VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multi-platform multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, Ogg, OGM, MOV, wma, wmv...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. The VideoLAN project targets multimedia streaming of MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and DivX files, DVDs, digital satellite channels, digital terrestial television channels and live videos on a high-bandwidth IPv4 or IPv6 network in unicast or multicast under many OSes. VideoLAN also features a cross-platform multimedia player, VLC, which can be used to read the stream from the network or display video read locally on the computer under all GNU/Linux flavours, all BSD flavours, Windows, Mac OS X, BeOS, Solaris, QNX...

* Rewrite of the playlist (tree structure, input preparsing ...)
* Preferences improvements
* XML parsers
* Client-side SSL/TLS support
* Massive Matroska improvements
* Support for SOCKS proxy
* Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
* Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
* TiVo demuxer
* Samba (Windows shares) access module
* Dirac decoder and encoder
* PNG decoder/encoder
* Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
* Services discovery modules (brand new SAP module, HAL discovery, DAAP (iTunes shares), shoutcast)
* Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
* Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
* Image file video output (png)
* Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
* Pocket PC port
* Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin