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Felix Kühne, one of the many developers maintaining VLC Player for Mac OS X, has confirmed in a blog post that the final version of the application is about to be released. VLC 2.0 will include a native full-screen mode in OS X Lion, a redesigned subtitle manager, new video output modes, support for multiple vi... |
13 February 2012
08:03 GMT |
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VideoLAN has rolled out the first release candidate of VLC 2.0, codenamed “Twoflower” - a completely revamped version of the popular media player. The Mac version in particular has received quite a few nifty enhancements, both inside and out.The first thing VideoLAN documents is the changed license (on wh... |
30 January 2012
14:40 GMT |
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The wait for VLC media player 2.0 is almost over, as the development team readied the first release candidate for this version.
Modifications available in this build are plenty, touching on packagers, core, access, codecs, demuxers, interfaces, video output, audio output and filters, video filters and stream output.... |
27 January 2012
07:37 GMT |
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The wait for VLC 1.2.0 is close to an end as the development team just launched a pre-release for this version.
It is a major version, so changes abound; they affect packagers, codecs, demuxers, audio filters and output and video filters. Additionally, a hefty set of modules has been removed.
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29 December 2011
09:52 GMT |
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VLC, the free and open source cross-platform multimedia player, has been updated to version 1.2.0 Pre 3, which delivers support for the native full screen mode in OS X Lion and other goodies.
A mile-long changelog accompanying the new VLC build for Mac OS X reveals that there are quite a few platform-specific tweaks... |
29 December 2011
07:49 GMT |
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VLC development team just updated their versatile media player to version 1.1.12. It is not a major update, and it does not even ready for download just yet. Its purpose is to solve some security issues related to content streaming.A this time only the source is available, so you won’t be able to install it ju... |
7 October 2011
04:12 GMT |
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Doing away with cables is something that more or less the entire IT industry wants to accomplish, so any leap in wireless research is looked upon favorably, like the one that he Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich Hertz Institute HHI in Berlin, Germany, is bragging about.One limitation that light h... |
1 August 2011
10:18 GMT |
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VideoLAN, the organization supervising the development of the VLC open source media player is calling out for help from the community to stop scammers who bundle malware with its popular program."At VideoLAN we’re really fed up with all those websites/companies that are tricking our users to download malware an... |
16 July 2011
07:04 GMT |
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Two security vulnerabilities which can be exploited to execute arbitrary code have been identified in different components of the popular VLC media player application.Vulnerability research vendor Secunia rates the two VLC security flaws discovered by security researcher Hossein Lotfi as highly critical.One of the vu... |
14 July 2011
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VideoLAN has announced a new version of its popular media playing application, VLC Media Player. Available for all supported platforms, including Mac, VLC 1.1.10.1 delivers improved media key handling, various crash fixes, an update to the external library modplug, and some translation updates.For both Windows and Ma... |
16 June 2011
11:03 GMT |
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Hacktolive.org announced today, May 30th, the stable and final version of Super OS 11.04, their Ubuntu 11.04 based Linux distribution with "super powers." Super OS 11.04 includes extra apps, patches, utilities and other useful packages that are missing from a standard Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) default installatio... |
30 May 2011
10:55 GMT |
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The VideoLAN Project is announcing 10 years of open source for VideoLAN, as well as a minor software update for the VLC Media Player, now available as source, as well as binaries for Mac OS X and Windows.
“VideoLAN and the VLC development team present VLC 1.1.7, a small security update on 1.1.6,” the t... |
2 February 2011
08:11 GMT |
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Two critical heap corruption vulnerabilities that could lead to arbitrary code execution were patched in the VLC media player source code.The flaws were reported by Dan Rosenberg from Virtual Security Research (VSR) on January 7, 2011, and are located in a decoder for the relatively obscure CD+G format.CD+G is an ext... |
24 January 2011
03:56 GMT |
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VideoLAN and the VLC development team have officially released VLC 1.1.6, the sixth maintenance release of the VLC 1.1.x branch.
VLC media player is a free and open-source media player and multimedia framework written by the VideoLAN project.
