VLC 1.0.0 RC1 Goldeneye Released

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VLC media player (formerly VideoLAN Client) 1.0.0 finally approaching...

What's new in VLC media player (formerly VideoLAN Client) 1.0.0 RC1 Goldeneye:

· Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.

Playback:

· Instantaneous pausing
· Frame-by-Frame playback
· Finer speed control
· On-the-fly recording for all medias
· Timeshift for most medias
· RTSP trickplay support
· Subtitles core improvements and fixes

Decoders:

· New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
· New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
· New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
· New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
· New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
· Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
· New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
· Close Caption under SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
· Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
· Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering

Demuxers:

· Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
· Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
· Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
· Metadata for mod files are supported
· GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
· New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
· New dirac demuxer for raw dirac streams

Encoders:

· Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
· Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder

Access:

· RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
· On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
· Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
· DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
· New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
· EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
· On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form zip://file.zip|file.avi to specify the file)
· Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
· MTP device access on Unix
· CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
· :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values

Inputs:

· Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
· Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on Windows.

Playlist:

· Export the playlist in HTML
· Lua script for BBC radio playback
· Better metadata handling and reading

Windows interface:

· Global Hotkeys
· Various fixes for skins2 interface
· Recently played items list
· Interface toolbar customizations

Various Improvements on the Qt interface:

· More menus actions
· Finer speed slider
· Improvements on many dialogs
· New dialog for plugins listing
· Fixed-size mode for videos
· Better teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
· Better integration in GTK environments

Stream output:

· Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
· Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
· bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
· Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
· Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.

Maemo Port:

New Maemo port with:

· an interface based on Hildon framework.
· scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.

Windows CE Port:

· EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.

Audio output:

· Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
· Surround support for PulseAudio

Video output:

· Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
· Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
· Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'. The old image video output has been removed.
· Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.

Miscellanous:

· Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications

Source

[SealLion]

I like that mouse curser support.

One thing that I don't like about VLC, is the fact that it just seems to hang each time I try to open a folder. Can';t get it to function right.

Maybe not with you, but with me it happens.

I've tried other media players, like kantaris which is built on the same model as VLC, but that has it short-comings as well.

I had to return to vlc b/c BSPlayer PRO just doesn;t seem to open up ISO files.

VLC is good, that's for sure.

But it;s also has a 'lagging' effect while playing some files while doing other things liKE downloading or some other program is operating in the background that BSPlayer just does not seem to encounter.

Though it's probably due to the small amount of Ram that I have.

[Kyllyee]

Meh. VLC is very handy in some situations, but it always has problems when I jump into the middle of a video, and it freezes for a second. The sound then works, but not the video. This is the only thing keeping me from using it as my only video player. I hope with all the new changes, this is not going to be a problem for the next release.

[SealLion]

That's an interestin report as I have the exact same kind of problem with this player.

I 've learned that VLC is good for only a few files for me now. Basically .ISO files which BSPlayerPro can't seem to play. EVen with FFDShow installed.

Now with BSPlayer Pro, you wouldn't have this problem. I can skip forward, both the sound and video remain intact with no skipping or lagging of video.

[Kyllyee]

SealLion, I have checked VLC on Ubuntu Linux, and that problem is not there. IT is really wierd.

Either way, once a new version comes out, I am very sure that they will have fixed several issues people have had.

[SealLion]

YOu tested it on Ubuntu??
That's good news to hear that, that issue isn't present there.

I have Kubuntu and I don't really care for the default media player there,
though now that you mentioned that your not finding it on unix, I think that i'll give it a shot there, then.

[takomania]

Meh. VLC is very handy in some situations, but it always has problems when I jump into the middle of a video, and it freezes for a second. The sound then works, but not the video. This is the only thing keeping me from using it as my only video player. I hope with all the new changes, this is not going to be a problem for the next release.

i think this is down to how the media has been encoded - i've seen this a lot with vlc player - i did a quick test recently with 2 copies of the same movie encoded by 2 different people/groups, both as xvid - one of them displayed the freezing problem you described, and i had to wait maybe 5-10 seconds each time i shuttled through the movie for the video to catch up with the audio, but the other one was instantaneous...

i could easily be wrong, but i'm guessing it's how things are encoded (i have a fast machine and 4gb of ram, so it's not my system spec for sure)...

[splicer]

To be honest I've never faced any problems with VLC media player. None. It is feature rich, and much easier to navigate than the like of WMP, but still maintains a decent looking interface. I use it on high end systems (Quad-core, 8gB of RAM), low end systems (512mb of ram, processor is 8 years old) and on Linux (Ubuntu 9.04) it works exellently on all systems.