07·AUG·26
Mirrorbits 0.6.2

Mirrorbits 0.6.2 adds rsync over TLS, optional geographical sorting, and mirror-down reasons in the CLI, and deletes …

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04·AUG·26
FFmpeg 9.0

FFmpeg 9.0 is a major release with a major ABI break, new swscale architecture, more Vulkan work, Dolby Vision Profile 7 …

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29·JUL·26
libdvdread 7.1 & libdvdcss 1.6: DVD-VR edition

libdvdread 7.1.0 and libdvdcss 1.6.0 bring DVD-VR support and CPRM decryption to the open DVD stack, opening up millions …

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23·JUL·26
VLC for Vega OS

VLC is now available on Vega OS, Amazon’s new operating system for Fire TV devices. This is the first VLC 4.0 in …

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20·JUL·26
libbluray 1.5.0

libbluray 1.5.0 exposes HDR and Dolby Vision metadata, chapter names, and much-improved BD-J interactive menus, and …

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17·JUL·26
dav1d 1.5.4

dav1d 1.5.4 continues the Sonic series with more RISC-V and ARM optimizations, better threading, and improved …

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31·MAY·26
Let dav2d be

AV1 had dav1d. AV2 gets dav2d. A codec does not really exist until everyone can decode it. Today, we announce dav2d, a …

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14·JAN·26
VLC 3.0.23

VLC 3.0.23 ‘Vetinari’ is a maintenance and security release: subtitle and caption fixes, a batch of Windows …

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21·DEC·25
libspatialaudio 0.4: a modern spatial audio library

libspatialaudio 0.4.0 is a major release of VideoLAN’s spatial audio renderer, covering HOA, object rendering, ADM-style …

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24·NOV·25
libdvdnav/read 7 & libdvdcss 1.5 releases: DVD-Audio

libdvdread 7, libdvdnav 7 and libdvdcss 1.5 bring full DVD-Audio parsing, navigation and CPXM decryption, along with …

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16·NOV·25
dav1d 1.5 Sonic

dav1d 1.5 Sonic brings improvements across all major architectures, major stack and code size reductions, and completes …

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10·NOV·25
Honoured to Receive the European SFS Award 2025

Jean-Baptiste Kempf reflects on receiving the European SFS Award 2025 at SFSCON in Bolzano, celebrating the collective …

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24·AUG·25
libbluray 1.4.0 release

Update on the Bluray open source stack: libbluray 1.4.0 and libudfread 1.2.0 It has been more than ten years since I …

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21·APR·25
Mirrorbits 0.6 release

Mirrorbits 0.6: A new Hope Since the middle of last year, I have taken over the maintainership of Mirrorbits, the …

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30·SEP·24
FFmpeg 7.1: a tons of codecs

FFmpeg 7.1 FFmpeg 7.1 has been released today: a major release with numerous features that nevertheless maintains API …

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15·APR·24
FFmpeg 7.0: a question of threads

FFmpeg 7.0 FFmpeg 7.0 was released a few days ago: a major release with numerous new features and a new major version of …

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03·MAY·23
dav1d 1.2.0 release

dav1d 1.2.0 If you’ve followed a bit my blogposts, or Phoronix, in the last few years, you should have seen that …

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17·JAN·22
FFmpeg 5.0

FFmpeg 5.0 release Today, FFmpeg made a new release, numbered 5.0, called Lorentz. This release is a major release, with …

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01·AUG·21
dav1d 0.9.1: a ton of asm

dav1d 0.9.0 optimizations about 10bit Since 0.7.1 release from last year, we’ve focused on optimizing …

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22·JUN·20
dav1d 0.7.1

Release 0.7.1 We just did a small release of dav1d called 0.7.1, just one month after 0.7.0. It is a quick release that …

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21·MAY·20
dav1d 0.7.0: mobile focus

A few reminders about dav1d If you follow this blog, you should know everything about dav1d. The VideoLAN, VLC and …

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29·OCT·19
dav1d 0.5.1: more speed!

A few reminders about dav1d If you follow this blog, you should know everything about dav1d. The VideoLAN, VLC and …

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14·OCT·19
dav1d 0.5.0 release: fastest!

A few reminders about dav1d If you follow this blog, you should know everything about dav1d. Two months after 0.4.0, and …

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19·SEP·19
VLC for iOS 3.2: a new hope

A new release: 3.2! VLC for iOS is our port of VLC on the iDevices and has been around for quite some time, and is quite …

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07·JUN·19
VLC 3.0.7 and security

Severity According to our scale, we have had 33 valid security issues fixed thanks to this program: 2 high security …

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19·APR·19
dav1d 0.3.0 release: even faster!

A few reminders about dav1d If you follow this blog, you should know everything about dav1d. AV1 is a new video codec by …

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13·MAR·19
dav1d shifts up a gear : 0.2 is out!

tl;dr: dav1d has its second release If you want a quick summary of this post, about our AV1 decoder: dav1d is really …

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19·DEC·18
How to use AV1 with open source tools

AV1 and muxing If you follow this blog, you should know everything about AV1. AV1 is a new video codec by the Alliance …

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11·DEC·18
First release of dav1d, the AV1 decoder

tl;dr: dav1d has now a first release If you want a quick summary of this post, about our AV1 decoder: dav1d is good …

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21·NOV·18
dav1d: performance and completion of the first release

tl;dr: dav1d is in a very good shape If you want a quick summary of this post: dav1d now covers all the spec and …

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25·OCT·18
The VLC Technical Committee

VLC Technical Committee I’m very proud to present to you the VLC Technical Committee, as elected during the last …

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01·OCT·18
Introducing dav1d: a new AV1 decoder

Introducing dav1d AV1 is a new video codec by the Alliance for Open Media, composed of most of the important Web …

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18·JUL·18
VLC for iOS and UWP 3.1.0 release

VLC 3.1.0 release After a few months since the release of VLC 3.0, today we release VLC 3.1.0 on 2 mobile OSes: iOS and …

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18·JUL·18
Welcome back!

