The schedule:

• February 17th: Feature Freeze
• March 3rd: String Freeze
• March 24th: Release (estimated)

Some explanations about these terms:

• Feature Freeze means that no new features will be accepted in the trunk after that date, only bug fixes and improvements of existing features will be merged.
• String Freeze is the deadline where all the visible strings of the interface can not be changed. This ensures for the translators that they won’t have to rush during the hours that precedes the release.

Please note that this will be a preview and many key features will be missing (or even buggy).
In the meantime you can help us to squash bugs and send some patches !

VLC Media Player

After more than a year of work, the VideoLAN community is proud to announce that VLC 1.0.0 is finally out !

This release has been delayed many times since February (the original release date chosen during the VideoLAN dev’days 2008) but reached its goal today. More stable, tons of new features, this release is definitely the best and most advanced release of VLC.

Take a look at the impressive changelog, and give it a try !

A list of the most *bling* *bling* enhancements since 0.9.9:

• Increased stability
• Reduced memory usage
• Live recording
• Instant pausing and Frame-by-Frame support
• New HD codecs (AES3, Dolby Digital Plus, TrueHD, Blu-Ray Linear PCM, Real Video 3.0 and 4.0, …)
• New formats (Raw Dirac, M2TS, …) and majors improvements in many formats…
• New Dirac encoder and MP3 fixed-point encoder
• Video scaling in full-screen
• RTSP Trickplay support
• Zipped file playback
• Customizable toolbars
• Easier encoding GUI in Qt interface
• Better integration in GTK environments
• MTP devices on Linux
• Air Tunes streaming
• And much more…

Download it now !