VLC media player 0.8.1 released

[The DJ]

Mostly a bugfix release.

Changelog 0.8.0 -> 0.8.1:
Core support:
* Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
* SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)

Windows port:
* Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
* Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
* Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen

WinCE port:
* A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).

Audio Output:
* Portaudio audio output plugin improvements

Video Output:
* Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available

Demuxers:
* Fixed crash with ODML avi files
* Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files

Stream Output:
* Encoders:
* Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
* Stream output:
* Support of playlist group announcement


We hope you will all enjoy it and continue to support and spread the word on VLC in every possible way.

[Dandruff]

thanks! portaudio is working fine now. and the behaviour with this second taskbar item is better now

[bmasri]

Hi,

I just downloaded version 0.8.1 and also 0.8.0. In both versions, when i select the camera for the video device name in the direct show dialog, it crashes on both Win XP and Win2k when i hit OK or Apply. The camera is Creative WEBCAM Notebook.

Any known issues with this test case?


Thanks

[sash]

Hi was doing a transcode to upd (tsmpeg, mpg4, mpga) stream to multicast on a wireless network.. with this version it does not seem to like to convert to mono output from stereo... I tried many different configs and it always crash vlc if I reduce the audio channels from 2 to 1 . works fine with other versions of VLC..

[Sau]

In src/misc/httpd.c - httpd_TLSHostNew()

/* Cannot re-use host if it uses TLS/SSL */
//if( &httpd->host->p_tls != NULL )
if( httpd->host->p_tls != NULL )

For re-use httpd's port.

[miller_bln]

>Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
>-----------------------------------------------------
>WinCE port:
> * A few more updates (we still miss an interface >and a fast video output).

where i can find a binary for wince ???

regards
miller_bln

[uni-ka]

Hi, I've got a PVR-350 and it doesn't seem to work correctly with vlc 0.8.1. I can open the stream but the audio sounds pretty bad and the video keeps going to black, stuttering etc.
The messages keep on saying nasty things like

"ps warning: garbage at input
ps warning: garbage at input
libmpeg2 warning: invalid picture encountered
libmpeg2 warning: invalid picture encountered
main warning: late picture skipped (3326625000)
main debug: stream periodicity changed from B[4] to B[2]
ps warning: garbage at input
main warning: vout synchro warning: pts != current_date (-15156)
libmpeg2 warning: invalid picture encountered
libmpeg2 warning: invalid picture encountered
main warning: late picture skipped (3326812000)
main warning: late picture skipped (3326811999)
main warning: backward_pts != dts (15778)
main warning: backward_pts != current_pts (15156)
libmpeg2 warning: invalid picture encountered
libmpeg2 warning: invalid picture encountered
libmpeg2 warning: invalid picture encountered
main warning: vout synchro warning: pts != current_date (-14833)
main warning: audio drift is too big (-270416), clearing out
main warning: timing screwed, stopping resampling
main warning: audio drift is too big (-270250), clearing out
main warning: mixer start isn't output start (-115063)"

on and on. All this happens on a P4 3 GHz HT, 1 GB RAM, Rage128 running WinXP SP2. Anything I can do about it? Or is it a problem of the client itself?
Thanks in advance!

[derekli]

Both 0.8.1 and 0.8.0 crash the windows xp when I tried to capture my web camera "CamMaestro 4.0 AU". Is it because of the webcam or OS ? Any release to fix this problem? Version 0.7.0 has no this problem.

Thanks,
Derek

[Gintarelis]

Hi, i don't understand, why progress bar was removed in 0.81 version, when playing streaming video. I use VLC player to play movies directly from FTP server. Now i can play movies only from beginning.
/excuse me for my EN/

[Guest]

Both 0.8.1 and 0.8.0 crash the windows xp when I tried to capture my web camera "CamMaestro 4.0 AU". Is it because of the webcam or OS ? Any release to fix this problem? Version 0.7.0 has no this problem.

Thanks,
Derek

same here, win xp does a reboot after selecting the webcam as the outstream. no problems with v0.72

[derekli]

Both version 0.8.1 and 0.8.0 work well after I set the video size as 640 x 480. One tricky thing is that I have to leave a space character between the two numbers. VLC crashes my windows XP if there is no space, or the video size is not set at all.

[thanx]

One, Thanx for this release! and double thanx for the extended javascript function in Mozilla plugin.

