On the road to VLC 1.1.0 part 2: better

20 March 2010

Improvements

Being faster is cool, but let’s not forget that multimedia moves fast.

So here are a few improvements that you can expect in VLC 1.1.0.

Codecs, demuxers and protocols

In addition to than GPU/DSP decoding (see my previous post), VLC 1.1.0 will bring:

  • DVB HD subtitles
  • PGS Subtitles from Blu-Ray dumps
  • sftp protocol
  • Atrac1 audio codec
  • Indeo5 video codec
  • AMR (Narrow Band) audio codec
  • Windows Media Voice/Speech audio codec
  • Improved Flac support (7.1 and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
  • 7.1 Vorbis audio support
  • ADPCM in flv files
  • DVD-Audio files .aob, so you can play your DVD-Audio files on your computer
  • vqf, amv, wpl and zpl file support
  • Midi files on Windows port!

And more features…

  • CDDB support on Windows
  • Podcast images
  • Enhancements to our Ambilight support
  • Extensions in lua script
  • Services in lua script
  • Chorus and Flanger audio filter
  • Visualisation using scripted .milk files
  • Windows 7 taskbar integration

That’s all for the major features, that are visible to the users…

What is important, is that VLC isn’t getting bloated by all this, and I’ll explain that in my next article.

Jean-Baptiste Kempf

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Comments

  1. On 25 May 25250, 3:32 by Greg

    I have an iPhone with 3.1 and I can’t find vlc for it. Can you help?

  2. On 4 May 4040, 10:32 by mariuz

    I use vlc 1.1.1 on debian unstable and is great (with debian multimedia repository enabled)
    i see many improvements in playing dvds and subtitles
    maybe it should be added an extension to shutdown the computer after a while , you know i sometimes fall asleep
    while watching some boring movies :) …avatar …

    I love that you use lua , maybe i will try to script it a little bit

  3. On 31 May 31310, 5:28 by Andy

    Broadcom Crystal HD suppport soon?

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    I stumbled onto your blog and read a few post. I like your style of writing.

  6. On 18 May 18180, 6:23 by scratch

    will VLC record sound & Video of the screen from a Web site and from You Tube

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  8. On 14 May 14140, 7:36 by acekard 2i

    I have been using this video player since a long time and I love this player as it supports more video formats and I think it has more feature than any-other players.

  9. On 22 May 22220, 10:13 by donileo

    hey JBK..

    http://www.macrumors.com/2010/04/22…

    should that help VLC gain GPU decoding in Mac OS X?

  10. On 21 May 21210, 2:07 by JBK

    @yeims: I believe not… Ask ATI.

    @kirsche: do you even understand what you are referring to? Half of those are closed and the other half are minor bugs.

    @Steffo: Apple doesn’t give any API to do so.

    @DIDIOpladen: Midi works fine on linux.

  11. On 19 May 19190, 11:51 by wolk

    Great Player!

  12. On 18 May 18180, 5:50 by DIDIOpladen

    MIDI-Data (for Windows) and Linux?!? Why can’t MIDI in Linux

  13. On 18 May 18180, 2:05 by Steffo

    The improvments sound great, but what’s with Mac OS X and ATI graphic cards owner?!

  14. On 16 May 16160, 12:58 by kirsche40

    When will we see a fix for the broken DVD-Play-feature? All new versions of VLC since v1.0.0 are worthless without a working DVD-Player function for DVDs and VIDEO_TS folders.
    If you do not know what I am talking about look at your Track-Reports:
    http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket…
    http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket…
    http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket…
    http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket…
    http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket…
    http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket… —> should be fixed to work with common build environments and not only cygwin
    http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket…
    http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket…
    http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket…
    http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket…
    http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket…
    http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket…
    http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket…
    http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket…
    http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket…

  15. On 16 May 16160, 11:50 by demns

    yeims, ask ATI?

  16. On 23 May 23230, 2:15 by yeims

    Hi, is there hope for ATI HD3xxx cards with dxva2 in VLC1.1?

  17. On 23 May 23230, 3:49 by Fabian

    Hello, just a note to tell you how interested I am in the release of a 64-bit version of VLC media player, thanks for your work and bye!

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