Download VLC 2.0 Media Player Official Release

The VideoLAN organization proudly unleashed a few minutes ago the final and stable release of the highly anticipated VLC 2.0 media player.

VLC Media Player 2.0 is a major upgrade to the extremely popular video player, which comes with the ability to open more formats, experimental Blu-Ray support, faster decoding on multi-core CPUs and mobile hardware, and professional High-Definition and 10-bits codecs.

Dubbed Twoflower, VLC 2.0 has a brand-new rendering pipeline for video streams, offering higher quality subtitles, and all new video filters to enhance your video files.

Among other improvements we can mention a revamped Web interface and GUI, making it easier than ever to use.

Highlights of VLC 2.0:

Video:

· Support for subpicture blending in GPU;
· Support for Shader in the OpenGL output (for colorspace conversion, including 10-bits);
· Added new video outputs for iOS, Android, Windows 7, and OS/2;
· Added denoising, debanding, anti-flickering, grain, and deinterlacing (includes Inverse Telecine algorithm) filters.

Audio:

· Higher quality audio;
· Added karaoke and dynamic range compressor (DRC) filters;
· Faster processing through simplification of the audio core;
· Added audio outputs for iOS, OS/2, and Android.

Formats:

· Support for multi-threaded decoding for MPEG-4/Xvid, WebM and H.264;
· Support for 10-bits codecs;
· Improved image support, including png, jpeg, bmp and xcf;
· Better support for Real and RealVideo formats;
· Support for Android OpenMAX and CrystalHD cards hardware decoding.

VLC 2.0 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin)

Input and Devices:

· Support (experimental) for Blu-Ray discs (menus are deactivated and there are no BD+ DRM and AACS libraries and keys, for legal reasons);
· Support for QTKit devices and SDI capture cards;
· Support for DASH and HLS adaptive streaming protocols.

For professional Users:

· Support for AVC/Intra, ProRes 4444 and 422;
· Support for DNxHD/VC-3 and Jpeg-2000 in 10-bits;
· Support for EIA-608 and EBU subtitles (stl);
· Linux support for HD-SDI and SDI cards;
· Added a faster Dirac/VC-2 encoder.

For Anime Fans:

· Better MKV demuxer;
· Better support for ASS subtitles;
· Support for ordered chapter files;
· Revamped linked segments;
· Improved support for RV, Hi10p and FLAC in MKV;
· Improved seeking support in CUE files.

Download VLC 2.0 for Linux right now from Softpedia.

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