News archive

VLC 1.0.1 is out!

2009-07-28

VideoLAN is pleased to announce the release of the second version of the Goldeneye branch of VLC: 1.0.1!

3 weeks after the release of 1.0.0, and with almost 14 million downloads, this minor version fixes most of the notable bugs and regressions that were present in the 1.0.0 version.
Notable fixes and improvements include:

• fix flv and mpeg2 seeking,
• fixes for wmv, wav, rtsp and ssa support,
• fixes for Qt and Mac OS X interface,
• fix an integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module,
• updates of some translations,
• port of the ZVBI module to Windows for full teletext support and
• codecs updates for Windows and Mac OS X versions.

This version is ready to download! Learn more details about this release!
Press and related questions should be forwarded to VideoLAN.

VLC 0.9.10

2009-07-28

VideoLAN is pleased to announce another bugfix release for the Grishenko branch of VLC.
This version mostly targets the Mac OS X 10.4 platform. It includes various improvements and bugfixes for this port as well as updates to access, stream out and decoder modules plus certain third party libraries. The integer underflow fix from VLC 1.0.1 is also included. More details are available on the wiki.
We recommend all Mac OS X 10.4 users to update to this release. Download now.

VLC 1.0.0 hits 3 million downloads

2009-07-10

After less than 3 days, the 1.0.0 release of VLC has hit more than 3 million downloads on the download counter. We would like to thank the people who have downloaded it and especially, people who have donated to our cause.

VLC 1.0.0

2009-07-07

The VideoLAN project is pleased to announce the release of the first version of the Goldeneye branch of VLC: 1.0.0.

This major release introduces many new features, new formats and new codecs to the VLC multimedia framework and fixes a very high number of bugs that were present in the 0.9.x or 0.8.6 versions.
You can download it now.
The VLC project only lives with volunteers and would love help from new users and contributors: time, code, hardware and money would help us a lot. You don't need to be a developer to help.

VideoLAN at LinuxTAG

2009-06-25

Once again, The VideoLAN Team got a booth at LinuxTAG (June 24 to June 27) in Berlin, Germany. Come around and meet us in hall 7.2a at booth 105. Have a look at the latest and greatest features and see the people behind the cone.

VLC 1.0.0 approaches!

2009-06-20

Thanks to the continuous efforts made by the developers and the community, the new version of the award-winning VLC media player, numbered 1.0.0, is approaching the end of development.
The release will very likely happen next week.
We would like to thank all the people involved with it.
Our skin contest is now closed, thanks for participation.

Skins contest vote and VLC 1.0.0-rc4

2009-06-18

The skins contest is now over, and we have 6 skins that fullfilled the requirements. You can vote now!.
At the same time, the VideoLAN project is glad to announce that the fourth release candidate (and hopefully last!) of the Goldeneye version of VLC, numbered 1.0.0-rc4 is out.
Source tarballs are ready, but binaries should follow very soon on our main website.

VLC 1.0.0-rc3 and skins contest

2009-06-08

The VideoLAN project is glad to invite you to test the third release candidate of the Goldeneye version of VLC, numbered 1.0.0-rc3.
Source tarballs, Windows binaries and Mac OS binaries are already available for download. Changes can be found here.
VideoLAN would like to mention that the Skins2 contest is still going on. To develop a skin, you can use our new VLC Skin Editor. Please share this contest news on your prefered social bookmarking or news site.

VLC 1.0.0-rc2 and skins contest

2009-05-28

The VideoLAN project is glad to invite you to test the second release candidate of the Goldeneye version of VLC, numbered 1.0.0-rc2.
Source tarballs, Windows binaries and Mac OS binaries are already available for download. Changes can be found here.
VideoLAN would like to mention that the Skins2 contest is still going on. To develop a skin, you can use our new VLC Skin Editor. Please share this contest news on your prefered social bookmarking or news site.

VLC 1.0.0-rc1 and skins contest

2009-05-13

The VideoLAN project is glad to invite you to test the first release candidate of the Goldeneye version of VLC, numbered 1.0.0-rc1.
Source tarballs and Windows binaries are already available for download. Changes can be found here.
VideoLAN would like to take the opportunity to mention the Skins2 contest we are organizing during this release cycle time. To develop a skin, you can use our new VLC Skin Editor. Please share this contest news on your prefered social bookmarking or news site.
VLC 1.0.0-rc1, codename Goldeneye, is a test release of the 1.0.0 version of VLC. It introduces many new codecs, various playback core improvements (frame-by-frame, live-recording, instant pausing, etc...), interface improvements, new features and many bugfixes. We encourage people to test and report regressions that could have crept in this release.

DVBlast 1.0

2009-05-12

DVBlast is a simple and powerful streaming application for linux-dvb devices. It opens a DVB device, tunes it, places PID filters, configures a CAM module, and demultiplexes the packets to several RTP outputs.
The VideoLAN project is glad to announce the first public release of this new software, released under the GPL license.

VLC media player 0.9.9a for Mac OS X

2009-04-05

This update is Mac OS X only. It fixes VLC's behaviour on PowerPC-based Macs and includes updated libraries for all Mac OS X platforms.
In order to take full advantage of VLC 0.9.9's features, including native Real Video playback, we recommend all Mac users to update to this new release.
Due to a lack of active Mac OS X developers, these issues remained unnoticed for the last release. We are sorry for the noise and are looking for enthusiastic Mac developers to help and support us.

VLC media player 0.9.9

2009-04-02

The VideoLAN team is very pleased to announce the release of VLC media player 0.9.9.

This is a bugfix release on the 0.9 branch of VLC. Notables bugfixes are:

• fullscreen behaviour on Windows with multiple screens,
• workaround bug with libxml2 >=2.7.3,
• video performance on Intel-based Macs,
• various decoders updates on Windows.

An experimental native decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 using FFmpeg has been added and many fixes happened in our Real Media demuxer.
This should improve Real Media Files support on all platforms.

A New Logo for a Brighter Future

2009-04-01

After years of faithful service, we've decided to retire our old logo, the famous cone. It served its purpose, but as VLC 1.0.0 is approaching, we are dropping the passive cone and upgrading to some heavy machinery.
The whole team would like to welcome the new VLC logo: Bulldozer! Get ready for some serious earth shattering on the open source multimedia world!
VLC 1.0.0 is warming up... maybe it's not going to be fast but it will wreck everything in its path.

Note: Look at the date...

VideoLAN in Google Summer of Code

2009-03-25

VideoLAN has been accepted as an official mentoring organisation for Google's 2009 edition of Summer of Code. We are looking for interested students that are free this summer. Students can apply now and suggest projects. See VLC related projects and x264 related projects. Feel free to drop by on IRC or e-mail the vlc-devel@ mailing list if you have any questions.

VLC Skin Editor 0.8.1

2009-02-23

The VideoLAN team is pleased to announce the release of VLC Skin Editor 0.8.1.
It fixes several bugs and brings better performance. Furthermore the program is now available in several languages.
All users are recommended to upgrade to this release. You can download it from the Skin Editor page.

End of VideoLAN Dev Days '08

2008-12-24

The VideoLAN Dev Days '08, our first real life meeting were a great success. Many development and organisation ideas were discussed there. We want to thank everyone that came to see us and the four companies that sponsored us: Anevia, Free, M2X and Uniways.
Happy holidays and Merry Christmas to everyone.

VideoLAN Dev Days '08

2008-12-10

The VideoLAN community is a fast-evolving and ever-changing community and development happens really fast. While this is fun, it is always difficult to meet and discuss with each other in person.
Therefore, we are happy to invite you to: The VideoLAN Dev Days '08 , in Paris, France, on the 20-21 December week-end.
If you are a developper, a VLC fan or press, and you are interested to come or discuss with the team, please contact us.
We would like to thank the four companies that sponsor us: Anevia, Free, M2X and Uniways.
Update: You can have a look at the meeting here.

VLC 0.9.8a binaries for Windows and Mac OS

2008-12-08

VLC media player 0.9.8a binaries for Windows and MacOS are now available.
We strongly recommend all users to update to this new version.

VideoLAN Security Advisory 0811

2008-12-03

VLC media player versions 0.9.8 and older suffer from a critical buffer overflow vulnerabilities. Refer to our advisory for technical details. Fixes for this issue is available in VLC 0.9.8a. We strongly recommend all users to update to this new version.
Windows and Mac OS builds are coming at a later date.

VLC media player SourceForge Award

2008-11-24

VLC media player won a Community Choice Award, organised by our friends from SourceForge, this summer. We just received the award.
The whole VideoLAN Team would love to thank many times SourceForge and especially Ross Turk.
You can find more infos here and there.

A problem with Windows 0.9.6 binary

2008-11-14

The released 0.9.6 Windows binary presents some issues in the avformat module that can prevent playback of FLV or MXF files. We apologize for this, and corrected the builds accordingly.
You can download the correctly builds on your favorite mirror.

VLC media player 0.9.6

2008-11-06

The VideoLAN team is pleased to announce the release of VLC media player 0.9.6.
This is a bugfix release. VLC media player 0.9.5 and earlier versions suffer from a security vulnerability in CUE and Realtext subtitle demuxer. Further technical details are available in our advisory.
We recommend all users upgrade to this new version.

VLC media player wins tim Award

2008-10-30

On 30 October 2008 VLC media player won a "tim Award" in category "Multimedia Software" at a PC-WELT event. The awards were announced during a gala diner at "Bayerische Hof" in Munich. Two famous german TV presenters hosted the event. The VideoLAN team is very honoured by winning this award and wants to thank its user base for giving us this token of your appreciation. VLC media player could not have won this award without the support and dedication of its users and Open Source developers. Read more about the event on PC-WELT website.

End of support for VLC 0.8.6 series

2008-10-26

The VideoLAN team ceases all form of support for VLC media player 0.8.6-bugfix tree. After several several call for help, it is apparent that there is no interest in the community to maintain the 0.8.6 branch of the VLC media player. As a consequence, it has not been possible to put sufficient efforts to ensure adequate continued quality of the 0.8.6-bugfix branch. Effective immediately, there will be no more security and critical fixes for VLC 0.8.6. Binary releases of the 0.8.6-bugfix branch had already stopped as of July 2008. The VideoLAN team will continue to provide major or security-related bug fixes for the VLC media player 0.9-bugfix branch. If you have not already upgraded to VLC version 0.9.5, please do so urgently (exploits for vulnerabilities found in older versions are widely available as of today).

VLC media player 0.9.5

2008-10-24

The VideoLAN team is pleased to announce the release of VLC media player 0.9.5. This is a bugfix release. VLC media player 0.9.4 and earlier versions suffer from a security vulnerability in TiVo demuxer. Further technical details are available in our advisory (CVE-2008-4654, CVE-2008-4686). Also, libpng was updated in Windows and MacOS builds to address a separate security issue (CVE-2008-3964).
This release also improves media keys support under Windows, file access under all OSes, Qt4 interface usability, and fixes a few extra bugs. Full list of changes can be found here.
We utmostly recommend all users upgrade to this new version.
Binary packages for Mac OS X and source code tarballs are available for download. Windows binary release is indefinitely postponed pending volunteers taking over the Windows port.
Help is available, as usual, in many places:

• The documentation (we need help keeping it up to date!)
• The forums
• The mailing lists
• IRC: #videolan on Freenode

We'd like to thank all our contributors, testers and users around the world for their support and help making this release possible.

A problem with Mac OS X PPC 0.9.4 binary

2008-10-09

We accidently released the 0.9.3 Mac OS X PowerPC binary as the 0.9.4 download. We apologize for this, and corrected PowerPC and Universal downloads have been uploaded to our main mirror. It will take up to a day for these binaries to be distributed to some of our mirrors. If you want you can download the file directly from our main server.

VLC media player 0.9.4 and Call for Windows developers

2008-10-07

We present you with VLC media player 0.9.4, the latest increment of our 0.9 series. This release brings Windows users all the 0.9.3 enhancements and fixes (please see our call for Windows developers below) as well as fixing a few more bugs for the other platforms.

Binary packages for Mac OS X and Windows, as well as source code tarballs are available for download.
Help is available, as usual, in many places:

• The documentation (we need help keeping it up to date!)
• The forums
• The mailing lists
• IRC: #videolan on Freenode

We'd like to thank all our contributors, testers and users around the world for their support and help making this release possible.

We are putting out a call for NEW Windows developers. At the moment, our Windows-port is sorely missing some much needed love from a true Windows developer. Our team has been without a Windows developer for several months now, which is blocking us from supporting our largest usergroup in the manner we want to. We are therefore looking for developers to help our team in the areas of debugging crashes, Direct X, A/V capturing, ActiveX and Windows integration, so we can hopefully resume supporting our largest group of users in the best possible way. If we are unable to find new developers, new versions of VLC media player for Windows might become less frequent and severely out of sync with the Linux and Mac OS X versions.

So, no donations for work on the Windows-port and no "opportunities"-emails, for Windows we only require: Developers, Developers, Developers !!!!!

VLMa 0.2.0 release

2008-09-29

The VideoLAN team is pleased to announce the release of VLMa (VideoLAN Manager) 0.2.0.
Binary packages as well as source tarballs are available for download.
Changes from 0.1 to 0.2.0 include:

• support of HTTP streaming,
• ability to choose the encapsulation format
• notifications of servers' accessibility using mail or IM (MSN and IRC),
• enhanced configurability.

A more complete changelog since 0.1 is available at http://www.videolan.org/vlma/NEWS.
For more information about VideoLAN Manager, we recommend you visit VLMa website.

VLC media player 0.9.3 and Call for Windows developers

2008-09-26

On the heels of 0.9.2 the VideoLAN team presents version 0.9.3, the first bugfix release of the 0.9 series. We are also putting a call out for new Windows developers for our team.
Binary packages for Mac OS X and source code tarballs are available for download. Windows binaries might follow at a later time.
Help is available, as usual, in many places:

• The documentation (we need help keeping it up to date!)
• The forums
• The mailing lists
• IRC: #videolan on Freenode

We'd like to thank all our contributors, testers and users around the world for their support and help making this release possible.

We are putting out a call for NEW Windows developers. At the moment, our Windows-port is sorely missing some much needed love from a true Windows developer. Our team has been without a Windows developer for several months now, which is blocking us from supporting our largest usergroup in the manner we want to. We are therefore looking for developers to help our team in the areas of debugging crashes, Direct X, A/V capturing, ActiveX and Windows integration, so we can hopefully resume supporting our largest group of users in the best possible way. If we are unable to find new developers, new versions of VLC media player for Windows might become less frequent and severely out of sync with the Linux and Mac OS X versions.

So, no donations for work on the Windows-port and no "opportunities"-emails, for Windows we only require: Developers, Developers, Developers !!!!!

VLC Skin Editor 0.7 release

2008-09-21

The VideoLAN Team is pleased to announce the release of VLC Skin Editor 0.7.
After more than a year of development finally the first official stable release is there.

The Skin Editor enables designers to create skins for VLC without having them to learn about XML and the internal makeup of skins2. It provides an easy-to-use WYIWYG editing interface giving full control over all of the skin's features.

Binary packages for windows, including an installer can be found at the Skin Editor page. There can also be found a build for all other operating systems for which exist a Java Runtime Environment 6 SE.

We'd like to thank all contributors and testers for having made this release possible.

VLC media player at IBC 2008

2008-09-17

IBC 2008 is the 2nd largest conference and exhibition on Broadcasting technology in the world. Though VLC media player does not have a stand (terribly expensive), it is used on many stands by the attending companies. As every year, several of the VLC media player developers were present on the floor and Derk-Jan Hartman made a photo report showing some of the uses, by companies like: HP, Cisco, Anystream, Fraunhofer, BBC and many smaller companies.
It is the industries 'dirty little secret' you could say. Much of the IPTV based work starts by testing the IPTV streams with VLC media player. New features are sometimes even implemented in VLC media player for internal development, and then once it works, the engineers write a new program based on their experiences, which they deliver to their customers. However sometimes VLC media player even makes it into the endproduct. Big name HP clearly uses VLC media player in this product of theirs.

VLC media player 0.9.2 Grishenko release

2008-09-15

The VideoLAN Team is pleased to announce the release of VLC media player 0.9.2 - Grishenko.
Resulting of 2 years of development, it features many new functionalities, including a new interface for Windows and Linux.
A comprehensive list of new features can be found on our our wiki or by reading the release notes.
Binary packages for Windows and Mac OS X, as well as source code tarballs are available for download.
Help is available, as usual, in many places:

• The documentation (we need help keeping it up to date!)
• The forums
• The mailing lists
• IRC: #videolan on Freenode

We'd like to thank all our contributors, testers and users around the world for their support and help making this release possible.

VideoLAN Security Advisory 0807

2008-08-30

VLC media player versions 0.8.6i and older suffer from multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities. Refer to our advisory for technical details. Fixes for these issues are available in VLC 0.9. We strongly recommend all users to update to this new version.
Note: a binary VLC 0.9 release should be available for Windows and Mac OS X users in a few days.

Wikileaks claims leaked DTS threat letter

2008-08-28

In the middle of the Wikileaks controversy over the selling of claimed Hugo Chavez emails, we found out that Wikileaks claims to have uncovered a threat letter from DTS Inc to the ECP university, our former and historical home. This letter was not addressed to the VideoLAN project. We are unable to confirm or infirm the authenticity of this document, or to comment on it at this point in time.

VLC media player 0.8.6i release

2008-07-12

We are pleased to announce the release of VLC media player 0.8.6i.
This is a bugfix release. VLC media player 0.8.6h and earlier versions suffer from security vulnerabilities in the WAV demuxer.
This release also includes improved audio visualizations on FreeBSD and miscellaneous bug fixes in multiple modules.
More information can be found in our Security Advisory and in the Release Notes.
We strongly recommend all users to update to this new version.

VLC media player 0.8.6h release

2008-06-06

We are pleased to announce the release of VLC media player 0.8.6h.
This is a bugfix release. VLC media player 0.8.6g (a source code release) and earlier versions suffer from security vulnerabilities in the GnuTLS, libgcrypt and libxml2 libraries.
VLC media player 0.8.6f and earlier versions suffer from security vulnerabilities in the Mozilla and ActiveX plugins, in the libpng, libid3tag, libvorbis libraries and in the Speex codec.
Technical details are available in our security advisories. This update also includes reliability improvements in multiple modules. More information can be found in the release notes for 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h.
We strongly recommend all users to update to this new version.

VLMa release

2008-05-13

The VideoLAN team is pleased to announce the release of VideoLAN Manager 0.1.
VideoLAN Manager (VLMa) is a Java application which aims to provide an easy way to manage several servers running VLC to stream over a multicast network.
More information at http://www.videolan.org/vlma.

Google Summer of Code 2008 (2)

2008-04-21

The VideoLAN project was assigned 14 slots by Google. 10 of those went to VLC related projects and 4 to x264 projects. Official results are available on Google's website. Thanks to all the students who posted an application. Sorry to those who weren't chosen ... and start coding if you were!

VLC media player 0.8.6f release

2008-04-02

We are pleased to announce the release of VLC media player 0.8.6f.
This is a bugfix release. VLC media player 0.8.6e and earlier versions suffer from security vulnerabilities in the Subtitle demuxer, Real RTSP demuxer, MP4 demuxer and Cinepak codec.
This release also includes improved video output on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X and compatibility with Windows 9x/ME has been restored.
We strongly recommend all users to update to this new version.
More information can be found in our Security Advisory and in the Release Notes.

Google Summer of Code 2008

2008-03-20

As some of you might have noticed, VideoLAN has been accepted as an official mentoring organisation for Google's 2008 edition of Summer of Code. Official student applications will be begin on the 24th and will last until the 31th. Students can apply for VLC related projects and x264 related projects. Feel free to drop by on IRC or e-mail the vlc-devel@ mailing list if you have any questions.
Update: The application deadline has been extended to the 7th of April by the Google folks.

VLC media player 0.8.6e, VideoLAN Security 0801 and 0802

2008-02-27

This is a bugfix release. VLC media player 0.8.6d and earlier versions suffer from security vulnerabilities in the Web interface, Subtitle demuxer, Real RTSP demuxer, SDL_image library and MP4 demuxer.
Technical details are available in our advisories: SA-0801 and SA-0802.
The usual collection of assorted changes and improvements can be found here.
This release fully supports Mac OS X 10.3.9 once again.
We strongly recommend all users to update to this new version.

VLC media player 0.8.6d, VideoLAN Security Advisory 0703

2007-11-30

VLC media player versions 0.8.6 to 0.8.6c suffer from a security vulnerability in the ActiveX plugin. More technical details are available in our advisory.
An updated release of VLC is available which includes a few other fixes as well, notably better compatibility with MacOSX 10.5 Leopard. The full list of changes can be found here.
We strongly recommend all users to update to this new version.
Note that early and broken Win32 binaries have been distributed by third party websites. Make sure to download from an official VideoLAN mirror to avoid disappointment.

VLC to remain under GPL version 2

2007-09-29

Future versions of VLC media player as published by VideoLAN.org will be licensed under GPL version 2 inspite of the newly released GPL version 3. See the press release here.

Updated Mac OS X packages for VLC 0.8.6c

2007-06-25

The previous VLC 0.8.6c binaries for Mac OS X fail to run on non-administrator accounts due to a packaging problem.
If you need to run VLC on restricted accounts, please download the package again. There is no security issue involved and no other platform was affected.
Sorry for the disturbance.

VLC media player 0.8.6c, VideoLAN Security Advisory 0702

2007-06-17

VLC media player versions 0.8.6b and lower suffer from a security vulnerability in the CDDA, Vorbis, Theora and SAP plugins. More technical details are available in our advisory.
An updated release of VLC is available which includes a few other fixes as well. The full list of changes can be found here.
We strongly recommend all users to update to this new version.

VideoLAN won a Lutèce d'or

2007-06-13

VideoLAN was awarded a Lutèce d'Or during the latest Paris Capitale du Libre event, a technology event aimed to recognize achievements in open source development.
VideoLAN received "The best Free Software development" prize for VLC media player, one year after the Mozilla Foundation received it for Firefox.

Windows Binaries for VLC 0.8.6b updated

2007-04-24

The VLC 0.8.6b Windows binaries seemed to have a few problems with Unicode support and H.264 encoding.
These issues have been fixed on our main FTP and our mirrors will follow soon.
Sorry for the disturbance.

Release VLC 0.8.6b media player

2007-04-19

From the feedback we have had so far on the latest version of VLC media player, 0.8.6a, we are proud to introduce a new bugfix release, namely 0.8.6b, aimed at fixing some annoying bugs. But with a few improvements too.
It includes a new teletext subtitles decoder, new flash video decoders and Mac OS X interface improvements. It fixes many crashes, especially during fullscreen on Mac OS X, on Vista and the browser plugin.
Have a look here for the full list of changes.
We hope you will enjoy that new version.

Google Summer of Code 2007 (2)

2007-04-12

The official applications, selected by VideoLAN and Google, are on Google Summer of Code Website. We have been given 7 slots for 46 applications. The choice was very hard, since many students submitted very high quality propositions. We thanks every student, accepted or not, for their application. We wish good luck to all our selected students.

Google Summer of Code 2007

2007-03-15

VideoLAN has been accepted as an official Mentoring organisation for Google Summer of Code 2007. We are therefore proposing to the students eligible to that program to join us. You will have to register on Google before 24 March 2007 and propose applications to our project. You can find VideoLAN's ideas on VideoLAN's wiki. Note that you can also propose new ideas.

VideoLAN Security Advisory 0701, VLC media player 0.8.6a

2007-01-04

VLC media player versions 0.7.0 to 0.8.6 suffer from a Format String security vulnerability in the CDDA and VCDX modules. Refer to our advisory for technical details. An updated release of VLC is available now, which also improves the Fullscreen Controller on Mac OS X. We strongly recommend all users to update to this new version.

Release VLC 0.8.6 media player

2006-12-10

Building on feedback from the 29 million downloads of VLC media player 0.8.5, we bring you version 0.8.6 with many bugfixes, as well as a couple of new features we think you will truly enjoy. Most prominent are probably Windows Media Video 9 and Flash Video. Other important changes are improved H.264 decoding, better Windows Unicode support, a Fullscreen controller and Apple Remote support for Mac OS X.
Note: If you have problems running the Mac OS X Intel version, please download again.
Have a look here for the full list of changes.
Binary packages and the source code are available on the VLC download page.
You can get help concerning this new release on the Documentation Page, Forum, Wiki, Mailing Lists or in #videolan on Freenode. Remember to reset your preferences if you experience problems after upgrading from a previous version.

New MacIntel server

2006-08-29

The builds for Mac OS X Intel were still being produced on a Development Kit Intel machine from Apple. It's time to bring that machine back to Apple and as a replacement the VideoLAN team has used the donations of our users in order to purchase a new server. The original idea was to get a MacMini, but in the configuration we wanted it, we could just as well get an iMac. Which is what we did. We received the machine last week, and now it's setup, and keeping an eye on VLC for MacIntel. We would like to thank all the people who made donations very much. You people keep the project running.

Website redesign contest: we have a winner!

2006-08-22

We'd first like to thank the 13 web designers. All the designs were great and we really had a hard time choosing a winner. So here it comes: the winner is ... <drums> ... j0nzj's design, congratulations! We'd especially like to thank Tombigel who was runner up with another great design.

VideoLAN needs your help

2006-06-19

There are many things that we would like to improve in VLC, but that we don't, because we simply don't have enough time. That's why we are currently looking for some help. We have identified several small projects that prospective developers could work on.
Knowledge of C and/or C++ programming will certainly be useful, but you don't need to be an expert, nor a video expert. Existing VLC developers will be able to help you on these projects. You can find the list and some instructions on the dedicated Wiki page. Don't hesitate to join us on IRC or on the mailing-lists. We are waiting for you !

Website redesign contest

2006-05-25

Those of you browsing the web with text only console browsers might think that this website's design is great, all the others wouldn't agree (some might even dare compare it with VLC's default interface on windows and linux). We've thus decided to give you the opportunity to change it.
Rules are available on the wiki. All discussion and posts relative to the contest will be made in the Website discussion forum.
Update: The deadline for this contest is set to Friday 14/07. You can have a look at current proposals on this wiki page.

Release: VLC media player 0.8.5

2006-05-06

This new Release features many improvements, including MacIntel support, a statistic system, the support of DV inputs on Linux, improvements in the Audio CD playback (CDDB), many new and improved video filters, a new AJAX HTTP interface, Winamp 2 Skins support, a Mozilla plugin on Mac OS X (PowerPC only), a new default skin...
Have a look here for the full list of changes.
Binary packages and the source code are available on the VLC download page.
You can get help concerning this new release on the Documentation Page, Forum, Wiki, Mailing Lists or on #videolan on Freenode. Remember to reset your preferences if you experience problems after upgrading from a previous version.

Apple-VideoLAN partnership announced, Mac VLC to be Intel only (April fool's)

2006-04-01

In an effort to help Apple with its Intel transition, the VideoLAN team, distributor of the industry leading cross-platform media player VLC, announced its intent to drop support for the now outdated G4 and G5 based series of Mac computers.
Read the full Press Release.
Note: Look at the date...

VideoLAN website gets a new home

2006-03-09

VideoLAN's main server, Ganesh, will be moving to a new home at the French ISP Free. To learn more about this move, you can read our Press Release.
During the move, several VideoLAN services will be down: forum, trac, SVN, and developers website. The move should last about 4 hours, starting at 3 PM, Paris Time. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Update: The server is now at its new home. Enjoy :)

VideoLAN at FOSDEM

1970-01-01

The VideoLAN team will have a booth at FOSDEM in Brussels. If you have some time to spare, drop by and we'll be happy to welcome you on our booth.

Bugfix release: VLC media player 0.8.4a

2005-12-13

This minor update to VLC 0.8.4 fixes a few annoying bugs. OSX S/PDIF has been fixed (thanks to the donations we got for the G5), and so has A/52 over S/PDIF in Linux ALSA.
MusePack is also now enabled in Windows version. Have a look here for the full list of changes.
Binary packages and the source code are available on the VLC download page. We have at least updated the BeOS package.
You can get help concerning this new release on the Documentation Page, Forum, Wiki, Mailing Lists or on #videolan on Freenode. Remember to reset your preferences if you experience problems after upgrading from a previous version.

Release: VLC media player 0.8.4

2005-11-26

This new release features many improvements including a new VLC cone, new Mac OS X wizard and extend controls dialogs, tree playlist skins2 support, HTTP interface CGI handling, linux binary codecs loader, UPnP and Bonjour service discovery, shoutcast stream forwarding, new languages ...
Have a look here for the full list of changes.
Binary packages and the source code are available on the VLC download page.
You can get help concerning this new release on the Documentation Page, Forum, Wiki, Mailing Lists or on #videolan on Freenode. Remember to reset your preferences if you experience problems after upgrading from a previous version.

Purchase of a Powermac G5

2005-11-17

Thanks to the numerous contributions we received from everywhere, we were finally able to buy a second hand dual G5 1.8 GHz.
This will be used to debug sound playback on Powermacs and to host the VLC nightly builds. We particularly wish to thank MacBidouille and à Vos Macs for their important support.

Release: miniSAPserver 0.3.2

2005-10-15

This release cumulates fixes for regressions introduced in 0.3.1. You are encouraged to upgrade to this new version: download it here.

10 million downloads for VLC 0.8.2

2005-10-11

VLC 0.8.2 has been downloaded ten million times since its release, on June 26th! The whole VideoLAN team is very happy of this overwhelming result. We would like to thank all of our users, sponsors and partners, who made this result possible. Stay tuned !

New nightly builds server

2005-09-19

The new nightly build server is now available at http://nightlies.videolan.org. We would like to thank French ISP Free for their generous donation of this Dell PowerEdge 1425 server (2 2.8GHz Xeon EMT64 CPUs, 1.5 GB RAM and 2 x 40 GB Hard drives ... which we upgraded to 2 x 250 GB).
Update 22 September: The nightly builds are back !

Announcing Planet VideoLAN

2005-09-04

Planet VideoLAN (which uses the Planet Planet software) is an aggregation of VideoLAN-related posts on VideoLAN developers blogs. The best source for fresh VideoLAN news, previews and insights ! We currently have 3 feeds, but hope to have several more very soon.

Donations for the G5

2005-09-02

Due to a bit of media attention on various websites, we have had a surge in donations the past 2 days. Almost 1,5 times our original target of EUR 900 has been donated. So finally we can afford to get us that G5 PowerMac that we needed. Perhaps there will even be some money left. Don't worry, we will spent the money very wisely, we promise. There is still lots of other hardware we would like to support one day. And of course we have our usual server, conference representation and ADC costs. So please keep being kind to us and other Free and Open Source Software projects around the world. We thank you very much.

Release: miniSAPserver 0.3.0

2005-07-09

This release allows proper announcing of RTP streams, performs characters set convertion automatically when needed, selects the most appropriate SAP multicast address automatically and supports manual output interface selection. Some minor issues were fixed. These updates are in adequacy with changes in version 0.8.2 of VLC media player. You are encouraged to upgrade to this version: download it here.

Release: VLC media player 0.8.2

2005-06-26

This new release features many imporvements including a full playlist rewrite, improved preferences, Mac OS X Tiger compatibility, a brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin, a port to Pocket PC, mosaic picture in picture system, easy snapshots ...
Have a look here for the full list of changes.
Binary packages and the source code are available on the VLC download page.
You can get help concerning this new release on the Documentation Page, Forum, Wiki, Mailing Lists or on #videolan on Freenode. Remember to reset your preferences if you experience problems after upgrading from a previous version.

VideoLAN at LinuxTag

2005-06-16

The VideoLAN team will be present at LinuxTag in Karlsruhe, Germany the 23 and 24 of June 2005. We will also hold a conference on VLC.

Server Downtime

2005-06-13

Due to a rack installation, some VideoLAN services will be down for some time today around midnight (CEST). The main website, forum, SVN and trac will be down during that time. Sorry for the inconvenience

New HP webserver

2005-05-31

The VideoLAN website is now running on a HP DL 385 server with two AMD opteron 2.4 GHz CPUs and 8 GB RAM. The developers, forum, trac and wiki websites will be moved to this new server shortly. The VideoLAN team would like to thank Jean-Marie Verdun from HP France for this nice donation. It will hopefully fix the many problems we've been having durring the last year concerning website avaibility. (Photos of the new webserver will be uploaded shortly)

VideoLAN wins award at Trophées du Libre

2005-05-27

The VideoLAN team won the first prize in the « Multimedia » category at international free software contest Trophées du Libre (awards list). We thus got a brand new HP laptop and a nice trophy. The laptop is already making friends in the cone community (cones watching Roland Garros).

VideoLAN T-Shirts now available

2005-05-26

VideoLAN T-Shirts are now available for download on the goodies page ! Thanks to Lorenzo Milito for the winning design. Use a standard inkjet printer to get one ... You can also get one if you donate 12 EUR or 16 USD to the VideoLAN project. More info is available on the goodies page.

Linux Cambrésis

1970-01-01

The VideoLAN team will be present at Linux Cambrésis in Northen France. We will also hold conferences on Saturday and Sunday.

Network Downtime

2005-04-27

Due to a network upgrade, some VideoLAN services will be down for some time today around noon (CEST). The main website and downloads will keep working, but forum, wiki, SVN and mailing lists will be down during that time. Sorry for the inconvenience

Release: VLC 0.8.1337 (April Fool's)

2005-04-01

Lots of new features have found their way into VLC ! VLC is now easy to use and bug free. ( see Full Change Log ) Hurry up and download the new version here : [ links removed ] Screenshots can be found here (linux) and here (windows) and here (macosx).
NOTE: Look at the posting date before downloading this version. This is an April Fool's Joke.

Journées Federez

2005-03-24

The VIA and VideoLAN teams are pleased to invite you to their annual presentation day at the Ecole Centrale Paris (châtenay-Malabry, France). This year's edition is organised with networking associations from more than a dozen French engineering schools and universities. There will be a presentation of VideoLAN in French at 9:00 a.m. and a small demonstration from 13:30 to 15:30. If you are interested, please visit http://federez.net/journees/.

VideoLAN at FOSDEM

1970-01-01

The VideoLAN team will have a booth at FOSDEM in Brussels. A small presentation of VideoLAN will be held by Zorglub. If you happen to be near Brussels this week end, we'll be happy to welcome you on our booth.
Update: Read the report here.

VideoLAN at Solutions Linux Paris

2005-02-15

You have been many to come at the CNIT, Paris La Defense to meet the VideoLAN team. We want to thank you for your multiples usages of VLC media player and all your ideas of future developement. Our hardware were partialy lent by Apple and help we to tests new features. Photos can be found here.

VideoLAN T-shirt design contest

2005-02-07

The VideoLAN team is about to make its very first T-shirts in world history ! Unfortunately, we lack any good design proposal. Hence, we'd like to ask all of our users with some drawing skills to come up with design proposals. The winning design will of course be used on millions of T-shirts ! (and the author might even get one for free ...)
Some more info here
Update: Submissions are closed

VideoLAN at Solutions Linux Paris

1970-01-01

VideoLAN will have a booth at Solutions Linux Paris 2005, which will take place at the CNIT, Paris La Defense. The VideoLAN team will welcome you at the booth.

New: VLC Streaming HOWTO

2005-01-23

VLC's documentation rewrite is finished ! The complete user guide for the server aspects of VLC is now available.

The VideoLAN project investigates possible violation of their intellectual property

2005-01-19

See the press release here. Update : Following our request, Cinema On Web has removed the download from their web site. We would like to thank them for their quick response.

New: VLC Play HOWTO

2004-12-12

VLC's documentation rewrite is nearing completion. We are proud to bring you the VLC Play HOWTO, a complete guide to VLC's use as a client. Translations and the VLC streaming HOWTO will follow shortly.

Scheduled downtime

2004-12-04

VideoLAN's main website will be down for several hours on December 4th 2004, between 13:00 and 17:00 GMT, because of a major work at our power supplier. Subversion source code repositories, online forums, mailing lists, their archives and email accounts will also be affected by the cut.
Sorry for the inconvenience.

Release: VLC 0.8.1

2004-11-15

This is mainly a bug fix release.
Look here for the list of changes. To download the sources or the binary package of this new version, go to the VLC download page and click on your OS logo!
Only source, Win32 and Mac OS X package are available at the moment, others should follow soon.

Release: VLC 0.8.0

2004-11-03

It has been a long wait, but it is finally there. A plethora of new features for everyones enjoyment. They include: faster and more flexible input layer, improved transcoding, a plugins cache to speedup VLC startup time, vastly improved subtitles, OSD and DVD support, Windows Media Video 3 support under Windows, Multipart JPEG webcam support, an audio equalizer and so much, much more.
Look here for a complete list of changes. To download the sources or the binary package of this new version, go to the VLC download page and click on your OS logo!
Only source, Win32 and Mac OS X package are available at the moment, others will follow soon.
NOTE: This release doesn't include DTS audio decoding support. DTS Inc. claims that distributing this software with DTS decoding capabilities is a violation of their patent EP 864 146. At DTS Inc. request, we decided, as a precautionary measure, to provisionally suspend the distribution of VLC with DTS decoding capabilities while reviewing DTS Inc. claim. This is not an acknowledgement of the validity of the claim.

Server upgrade

2004-10-23

We will be upgrading our Web server today. A few minutes downtime will occur near 13:00 GMT. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Release: miniSAPserver 0.2.4

2004-07-23

This release fixes a major problem with miniSAPserver where it was always announcing mp3 streams instead of mpeg-ts (vls produced) streams. It also fixes the playlistgroup parameter to be compliant with the SDP standard now. The new style of this parameter will be supported in the next version of VLC. We strongly advise all users of miniSAPserver to download and upgrade to this new version.

Release: VLC 0.7.2

2004-05-21

This new release of VLC media player features improved interfaces with support for embedded video outputs, new formats support (H261, CMML, H264, Theora alpha3, ...), an improved DVB input, subtitles improvements, major stream output improvements, a VideoLAN manager to manage several streams with only one instance of VLC, and much more. Look here for a complete list of changes. To download the sources or the binary package of this new version, go to the VLC download page and click on your OS logo!
Only source, Win32 and MacOS X package are available at the moment, others will follow soon.

VIA and VideoLAN annual presentation day

2004-04-08

The VIA and VideoLAN teams are pleased to invite you to their annual presentation day at the Ecole Centrale Paris (Châtenay-Malabry, France). There will be a presentation of VideoLAN in French at 10:45 a.m. with a full demonstration. If you are interested, please visit this page. To receive an invitation, send a mail to journee2004@via.ecp.fr.

VideoLAN at HackIT:04

1970-01-01

We will participate to the italian hackmeeting in Genova (see http://www.hackmeeting.org/). We will hold a conference about video streaming and make demos on saturday and sunday.

Previews of next release

2004-04-01

The new version of VLC is coming up, and we thought we'd show you some pictures of the stuff we have been working on. First of all VLC will now be able to play all Real and Windows Media Video 3 content. A Mac OS 9 version is now available as well, and there is a new plugin to stream video to the Spirit Marsrover.
NOTE: Look at the posting date before asking stupid questions.

Scheduled downtime

2004-03-18

Due to maintainance operations, a network downtime of about one hour will occur this day at about 12AM. Sorry for the inconvenience.

VideoLAN Wiki back

2004-03-07

After a long time down, the VideoLAN wiki (ie, a website that everyone can change) is back up, at http://wiki.videolan.org. Its goal is to document what is not in the official documentation: the tips for each O.S, the graphical interfaces, ... We hope that the contribution of VideoLAN users will help us keep a documentation as up-to-date as possible.

Release: VLC 0.7.1

2004-03-02

This new release of VLC media player is a bit more than a bug-fix release as it does in fact include many new features. IGMPv3 support (Linux and WinXP), software DTS audio decoding, MOD audio support, a few new demuxers, an OpenGL video output plugin for OSX and much more! Look here for a complete list of changes. To download the sources or the binary package of this new version, go to the VLC download page and click on your OS logo!
Note: A 0.7.1a release is now available for Mac OS X users that fixes two important bugs in the 0.7.1 release.

Release: VLS 0.5.6

2004-02-16

This release of VLS fixes a bug when streaming MPEG2/PS files with several AC3 tracks, as well as compilation of VLS on Mac OS X. Go to the VLS source code download page to get this new version now !

VLC supports DTS audio

2004-02-10

The latest test release of VLC media player comes with DTS audio support. Try it out!

First release of dtsdec

2004-02-10

dtsdec is a free DTS Coherent Acoustics decoder. DTS is a high quality multi-channel (5.1) digital audio format in use in DVD's and DTS audio CD's. The code for dtsdec is still in early development stage, but it is already quite useable.
VLC media player becomes the first Open Source application able to play DTS audio.

VideoLAN at Solutions Linux Paris

1970-01-01

VideoLAN will have a booth at Solutions Linux Paris 2004, which will take place at the CNIT, Paris La Defense. The VideoLAN team will welcome you at the booth and invites you to its conference about reverse engineering and interoperability (February 3rd afternoon).

OSI Merit Award

2004-01-17

The VideoLAN project is very proud to announce that it has been awarded with an Open Source Merit Award by the Open Source Initiative. We are very glad to be honored in this way and will continue to strive to making the project, VLC media player and VLS, the best programs out there.
You can read more about the award in these builder.com articles: article 1 article 2.

Release: VLS 0.5.5

2004-01-10

This release of VLS fixes a bug introduced in the DVB input of the previous release. Go to the VLS source code download page to get this new version now !

Release: VLC 0.7.0

2004-01-03

This major release of VLC Media Player, codenamed "Bond", features major core enhancements, support for RTP/RTSP, new audio visual effects, supports for new formats (Speex, MPEG2 4/2/2, AAC+SBR, ...), many interfaces and playlist enhancements, a new interface for MacOS X, a DirectShowinput on Win32, support for MacOS X 10.3 Panther, and much more! Look here for a complete list of changes. To download the sources or the binary package of this new version, go to the VLC download page and click on your OS logo!
Attention: The first version of the OS X package didn't include the Flac decoder. If you experience problems with Flac audio, please download again.

Release: libdvbpsi 0.1.4

2004-01-02

This new release of libdvbpsi fixes a few bugs and adds support for DVB subtitles descriptor.

Happy new year

2004-01-01

The VideoLAN team wishes you a happy new year !

Scheduled downtime

1970-01-01

Due to a power audit, major disruptions are expected. A rescue line will be set up during the downtime, but due to a very narrow bandwidth, only the main website will be (partially) up. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Release: miniSAPserver 0.2.3

2003-12-13

This new release fixes an IPv6 bug, adds support for HTTP streams and for the SLP announcing protocol. It also uses the recent playlist group system of VLC (requires CVS or beta version of VLC). You can download the sources for this release.

Release: VLS 0.5.4

2003-11-28

This new release of the VideoLAN Server fixes two major bugs: the "program_number don't match" bug (read this for more explanations about this fix) and a bug in the RTP option that made VLS consume unnecessary resources. Go to the VLS source code download page to get this new version now !

New web forum for VideoLAN

2003-11-23

The VideoLAN team is pleased to announce the opening of our new webforum (http://forum.videolan.org). We hope this will help improve user support, communication between VideoLAN users, and sharing of ideas. Have fun !

5th Free software days in Lyons

1970-01-01

VideoLAN will be present at the 5th Free Software (Journées du Libre) in Lyons, France. We will have a demo of the streaming solution on our booth ! For more information about the event, see the ALDIL web site.

VideoLAN doc switches to GPL

2003-10-20

Due to legal problems with the GNU FDL license, the VideoLAN doc was switched to General Public License. The VideoLAN Quickstart was also removed, as it was redundant with the VideoLAN Howto.

VLC awarded by MacGeneration

2003-09-20

During Apple Expo Paris 2003, VLC won the trophy for developers support ! For more details about the MacGeneration 2003 Trophies, please see this news (French, see BabelFish for an English translation).

Release: VLC 0.6.2

2003-08-14

This new release of VLC follows the previous one very closely because it mainly fixes a regression in VLC 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable. VLC 0.6.2 also features an improved MPEG TS muxer, proper PTS/DTS generation in the transcoding module, support for DVB-S/C/T cards using V4L2 API, DVD menus navigation in the wxWindows interface and fixes to the VCD navigation. Look here for a complete list of changes. To download the sources or the binary packages of this new version, go to the VLC download page and click on your OS logo!

Release: VLC 0.6.1

2003-07-31

This new release of VLC media player features: vorbis and mp3 audio support for the transcoding module, improved HTTP remote control interface, improved support for the Matroska container format, new subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size, improved PS muxer (it can create MPEG-1 files now and produce streams with system headers), Windows fixes (DVD support, 5.1 audio for sblive/audigy and sound on NT4), improved ALSA support and a new GTK2 interface for the "Linux on PDA" distributions! Look here for a complete list of changes. To download the sources or the binary packages of this new version, go to the VLC download page and click on your OS logo! WARNING: the first version of the Mac OS X package was broken... so if you have problems under Mac OS X, download the package again!

Release: libdvdcss 1.2.8 and libdvbpsi 0.1.3

2003-07-29

Libdvdcss 1.2.8 is a bug-fix release with a fix for encrypted DVDs on Windows and a workaround for strange discs that report read errors seemingly at random. Libdvbpsi 0.1.3 features new DVB descriptors decoders and generators, a new SDT decoder and various fixes and enhancements. Go to the libdvdcss and libdvbpsi web pages to read the Changelog and download the sources or the Debian packages.

Release: miniSAPserver 0.2.2

2003-07-25

Minor bug fix of the miniSAPserver. Remember miniSAPserver should be used to announce the streams sent by VLS; the streams sent by VLC's stream output can be announced by VLC itself !

VLC runner up for Apple Design Award

2003-06-25

VLC 0.5.3 is runner up for Apple Design Award 2003. You can see the trophy on the events page.

Release: VLC 0.6.0

2003-06-23

This major release of VLC media player features a new Video 4 Linux input, a new CDDA input, multicast IPv6 support under Windows and Mac OS X, support for Sorenson 3, a new HTTP remote control interface, improved wxWindows and skin interfaces (now available for X11), a new stream output scheme with transcoding support and much more! Look here for a complete list of changes. To download the sources or the binary packages of this new version, go to the VLC download page and click on your OS logo!

Release: Libdvdcss 1.2.7

2003-06-23

This new release of libdvdcss, a DVD decryption library used by VLC and many other GPL media players, has key caching enabled by default and some bugfixes. See the libdvdcss page to download the sources or the Debian packages.

Release: miniSAPserver 0.2.1

2003-06-20

This new version of the miniSAPserver offers IPv6 support both for announces and announced streams, together with the CVS version of VLC.

VideoLAN Wiki opened

2003-06-16

We have set up a Wiki (ie, a website that everyone can change) at http://wiki.videolan.org. Its goal is to document what is not in the official documentation: the tips for each O.S, the graphical interfaces, ... We hope that the contribution of VideoLAN users will help us keep a documentation as up-to-date as possible.

Renater IPv6 conference

1970-01-01

The VideoLAN team has a booth at the Renater IPv6 conference that takes place at the University of Caen (France). There is a running demo of IPv6 streaming with VideoLAN in unicast and multicast at the booth!

Documentation update

2003-06-10

The VLS user guide is back and we have a Spanish translation of the VideoLAN FAQ by Javier Varela : see the documentation page. All the VideoLAN documentation is now in Docbook XML.

Release: VLS 0.5.3

2003-06-06

This release fixes a bug in the command line parsing, adds DVD title and chapter selection with the configuration file and features a new Windows installer.

Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-250 supported

2003-05-29

We have managed to stream from a Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-250 (an MPEG-2 encoding card) under Linux ! It gives much better results than the Visiontech Kfir card. The chapter "Stream from an MPEG encoding card" of the VideoLAN HOWTO has been updated, see the documentation page.

Release: mini-SAP-server 0.2.0

2003-05-26

This new release of the mini-SAP-server produces packets that should be conform to the RFC and adds a "port" option. Only the CVS version of VLC accepts its announces.

VLC FAQ becomes VideoLAN FAQ

2003-05-25

The new VideoLAN FAQ is available in multiple formats on the documentation page. If you have remarks about it or would like new questions to be integrated in it, post in one of the user mailing-lists.

VLC nominated at the Free Software Trophies!

2003-05-23

VLC was nominated at the Free Software Trophies, an international competition aimed at promoting the development of free software, in the category "General Public".

Release: VLS 0.5.2

2003-05-21

This release fixes a bug when trying to stream multiple DVB channels and a bug in the configure script with DVB drivers. To download this new version, go to the streaming page.

Release: VLS 0.5.1

2003-05-16

VLS for Windows is back ! The Windows port of VLS has been fixed. This new version also features the loop on broken PS files and setting the TTL under Windows. To download the sources or the Windows executable of this new version, go to the streaming page.

New VideoLAN HOWTO

2003-04-26

The new VideoLAN HOWTO is now complete and up-to-date. The chapter about the channel information service now explains how to do SAP/SDP announces with the new mini-SAP-server. See the documentation page and report any problem to the user mailing-lists.

Release: VLC 0.5.3

2003-04-08

This new release features the first steps towards skinable interfaces (only on Windows, not yet on Mac OS X or *nix). Support for playing directories and video4linux are other big new features. Many bugs have been fixed, including the problem with USB speakers on MacOS X. Look here for a complete list of changes. To download the sources or the binary packages of this new version, go to the VLC download page and click on your OS logo!

New skin for the Web site

2003-04-08

Karibu has designed a new skin for the Web site : enjoy !

VIA and VideoLAN annual presentation day

2003-03-21

The VIA and VideoLAN teams are pleased to invite you to their annual presentation day at the Ecole Centrale Paris (Châtenay-Malabry, France). There will be a presentation of VideoLAN in French at 10:45 a.m. with a full demonstration. If you are interested, please visit this page. To receive an invitation, send a mail to journee2003@via.ecp.fr.

Release: VLC 0.5.2

2003-03-11

This new release features improved audio quality (especially under Mac OS X), support for new audio formats (audio DV and FLAC), support for streaming of DivX 1/2/3, WMV 1/2 and h/i263 with VLC's stream output and many bug fixes (including the lock-ups under Mac OS X). To download the sources or the binary packages of this new version, go to the VLC download page and click on your OS logo!

Release: VLS 0.5.0

2003-03-11

This major release features a new command line interface, support for the new LinuxTV drivers (which brings support for the streaming of digital terrestial television channels), MPEG-4 TS support and many bug fixes. Because of a well hidden bug, VLS is not available under Windows any more. To download the sources of this new version, go to the streaming page.

Release: libdvdcss 1.2.6

2003-03-10

This is a bug fix release of libdvdcss, a DVD decryption library used by VLC and many other GPL media players. See the libdvdcss page to download the sources or the binaires.

Release: libdvdplay 1.0.1

2003-03-10

This is a bug fix release of libdvdplay, a DVD navigation library used by VLC. See the libdvdplay page to download the sources or the binaires.

Release: vlc for YOPY

2003-02-26

The VideoLAN team is proud to announce that vlc now works on YOPY/Linupy based PDAs ! Please have a look at the download page.

Release: vlc 0.5.1a for Mac OS X

2003-02-18

This is a bug-fix release of VLC for Mac OS X only: It fixes the problem with VLC starting up in a different language than your preferred language and an issue with sound missing on several files that previously worked perfectly. Download the new version of VLC for Mac OS X here.

Release: vlc 0.5.1

2003-02-17

This is a bug-fix release of VLC with a few new features : see the list of changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1 and go to the VLC section of the website to download the binaries for your OS or the sources. Unfortunately, this release doesn't fix the audio problems under Mac OS X... but VideoLAN developers are working hard on it !

Release: vlc 0.5.0

2003-02-03

This is a major release of VLC with a a lot of great new features : see the list of changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0 and go to the VLC section of the website to download the binaries for your OS or the sources. A new VLC user guide has been released (it replaces the VLC HOWTO) and the VideoLAN Quickstart has been updated to explain the new streaming capacity of VLC (with VLC's new stream output) : see the documentation page.

Release: libdvdplay 1.0.0

2003-02-03

This is the first release of libdvdplay, a DVD navigation library. This library is based on a lot of Ogle's code and features basic read and seek for DVD media, export of the DVD information (audio, subtitles, chapters, ...) and export of the DVD virtual machine to the client application. See the libdvdplay page to download the sources or the binaires.

Release: libdvdcss 1.2.5

2003-02-03

This new libdvdcss release adds key cache support, improves robustness in case of read errors and builds under Cygwin and Microsoft Visual C++. See the libdvdcss page to download the sources or the binaires.

VideoLAN at Linux Expo Paris

2003-01-29

VideoLAN will have a booth at Linux Expo Paris 2003 (4-5-6 February 2003 at the CNIT). The VideoLAN team will welcome you at the booth and invites you to its conference (Conference n°5, February 5th afternoon).

New VideoLAN Quickstart

2003-01-19

The VideoLAN Quickstart has been completely rewritten. See the documentation page.

New web site

2003-01-19

Welcome to our new web site: it was designed to be simpler and more comprehensive for end-users. There is a separate site for developers: developers.videolan.org. If you find errors, please write to webmaster@videolan.org.

Release: vlc 0.4.6

2002-11-14

This new release uses a52dec as the default decoder for AC3 sound for a better quality, fixes a hangup in the esd plugin, allows Windows NT/2000/XP users to read DVDs without administrator privileges and fixes a few segfaults. Have a look at the ChangeLog and go to the download page.

Release: libdvdcss 1.2.4

2002-11-14

This release allows Windows NT/2000/XP users to watch DVDs with vlc 0.4.6 without administrator privileges. Check the libdvdcss page, and have a look at the Changelog.

Pictures and slides of JDL Lyons

2002-11-04

The pictures and the slides of the Free Software Days in Lyons are online: see the events page.

Free Software days in Lyons

1970-01-01

VideoLAN will be present at the Free Software Days (Journées du Libre) in Lyons (France): four developers will have a stand with a running demo of VideoLAN. This event is organized by ALDIL, and you will have all the information about the stands, the conferences and a site map on this page.

Release: vlc 0.4.5

2002-10-14

This new release brings enhancements to the BeOS and iPAQ familiar Linux ports, as well as a new RTP input. VLC is also compliant to general practice on how to embed A/52, DVD SPU and LPCM elementary streams in MPEG-2 TS. It can still read from VLS 0.3.x with the --vls-backwards-compat option. Visit the ChangeLog and the download page.

Release: mini-vlcs 0.2.0

2002-10-13

This new release adds IPv6 support, features unlimited channel numbers and auto-reload when the configuration file is changed. Get-it from the download page!

Release: vls 0.4.0

2002-10-13

This new release adds IPv6 multicast support, language descriptors for audio and subpicture streams, and support for WinTV DVB-S. It also features an RTP output, runtime adding of programs and channels, start-up script, and is compliant to general practice on how to embed A/52, DVD SPU and LPCM elementary streams. This release requires VLC version 0.4.5 or later. Get it now from the download page!

Release: libdvdcss 1.2.3

2002-10-13

This release fixes many issues in the Windows port. Check the libdvdcss page, and have a look at the Changelog.

Release: vlms 0.2.3

2002-10-13

VLMS now generates valid CRCs, and is compliant to general practice on how to embed A/52, DVD SPU and LPCM elementary streams. This release requires VLC version 0.4.5 or later. Download it now.

Release: libdvbpsi 0.1.2

2002-10-12

This release fixes miscellaneous portability issues, and a bug in the PMT generator which created over-complicated PMTs. Check the libdvbpsi page, and have a look at the Changelog.

Release: vlc 0.4.4

2002-08-11

This release fixes some Windows bugs and is built on the newest libdvdcss. It also features ffmpeg AVIs playing. Subtitles should be readable again under MacOS X. Visit the ChangeLog and the download page.

Release: libdvdcss 1.2.2

2002-08-11

This release fixes the "ioctl_ReadTitleKey failed" bug reported by RPC2 drives users. Check the libdvdcss page, and have a look at the Changelog.

Release: vlc 0.4.3

2002-07-26

This release fixes the QT6 compatibility issue under MacOS X! Also includes a few BeOS improvements, and several other bugfixes. Visit the ChangeLog and the download page.

Release: vlc 0.4.2

2002-07-10

This is a small bugfix release, but also features multicast IPv6 support and new deinterlacing plugins. See the ChangeLog and the download page.

Release: vlc 0.4.1

2002-06-04

This is mostly a bugfix release with a few improvements. Support for AVI files with AC3 audio, new MMX optimizations in the video decoder an improved Win32 interface, and a lot of other bugfixes. See full ChangeLog for more information. Then go to the download page.

Release: vlms 0.2.2

2002-06-04

vlms works under MacOSX and Solaris and not only under Linux. Now the playlist and looping options work with TS files. Download it now

Release: libdvdcss 1.2.1

2002-06-02

This release fixes a bug preventing to read DVDs when the disc's region didn't match the drive's. Also, QNX support was added. Check the libdvdcss page.

Tests at Centrale Paris

2002-05-29

The VideoLAN Team is starting today a vast test campaign on the campus of the Ecole Centrale Paris. We are streaming 13 channels at the same time using multicast on the brand new network (Gigabit Ethernet backbone and 100 Mbit/s switches on the periphery from our partner Extreme Networks) of the VIA Centrale Réseaux association. The students are invited to visit www.videolan.org/tests/ for instructions.

Release: vlc 0.4.0

2002-05-23

This is a major release which adds MPEG-4/DivX support and many enhancements for Mac OS X and Windows. It also fixes dozens of causes of crashes and freezes. See full ChangeLog for more information. Then go to the download page.

Release: libdvdcss 1.2.0

2002-05-23

This release fixed a grave crash with some DVDs. Check the libdvdcss page!

Release: libdvbpsi 0.1.1

2002-05-18

This release has full MPEG 2 descriptors decoding and generation capabilities. Get it now from the download page.

VideoLAN HOWTO

2002-05-14

The VideoLAN HOWTO explains how to use the complete VideoLAN solution. It deals in particular with the different streaming methods (unicast, broadcast, multicast), the issue of IPv6, the use of channel tools, Video on Demand and the design of a complete solution. It has been written by Marc Ariberti and Alexis de Lattre.

Release: vlms 0.2.1

2002-05-14

This release adds a few convenient options. It is now possible to change the TTL value and to make the vlms repeat its playlist.

Release: vls 0.3.3

2002-05-13

This new release adds a long awaited Windows port for the vls! Get it now from the download page!

Thinkpad received

2002-04-23

We eventually received the IBM Thinkpad as a reward for the IBM Linux Challenge. See the events page and the pictures taken during the unpacking party.

New vlc HOWTO

2002-04-18

Jobi updated the vlc HOWTO. It is an important document for all the users of vlc.

Release: vlc 0.3.1

2002-04-18

This is a bugfix release which addresses issues discovered in 0.3.0. Lots of crashes fixed, see the full ChangeLog for more information. Then go to the download page.

Mirror Site

2002-04-15

You probably experienced problems recently to access the VideoLAN Web, FTP and CVS servers. This was due to failure of the ISP. We have set up a mirror site with Web; FTP and read-only CVS. When the ISP of the main site is down, you will be automatically redirected to the mirror site.

VideoLAN Quickstart

2002-04-06

The VideoLAN Quickstart describes how to start using VideoLAN quickly. Basic skills on Linux and Network should be enough to understand this Quickstart. It has been written by Bill Eldridge (bill@rfa.org) and Alexis de Lattre (alexis@videolan.org).

Release: vlc 0.3.0

2002-04-06

This release fixes an amazing number of bugs and brings a lot of new features as well: Configuration file support, new input layer with IPv6 support and file format autodetection, new video output engine featuring speed increases up to 40%, VCD support under Mac OS X, multicast support and a new interface for Win32, network support under BeOS, satellite driver for WinTV Nova cards, video filters (deinterlacing, rotation, distort, image wall) and much more! Read the ChangeLog and go to the vlc download page.

Release: libdvdcss 1.1.1

2002-04-06

This bugfix release fixes compilation issues under OpenBSD, IRIX and BeOS. You do not need to upgrade if 1.1.0 worked properly for you. Otherwise, check the libdvdcss page!

Release: vls 0.3.2

2002-04-04

Major update, a lot of new features since 0.3.1: WinTV-Nova satellite receiver support, IPv6 support, multicast improvement, user documentation and lots of bugfixes. See changelog and download pages.

Release: libdvdcss 1.1.0

2002-04-04

This new release of the most portable DVD descrambler is a lot more robust, includes a new descrambling method, is now in sync with the Ogle group's own version, features an HP-UX port, and fixes many bugs. Check the libdvdcss page for more information.

Release: libdvbpsi 0.1.0

2002-04-03

This is the first official release of libdvbpsi. It features PAT and PMT decoding and generation. It is used by vls under Linux but the code is fully portable. Check the libdvbpsi page for more information.

Release: miniVLCS 0.1.2

2002-03-25

Small update, configuration file is now a lot more simple to write but it can only support the newest vlc network syntax (udp://). See the network page for more information and download.

Meuuh got his Ti!

2002-03-05

Linux Challenge: VideoLAN wins

2002-01-01

Videolan is one of the 25 winners of the IBM Linux Challenge for opensource projects developed by university students. More information on the IBM Linux Challenge website.

Release: vlc 0.2.92

2001-12-31

This release fixes an amazing number of bugs, provides a new optimized buffer manager, fast memcpy routines, MacOS X network input, BeOS CPU detection, DVD raw device support, a new libmad audio decoder, and a new aRts audio output. Read the ChangeLog or go to the download page.

Release: vls 0.3.1

2001-12-06

Major update, a lot of new features since 0.3.0: Kfir video encoder support, plugins, file output, bugfixes. See changelog and download pages.

Release: vlc 0.2.91

2001-11-13

A bug-fix update, with numerous fixes in the Win32 and MacOS X port, and VCD support for Linux and BSD/OS. See changelog and download pages.

Release: libdvdcss 1.0.0

2001-11-13

MacOS X, NetBSD and OpenBSD ports were added to this version, along with new methods for descrambling DVDs.

Release: vlc 0.2.90

2001-10-10

Another major update, with a new improved video decoder, a working Mac OS X port with Altivec optimized routines, HTTP input support. See changelog and download pages.

Release: vls 0.3.0

2001-10-09

This is the first official release of the VideoLAN Server. It features MPEG1 PS, MPEG2 PS/TS, and DVD streaming, a telnet interface, and runs under Linux and Solaris. Check the vls page for more information.

Release: vlms 0.2.0

2001-08-24

The first version for more than one year. Lots of bugfixes, and support for MPEG1 streams. See the vlms page for more information.

Release: libdvdcss 0.0.3

2001-08-22

Solaris port and BSD/OS ports were added to this version.

Release: vlc 0.2.83

2001-08-22

Minor release, with overlay subtitle support.

Release: vlc 0.2.82

2001-08-07

This version fixes lots of issues discovered in 0.2.81, but also introduces the BSD/OS port, and a few other Win32 improvements. See the usual changelog file for a more complete report on what has changed, or directly go to the download page!

Connection failure

2001-08-02

We apologize for the 24 hour downtime due to a power audit.

Release: vlc 0.2.81

2001-07-28

This version comes after a huge bug hunt, almost all critical bugs have disappeared, and all important ones are gone. See the changelog file for more information. This is also the first public version to use libdvdcss. Download it now!

Release: libdvdcss 0.0.2

2001-07-28

This new version brings lots of bugfixes, full Windows 98 and Windows 2000 support, and a faster DVD key handling. Get it on the libdvdcss page.

