VLC Articles & Reviews |
| Mplayer, FFmpeg Gain VA-API Support | Software | 2008-12-24 |
VLC Linux & Open-Source News |
| Linux 7.1-rc2 Released With Audio Fix For Steam Deck OLED, Other Fixes | Linux Kernel | 2026-05-03 |
| COSMIC Epoch 1.0.8 Released With More Desktop Refinements | Desktop | 2026-02-24 |
| Debian 13.3 Released With Many Security & Bug Fixes | Debian | 2026-01-10 |
| GSoC 2025 Projects: AI-Powered Log Analyzer For Fedora, Better AMD ROCm On Debian | Google | 2025-05-11 |
| Ubuntu Hoping To Remove Qt 5 Before Ubuntu 26.04 LTS | Ubuntu | 2024-11-01 |
| Mesa's VDPAU State Tracker Adds Support For AV1 Decoding | Mesa | 2024-03-07 |
| KDE Plasma 6.0 Is Proving To Be Unlike The Rocky KDE 4 Launch | KDE | 2024-03-03 |
| Higher Quality AV1 Video Encoding Now Available For Radeon Graphics On Linux | Radeon | 2023-10-12 |
| FFmpeg 6.0 Will Be Big With AV1 Hardware Decoding, Many Other Features | Multimedia | 2023-02-06 |
| Updated WebKit Adds Experimental WebCodecs AV1, dav1d Decoder | Free Software | 2023-01-13 |
| IPFS Supported In FFmpeg 5.1, IPFS Devs Envision Support In More Open-Source Projects | Multimedia | 2022-08-10 |
| MPlayer 1.5 Released To Advance This Open-Source Video Player | Multimedia | 2022-03-01 |
| FSF-Tailored Trisquel 10.0 Released - Adds 32-bit Arm, Defaults To GNU Linux-Libre 5.4 | GNU | 2022-02-02 |
| FFmpeg 5.0 Aims To Be An LTS Release | Multimedia | 2022-01-17 |
| GhostBSD 22.01.12 Released With Automatic Detection For Old AMD GPUs | BSD | 2022-01-17 |
| Linux 5.13-rc7 Released Following A Very Calm Week | Linux Kernel | 2021-06-20 |
| Google Announces Some Very Interesting GSoC 2021 Projects | Google | 2021-05-17 |
| Linux 5.11-rc6 Released With Itanium Support Now Orphaned | Linux Kernel | 2021-01-31 |
| LibreOffice Drops Its Experimental, Buggy VLC Integration | LibreOffice | 2020-12-26 |
| OpenIndiana 2020.10 Released For Continuing Where OpenSolaris Left Off | Operating Systems | 2020-11-01 |
| OpenZFS 2.0 Nears Release, OpenZFS 3.0 Could See macOS Support | Linux Storage | 2020-10-07 |
| NVIDIA RTX 30 Series Supports AV1 Accelerated Video Decoding | NVIDIA | 2020-09-01 |
| VideoLAN Now Developing "libndi" For NDI Video Stream Handling | Multimedia | 2020-06-18 |
| There Are Many Interesting Google Summer of Code 2020 Open-Source Projects | Google | 2020-05-07 |
| Linspire 8.7 Trying To Lure Windows Users With Switch From KDE To MATE Desktop | Operating Systems | 2020-03-04 |
| Solus 4.1 Released With Application Changes, ESYNC Support For Linux Gaming | Operating Systems | 2020-01-25 |
| KDE Kicks Off 2020 With Landing New Feature Work | KDE | 2020-01-05 |
| Wayland's Wild Decade From v1.0 Release To Usable GNOME/KDE Desktop Support | Wayland | 2019-12-29 |
| Linux Mint Pulling In MPV-Based Celluloid Media Player + Dropping Last Mono Dependency | Operating Systems | 2019-10-31 |
| NixOS 19.09 Released With Xfce 4.14 Packages, GNOME 3 Updates | Operating Systems | 2019-10-09 |
