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News & Updates
VideoLAN and the VLC development team are happy to publish version 2.0 of VLC for Android today
It supports network shares browsing and playback, video playlists, downloading subtitles, pop-up video view and multiwindows, the new releases of the Android operating system, and merged Android TV and Android packages.
Get it now! and give us your feedback.
VideoLAN and the VLC development team are happy to publish version 2.2.4 of VLC media player today
This fourth stable release of the "WeatherWax" version of VLC fixes a few bugs reported on VLC 2.2.3 for Windows XP and certain audio files. It also includes updated codecs libraries and fixes a security issue when playing specifically crafted QuickTime files as well as a 3rd party security issue in libmad.
Read more about it on our release page.
Due to unscheduled maintenance on one of our servers, some git repositories, the trac bug tracker and mailing-lists are currently not available. We are restoring the services, but we can't give detailed information when everything will be back online. Note that downloads from this website, git repositories on code.videolan.org, the wiki and the forum are not affected.
Important: Any communication send to email addresses on the videolan.org domain (aka yourdude@videolan.org) won't reach the receiver.
VideoLAN and the VLC development team are happy to publish version 2.2.3 of VLC media player today
This third stable release of the "WeatherWax" version of VLC fixes more than 30 important bugs reported on VLC 2.2.2. It also includes updated codecs libraries and fixes 3rd party libraries security issues.
Read more about it on our release page.
2016 is a special year for many FLOSS projects: VideoLAN as open-source project and Free Software Foundation Europe both have their 15th birthday while KDE has its 20th birthday. All these call for celebrations! This year VideoLAN has come together with Qt, FSFE, KDE and KDAB to bring you QtCon, where attendees can meet, collaborate and get the latest news of all these projects.
VideoLAN Dev Days 2016 will be organised as part of QtCon in Berlin. The event will start on Friday the 2nd of September with 3 shared days of talks, workshops, meetups and coding sessions.
The current plan is to have a Call for Papers in March with the Program announced in early June.
Development Blogs
Rémi Denis-Courmont: Other uses of futex
Revisiting the condition variable with futex
and pondering thread synchronization primitives.[...]
Ludovic Fauvet: Unveiling interesting numbers about VLC downloads
Every year in September the VideoLAN community organize the Open Multimedia Conference also known as the VideoLAN Developers Days or for short VDD. This year it will take place in Berlin the 3rd and 4th of September. For this occasion I gat[...]
Jean-Baptiste Kempf: Last weeks in VideoLAN - 53
53rd VideoLAN report
During the core of the hot European summer, here is a weekly report about the last 2 weeks in the VLC and VideoLAN communities!
It was a bit calm, to be honest; and I'm a bit late to publish. Summer is the cause
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Rémi Duraffort: A faster YAML loader
That's the second issue I had when playing with the
LAVA log viewer.
In the new versions of LAVA, the logs are formatted in YAML:
- {"dt": "2016-08-18T14:24:01.096308", "lvl": "info", "msg": "start: 1 tftp-deploy (max 300s)"}
- {"dt": "2016[...]
Social media
[videolan] The new update of #VLC for @Xbox is now out on the store. It fixes the big issues reported! Please complain here https://t.co/edaXWzyzgN
[JezCorden] VLC Player for Xbox One is DAMN gorgeous. @beauzeh @videolan https://t.co/g7rLMkgxs2
[beauzeh] #VLC for #XboxOne update currently is "In certification" ! List of changes can be found here: https://t.co/wecdxethc4
[ludwikc] I had no idea in @videolan VLC on Android you can just tap and download subtitles to a streamed media! Awesome!
[NicolasVivant] C'est parti pour la conf de @videolan. #FLL https://t.co/OJ3wN77gET
