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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 >