby **hatipoglu** » 17 Jun 2007 17:33

Unfortunately nearly all major software web sites announced this broken versiyon as final version. And many people downloaded this version.

http://www.computerbase.de/downloads/so ... media/vlc/

http://www.filehippo.com/download_vlc/?2825

http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&id=40999

carus · Postby **carus** » 17 Jun 2007 19:09

Those are testing binaries.

testing binaries should stay in different /test directories and not in /pub/videolan/vlc/ folder

Trax · Postby **Trax** » 17 Jun 2007 20:31

There was a problem copying the win32 binaries onto the main download location. This has been corrected before any announcements.

The wrong files were there for a short while but not all download mirrors synced yet with the new files. The win32 files which are now on the main download with the following MD5 checks are the proper ones:

59b90723cb879bf0dbd1e63dc6b1dfd4 vlc-0.8.6c-win32.7z
0e6b9b7b6ef8ed324535a632ad8c1e04 vlc-0.8.6c-win32.exe (fixed)
dfde19880a8fd9a45393e95d3a2c0ac3 vlc-0.8.6c-win32.zip (fixed)

If you wanna be sure, just wait for the official announcement

Trax · Postby **Trax** » 17 Jun 2007 22:25

Unfortunately nearly all major software web sites announced this broken versiyon as final version. And many people downloaded this version.

They shouldn't link to not announced files without MD5 checks and now risk having linked to the wrong ones. Better use the official link from the main site: http://www.videolan.org/mirror.php?file ... -win32.exe

For example a download from filehippo at present is NOT ok: 345e8f1b9deb2b3bfb8a09e3bff88df2 vlc-0.8.6c-win32.exe (corrupt). It's reported to them but no idea when they will fix it.

Postby **Jean-Baptiste Kempf** » 17 Jun 2007 23:24

Unfortunately nearly all major software web sites announced this broken versiyon as final version. And many people downloaded this version.

http://www.computerbase.de/downloads/so ... media/vlc/

http://www.filehippo.com/download_vlc/?2825

http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&id=40999

Especially when people announce them in that very forum... And make those sticky as if this was official.
If we don't announce, there are some good reasons.

And also, those directs links don't use our mirrors, break our main server because of heavy load and don't update our dl statistics...

And we asked them not to do it...

Postby **MetalheadGautham** » 18 Jun 2007 07:23

so I was right... VLC 0.8.6c is currently still a testing version...

Postby **Jean-Baptiste Kempf** » 18 Jun 2007 08:49

Well, no, now it is the official version.

Postby **MetalheadGautham** » 18 Jun 2007 08:51

since when? 10 minutes back???

Postby **MetalheadGautham** » 18 Jun 2007 08:52

anyway, I was the one who asked for a new version, so you must rename it as vlc 0.8.7 as I who told you

PS: joking....

Postby **Jean-Baptiste Kempf** » 18 Jun 2007 08:56

The numbering is quite clear. Small updates and fixes are letters, minor features are .x.y updates and big features and internal changes are .x

Postby **CloudStalker** » 18 Jun 2007 08:59

So why is the next version 0.9.0 instead of 0.8.7? Is it because it's such a huge leap from the current version or because 0,9,0 just sounds better?

Postby **MetalheadGautham** » 18 Jun 2007 09:00

because of the new QT4 interface...

Postby **Jean-Baptiste Kempf** » 18 Jun 2007 09:10

Because there are a lot of internal changes, because of Qt, because of a lot of features.

Postby **MetalheadGautham** » 18 Jun 2007 09:12

MetalheadGautham is always right

Postby **CloudStalker** » 18 Jun 2007 09:13

How do you determine how many numbers to skip based on the internal updates?

Postby **MetalheadGautham** » 18 Jun 2007 09:15

good question.... ask j-b

Postby **CloudStalker** » 18 Jun 2007 09:16

No.

What do you think I was doing?

j-b?

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