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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may this be a new record?

[hjf]

Slashdotted before First Post!

Re:It's news.

[dr.badass]

VLC is a very significant piece of software, not just for Linux users (for whom its especially significant) but for anyone who watches a lot of movies or other media files.

This version introduces a number of new and long-requested features, beyond what the point-release number upgrade would lead you to believe.

Would you care to back up these statements? I personally find VLC to be more or less a big turd, and have never really understood the excitement about it. I'm interested to know what I'm missing.