Videolan, the team behind the app, say VLC 2.0.6 is an ‘important update‘ to the 2.x series of the popular media player.
Amongst the fixes and feature improvements users will find:
- Support for Matroska V4 files
- Improved DBus and MPRIS interfaces
- Misc fixes for MKV, Ogg, AVI, WMV file formats
- HTML Srt Subtitles no longer cause a crash
- HTTPS playback fixes
A full list of changes can be found @ videolan.org/developers/vlc-branch/NEWS
Installing VLC 2.0.6
The latest stable releases of VLC are available to install on Ubuntu 12.10 and 13.04 from the Videolan Stable Daily PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:videolan/stable-daily
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install vlc