VideoLan have update excellent video player VLC for the Mac and Windows to version 2.0.1, the update should be delivered automatically via the app and the includes a lot of UI improvements.
via feepk.net
Here are the most important improvements for VLC for the Mac:
- fixed delay when changing the volume
- added a way to minimize the playlist
- option-click on the playlist button, if the video is played within the main window
- click normally on the playlist button, if the video is played in a detached window or no video is playing at all
- provided a way to hide the sidebar
- added playback controls to the detached video window
- added OSD feedback when changing the volume
- added accessibility support to the black UI mode
- resolved fullscreen playback issues on Lion and Snow Leopard
- the forward / backward buttons are way less sensitive now, so you can skip the movie much more slowly (the speed matches iTunes now)
- disabled the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion by default
- fixed issues with the track synchronization panel
- fixed playback of multicast UDP / RTP streams on certain setups
- fixed SAP service discovery on certain setups
- fixed crop functionality in the main menu and the video effects panel
- fixed issues with the aspect ratio and subtitles menu items
- fixed various crashes and minor ui issues
- progress bar flickering, video window getting larger than the actual screen size, re-appearing “Updating font cache” dialogs, etc.
This update includes the following security content:
- Updated libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
- Updated freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
- Fixed MMS stack overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1201)
- Fixed RealRTSP heap overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1202)
Additionally, VLC 2.0.1 includes the following cross-platform improvements:
- Access:
- fixed and improved the CDDB information retrieval
- fixed the samba module compilation
- improved HTTP Live Streaming support
- multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Windows and for encryption
- multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
- improved DVD playback on some RPC-I drives
- Codecs:
- Support for MXPEG files
- limited auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
- fixed the use of QuickTime audio codecs in RTSP streams
- Muxers:
- FIxed OGM header creation
- Demuxers:
- Fixed multi-file splitted RAR archive support
- Fixed a crash when seeking in mka
- Improved MKV multi-video tracks support
- Audio filters:
- limited spatializer filter distortions
- Use the fastest SinC algorithm for the samplerate module
- Web interface:
- fixed mobile display for remote control mode
- support for .drc and .3ga extensions
- Service discovery:
- fixed SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
- Updated Jamendo selections