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Information Technology News VLC media player reaches version 1.0.0
Information Technology News VLC media player reaches version 1.0.0 | VLC media player reaches version 1.0.0 |
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| by Stephen Withers | |
| Wednesday, 08 July 2009 | |
  
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There are several reasons for VLC's popularity, but perhaps most importantly it is capable of playing a wide variety of media types - including DVDs. This side of the program has been further bolstered in version 1.0.0. There are new decoders for AES3, Dolby Digital Plus, True HD/MLP, Blu-Ray Linear PCM (though Blu-ray disc support is only experimental), QCELP, and WMA v1/2. Improvements have been made to other decoders, and the demuxers have been improved and extended. The playback controls have received attention, and VLC now provides instantaneous pausing, frame-by-frame playback, and finer speed control. The Mac OS X version supports the media keys on Apple's aluminium keyboards. Talking of Apple, VLC now supports AirTunes audio output. VLC 1.0.0 is available as a compiled program for various Linux distributions, Windows (2000 or later), and Mac OS X (10.5 or later). Mac users still running 10.4 will have to make do with version 0.9.9a. This change is attributed to "technical limitations" in Tiger. |
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