VLC has Done it Again; New Version Supports WebM, H.264 Hardware Decoding
VLC media player is well known for being jack of all trades. It plays almost everything that is meant to be played by a media player and and the best part is — it’s licensed free. It makes you free from the chains of codec world. Forget about having different codecs installed on your PC. VLC has almost all codecs built-in. It plays even if the media is damaged, missing pieces, broken pieces of media and many more. Phew!
Google Corp. open sourced the new WebM video format last week and VLC is back again. The developers of open-source cross-platform video player VLC have released a version that supports the new WebM video format. The new version of the software — VLC 1.1.0 Release Candidate can be downloaded here.
The release of a standalone player for WebM video represents a significant step for the adoption of the new video format. Up until now, users had to download special nightly builds of Firefox, Chrome or Opera to play WebM videos on their systems, and not everyone is committed to running what can essentially be considered an unstable browser version on their machine. VLC’s website also warns visitors that the new release candidate is “aimed at power-users,” but the release will undoubtedly also get some traction with people simply curious about WebM.
The new VLC version also shows that WebM still has a ways to go before it can overtake H.264. VLC’s Windows and Linux versions now support hardware decoding of H.264 video. WebM doesn’t have any hardware decoding support yet, but chip manufacturers like MIPS have announced that they’re going to add this option to their chip sets soon.
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Thnx for the update and information. Will download VLC right away
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It’s a RC (Release Candidate). So do expect to stumble upon some bugs in there, but if you are a power-user then it has got plenty of things in it for you to make you use it.
it can even play a damage media ? WoW … i should change to vlc now. Good stuff Jojo, thanks
Jojo is absolutely right. VLC is undoubtedly the BEST media player available today and I use it 100% of the times while playing video. I even use it on my HTC Touch phone 😉
Thanks for the update 🙂 will download it now.
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its awesome , i use it while downloading torrents
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Wait, what? You use VLC to download torrents? 😀
Guess, you left your comment on a wrong post! 😛
VLC can play partially downloaded video , repair and buffer well , so we can watch torrents still when they are downloading . i hope im clear 😛
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I guess so 😛
It is one thing to try VLC to play a corrupt video file. But I wouldn’t suggest to run a video when it is still downloading as that might further damage the video format!
@TC – Exactly 🙂 ask me … I have the experience 🙂
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Although, it compromises a bit on quality VLC is the best!
Compromises a bit on quality? I don’t think so buddy. I have been using VLC since a couple of years. I think, it doesn’t reduce the quality in any way. Anyways, thanks for coming here and dropping a comment. Visit us again 🙂
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Well, I have used VLC side-by-side with Windows Media and other so-called good Divx players and the quality difference will be non-existent if you are using a good source file, in the first place.
You have brought up a very good details , thanks for the post.
This was definitely a needed improvement.V CL has been around for quite sometime now and therefore if it is doing more to offer better services then that is good news.