VLC 1.0 and VideoLAN for 2009
By Jean-Baptiste Kempf on Friday, January 9 2009, 02:05 - VideoLAN - Permalink
VLC 1.0
During the VideoLAN dev days 08 (great success), we discussed many points about VLC, VideoLAN and the future of the projects.
One decision was about the naming of the next release and the timeline of it.
Naming
The discussions was about how do we name the release:
- 0.10.0
- 1.0
- 1.0.0
- 0.9.9.0
The result was that the next release is going to be: VLC 1.0.0.
Geeks are going to say that this is bad, because in the tradition of open source software, you never reach 1.0... While this is true, users are confused by 0.10.x releases.
Anyway, we voted and acknowledge that vote, so, I doubt there is any going back.
Timeline
The freezing date of VLC 1.0.0 is set on January, 31st 2009.
This means that VLC 1.0.0 alpha, alias VLC 1.0.0-pre1 will be available around the beginning of February.
VLC 1.0.0 release will likely be out during the month of March, then.
Features of VLC 1.0
There are many new things that some of you will like:
Playback
- Frame-By-Frame, Improved frame accuracy
- Timeshifting and record on the fly for all medias
- RTSP trickplay
- Faster caching
- Faster seeking
- Vout and Aout recycling as in 0.8.x
- Post-processing is back
New Codecs
- Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC3
- TrueHD/MLP
- Real Video 3.0 and 4.0
- Blu-Ray LPCM
- Dirac encoding in Ogg
- Faster decoding and demuxing
- Rewrite of subtitles core
Other
- Windows CE experimental port
- Maemo port
- HTML export of the playlist
- Interface customization on Windows and linux
- Better GTK integration
- Faster

VideoLAN
VideoLAN is going to be a separate non-profit organization for 2009 and I'll be the president of it.
More news on that later...
Comments
I am gonaa ask silly question..
I am using .Net Interface to vlc compiled in VlanControl.dll
I just wanna test,I did this;;;;;;Any guesses why it is not playing.I tried to post on forums but i haven't got any activation key for last 1 day.
namespace WindowsFormsApplication1
{
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
private string filename;
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
public string utf8Encode(string ws)
{
byte[] encoded = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(ws);
return Encoding.Default.GetString(encoded);
}
public static string utf8Decode(string s)
{
byte[] decoded = Encoding.Default.GetBytes(s);
return Encoding.UTF8.GetString(decoded);
}
private void panel1_Paint(object sender, PaintEventArgs e)
{
}
private void openFileDialog1_FileOk(object sender, CancelEventArgs e)
{
this.filename = openFileDialog1.FileName;
this.BackColor = Color.Azure;
VLanControl.VlcUserControl vlc = new VLanControl.VlcUserControl();
panel1.Controls.Add(vlc);
vlc.init();
vlc.BackColor = Color.Black;
vlc.Height = panel1.Height; ;
vlc.Width = panel1.Width;
vlc.Visible = true;
vlc.Enabled = true;
vlc.Show();
string[] st ={""};
vlc.playTarget(utf8Encode(filename), st);
vlc.Play();
textBox1.Text = vlc.State.ToString();
}
private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
openFileDialog1.ShowDialog();
}
}
}
You really should ask on the forum and redo the activation...
I am just not sure whether it is about playTarget and not addTarget.
Thanks..I have posted on the forum.
I have bought a new PC lately with Windows Vista, and I cannot read dvd from other zones than zone 2 any more ; I have no picture and the sound is horrible. With windows XP, VLC allowed me to watch DVD from every zone.. Will the new version of VLC solve this pb ? Will it be possible to play DVD from every zone with the new VLC version ?
Thanks.
Claude
If there is a new release, can I have this as my wishlist
1. Can you save the audio setting (i.e. Audio Channel: Left, Right, Both). I tried to use VLC to play Karaoke File and most of the time they encode the non-singer audio track to Left channel. I can't enjoy singing using VLC as it reset the audio channel to both everytime a new file being played.
If you can do that it is a big favourite program for me.
Thanks.
Vincent
Can provide a complete development kit source code it?
I want to WIN-XP MINGW at compile on.
Thanks
gg940231
Can you please assign a hotkey for cycling audio channel similar to the hotkey for cycling audio track. Many thanks!!!
Can you fill a bug about this?
I am definitely bookmarking this page and sharing it with my friends.
I was looking for this information,
I am surely going to share this with my friends
Thank you so much.
Your page is so fantastic! You sure do know how to keep your audience entertained. I am so glad that I took the time to look at this blog, because let me tell you. Not a lot of people know how to balance knowledge of a subject and content.