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News & Updates
VideoLAN and the VLC development team are happy to publish version 2.0 of VLC for Android today
It supports network shares browsing and playback, video playlists, downloading subtitles, pop-up video view and multiwindows, the new releases of the Android operating system, and merged Android TV and Android packages.
Get it now! and give us your feedback.
VideoLAN and the VLC development team are happy to publish version 2.2.4 of VLC media player today
This fourth stable release of the "WeatherWax" version of VLC fixes a few bugs reported on VLC 2.2.3 for Windows XP and certain audio files. It also includes updated codecs libraries and fixes a security issue when playing specifically crafted QuickTime files as well as a 3rd party security issue in libmad.
Read more about it on our release page.
Due to unscheduled maintenance on one of our servers, some git repositories, the trac bug tracker and mailing-lists are currently not available. We are restoring the services, but we can't give detailed information when everything will be back online. Note that downloads from this website, git repositories on code.videolan.org, the wiki and the forum are not affected.
Important: Any communication send to email addresses on the videolan.org domain (aka yourdude@videolan.org) won't reach the receiver.
VideoLAN and the VLC development team are happy to publish version 2.2.3 of VLC media player today
This third stable release of the "WeatherWax" version of VLC fixes more than 30 important bugs reported on VLC 2.2.2. It also includes updated codecs libraries and fixes 3rd party libraries security issues.
Read more about it on our release page.
2016 is a special year for many FLOSS projects: VideoLAN as open-source project and Free Software Foundation Europe both have their 15th birthday while KDE has its 20th birthday. All these call for celebrations! This year VideoLAN has come together with Qt, FSFE, KDE and KDAB to bring you QtCon, where attendees can meet, collaborate and get the latest news of all these projects.
VideoLAN Dev Days 2016 will be organised as part of QtCon in Berlin. The event will start on Friday the 2nd of September with 3 shared days of talks, workshops, meetups and coding sessions.
The current plan is to have a Call for Papers in March with the Program announced in early June.
Development Blogs
Jean-Baptiste Kempf: Last week in VideoLAN - 52
52nd VideoLAN report
Another summer week passes by and here is a new weekly report about the VLC and VideoLAN communities!
Features
VLC
The week started with numerous additions to the Direct3D video accelerations and video outputs, [...]
Jean-Baptiste Kempf: Last week in VideoLAN - 51
51st VideoLAN report
So, after a few crazy weeks, I'm coming back to a more regular schedule for my weekly reports about VLC and VideoLAN.
Features
VLC
Decoder fallback
The major change, during last week, was the possibility to rest[...]
Jean-Baptiste Kempf: Last weeks in VideoLAN - 50
50th VideoLAN report
So, after a few crazy weeks, I was taken a bit by RealLife©®, and we've had 3 weeks without report. And this one is late.
Therefore, here is a new report about the VLC and VideoLAN communities, covering the last[...]
Jean-Baptiste Kempf: Last weeks in VideoLAN - 49
49th VideoLAN report
So, after two busy weeks, you can get a new weekly report about the VLC and VideoLAN communities!
Releases
Android
10 days ago, we released VLC for Android 2.0.
After a long period of development, we're finall[...]
Social media
[ftomasse] If someone still think that OSS is not good enough he probably needs to try OSS chocholate @libav_org @videolan https://t.co/y8oHwAIpDr
[videolan] Ask @VideoLAN President and Lead VLC Developer Jean-Baptiste Kempf Your Questions on /. ! https://t.co/Ei0o2R0iJx
[videolan] Numérisation de cassettes VHS avec VLC (FR) https://t.co/6sfUnXGGBh
[videolan] Last week in @2016-08-08 06:57 10bits and HDR hw decoding on Windows, HEVC, MOV-in-MKV, deadlocks, Zenphones and libbluray! https://t.co/hNFhpmVJ5s
[videolan] What happened in @videolan last week: 10bits HEVC hardware decoding on Windows, SPDIF, FTP browsing and TTML https://t.co/O2isyRG0Ug
