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Posted
11 days
ago
by
jpsaman
As part of his internship at M2X dionoea got VLC to run on Neuros OSDv2.0 hardware. VLC 0.8.6 now can encode and decode using the DSP codecs. There are still some rough edges but it is a start. If you want to see it with your own eyes, then look at this video.
Posted
11 days
ago
by
JBK
Dear Jean-Baptiste Kempf,
You are now registered for OSCON 2008.
Hey, so, I'll be in Portland, Oregon for VideoLAN in the end of july...
Want to meet there ?
Posted
12 days
ago
by
jpsaman
As part of his internship at M2X dionoea got VLC to run on Neuros OSDv2.0 hardware. VLC 0.8.6 now can encode and decode using the DSP codecs. There are still some rough edges but it is a start. If you want to see it with your own eyes, then look at this video.
Posted
13 days
ago
by
JBK
Release
The release of 0.9.0 is closer, and we have many nice stuff to show.
However I have sad news for old OSes:
We are dropping support for:
Mac OS X.3 (panther)
Windows 98/ME (Windows 2000 is needed now)
BeOS
Sorry to tell you that.
Posted
about 1 month
ago
by
JBK
Just a small post about VideoLAN presence at WWDC in San Francisco this year.
Felix and I will be there all week long. If you want to meet, contact us.
Posted
about 1 month
ago
We are pleased to announce the release of VLC media player 0.8.6h.This is a bugfix release. VLC media player 0.8.6g (a source code release) and earlier versions suffer from security vulnerabilities in the GnuTLS, libgcrypt and libxml2 libraries.VLC
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media player 0.8.6f and earlier versions suffer from security vulnerabilities in the Mozilla and ActiveX plugins, in the libpng, libid3tag, libvorbis libraries and in the Speex codec. Technical details are available in our security advisories. This update also includes reliability improvements in multiple modules. More information can be found in the release notes for 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h. We strongly recommend all users to update to this new version. [Less]
Posted
about 1 month
ago
by
JonLech
I will be attending WWDC next week. If anyone wants to meet up, send me an email. We (doubleTwist) are still looking for a full-time Cocoa developer to work out of our San Francisco office.
Posted
about 1 month
ago
by
JBK
Hello to everyone.
Just a short post to mention that a port to Syllable has been done.
Look at it on our website.
Thanks to the porting team.
Posted
about 1 month
ago
by
jpsaman
In a joint effort, "Neuros Technology" and "M2X" will, as part of the "TI-Neuros Open Source Bounties" , port VLC to the "next generation of Neuros OSD" solution. The "VLC" porting project was kicked off on May 28, 2008, with developers directly from
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VLC community. Jean-Paul Saman, one of the VLC maintainers, will be leading this porting effort.
Aiming to get an efficient and powerful multimedia framework on its Davinci Linux based Open Internet Television HD Platform, a highly optimized multimedia platform based on an ARM-DSP dual core system, Neuros has chosen to use VLC among many other alternatives due to its extensive multimedia functionality, openness, and portability.
The role of VLC in Neuros HDPlatform architecture is to be the playback and encoding engine for all multimedia contents. For codecs, VLC uses plugins to carry out its video decoding/encoding on DSP, while all audio operations are done on ARM side. For Audio/Video I/O, VLC interfaces with the system by directly working with its standard Linux A/V system, for example, frame buffer for video output and V4L2 for video capturing. On application side, VLC implements MPRIS specification and exposes a DBUS interface thus to cleanly separate the multimedia core from applications.
This porting will be based on VLC stable version 0.8.6g (in fact, porting starts with 0.8.6-bugfix, a branch that includes some bugfixes for 0.8.6g since it was released), porting will be carried out in phases, from basic multimedia platform bring up, to full playback and full recording support, with complete system integration done in Q3 of 2008.
As 'open' itself states, all VLC source code files, new or modified during the porting, will be submitted to the central source code repository of the VideoLAN team, under the same license GPLV2 as the rest of the VLC source code.