| Raspbian 2019-09-26 Has Raspberry Pi SPI EEPROM Updater, NTFS-3G Added | Raspberry Pi | 2019-09-30 |
| GhostBSD 19.09 Provides A Good BSD Desktop Built Off TrueOS & FreeBSD 12 | BSD | 2019-09-17 |
| There Are A Ton Of Interesting GSoC Projects This Year: Dav1d GPU Compute, Wayland, Rust | Google | 2019-05-06 |
| KDE Elisa Music Player Picks Up Support For VLC Library | KDE | 2019-04-12 |
| New Raspbian Brings Performance Improvements, Updated Packages To Raspberry Pi | Raspberry Pi | 2019-04-10 |
| The First Test Release Of Phoronix Test Suite 8.8 Plus Exciting New Benchmarks | Phoronix Test Suite | 2019-03-17 |
| DAV1D v0.2 AV1 Video Decoder Released With SSSE3 & NEON Optimizations | Multimedia | 2019-03-04 |
| Linux 5.0, Radeon VII, Intel Iris Driver & Other Exciting Milestones In February | Phoronix | 2019-02-28 |
| AV1 Image File Format v1.0 Finalized | Standards | 2019-02-28 |
| VLC 4.0 Media Player Eyeing New User Interface, Better Wayland Support & VR/3D | Multimedia | 2019-02-05 |
| VLC 3.0.6 Released While The Project Celebrates Three Billion Downloads | Multimedia | 2019-01-11 |
| Spotify Tops Ubuntu's Snap Store Downloads While GIMP Tops Flatpak's Flathub | Desktop | 2019-01-05 |
| DAV1D v0.1 AV1 Video Decoder Released | Multimedia | 2018-12-11 |
| The DAV1D AV1 Video Decoder Has Become Very Fast | Multimedia | 2018-11-21 |
| Raspbian 2018-11-13 Brings Hardware-Accelerated VLC Media Player | Debian | 2018-11-16 |
| Debian 9.6 Released With Many Security & Bug Fixes, Adds In Rust's Cargo | Debian | 2018-11-10 |
| AMD Posts Latest Open-Source Linux Patches For FreeSync / Adaptive-Sync / VRR | Radeon | 2018-10-11 |
| Mageia 6.1 Released With Updated Kernel For Better Hardware Support | Operating Systems | 2018-10-06 |
| DAV1D: A New AV1 Video Decoder From The VideoLAN Developers | Multimedia | 2018-10-01 |
| Lubuntu Switching To VLC, KDE 5 LibreOffice Frontend | Operating Systems | 2018-09-13 |
| VLC Saw A Lot Of Exciting Work Thanks To Google Summer of Code 2018 | Multimedia | 2018-08-30 |
| REAPER 5.93 Brings New Linux-Native Builds | Multimedia | 2018-07-18 |
| Wine 3.0.2 Released With 53 Bug Fixes | WINE | 2018-06-26 |
| The Most Interesting Google GSoC 2018 Projects: QEMU Vulkan, Virtual KMS, Nautilus GTK4 | Google | 2018-04-24 |
| 18.04 Beta 1 Released For Opt-In Ubuntu Flavors | Ubuntu | 2018-03-09 |
| Raven Ridge, Vulkan & Another Valve Linux Developer Excited Folks This Month | Phoronix | 2018-02-28 |
| VLC 3.0.1 Released With Chromecast Improvements, Better Qt HiDPI Support | Multimedia | 2018-02-28 |
| VLC 3.0 Released | Multimedia | 2018-02-09 |
| VLC 3.0 Should Be Out By The End Of The Week | Multimedia | 2018-02-08 |
| Linspire Is Back From The Dead In 2018 | Operating Systems | 2018-01-02 |
| Open-Source Driver Progress & Vulkan Dominated December | Phoronix | 2018-01-01 |
| VLC 3.0-RC3 Released With Hardware Decoding That Works On All Platforms | Multimedia | 2017-12-25 |
| It Looks Like VLC 3.0 Will Finally Be Released Soon | Multimedia | 2017-12-13 |
