VLC Media Player 1.0 codename “Goldeneye” finally released
July 17th, 2009 | Published on: News
VLC media player -an open-source application- from the VideoLAN project, has finally reached version and it´s called “Goldeneye”. After the success of version 0.9.9 reaching thousands of downloads within months, VLC developers wanted to create a multimedia player for Windows and Mac OSX. VLC 1.0.0 allows users to play any audio and video file. This major release introduces many new features, new formats and new codecs to the VLC multimedia framework and fixes a very high number of bugs that were present in the older versions.
VLC Media Player 1.0 finally released
What´s best about VLC is it´s live streaming feature to listen to radios or play videos, watch TV shows, football matches and more, just by connecting to the internet. You can also set up VLC to stream media from a file or from a DVD as a server, and then another client can stream that media, without having to encode the file first. Additionally, it can repair video files with corrupted headers,
Goldeneye added an easier encoding graphical user interface in the Qt version, new artwork, made the toolbars customizable and as always, it´s cross-platform and open source.
Version 1.0 features several interface improvements making it even more user-friendly than before. It adds playback features such as:
- Playback support for zipped files.
- Support for some HD streams.
- Added new HD (High-Definition) codecs, such as: Blu-Ray Linear PCM; Dolby Digital Plus; AES3; TrueHD and Real Video 3.0 and 4.0.
- Support for Frame-by-Frame
- Live recording support
VLC 1.0 Goldeneye is without a doubt one of the best current multimedia players. Millions around the world have downloaded it and it they proved for themselves that it´s the best fully-featured multimedia player.
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