VLC 1.0.3 is out!

1 November 2009

Again? A release? Why ?

Instead of enumerating the features that VLC 1.0.3 brings you, let’s talk about why we had to do yet another release.

Speeding the development

With the 1.0.x branch, we decided that we would speed up the release cycle for minor versions, for a few reasons:

  • we didn’t want major bugs to stay around for too long,
  • we find it easier to track regressions,
  • we can fix crashes and potential security issues in a better timely fashion.

That doesn’t mean we were careless about the quality of older releases, it means that now we care MORE about user feedback and quality. This is unlikely to change…

Therefore, since 1.0.0 has been out, we have had:

  • 1.0.1, 3 weeks after 1.0.0.
  • 1.0.2, 8 weeks after 1.0.1.
  • 1.0.3, 1 month after 1.0.2.

1.0.3 is important for Windows users

On Windows, VLC up to 1.0.2 used a way to scale the video that seems to be unsupported by the lastest drivers for Windows 7 (and now affects some Vista drivers too, because they backported the improvements…) and therefore the quality of the video was very bad and pixelated. VLC 1.0.3 fixes that.

Moreover, since VLC has now earned the logo for Windows 7 compatibility, we had to fix this huge bug. :D

I hope you understand our point and have fun with it.

Jean-Baptiste Kempf

1.0.0
1.0.3
VLC
Windows
Windows 7
Quality Assurance

Comments

  1. On 30 May 30300, 9:46 by bp-511 battery

    A very good year!
    But I have a little problem. I wish work on VLMC, so I must compile both vlc and vlmc.
    I run on ubuntu karmic 9.10

  2. On 1 May 1010, 11:36 by JBK

    @brazz: try to deactivate x264 or recompile it with pic enabled. And come on #vlmc channel to talk.

  3. On 1 May 1010, 6:12 by brazz

    A very good year!
    But I have a little problem. I wish work on VLMC, so I must compile both vlc and vlmc.
    I run on ubuntu karmic 9.10
    I have cloned vlc from vlc.git && vlmc from vlmc.git
    I must disable some options because libraries not found, so, after I configure with

    ./configure —prefix=/usr —enable-snapshot —enable-debug —enable-dbus-control —enable-musicbrainz —enable-shared-libvlc —enable-mozilla —enable-lirc —enable-live555 —with-live555-tree=extras/live —enable-x264 —with-x264-tree=extras/x264-trunk —enable-shout —enable-taglib —enable-v4l —enable-cddax —enable-dvb —enable-vcdx —enable-realrtsp —enable-xvmc —enable-svg —enable-dvdread —enable-dc1394 —enable-dv —enable-theora —enable-faad —enable-twolame —enable-real —enable-flac —enable-tremor —with-ffmpeg-mp3lame —with-ffmpeg-faac —disable-quicktime —enable-dirac —enable-skins2 —enable-qt4 —enable-ncurses —enable-aa —enable-caca —enable-esd —disable-portaudio —enable-jack —enable-xosd —enable-galaktos —disable-goom —enable-ggi —disable-cddax —disable-vcdx

    it seems good, but when I make, I obtain:

    CCLD libx264_plugin.la
    /usr/bin/ld: /home/pierre/vlc/extras/x264-trunk/libx264.a(common.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.rodata.str1.1’ can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
    /home/pierre/vlc/extras/x264-trunk/libx264.a: could not read symbols: Bad value
    collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

    I am desapointed, what is the trick?

  4. On 16 May 16160, 3:05 by JBK

    @petr: maybe for 1.1

  5. On 16 May 16160, 3:05 by JBK

    @Fred: what file? Can you link to it?

  6. On 16 May 16160, 1:23 by Fred

    In general VLC is a very good product. BUT! With version 1.0.2 it was possible zu jump foreward und backward in a video clip. With wersion 1.0.3 this is no konger possible, Why?

  7. On 14 May 14140, 6:28 by petr

    Is there any change that VLC will be available also for Windows mobile 6.5 and would be able play MPEG2?

    Currently I have to convert my recordings from MPEG2 to AVI or WMV. Thats time consuming
    THX Petr

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