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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 >
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 >
