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VideoLAN would like to thank VLC users 1 billion times, since VLC has now been downloaded more than 1 billion times from our servers, since 2005!
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After 15 million downloads of VLC 2.0.0 versions, VideoLAN and the VLC development team present the second version of "Twoflower", a bugfix release.
Support for MxPEG files, new features in the Mac OS X interface are part of this release, in addition to faster decoding and fixes for hundred of bugs and regression, notably for HLS, MKV, RAR, Ogg, Bluray discs and many other things.
This is also a security update.
More info on the release notes.
After 485 million downloads of VLC 1.1.x versions, VideoLAN and the VLC development team present VLC 2.0.0 "Twoflower", a major new release.
With faster decoding on multi-core, GPU, and mobile hardware and the ability to open more formats, notably professional, HD and 10bits codecs, 2.0 is a major upgrade for VLC.
Twoflower has a new rendering pipeline for video, with higher quality subtitles, and new video filters to enhance your videos.
It supports many new devices and BluRay Discs (experimental).
It features a completely reworked Mac and Web interfaces and improvements in the other interfaces make VLC easier than ever to use.
Twoflower fixes several hundreds of bugs, in more than 7000 commits from 160 volunteers.
More info on the release notes.
VideoLAN will have a booth (#74) at the Southern California Linux Expo at the Hilton Los Angeles Airport Hotel next week-end. The event will take place from Friday throughout Sunday. We will happily show you the latest developments and our forthcoming major VLC update.
VideoLAN is happy to announce the second major release of multicat. It brings numerous new features, such as recording chunks of a stream in a directory, and supporting TCP socket and IPv6, as well as bug fixes. Also aggregaRTP was extended to support retransmission of lost packets.
Development Blogs
Rémi Duraffort: Making VLC at home
In my previous article, I showed a way to setup and jump into a root file system in order to test a software in this environment.
Using PRoot, such task looks really easy and does not require any privileges. We will now finish this setup in[...]
Felix Paul Kühne: Customizing VLC for Mac
In VLC 2.0, we introduced a brand new interface, which looks quite different to VLC 1.x. We basically did 2 things here:
clean up the code by striping out most of the accumulated hacks of a 10 year old code base
introduce a new interface[...]
A good practice for software developer is to provide a test suite while developing a software. When developing for Linux, it's also a good practice to compile the software and run the test suite on many distributions like Debian, Ubuntu, Fe[...]
Felix Paul Kühne: Improved media key support
VLC 2.0.2 will include improved support for the media keys on keyboards produced by companies other than Apple, notably the brand Cherry.
VLC uses a piece of code called SPMediaKeyTap developed by Spotify AB to provide this functionality[...]
Social media
2012-05-09 12:29 @wp_martin in the preferences, in VLC 2.0.1.
2012-05-09 12:28 @siddhartha_de to our knowledge, @mediatemple did not act to remove those people.
2012-05-08 06:13 @DaveFlash @Blandinebs @vmaucorps full Blu-Ray? In a very long time... Decent playback could happen faster :)
2012-05-08 06:12 @DanduGeek cool!