After quite a bit of time far from the blog, I am back around here. The biggest reason for this silence was that this …

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24·AUG·16
Last weeks in VideoLAN - 53

53rd VideoLAN report During the core of the hot European summer, here is a weekly report about the last 2 weeks in the …

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08·AUG·16
Last week in VideoLAN - 52

52nd VideoLAN report Another summer week passes by and here is a new weekly report about the VLC and VideoLAN …

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03·AUG·16
Last week in VideoLAN - 51

51st VideoLAN report So, after a few crazy weeks, I’m coming back to a more regular schedule for my weekly reports …

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25·JUL·16
Last weeks in VideoLAN - 50

50th VideoLAN report So, after a few crazy weeks, I was taken a bit by RealLife©®, and we’ve had 3 weeks without …

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28·JUN·16
Announcing VLC for UWP 2.0 beta

VLC for Windows 10 beta If you follow this blog, after a long development period (and a lot of issues), VideoLAN is …

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27·JUN·16
Last weeks in VideoLAN - 49

49th VideoLAN report So, after two busy weeks, you can get a new weekly report about the VLC and VideoLAN communities! …

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20·JUN·16
This week in VideoLAN - 48

48th VideoLAN report Another week passes by and here is a new weekly report about the VLC and VideoLAN communities! …

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13·JUN·16
This week in VideoLAN - 47

47th VideoLAN report A new week, a new weekly report about the VLC and VideoLAN communities! Features VLC After an …

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09·JUN·16
Announcing VLC for Android 2.0

VLC for Android 2.0 After a long development period, VideoLAN is finally releasing VLC for Android 2.0. Our last major …

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07·JUN·16
This week in VideoLAN - 46

46th VideoLAN report A new week, a new weekly report about the VLC and VideoLAN communities! Vienna Meeting This …

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29·MAY·16
This week in VideoLAN - 45

45th VideoLAN report After a couple of very busy weeks, we’re back on a normal schedule. Therefore, here is the …

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23·MAY·16
These weeks in VideoLAN - 44

44th VideoLAN weekly report Once again, unfortunately, the report skipped a week :( But this report, the 44th report, is …

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09·MAY·16
This week in VideoLAN - 43

43rd VideoLAN weekly reports After my 42nd report last week, and some nice encouragements, here is another weekly report …

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24·APR·16
This week in VideoLAN - 42

42nd week of VideoLAN reports After a very busy week last week, here is another weekly report about VideoLAN and VLC …

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19·APR·16
This week in VideoLAN - 41

41st week of VideoLAN reports Another week, another weekly report about VideoLAN and VLC development. Features VLC We …

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11·APR·16
These weeks in VideoLAN - 40

40th report about VideoLAN reports It’s been a few weeks without reports. I’m sorry, I was traveling a bit …

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20·MAR·16
This week in VideoLAN - 39

39th week of VideoLAN reports Another week, another weekly report about VideoLAN and VLC development. Yes, even in the …

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07·MAR·16
These weeks in VideoLAN - 38

38th week of VideoLAN reports Another double-week report about VideoLAN and VLC development. Features VLC After the …

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28·FEB·16
This week in VideoLAN - 37

37th week of VideoLAN reports Another week, another weekly report about VideoLAN and VLC development. Yes, I’m …

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21·FEB·16
This week in VideoLAN - 36

36th VideoLAN report And back to a normal schedule, this post is a weekly report about what happened in the VLC and …

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14·FEB·16
These weeks in VideoLAN - 35

35th VideoLAN report After the celebration of the 15th anniversary of VLC and the release of VLC 2.2.2, here are we back …

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01·FEB·16
15 years of VLC and VideoLAN

15 years! Today marks the 15th anniversary of VLC! GPL Technically, today is the 15th anniversary of the relicensing of …

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19·JAN·16
These weeks in VideoLAN - 34

34th VideoLAN report I was traveling quite a bit lately, so here is a double-week report about the VLC and VideoLAN …

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19·JAN·16
This week in VideoLAN - 33

33rd VideoLAN report This is my second report in 2016 about what happened last week in the VLC and VideoLAN communities. …

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10·JAN·16
This week in VideoLAN - 32

32nd VideoLAN report Another year, and another week working on VLC and VideoLAN. Happy New Year 2016! Features and …

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28·DEC·15
These weeks in VideoLAN - 31

31st VideoLAN report After the holiday season, this is the last of the weekly reports for 2015 for VideoLAN and VLC …

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24·DEC·15
libdvdcss 1.4.0 release

libdvdcss 1.4.0 For once, just a very short blogpost, to announce that libdvdcss 1.4.0 is out! This release is a major …

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21·DEC·15
This week in VideoLAN - 30

