VLC 1.0.0 Released 419
rift321 writes "VLC media player, which we all know for simplifying the playback of pretty much any codec out there, has finally released version 1.0.0. Here's a quick list of improvements: 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, and AirTunes streaming."
Re:So it plays back media (Score:2, Informative)
That wasn't Michael.
It was Janet. (Ms. Jackson if you're nasty)
(Oh god I didn't type that.. too much Micheal Jackson news... it's rotting my brain....)
Re:Hardware acceleration (Score:5, Informative)
VLC 1.0.0 and 1.1.0 can be compiled with VAAPI to get hardware acceleration.
Re:Hardware acceleration (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Hardware acceleration (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Download Broken (Score:4, Informative)
I had that happen with the Canadian mirror. I refreshed the page (as instructed at the very top), got a U.S. mirror, and everything was fine.
Re:Better DVD menu support? (Score:3, Informative)
Does not work on Mac OS X 10.4 (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Better DVD menu support? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Media player classic + codec packs VLC (Score:1, Informative)
Much improved in recent releases, IMO. You should give it another try and see if it's any better.
Re:Does not work on Mac OS X 10.4 (Score:1, Informative)
I went onto the IRC channel, and they said that 0.9.9 is the latest version that will work for OSX 10.4
The way that they said it, it will be unable to compile (however if you do compile it and it works, let me know)
Posting Anon cos I is a OSX user, and don't wanna get beaten up :( oh, and I moderated
Re:cutting edge (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Best way to upgrade? (or Videolan's website suc (Score:3, Informative)
Follow-up to my own comment:
When you run the 1.0.0 installer (in Windows) it will detect earlier versions and ask if it can uninstall them before installing the new version. So far, so good.
Re:Yes, yes, all very impressive (Score:5, Informative)
I know Winamp was (is?) like that. When you adjust the volume, it adjusts the Wave output in Windows. This is fine if you're using Winamp all the time, but if you switch to another media player (I used to be a big fan of The Core Media Player until it died), you're left with turning your volume to max and still not being able to hear anything.
Re:Does not work on Mac OS X 10.4 (Score:4, Informative)
How is this (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-macosx.html) not obvious?
"VLC media player for Mac OS X
Latest Mac OS X package for 10.5 and 10.6 (release 1.0.0)
universal binary (29MB)
latest platform specific packages for 10.5 and 10.6 (release 1.0.0)
intel package (17.9MB)
powerpc package (17.8MB)
Last Mac OS X package for 10.4 (release 0.9.9a)"
I mean yeah, I had to scroll to the bottom of the page for the 10.4 info but.... /shrug
Re:VLC media player and MPEG-2 (Score:5, Informative)
Software patents are afaik not valid anywhere else in the world (luckily),
They are valid in Japan. Some other countries too, try wikipedia.
Re:Hardware acceleration (Score:5, Informative)
That does not help. Saying "well, you can just compile in support for ____" shouldn't be acceptable in this day and age. You shoudn't have to compile in support for a given piece of hardware into a player: this is why we have things called "drivers" and "APIs".
That's what the 'API' part of VAAPI is :-)
There's nothing wrong with having compile-time options in open-source software. It's the job of the package and distribution maintainers to abstract this kind of thing away from end users. It'll be a while before this 1.0.0 release filters down to users' desktops through their package managers, which you could wait for and not have to worry about it (this is certainly what I'll be doing)... but if you want the latest and greatest direct from the developers as soon as it's released then you can't complain about having to get your hands a bit dirty.
Re:Best way to upgrade? (or Videolan's website suc (Score:2, Informative)
They tend to stagger the updates just a bit on the automatic updates... They post it on the website for those who absolutely must have it now, while the casual users, using a perfectly good 0.9.9a, will get it sometime over the course of the next few days, or when they next get around to opening it.
Re:Sticking with mplayer, thank you (Score:1, Informative)
Uh, I think you need to look a little harder.
VLC supports CC on Linux and OSX.
xine supports CC but you have to manually add the settings to your xine config closed caption (search for "subtitles.closedcaption" options).
Re:Hardware acceleration (Score:3, Informative)
mplayer [mplayerhq.hu] has complete support for VDPAU as well as support for things like SSA/ASS subtitles. While the current repository versions tend to run a bit behind the development versions [mplayerhq.hu] (bzip2 archive) at mplayerhq.hu, rvm's builds as part of his smplayer [sourceforge.net] project are quite up-to-date. smplayer is a fine GUI front-end to mplayer as well, and it runs on both Linux and Windows.
Re:Why does VLC render video like crap? (Score:3, Informative)
are you sure VLC is using hardware acceleration? mess around with Tools - Preferences - Video button - Output dropdown box, see if DirectX video output mode helps.
Re:Sticking with mplayer, thank you (Score:1, Informative)
So then what is the difference between subtitles and closed captions??
According to Wikipedia:
Most of the world does not distinguish captions from subtitles. In the United States and Canada, these terms do have different meanings, however: "subtitles" assume the viewer can hear but cannot understand the language or accent, or the speech is not entirely clear, so they only transcribe dialogue and some on-screen text. "Captions" aim to describe all significant audio contentâ"spoken dialogue and non-speech information such as the identity of speakers and, occasionally, their manner of speakingâ"along with music or sound effects using words or symbols.
To me, this sound like the difference is entirely the content of what gets displayed. So why should VLC be able to display subtitles and not closed captions??? I don't get it!
Re:Consolidation (Score:3, Informative)
Apparently you don't know what "lossless" actually means.
Sure he does, lossless encoding takes out the "whooosh" sound.
Re:Sticking with mplayer, thank you (Score:4, Informative)
From the release notes:
Changes between 0.9.9a and 1.0.0:
* Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
Re:VLC media player and MPEG-2 (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Zipped file playback (Score:2, Informative)
Burn it in UDF format. UDF doesn't have a size limit. There's also a workaround for ISO: multiple extents [wikipedia.org], but I haven't tried that.