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August 31, 2005

Multicast from Windows Media Server

Our good friend Jon Lech Johansen has reverse engineered the encoding used by NSC announcement files which contain the information to join Multicast Windows Media Streaming sessions. So i'm working on getting this into VLC right now and hopefully "Very Soon Now", VLC will support WMS multicast. Let's REJOICE.

Update:I now have a nsc file decoder for VLC. Next step is to get this information passed to a new connection so we can have decode the ASF in the UDP stream we receive.

Posted by The DJ at 08:39 PM | Comments (2) | TrackBack
Posted in Streaming , VideoLAN

VLC 0.8.2 passes 6 million downloads

VLC media player is getting really popular now. The latest release (0.8.2) has been downloaded over 6 million times now. That truly is a lot of downloads and I think everyone in the team is really proud of that. Lets hope that we will grow and grow and one day can get close to the quality that a project like mozilla provides.
Also let us not forget that the 6 million downloads are almost all Windows and Mac OS X downloads. The linux distributions often distribute VLC themselves. And then there is the Freeplayer spin off, and the Google Video Viewer plugin, and Annodex plugins and Tryst and all those other applications that are based on the VLC source code. Lets keep going guys !

Posted by The DJ at 01:32 PM | Comments (3) | TrackBack
Posted in VideoLAN