Server failure

2001-06-26

We apologize for the 24 hour server downtime, but our server's motherboard fried and we experienced additional RAID array issues. Recovery was, erm, fun.

Release: libdvdcss 0.0.1

2001-06-19

libdvdcss is the cross-platform library used by vlc, the VideoLAN Client, to access DVDs with transparent CSS decryption. It is the first library based on the vlc codebase, but others are planned.

Release: vlc 0.2.80

2001-06-05

A major step to 0.3.0, with a somewhat working Windows port, network support which was gone since 0.2.0, additional MMX and 3D Now! acceleration routines, still improved DVD support, and the usual insane amount of bug fixes. Check out the download page, and the changelog file.

VideoLAN Client API documentation

2001-05-16

IdealX, a French Open Source company, has had former VideoLAN team member Christophe Massiot work full time on the vlc API documentation. It is available on the IdealX Open Source web site.

Release: VLAN server 0.0.1

2001-05-01

The VLAN server is now released. Go to the download page for more information.

Release: vlc 0.2.73

2001-04-28

Release just before we break everything before freeze :-). Some bugfixes too (QNX and FreeBSD) and enhancements to the xvideo module. Check out the download page, and the changelog file.

Release: vlc 0.2.72

2001-04-16

A quick bugfix release which solves issues introduced in 0.2.71 (crash at startup on BeOS and MacOS X, and a few DVDs not working). Get your copy on the download page.

Port-specific pages created

2001-04-14

We did a port-specific page for each vlc port known to work, so that you can keep track of what is happening to your platform's port. Currently available port pages are BeOS, Linux, MacOS X and Solaris.

Release: vlc 0.2.71

2001-04-13

This is a bugfix release which fixes most of the issues discovered in 0.2.70: no more segfaults when compiled with gcc 3.0pre and versions of gcc shipped with the latest RedHat distributions, fixed the BeOS CSS decryption, fixed a few issues in IFO parsing, fixed XVideo video output, and updated icons under Linux, BeOS and MacOS X.

Release: vlc 0.2.70

2001-04-09

After a long wait, version 0.2.70 of the VideoLAN Client is out. Amongst the news, the usual bunch of bugfixes, even better DVD support under Gnome, Gtk+ and BeOS, with on-the-fly chapter selection, language selection, a playlist, an early MacOS X port, XVideo support, network input. Download it.

Release: vlc 0.2.63

2001-03-05

Bugfixes, bugfixes, and bugfixes again, a Gtk+ interface for the Gnome-impaired, an even better DVD support, and an interface and overlay support for BeOS. Get it now.

CVS snapshots available

2001-03-01

There are so many CVS commits that we could do a daily release, so a daily VLC CVS snapshot has just been set up for people who can't wait.

Release: vlc 0.2.62, with BeOS CSS support

2001-02-21

Lots of bugfixes, automatic hardware acceleration with SDL, enhanced DVD title support, return of the framebuffer, Glide and GGI plugins, various optimizations to the AC3 decoder, and, of course, the return of the BeOS port with new features like drag'n'drop and CSS decryption. Go and get it while it's still hot!

CVSWeb interface

2001-02-19

We now have a CVSWeb interface on the site.

Release: vlc 0.2.61

2001-02-16

This new bugfix version brings plain X11 support (which was broken), enhanced CSS support, a few new interface features including drag'n'drop support, and fixes a few reported bugs. As usual, download it quickly!

Hurricane vandalizes CVS repository

2001-02-15

Bozo "weeeeuuuuaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh, toupétéééééééé" Hurricane launched today his vls code cleaning, which means he broke everything, but also that vls is almost ready for a release.

Release: vlc 0.2.60

2001-02-14

This new unstable version brings astounding features over the stable one, like MPEG1 support, direct DVD support, DVD decryption, arbitrary seeking in the stream, pause, fast forward and slow motion, hardware YUV acceleration. Get it from the download section!

New website

2001-02-14

The website has been simplified a lot, because the old one was reported as confusing. Here it is, in all its valid XHTML glory.

First official release!

2001-02-02

Director of École Centrale Paris has signed the authorization to release all the VideoLAN components under the GPL.

See the new vlc at the Linux Expo in Paris

2001-01-31

vlc has been forked into two branches: stable (0.2.0, codenamed Onatopp) and unstable (0.2.50, codenamed Urumov). Unstable has a lot of new interesting features.

Changed web server

2001-01-20

We have moved the web site to our brand new IBM server. Please let us know if anything goes wrong on the web pages.

VideoLAN on a floppy

2000-12-07

For our beta-tests campaign on our local network, we have created a boot floppy allowing non-Linux users to boot off the floppy and load the vlc through an NFS mountage. It rocks!

New beta-test campaign!

2000-12-06

VideoLAN is not vlc. It's a whole network solution; we are testing again, on our LAN, as many improvements have been done to the three part of the project ( videolan server, vlan solution, client ) since we last tested it. We expect about 50 to 100 beta-testers. See the test section if you are a student in the Residence of the Ecole Centrale.

For rh7.0 users ...

2000-11-22

Redhat 7.0 users may have difficulties to build the vlc, as the version included in rh7.0 isn't a stable one. We advice you either to take the rpm or to downgrade to gcc 2.95

Release: vlc 0.1.99i

2000-08-27

A new version of the VideoLAN client fixes a few display bugs, we now have field images support and the motion compensation isn't buggy any more. Check the download section.

Release: vlms 0.1.99h

2000-08-23

The VideoLAN mini server has been released! Check the download section.

Release: vlc 0.1.99h

2000-08-22

Check the download section, as well as the changelog file.

Release: vlc 0.1.99g

2000-08-16

Check the download section, as well as the changelog file.

The moron of the week: Sam

2000-08-16

Sam wrote a buggy Makefile which prevented code to be compiled with optimizations. Now that this issue has been fixed, we got a 40% speed increase!

New TODO list

2000-08-11

We did a TODO list for the 0.2.0 release. People wanting to help might pick up ideas from this list.

Release: vlc 0.1.99f

2000-08-08

Check the download section, as well as the changelog file.

Release: vlc 0.1.99e

2000-07-20

This mostly fixes an urgent fix for BeOS, see the download section.

Release: vlc 0.1.99d

2000-07-12

We are the 12th and vlc 0.1.99d was just released. Check the download section!

Beta tests pre-release!

2000-06-15

The client is being pre-released today! Though the full network solution is not available yet, it already lets you watch your favorite DVD with Linux!

Screenshots online

2000-06-01

Some screenshots have been put online so that people know VideoLAN isn't vaporware :)

More beta-tests

2000-05-29

A beta-test campaign will take place on the VIA network this week.

New web site announcing release

2000-03-23

We're getting closer to a release, and we are preparing the web site for featuring dowloads and bug fixes.

Added a list of unencrypted DVDs

2000-02-27

Most DVDs are encrypted, but some are not. To encourage this, we provide a list of known unencrypted DVDs. Any body can tell us 'Hey, this cool DVD is unencrypted'!

VideoLAN thanks all visitors at the Linux Expo

2000-02-04

We would like to thank all the visitors who showed interest in our project at the Linux Expo in Paris. Pictures of our stand will soon be available.

VideoLAN is going OpenSource!

2000-01-28

We got almost all the authorizations in order to distribute the VideoLAN components under the General Public License. Our school director still needs to sign one paper.

More performance increase

2000-01-24

Our new custom video decoder gives us a 50% speed increase. We now can play DVDs at full framerate on a Celeron 366 using framebuffer output, which makes the vlc the fastest available software DVD player under Linux.
According to Meuuh, there're still many improvements that can be done.

Presentation day photos available

2000-01-21

Some photos of the presentation day are available on VIA's website:
http://www.via.ec p.fr/assoce/videolan-20000121/

VideoLAN will be at the Linux Expo in Paris

2000-01-05

Come to see VIA and the VideoLAN team at the Linux Expo in Paris. A map can be found here: http://www.via.ecp.fr /assoce/linuxexpo.jpeg.

DVD, BeOS and framebuffer support")

1999-12-18

The videolan client now suports the Linux framebuffer output, and has been ported to BeOS.
Moreover, the mini-server now can emit a TS stream directly from a DVD drive.

Presentation day

1999-12-10

A presentation day will take place on January the 21st, 2000. Everyone interested in the project is welcome to come and see it working.
Find out more here!

Beta-test has begun!

1999-12-08

A large scale beta-test period has just begun. Several members of the VideoLAN team have started testing the VLAN solution now that the vlanbridge works. All students of the Ecole Centrale are welcome to test the client with us, providing they have Linux and don't mind losing the Windows network neighbourhood for the entire duration of the beta test.

Presentation day

1999-11-16

A presentation day will take place in january 2000 at the Ecole Centrale, in Paris. We expect to show you our full MPEG2 solution. Find out more when the date has been chosen.

New website

1999-11-15

The website has been updated. It had been about one year since nothing had changed here (we were too busy coding *g*). Expect to find here as much as we are allowed to give away in a few weeks, starting from screenshots or hopefully more.

Huge performance increase on the vlc

1999-10-22

Thanks to Polux, who rewrote the YUV transformation in the vlc using MMX assembly, a mere P2-300 can now display about 12fps of MPEG2 video.