Tag: VLC

VLC multimedia player is one of the most utilized by Windows users. They have reasons for using this platform because it offers a significant amount of accessible multimedia files, DVDs, audio CDs, VCD extensions and many others.

Now we have the latest version available for free, VLC 3.0.3 for Windows users and some new features.

First of all, at the video features available in the new version are some new video outputs for OS/2, Android, Windows 7, and compatibility with iOS platforms. It includes a “shader” support for outputs like OpenGL and colorspace conversion. We will have a variety of anti-flickering filters too.

Second of all, in the audio department, VLC has resamplers for a better audio quality output. As in the video feature, the audio output is compatible with Windows 7, Android, OS/2, and iOS. Now it’s processing the audio outputs faster, by simplifying the sound core of the application.  Also, the karaoke filters are included, and a dynamic range compressor too.

The devices and inputs for this application are many, but we will present you with the most useful ones: it’s supporting SDI capture cards and QTKit if you will use one, and BluRay discs.

The program can be praised as one of the few media players that support all the file formats. The new VLC 3.0.3 supports the MxPEG files. Also, it streams a customizable menu for Mac’s OS X, and more fixes for MKV and HTTP Live streaming; “CDDB,” “UDP/RPT” support.

If you want a complete list of the supported media file formats, and also to download the new VLC 3.0.3 version for your Windows or other operating systems, click on the link and install it yourself: https://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Henry R. Lares

Henry Lares is still early into his career as tech reporter but has already had his work published in many major publications including Tech Crunch and the Huffington Post.  In regards to academics, Henry earned an engineering degree from Apex Technical School. Henry has a passion for emerging technology and covers upcoming products and breakthroughs in science and tech.

VLC, the open source video player app was about to surpass the 3 billion downloads level on Friday. Of course, the Videolan team could not miss this occasion to celebrate the success of their product. In order to make it as visible as possible and get a little bit of help from their fans, they set up a special download counter at their CES booth in Las Vegas.

According to one of the lead developers of the app, Jean-Baptiste Kempf, and based on VLC’s estimations, this milestone should have been surpassed on Friday some time afternoon.

Kempf is obviously looking forward to improving VLC especially after seeing how wanted it is and one of those changes would be the introduction of Airplay. This implementation offers Android users the possibility of beaming videos to their Apple TVs from their mobile devices. If you are wondering when that would happen, Kempf said that in about a month Airplay should make its way to the main VLC app.

During the CES celebration, another feature was demonstrated, the enhanced support for VR. This offers the possibility of watching traditional 2D movies in a virtual theater environment while using headsets such as the HTC Vive.

According to Kempf, the Videolan team got most VR headsets to support natively, through the main VLC app, VR video all by reverse-engineering them. VLC would have gotten hundreds of megabytes of code added if they had relied on the SDKs of headset manufacturers. However, this is based on just around 1 megabyte of additional code.

Other implementations on VLC’s list is simplifying the switch from iTunes and building out a more complete media library for its app. However, Kempf said that building a comprehensive media center solution is not the goal here as they are not willing to compete with other more developed platforms.

Randy Smith