VLC media player (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG, DivX/Xvid, Ogg, and many more) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. However in recent years it has also become a extremely powerful server to stream live and on demand video in several formats to our network and the Internet.
It started as a student project at the French École Centrale, Paris but is now a worldwide project with developers from 20 countries. (more).
VLC is built in a modular way. This means that you can choose from a range of different modules to decide how to control VLC and how to display the video output.
Keyboard shortcuts in the Windows (directx) video output
Note: these shortcuts are only default settings and can be customized (along with many others). To tweak hotkeys settings, go to Settings->Preferences->Interface->Hotkeys settings
F...........................................Fullsc reen
Space....................................Play/Pause
T...........................................Show position (time)
S...........................................Stop
Ctrl+Q...................................Quit
+/-........................................Faster/Slower
N/P........................................Next/Previous
Shift+Left/Shift+Right...........Jump very short
Alt+Left/Alt+Right.................Jump short
Ctrl+Left/Ctrl+Right..............Jump medium
Ctrl+Alt+Left/Ctrl+Alt+Right.Jump long
Ctrl+Up/Ctrl+Down...............Volume up/down
M..........................................Mute
Ctrl+M..................................Show DVD-menu
Security updates
>>Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
Various bugfixes
>>Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
>>Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
>>Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input, SAP services discovery, http control interface)
>>Updated Polish translation
http://rapidshare.com/files/139651752/vlc-0.8.6i-win32.rar