30th week of VideoLAN reports And, closing to holidays season, another week goes by, another weekly report about …

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16·DEC·15
Announcing VLC for Chrome OS

VLC on ChromeOS ChromeOS is one of the last Operating Systems where you could not run VLC and play all your media as you …

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08·DEC·15
Last weeks in VideoLAN - 29

29th VideoLAN report This report is a bit special, since the previous week-end was the VideoLAN meeting in Barcelona, so …

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30·NOV·15
This week in VideoLAN - 28

28th week of VideoLAN reports Another week, another weekly report about VideoLAN and VLC development. I’m still …

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23·NOV·15
This week in VideoLAN - 27

27th week of VideoLAN reports And we’re back to normal, so here is the (now usual) report detailing the work in …

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16·NOV·15
This week in VideoLAN - 26

26th week of VideoLAN reports This week-end, I really did not feel like writing anything about last week, …

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08·NOV·15
This week in VideoLAN - 25

25th week of VideoLAN reports Here is a new report detailing the work that happened during the last week in the VideoLAN …

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02·NOV·15
This week in VideoLAN - 24

24th week of VideoLAN reports The last few weeks were extremely busy, so here is the latest weekly report about VLC …

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25·OCT·15
This week in VideoLAN - 23

23rd week of VideoLAN reports Yet another week, another new weekly report about the VideoLAN community and the VLC …

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19·OCT·15
This week in VideoLAN - 22

22nd week of VideoLAN reports A new week, a new weekly report about the VideoLAN community and where the VLC development …

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12·OCT·15
This week in VideoLAN - 21

21st week of VideoLAN reports For the 21st time, here is the weekly report of what has happened in the VideoLAN …

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05·OCT·15
This week in VideoLAN - 20

20th week of VideoLAN reports For the 20th time, here is the weekly report of what has happened in the VideoLAN …

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04·OCT·15
libbluray 0.9.0

Almost 6 months after libbluray 0.8.0, I’m delighted to announce libbluray 0.9.0! We published, in the meantime, a …

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28·SEP·15
Last weeks in VideoLAN - 19

19th week of VideoLAN reports Because of the VideoLAN Dev Days that happened last week-end, here is a dual-week report …

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26·SEP·15
new libVLC backend for EFL/Emotion

This is quite short a post about libVLC in EFL (Enlightenment). Emotion is the multimedia API of the Enlightenment …

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16·SEP·15
The future of codecs is at VideoLAN Dev Days '15

VideoLAN Dev Days 15 Like the last few years, we are organizing the VideoLAN Dev Days, this week-end, in Paris. The …

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14·SEP·15
This week in VideoLAN - 18

18th week of VideoLAN reports Here is the weekly report of what has happened in the VideoLAN community and VLC …

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06·SEP·15
This week in VideoLAN - 17

17th week of VideoLAN reports As this now almost an habit, here is the weekly report of what has happened in the …

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01·SEP·15
This week in VideoLAN - 16

16th week of VideoLAN reports This weekly report of what’s happening in the VideoLAN community and VLC development …

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24·AUG·15
This week in VideoLAN - 15

15th week of VideoLAN reports Yet another week, and yet another weekly report of what’s happening in the VideoLAN …

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17·AUG·15
Last weeks in VideoLAN - 14

14th weekly (!) report of VideoLAN This week is a bit special, since I will report about the last 2 weeks, because of …

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03·AUG·15
This week in VideoLAN - 13

13th week of VideoLAN reports Yet another week, and yet another weekly report of what’s happening in the VideoLAN …

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26·JUL·15
This week in VideoLAN - 12

12th week of VideoLAN reports The summer goes on, and here I publish another weekly report of what’s happening in …

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20·JUL·15
This week in VideoLAN - 11

11th week of VideoLAN reports Yet another weekly report of what’s happening in the VideoLAN community and VLC …

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13·JUL·15
This week in VideoLAN - 10

10th week of VideoLAN reports This is my 10th weekly report of what’s happening in the VideoLAN community and VLC …

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05·JUL·15
This week in VideoLAN - 9

Yet another week in VideoLAN world Yet another week, yet another weekly report about what has happened in the VideoLAN …

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29·JUN·15
This week in VideoLAN - 8

Yet another week in VideoLAN world Another week, another weekly report about what has happened in the VideoLAN community …

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22·JUN·15
This week in VideoLAN - 7

Yet another week in VideoLAN world A new week, a new weekly report about what has happened in the VideoLAN community and …

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14·JUN·15
This week in VideoLAN - 6

Yet another week in VideoLAN world Continuing what I did for the last few weeks, and to please my friend Kostya; this …

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09·JUN·15
This week in VideoLAN - 5

Another week in VideoLAN world Continuing what I did the last few weeks, here is a new post summing up what happened, …

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01·JUN·15
This week in VideoLAN - 4

A new week in VideoLAN world Continuing what I did the last three weeks, here is a new post summing up what happened, …

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24·MAY·15
This week in VideoLAN - 3

This week in … Continuing what I did the last two weeks, here is a third post summing up what happened, this past …

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17·MAY·15
This week in VideoLAN - 2

This week in … Continuing what I started last week, here is a second post summing up what happened, this past …

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10·MAY·15
This week in VideoLAN - 1

This week in … It’s can be sometimes quite difficult to follow what’s going on inside the VideoLAN …

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03·MAY·15
Control VLC with your voice and gestures

