De ontwikkelaars van VideoLAN hebben de final release van VLC Media Player versie 1.1.0 uitgebracht. Deze opensource crossplatform mediaspeler kan diverse audio-, video- en streamingformaten afspelen, zonder dat hiervoor de betreffende codec hoeft te worden geïnstalleerd. VLC Media Player is beschikbaar voor Windows 2000 en hoger, Linux, Mac OS X en BSD; oudere versies zijn ook beschikbaar voor onder andere Windows 9x, BeOS, Morphos, en Windows CE. De belangrijkste verbeteringen die versie 1.1.0 met zich meebrengt, zijn hieronder op een rijtje gezet:
Ready for HDNB: so far, on Windows, VideoLAN is quite sad to be forced to recommend nVidia GPU, until ATI fixes their drivers on Windows, and until VLC developer get access to some Intel hardware supporting GPU decoding.
- GPU decoding on Windows Vista and 7, using DxVA2 for H.264, VC-1 and MPEG-2
- GPU decoding on GNU/Linux, using VAAPI for H.264, VC-1 and MPEG-2
- DSP decoding using OpenMax IL, for compatible embedded devices
- Improved support for MKV HD, including seeking fixes, and 7.1 channels codecs
- Support for new codecs, like Blu-Ray subtitles, MPEG-4 lossless and VP8
Extensions
New add-ons and script framework so one can personalize its vlc.Web improvements
- Written in lua
- 2 main types of scripts:
- content add-ons, integrated in the playlist
- functionnalities extensions, like metadata searching on the web, or subtitles look-ups
- Very Simple
Better Audio experience
- Support for WebM decoding and encoding
- Improved web plugins
- Better streaming capabilities
Faster, Lighter
- Integrated playlist in the Qt4 interface
- Multiple views (like album art) in the playlist in the Qt4 interface
- Support for AMR-NB, Mpeg-4 ALS, Vorbis 6.1/7.1, FLAC 6.1/7.1 and WMAS
- CDDB and CD-Text works now on the Windows port when listening to CD-Audio
- Support for DVD-Audio files (.aob)
- Improved meta-data and album-art support
Better for developers
- Faster decoding, with up to 40% speed-ups, in HD resolutions
- First part of the Video Output core rewrite
- Removal or rewrite of dozens of modules, code simplification and tens of thousands of lines of code removed
- Some functionalities that are less used are now moved to extensions
- More assembly optimizatinons, especially SSSE3/SSE4 and ARM Neon
- Fewer threads used
- Simplified and improved libVLC, removal of exceptions for better C integration
- New phonon-backend for Qt applications, on all platforms
- New C++ bindings
