VLC Media Player 0.8.6d

VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats, including MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, MP3, and OGG, as well as for DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It also can be used as a server for unicast or multicast streams in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

The most prominent additions to version 0.8.6 are probably Windows Media Video 9 and Flash Video. Other important changes are improved H.264 decoding, better Windows Unicode support, and a full-screen. Version 0.8.6d is a bug fixing release.

VLC media player (VLC) is an open-source cross-platform media player and streaming solution. In 2001, VLC was released under the OSI-approved GNU General Public version 2, with the commonly-offered option to use "any later version" thereof (though there was not any such later version at the time). Following the release by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) of the new version 3 of its GNU General Public License (GPL) on the 29th of June 2007, contributors to the VLC media player, and other software projects hosted at videolan.org, debated the possibility of updating the licensing terms for future version of the VLC media player and other hosted projects, to version 3 of the GPL.

The VideoLAN project is a strong supporter of open-source and free software, and strives to provide a state-of-the-art multimedia framework for the indiscriminate benefit of all of its users, its contributors, and the open-source community at large. It is our understanding that our software licensing terms are of the utmost importance to protecting the rights of our contributors at the same time as the freedoms and benefits of our users.

We recognize that certain changes to the GPL constitute certain improvements and would help foster the long-term significance and quality of open-source softwares. In particular, we welcome the extended compatibility with other open-source licenses, making the license terms less specific to the US legal system (this is especially important to our project which is historically based in Europe), various clarifications such as the more explicit interaction with patents.

Free license, requirements Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/Vista, no limitations.

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