14 DAY TRIAL // 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 team writes.
“Small new features, many bugfixes, updated translations and security issues were making the 1.1.6 release.”
Notable improvements in the 1.1.6 release reported by Softpedia last week included codecs, demuxers, Audio-CD support, subtitles, visualization and platform integration, VideoLAN said.
The official release notes for VLC Media Player 1.1.6 for Mac OS X are:
- Security updates in codecs and demuxers - Support for RTP/PCM 24bits, audio/L24 - Support for MPC SV7/SV8 on Windows and MacOS builds - Faster Webm/VP8 decoding - Support for Midi on MacOS - Major updates in most language translations - Support for projectM visualisation on Windows - KDE and PulseAudio integration improvements - Subtitles fixes and improvements - Improvements in visualisations and interfaces - Codecs updates - Many miscellaneous fixes.
The source code for this version has been available since yesterday, but binaries for Windows and Mac OS X have only been uploaded today.
In addition to this “minor” announcement, the team at VideoLAN is proud to announce “10 years of open source for VideoLAN.”
“The VideoLAN project and organization are proud to celebrate with the community the 10th anniversary of open sourcing of all VideoLAN software, that happened exactly 10 years ago,” the announcement reads.
To celebrate, the development team has dedicated a new page on the videolan.org website to posting “small infos, stories and goodies […] in the next ten days.”
For example, Day 1 speaks about the early history of the project. Fans are encouraged to join the celebration, by visiting http://www.videolan.org/videolan/events/10y/.