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VLC 0.8.6 Released

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the plays-almost-anything dept.

h2g2bob writes "VideoLAN yesterday released a new version of VLC media player. A shout out goes to ffmpeg for many of the codec improvements." From the blurb: "Building on feedback from the 29 million downloads of VLC media player 0.8.5, we bring you version 0.8.6 with many bugfixes, as well as a couple of new features we think you will truly enjoy. Most prominent are probably Windows Media Video 9 and Flash Video. Other important changes are improved H.264 decoding, better Windows Unicode support, a Fullscreen controller, and Apple Remote support for Mac OS X."

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  1. /.ng by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ok, it is time that you all stop covering software releases. You /.'d a college; now cut it out. My porn is of a greater urgency than your reporting.

  2. Re:How about a mirror? by maxume · · Score: 5, Funny

    Which one has your trojan embedded?

    --
    Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
  3. Re:Why is this under Linux? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Go show your mom this comment. She will get you some help.

  4. Re:cloth by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    "Building on feedback from the 29 million downloads of VLC media player 0.8.5, we bring you version 0.8.6 with many bugfixes, as well as a couple of new features we think you will truly enjoy. Most prominent are probably Windows Media Video 9 and Flash Video. Other important changes are improved H.264 decoding, better Windows Unicode support, a Fullscreen controller, and Apple Remote support for Mac OS X."

     
    And most importantly it will play all your pr0n torrents if you are running OSX. (Comes with free cloth).
     
      Great! Where is it? Where is it!

    ...too late :(

  5. Re:How is this news? by EvanED · · Score: 5, Funny

    Because like oil, the whales, and oxygen, version numbers are a non-renewable resource!

  6. Re:How about a mirror? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    We all know slashdotters rarely if ever get a chance to embed a trojan...

  7. Re:How about a mirror? by legal_asshole · · Score: 5, Funny

    I appologize in advance...

    I'd go with the mirror from India. The trojan has probably slipped off the executable, and the executable is going to be smaller to boot!

    I hate myself...

  8. Re:What fullscreen controller? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sometimes it's hard to masturbate frantically and not move the mouse around. When you really get into it, and you start thrusting, you'll make your whole bed shake. If the mouse isn't on the floor or upside down, it'll move and bring up the on-screen controller, which is very distracting. Putting the mouse on the floor is suboptimal as well. One video isn't enough for me to get off anymore. I speak from experience.

  9. Re:Version Number Deflation... by WheresMyDingo · · Score: 4, Funny

    in related news.. as part of their Truth in Point Releases Initiative, Microsoft has renamed Windows Vista as "Windows 0.6.1"

  10. Re:And it still doesn't support multipart rar's... by Spad · · Score: 3, Funny

    Christ man, how lazy do you have to be that after downloading your movies for free you can't be bothered to un-rar them? Perhaps you'd like VLC to support torrents and write up a summary of each video for you - cut out the human interaction all together.