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VLC Gets First Major Cross-Platform Release

Posted by Soulskill on from the now-available-on-palm-pilots-and-apple-newtons dept.

An anonymous reader writes VideoLAN today launched what is arguably the biggest release of VLC to date: an update for the desktop coordinated with new versions across all major mobile platforms. The world's most-used media player just got a massive cross-platform push. The organization says the releases are the result of more than a year of volunteer work on the VLC engine and the libVLC library. As a result, VLC has gained numerous new features, has seen more than 1,000 bugs fixed, and has significantly increased its scope of supported formats.

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  1. Video over LAN by jfdavis668 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I hope they improved the original purpose, to play video over a LAN. Gave up on it after a while, too many bugs to track down.

  2. Re:Hopefully they support older platforms by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    NSFW link of poop

  3. Not a company by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Well, VideoLAN is not a company: it's a not profit organization, driven by volonteers to work on free software.

  4. An interesting talk on the new VLC by SuperKendall · · Score: 4, Informative

    Hopefully this link holds up:

    Jean-Baptiste Kempf on VLC at FOSDEM

    He's one of the developers that has been on VLC the longest, it was pretty interesting I thought.

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  5. And blu ray menus! by Kethinov · · Score: 4, Informative

    This release also comes with massively improved support for blu ray menus! (It existed before, but didn't work very well.)

    This is exciting to me because it makes full support for (unencrypted) blu ray disk playback including blu ray menus finally possible on Linux and OS X. No more transcoding required!

    It will also free Windows users from having to use all those terrible proprietary blu ray players.

    This is a terrific release!

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  6. Re:FWIW don't download K-lite_Codec_Pack-10.9.5 by denis-The-menace · · Score: 4, Informative

    FYI:
    K-Lite is a codec pack for players that use "system" codecs.
    System Codec packs do not upgrade/play with others well.
    One version => Video A works, Video B is broken.
    New Codec pack => Video A broken, Video B is works.
    FSCK that!

    VLC only uses its own built-in codecs and almost always works.
    Chances are if VLC won't play it, the video is corrupt.

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  7. Increased Scope? by ThatsNotPudding · · Score: 3, Funny

    Heck, can't VLC play damn near everything already? I half expect you could open a spreadsheet in VLC and have it carry a tune.