VideoLAN

Friday, March 28 2008

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Hardy (8.04)

By JBK on Friday, March 28 2008, 12:49

I found an ubuntu hardy installation, and needed to test something on the trunk of VLC so I needed to compile a VLC for it. Here is a complete HOWTO to do the same !

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Monday, March 17 2008

Google Summer of Code: VideoLAN

By JBK on Monday, March 17 2008, 18:10

GSoC

Hello to everyone,

I am glad to announce you that VideoLAN is a mentoring organisation for Google Summer of code 2008.

Students, ideas

If you are an interested student, please check the ideas for VLC and x264 on our wiki.

Original ideas are more than welcome.

Timeline

Please check the SoC timeline. http://code.google.com/opensource/gsoc/

Rules

Unfortunately, we have to unforce a few rules to avoid failures and not-serious enough students: Rules.

Those rules are flexible, especially for x264.

Contact Us

If you are interested in anything around SoC, please contact xtophe (vlc), Dark_Shikari (x264) and me (vlc and other weird requests)

Everything is quite flexible, but I would like to focus on quality more than quantity.

May the code be with you.

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Tuesday, March 11 2008

H264 encoding: "some boring x264 stuff that you’d better not forget.

By JBK on Tuesday, March 11 2008, 15:29

Copy from IRC and thresh's blog

From Dark_Shikari.

Absolutely 100% generic commandline for maximum quality without stupidly insanely slow options:
 –bime –bframes 16 –trellis 1 –mixed-refs –8×8dct –subme 7 –b-rdo –me umh –direct auto –b-pyramid –weightb –threads auto –ref 8
For extra slow, add –no-fast-pskip, –merange 32, and –partitions all
for more slow, raise –ref to 16, and –me to esa
and also, get the latest AQ build and use my AQ at strength 0.7-1.0 or something.
if you want faster encoding
1) Lower –ref to 4
2) lower subme to 6, remove –b-rdo
3) remove me umh
if you want realtime encoding you’ll have to go lower on most machines

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Wednesday, March 5 2008

Howto build VLC on Windows on a fresh Windows

By JBK on Wednesday, March 5 2008, 23:49

Hello to everyone!

Yet again

I already explained how to compile trunk versions of VLC on linux, ubuntu and debian.

I rewrote the howto for Windows, using CYGWIN and put it on our wiki.

Find it here.

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Sunday, March 2 2008

VLC switched to Git

By JBK on Sunday, March 2 2008, 11:14

Everything is in $subject.

Anyway, to check out the VLC repository, now:

git clone git://git.videolan.org/vlc.git

Have fun!

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Friday, February 29 2008

VLC media player release: 0.8.6e and coverity

By JBK on Friday, February 29 2008, 16:04

Release

We just released a new stable version.

This version is ONLY focused on security vulnerabilities and minor bugfixes.

0.9.0

0.9.0 version is in the work, and an alpha preview is due soon. :D

Coverity

I am quite unpleased with Coverity, that does a free scanning of open source projects. We applied many times for VLC, and they always replied that they would do it soon, but they actually never done it. :'(

Security

This is a bit bad, because VLC is one important Open Source project, and more used that some of the projects they already scan...

Anyway, this is a bit problematic, because we need help in finding security issues and do some auditing of the VLC media player code. And since there are web plugins on VLC, this is dangerous.