New AVFoundation OS X and shm framebuffer inputs.Important improvements on Blu-Ray, Dash, v4l2 and HTTP inputs.Support for VNC/rfb and Remote Desktop view-only modes.New RTMP input module, using libavformat!.Support for Microsoft Smooth Streaming, developed by.Support for screen input on OSX Lion and later.Better recording of AVI and MKV format.Extended support for AVI, MKV and MJPEG streams.Support FLAC, Atrac, ADPCM, DV Type 1, 12bits DV audio in AVI.
Extended metadata tags and cover art support in Ogg, AVI, MP4 and MKV.Support for fragmented MP4, Wave/RF64 files.Support for SCTE-27 and complete EIA-608 subtitles.Support for Ulead DV audio, Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless audio.Support for G2M4, MSS1, MSS2, TSCC2, CDXL, Ut, VBLE video codecs.Add hardware encoding for Windows using Intel QuickSyncVideo.Add hardware decoding for GNU/Linux using VDPAU.
Version 4.0 introduces a new user interface, media library browser, VR support, 3D video support, and revised video output functions. VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.