14 DAY TRIAL // Dear readers, it's time to celebrate... as one of the best, free and popular media player application, VLC (VideoLAN Client), reached today version 1.0.0, after more than eight years of activity!
Dubbed Goldeneye, VLC 1.0.0 brings some of the highly anticipated features, lots of bug fixes and many improvements. Among the new features we can notice support for some HD streams. Without further introduction, here are the highlights of VLC 1.0.0:
· Added new HD (High-Definition) codecs, such as:
· Blu-Ray Linear PCM · Dolby Digital Plus · AES3 · TrueHD · Real Video 3.0 and 4.0
· Added support for M2TS and Raw Dirac; · Greatly improved the support for video playback; · Added MP3 fixed-point encoder; · Added Dirac encoder; · AirTunes streaming support; · Playback support for zipped files; · Fullscreen support for video scaling; · Support for MTP devices; · Support for Frame-by-Frame; · Instant pausing support; · Live recording support; · Support for RTSP Trickplay; · Improved speed controls; · Improved support for the GTK environment; · Added an easier encoding graphical user interface in the Qt version; · Made the toolbars customizable; · New artwork; · Includes popular audio/video codecs; · Cross-platform and open source!
About VLC
VideoLAN Client or VLC for short is one of the best and most popular multimedia playback applications available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X platforms. VLC is independent of the system's codecs and it is able to play most of today's audio and video formats, such as DivX, XviD, AVI, MPG, MPEG-2, DVD-Video, online streaming, FLV, MP3, OGG, FLAC, MPEG-4, MKV, Blu-Ray and many more! VLC can also be used as an audio/video streaming server in multicast and unicast, with support for IPv4 and IPv6.
Download VLC 1.0.0 Final right now from Softpedia.