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Posted
about 1 month
ago
by
jpsaman
The VideoLAN project will have a presence at LinuxTag in Berlin this year. LinuxTag is held on 28th till 31st until May 2008, It is the first time the team visits Berlin and we are looking forward to meet all those German VLC-fans.
Hope to see you there.
Jean-Paul Saman.
Posted
about 1 month
ago
by
jpsaman
Welcome to my new site.
As you can see it is still under construction, but as time will advance it will gain more information.
A lot has happened in the past years. Apart from my continues work on Open Source Projects, visiting
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and organising Open Source congresses. I also started a company called M2X in 2004. OK that is almost four years ago now, but it still feels good.
M2X allows me to follow my dream of working with Open Source software during my professional life. Visit the company website for more information about services offered.
Some of you will already know me because of my work for the Open Source community as developer for VLC and organizer of T-DOSE. For those that do not know me yet, follow the links.
Cya,
Jean-Paul Saman. [Less]
Posted
about 1 month
ago
by
JBK
Switch to Qt4
As many of you know now, VLC main interface will switch to Qt4 for many reasons that we have already detailed.
GTK issues
Many GNOME users are not pleased because of the differences between the look of Qt
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applications and native looks of GNOME/GTK application.
Solution
Trolltech has made a new QGtkStyle that uses GTK to design the widgets.
Then you can have a VLC using Qt that seems exactly like any Gtk application.
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Posted
about 1 month
ago
by
JBK
This is a short post about subtitles support in VLC.
Current support
As it is released, VLC doesn't support a lot of subtitles, especially the text based ones.
Moreover, SSA/ASS subtitles script don't get all the styling
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they need.
Development support
Some work has been done so far :
USF complete decoding
HTML improvements for styling
SSA/ASS complete rewriting
Ogg/Kate support
AQTitle support
MPSub support
MPL2 support
RealText basic support
PowerDivx support
DKS support
SubViewer 1.0 support
JacoSub basic support (no styles yet)
Conclusion
I know it is not enough and it has come late, but we are catching up :D [Less]
Posted
about 1 month
ago
The VideoLAN team is pleased to announce the release of VideoLAN Manager 0.1.VideoLAN Manager (VLMa) is a Java application which aims to provide an easy way to manage several servers running VLC to stream over a multicast network.More information at http://www.videolan.org/vlma.
Posted
about 1 month
ago
The VideoLAN team is pleased to announce the release of VideoLAN Manager 0.1.VideoLAN Manager (VLMa) is a Java application which aims to provide an easy way to manage several servers running VLC to stream over a multicast network.More information at http://www.videolan.org/vlma.
Posted
2 months
ago
by
JBK
This is just a very short post about a cool hack made by someone on the VideoLAN forum: VLC&Coverflow.
This webpage uses Flash technology to let you choose the movie you want, in a CoverFlow-Like mode.
When selected, you can get
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the VLC to play it without the disadvantages of Flash Video format (slow, low quality, CPU hungry...) [Less]
Posted
3 months
ago
The VideoLAN project was assigned 14 slots by Google. 10 of those went to VLC related projects and 4 to x264 projects. Official results are available on Google's website. Thanks to all the students who posted an application. Sorry to those who weren't chosen ... and start coding if you were!
Posted
3 months
ago
The VideoLAN project was assigned 14 slots by Google. 10 of those went to VLC related projects and 4 to x264 projects. Official results are available on Google's website. Thanks to all the students who posted an application. Sorry to those who weren't chosen ... and start coding if you were!
Posted
3 months
ago
The VideoLAN project was assigned 14 slots by Google. 10 of those went to VLC related projects and 4 to x264 projects. Official results are available on Google's website. Thanks to all the students who posted an application. Sorry to those who weren't chosen ... and start coding if you were!
Posted
3 months
ago
by
JBK
Webbys 5s .org
This blog was calm last week, since I was invited to a Webbys Award event in London.
This event was focused on the .org community and the importance of having a .org for some non-profit association.
I made a
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small talk (5 slides, 5 minutes, 5 sentence by slides).
The other .org were: Greenpeace, Alternet, Wikipedia and IdeaList.
