Dear VideoLAN users, The VideoLAN team is happy to announce the final version of VLC 0.8.4. (Note: 0.8.3 was skipped because its technical improvements were too little) Highlights from improvements include: * New cone design * Mac OS X interface: - new dialogs (wizard, extended controls, bookmarks) - drag and drop in playlist * Skins interface: - Partial support for tree playlist * HTTP interface: - CGI handling, you can now use external programs from VLC's web server (like PHP for instance) - Much richer controls * Linux binary codecs loader. Now able to read WMV3 under Linux. * UPnP service discovery * Bonjour (Apple zeroconf protocol) service discovery * Shoutcast output module to forward streams to icecast servers * enhanced H.264 support * New languages: Galician, Korean, Romanian and Simplified Chinese * Loads of bug fixes You can get a complete list by reading the release notes: http://developers.videolan.org/vlc/NEWS Binary packages are available for Windows and Mac OS X. Other packages will follow shortly. You can download those and the source code as well on: 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. For the VideoLAN team,