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This fourth stable release of the "WeatherWax" version of VLC fixes a few bugs reported on VLC 2.2.3 for Windows XP and certain audio files. It also includes updated codecs libraries and fixes a security issue when playing specifically crafted QuickTime files as well as a 3rd party security issue in libmad.
Read more about it on our release page.
Due to unscheduled maintenance on one of our servers, some git repositories, the trac bug tracker and mailing-lists are currently not available. We are restoring the services, but we can't give detailed information when everything will be back online. Note that downloads from this website, git repositories on code.videolan.org, the wiki and the forum are not affected.
Important: Any communication send to email addresses on the videolan.org domain (aka [email protected]) won't reach the receiver.
VideoLAN and the VLC development team are happy to publish version 2.2.3 of VLC media player today
This third stable release of the "WeatherWax" version of VLC fixes more than 30 important bugs reported on VLC 2.2.2. It also includes updated codecs libraries and fixes 3rd party libraries security issues.
Read more about it on our release page.
2016 is a special year for many FLOSS projects: VideoLAN as open-source project and Free Software Foundation Europe both have their 15th birthday while KDE has its 20th birthday. All these call for celebrations! This year VideoLAN has come together with Qt, FSFE, KDE and KDAB to bring you QtCon, where attendees can meet, collaborate and get the latest news of all these projects.
VideoLAN Dev Days 2016 will be organised as part of QtCon in Berlin. The event will start on Friday the 2nd of September with 3 shared days of talks, workshops, meetups and coding sessions.
The current plan is to have a Call for Papers in March with the Program announced in early June.
VideoLAN and the VLC development team are happy to publish version 2.2.2 of VLC media player today
This second stable release of the "WeatherWax" version of VLC fixes more than 100 important bugs and security issues reported on VLC 2.2.1. It also includes updated codecs libraries and fixes 3rd party libraries security issues. Finally, this update solves installation issues on Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan.
Read more about it on our release page.
Jean-Baptiste Kempf: This week in VideoLAN - 46
46th VideoLAN report
A new week, a new weekly report about the VLC and VideoLAN communities!
Vienna Meeting
This week-end was the Q2 meeting of the VideoLAN asso, hosted in Vienna, by PSPDFKit.
We gathered to fix pending issues [...]
Rémi Denis-Courmont: Hong Kong Open Source Conference 2016
VLC developers will be tending a booth
in cooperation with the VideoLAN foundation at the upcoming
Hong Kong Open Source Conference on 24-25 June 2016.
Follow the link to sign up. See you there.[...]
Rémi Denis-Courmont: Condition variable with futex
Reimplementing condition variable with futex
on Linux and Windows.[...]
Jean-Baptiste Kempf: This week in VideoLAN - 45
45th VideoLAN report
After a couple of very busy weeks, we're back on a normal schedule. Therefore, here is the weekly report about the VLC and VideoLAN communities!
Features
VLC
We started the week by adding the support for MPEG-2 [...]
[videolan] Last week in @2016-06-09 02:37 Vienna meeting, input slaves, UPnP, Renderers, interface updates and numerous Android betas! https://t.co/TrUuFUe073
[jplock] The new #AppleTV was worth it just for the @videolan #vlc app
[PSPDFKit] This weekend we had the pleasure to host the quarterly, non-profit @videolan meetup in our Vienna office. https://t.co/ldwuBSusR0
[feepk] Second day of @videolan quarterly meeting and VLC 3.0 workshop hosted by @PSPDFKit - thanks a lot @steipete !
[Teapix] . @videolan meetings teach important life lessons like: how many software engineer does it take to open a bottle of wine without a corkscrew