VLC media player

Our good friend Jon Lech Johansen has reverse engineered the encoding used by NSC announcement files which contain the information to join Multicast Windows Media Streaming sessions. So i'm working on getting this into VLC right now and hopefully ... [More] "Very Soon Now", VLC will support WMS multicast. Let's REJOICE. Update:I now have a nsc file decoder for VLC. Next step is to get this information passed to a new connection so we can have decode the ASF in the UDP stream we receive. [Less]

VLC media player is getting really popular now. The latest release (0.8.2) has been downloaded over 6 million times now. That truly is a lot of downloads and I think everyone in the team is really proud of that. Lets hope that we will grow and grow ... [More] and one day can get close to the quality that a project like mozilla provides. Also let us not forget that the 6 million downloads are almost all Windows and Mac OS X downloads. The linux distributions often distribute VLC themselves. And then there is the Freeplayer spin off, and the Google Video Viewer plugin, and Annodex plugins and Tryst and all those other applications that are based on the VLC source code. Lets keep going guys ! [Less]

VLC can read some proprietary video codecs thanks to the DMO (DirectMedia Object) interface, under Windows. VLC has support for integration with mplayer's DLL loader, in order to be able to read these codecs under Linux. I made some builds of the ... [More] DMO module for Linux, so as to make it easier for people, as this build is quite tricky. More details on http://clement.stenac.org/projects/videolan/dmo.html [Less]

I felt inspired tonight and finally fixed the downloads database for VLC. I added a small RSS feed with the up to date downloads number (since end of January) and hacked the ffcounter script to generate an odometer for VLC downloads. That's really ... [More] funny stuff :) VLC does not perform that bad, with approximately 0.6 downloads/second (Firefox is around 3.5). I will provide some more detailed reports using this database, that would be too bad having data and not using it [Less]

VLC has entered Debian testing yesterday. It was a real nightmare due to the GNOME/KDE/Mozilla/whatever build dependencies, but it eventually did it. The last update was more than two years ago!

I finished migrating the VideoLAN CVS repositories to SVN. Since a lot of people were still using the anonymous CVS to retrieve the code, I had to write post-commit scripts to reinject SVN commits back into the CVS repository. I finished my SVN to CVS and back again HOWTO which still has limitations but already works pretty well.