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Updated AMDGPU VCN Firmware Fixes VP9 Decoding Issues   Radeon   2024-03-04
Wayland Enjoyed Many Successes In 2023   Wayland   2024-01-01
Firefox Lands Wayland Fractional Scaling Support   Mozilla   2023-08-16
MPV Player 0.36 Released With Wayland Fractional Scaling, Vulkan Video Decode   Multimedia   2023-07-23
MPV Player 0.35.1 Released With Wayland & PipeWire Fixes   Multimedia   2023-01-28
RBOS Updated As The Linux Live Environment Showcasing The Latest Wayland Code   Wayland   2023-01-17
MPV 0.35 Media Player Released With PipeWire Backend, Wayland DMA-BUF Support   Multimedia   2022-11-12
Microsoft Lands HEVC Video Encode/Decode Within Mesa Using VA-API To Direct3D 12   Mesa   2022-09-15
IPFS Supported In FFmpeg 5.1, IPFS Devs Envision Support In More Open-Source Projects   Multimedia   2022-08-10
KDE Plasma 5.26 To Allow Crisper XWayland Apps With New Scaling Option   KDE   2022-06-18
Microsoft Lands VA-API To Direct3D 12 H.264 Video Encode/Decode In Mesa   Microsoft   2022-05-17
New NVIDIA Open-Source Linux Kernel Graphics Driver Appears   NVIDIA   2022-04-08
MPlayer 1.5 Released To Advance This Open-Source Video Player   Multimedia   2022-03-01
Experimental VA-API Implemented Over NVIDIA's NVDEC - Allows Firefox Video Acceleration   NVIDIA   2022-01-04
Airlie Exploring Possibility Of VA-API On Top Of Vulkan Video   Vulkan   2021-11-24
MPV 0.34 Released For Popular Linux Media Player   Multimedia   2021-11-01
MPV Player 0.33 Brings Nearly A Year's Worth Of Improvements   Multimedia   2020-11-22
GNOME's Window Rendering Culling Was Broken Leading To Wasted Performance   GNOME   2020-06-22
Gallium3D's Arm Bifrost Now Handling Most Of OpenGL ES 2.0, Runs GNOME Wayland   Mesa   2020-06-07
Experimental Linux Live OS For Showcasing Wayland Updated With Latest Desktops   Wayland   2020-05-07
MPV Player 0.32 Released With RAR5 Support, Bash Completion   Multimedia   2020-01-26
Solus 4.1 Released With Application Changes, ESYNC Support For Linux Gaming   Operating Systems   2020-01-25
Radeon Gallium3D Fixes Up 10-Bit HEVC Video Decode Support   Radeon   2020-01-03
MPV 0.31 Video Player Adds Pseudo Client Side Decorations, Wayland Improvements   Multimedia   2019-12-28
Gentoo-Based Calculate Linux 20 Released To Ring In The New Year, Free Of 32-Bit Support   Operating Systems   2019-12-27
Linux Mint Pulling In MPV-Based Celluloid Media Player + Dropping Last Mono Dependency   Operating Systems   2019-10-31
MPV Player 0.30 Released For This Advanced Open-Source Video Player   Multimedia   2019-10-25
GhostBSD 19.09 Provides A Good BSD Desktop Built Off TrueOS & FreeBSD 12   BSD   2019-09-17
Wine-Staging 4.9 Released With A Few New & Updated Patches   WINE   2019-05-26
Solus 4 Officially Released With Updated Budgie Desktop, Linux 4.20 Kernel   Operating Systems   2019-03-18
Wayland's Weston 6.0 To Support XDG-Shell Stable, Helping Apps Like MPV Video Player   Wayland   2019-02-16
Solus Releases Version "3.9999" With Newer Kernel, Desktop Updates   Operating Systems   2018-09-21
Emms 5.0 Released As A Big Update To The Emacs Multimedia System   GNU   2018-05-01
Libplacebo: Punting MPV's GPU Video/Image Rendering Into A Library   Multimedia   2018-04-29
The Next MPV Player Release Will Offer Much Better Vulkan Support   Multimedia   2017-12-26
MPV Player 0.28 Adds Initial Vulkan Support   Multimedia   2017-12-25
MPV Player 0.27 Brings Rendering Refactoring, OpenGL Improvements   Multimedia   2017-09-13
MPV 0.26 Media Player Released   Multimedia   2017-07-18
MPV 0.25 Media Player Released With Numerous Changes   Multimedia   2017-04-24
10-bit HEVC Decoding For RadeonSI Gallium3D Appears Fit   Mesa   2017-03-08
MPV 0.24 Media Player Adds Experimental Stream Recording, X11 Pseudo HiDPI Scaling   Multimedia   2017-02-15
