http://www.jbkempf.com/blog/ This is the blog of Jean-Baptiste Kempf. I will share some info about my life, my works and my VideoLAN work en Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:11:35 +0100 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Dotclear http://www.jbkempf.com/blog/post/2009/11/01/VLC-1.0.3-is-out%21 urn:md5:7a4c3f7e43eabdad6509c046b06af209 Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:40:00 +0100 JBK VideoLAN 1.0.01.0.3qualityVLCWindowsWindows 7 <h2>Again? A release? Why&#160;?</h2> <p>Instead of enumerating the features that <a href="http://www.jbkempf.com/blog/tag/VLC">VLC</a> <a href="http://www.jbkempf.com/blog/tag/1.0.3">1.0.3</a> brings you, let&#8217;s talk about why we had to do yet another release.</p> <h2>Speeding the development</h2> <p>With the 1.0.x branch, we decided that we would speed up the release cycle for minor versions, for a few reasons:</p> <ul> <li>we didn&#8217;t want major bugs to stay around for too long,</li> <li>we find it easier to track regressions,</li> <li>we can fix crashes and potential security issues in a better timely fashion.</li> </ul> <p>That doesn&#8217;t mean we were careless about the <a href="http://www.jbkempf.com/blog/tag/quality">quality</a> of older releases, it means that now we care MORE about user feedback and quality. This is unlikely to change&#8230;</p> <p>Therefore, since <a href="http://www.jbkempf.com/blog/tag/1.0.0">1.0.0</a> has been out, we have had:</p> <ul> <li>1.0.1, 3 weeks after 1.0.0.</li> <li>1.0.2, 8 weeks after 1.0.1.</li> <li>1.0.3, 1 month after 1.0.2.</li> </ul> <h2>1.0.3 is important for Windows users</h2> <p>On <a href="http://www.jbkempf.com/blog/tag/Windows">Windows</a>, VLC up to 1.0.2 used a way to scale the video that seems to be unsupported by the lastest drivers for <a href="http://www.jbkempf.com/blog/tag/Windows%207">Windows 7</a> (and now affects some Vista drivers too, because they backported the improvements&#8230;) and therefore the quality of the video was very bad and pixelated. VLC 1.0.3 fixes that.</p> <p>Moreover, since VLC has now earned the logo for Windows 7 compatibility, we had to fix this huge bug. :D</p> <p>I hope you understand our point and have fun with it.</p> http://www.jbkempf.com/blog/post/2009/11/01/VLC-1.0.3-is-out%21#comment-form http://www.jbkempf.com/blog/post/2009/11/01/VLC-1.0.3-is-out%21#comment-form http://www.jbkempf.com/blog/feed/atom/comments/203