VLC 2.0.5 "Twoflower" Has Experimental Blu-Ray Support
Posted by Michael Larabel on December 17, 2012
VideoLAN's VLC was released this weekend with more than 50 fixes and several improved features for this multi-platform open-source media player.
Key highlights for VLC 2.0.5 "Twoflower" include:
- Various regression fixes.
- Rewritten video output core and modules, allowing subpicture blending in GPU.
- Shader support in the OpenGL output, for colorspace conversion, including 10bits.
- New resamplers for higher quality audio.
- Experimental support for BluRay discs.
- CrystalHD cards and Android OpenMAX support for hardware decoding.
- Vastly improved MKV demuxer.
- VLC's web plugins have been rewritten for better integration and stability in all browsers.
While there is experimental Blu-ray disc support, menus are deactivated for the 2.0.5 release and the AACS and BD+ DRM libraries and keys are not shipped with the VideoLAN player for legal reasons.
More information on the VLC 2.0.5 release is available from VideoLAN.org.
Key highlights for VLC 2.0.5 "Twoflower" include:
- Various regression fixes.
- Rewritten video output core and modules, allowing subpicture blending in GPU.
- Shader support in the OpenGL output, for colorspace conversion, including 10bits.
- New resamplers for higher quality audio.
- Experimental support for BluRay discs.
- CrystalHD cards and Android OpenMAX support for hardware decoding.
- Vastly improved MKV demuxer.
- VLC's web plugins have been rewritten for better integration and stability in all browsers.
While there is experimental Blu-ray disc support, menus are deactivated for the 2.0.5 release and the AACS and BD+ DRM libraries and keys are not shipped with the VideoLAN player for legal reasons.
More information on the VLC 2.0.5 release is available from VideoLAN.org.
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