RealSense In VLC, we have hundreds of modules to do many crazy things, including karaoke or puzzle filter! Today, I …

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29·APR·15
libbluray 0.8.0

libbluray 0.8.0 After releasing new DVD libraries, it’s time we released new bluray libraries. :) Libbluray 0.8.0 …

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29·APR·15
New libDVD releases: streaming DVD ISOs

Past releases Following my blogpost about the history of the free DVD stack, last August, and the announces of …

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27·JAN·15
Blu-Ray libraries releases

Blu-Ray libraries Today, we release a new version of all our Blu-Ray libraries: libbluray 0.7.0 libaacs 0.8.0 libbdplus …

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16·NOV·14
10 years of GSoC and VideoLAN

Participation When GSoC started in 2005, I was not really part of the VLC community, and GSoC was a quite small program, …

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03·OCT·14
Second VLC for WinRT release

A new release Now, you should see a new release of VLC for WinRT on the Windows Store: 0.1.0. This is the second major …

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27·JUL·14
libdvdread, libdvdnav and libdvdcss releases

History Ogle -> Xine libdvdread and libdvdnav started with the Ogle DVD player, in 1999. Ogle split libdvdread from …

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26·JUL·14
VLC 2.1.5

Release of 2.1.5 Today, we did a small release of the stable version of VLC media player: 2.1.5. It is just a …

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19·JUL·14
VLC, Android and DVDs

Therefore, we’ve added support for DVD ISOs (encrypted or not) and DVD menus interactivity in the latest VLC for …

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12·JUL·14
Blu-Ray playback libraries updates (BD-J)

What’s new For libaacs and libbdplus, the updates are minor and are mostly for fixing compilation against new …

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31·MAR·14
VLC for Android: take 2

New interface This release has a new interface, available in dark or white colors. The UI is closer to an Android look …

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15·MAR·14
Second build submitted to the store

After the first beta release a couple of days ago, a second build fixing the most important crashes has been submitted …

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11·MAR·14
First achievement unlocked!

Features This application, version 0.2.0, is a BETA stage of the port of libVLC on WinRT. WinRT is the runtime of …

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24·DEC·13
The state of the open Blu-Ray playback in 2013

Releases libbluray 2013 has been a good year for libbluray. After a release in April, one in September, we just released …

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02·DEC·13
Readying VLC on WinRT

WinRT platforms So, here is an update about our port on WinRT platforms. I now say WinRT platforms, but that means: …

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14·NOV·13
VLC: 2.1.1 and 2.0.9

VLC 2.1.1 So, we’ve released today VLC 2.1.1. It’s mostly a release to fix the numerous bugs and regressions …

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28·AUG·13
VLC 2.1.0-rc1

VLC 2.1.0-rc1 I’m pleased to announce, from the VLC development team, the first release candidate of VLC media …

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31·JUL·13
News about our WinRT port

WinRT still advances As people who follow @videolan know, we keep working quite a bit on our port to the WinRT …

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29·JUL·13
VLC releases

Today, we’ve published quite a few version of VLC, for your pleasure. VLC 2.0.8 The first release is a stable …

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09·JUL·13
More lies from Secunia

This is a straight answer from me about the blogpost from Secunia. I will not comment much about the methods of this …

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19·JUN·13
VLC for Android and LGPL

This is just a very short post (almost a bookmark-post) to share that we finished the releasing of the VLC engine on …

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29·APR·13
Follow-up report about the WinRT port

News Hello, Like last post, I’ve spent too much time working on VLC than writing updates and communicating, and …

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02·APR·13
New report about the WinRT port

News and Excuses I must start this post by sharing some excuses of not doing enough updates lately. The main reason is …

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13·FEB·13
Over 25000!

After my 20000 mark, I have now over 25,000 posts on the Videolan Forums… You can check my profile. Of course, I …

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12·FEB·13
Technical update on the WinRT port

Status So, a few weeks have passed, and I have not spoken a lot about the port on WinRT/Metro/Windows RT/WP8. Of course, …

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11·FEB·13
Opinion sur la consultation publique lancée par la Hadopi

Sur l’initiative de la consultation publique Au début de l’année 2012, VideoLAN a saisi la Hadopi, dans la cadre de sa …

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11·DEC·12
Why we need a KickStarter for VLC on Metro

KickStarter for VLC on Metro As you might have heard, some developers of the VideoLAN team have started a kickstarter …

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20·NOV·12
Windows Store and the GPL

FOSS and AppStore As more and more software distribution are going through so-called App Stores, the question about the …

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17·NOV·12
How to properly(?) relicense a large open source project - part 3

Relicensing VLC to LGPL As you might know, or might have read, I have spent a lot of my time to relicense libVLC, aka …

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13·NOV·12
I did it!

Hello HN: you should really read part 1, part 2 and part 3 about this change. This afternoon, I finished the relicensing …

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08·NOV·12
How to properly(?) relicense a large open source project - part 2

Relicensing VLC to LGPL As you might know, or might have read, I am spending a lot of my time to relicense libVLC, aka …

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07·NOV·12
How to properly(?) relicense a large open source project - part 1

Relicensing VLC to LGPL As you might know, or might have read, I am spending a lot of my time to relicense libVLC, aka …

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18·OCT·12
VLC media player 2.0.4 and VLC for Android 0.0.6

VLC 2.0.4 So, yet another release for VLC is around the corner. Why should you care? Well, first, it shows that the VLC …

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10·OCT·12
VideoLAN on HTTPS

HTTPS, Cacert For quite a bit of time, VideoLAN had its websites available on HTTPS. This is important for forums, wiki …

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02·OCT·12
News

Phœnix (Long time no see) It has been more than 7 months that I have not blogged around VLC and VideoLAN. Why? To be …

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09·FEB·12
It's over 20,000!

