VLC 2.0.1 updated version released

VLC 2.0.1

VLC media player is the most successful free open source multimedia player out there with over 500 million downloads according to the developers. In particular, VLC media player is a great alternative to Windows Media Player, and RealPlayer. It's lightweight, fast, easy to use and most importantly, plays almost anything.

After 15 million downloads of VLC 2.0.0 versions, VideoLAN and the VLC development team present the second version of "Twoflower", a bugfix release.

Support for MxPEG files, new features in the Mac OS X interface are part of this release, in addition to faster decoding and fixes for hundred of bugs and regression, notably for HLS, MKV, RAR, Ogg, Bluray discs and many other things. This is also a security update.

2.0.1 specific changes

• Support for MxPEG files and streams
• New features in the Mac OS X interface for more customization.
• Numerous fixes in the Qt, the Mac OS and the skins interfaces.
• Fixes for HTTP Live Streaming, CDDB, UDP/RTP support.
• Security issues SA-1201 and SA-1202.
• Limited support for Bluray discs menus.
• Numerous fixes for MKV support.
• Fix for splitted RAR files playback.
• Numerous fixes for more than 120 bugs.
• Codec and 3rd party libraries security updates.

Download: Windows  (21 MB)
                 Mac OS X 10.6+ (25.4 MB)