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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: dav1d shifts up a gear : 0.2 is out!
tl;dr: dav1d has its second release
If you want a quick summary of this post, about our AV1 decoder:
dav1d is really ready for production,
dav1d has impressive benchmarks on ARM devices,
dav1d is now fast on 32-bit desktop processors (SS[...]
Geoffrey Métais: Android runtime permissions in one (suspending) function
This post offers a basic implementation of a single suspending function managing the runtime permission process.
Runtime permission API
If you are reading this, you should already know this API. It is only composed of requestPermissions [...]
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[...]
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