| Ubuntu 17.10 Final Beta Is Ready For Testing | Ubuntu | 2017-09-29 |
| VLC Has Begun Working On Some 3D Video Playback Support | Multimedia | 2017-09-10 |
| KDE Frameworks 5.35 Released | KDE | 2017-06-10 |
| Neil French Replaces Jane Silber As Director At Canonical | Ubuntu | 2017-06-08 |
| Kodi 17.2 Released To Fix Security Issue, Bugs | Multimedia | 2017-05-24 |
| Exciting GSoC 2017 Projects: Vulkan Software Renderer, Kodi On Wayland, Much More | Google | 2017-05-04 |
| The Wayland Highlights Of 2016 | Wayland | 2016-12-28 |
| Trying Out The FreeBSD-Powered TrueOS With Its Custom Qt Desktop | BSD | 2016-09-06 |
| Patches Posted For Supporting DRI3 With VA-API & VDPAU | Mesa | 2016-05-11 |
| VLC Lands Improvements To Chromecast Support | Multimedia | 2016-03-25 |
| VLC Now Has Zero-Copy Support For GStreamer Video Decoding | Multimedia | 2016-02-06 |
| VLC 3.0 Remains Under Development While VLC 4.0 Will Have Better Wayland Support & A New UI | Multimedia | 2016-02-01 |
| Linux Distribution Battles, Linux 4.5, & Graphics Drivers Were Hot This Month | Phoronix | 2016-01-31 |
| 2016 Has Been Off To A Great Start For Open-Source & Linux | Free Software | 2016-01-17 |
| VLC 3.0 Continues To Be Developed With Many Changes | Multimedia | 2016-01-03 |
| The Most Popular Linux News So Far This Year | Phoronix | 2015-12-13 |
| Caffe AlexNet Deep Learning Benchmark Added | Free Software | 2015-11-15 |
| The Most Popular Linux News & Milestones From This Winter | Phoronix | 2015-03-20 |
| Foobnix Music Player Ported To GTK3 | GNOME | 2015-03-05 |
| Linux 4.0 & LLVM vs. GCC Yielded Much Interest This Month | Phoronix | 2015-02-28 |
| VLC 2.2 "Weathermax" Brings Better VP9 & H.265 Support | Multimedia | 2015-02-27 |
| VLC 2.2 Has Many Features Coming, But VLC 3.0 Will Be Even More Exciting | Multimedia | 2015-02-10 |
| VLC Gains Support For Systemd's Journal | systemd | 2015-02-08 |
| Version 1.4 Of Libjpeg-Turbo Released | Free Software | 2015-01-09 |
| VLC Gains A BPG Decoder, But Will This Image Format Ever Take Off? | Free Software | 2015-01-09 |
| Wayland Support Starts Coming Together For VLC Media Player | Multimedia | 2014-10-16 |
| Yet Another Linux Distro Trying To Cater Towards Gamers | Linux Gaming | 2014-09-07 |
| Open-Source Blu-Ray Now Works For BD-J / Menu Rendering | Free Software | 2014-07-18 |
| Mageia 5 Alpha Updates A Lot Of Software | Operating Systems | 2014-07-09 |
| Google Is Financing A Lot Of Great Open-Source Work This Summer | Google | 2014-04-21 |
| More Details On Wine's GPU Video Decode Plans | WINE | 2014-04-11 |
| Catalyst 14.3 Beta Linux Driver Fixes OpenGL Performance Issues | AMD | 2014-03-18 |
| FFmpeg & Libav Add H.265 Encoder Via x265 | Multimedia | 2014-02-12 |
| Open-Source Blu-ray Decryption Library For Linux | Free Software | 2014-01-02 |
| Snappy: A GStreamer & Clutter Powered Movie Player | GNOME | 2013-11-24 |
| Phonon Now Supports Qt5, Likes VLC Over GStreamer | Qt | 2013-11-05 |
| FFmpeg Now Supports HEVC/H.265 Decoding | Multimedia | 2013-10-16 |
