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VLC 1.1.0 for Linux – Complete Review

Jun 25th

Posted by Ashik in Fedora

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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 >
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Access Google from your Terminal

Jun 21st

Posted by Ashik in Google

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This weekend, Google proudly announced GoogleCL, a set of new command-line tools for some of its popular services, such as Google Calendar, Google Docs, Blogger, YouTube and Picasa. GoogleCL will allow you to upload photos to Picasa and videos to YouTube, add Google Calendar events or contacts on Google Contacts, edit Google Docs documents or post on your Blogger blog… all straight from the Linux terminal. Well, you will say now… “Who needs this stuff? We are in mid 2010 and command-line is for geeks only.” You are right! But this is a very good opportunity for some developers to More >

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Things to know before Replacing Windows by Linux

May 20th

Posted by Ashik in News

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All those who have been using Windows since Long and want to try linux then you should prepare yourself before facing Linux. Here I have tried to list out some similaritites as well Differences among the two operating systems which will be helpful to when you start with Linux. Here my aim was not to determine which OS is better but to make you aware about the new things which you might not be aware of Linux and might be confusing for you at first but as the time will pass all the things will be clear and you will More >

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