It is a cross-platform media player, with versions for Mac OX , Windo... |
24 January 2011
03:03 GMT |
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The people involved with VLC Player haven’t wasted any time in making the app available to the iOS community, following Apple’s decision to remove the software from its App Store’s listings.
Last week, Softpedia reported that VLC Player for iOS had been removed by Apple, presumably over a license... |
11 January 2011
06:17 GMT |
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Last week, Softpedia reported that VLC Player for iOS had been removed by Apple, presumably over a license that was incompatible with the Mac maker’s own rulebook. On January 9, Rémi Denis-Courmont, one of the original creators of the VLC open-source platform, announced the app’s removal on the Pl... |
11 January 2011
02:16 GMT |
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Apple has removed VLC Player from the App Store listings. This comes as a heavy blow to those who relied on the software to play video formats not supported by Apple devices, including .flv (Flash) files.One of the original creators of the VLC open-source platform announced the app’s removal on the Planet Video... |
9 January 2011
06:39 GMT |
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Rob from Hobbyist Software is notifying VLC fans that a new VLC Streamer app is available for iOS devices. VLC Streamer lets you stream movies straight from your PC or Mac to your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. Rob also announced an update to his existing VLC Remote app for iOS customers. With the new VLC Streamer, you... |
27 December 2010
05:39 GMT |
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Despite showing a clear disapproval of Apple’s App Store guidelines, the developers of VLC Media Player for iOS still have a binary available through iTunes, at the time of this writing. Following news that Apple had been sent a formal notification of copyright infringement for not allowing other means of distr... |
1 November 2010
08:02 GMT |
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Rémi Denis-Courmont, one of the leading developers behind the VLC Media Player, has announced that a formal notification of copyright infringement has been sent to Apple regarding the distribution of their VLC media player for iOS devices.The developer outlines for those interested in the details that VLC Play... |
30 October 2010
12:30 GMT |
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The iOS version of VLC Media Player is now officially available for iPhone as well, in addition to being supported on the iPad. Version 1.1.0 also adds the ability to delete files from the application, more supported extensions, and much faster decoding, the makers say.VLC is a free and open source cross-platform mul... |
25 October 2010
09:05 GMT |
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Security researchers from Sunbelt Software have stumbled upon a scareware campaign, which pushes a rogue AV program as an update for the VLC media player Web plugin.The attack was observed on a site allegedly offering video content and it looks like the Firefox error page normally displayed when a plugin crashes. The... |
11 October 2010
13:31 GMT |
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The folks at VideoLAN have rolled out an important update to the 1.1.x branch of VLC for Mac OS X, addressing security issues on the PowerPC side. Mac OS X fans wielding a PPC mac are being told that VLC Player 1.1.4.1 is a “recommended” software update.“VideoLAN and the VLC development team are hap... |
29 September 2010
05:58 GMT |
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The VLC media player is now available on Apple's App Store, according to the people who ported the software to iOS. Currently available only to iPad owners, the software is free to download and use.“After 2 weeks of review, VLC for the iPad is eventually available on the AppStore!”, reads an announce... |
20 September 2010
13:38 GMT |
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The VideoLAN team gave Applidium the green light to port VLC Player to the iPad and, sure enough, they did. The application should hit the Apple App Store in about a week, according to the people at VideoLAN.The VLC Player app is currently in Apple’s yard, awaiting approval. It will be provided free of charge t... |
9 September 2010
09:11 GMT |
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The first bugfix version for the major release 1.1.x of the well-known media player from VideoLAN, VLC has been released. Almost one month of development and 17 million downloads later the team comes up with build 1.1.1 of the player, which focuses on setting things right with plenty of bugs and issues.Fixes and imp... |
22 July 2010
08:36 GMT |
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Not long after reporting that VLC Player for Mac was in deep cow droppings, the VideoLAN Project issued an updated version of the software, featuring SubRip extra style improvements, and fixing potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders. No word on how development has been going ever since. Instead, the people behind ... |
1 April 2010
04:59 GMT |
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Last time we talked about VLC for Mac, the popular media player application was in desperate need of developers, with the people behind the VideoLAN project signaling that development had come to a halt at version 1.0.3. Whether or not anyone has stepped up to the challenge remains to be confirmed, but something posi... |
1 February 2010
10:05 GMT |
