VLC media player 1.0.1

La première mise à jour de la version 1.0 de VLC media player vient de sortir.

Voici la liste complète des nouveautés :

Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
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Demuxers:
* Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
* Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
* Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
* Fix Dailymotion access script
* Fix crashes in xspf files handler
* Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version

Access:
* Add extra caching for files on network shares
* Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria

Decoders:
* Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
* Improve SSA subtitles rendering
* Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version

Muxers:
* Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio

Qt Interface:
* Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
* Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening

Mac OS X Interface:
* Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
* Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
* Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
* Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
* More reliable Information and Messages panels
* Fix various crashes

Windows port:
* The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support

Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian

Firefox 3.5.1

Mozilla vient de publier la première mise à jour pour Firefox 3.5. Cette mise à jour corrige notamment des problèmes de sécurité et de stabilité du navigateur.

Pour consulter la listes complètes des modifications :   https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?keywords_type=anywords&keywords=fixed1.9.1.1+verified1.9.1.1 

Pour télécharger la mise à jour :                    http://www.mozilla-europe.org/fr/firefox/

Silverlight 3.0

Microsoft vient de publier une nouvelle version du concurrent de Flash d’Adobe.

Vous retrouvez les nouveautés de la version 3 de Silverlight à cette adresse : http://silverlight.net/getstarted/silverlight3/default.aspx

 

Pour le télécharger : http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/get-started/install/default.aspx

VLC media player 1.0

VLC media player, lecteur multimédia open source vient de passer en version 1.0.

Voici l’ensemble des nouveautés de cette version :

Changes between 0.9.9a and 1.0.0:
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Important notes:
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 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
   See 'Access:' for more info.
 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations

Playback:
 * Instantaneous pausing
 * Frame-by-Frame playback
 * Finer speed control
 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
 * Timeshift for most medias
 * RTSP trickplay support
 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes

Decoders:
 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering

Demuxers:
 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
 * Metadata for mod files are supported
 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams

Encoders:
 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder

Access:
 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
   OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
 * DVB scanning on linux
 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
   zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
   zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
 * MTP device access on Unix
 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values

Inputs:
 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
   Windows and Mac OS X.

Playlist:
 * Export the playlist in HTML
 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
 * Better metadata handling and reading

Linux/Windows interface:
 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
 * Recently played items list
 * Interface toolbar customizations
 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
    - More menus actions
    - Finer speed slider
    - Improvements on many dialogs
    - New dialog for plugins listing
    - Fixed-size mode for videos
    - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
 * Better integration in GTK environments

Mac OS X Interface:
 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
 * Additional usability improvements

Stream output:
 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.

Maemo Port:
 * New Maemo port with:
   - an interface based on Hildon framework.
   - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.

Windows CE Port:
 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.

Mac OS X Port:
 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
 * Support for latest iSight models

Audio output:
 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
 * Surround support for PulseAudio

Video output:
 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
   (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
   The old image video output has been removed.
 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
   withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.

Miscellaneous:
 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications

Pour la télécharger :

http://www.videolan.org/

Firefox 3.5

Firefox vient de sortir dans une nouvelle version, la 3.5. Vous pouvez découvrir les nouveautés de cette version dans la vidéo suivante :

et également à l’adresse suivante :

http://www.generation-nt.com/test-firefox-3-5-ff-navigateur-web-mozilla-gecko-tracemonkey-javascript-article-826581-1.html