[ANN] VLC 0.6.0 and libdvdcss 1.2.7

[Alexis de Lattre]

The VideoLAN team is happy to announce the release of VLC media player
0.6.0, code-named "Trevelyan", and libdvdcss 1.2.7.


******* VLC 0.6.0 *******

VLC media player 0.6.0 is a major release which features:

- a new Video 4 Linux input (for webcams and acquisition cards),
- a new CDDA input (for audio CDs
- multicast IPv6 support under Windows and Mac OS X,
- an early support for the Matroska container format,
- support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg,
- support for QuickTime codecs under Mac OS X,
- a new HTTP remote control interface,
- improved wxWindows interface (now the default under Windows),
- improved skinnable interface, with X11 support,
- better SAP/SDP announcing support in IPv4 and IPv6
(requires miniSAPserver 0.2.1),
- a new stream output scheme (it is now possible to build a chain of
stream outputs allowing for instance to stream and display some
content at the same time),
- transcoding support for the stream output,
- as usual, many bug fixes !

For a more complete list, please see the full release notes:

http://developers.videolan.org/vlc/NEWS

Binary packages are already available for the following platforms:

- Windows
- Mac OS X
- BeOS

You can download the binary packages and the source code on:

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Debian packages will be uploaded into 'sid' soon. RPM packages for RedHat
and packages for iPaq and Opie should be available soon. We are still
looking for a Mandrake RPM maintainer...


******* libdvdcss 1.2.7 *******

The new release of libdvdcss (version 1.2.7), the DVD decryption library
used by VLC and many other GPL media players, has key caching enabled
by default and some bugfixes. For a more complete list, read the release
notes or the ChangeLog of libdvdcss available on:

http://developers.videolan.org/libdvdcss/

From this page, you can also download the tarballs and the Debian

packages for 'woody' and 'sid'.


******* VideoLAN documentation ********

The VideoLAN documentation has moved to Docbook XML and now welcomes all
translations. The VideoLAN FAQ has already be translated into Spanish
and French:

http://www.videolan.org/doc/

If you are willing to translate documentation, please contact
<www-***@videolan.org>.

The official documentation only deals with the command line interface of
VLC, and can't speak about all the tips and tricks that are specific of
each operating system. We now have a VideoLAN Wiki for this purpose:

http://wiki.videolan.org



We hope you'll enjoy these new releases, and don't forget that
contributions (especially on the code, the translations, the
documentation and the Wiki) are always welcomed !

For the VideoLAN team,