./multimedia/vlc, VideoLAN Client

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Branch: pkgsrc-2008Q1, Version: 0.8.6f, Package name: vlc-0.8.6f, Maintainer: pkgsrc-users

VideoLAN is a project of French students from the Ecole Centrale Paris
and developers from all over the world. Its main goals is MPEG streaming
on a network, but it also features a standalone multimedia player. The
VideoLAN Server can stream video read from a hard disk, a DVD player,
a satellite card or an MPEG 2 compression card, and unicast or multicast
it on a network. The VideoLAN Client can read the stream from the network
and display it. It can also be used to display video read locally on
the computer : DVDs, VCDs, MPEG and DivX files and from a satellite
card. It is multi-plaform : Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, BeOS, BSD, Solaris,
QNX, iPaq... The VideoLAN Client and Server now have a full IPv6 support.


Required to run:
[converters/fribidi] [x11/libdrm] [x11/wxGTK] [misc/xdg-dirs] [misc/libcdio] [multimedia/libmpeg2] [multimedia/libdvdnav] [multimedia/ffmpeg-devel] [multimedia/libmatroska] [multimedia/libdvdplay] [multimedia/libdvdread] [multimedia/libdvbpsi] [multimedia/libogg] [graphics/freetype2] [graphics/SDL_image] [devel/SDL] [devel/pcre] [audio/liba52] [audio/lame] [audio/libvorbis] [audio/faad2] [audio/flac] [audio/libmad] [audio/libcddb] [audio/libid3tag] [textproc/libxml2]

Required to build:
[x11/fixesproto] [x11/randrproto] [x11/renderproto] [x11/xextproto] [x11/xproto] [x11/inputproto] [pkgtools/x11-links] [lang/perl5] [devel/gmake] [devel/pkg-config] [devel/libtool-base]

Package options: faad, wxwidgets

Master sites:

SHA1: 9684bb7504636d3e3143734698c2bbac250f4a03
RMD160: c52d0cb7e8ba36f9d0959b9d6e1e8b1b36b71b04
Filesize: 11165.721 KB

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   2008-04-24 15:27:08 by Tyler R. Retzlaff | Files touched by this commit (5) | Package updated
Log message:
pullup ticket #2346 - requested by tonnerre
fixes several security vulnerabilities

Revisions pulled up:
- pkgsrc/multimedia/vlc/Makefile	 1.52
- pkgsrc/multimedia/vlc/distinfo	 1.16
- pkgsrc/multimedia/vlc/patches/patch-ac 1.4
- pkgsrc/multimedia/vlc/patches/patch-ad 1.6
- pkgsrc/multimedia/vlc/patches/patch-ae removed

   Module Name:	pkgsrc
   Committed By:	tonnerre
   Date:		Sun Apr 20 15:31:03 UTC 2008

   Modified Files:
   	pkgsrc/multimedia/vlc: Makefile distinfo
   	pkgsrc/multimedia/vlc/patches: patch-ac patch-ad
   Removed Files:
   	pkgsrc/multimedia/vlc/patches: patch-ae

   Log message:
   Update vlc to version 0.8.6f, also applying some smaller patches:
    - Wrong boundary check in Speex decoder (CVE-2008-1686).
    - Compilability of CDDA code with modern libcdio versions.

   Vendor updates in 0.8.6f
    - Security vulnerabilities in the Subtitle demuxer, Real RTSP demuxer,
      MP4 demuxer and Cinepak codec: CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-0073,
      CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1769).
    - Crashes in H264 packetizer.
    - Close MMS access on network timeout.
    - Some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer.

   Vendor updates in 0.8.6e:
    - Security vulnerabilities in the Web interface, Subtitle demuxer,
      Real RTSP demuxer, SDL_image library and MP4 demuxer (CVE-2007-6681,
      CVE-2007-6682, CVE-2006-4484, CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295,
   CVE-2008-0296, CORE-2008-0130).
    - Resume playback for viewing content over FTP.
    - Fixed XShm detection with remote X11.
    - DTS to S/PDIF converter fixes.
    - Waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer.
    - Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on
   iPhones.

   Approved-by: joerg