Following the mighty awesome releases of Phonon 4.5.0 and the Phonon GStreamer Backend 4.5.0 the Phonominals today present to you: the release of Phonon VLC 0.4.0

What a release this is!

Local URLs are now more reliably encoded

The complete abstract stream reading code got redone

A new debug system is being introduced

The video widget display video on average 10 times faster

More reliability is achieved by preventing XLib threading problems

Subtitles embedded in MKV files work perfectly

Audio channel selection of video content works for Dragon Player

Video settings such as hue and contrast are applied reliably on resume in Dragon Player

And much more awesomness!

Leo Franchi, Tomahawk Developer, about Phonon VLC:

“Phonon VLC is awesome. It’s what you would get if you strap a pair of jet engines to a camel’s back.”

Download the all new jet engine camel now from KDE.

Happy multimedia 🙂