I did over 20,000 posts on the Videolan Forums to answer questions… You can check my profile. Of course, I am far …

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06·FEB·12
VLC 2.0 pour MacOS X

Intro La nouvelle version de VLC, nommée TwoFlower ou 2.0, apporte de nombreuses améliorations et modifications …

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14·DEC·11
VLC 1.2: nouveautés

Un an et demi après la dernière version majeure (1.1.0), VLC revient avec une nouvelle version: 1.2.0, disponible en …

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05·DEC·11
VLC 1.2.0 features: part 2, formats

VLC 1.2.0 I’ve spoken already about VLC 1.2.0, especially about video, video again and authoring. However, I …

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03·DEC·11
Disc libraries releases: bluray, aacs, dvdcss

So, we are working quite actively on VLC 1.2. Many improvements were merged into VLC 1.2, notably for DVD and Blu-Ray …

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28·NOV·11
Who wrote VLC 1.2?

VLC 1.2 So, VLC 1.2.x is approaching. But who wrote it? Here are some statistics computed by Rémi. You need iframe to …

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29·JUN·11
VLC 1.2.0 features: part 1, video output - update

Video Output modification, continued I was previously detailing VLC 1.2.x improvements on the video output, a few weeks …

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05·JUN·11
VLC 1.2.0 features: part 1, video output

Introduction As promised in my last major post, I will try to discuss about features that are getting shaped for VLC …

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15·MAY·11
VLC on Gnome3

Just a couple of small screenshots of VLC on Gnome3…

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06·APR·11
Interview Vidéo sur Nolife TV

J’ai été interviewé, dernièrement, par l’équipe de Nolife, dans le cadre de VideoLAN et de VLC, à …

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11·DEC·10
State of VideoLAN

1. VLC VLC is doing quite well actually, but some things could be better… 1.1.0 VLC 1.1.0 was out last year, in …

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04·SEP·10
HTC Touch Diamond, ROM upgrade and Windows 7

HTC Touch Diamond Thanks to a friend (Céline, you are amazing), I have now a Windows Mobile 6.1 phone: the HTC Touch …

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12·AUG·10
Let's talk about numbers

VLC numbers One of the most asked question is about the VLC download numbers. Don’t ask me why, this comes all the …

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08·AUG·10
So, I bought a blu-ray drive... [Part 2]

This is the follow-up to the part 1. Update to the part 1 In the first part, I was wrong when I said that there were 4 …

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05·AUG·10
So, I bought a blu-ray drive... [Part 1]

Going to buy a drive Today, after getting out of work, I went to buy a Blu-Ray drive, so I can watch HD movies on my …

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20·MAR·10
On the road to VLC 1.1.0 part 2: better

Improvements Being faster is cool, but let’s not forget that multimedia moves fast. So here are a few improvements that …

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15·MAR·10
On the road to VLC 1.1.0 part 1: faster

Let’s go on with the first part of my articles to introduce you to VLC 1.1.0. Decoding HD In these days of HD video, …

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13·MAR·10
On the road to VLC 1.1.0: introduction

VLC 1.0.0 The 1.0.0 version of VLC has been very popular, partly due to its stability (compared to 0.9.x) and due to its …

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30·JAN·10
VLC and GPU decoding on linux aka Re: Welcome to the Thicket

Mike Melanson from FFmpeg and Adobe made a great post on hardware decoding APIs, named Welcome to the Thicket. Once …

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30·JAN·10
VLC 1.0.5 et 1.1

Disclaimer: Vous retrouverez cet article co-écrit par moi, sur le site de PCinpact. VLC 1.0.5 Estampillée 1.0.5, la …

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03·JAN·10
videolan.org stats for 2009: 90 million visits

2009, a transition year for VideoLAN As I was saying in my presentation at the VideoLAN Dev Days 2009, 2009 was an …

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02·DEC·09
VideoLAN is on Twitter

You should follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/videolan :D

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01·NOV·09
VLC 1.0.3 is out!

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 …

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27·OCT·09
VLC: CDDB on Windows!

CD-Audio Audio-CD have usually two main ways to get the meta-data associated with the tracks: embedded CD-Text …

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24·OCT·09
VideoLAN and April

This is a short post topic about the VideoLAN association. What is April ? Pioneer of free software in France, April has …

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19·OCT·09
Meet me in SF bay area soon

Hello fellow readers and VideoLAN fans, This is a very short post to tell you that I will be around San Francisco / Bay …

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10·OCT·09
VLC and Windows 7 Logo

Compatible with Windows 7 The new operating system from Microsoft Windows 7 will be out this month. As every time with …

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04·SEP·09
VLC 64bit running on Windows 7 64bits. 1st!

64 bits and Windows 64 bits VLC is a “hype” topic those days in our community. On Windows, we couldn’t have …

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28·AUG·09
Snow Leopard is out! And why you will not have VLC 64bits right now...

