1.0.0 - Yet another blog for JBKempf

Tuesday, July 7 2009

VLC 1.0.0 is out.

By JBK on Tuesday, July 7 2009, 12:52 - VideoLAN

You know that this blog has been a bit quiet, because I had a lot of work to do.

This new version includes:

Live recording
Instant pausing and Frame-by-Frame support
Finer speed controls
New HD codecs (AES3, Dolby Digital Plus, TrueHD, Blu-Ray Linear PCM, Real Video 3.0 and 4.0, …)
New formats (Raw Dirac, M2TS, …) and majors improvements in many formats…
New Dirac encoder and MP3 fixed-point encoder
Video scaling in fullscreen
RTSP Trickplay support
Zipped file playback
Customizable toolbars
Easier encoding GUI in Qt interface
Better integration in Gtk environments
MTP devices on linux
AirTunes streaming
New skin for skins2 interface

Have fun!

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Thursday, May 28 2009

VLC 1.0.0 RC 2

By JBK on Thursday, May 28 2009, 14:14 - VideoLAN

1.0.0 RC2

VLC 1.0.0 RC2 (Second Release Candidate) is out!

As all releases of VLC 1.0.0, it introduces:

many new codecs (True HD, DD+, AES3, RV40, SCTE-20, dirac…)
various playback core improvements (frame-by-frame, live-recording, instant pausing, etc…)
interface improvements
interface customization
better multi-channel audio support
better subtitles support
global hotkeys
better integration in GTK environments
better integration in KDE
and so many other bugfixes

Skins contest

And there is a Skins2 contest going on!

Please spread the news!

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Tuesday, March 3 2009

Howto build VLC 1.0.0-git in Ubuntu in less than 5 commands.

By JBK on Tuesday, March 3 2009, 13:38 - VideoLAN

Since building VLC is easier and easier now, I am compelled to improve my HOWTOS. Here is one for Ubuntu, that can easily adapt to Debian.

This is not a complete and detailed post, but just a summary. If you need more details, take the Build on Intrepid HOWTO.

Get all you need

sudo apt-get build-dep vlc && sudo apt-get install libtool build-essential automake1.10 git-core

Get the source

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

Go

cd vlc && ./bootstrap

mkdir build && cd build && ../configure --disable-nls --enable-qt4

make

Done.

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Friday, January 9 2009

VLC 1.0 and VideoLAN for 2009

By JBK on Friday, January 9 2009, 02:05 - VideoLAN

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...

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