VLC 1.0.0

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VLC 1.0.0 is released! Or shall I say... "VLC 1.0.0 is out!" :)

http://www.videolan.org/

Lots of new features and improvements:

* 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

Enjoy! :)
 
The full screen scaling on DivX/Xvid .AVIs is really carpy compared to MPC's attempts. It's all blocky :(
 
I had VLC, I liked the fact that it just worked. Windows 7 WMP kind of fixes this problem though, it is great, plays all my files, .avi, .mp4 etc. I prefer WMP.
 
Changes between 0.9.9a and 1.0.0:
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Important notes:
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* Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
See 'Access:' for more info.
* Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations

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
* Closed Captions using the 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 - the development form of
zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
* 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 and Mac OS X.

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:
- More menus actions
- Finer speed slider
- Improvements on many dialogs
- New dialog for plugins listing
- Fixed-size mode for videos
- 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:
- an interface based on Hildon framework.
- scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.

Windows CE Port:
EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.

Mac OS X Port:
* EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
* Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
* New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
* Support for latest iSight models

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.

Miscellaneous:
* Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications

New Localization:
* Khmer
* Mongolian
* Sorani

thats a lot of changes! thanks for the heads up
 
Greenlizard0 said:
Nice, first impressions?
Click to expand...

I use Media Player Classic Home Cinema for all my movie playback but always used VLC for DVD playback as I found it had better compatibility. Now I can use it for blurray too \m/

Anyways, I never found VLC to be very good IQ wise for x264 encoded content, too blocky compared to divx-hd or ffdshow or other liba based decoders.

MPC vs VLC 1.0 on One of my HDDVD encodes @ 1920 -

MPC HC:
mpc.jpg


VLC:
vlc.jpg


While VLC is no longer blocky when playing HD content it does go blocky for a second when seeking in the timeline. It is also giving off a more washed out image compared to MPC.

MPC is decoding via DiVX-HD h264 decoder whereas VLC is using some internal AVC1 decoder from the codec info dialogue.

I'll stick with MPC for everything barring blurray/dvd and hddvd discs but that''s rare these days as I just rip everything to the hdd for media sharing on the LAN :p
 
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