Apple OS X 10.6 is out If you have missed the news, then you are not on the same techy blogs than I am. So, Apple new …

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28·JUL·09
VLC 1.0.0, 1.0.1, a backward look

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 …

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09·JUL·09
VLC 1.0.0 goes above 3 million in less than 3 days!

UPDATE: After exactly 3 days, we are near 3.5Million As you should know now, VLC 1.0.0 was out 61 hours ago (2 and a …

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07·JUL·09
VLC 1.0.0 is out.

You know that this blog has been a bit quiet, because I had a lot of work to do. This new version includes: Live …

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18·JUN·09
Meet me at OpenVideoConference in NYC

Hello people, I am going to the Open Video Conference, this week-end, in NYC: Open Video Conference . So if you are in …

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28·MAY·09
VLC 1.0.0 RC 2

1.0.0 RC2 VLC 1.0.0 RC2 (Second Release Candidate) is out! As all releases of VLC 1.0.0, it introduces: many new codecs …

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23·MAY·09
last.fm, libre.fm and scrobbling

Introduction You may have followed the ongoing dispute around last.fm. You may also have no idea what scrobbling is (it …

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23·MAY·09
Want to include vlc in your Qt application?

Qt and VLC Well, we have a very easy howto for you: libVLC in Qt . This will output the video inside the widget that you …

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29·APR·09
VLC and IDE

I receive many questions about using an IDE to build VLC. Usually, the answer is VIM. But I will try to introduce …

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19·APR·09
Decoding video in VLC using VAAPI and nVidia

I know Phoronix people don’t come around here, and that most people reading this blog don’t care, but …

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02·APR·09
0.9.9 is released

Hello people, As said on the main website, VLC 0.9.9 has been released. Many bugfixes and native real video decoding (no …

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29·MAR·09
Interview dans Linux Pratique Essentiel

Bonjour à tous les lecteurs, J’ai été interviewé dans le dernier Linux Pratique Essentiel N°7, spécial …

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03·MAR·09
Howto build VLC 1.0.0-git in Ubuntu in less than 5 commands.

Since building VLC is easier and easier now, I am compelled to improve my HOWTOS. Here is one for Ubuntu, that can …

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28·FEB·09
Médiamétrie - http://www.videolan.org

Médiamétrie Médiamétrie is a French organism that calculates audience of TV, radio, movies and now Internet Web sites in …

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01·FEB·09
VLC: From Player to Playa

Here is an awesome animation from one guy from Newgrounds. It deserve your votes! VLC animation.

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27·JAN·09
WxWidgets interface...

… is finally removed from the main VLC repository. With Qt moving to LGPL and integration in Gtk environment, it …

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24·JAN·09
Conference

Hello/Bonjour, I am giving a conference next thursday in Paris about VideoLAN. Everyone is welcome. Je donne une …

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09·JAN·09
VLC 1.0 and VideoLAN for 2009

VLC 1.0 During the VideoLAN dev days 08 (great success), we discussed many points about VLC, VideoLAN and the future of …

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19·DEC·08
VLC dresses up for holiday season

Meta blogs Digg 1 Digg 2 Reddit Blogs http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/88001… http://blog.sayakbanerjee.com/?p=91 …

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10·DEC·08
VideoLAN Dev Days '08

Meeting The VideoLAN community is a fast-evolving and ever-changing community, and development happens really fast. …

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10·DEC·08
ToolBar Editor

Working screenshot:

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29·NOV·08
New Codecs for 1.0

As some of you might know, next major release of VLC, is probably going to be called 1.0. Some audio codecs were added …

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27·NOV·08
Evaluation of Google Summer of Code 2008 for VideoLAN

Google Summer of Code 2008 For the second time, VideoLAN was an association mentor for the Google Summer of Code …

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26·NOV·08
Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Intrepid

This post is an update of the popular howto for Build VLC with feisty and Build VLC with hardy. Those articles are …

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24·NOV·08
SourceForge Award Trophee for VLC

SourceForget Awards As some of you know it, VLC media player won a Community Choice Award this year (2008). Organised by …

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03·NOV·08
VLC 0.9-1.0 with native GTK Open File Dialog.

Since the latest discussions and comments on this very blog: VLC media player and GTK, here is some work to make VLC use …

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05·AUG·08
VLC media player and SSA/ASS support

Hello, One branch of VLC media player, 0.9.0-libass, can render much better all the ASS/SSA subtitles in MKV. If you …

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28·JUN·08
OSCON 2008 registration confirmation

Dear Jean-Baptiste Kempf, You are now registered for OSCON 2008. Hey, so, I’ll be in Portland, Oregon for VideoLAN …

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25·JUN·08
VLC 0.9.0 OS support

Release The release of 0.9.0 is closer, and we have many nice stuff to show. However I have sad news for old OSes: We …

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07·JUN·08
VideoLAN at WWDC 08

Just a small post about VideoLAN presence at WWDC in San Francisco this year. Felix and I will be there all week long. …

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30·MAY·08
Syllable port of VLC announced.

Hello to everyone. Just a short post to mention that a port to Syllable has been done. Look at it on our website. Thanks …

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22·MAY·08
VLC media player and GTK

Switch to Qt4 As many of you know now, VLC main interface will switch to Qt4 for many reasons that we have already …

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21·MAY·08
VLC 0.9.0 and subtitles support

This is a short post about subtitles support in VLC. Current support As it is released, VLC doesn’t support a lot …

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27·APR·08
CoverFlow and VLC in a webpage

This is just a very short post about a cool hack made by someone on the VideoLAN forum: VLC&Coverflow. This webpage …

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16·APR·08
VideoLAN Webbys 5s in London.

