VLC Media Player to get Community-Built Extensions starting Version 1.1
That Mozilla Firefox is a model to copy is well known, but I guess many did not expect the open source media player VLC, one of the best media players around to get community-built extensions just like Firefox. Well, a VideoLan player builder announced a complete overhauling of VLC codes to permit the implementation of [...]
VLC 1.0.2 Security and Maintenance Update
The popular open source media player VLC gets a maintenance release to fix bugs found in previously released VLC 1.0.1. VLC 1.0.1 that was rolled out about two months ago had a number of bugs and security vulnerabilities that have been fixed in VLC 1.0.2. VLC 1.0.2 fixes issues in subtitles, Theora video compression format [...]
Use VLC 1.0 to Record Video Segments from DVDs
For Windows, Linux: Recently released VLC 1.0’s has a cool feature that permits you to trim-down videos, be it a DVD or an AVI file, by simply recording the wanted segments, thus leaving out the unwanted.
This feature that records almost everything that VLC 1.0 plays is found in Advanced Controls; View -> Advanced Controls. [...]
A Quick Upgrade to VLC 1.0 in Ubuntu 9.04
Being a major release, to install VLC 1.0 in Ubuntu 9.04, it’s advisable to completely scrap-out any previous version to prevent a conflict during the upgrade.
VLC 1.0 is Finally Out with Better File Support and Playback
VLC, the best Linux media player leaves beta and goes 1.0 final. This open source media player that is capable of playing most of your media files out-of-the-box gets even better and reads more media files formats than before, the new comers are; Raw Dirac and M2TS.
New HD codecs are also included in this [...]