The VideoLAN project announced the release of the first version of their Goldeneye branch of VLC: 1.0.0. I am reminding You again this is my favorite media player. This major release introduces many new features, new formats and new codec’s to the VLC multimedia framework and fixes a very high number of bugs that were present in the 0.9.x or 0.8.6 versions. You can download it now.
VLC 1.0.0 Features
* Free, Open Source and cross-platform
* Independent of systems codec’s to support most video types
* Live recording
* Instant pausing and Frame-by-Frame support
* Finer speed controls
* New HD codec’s (AES3, Dolby Digital Plus, True HD, Blu-Ray Linear PCM, Real Video 3.0 and 4.0…
* New formats (Raw Dirac, M2TS, …) and major improvements in many formats…
* New Dirac encoder and MP3 fixed-point encoder
* Video scaling in full screen
* RTSP Trick play support
* Zipped file playback
* Customizable toolbars
* Easier encoding GUI in Qt interface
* Better integration in Gtk environments
* MTP devices on Linux
* Air Tunes streaming
* New skin for the skins2 interface.
Just got my copy of VLC, totally loving it! One more feature i would like to add is, you can also convert media with VLC.