Dear VideoLAN users, The VideoLAN team is happy to announce the release of VLC media player 0.8.2 after more then 7 months of hard work. Features include : * Rewrite of the playlist (tree structure, input preparsing ...) * Preferences improvements * Mac OS X Tiger compatibility * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin * Client-side SSL/TLS support * Support for FTP over IPv6 * Massive Matroska improvements * Support for SOCKS proxy * Support for Shoutcast metadata * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams * TiVo demuxer * Samba (Windows shares) access module for Linux * Dirac decoder and encoder * PNG decoder/encoder * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec * Services discovery modules (brand new SAP module, HAL discovery, DAAP (iTunes shares), shoutcast) * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM * Video snapshot support (png or jpg) * Image file video output (png) * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system) * New Mac OS X audio output module. SPDIF is not supported by this module. Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information. * Pocket PC port You can get a complete list by reading the release notes : http://developers.videolan.org/vlc/NEWS Binary packages are already available for Windows and MacOS X. Other packages will follow shortly. You can download those and the source code on the VLC home page : http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ Help concerning this new VLC version is available : * Documentation - http://www.videolan.org/doc/ * The Forum - http://forum.videolan.org/ * The Wiki Pages - http://wiki.videolan.org/ * The User Mailing Lists - http://www.videolan.org/support/lists.html * IRC - #videolan on Freenode Remember to reset your preferences if you experience problems after upgrading from a previous version.