On the road to VLC 1.1.0 part 2: better

Improvements

Being faster is cool, but let’s not forget that multimedia moves fast.

So here are a few improvements that you can expect in VLC 1.1.0.

Codecs, demuxers and protocols

In addition to than GPU/DSP decoding (see my previous post), VLC 1.1.0 will bring:

DVB HD subtitles
PGS Subtitles from Blu-Ray dumps
sftp protocol
Atrac1 audio codec
Indeo5 video codec
AMR (Narrow Band) audio codec
Windows Media Voice/Speech audio codec
Improved Flac support (7.1 and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
7.1 Vorbis audio support
ADPCM in flv files
DVD-Audio files .aob, so you can play your DVD-Audio files on your computer
vqf, amv, wpl and zpl file support
Midi files on Windows port!

And more features…

CDDB support on Windows
Podcast images
Enhancements to our Ambilight support
Extensions in lua script
Services in lua script
Chorus and Flanger audio filter
Visualisation using scripted .milk files
Windows 7 taskbar integration

That’s all for the major features, that are visible to the users…

What is important, is that VLC isn’t getting bloated by all this, and I’ll explain that in my next article.

Comments

1. On Tuesday, March 23 2010, 03:49 by Fabian

Hello, just a note to tell you how interested I am in the release of a 64-bit version of VLC media player, thanks for your work and bye!

2. On Tuesday, March 23 2010, 14:15 by yeims

Hi, is there hope for ATI HD3xxx cards with dxva2 in VLC1.1?

3. On Friday, April 16 2010, 11:50 by demns

yeims, ask ATI?

4. On Friday, April 16 2010, 12:58 by kirsche40

5. On Sunday, April 18 2010, 14:05 by Steffo

The improvments sound great, but what’s with Mac OS X and ATI graphic cards owner?!

6. On Sunday, April 18 2010, 17:50 by DIDIOpladen

MIDI-Data (for Windows) and Linux?!? Why can’t MIDI in Linux

7. On Monday, April 19 2010, 11:51 by wolk

Great Player!

8. On Wednesday, April 21 2010, 14:07 by JBK

@yeims: I believe not… Ask ATI.

@kirsche: do you even understand what you are referring to? Half of those are closed and the other half are minor bugs.

@Steffo: Apple doesn’t give any API to do so.

@DIDIOpladen: Midi works fine on linux.

9. On Thursday, April 22 2010, 22:13 by donileo

hey JBK..

http://www.macrumors.com/2010/04/22…

should that help VLC gain GPU decoding in Mac OS X?

10. On Friday, May 14 2010, 07:36 by acekard 2i

I have been using this video player since a long time and I love this player as it supports more video formats and I think it has more feature than any-other players.

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15. On Saturday, July 31 2010, 17:28 by Andy

Broadcom Crystal HD suppport soon?

16. On Wednesday, August 4 2010, 22:32 by mariuz

I use vlc 1.1.1 on debian unstable and is great (with debian multimedia repository enabled)
i see many improvements in playing dvds and subtitles
maybe it should be added an extension to shutdown the computer after a while , you know i sometimes fall asleep
while watching some boring movies …avatar …

I love that you use lua , maybe i will try to script it a little bit

17. On Tuesday, January 25 2011, 03:32 by Greg

I have an iPhone with 3.1 and I can't find vlc for it. Can you help?

jb, 28y