This was very funny and I met a lot of nice people.
Contents
Photos
Presentation
Coming soon!
Vidéo
Coming soon! [Less]
Posted
3 months
ago
by
JBK
Maybe no one cares, but still here are some random thoughts about what
happened so far for us. I write them now, because I might forget those
when all will be over.
Introduction
This is the second year for VideoLAN as a
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mentoring organisation for the GSoC.
In our first year we didn't outperform for many reasons (see here for
details
VideoLAN is not a very stuctured organisation.
Candidacies
But this year, we received 85 candidacies ( 8 ineligible) against something between 40 and 50 last year... (I fear that I don't have the
exact number )
I know the GSoC is getting bigger every year, but still this is a big increase for us.
Moreover, some of the students did some really good patches (one almost solved the main subject of one of our idea ) and the application level is better...
Why ?
So I don't really know exactly why, but here are a few guesses:
Last year, GSoC was a bit of a surprise for us. This year, we know way better what we can expect from students/mentors.
Last year, VideoLAN was mentoring only for VLC media player, this year, we have VLC media player and x264 (we have roughly 70/15 applications for VLC/x264)
Ideas were done mostly the same way, but we put more of them on our wiki this year. Ideas are more sized for a summer (see first reason)
We added ideas cross projects (x264-VLC, VLC-other codecs libraries, VLC-FreePV)
We added qualification tasks (VLC: compile VLC, provide a patch on the trunk, x264: more complex qualification tasks). This highered the quality.
We have tried to work with other projects (some FFmpeg mentors can read our applications (and vice-versa), we accepted FFmpeg and x264 qualification tasks as an "ok" for us, ...)
We announced everything earlier and were more organised between mentors (ml, IRC, meetings...)
We have a former student who is a mentor now.
I have more time than last year during that phase... :D Must be because the sun is better in California than in France...
Many ideas were recommendations that came from the Mentor Summit, so I must say that this summit did help us a *LOT*.
Hope this can help some people... [Less]
Posted
3 months
ago
We are pleased to announce the release of VLC media player 0.8.6f.This is a bugfix release. VLC media player 0.8.6e and earlier versions suffer from security vulnerabilities in the Subtitle demuxer, Real RTSP demuxer, MP4 demuxer and Cinepak
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codec.This release also includes improved video output on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X and compatibility with Windows 9x/ME has been restored.We strongly recommend all users to update to this new version. [Less]
Posted
3 months
ago
We are pleased to announce the release of VLC media player 0.8.6f.This is a bugfix release. VLC media player 0.8.6e and earlier versions suffer from security vulnerabilities in the Subtitle demuxer, Real RTSP demuxer, MP4 demuxer and Cinepak
... [More]
codec.This release also includes improved video output on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X and compatibility with Windows 9x/ME has been restored.We strongly recommend all users to update to this new version.More information can be found in our Security Advisory and in the Release Notes. [Less]
Posted
3 months
ago
We are pleased to announce the release of VLC media player 0.8.6f.This is a bugfix release. VLC media player 0.8.6e and earlier versions suffer from security vulnerabilities in the Subtitle demuxer, Real RTSP demuxer, MP4 demuxer and Cinepak
... [More]
codec.This release also includes improved video output on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X and compatibility with Windows 9x/ME has been restored.We strongly recommend all users to update to this new version.More information can be found in our Security Advisory and in the Release Notes. [Less]
Posted
3 months
ago
We are pleased to announce the release of VLC media player 0.8.6f.This is a bugfix release. VLC media player 0.8.6e and earlier versions suffer from security vulnerabilities in the Subtitle demuxer, Real RTSP demuxer, MP4 demuxer and Cinepak
... [More]
codec.This release also includes improved video output on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X and compatibility with Windows 9x/ME has been restored.We strongly recommend all users to update to this new version.More information can be found in our Security Advisory and in the Release Notes. [Less]
Posted
3 months
ago
We are pleased to announce the release of VLC media player 0.8.6f.This is a bugfix release. VLC media player 0.8.6e and earlier versions suffer from security vulnerabilities in the Subtitle demuxer, Real RTSP demuxer, MP4 demuxer and Cinepak
... [More]
codec.This release also includes improved video output on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X and compatibility with Windows 9x/ME has been restored.We strongly recommend all users to update to this new version.More information can be found in our Security Advisory and in the Release Notes. [Less]
Posted
3 months
ago
by
JBK
I found an ubuntu hardy installation, and needed to test something on the trunk of VLC so I needed to compile a VLC for it.
