VLC 1.0.0, 1.0.1, a backward look

28 July 2009

VLC 1.0.0, 1,5 months ago

So, VLC 1.0.0 was released almost 7 weeks ago, at the time of this writing.

VLC 1.0.1, the bugfix version of 1.0.0, was released almost 4 weeks ago.

VLC 1.0.0 was downloaded around 13 million of time, during the 3 first weeks of the release, and that is a very high download rate. VLC 1.0.1 is around 13 million downloads too.

Was VLC 1.0.0 a success ?

Well, YES, because:

  • we had a lot of downloads,
  • many good reviews,
  • a lot of testing was done (more than 3 months between feature freeze and release!),
  • server hold still (even after the 1,3Million visitor in the first day),
  • no major regressions and issues.

But, we had a few issues that were important:

  • WMV could have no audio with low caching values,
  • mpeg2 videos could freeze the video after seek,
  • some flv videos were unseekable,
  • some VC1 video could crash the windows build.

That is why we released 1.0.1 quite soon after 1.0.0.

3 weeks between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1

Is that much?

Well, yes/no.

The first week after the release was totally focused on maintaining the servers running, answering the mails, and press (not much of those, fortunately).

Then, the second week was compilation of the main issues and tryout to fix most of them.

And then, you got your 3 weeks time, with the win32 codecs updates and setting up the release…

1.0.2 soon?

Well, as far as I see, except some SSA updates and v4l2 fixes, there is no rush to release…

If an important security issue arrives, then we will release a 1.0.2, but no roadmap is set yet.

Conclusion

As far as I am concerned, VLC 1.0.0 was a great success, let’s hope 1.1 will be as good!

Jean-Baptiste Kempf

Comments

  1. On 27 May 27270, 8:59 by JBK

    @koskin: I think so yes.

  2. On 27 May 27270, 2:08 by koskin

    Will those v4l2 fixes solve the lag problem?
    Thanks!

  3. On 24 May 24240, 7:43 by thresh

    Well, with all those good work done by our students in current SoC, we have a huge chance 1.1 will be a lot better (feature-wise, hehe, not bugfree-wise) than 1.0.

    Keep up the work, J-B!