Ondrej Holzman VideoLAN's popular VLC player is about to be upgraded to version 2.0. It will be a rather revolutionary update, which Felix Kühne, the current lead developer of VLC for Macintosh, has already shown in several screenshots. The changes concern the user interface of the application and above all the design, which respects the appearance of Mac OS X Lion.
VLC 2.0 should be released this week and users will experience a significant change. Compared to the current form of the player, the dual version has a completely new side panel with playlists, Internet resources and media available on disk and in the network. The new design of the application was created by Damien Erambert, who developed the first concept back in 2008.
The VLC 2.0 interface should bring several advantages over the current version. Playlists and video outputs are in the same window, different services can be accessed through the sidebar, and multiple filters can be applied to audio and video. In addition, the new interface is much faster and more easily extensible.
VLC 2.0 will replace the current version 1.2, and will largely be a complete rewrite of the application. The authors promise bug fixes, new features and a redesigned interface. The functionality and stability under Lion will also be improved, there will be support for Blu-ray discs or files inside RAR archives, and we will also see the option to load subtitles automatically.
VLC 2.0 should appear this week on site VideoLAN, while you can see more samples from the new application at Flickr.
… and will it be able to subtitle in black bars and not over the film? This is one of the reasons why Movist is still a better choice for me. Thanks
Another question is DD and DTS output via optics and HW simplicity like MplayerX - or two reasons why I stopped using VLC...
I wonder if the subtitles will be as automatic as, for example, in bsplayer?
The question is, will I have to download it directly from the site, or will it also work in the program via an update? You don't have any more precise information about it? Thanks
Well, then AcTA will come and this player will become illegal for its superior features….
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Hold on, the final version has not been released yet, until then we would only speculate about functionality, downloads, etc.
I'm testing the RC1 version, everything works as it should, except for a small detail - the player does not remember the volume setting and the next time it is started, it defaults to zero, I hope they will fix it in the final version.
do you know if it can be switched to the super minimalist look of play/pause/stop somewhere? when I want a big sail with "Library" I open iTunes >:-(