What is Digg?Sponsored by Dragon Age: Origins
Follow the Dragon Age: Origins development team on Twitter view!
twitter.com/DragonAge - EA presents BioWare's new dark fantasy epic Dragon Age: Origins. '9/10' from Game Informer.
528 Comments
- Shahreel, on 07/07/2009, -36/+959The best app ever.
- seandfeeney, on 07/07/2009, -5/+785VLC 1.0 and gmail leaves beta in one day?!? Has hell frozen over?
- bagpulistu, on 07/07/2009, -3/+543tomorrow they'll launch Duke Nukem Forever
- makkura, on 07/07/2009, -13/+386Gmail out of beta and VLC at v1.0 in the same day??
Where my shades at? The future's lookin' so bright. - trunks7, on 07/07/2009, -8/+284I ♥ VLC
- shalinshaun, on 07/07/2009, -11/+242The all-time favorite app! Three cheers for VLC!!
- thatspsychotic, on 07/07/2009, -8/+192Hip-hip hooray!
- ACiDGRiM, on 07/07/2009, -7/+190Hip-hip hooray!
- champa, on 07/07/2009, -8/+189Hip-hip hooray!
- rob08, on 07/07/2009, -2/+183Sweet! Finally. Is GPU hardware acceleration supported?
- Zaetha, on 07/07/2009, -1/+168Changes between 0.9.9a and 1.0.0:
---------------------------------
Important notes:
----------------
* Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
See 'Access:' for more info.
* Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
Playback:
* Instantaneous pausing
* Frame-by-Frame playback
* Finer speed control
* On-the-fly recording for all medias
* Timeshift for most medias
* RTSP trickplay support
* Subtitles core improvements and fixes
Decoders:
* New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
* New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
* New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
* New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
* New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
* Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
* New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
* Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
* Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
* Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
Demuxers:
* Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
* Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
* Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
* Metadata for mod files are supported
* GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
* New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
* New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
Encoders:
* Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
* Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
Access:
* RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
* On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
* Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
* DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
* New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
* DVB scanning on linux
* EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
* On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
* Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
* MTP device access on Unix
* CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
* :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
Inputs:
* Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
* Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
Windows and Mac OS X.
Playlist:
* Export the playlist in HTML
* Lua script for BBC radio playback
* Better metadata handling and reading
Linux/Windows interface:
* Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
* Various fixes for skins2 interface
* Recently played items list
* Interface toolbar customizations
* Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
- More menus actions
- Finer speed slider
- Improvements on many dialogs
- New dialog for plugins listing
- Fixed-size mode for videos
- Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
* Better integration in GTK environments
Mac OS X Interface:
* Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
* Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
* Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
* Additional usability improvements
Stream output:
* Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
* Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
* bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
* Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
* Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
Maemo Port:
* New Maemo port with:
- an interface based on Hildon framework.
- scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
Windows CE Port:
EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
Mac OS X Port:
* EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
* Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
* New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
* Support for latest iSight models
Audio output:
* Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
* Surround support for PulseAudio
Video output:
* Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
* Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
(hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
* Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
The old image video output has been removed.
* Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
Miscellaneous:
* Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
New Localization:
* Khmer
* Mongolian
* Sorani - alf86, on 07/07/2009, -1/+145I think 1.0 is the new beta.
- nitinsatish, on 07/07/2009, -15/+159Dugg for VLC !
- Zaetha, on 07/07/2009, -2/+120Changes between 0.9.9a and 1.0.0: (in the reply)
- TonyCubed, on 07/07/2009, -1/+117Don't joke about such things..
- magus_melchior, on 07/07/2009, -1/+108Reaching the 1.0 milestone is no small feat for many an open source project-- kudos to the team behind VLC.
- Shawn4168, on 07/07/2009, -2/+92Followed shortly by Half Life 2: Episode 3
- Drax0n, on 07/07/2009, -1/+84It really is an amazing video player handles almost any movie file I can throw at it.
- forteller, on 07/07/2009, -4/+79The bug in Ubuntu that video is in one window and controllers in another has finally been fixed! Happy now! :)
- calon9, on 07/07/2009, -0/+71That feeling of comment deja-vu you are experiencing right now may be a glitch in the matrix.
- PMWSpender, on 07/07/2009, -14/+84Media Player Classic: Home Cinema and FFDShow FTW!
- counterplex, on 07/07/2009, -2/+72VLC! It really kicks the llama's...
nm wrong app. - sladek, on 07/07/2009, -4/+71fail
- MannaPC, on 07/07/2009, -2/+68Right after Firefox....
