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News & Updates
VideoLAN is releasing a new major version of libbluray: 1.1.0. It adds support for UHD menus (experimental), for more recents of Java, and improves vastly BD-J menus. This release fixes numerous small issues reported.
VideoLAN is releasing a new minor version of libdvdread, numbered 6.0.1, fixing minor DVD issues. See libdvdread page for more info.
VideoLAN is very happy to announce that VLC crossed the 3 billion downloads on our website: VLC statistics. Please note that this number is under-estimating the number of downloads of VLC.
Development Blogs
Jean-Baptiste Kempf: How to use AV1 with open source tools
AV1 and muxing
If you follow this blog, you should know everything about AV1.
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, Mozill[...]
Jean-Baptiste Kempf: First release of dav1d, the AV1 decoder
tl;dr: dav1d has now a first release
If you want a quick summary of this post, about our AV1 decoder:
dav1d is good enough that it has an official release,
dav1d now covers all the spec and features of AV1 (including 12bits),
dav1d is ve[...]
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 [...]
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