GNOME Shell 3.23.1 Adds The Discrete GPU Launch Option, Other UI Improvements   GNOME   2016-10-30
MPV 0.21 Player Adds CUDA, Better Raspberry Pi Support   Multimedia   2016-10-20
Patches Posted For Supporting DRI3 With VA-API & VDPAU   Mesa   2016-05-11
GNOME's Mutter Gets New Nested Wayland CLI Switch   GNOME   2016-03-03
GNOME Shell & Mutter Do Their Betas For 3.20, Add More Wayland Changes   GNOME   2016-02-19
Systemd 229 Released With Many Changes, DNS Resolver Now Fully Supported   systemd   2016-02-11
Wayland Live OS Is Now Based On Debian Testing, Working KDE Wayland Support   Wayland   2016-02-09
Some Video Acceleration Improvements Land In Gallium3D   Mesa   2016-01-14
WebKitGTK+ Hit Hard By Over 100 Security Vulnerabilities   GNOME   2015-12-28
Totem May Handle Video Acceleration Better With GStreamer VA-API 0.7   GNOME   2015-12-24
VA-API Support For Nouveau Still Being Fixed Up, H.264 Now Works   Nouveau   2015-12-16
MPlayer 1.2 Released   Multimedia   2015-10-03
SMPlayer 15.9 Brings MPV Support, 3D Stereo Filter   Multimedia   2015-09-30
FFmpeg's Player Gets Inspired By MPlayer-Forked MPV Player   Multimedia   2015-09-28
MPV Video Player Has OpenGL Output Improvements, Fixes   Multimedia   2015-09-23
HiDPI Cursor Scaling Gets Fixed Ahead Of GNOME 3.18   GNOME   2015-09-16
A Bug In The Intel Linux Graphics Driver Is Causing KDE's Plasma 5 To Crash   Intel   2015-08-05
Enlightenment EFL Libraries 1.15 Released   Desktop   2015-08-04
GNOME Shell 3.17.4 Adds Four-Finger Swipe Gesture   GNOME   2015-07-23
Wayland Live CD Updated Against Wayland/Weston 1.8   Wayland   2015-06-07
Intel VA-API Driver 1.6 Is Coming   Intel   2015-05-22
LibreOffice 4.5 Bumped To Become LibreOffice 5.0   LibreOffice   2015-04-16
EFL 1.14 Beta Brings Ecore-DRM Improvements   Desktop   2015-04-13
Enlightenment EFL 1.14.0 Alpha 1   Desktop   2015-04-07
GNOME Shell 3.15.92 Improves GNOME's Classic Theme   GNOME   2015-03-17
VDPAU 1.1 Library Fixes H.265/HEVC Issues   NVIDIA   2015-03-16
Mutter 3.15.91 Fixes Wayland Nested Compositor Mode, Pointer Constraining   GNOME   2015-03-04
Enlightenment's Elementary 1.13 Beta 1 Released   Desktop   2015-01-19
Enlightenment's Elementary 1.13 Alpha Fixes DnD On Wayland   Desktop   2015-01-12
The Most Viewed Phoronix Articles & Linux News In 2014   Phoronix   2014-12-31
Python 3 Support Added To The GNOME Shell   GNOME   2014-11-27
Enlightenment's EFL 1.12 Alpha Has Evas GL-DRM Engine, OpenGL ES 1.1 Support   Desktop   2014-10-23
Debian 8.0 Jessie Has Many Multimedia Improvements   Debian   2014-10-23
MPlayer2-Forked MPV Player Releases v0.5 With A Lot Of Features   Multimedia   2014-08-12
MPV 0.4.1 Brings Various Bug Fixes   Multimedia   2014-07-13
The Most Popular Linux Stories So Far In 2014   Phoronix   2014-03-30
VA-API 1.3 Readies Broadwell Support, Adds VP8 Decoding   Intel   2014-03-18
Enlightenment's Elementary, EFL 1.9 Beta 2   Desktop   2014-02-21
GNOME Shell 3.12 Beta Has Many Late Changes   GNOME   2014-02-19
Enlightenment 1.9 Beta 1 Is Now Out In The Wild   Desktop   2014-02-18
Valve Continues Dominating & Kaveri Excited Linux Users   Valve   2014-01-31
GNOME Shell Lands App Folders System   GNOME   2014-01-16
MPlayer2 Gone Dark, MPV Is Still Happening   Multimedia   2014-01-01
X.Org Server 1.15 Release Has Several New Features   X.Org   2013-12-27
Mutter, GNOME Shell Updated For GNOME 3.11.3   GNOME   2013-12-20
X.Org Server "Chai" Release Brings Many Fixes   X.Org   2013-12-10
Enlightenment E18 Alpha Release Is Imminent   Free Software   2013-11-04
Wayland-Based Green Island Compositor Sees Release   Wayland   2013-11-03
UPower 1.0 Release Is Moving Closer   Hardware   2013-10-16
MPV, A New Fork Of MPlayer/MPlayer2   Free Software   2013-08-05
OpenBSD 5.3 Improves Hardware Support   BSD   2013-05-01