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According to the VideoLAN Organization, the non-profit group developing VLC, the number of downloads of their media player off their servers has gone past the 1 billion barrier.
However, notes the same source, the number is likely to be inaccurate, since recording of the download statistics began in February 2005.
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10 May 2012
08:54 GMT |
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VLC media player has just been updated to build 2.0.1. However, despite the minor release, the modification list is pretty long, mostly filled with fixes. Repairs have been made as far as accessing various details is concerned, either retrieving information from the web or from media discs. As such, CDDB information ... |
19 March 2012
04:00 GMT |
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The folks behind the VideoLAN project have rolled out VLC Player 2.0, the latest major release of the popular media player for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux users. The Mac version in particular features some nifty additions.
For all supported platforms, VLC 2 delivers faster decoding on multi-core, GPU, and mobile ha... |
20 February 2012
02:59 GMT |
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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.
One important note fo... |
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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The VideoLAN organization has just released VLC 1.1.13, a multimedia player which can run lots of video formats, without the help of special codecs. VLC 1.1.13 was only made available because of a single security problem that needed to be fixed (details follow).When parsing the header of an invalid TY file, the heap ... |
21 December 2011
06:00 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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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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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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A project and a non-profit organization, composed of volunteers developing and promoting free, open-source multimedia solutions, VideoLAN has announced a brand new version of its VLC Media Player for Mac OS X, and other supported platforms.Immediately available for download, VLC 1.1.10 features a truckload of enhance... |
6 June 2011
06:02 GMT |
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VLC Player for Mac OS X has reached version 1.1.8, an update mainly designed to offer an additional layer of security for avid users of the media player. OS X users also get a fresh new UI.
Preliminary tests carried out by Softpedia show a change in font color in the playlist, as well as more pronounced edges arou... |
24 March 2011
05:08 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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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 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 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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Dear readers, it is our pleasure to announce the best release of the extremely popular (not to mention free) VLC Media Player software. Dubbed "The Luggage," VLC (VideoLAN Client) reached version 1.1.0 on June 22nd, bringing features that will put other similar applications on the back seat. Among some of the new fe... |
23 June 2010
08:06 GMT |
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VLC Player, the once-thought-extinct media player for Mac users, has been promoted to version 1.1.0, a stable release not just for Mac OS X, but also for Windows and Linux PC users. The new version brings improved support for MKV HD, including seeking fixes, and 7.1 channels codecs, support for new codecs (Blu-Ray su... |
23 June 2010
05:33 GMT |
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Almost a month after offering early adopters the Release Candidate of VLC 1.1.0, VideoLAN wrapped up and released the final Build of the media player, sporting a wide range of enhancements. Even as early as the RC, version 1.1.0 of the VLC Media Player brought to the table a consistent evolution in terms of performan... |
22 June 2010
11:37 GMT |
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The Release Candidate build of VLC 1.1.0 is now available for download for users of Windows operating systems, including Windows 7. When offering the new RC Build of VLC Media Player 1.1.0, VideoLAN boasted a range of enhancements from performance to additional codec support, but also bug fixes, stability and reliabi... |
28 May 2010
10:19 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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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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