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VLC 1.0 officially released after more than 10 years of work

added July 09, 2009
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http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/07/vlc-10-officially-released.ars

The open source VLC Media Player finally reached version 1.0 on Tuesday. The new version, codenamed Goldeneye, represents over a decade of development. The program offers support for playing practically every kind of video content in existence and has an exhaustive feature set that includes many advanced capabilities.
The software first emerged as an academic project called VideoLAN in 1996, which was created by a group of students at Ecole Centrale Paris. They aimed to build client and...

VLC 1.0.0 released

Filed under: Multimedia , Software , Video While being a useful tool for several years now, VLC has finally reached that first pinnacle of software development: 1.0. VLC is an alternative media player for Mac, Windows and Linux that handles a wi
http://www.tuaw.com/2009/07/07/vlc-1-0-0-released/
VLC Media Player 1.0 Released

The VideoLan team today announced the release of version 1.0.0 of their popular media player VLC Media Player. The major release introduces many few features, formats and codecs to VLC and fixes a high number of bugs that were present in previous versions
http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/07/vlc-media-player-1-0-released/

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It ia very good media player, VLC plays everything. Too bad many people dont even know about it
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- dablaq
- 5 months ago
When I was on Windows, VLC was my 'fall back'. Now that I'm on Ubuntu, VLC is my 'go to'. It's really quite awesome. It doesn't fail.
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- SDLN
- 5 months ago
Best player there is, IMO

Has all the codex already built in.... awesome!
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- Hou_Kairs
- 5 months ago
And with it you can stream right from your desktop to the Internet like a radio or TV. Could be one more step past twitter to desktop broadcasting.
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- Stradius
- 5 months ago
I love VLC. Been using it since about 2005. Awesome.
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- echothirteen
- 5 months ago