VLC

VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats (MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, DivX, MPEG-1, mp3, ogg, aac) as well as DVDs, Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming protocols.VLC media player is an open source, multimedia framework written by the VideoLAN project.

VLC is used in Formula One

Written on March 2nd, 2010 at 14:09 pm by shredder12

I read a blog post of Jean-Paul Saman, a VLC developer, about the use of VLC in the most popular motorsport of the World, Formula One. According to the blog, a big VLC fan, Dan Dectis, posted a message on the vlc mailing list mentioning this picture from the Formula One Photography. This is indeed one of the examples showing the power and extent of VLC media player.

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Visualizations in VLC 1.1

Written on February 4th, 2010 at 01:46 am by shredder12

Rémi Duraffort, the student who worked on VLC media player as part of the Google Summer of Code 2009 mentioned in his blog the addition of Visualizations feature in the next major release of VLC 1.1. This visualizations feature will be a result of the integration of libprojectM inside VLC media player.

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Videolan declares VLC 1.1 feature freeze

Written on February 8th, 2010 at 02:28 am by shredder12

Videolan declared a few hours ago the feature freeze of the upcoming release of VLC media player, VLC 1.1 in a tweet. Currently the developers have started working on fixing bugs and preparing its release.

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Extensions in VLC media player, starting from version 1.1

Written on January 31st, 2010 at 05:13 am by shredder12

Motivated from the community driven addons feature of Firefox, VLC developers have announced that starting from Version 1.1 users will be able to write their own plugins, code named extensions, for VLC media player. These extensions will be written in Lua, a light weight scripting language, embedded inside VLC media player.