| Open-Source Blu-Ray Library Advances (libbluray) | Free Software | 2013-10-04 |
| VLC 2.1 Is Now Available: Qt5 Happy, Audio Improvements | Qt | 2013-09-25 |
| VLC Media Player Adds Support For H.265 / HEVC | Multimedia | 2013-09-17 |
| Features Coming For The VLC 2.1 Media Player | Free Software | 2013-07-16 |
| VLC Media Player Making Good Progress In Qt5 Port | Qt | 2013-07-16 |
| Videos Of Unity Running On Mir Via X Server | Desktop | 2013-03-05 |
| Lua Scripting Support Being Added To NetBSD Kernel | BSD | 2013-02-14 |
| The Video Acceleration State On Linux GPU Drivers | Hardware | 2013-02-05 |
| VLC 2.0.5 "Twoflower" Has Experimental Blu-Ray Support | Free Software | 2012-12-17 |
| FFmpeg Reaches Version 1.0 | Multimedia | 2012-09-28 |
| Using GPU Video Acceleration Under Linux | AMD | 2012-06-22 |
| MPlayer 1.1 Magically Surfaces With New Features | Multimedia | 2012-06-06 |
| AMD Admits It Has Linux Problems | AMD | 2012-05-29 |
| LinuxTag 2012 Gathers Linux Stakeholders In Berlin | Free Software | 2012-05-22 |
| Gentoo 12.1 Released With ZFS Support | Operating Systems | 2012-04-01 |
| New Enlightenment EFL Package Releases | Free Software | 2012-03-24 |
| Will H.264 Codec Support Come To Fedora? Nope. | Fedora | 2012-03-21 |
| State Of NVIDIA's VDPAU, A New Community List | NVIDIA | 2012-02-25 |
| Mageia 2 Reaches Beta State | Operating Systems | 2012-02-22 |
| VLC 2.0 Twoflower Media Player Released | Free Software | 2012-02-19 |
| Google Code-In 2011 Accomplishments | Google | 2012-01-30 |
| First Release Of Open-Source Blu-Ray Library | Free Software | 2011-12-11 |
| The Underlying KWin Improvements In KDE 4.7 | KDE | 2011-05-28 |
| Exciting GSoC Projects For 2011 | Google | 2011-04-25 |
| VP8 Over VDPAU In Gallium3D Is Emeric's Target | Mesa | 2011-03-29 |
| ReactOS 0.3.13 Brings Lots Of Improvements | Operating Systems | 2011-03-27 |
| Will H.264 VA-API / VDPAU Finally Come To Gallium3D? | Mesa | 2011-03-23 |
| Adobe's Flash Video Acceleration On Linux Uses VDPAU | Proprietary Software | 2010-12-01 |
| VLC With Phonon Back-End Is Now Ready For Use | Free Software | 2010-12-01 |
| There's A Gallium3D State Tracker For VDPAU | Mesa | 2010-06-28 |
| MythTV 0.23 Released; MythTV 0.24 Plans Documented | Multimedia | 2010-05-11 |
| FFmpeg Gains VDPAU MPEG-4 ASP Acceleration | Multimedia | 2009-11-13 |
| Adobe Flash Player 10.1 To Support VDPAU? | Proprietary Software | 2009-10-09 |
| VLC Media Player Reaches Version 1.0 | Free Software | 2009-07-07 |
| Will AMD's XvBA Beat Out NVIDIA's VDPAU? | AMD | 2009-07-06 |
| XBMC Receives Mainline Support For VDPAU | Multimedia | 2009-03-23 |
| Blu-ray Focus Grows Within FFmpeg Project | Multimedia | 2009-03-20 |
| XBMC Media Player Has Support For NVIDIA VDPAU | Multimedia | 2009-03-04 |
| Intel Considering VDPAU Support For X.Org Driver | Intel | 2009-02-08 |
| VLC Media Player To Receive VDPAU Support | NVIDIA | 2008-12-23 |
| VLC Media Player 0.8.6 | Free Software | 2006-12-10 |
