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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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
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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