Webbys 5s .org This blog was calm last week, since I was invited to a Webbys Award event in London. This event was …

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09·APR·08
Reflexions about the first part of this SoC

Maybe no one cares, but still here are some random thoughts about what happened so far for us. I write them now, because …

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28·MAR·08
Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Hardy (8.04)

This post is an update of the popular howto for Build VLC with feisty. Introduction So we are going to build the latest …

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18·MAR·08
Google Summer of Code: VideoLAN

GSoC Hello to everyone, I am glad to announce you that VideoLAN is a mentoring organisation for Google Summer of code …

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11·MAR·08
H264 encoding: "some boring x264 stuff that you’d better not forget.

Copy from IRC and thresh’s blog From Dark_Shikari. Absolutely 100% generic commandline for maximum quality without …

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06·MAR·08
Howto build VLC on Windows on a fresh Windows

Hello to everyone! Yet again I already explained how to compile trunk versions of VLC on linux, ubuntu and debian. I …

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02·MAR·08
VLC switched to Git

Everything is in $subject. Anyway, to check out the VLC repository, now: git clone git://git.videolan.org/vlc.git Have …

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01·MAR·08
VLC media player release: 0.8.6e and coverity

Release We just released a new stable version. This version is ONLY focused on security vulnerabilities and minor …

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21·FEB·08
VideoLAN @ FOSDEM

Hello ! The VideoLAN team will be partly but greatly represented at the FOSDEM, this week-end in Bruxelles. If you want …

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11·FEB·08
Video on Demand: RTSP vs HTTP

Disclaimer Rémi still hasn’t any RSS feed, so here is another article about protocol. This article is not my …

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05·FEB·08
Rémi: "Issues with CMake"

Since the last post on CMake, here is an opinion, quite strong against CMake, from one of the VLC developer. This is NOT …

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05·FEB·08
FOSDEM

A few VLC developers are going to attend FOSDEM in Bruxelles in a few weeks. If you are around, please come and discuss …

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05·FEB·08
VLC: misc and builds

Just some miscellaneous news about VLC and build systems: Tree Cleaning: we decided to clean the tree of all the not …

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03·JAN·08
Day of the cone

Not mine. Tombigel did it.

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21·DEC·07
KDE4 Release Event

Hey, I’ll be at the KDE4 release event party in Moutain View, January 17 – 19, 2008. I know, I don’t use KDE …

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15·DEC·07
Configure-step in VLC building.

Idea VLC can be built with a classical process: ./bootstrap; ./configure --options; make However, since VLC is very …

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08·DEC·07
Planet repaired

VideoLAN planet is repaired. My dotclear rss feed was broken because of a dotclear bug with TimeZone handling.

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08·DEC·07
VLC media player Lines of Code

Numbers VLC has around 600,000 Lines of code, with: 312,000 lines of code in the modules. VLC uses a lot of external …

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01·DEC·07
Qt4 screenshots

Hello, just two small screenshot of my work:

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30·NOV·07
VLC media player 0.8.6d release

Announce The VideoLAN Team is pleased to announce the release of VLC media player 0.8.6d. This release is aimed at …

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24·NOV·07
New shortcuts for VLC on linux

Next version of VLC media player will have: vlc, the normal vlc cvlc, for command line, no interface launch qvlc, for Qt …

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24·NOV·07
Clarifications for Qt4 interface

According to the post that I made about Qt4 toolkit and the comments I have seen about it, here are a few …

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15·NOV·07
Misconceptions about VLC - 2 Running VLC without interface

MPlayer is faster than VLC because it is Command Line I don’t want to use VLC in my server, because I have no X …

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10·NOV·07
Building a vlc from scratch in CentOS 5.0/RHEL5

Following the HOWTO for debian/sid and ubuntu/feisty, here is a link to an howto, not written by me on how to build for …

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07·NOV·07
Google Summer of Code: Mentor Summit [fr]

Bon, j’ai pas mal posté sur le Summer of Code en anglais, voilà un petit résumé pour les gens intéressés, mais qui …

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05·NOV·07
VLC and Mac OS X Leopard

Following my news on Leopard in French, and following my photos of the crowed Apple Store, this is just a small blog …

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04·OCT·07
Build vlc under a fresh sid

Introduction So we are going to build the latest VLC possible. I already did it for ubuntu feisty and it had a huge …

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03·OCT·07
GSoC Summit

meeting Meet the VideoLAN team in San Francisco during the Google Summer of Code summit, friday, saturday 5th or sunday …

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19·SEP·07
Misconceptions about VLC - 1 Building an application on VLC.

Languages and environments C/C++ Let’s start with the natives language of VLC. As you might know or not, most of …

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10·SEP·07
GSoC Results: Open Letter to Leslie and Google Team

Introduction VideoLAN was selected as one of the mentoring organization, on one of my proposition, and we have had seven …

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02·SEP·07
VLC Skin Editor (2)

Following VLC Skin Editor’s post, here are three short updates. The code is under the GPLv2 License The repository …

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01·SEP·07
Qt4 Hackathon

This is an announce about the up-coming hackathon to work on vlc Qt4 bugs and features for the next version of VLC, …

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06·AUG·07
Free.fr, Neuf/Cegetel, Orange and other ISPs: joys and despairs...

