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News & Updates
VideoLAN is publishing today, VLC 3.0.13 on Android and Android TV. This release fixes numerous issues from the 3.0.x branch and improves stability.
VideoLAN is publishing today, VLC 3.1.0 on iOS and on Windows App (WinRT) platforms. This release brings hardware encoding and ChromeCast on those 2 mobile platforms. It also updates the libvlc to 3.0.3 in those platforms.
VideoLAN is publishing the VLC 3.0.3 release, a new minor release of 3.0. This release is fixing numerous crashes and regressions from VLC 3.0.0, "Vetinari", and it fixes some security issues More information available here.
Update for everyone is advised for this release.
VideoLAN is publishing the VLC 3.0.2 release, for general availability. This release is fixing most of the important bugs and regressions from VLC 3.0.0, "Vetinari", and improves decoding speed on macOS. More than 150 bugs were fixed since the 3.0.0 release. More information available here.
VideoLAN and the VLC development team are releasing VLC 3.0.1, the first bugfix release of the "Vetinari" branch, for Linux, Windows and macOS. This version improves the chromecast support, hardware decoding, adaptive streaming, and fixes many bugs or crashes encountered in the 3.0.0 version. In total more than 30 issues have been fixed, on all platforms. More information available here.
Development Blogs
Jean-Baptiste Kempf: dav1d: performance and completion of the first release
tl;dr: dav1d is in a very good shape
If you want a quick summary of this post:
dav1d now covers all the spec and features of AV1, for 8bits and 10bits depth,
dav1d is very fast, up to 400% faster (more fps) than the libaom decoder, and v[...]
Jean-Baptiste Kempf: The VLC Technical Committee
VLC Technical Committee
I'm very proud to present to you the VLC Technical Committee, as elected during the last VDD conference:
Denis Charmet, Rémi Denis-Courmont, Hugo Beauzée-Luyssen, Thomas Guillem and David Fuhrmann.
The role of [...]
Rémi Denis-Courmont: PIC versus pic
Have you ever wondered what was the difference between the -fpic and -fPIC compiler command line flags were?[...]
Jean-Baptiste Kempf: Introducing dav1d: a new AV1 decoder
Introducing dav1d
AV1 is a new video codec by the Alliance for Open Media, composed of most of the important Web companies (Google, Facebook, Netflix, Amazon, Microsoft, Mozilla...).
AV1 has the potential to be up to 20% better than the[...]
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[videolan] Some details about our AV1 decoder named dav1d, with a focus on performance and completion. tl;dr: we are fast, ver… https://t.co/Y26arlsnl9
[mariocampolargo] Great discussion with @Dries & @videolan Jean-Baptiste Kempf #opensource #community inspiring questions& discussion… https://t.co/dEIpFQUZe7
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