VLC media player - Yet another blog for JBKempf

Wednesday, May 21 2008

VLC media player and GTK

By JBK on Wednesday, May 21 2008, 18:48 - VideoLAN

Switch to Qt4

As many of you know now, VLC main interface will switch to Qt4 for many reasons that we have already detailed.

GTK issues

Many GNOME users are not pleased because of the differences between the look of Qt applications and native looks of GNOME/GTK application.

Solution

Trolltech has made a new QGtkStyle that uses GTK to design the widgets. Then you can have a VLC using Qt that seems exactly like any Gtk application.

Screenshots

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VLC 0.9.0 and subtitles support

By JBK on Wednesday, May 21 2008, 14:26 - VideoLAN

This is a short post about subtitles support in VLC.

Current support

As it is released, VLC doesn't support a lot of subtitles, especially the text based ones.

Moreover, SSA/ASS subtitles script don't get all the styling they need.

Development support

Some work has been done so far :

USF complete decoding
HTML improvements for styling
SSA/ASS complete rewriting
Ogg/Kate support
AQTitle support
MPSub support
MPL2 support
RealText basic support
PowerDivx support
DKS support
SubViewer 1.0 support
JacoSub basic support (no styles yet)

Conclusion

I know it is not enough and it has come late, but we are catching up :D

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Friday, March 28 2008

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Hardy (8.04)

By JBK on Friday, March 28 2008, 12:49 - VideoLAN

I found an ubuntu hardy installation, and needed to test something on the trunk of VLC so I needed to compile a VLC for it. Here is a complete HOWTO to do the same !

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Wednesday, March 5 2008

Howto build VLC on Windows on a fresh Windows

By JBK on Wednesday, March 5 2008, 23:49 - VideoLAN

Hello to everyone!

Yet again

I already explained how to compile trunk versions of VLC on linux, ubuntu and debian.

I rewrote the howto for Windows, using CYGWIN and put it on our wiki.

Find it here.

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Sunday, March 2 2008

VLC switched to Git

By JBK on Sunday, March 2 2008, 11:14 - VideoLAN

Everything is in $subject.

Anyway, to check out the VLC repository, now:

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

Have fun!

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Friday, February 29 2008

VLC media player release: 0.8.6e and coverity

By JBK on Friday, February 29 2008, 16:04 - VideoLAN

Release

We just released a new stable version.

This version is ONLY focused on security vulnerabilities and minor bugfixes.

0.9.0

0.9.0 version is in the work, and an alpha preview is due soon. :D

Coverity

I am quite unpleased with Coverity, that does a free scanning of open source projects. We applied many times for VLC, and they always replied that they would do it soon, but they actually never done it. :'(

Security

This is a bit bad, because VLC is one important Open Source project, and more used that some of the projects they already scan...

Anyway, this is a bit problematic, because we need help in finding security issues and do some auditing of the VLC media player code. And since there are web plugins on VLC, this is dangerous.