VLC media player , one of the most appreciated multimedia software has reached a fundamental point of its history with version 1.0.0, the first main release after more than eight years since the initial version released in the far away February of 2001. The supervened maturity of the player created within the VidenLAN project overlaps with so many novelties for the interface, playback and supported formats, and the amount of users that in the past days has downloaded the release well demonstrates the success and popularity the software has been able to achieve.

Among the most remarkable features of Goldeneye, codename for VLC media player 1.0.0, it’s worth pointing out support for live recording, instant and frame-by-frame pause, new high definition audio and video codecs (AES3, Dolby Digital Plus, TrueHD, linear PCM audio on Blu-ray, Real Video 3.0 among the others), new formats like Raw Dirac and M2TS and substantial improvements to those already included, video scaling in fullscreen mode, a customizable toolbar, playback from archive files, support to AirTunes, a new skin and a better UI integration within Gtk environments.

Furthermore the release includes fixes for “a very high number of bugs that were present in the 0.9.x or 0.8.6 versions“, VideoLAN website says, while the almost unique ability of the open source player to do without external libraries and codecs managing all by itself playback, transcoding and recording of audiovisual fluxes in a great number of different formats remains unchanged. And for who would prefer portable applications a version of the software that does not require installation, VLC media player Portable 1.0, is available as well.

While announcing the first main release of the program, VideoLAN/VLC developers urge who plan to contribute to their project for free, open source and multiplatform multimedia software to donate whatever they can including time, code, hardware and money. The end users are as much important as well, having been VLC media player 1.0.0 downloaded en masse summing up 3 million downloads after less than three days since the release, and approaching five million total downloads at the time of writing.

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