VLC Player 2.02 releases and fixes a lot of bugs and finally works as should on PPC G4 Macs w/ radeon 9000 gpu

Wow! the Mac developers of VLC Player has been updated to version 2.02 and it fixes a lot of bugs and finally works with PPC G4 Macs w. Radeon 7500/8500/9000/9200 and Nvidia Geforce 2MX/4MX! The performance issues has also been fixed.

VLC 2.02 for the Mac requires Mac OSX Leopard and up for both PPC Macs and Intel Macs.

VLC Media Player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

Mac ppc VLC PLAYER 2.02:Download for OS 10.5

Mac INTEL 32BIT VLC PLAYER 2.02: Download for OS 10.5+ 

Mac INTEL 64BIT VLC PLAYER 2.02: Download for OS 10.5+

WHAT'S NEW

Version 2.0.2:

Video Output:

• More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
• Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
• Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
• Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
• Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500, an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
• Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
• Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called Retina Displays.

Access:

• Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
• Fixes for RAR compressed files
• Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
• Improve PulseAudio input latency
• Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
• v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
• Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
• IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
• Accept more extensions for DVD images
• Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
• Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
• Improvements and fixes in HLS support

Codec:

• Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
• Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
• Fix G726 support
• Fix MP3 free format support

Demuxers:

• Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
• Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
• Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
• Fix for DVB channels file support
• Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4

Encoders:

• Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
• Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots

Audio filters and output:

• Limitation of spatializer volume output
• Fix DirectSound device selection
• Correct PulseAudio volume control
• Do not apply volume in file output
• Fix sampling rate in JACK output
• Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers

Mac OS X:

• Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and the persistant media library
• Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules to the media library or the temporary playlist
• Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
• Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer press on the Play/Pause button
• Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup. This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
• Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
• Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
• Many Fullscreen fixes
• Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
• Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track Synchronization panel
• Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
• Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
• Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
• Fix crashes on exit
• Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while VLC is running
• Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
• Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be automatically reset on the first launch.- This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
• Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
• Miscellaneous minor interface improvements

Lua Scripts:

• Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
• Fixes for icecast SD

Qt:

• Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
• Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
• Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
• Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
• Fix tags and file names display
• Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues

Skins2:

• Fix mousewheel on Windows
• Fix for key events and focus loss

Web interface:

• Fix display of some buttons
• Fix listing of files in the Open interface
• Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog

Security:

• Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
• Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
• Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries

Translation:

• Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer, Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish, Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukranian, Thai translations update
• New Scottish Gaelic translation

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