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VLC 2.0 'Twoflower' Released For Windows & Mac

Posted by Soulskill on from the new-and-shiny dept.

Titus Andronicus writes "Years in the making, the major new release of VideoLAN's media player has better support for multicore processors, GPUs, and much, much more. From the announcement: 'Twoflower has a new rendering pipeline for video, with higher quality subtitles, and new video filters to enhance your videos. It supports many new devices and BluRay Discs (experimental). Completely reworked Mac and Web interfaces and improvements in the other interfaces make VLC easier than ever to use. Twoflower fixes several hundreds of bugs, in more than 7000 commits from 160 volunteers.'"

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  1. Mac interface VASTLY improved by bonch · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Gone is the two window design! Now it's got an iTunes-like single window, but with its own VLC stylings (e.g., the playback controls on the bottom). I dig!

    1. Re:Mac interface VASTLY improved by readandburn · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I hardly think iTunes was the first video player to have a single window, and it's probably not the best example of one.

      It is, however, what most Mac users are familiar with so it makes a good comparison.

    2. Re:Mac interface VASTLY improved by bonch · · Score: 0, Insightful

      What the? Where did I say iTunes was the first video player to have a single window? I mentioned iTunes because the Mac version now has a shaded source list on the left filled with media sources, like iTunes.

    3. Re:Mac interface VASTLY improved by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

      Apparently, Apple-haters are so defensive that they invent reasons to get pissed off. He didn't say iTunes was the "first video player to have a single window."

    4. Re:Mac interface VASTLY improved by Kenja · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Actually, I must interject that the old interface had only a single window for me because I didn't want to use the media library. Now I have no choice. Cant turn it off, cant remove or change the internet sites they opt to list. So to me the new interface is a major downgrade. I just want a media player, not a media management system.

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    5. Re:Mac interface VASTLY improved by perryizgr8 · · Score: 3, Insightful

      hardware acceleration of h264 uses vastly lesser amount of battery on my win7 laptop. i imagine that might be a good reason for some people.

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  2. Re:So what is VideoLAN anyway? by Dwedit · · Score: 4, Insightful

    VLC Media Player is a self-contained media player program that will play almost anything you throw at it, and works independently of any codecs installed on your system. So even if your codec installations get messed up, VLC still works.
    It also plays DVDs.

  3. Re:Three ways to seek by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You're overthinking it. The old versions just had bad GUI.

  4. Re:Still takes forever to "Rebuild the Font Cache" by EdIII · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It still takes forever to "Rebuild the Font Cache".
    What exactly is VLC doing when it does this?

    Uhhhh... it's rebuilding the font cache dude. It say it right there in the dialog box.

    Better question is... why does it need to do it every fucking time? :)

  5. Re:I wonder if that changes the general advice... by EdIII · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That's a bit trollish.

    VLC is an odd program. When it works, it works wonderfully. Otherwise it sucks very badly. I often go back and forth between MPC and VLC.

    I get frustrated by that "rebuild font cache" that just keeps happening on occasion no matter what you do. Subtitle rendering left some things to be desired.

    It's just a tool like anything else. I never had the expectation that it was going to work in every single circumstance given the unbelievable variation in encoding formats and what they actually output these days.

    Overall, I have never regretted installing it unlike some other programs.

  6. WebM uses MKV by tepples · · Score: 3, Insightful

    there are no legitimate distributions of any anime series in an MKV container

    Every video on YouTube is available as WebM (that is, VP8+Vorbis in a subset of MKV). Are you trying to claim there is no legitimate anime on YouTube?

    And yet as much as we at Slashdot desire to pay the people who create the works we enjoy

    We pay those publishers who are willing to take our money. Publishers that sit on their works and declare "no export for you" get little sympathy.

  7. Re:Not Bad by TPoise · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Or they'll just get extradited and hauled before a U.S. court on charges of distribution of copyrighted material. And let's hope their domain name isn't registered with GoDaddy...

  8. Re:Not Bad by ShieldW0lf · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They'll wake up tomorrow, and find that fuckin' green statue dropped from 30000 feet on top of their beloved Awful Tower. That'll teach 'em a thing or two about democracy...

    Democracy won't fix anything if your country is full of assholes...

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  9. Re:"FOR ANIME FANS" by voidphoenix · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Getting wet after midnight? ;p

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  10. Icon by cgomezr · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They should have taken advantage of the chance to change that horrendous cone icon. I love VLC, but sometimes I install other alternatives just to get rid of that ugly icon that gives the idea that there is something broken in the files (yes, I know it can be changed, but I'm too lazy to fiddle with that and it's so 90s to mess around with icon configuration).