Multimedia
Now available is the source code of the popular open source, cross-platform Media Player VLC 1.0 RC1 for Linux. You’ll have to compile it and resolve many dependency issues to have it on and running on your Ubuntu.
The release of the Windows version of VLC 1.0 rc1 was announced here yesterday.
No official statement or release notes have been made available by the developers of VLC. It is now official and mentioned on the VideoLAN website. The only mention of VLC 1.0 that has been made on the VLC website is VLC 1.0’s new logo – – The Bulldozer. More»
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The popular open source, cross-platform multimedia player, VLC goes 1.0. This is still a release candidate for Windows only.
VLC is known for its ability to play a wide range of audio formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, wma etc), as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols, out of the box.
Amongst the new features include;
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SopCast, where SoP stands for Streaming over P2P (Peer-to-Peer) is “a simple, free way to broadcast video and audio or watch the video and listen to radio on the Internet.”
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Ubuntu/Linux Windows, Mac OS X and others: You are now set to update to XBMC 9.04, codename Babylon. Amongst the many new features in XBMC 9.04 shines out the PPC (PowerPC) support for Mac OS X. As concerns Ubuntu/Linux, support for VDPAU – – NVIDIA GPU Hardware Accelerated Video Decoding for Linux. Other features are:
new Karaoke features, more Media Info Scrapers, improved FanArt support, and enhancements to the XBMC Skinning Framework – – that makes it more flexible. More»
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Amarok 2.1 beta 1 paves the way for a more stable and more featured Amarok 2.1. The release notes talk of the re-appearance of old goodies alongside new ones like; cue sheet (a text file that details the layout of tracks on a compact disc) support as in Amarok 1.4, an easy to use drag ‘n’ drop playlist, bookmarks that permit you to save and share your favourite findings, fastening up the re-load of heavy playlist, and of course a better User Interface. More»
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