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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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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22·JUN·21
VideoLan

VLC media player is VideoLAN’s main project and one of my latest hobby. It is a player, streamer widely used now …

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22·JUN·21
VideoLan

VLC media player is VideoLAN’s main project and one of my latest hobby. It is a player, streamer widely used now …

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22·JUN·21
VideoLan

VLC media player is VideoLAN’s main project and one of my latest hobby. It is a player, streamer widely used now …

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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·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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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