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VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats. For Mac OS X 10.4 and above.

What’s new in VLC media player - 0.8.6d:

* Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
* Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences in input
* Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
* Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
* FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
* Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703)
* Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
* Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
* Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
* Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of two different movies
* Support for current Ogg file formats NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher. Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
* Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
* The automatic updating facility was removed
* You now need to append –m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.

Web-browser, e-mail and newsgroup client, IRC chat client, and HTML editing all in one application.

What’s new in SeaMonkey - 1.1.7

* Security and stability fixes
* The problems with running SeaMonkey from read-only application directories have been fixed in this release. (Bug 389136).