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VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVD, Audio CD, VCD, and various streaming protocols.
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News & Updates

VLC 2.1.2
2013-12-10

VideoLAN and the VLC development team are proud to present the second minor version of the VLC 2.1.x branch.
Fixing a numerous number of bugs and regressions introduced in 2.1.0, notably on audio device management and SPDIF/HDMI pass-thru.
More info on our release page

VLC 2.1.1
2013-11-14

VideoLAN and the VLC development team are proud to present the first minor version of the VLC 2.1.x branch.
Fixing a numerous number of bugs and regressions introduced in 2.1.0, it also adds experimental HEVC and VP9 decoding and improves VLC installer on Windows.
More info on our release page

VLC 2.0.9
2013-11-05

VideoLAN and the VLC development team are glad to present a new minor version of the VLC 2.0.x branch.
Mostly focused on fixing a few important bugs and security issues, this version is mostly needed for Mac OS X, notably for PowerPC and Intel32 platforms that cannot upgrade to 2.1.0.

VLC 2.1.0
2013-09-26

VideoLAN and the VLC development team are glad to present the new major version of VLC, 2.1.0, named Rincewind
With a new audio core, hardware decoding and encoding, port to mobile platforms, preparation for Ultra-HD video and a special care to support more formats, 2.1 is a major upgrade for VLC.
Rincewind has a new rendering pipeline for audio, with better effiency, volume and device management, to improve VLC audio support.
It supports many new devices inputs, formats, metadata and improves most of the current ones, preparing for the next-gen codecs.
More info on our release page.

VLC for iOS version 2.1
2013-09-06

VideoLAN and the VLC for iOS development team are happy to present version 2.1 of VLC for iOS, a first major update to this new port adding support for subtitles in non-western languages, basic UPNP discovery and streaming, FTP server discovery, streaming and downloading, playback of audio-only media, a newly implemented menu and application flow as well as various stability improvements, minor enhancements and additional translations.

Development Blogs

Jean-Baptiste Kempf: Readying VLC on WinRT

WinRT platforms So, here is an update about our port on WinRT platforms. I now say WinRT platforms, but that means: Windows 8/8.1 ModernUI Metro Windows Phone 8 XBox One? (who knows?) The WinRT platforms have mostly 2 flavors: x86 an[...]

Rémi Duraffort: Pretending to be root inside PRoot

While working on PRoot to improve the extension that fake the root user, I (re)discovered an old article that I never published before. So let's focus on the fake_id0 feature and on how it allows to use package manager directly inside the r[...]

Jean-Baptiste Kempf: VLC: 2.1.1 and 2.0.9

VLC 2.1.1 So, we've released today VLC 2.1.1. It's mostly a release to fix the numerous bugs and regressions that always happen at major.0 releases. But why are there so many regressions at every major releases of VLC? The main two re[...]

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2012-10-03 01:45 @__s_a_m_u_e_l it should be ok :)

2012-10-03 10:38 RT @aprilorg: The Unitary Patent back in the European Parliament on October, 11th 2012 http://t.co/llPOKc0i #april

2012-10-03 10:22 @djaquay change country ? :)

2012-10-03 10:22 @MyKey_ a subset of Dash, indeed...