BlackCH Posted September 15, 2008 Share Posted September 15, 2008 Looks pretty much improved. Still need testing over here, but seems a lot more stable than previous versions. New features (from wiki): Interface A new interface module based on the Qt toolkit has been added to VLC. If you are a GNOME or Xfce user, before trolling, please read this. This new interface module has a few improvements on the old one: * Simplified settings and dialogs * Media library integration * Album art displaying and metadata editing * Live activation of Video and audio filters * Basic encoding profiles * Multiple start modes (classic, enhanced and minimalist) * System tray icon and minimizing * Fullscreen controller And many other improvements and bug-fixes. Moreover, some global hotkeys plugin can be found on the forum. Playlist The playlist has been improved in many ways, in addition to the new Media Library (very simple so far, but will be extended in the future): * Live Searching in the playlist, * Youtube, Dailymotion, Google Video and similar services URL can be scripted in VLC to play directly those URLs, * last.fm submission support, * Album art support, * Better metadata tagging reading and writing support for audio files. Playback A lot of new decoders, demuxers, and protocols have been added. There are new codecs support, like Flash video variants, camcorder codecs (M2TS ones), Dirac, Atrac3, H.264 PAFF, APE audio, RealVideo, VC-3, Fraps and others, but also better decoding and better performance. Many thanks to the FFmpeg project which can take most of the credit for these improvements. There are improvements in the demuxers and new supports (subtitles format rework with many new formats, Tivo2, OMA, MIDI support...). Tag supports of audio files have vastly been improved(fix of APE, AAC, OGG tags,...) This version also supports DVB windows devices (BDA), iSight Webcams, v4l2 on Linux and many other ones. Filters Many new audio and video filters have been added: * New video filters like puzzle game, color extracting, sharpen, logo erasing, blue-screen and more have been added. * New audio filters have introduced Replay Gain support, Faster/Slower audio playback with pitch correction and a spatializer. Most video filters can now be streamed. Developers * libVLC has been rewritten and split and supports externally built plugins * VLCKit, a Mac OS X Framework, enables external developers to develop applications around VLC. * New bindings can be found on the wiki and the forums Misc A new update system, more secured, was developed for this release. New localizations in Finnish, Persian, Polish, Punjabi, Bulgarian have joined the old ones. http://www.videolan.org/ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/126157-vlc-092-released/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted September 15, 2008 Share Posted September 15, 2008 Thanks, I'm downloading it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/126157-vlc-092-released/#findComment-891595 Share on other sites More sharing options...
flibblesan Posted September 15, 2008 Share Posted September 15, 2008 Will be interesting to see if it stops h.264 MKV files from crashing. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/126157-vlc-092-released/#findComment-891613 Share on other sites More sharing options...
muitommy Posted September 15, 2008 Share Posted September 15, 2008 yea, thanks. hope this will be a less buggy one with great features. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/126157-vlc-092-released/#findComment-891617 Share on other sites More sharing options...
3Dman Posted September 15, 2008 Share Posted September 15, 2008 Thanks, I'll give it a try Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/126157-vlc-092-released/#findComment-891621 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leoopardoo Posted September 17, 2008 Share Posted September 17, 2008 Looks better, hope that performance will be better as well. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/126157-vlc-092-released/#findComment-894468 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomazzzi Posted September 17, 2008 Share Posted September 17, 2008 i hate it on both windows & mac but thanks for the info Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/126157-vlc-092-released/#findComment-894487 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leoopardoo Posted September 17, 2008 Share Posted September 17, 2008 After some testing I have to say - I'm disappointed... even more issues with .mkf files than in previous versions (video freezes after fforward sometimes), previous settings are overwritten... settings in advanced menu for subtitles are ignored (e.g. subtitles outline). Switching into fullscreen and back is not such smooth as in previous versions... I'm going back to previous version (0.8.6i) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/126157-vlc-092-released/#findComment-894698 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technobob Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 I'm disappointed too MKV play like {censored} and still no skin support. VLC programmers need to take a lesson from the developers of Plex it's the best player for MKV files FF & RW with no glitches it's perfect. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/126157-vlc-092-released/#findComment-896197 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cave Man Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 Meh... It's still VLC. I don't understand why anyone would use it when there's Plex. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/126157-vlc-092-released/#findComment-896382 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaaseyRacer Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 Many bugs in the last VLC are fixed in this version. Long over due update. However, I am happy it is here. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/126157-vlc-092-released/#findComment-896591 Share on other sites More sharing options...