Triple play and Video The biggest ISPs in France offer now Triple-Play DSL offers, with unlimited phone, ATM Bandwidth …

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04·AUG·07
VLC Skin Editor under work

Call This is a short post for a call for contributions, for a VLC Skin Editor made in Java. In order to help people to …

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03·AUG·07
Qt4 interface: screenshot

I know I haven’t posted a lot of things lately on this very blog. I know that the image will not fit correctly the …

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27·JUN·07
New Wiki skin, forum & links

Wiki Just a short ‘billet’ to tell the one interested that we have set a new wiki skin thanks to aLtgLasS. …

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23·JUN·07
Diploma

Diploma I know I said that this blog wouldn’t talk about personal matters, but this is a bit special. :D Just to …

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19·JUN·07
Bugfix Release: 0.8.6c

Changes This is not a big release, neither a big annoucement. However, for most Vista users, the problems are solved. So …

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14·JUN·07
Lutèce d'Or 2007 - Updated

Registering for the contest As stated on IRC and mailing-lists, I registered VideoLAN to take part in the Lutece …

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06·JUN·07
Best Media Player Software

I tried a lot of different media players around the market in order to know which one is the best. Results Under …

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05·JUN·07
How to use VLC media player under Vista

As some of you know, there are a lot of problems to make VLC run under Vista if you have Aero enabled. UPDATE: Use VLC …

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25·MAY·07
Bored with Debian - x264 patents

I am usually a strong supporter of debian, but I may change very quickly my mind… x264 x264 was removed from …

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06·MAY·07
Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04)

Introduction So we are going to build the latest VLC possible. Everything will be done in a console/terminal and should …

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23·APR·07
French Elections: What should vote from a VideoLAN point of view.

French Presidential elections 2007 Yesterday was the first round of the French elections. Sarkozy and Royal are fighting …

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23·APR·07
VideoLAN: What I have been doing lately?

Hello to everyone, This blog has been silent for a couple of weeks. I am so sorry. Let me explain you why. Google Summer …

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07·APR·07
Yet another time: copyrights, GPL infringements and phishing (2)

Intro After the previous post on some selling-VLC bundled with crapware using Google AdWords, here is an update. Google …

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28·MAR·07
Yet another time: copyrights, GPL infringements and phishing

Introduction iVivo If you read that blog, you might have seen the iVivo story. I did not finish that story because it …

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26·MAR·07
GUI, ergonomics and gestures

Ergonomics Working on VLC media player interface, I found that clicking on menus and buttons was really un-natural. Lots …

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17·MAR·07
Help me with Qt4 development and VLC ergonomics.

Help me This is not a usual message for that blog, but I need some help on qt4 interface for VLC. In fact, I have most …

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15·MAR·07
VideoLAN and Google Summer of Code 2007

Google summer of code This year, Google proposes one more time the summer of code program, and I thought that VideoLAN …

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01·MAR·07
Eric Raymond leaves Fedora and questions about multimedia codecs.

History Do you remember, Eric Raymond (ESR), “the cathedral and the bazaar” writer, mailed all of us on his …

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28·FEB·07
How to install VLC 0.8.6a under ubuntu dapper 6.06 LTS.

Howto install VLC 0.8.6 under dapper I hope that you are able to deal with a computer, synaptic or sources.list Add a …

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15·FEB·07
01Net top 10 Donwloads in 2006

As zorglub made me remark it, the top 10 downloads in 2006 was out. Guess what ? VLC media player is in 4th position. …

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12·FEB·07
Websites, WIki (2): Final

As promised in a previous post, the Rework of the Website (developers’) and the wiki is finished! It has been …

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12·FEB·07
Qt4 Interface

Qt4 Interface I am going to speak a bit of the new Qt-based interface and the FUD I have seen around this future …

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08·FEB·07
0.8.6a or how to do a fast release....

A Bugfix Release Intro Everything was going great under the best world. VLC 0.8.6 was out during December without a lot …

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24·DEC·06
Sites and Wiki ReWork

As you can see now on that the wiki is under a bit ReWork. You will also see that Developers’ site is at work. …

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17·DEC·06
Netvibes VLC News Tab

I did a netvibes tab that can gives you : Planet Feed Main News Feed Wiki changelog VLC Development timeline Add it by …

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16·DEC·06
Over 1 Million Downloads...

Hey ! The new release (0.8.6) has been released less than one week ago, and is already over 1 million downloads. And a …

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12·DEC·06
VLC release

VLC 0.8.6 was released yesterday. For me, it is a very special release, because it is the first release I really feel …

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30·NOV·06
VLC Name

VLC’s official name is “VLC media player”. That may seem weird, but that is true. In fact, for many …

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15·NOV·06
VLC QA team

I am going to try to set a Quality Assurance team for VLC. I will start on the wiki. I am therefore looking for …

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15·NOV·06
top 10 VLC most wanted features

Features Here are some features that are often asked, but still not implemented. A lot of features that are asked are …

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15·NOV·06
GPL VLC / iVivo

Disclaimer IANAL Long post. Introduction As you know, VLC media player and VideoLAN’s documentation are licenced …

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10·NOV·06
26 millions !

Today, VLC media player version 0.8.5 has broken the 26 million download bar ! This does not mean 26 million people use …

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