VLC 1.1 released, adds hardware acceleration and new codec support

VLC 1.1 was just released, adding hardware acceleration on Windows Vista, 7, and Linux (no mention of the Mac just yet), along with a general 40 percent speed boost from a massive code cleanup. A new add-on and script framework now enables extensions, which should lead to some interesting additions, and the VP8 and MEPG-4 lossless codecs have been added, along with container support for MKV HD and Google's open-source WebM format. We just gave it a quick try and things certainly do seem to perform as advertised -- hit the source link for the download.

[archkron Posted Jul 4th 2010 7:15PM]

It's about damn time.

[davidbowser Posted Jul 4th 2010 9:07PM]

There's a problem with VLC 1.1 and the ATI Catalyst drivers so the acceleration does not work yet for ATI. There's a note on the videolan website about it, noting they already have it working in beta, and the Catalyst 10.7 and VLC 1.1.1 will fix the issue.

[CL114C0777498D Posted Jul 4th 2010 9:20PM]

i don't understand why the windows version still looks so awful by default (even the skins), compared to the mac version. hurr... downloading now... it's lucky it's so god-damn useful.

[inu Posted Jul 4th 2010 10:19PM]

@CL114C0777498D
No idea what you're talking about.
The GUI is really just plain awesomeness! Simple, clean and with the right number of buttons to make it good and fast at what it does best.
I just wish they had a little "+" and "-" to increase and decrease the sound instead of the little bar where you have to drag or click.

[Beatlezing Posted Jul 5th 2010 6:13PM]

@CL114C0777498D
You think the Mac version looks good? I've always thought it was awful.

[SikSlayer Posted Jul 4th 2010 9:32PM]

Media Player Classic Home Cinema. Has been doing all this for years now, WITH hardware acceleration.

[Nbarsley Posted Jul 4th 2010 10:16PM]

@SikSlayer Yeah why would anyone use vlc anymore. Mpchc has been working fine (with hardware accelleration) for years now.

[inu Posted Jul 4th 2010 10:21PM]

@Nbarsley
It's just a matter of popularity and stuff.
I use both myself.

[DarthCardo Posted Jul 5th 2010 12:57AM]

@SikSlayer MPC-HC does more than that since 2008! is the TOP media player and IT'S FREE! my only complain is that I'm unable to output surround sound thru SPDIF no matter what settings I try :(

[RichardLawler Posted Jul 5th 2010 11:46PM]

@SikSlayer +1 for MPC HC & Combined Community codec Pack. I install vlc as well, but mpc is my go to.

[chodaboy19 Posted Jul 6th 2010 10:07AM]

@SikSlayer

Yeah and it can even switch the refresh rate to 24Hz on the fly for files encoded that way. Can't touch MPC-HC. :)

[BoBi Posted Jul 6th 2010 10:15AM]

@SikSlayer
Like you can compare them !
MPC - HC is really a great player but it is focused on playing local files.
VLC can play and capture network streams as well ;) and it has a ton of other useful features. When you have so many areas to cover you can't be on the edge in all of them :)

Hoping to see it working with ATI cards soon :)

[SikSlayer Posted Jul 7th 2010 4:49PM]

@BoBi I can easily compare them! How

VLC was TRASH for the longest time. It was only good for basic playback, and even then, the original Media Player Classic (or even the original Media Player 6.4 its inspired from) and a proper codec setup was FAR better. VLC had nothing going for it against even that. The only reason VLC came to any sort of acclaim was by users who didn't know left from right saying its a good player because they could just toss crap they got from Kazaa at it and it'd play. People who knew better would instantly recognize its HORRIBLE PQ, among other things.

So the release before this, it FINALLY gets SSA subtitles working properly, and now its gets DXVA support.......but only for Nvidia! If it was just a driver issue, why does MPC-HC already have support for both?

Both MPC-HC and VLC use the ffmpeg project to get their work done, that's why they can play anything, out of the box. But MPC-HC has the added ability to work with DirectShow codecs and filters, and already works with ripped Blu Ray content, including the subtitles! It even puts to use pixel shaders for deinterlacing, denoise, etc.

The ONLY thing VLC does that MPC-HC doesn't is related to streaming........hence the name VideoLAN Client.

[Joeyjoejoe Shabadoo Posted Jul 4th 2010 10:07PM]

Now they just need it to play blurays and I will never use another media player again

[esposimi Posted Jul 4th 2010 11:09PM]

Mac version is out now: http://sourceforge.net/projects/vlc/files/1.1.0/macosx/vlc-1.1.0.dmg/download

[esposimi Posted Jul 4th 2010 11:14PM]

@esposimi Appears that it is a 64-bit app too.

[king_electric_warmonger Posted Jul 6th 2010 4:21AM]

@esposimi


That link is already outdated- I've been on version 1.1.1 for a week. It may be a daily build, but it has a creation date of three days later (6/24) and is 64bit intel.

link:

http://nightly.videolan.org/build/macosx-intel/?C=M;O=D