flibblesan Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 Meh... It's still VLC. I don't understand why anyone would use it when there's Plex. Sweet. Thank you for the heads up! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/126157-vlc-092-released/#findComment-896653 Share on other sites More sharing options...
khaled_acmilan Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 This program will be awesome if some bugs fixed on it but it still a good to play and to support alot of formats too. Thanks,mate. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/126157-vlc-092-released/#findComment-896672 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cave Man Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 Sweet. Thank you for the heads up! Plex is really kick-@$$. I have several Blu-Ray rips in all the codecs (h.264, MPEG-2, VC-1/True-HD, DTS-HD, DD and DTS) and my 2 gHz Mac Mini plays them all with Plex and without any dropped frames or audio issues. These m2ts files are around 30 mbps bit rates and VLC simply chokes on them. Plex even transcodes True-HD and DTS-HD audio down to DD or DTS on the fly so that if you have an optical receiver that can only decode those two formats, you still get digital surround sound (good for me; my Onkyo only does DD and DTS 5.1 surround). Front Row and VLC are gone from my computers, that's for sure. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/126157-vlc-092-released/#findComment-896872 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leoopardoo Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 Plex is probably very good alternative to VLC, however it seems that it doesn't have such good support for subtitles as VLC... so I guess I don't have any other option so far Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/126157-vlc-092-released/#findComment-897493 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rwk Posted November 11, 2008 Share Posted November 11, 2008 Plex is really kick-@$$. I have several Blu-Ray rips in all the codecs (h.264, MPEG-2, VC-1/True-HD, DTS-HD, DD and DTS) and my 2 gHz Mac Mini plays them all with Plex and without any dropped frames or audio issues. These m2ts files are around 30 mbps bit rates and VLC simply chokes on them. Plex even transcodes True-HD and DTS-HD audio down to DD or DTS on the fly so that if you have an optical receiver that can only decode those two formats, you still get digital surround sound (good for me; my Onkyo only does DD and DTS 5.1 surround). Front Row and VLC are gone from my computers, that's for sure. Hi Cave Man, I just found your post above... I am very interested in your experience with Plex and TrueHD as I am running the latest Plex 0.5.22 and I am having problems playing any bluray title with TrueHD ("Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull" and "Kung Fu Panda" for example). Other non-TrueHD titles sound fine. The audio on the TrueHD titles stutters every few seconds. I am running on a 2.66Mhz Core 2 Duo off the local HDD. The video is fine. I am also using TOSLINK (digital optical) to my amp, and the Dolby Digital logo is displayed on the amp. The audio bitrate on the TrueHD tracks is 3000kbps-4000kpbs. Is that about what you experience? From your post it appears you have no problems playing TrueHD. Can you tell me how you are doing it? Do you have any suggestions I can try to get mine to work? Thanks in advance for any help you can offer! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/126157-vlc-092-released/#findComment-962072 Share on other sites More sharing options...
RayDot Posted November 16, 2008 Share Posted November 16, 2008 Thanks for the update, I'll be using this : ) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/126157-vlc-092-released/#findComment-967581 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cave Man Posted November 16, 2008 Share Posted November 16, 2008 Look for Plex dev series 0.7 to be released today or tomorrow. It will offer full iTunes integration and even play DRM'd music from iTS (but not DRM'd videos). Now, if we can get this board working under OS X, it will be a stunning home theater PC with Plex running the show. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/126157-vlc-092-released/#findComment-968176 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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