VLC 1.1.0

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VLC on Windows

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VLC media player

VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework, that plays most multimedias files, medias and streaming protocols.

It is simple to use, yet very powerful and extendable.

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VLC is done by a small team of volunteers.


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What's new?

Ready for HD

  • 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

NB: so far, on Windows for GPU decoding, VideoLAN is recommending nVidia® GPU, until ATI® drivers are working with VLC architecture, and until the VLC developers get access to some Intel® hardware supporting GPU decoding.


Extensions

New add-ons and script framework so one can personalize its vlc.
  • 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

Web improvements

  • Support for WebM decoding and encoding
  • Improved web plugins
  • Better streaming capabilities

Better Audio experience

  • 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

Faster, Lighter

  • 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

Better for developers

  • Simplified and improved libVLC, removal of exceptions for better C integration
  • New phonon-backend for Qt applications, on all platforms
  • New C++ bindings

Complete Changelog

Changelog for 1.1.0

Direct links and press contact

If you link to this release, please use the following links.

Source

VLC Source download

Win32

VLC Win32 installer
VLC Win32 7zip (no install)
VLC Win32 zip (no install)

MacOS

Universal Binaries for intel

Press contact

Contact infos

Removal of SHOUTcast functionnality

VideoLAN is in discussion with SHOUTcast to solve the current SHOUTcast issue. We'll keep you posted as soon as possible.