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VLC Media Player 1.0 is out!

July 8th, 2009 No comments

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!

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