VLC 1.0 and VideoLAN for 2009

9 January 2009

VLC 1.0

During the VideoLAN dev days 08 (great success), we discussed many points about VLC, VideoLAN and the future of the projects.

One decision was about the naming of the next release and the timeline of it.

Naming

The discussions was about how do we name the release:

  • 0.10.0
  • 1.0
  • 1.0.0
  • 0.9.9.0

The result was that the next release is going to be: VLC 1.0.0.

Geeks are going to say that this is bad, because in the tradition of open source software, you never reach 1.0… While this is true, users are confused by 0.10.x releases.

Anyway, we voted and acknowledge that vote, so, I doubt there is any going back.

Timeline

The freezing date of VLC 1.0.0 is set on January, 31st 2009.

This means that VLC 1.0.0 alpha, alias VLC 1.0.0-pre1 will be available around the beginning of February.

VLC 1.0.0 release will likely be out during the month of March, then.

Features of VLC 1.0

There are many new things that some of you will like:

Playback

  • Frame-By-Frame, Improved frame accuracy
  • Timeshifting and record on the fly for all medias
  • RTSP trickplay
  • Faster caching
  • Faster seeking
  • Vout and Aout recycling as in 0.8.x
  • Post-processing is back

New Codecs

  • Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC3
  • TrueHD/MLP
  • Real Video 3.0 and 4.0
  • Blu-Ray LPCM
  • Dirac encoding in Ogg
  • Faster decoding and demuxing
  • Rewrite of subtitles core

Other

  • Windows CE experimental port
  • Maemo port
  • HTML export of the playlist
  • Interface customization on Windows and linux
  • Better GTK integration
  • Faster :)

VideoLAN

VideoLAN is going to be a separate non-profit organization for 2009 and I’ll be the president of it.

More news on that later…

Jean-Baptiste Kempf

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  4. On 2 May 2020, 4:59 by JBK

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  5. On 1 May 1010, 5:30 by TVfan

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  6. On 4 May 4040, 3:36 by gg940231

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  7. On 20 May 20200, 9:02 by Vincent

    If there is a new release, can I have this as my wishlist

    1. Can you save the audio setting (i.e. Audio Channel: Left, Right, Both). I tried to use VLC to play Karaoke File and most of the time they encode the non-singer audio track to Left channel. I can’t enjoy singing using VLC as it reset the audio channel to both everytime a new file being played.

    If you can do that it is a big favourite program for me.

    Thanks.

    Vincent

  8. On 16 May 16160, 10:59 by claude3

    I have bought a new PC lately with Windows Vista, and I cannot read dvd from other zones than zone 2 any more ; I have no picture and the sound is horrible. With windows XP, VLC allowed me to watch DVD from every zone.. Will the new version of VLC solve this pb ? Will it be possible to play DVD from every zone with the new VLC version ?
    Thanks.
    Claude

  9. On 11 May 11110, 7:07 by sonam

    Thanks..I have posted on the forum.

  10. On 9 May 9090, 10:06 by JBK

    You really should ask on the forum and redo the activation…

    I am just not sure whether it is about playTarget and not addTarget.

  11. On 9 May 9090, 6:42 by sonam

    I am gonaa ask silly question..
    I am using .Net Interface to vlc compiled in VlanControl.dll
    I just wanna test,I did this;;;;;;Any guesses why it is not playing.I tried to post on forums but i haven’t got any activation key for last 1 day.

    namespace WindowsFormsApplication1
    {
    public partial class Form1 : Form
    {
    private string filename;
    public Form1()
    {
    InitializeComponent();

    }
    public string utf8Encode(string ws)
    {
    byte[] encoded = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(ws);

    return Encoding.Default.GetString(encoded);
    }

    public static string utf8Decode(string s)
    {
    byte[] decoded = Encoding.Default.GetBytes(s);

    return Encoding.UTF8.GetString(decoded);
    }

    private void panel1_Paint(object sender, PaintEventArgs e)
    {
    }

    private void openFileDialog1_FileOk(object sender, CancelEventArgs e)
    {

    this.filename = openFileDialog1.FileName;
    this.BackColor = Color.Azure;
    VLanControl.VlcUserControl vlc = new VLanControl.VlcUserControl();

    panel1.Controls.Add(vlc);
    vlc.init();

    vlc.BackColor = Color.Black;
    vlc.Height = panel1.Height; ;
    vlc.Width = panel1.Width;
    vlc.Visible = true;
    vlc.Enabled = true;
    vlc.Show();

    string[] st ={""};

    vlc.playTarget(utf8Encode(filename), st);
    vlc.Play();
    textBox1.Text = vlc.State.ToString();

    }

    private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
    openFileDialog1.ShowDialog();
    }
    }
    }