Gaming VLC v1.0.0 finnally released

[Joe88]

after a long time VLC finally reaches v1.0

What's new in VLC 1.0.0:
· 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

changes in RC1 of VLC v1.0

Spoiler

What's new in VLC 1.0 RC1:
Important notes:

· Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses. See 'Access:' for more info.

Playback:

· Instantaneous pausing
· Frame-by-Frame playback
· Finer speed control
· On-the-fly recording for all medias
· Timeshift for most medias
· RTSP trickplay support
· Subtitles core improvements and fixes

Decoders:

· New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
· New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
· New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
· New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
· New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
· Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
· New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
· Close Caption under SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
· Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
· Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering

Demuxers:

· Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
· Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
· Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
· Metadata for mod files are supported
· GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
· New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
· New dirac demuxer for raw dirac streams

Encoders:

· Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
· Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder

Access:

· RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
· On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
· Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
· DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
· New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
· DVB scanning on linux
· EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
· On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form zip://file.zip|file.avi to specify the file)
· Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
· MTP device access on Unix
· CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
· :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values

Inputs:

· Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
· Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on Windows.

Playlist:

· Export the playlist in HTML
· Lua script for BBC radio playback
· Better metadata handling and reading

Linux/Windows interface:

· Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
· Various fixes for skins2 interface
· Recently played items list
· Interface toolbar customizations
Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
· o More menus actions
· o Finer speed slider
· o Improvements on many dialogs
· o New dialog for plugins listing
· o Fixed-size mode for videos
· o Better teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
· Better integration in GTK environments

Mac OS X Interface:

· Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
· Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
· Easy addition of Subtitles through the Video menu
· Additional usability improvements

Stream output:

· Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
· Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
· bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
· Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
· Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.

Maemo Port:

New Maemo port with:
· o an interface based on Hildon framework.
· o scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.

Windows CE Port:

· EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.

Mac OS X Port:

· Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
· Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc

Audio output:

· Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
· Surround support for PulseAudio

Video output:

· Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
· Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
· Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'. The old image video output has been removed.
· Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.

Miscellanous:

· Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

 

[Satangel]

Sweet, thanks for mentioning!
I'm now downloading the 17MB.

You can update your VLC player also by starting VLC (just start a movie file) and go to Help --> Control for Updates (or so).

 

[Raiser]

In my opinion, VLC is one of the best, if not THE best media players out there.
Next is probably Media Player Classic and that.. Japanese or Korean one. o.o

 

[Hardkaare]

In my opinion, VLC is one of the best, if not THE best media players out there.
Next is probably Media Player Classic and that.. Japanese or Korean one. o.o

Ive only used windows media player before.
I would like to try vlc, but whats so good about it?

 

[Minox]

VLC is decent, but after dropping VLC for CCCP I've never even wanted to look back.

 

[Eon-Rider]

1.0.0 has actually been out for a while now. I've been using it for at least a week.

 

[moodswinger]

In my opinion, VLC is one of the best, if not THE best media players out there.
Next is probably Media Player Classic and that.. Japanese or Korean one. o.o

Ive only used windows media player before.
I would like to try vlc, but whats so good about it?

What so good about is it ability to play almost all of the audio and video formats available.

 

[Minox]

In my opinion, VLC is one of the best, if not THE best media players out there.
Next is probably Media Player Classic and that.. Japanese or Korean one. o.o

Ive only used windows media player before.
I would like to try vlc, but whats so good about it?

What so good about is it ability to play almost all of the audio and video formats available.

Except CCCP or MPlayer does it better.

 

[Holaitsme]

VLC is still shit compared to MPC.

 

[da_head]

VLC is decent, but after dropping VLC for CCCP I've never even wanted to look back.

+1

 

[raulpica]

VLC is decent, but after dropping VLC for CCCP I've never even wanted to look back.

+1, except I use K-Lite codec packs. VLC is just awful on most decoders.

 

[Deleted-167431]

The KMPlayer does the job for me.

 

[ZAFDeltaForce]

In my opinion, VLC is one of the best, if not THE best media players out there.
Next is probably Media Player Classic and that.. Japanese or Korean one. o.o

I'm with this man.

 

[TheWingless]

It's better... but still not as good as K-Like/CCCP/MPC+FFDShow.(Or CoreAVC/DivX h.264 decoder)

Looks like they also tried to improve the subtitle support (.ass+fonts) because it said something about building the font cache. Then I tried the karaoke(.ass) and there were strange jaggies around the font that I didn't notice with MPC. Does a terrible job of "upscaling" the .ass soft subs for me(Fullscreen issue)... Dunno if that's my own problem. It looks as bad as hard subs in low res AVIs being upscaled if that's a better way to put it. Then again, I'm complaining mostly about anime playback issues.

Aren't VLC's codecs mostly based off of FFDshow's?

 

[Elritha]

VLC is good as a backup player, but it's still no-where as good as MPC-HC. I'll be updating anyway for those tricky to play files.

 

[kobykaan]

VLC is decent, but after dropping VLC for CCCP I've never even wanted to look back.

+1, except I use K-Lite codec packs. VLC is just awful on most decoders.

these so called wonder codec packs totally suck tbh!

too many of them can cause headaches when it comes to decoding or encoding video clips or full movies to another format!

A lot of players freak out not knowing which ones to use when there are multiple variants of the same codecs installed by these wonder codec packs!

Your much better off just installing XVID codec and the AC3 codec to begin with ....from then on analyze your non playing clips with GSPOT codecs analysis tool link

or use MediaInfo link

and only install the codecs they recommend for your clip/s for both audio and video

agreed that VLC is not perfect but its one of the better multi format multi platform all in 1 program players out there ...


MPC and other players sometimes do stuggle at least for me ...with some obscure web video formats and some mobile phone formats and a few clips I've come across that have used a mish mash of weird and/or outdated codecs

 

[Minox]

The problem with conflicting codecs usually only occur if you have multiple codec-packs installed which is not recommended in any way. Sticking to one good codec-pack gives the best results.

 

[raulpica]

The problem with conflicting codecs usually only occur if you have multiple code-packs installed which is not recommended in any way. Sticking to one good codec-pack gives the best results.

QFT. Never had any problems, even in encoding.

 

[emupaul]

VLC interface is ugly but it works good! well sometimes... but as with all software it has its + and -'s

 

[MicShadow]

Really, I wonder what sort of movies the anti-VLC group watches. Anything I watch works perfect