Changelog/0.8.6e

Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e

Various bugfixes

• Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
• Fixed XShm detection with remote X11

Security updates

• Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
• HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
• Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
• Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296, VideoLAN-SA-0801)
• Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130, VideoLAN-SA-0802)

Audio filter

• Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter

Audio output

• Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA

Access

• Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs

Stream output

• Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer

Encoders

• Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
• Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264 encoding on multi-cpu systems
  • Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
  • Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)

Mac OS X Interface & Port

• Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
• Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
• VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing

Localization

• Updated Romanian and Polish translations