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VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, …) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. Do not be dissuaded by the beta version, VLC has been solid from early on. If it helps put a 1 in place of the leading zero.

What’s new in this version:

Building on feedback from the 29 million downloads of VLC media player 0.8.5, VideoLAN brings you version 0.8.6 with many bugfixes, as well as a couple of new features we think you will truly enjoy.

Highlights of the new features and improvements:

* Support for Windows Media Video 9 and VC-1
* Support for VP5/VP6 and Flash video
* Support for TTA and WavPack Lossless audio
* Much improved H.264 support
* Preliminary DVR-ms, MXF support
* Shoutcast TV support
* Windows unicode fixes
* Apple Remote support
* Apple Fullscreen controller
* Universal Binary
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