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| − | This page is a drafted intended to explain what are the cool features of ''VLC media player 0.9'', codename '''Grishenko'''.
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| − | Think about it in a "Cool features from kernelnewbies"-like page.
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| − | == Short summary ==
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| − | The 0.9.0 version of {{VLC}} adds a new interface module for Linux, Unix and Windows, a media library and an improved playlist, many new inputs and codecs support and many new audio and video filters.
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| − | For video playback, new protocols, new codecs, new demuxers and many bugfixes have been added to support more formats.
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| − | For audio playback, cover art and metadata support (and editing) have been vastly enhanced. It can play audio when the playback speed is changed.
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| − | For the developers, libVLC has been simplified and improved, many bindings for many languages were added and there is a new Mac OS X Framework. Scripts written in lua can expand VLC media player's capacities.
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| − | For more details, please read [[Next_changes]].
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| − | == Interface ==
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| − | A new interface module based on the Qt toolkit has been added to VLC. If you are a GNOME user, '''before trolling''', please read [[Qt and GTK|this]].
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| − | This new interface module has a few improvements on the old one:
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| − | * Simplified settings and dialogs
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| − | * Media library integration
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| − | * Album art displaying and metadata editing
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| − | * Live activation of Video and audio filters
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| − | * Basic encoding profiles
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| − | * Multiple start modes (classic, enhanced and minimalist)
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| − | * System tray icon and minimizing
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| − | * Fullscreen controler
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| − | And many other improvements and bugfixes.
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| − | Moreover, some global hotkeys plugin can be found on the forum.
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| − | == Playlist ==
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| − | The playlist has been improved in many ways, in addition to the new Media Library (very simple so far, but will be extended in the future):
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| − | * Live Searching in the playlist,
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| − | * Youtube, Dailymotion, Google Video and similar services URL can be scripted in VLC to play directly those URLs,
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| − | * last.fm submission support,
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| − | * Album art support,
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| − | * Better metadata tagging reading and writing support for audio files.
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| − | == Playback ==
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| − | A lot of new decoders, demuxers, and protocols have been added.
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| − | There are new codecs support, like Flash video variants, Camescope codecs (M2TS ones), Atrac3, H.264 PAFF, APE audio, RealVideo, VC-3, Fraps and others, but also better decoding and better performances.
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| − | There are improvements in the demuxers and new supports (subtitles format rework with many new formats, Tivo2, OMA or MIDI support).
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| − | Tag supports of audio files have vastly been improved(fix of APE, AAC, OGG tags,...)
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| − | This version alos supports DVB windows devices (BDA), iSight webcams, v4l2 on linux and many other ones.
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| − | == Filters ==
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| − | Many new audio and video filters have been added:
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| − | == Developers ==
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