For fans of the MPlayer-forked MPV Player, it's time to upgrade to version 0.27.

Today marks the long-awaited debut of the Blender 2.79 3D modeling software release. Especially for those using OpenCL acceleration, Blender 2.79 is quite an exciting update.

It's been a while since last having anything to report on with VLC with the VLC 3.0 release still not available, but thanks to this year's Google Summer of Code, there was an interesting project around working on 3D format support.

As we previously reported on, there was a Google Summer of Code project this year optimizing FFmpeg's VP9 decoder particularly around AVX2 instructions and threading. The project was a success and VP9 decoding should be much faster with FFmpeg as a result.

Mauro Carvalho Chehab has sent in a big pull request of the media subsystem updates for the Linux 4.14 kernel. This time around there are multiple new drivers yielding around a net addition of around 30k lines to the Linux kernel.

Another GSoC 2017 project worth highlighting now that Google's annual Summer of Code has finished is the AVX2 optimizations being done to the VP9 decoder within FFmpeg.

The Kodi HTPC/multimedia software has revamped support for Wayland as an alternative to the X.Org Server on Linux thanks to Google Summer of Code developer Philipp Kerling.

It's been a while since last having anything to report on with the once very popular MythTV HTPC/DVR software, but today it's out with a new stable release: MythTV 29.

For fans of the MPlayer/mplayer2-based MPV media player, version 0.26 was released with a few months worth of improvements.

The latest Git code for FFmpeg now supports VA-API accelerated VP9 encoding.

Following the earlier development releases, Opus 1.2 is now official.

It's been a while since hearing much about the royalty-free, open-source Opus audio codec but three updates are out today.

Kodi 17.2 has been released and all users of this HTPC software are encouraged to upgrade due to a security fix.

Just one week after OpenShot 2.3.2 is now a new point release to this open-source non-linear video editor.

GStreamer 1.12 is now the latest stable release of this widely-used, open-source multimedia framework.

In aiming to enhance online video streaming, the SRT video protocol has been open-sourced and an alliance forming around that for low-latency video.

For fans of MPV as the media player forked from MPlayer/MPlayer2, a new release was tagged this weekend.

FFmpeg developers quietly released FFmpeg 3.3 prior to the weekend as the first major feature release of 2017.

The Kodi HTPC software will soon have a "real" Netflix plugin/add-on for making a better show/movie watching experience.

MPV Player, the popular fork of MPlayer/MPlayer2, is out this week with a significant feature update.

Kodi, the project formerly known as XBMC and is one of the leading free software options for assembling a modern HTPC/PVR system, is out with its version 17 "Krypton" release.

The Alliance for Open Media continues working hard on their first video codec, dubbed AV1, that started off with the VP9 libvpx code-base and are pursuing to do for free video codecs what the Opus codec has done for audio.

MythTV 0.28 was released nearly one year ago while today we have the first point release for this once very active open-source DVR/PVR software for HTPCs.

For those continuing to make use of the FFmpeg-forked Libav project, a number of VA-API improvements have landed in recent days.

The release of Kodi 17.0 "Krypton" is near and today the fourth release candidate is now available for testing.

While Kodi 17 "Krypton" hasn't even shipped yet, feature work is building already for Kodi 18 "Leia" and it sure should excite those wanting to play games from their HTPC.

GStreamer 1.11.1 is now available as the first unstable release of this multimedia framework for their 1.11 development series, which will culminate with GStreamer 1.12.

For those in need of a professional-grade Linux video editor, the Lightworks 14 release is near as the latest feature-update that is more than powerful enough if needing to do any simple home video editing or of holiday videos.

The Xiph.Org crew rung in 2017 by releasing FLAC 1.3.2 as the newest version of this free lossless audio codec.

It's been a long time since I last heard of StreamTuner2 as an open-source Internet radio station and video browser, but a major update was released today.