- Zaetha, on 07/07/2009, -0/+65Yes, is the first thing on their release changes:
Playback:
* Instantaneous pausing <-----
* Frame-by-Frame playback <----
* Finer speed control <----
* On-the-fly recording for all medias
* Timeshift for most medias
* RTSP trickplay support
* Subtitles core improvements and fixes - SpruceCaboose, on 07/07/2009, -1/+64Damn, there was only one when I loaded the page. Gotta be faster next time.
- xXRobbyXx, on 07/07/2009, -1/+60dugg for being a great app and for not linking to some ***** blogspam.
- mizike, on 07/07/2009, -7/+65Does it actually pause when I hit the button and not a few seconds later? How about the horrendous skimming, has that been fixed? I keep VLC around for the files that just refuse to play (it really will play anything) but don't use it as my standard player as the front end just plain sucks. It seems to be a problem endemic to OSS; rock solid work on the back end accompanied by a shoddy and half assed implimentation of the front end functionality that the user actually interacts with...
- Hraes, on 07/07/2009, -2/+59Won't fit. You'll have to go with VLC4LYF. Which is inherently more awesome anyway, because it has a Y in it and Ys are awesome because they're near the end of the alphabet which makes them edgy and rebellious.
- frieddonuts, on 07/07/2009, -1/+52I'm a fan of video streaming via VLC, but I've never liked the way audio playlists work in the program. Have they improved that?
- renesisx, on 07/07/2009, -5/+55First thing I install on a new PC.
- inactive, on 07/07/2009, -1/+48dugg for posting that in the reply.
- evilnick, on 07/07/2009, -12/+59VLC is the best all-round player, though I prefer the user interface on some of the others (mplayer/xine)
- JoeSpaceTime, on 07/07/2009, -1/+45I like this new "...in the reply" thing we're doing.
- taylorwbuley, on 07/07/2009, -7/+49VLC4LIFE
- jjesusfreak01, on 07/07/2009, -4/+46Too bad your computer is old...
- doom777, on 07/07/2009, -6/+47Told ya Obama will bring change.
- euphoria860, on 07/07/2009, -3/+43So it took you 8 minutes to copy pasta that post.
- Hraes, on 07/07/2009, -0/+39The keys are so far apart! And there are so many of them!
- TVarmy, on 07/07/2009, -0/+39I think they explained in the forums a while back that they're waiting for the open codecs that Videolan bases its software on to support GPU processing. This makes it more FFMPEG's issue, I guess, and I don't think there's been any progress.
- kamisama, on 07/07/2009, -3/+40It has been for a while now, but you do need to enable it.
- DBeta, on 07/07/2009, -2/+38Check in the VLC settings menu. There is an option for "Run only one instance of VLC" and "Enqueue media when opened".
- ModernTenshi, on 07/07/2009, -1/+36Right click a file you need to do this with and hit Get Info.
You'll see a section called Open With, and a drop down with all the apps that can open the file. Select VLC from this drop down.
Bellow that, hit the "Change All..." button. Bam, any files with the same extension are now set to open with VLC.
You're welcome.
If that's not working for you, then you must be doing something wrong, because I don't know of anyone who fails at making it happen. - kinologik, on 07/07/2009, -4/+39VLC is the open-source app I use most. Best app, bar none.
- renegadeafk, on 07/07/2009, -1/+35thats why I currently use Media Player classic homecinema (svn builds) with CCCP It has full h.264 hardware acceleration with my 9600gt so I can watch 1080p and my cpu usage is at like 2%.
- birch25, on 07/07/2009, -1/+32On OSX, I agree. With Perian installed, Quicktime is a fast, clean, simple program that generally works just as well as VLC for video playback.
If you're on Windows, I applaud your ability to use the slowest, ugliest, most incompatible application ever to successfully compile (which I bet this barely did). - Remmiz, on 07/07/2009, -6/+36Audio? VLC for video. foobar2000 for audio.
- inactive, on 07/07/2009, -11/+40Digg appears to only have posted half of your comment. I'm sure the other half said, "Is not even close to being as stabe, functional, or versatile as VLC."
- rmxz, on 07/07/2009, -0/+29I don't really know what GOM Player does (is it some windows app?), but here are some possible answers just guessing from their web site:
I like VLC's streaming features - VLC can be used as a streaming media server that can transcode on the fly - so your home media server can stream video to all your other machines.
I like VLC's transcoding and even DVD ripping features.
I like that VLC can run on all the computers I use, whether WIndows, Mac, or LInux.
I like VLC's intergration with video capture devices.
Does GOM player do those things?
That said, I like mplayer and the ffmpeg's project's ffplay better for many videos; simply because I like the more minimal user interfaces. -
Show 51 - 100 of 541 discussions
© Digg Inc. 2009
— Content created and posted by Digg users is