[rajce007]

I have movie on DVD with single audio track
(dvdpcm, 1536 kbps, 48.0 kHz, Stereo)

i have VLC on OS-X 10.3.5 (PM G4/1,25GHz)

It play ok in: my home DVD-player harman/kardon DVD1, also in Apple DVDplayer4, also in Mplayer OS X 2 (v2.0b7).

but in VLC 0.7.0 and 0.8.1 Audio track not play.
VLC in messages write:
"coreaudio_resampler warning: AudioConverterConvertBuffer failed: [sz\¿] (3688:0)"

[Guest]

Hi !

I'm running Linux, Mandrake 10.1 official. I have a sound issue to report .......
Video runs ok when streaming, but the audio ......tsk, tsk, tsk..........
Not good.

I'm not sure if it's a configuration problem or a bug somewhere, but there ain't nobody who can help me out......,so....... I assume this is a bug.

All my downloads runs great in Mplayer, kaffeine or whatever without the clipping issue from VLC ?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!??!?!?!?!

VLC really got something ! I really like this prog and it has a lot of potensial, but I think I'll wait for the next version

That's all folks !

[Alexsource]

I keep getting late frame skipping with files wich work just fine in just about anything else.... I've tryed wmp and geexbox, and those files play perfectly, only videolan have this problems...
This only happens with certain parts with lot's of motion on certain files.
Not long ago, i've uploaded a sample file ([AU]GALERIANS_RION - Movie promo[1D16B663].avi) wich did that over here using videolan in my humble amd duron 1200+ @850 Mhz, 256 Mb Ram (32 shared), SiS 630/730 integrated videocard with latest drivers, SiS 7018 integrated soundcard, Win XP pro SP1, Koepi's XviD-1.0.2-29082004 final.
If you devs need it, i can upload the sample file again with a log and such, like i did last time
And... What happened with the w32 nightly builds dowload page? I can't seem to reach it anymore... keep getting "the document contains no data" (yes, i use ffox), have you moved it or something?

[The DJ]

the server that produces the nightly builds has crashed very severly. it will return, but it will take time.

The same server also hosted ALL our samples btw, which we have ALL lost.

[Alexsource]

Daamn... I'll happily upload that and some other samples when you guys manage to fix that server

[Alexsource]

OK, I'm uploading some samples. All zip files include: the .avi, the log, and a readme with some details.
galerians.zip -> this is the one that i'd uploaded loooong ago.
storm riders sample.zip
storm riders sample 2.zip -> another sample of the same movie
NOTE: in the last 2, i've noticed that the skipping is lower (less time) than in the actual complete file...
I've used "VirtualDubMod 1.5.10.1 (build 2366/release) [Based on VirtualDub 1.5.10 by Avery Lee]" to cut the samples, using direct stream copy.
BTW, also VLC says that the audio stream is MPGA, while VDM says they are some sort of VBR.
I might upload another sample after x-mas.
Merry x-mas everyone!

[The DJ]

MPGA is a codec, VBR (Variable Bit Rate) is the bitrate of such an audio stream.

[Alexsource]

Well, yes i know that... The thing is, that VLC shows a bitrate, but it does not report wether it is constant or a calculated average of a VBR stream. I think it would be nice to add it (to report wether the audio streams are CBR or VBR) to the media info dialog
I'll try to upload another late picture skipped sample today...

[Alexsource]

Uploading another late picture skipped sample -> police story 2 sample.zip

[zaiLex]

In the older vlc versions you could have a negative number in the delay window so the subtitles would hurry up instead of delay, you cant do that anymore which sucks!

[The DJ]

That should be fixed indeed...
Keep reminding us

[Mark Havel]

When I play a DVD, it seems to be a bug in the length of the film: for example, with a Stargate DVD, VLC says me a episode is 20-30 minutes length but it's 45-50 min. in real life.
Ho, the Episode III trailer does not have sound at all when played with VideoLAN.

[anonymous2]

On a complete and updated FC3 64 on a dual Opteron,
I installed videolan-client-0.8.1-1.1.fc3.rf.x86_64.rpm with all dependeces resolved by
yum from baseurl=ftp://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/dag/fedora/3/en/x86_64/dag/
running
vlc
[00000001] main vlc error: no memcpy module matched "any"
[00000016] main interface error: no interface module matched "hotkeys,none"
[00000016] main interface error: no suitable intf module
[00000001] main vlc error: interface "hotkeys,none" initialization failed
[00000017] main interface error: no interface module matched "any"
[00000017] main interface error: no suitable intf module
[00000001] main vlc error: interface "(null)" initialization failed

Other people report the same problem:
http://lists.freshrpms.net/pipermail/fr ... 12035.html

Any suggestions, please?