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VLC 0.8.6 Released

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

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

  5. 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...

  6. 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...

  7. 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"

  8. 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.