Here is a complete HOWTO to do the same !
This post is an update of the popular howto for Build VLC with
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feisty.
Introduction
So we are going to build the latest VLC possible.
Everything will be done in a console/terminal and should be straight-forward. Every question should be asked on the forum, or in the comments here.
Conventions
Every line beginning with a # should be done as root, or using the sudo command.
Every line beginning witha % is a normal line.
Building VLC
Prepare your environment
We need a few package starting from a fresh hardy:
# apt-get install vlc
# apt-get build-dep vlc
# apt-get install cvs build-essential subversion git git-core automake1.9 libtool
# apt-get install libgcrypt-dev
# apt-get install libfaad-dev libtwolame-dev libqt4-dev libjack-dev
# apt-get install libxpm-dev libcddb2-dev liblua5.1-0-dev libzvbi-dev libshout-dev
Checkout VLC trunk and bootstrap the tree
% git clone git://git.videolan.org/vlc.git
% cd vlc
% ./bootstrap
Build x264
x264
x264 is a library to encode movies in H.264.
% cd extras/
%
% svn co svn://svn.videolan.org/x264/trunk x264
% cd x264
% make
% sudo make install
% cd ../..
Configure VLC
Configure
% mkdir build; cd build;
%../configure --prefix=/usr \
--enable-snapshot --enable-debug \
--enable-dbus-control --enable-musicbrainz \
--enable-shared-libvlc --enable-mozilla \
--enable-lirc \
--with-ffmpeg-tree=../extras/ffmpeg \
--enable-x264 --with-x264-tree=../extras/x264 \
--enable-shout --enable-taglib \
--enable-v4l \
--enable-dvb \
--enable-realrtsp --disable-xvmc \
--enable-svg --enable-dvdread \
--enable-dc1394 --enable-dv \
--enable-theora --enable-faad \
--enable-twolame --enable-real \
--enable-flac --enable-tremor \
--with-ffmpeg-mp3lame --with-ffmpeg-faac \
--enable-skins2 --enable-qt4 \
--enable-ncurses \
--enable-aa --enable-caca \
--enable-esd --disable-portaudio \
--enable-jack --enable-xosd \
--enable-galaktos --enable-goom \
--enable-ggi \
--disable-cddax --disable-vcdx \
--disable-quicktime --enable-lua
Finish
% make
You just have to wait a bit :D [Less]
Posted
4 months
ago
As some of you might have noticed, VideoLAN has been accepted as an official mentoring organisation for Google's 2008 edition of Summer of Code. Official student applications will be begin on the 24th and will last until the 31th. Students can apply
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for VLC related projects and x264 related projects. Feel free to drop by on IRC or e-mail the vlc-devel@ mailing list if you have any questions. [Less]
Posted
4 months
ago
As some of you might have noticed, VideoLAN has been accepted as an official mentoring organisation for Google's 2008 edition of Summer of Code. Official student applications will be begin on the 24th and will last until the 31th. Students can apply
... [More]
for VLC related projects and x264 related projects. Feel free to drop by on IRC or e-mail the vlc-devel@ mailing list if you have any questions.Update: The application deadline has been extended to the 7th of April by the Google folks. [Less]
Posted
4 months
ago
As some of you might have noticed, VideoLAN has been accepted as an official mentoring organisation for Google's 2008 edition of Summer of Code. Official student applications will be begin on the 24th and will last until the 31th. Students can apply
... [More]
for VLC related projects and x264 related projects. Feel free to drop by on IRC or e-mail the vlc-devel@ mailing list if you have any questions.Update: The application deadline has been extended to the 7th of April by the Google folks. [Less]
