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VLC 1.1.0 for Linux – Complete Review
Jun 25th
As always, VideoLAN has come up with interesting tweaks, updates and enhancements to its all popular VLC media player with the release of version 1.1.0.
Among some of the new features introduced by the VLC 1.1.0 player we can mention:
- GPU decoding using VAAPI for H.264, MPEG-2 and VC-1
- DSP decoding using OpenMax IL
- Improved seeking for High-Definition (HD) MKV files
- Support for Blu-Ray PGS subtitles
- Support for HD-DVB subtitles
- Support for VP8, MPEG-4 lossless and Indeo5 video codecs
- Encoding and decoding of the WebM format
- Support for Atrac1, FLAC 6.1/7.1, Vorbis 6.1/7.1, MPRG-4 ALS audio codecs
- DVD-Audio files support
- Optimized for SSE3/SSE4 and ARM Neon
- Improved streaming performance
- New x11, xv and glx modules
- ADPCM More >
Whats New in Fedora 11
Apr 11th
Fedora 11 has been released for the Beta testers on 31st March 2009 a week later than the scheduled date. This is the first and only Beta version of the Fedora 11 project codenamed “Leonidas“.
Fedora 11 final release, which is scheduled on 26th May, will include several new features and noteworthy improvements, such as RPM 4.7, which will reduce the memory consumption of complex package activity, tighter integration of PackageKit, faster boot time with a target goal of 20 seconds, and reduced power consumption thanks to a major tuning effort.
This version of Fedora will ship with the latest version of many popular More >
How to Upgrade to Fedora 10 from older version
Apr 4th
Fedora 10 is the latest version of Fedora released on 25th november 2008. In this article I will show you how to upgrade to the latest version of fedora from an older version of fedora without losing any information.
As you all know that in august 2008 the Fedora servers were compromised and the digital signature used to sign all Fedora packages may have been compromised. The digital signature is used to ensure that packages you install are authentic and not hacked or modified in any way.
As such you cannot upgrade your Fedora installation you need to make a simple update More >
