Yet another blog for JBKempf - Tag - 0.8.6

Bugfix Release: 0.8.6c

JBK — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 07:00:00 +0200

Changes

This is not a big release, neither a big annoucement.

However, for most Vista users, the problems are solved. So if you are using this OS, please upgrade.

But, the important information is about security issues that need to be solved. Ogg, Vorbis, theora comments are dangerous. CDDA and SAP too.

Summary

Unless you have a strong reason not to upgrade, do it.

Release process

I was not happy with the release process. Some people on the forum took the FTP exe and disclaimed it as official everywhere before the release. This is not so bad, except when they advertise a broken binary.

We work for everyone best pleasure. If we don't release even if some binaries are done, this is always for a good reason.

The rule is easy: DON'T DOWNLOAD ANY UNSIGNED UN-MD5 BINARY

Mirrors

However, if sometimes you found some bonaries on our FTP that are not yet a released version, it is because we are waiting for our official mirrors to take the good files.

In fact, many of the unofficial mirrors are linking to the direct files or caching the exe and we can't count the download numbers... :'( And many serve the wrong files.

HAPPY Release...

...to everyone

Over 1 Million Downloads...

JBK — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 19:05:00 +0100

Hey !

The new release (0.8.6) has been released less than one week ago, and is already over 1 million downloads. And a lot of them haven't been counted because of the website being down.

Long life to this release.

Next version

Next version of VLC wil be 0.9.0 - Grishenko. I can already told you that it will have:

A new GUI using Qt4 libraries instead of WxWidgets,
I hope a new default skin, if we agree in the Team,
A new documentation
Fullscreen controls ?
Change in the hotkeys ?
New JS API, New libvlc API, New Java bindings.

and a lot more !

Next version will be there in Springs !

VLC release

JBK — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 13:05:00 +0100

VLC 0.8.6 was released yesterday. For me, it is a very special release, because it is the first release I really feel from the inside.

However, this release is a bit a bastard release, since the main upgrades are from FFMPEG updates or only for Mac Users. And there are a lot of bugfixes, that will help the forum to be a bit less overloaded.

I am waiting so much to see next release (0.9.0).

Main features

WMV, WMA, FLV partial support
Wavpack, TTA support
H264 improvements
Notifications
And a lot of stuff for MacOS...

Comments

Windows 9x/ME is not officially supported anymore, mainly because of the network layer. However, it still works with not many problems, but there is no official support. Maybe next release will be more problematic with these old OSes. For those users, you can upgrade to this version, but please change OS !
BeOS's version has been very difficult to build because of GCC 2.95. I think the trunk does not work anymore on BeOS. And FFMPEG thinks of dropping BeOS support...
SuSE malediction is finished ! Indeed, since we refused the SuSE maintener role to Voldemort, we had a lot of SuSE developpers that proposed to package VLC, but none of them stayed enough to make an actual VLC package... :D Now, Domique (dimstar) had taken the job, and we all helped him.
Next version will be 0.9.0 with a new playlist-media library, new plugins, new libVLC, more bindings, more codecs and a new GUI using Qt4.

New skin

I also just wanted to show a very beautiful skins that was made by Anton Boskovski.

It is a skin that uses the latest skins2 improvements that were made during 0.8.6 development. You should give this one a try. For once, it is not a pale copy of another player. I hope we can make a skin contest for next release.

Team

The VideoLAN team is very cool, but really short-staffed, with only a few people actually working on it. The support is very difficult to do, because of all the modules of VLC, and people who want a lot of different features, that we cannot make. But, for me, it is a good experiment, and I found it very funny. Let's hope, I 'll become a VLC guru, one day.