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Over at the VideoLan forum, a post titled “VLC is looking for MacOS X developers” reveals that there are currently “zero” developers handling the Mac version of the popular media player. “As an immediate consequence, the 64-bits releases for MacOS has already been put on hold,” Vid... |
12 January 2010
05:51 GMT |
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One piece over at the VideoLAN.org site claims that rumors of VLC for Mac being close to its end are greatly exaggerated. “VLC for Mac is being maintained,” the post explains. “However the old Cocoa graphical interface of VLC is not being maintained at this time.” That’s pretty much what... |
22 December 2009
05:55 GMT |
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VideoLAN is sad to announce that all work on the Mac OS X version of VLC may come to a halt. The open source media playback application is most notable for bridging the gap between official playback solutions developed by Apple and Microsoft, delivering support for a wide range of file formats. The software is being ... |
17 December 2009
06:55 GMT |
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VLC Media Player comes as a highly portable multimedia player that also works as a multimedia framework. It can play almost any audio and video formats available today, including MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, DivX, MPEG-1, mp3, ogg, aac, and more. In addition, the player can also read DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs and a series of s... |
3 November 2009
06:13 GMT |
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The VLC team is proud to announce that, after almost two months and 27 million downloads of VLC 1.0.1, the third version of the Goldeneye branch of VLC: 1.0.2 is now available for download. Mac OS X users can access the link included in this article to grab the latest version of the media player immediately. Accordi... |
23 September 2009
04:40 GMT |
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VLC media player 1.0.0 final is now available for download. Built by the VideoLAN project, the media player comes with support for a variety of operating systems including Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. In this regard, even before version 1.0.0 was finalized, VLC was playing nice with the next iteration of the Windows ... |
7 July 2009
10:40 GMT |
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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. A... |
7 July 2009
10:01 GMT |
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The people behind the VideoLAN Project have released a stable and much improved version of their VLC Media Player for Mac OS X, adding a number of new features, codecs and the usual laundry of bug fixes that any piece of software needs every now and then. The program is free to download and install on any Macintosh c... |
7 July 2009
08:39 GMT |
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The people at VideoLAN Project have updated the popular cross-platform multimedia player for Mac, PC and Linux, VLC Media Player, also posting a few important notes. Particularly, the team stresses that Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses while support for Mac OS X 10.4.x has be... |
1 June 2009
06:52 GMT |
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iSkysoft has announced a beta release of DVD-Library for Mac, the software application that enables users to build their own DVD libraries, as well as back up, convert, share and playback their favorite DVDs. iSkysoft points out that DVD-Library for Mac Beta is “a legal DVD-backup application for Mac OS X,&rdq... |
25 May 2009
10:54 GMT |
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VLC is an open source media player that plays just about everything you can feed it. Developer Zodttd thought: why shouldn't iPhone users be able to enjoy the offerings of this nifty media player? With this in mind, he crafted this nice port of the VLC player, dubbed it vlc4iphone, and released it as a private b... |
6 June 2008
17:16 GMT |
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VLC Media Player is quite a popular application nowadays, especially because it provides a remarkable functionality bundled with a freeware license. This means that users are able to take advantage of its applaudable functions without paying for the software, as in the case of other programs on the market. However, u... |
10 April 2008
03:19 GMT |
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Among all the media players that are available on the market, VLC is known to be one of the best for two reasons. First, it comes with a wide variety of video codecs, thus being the ideal tool for opening any file format, and second, it is free. Some philosopher from olden days said wine should have three qualities: ... |
20 March 2008
13:06 GMT |
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Linux has its video players, just as any other operating system has. So, even if there are only two big engines out there (mplayer and xine) and most of the applications listed below are front-ends for these engines, I thought it would be very helpful for Linux newbies to know and get familiar with the features that ... |
11 July 2007
08:40 GMT |
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As expected, while some were reviewing the Apple TV box, others were taking it apart and figuring out how to make it do things it was not intended to.The people over at Tutorialninjas.net have posted a step by step guide to taking apart the Apple TV and tweaking the software to remove the hurdles put in place by Appl... |
29 March 2007
07:53 GMT |
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