VLC Media Player 1.0 is out!
July 8th, 2009
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The VLC Media Player was a project of a few students the French École Centrale Paris. They started to develop a cross-plattform multimedia-player. Now there are many many people arround the world (in 20 Countries) who are active in development.
Today the project management distributed the final release. The version 1.0 (Codename: Goldeneye).
Here are the features:
- Free, Open Source and cross-platform
- Independant of systems codecs to support most video types
- 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 major 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 the skins2 interface
You can download the VLC Media Player at videolan.org.
Thanks for reading!
